AB 2050,
as amended, Steinorth. begin deleteRedevelopment. end deletebegin insertHealth care coverage: prescription drugs: refills.end insert
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law imposes various requirements on contracts and policies that cover prescription drug benefits. Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy and prohibits the refilling of a prescription without the authorization of the prescriber, except as specified.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, that provides coverage for prescription drug benefits to implement a medication synchronization policy for the dispensing of prescription drugs so that prescriptions that are refilled at the same frequency may be filled concurrently. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
end insertbegin insertThe California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
end insertThe Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined, and requires that not less than 20% of taxes allocated to an agency be dedicated for the provision of low- and moderate-income housing. Existing law requires that every redevelopment plan adopted or amended after January 1, 1977, to expand a project area contain a provision that affordable housing units destroyed or removed from the low- and moderate-income housing market as part of a redevelopment project be replaced with dwelling units at affordable cost, as described.
end deleteExisting law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and designates successor agencies to act as successor entities to the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Existing law provides for the continued application of specified provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law under certain circumstances.
end deleteThis bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision of the Community Redevelopment Law requiring the replacement of affordable housing units.
end deleteVote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
State-mandated local program: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
begin insertSection 1367.248 is added to the end insertbegin insertHealth and
2Safety Codeend insertbegin insert, to read:end insert
(a) A health care service plan contract issued,
4amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, that provides
5coverage for prescription drug benefits shall implement a
6synchronization policy for the dispensing of prescription drugs to
7the plan’s enrollees.
8(b) For purposes of this section, “synchronization policy” means
9a procedure for aligning the refill dates of an enrollee’s
P3 1prescription drugs so that prescriptions that are refilled at the
2same frequency may be refilled concurrently.
begin insertSection 10123.208 is added to the end insertbegin insertInsurance Codeend insertbegin insert, to
4read:end insert
(a) A health insurance policy issued, amended, or
6renewed on or after January 1, 2017, that provides coverage for
7prescription drug benefits shall implement a synchronization policy
8for the dispensing of prescription drugs to the policy’s insured.
9(b) For purposes of this section, “synchronization policy” means
10a procedure for aligning the refill dates of an insured’s prescription
11drugs so that prescriptions that are refilled at the same frequency
12may be refilled concurrently.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
14Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
15the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
16district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
17infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
18for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of
19the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within
20the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
21Constitution.
Section 33334.5 of the Health and Safety Code
23 is amended to read:
A redevelopment plan adopted or amended to expand
25the project area after January 1, 1977, shall contain a provision
26that whenever dwelling units housing persons and families of low
27or moderate income are destroyed or removed from the low- and
28moderate-income housing market as part of a redevelopment
29project, the agency shall, within four years of that destruction or
30removal, rehabilitate, develop, or construct, or cause
to be
31rehabilitated, developed, or constructed, for rental or sale to persons
32and families of low or moderate income an equal number of
33replacement dwelling units at affordable housing costs, as defined
34by Section 50052.5, within the project area or within the territorial
35jurisdiction of the agency, in accordance with Sections 33413 and
3633413.5.
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