BILL NUMBER:  AB 861
  VETOED	DATE: 10/10/2015




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 861 without my signature.

This bill would require the Department of Health Care Services to
mandate counties, as a condition of participation in a federal
behavioral health demonstration program, to redirect a portion of any
local savings to increasing housing opportunities for individuals
with severe mental illness.

The department has not been awarded the federal grant nor approved as
one of eight states to participate in the federal demonstration
program.  As such, this bill is premature.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.