AB 2345, as amended, Ridley-Thomas. Commission on Health Care Cost Review.
Existing law establishes various programs relating to health policy and planning in this state. Existing law establishes the California Health Benefit Review Program to assess legislation that proposes to mandate or repeal a mandated health benefit or service, as defined, and to prepare a written analysis with relevant data on specified information, including public health impacts and financial impacts.
This bill would establish the Commission on Health Care Cost Review to study and report every 2 years to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Health on public policies affecting health care costs and access to health care coverage in California. The commission would be comprised of 5 members, with 3 members appointed by the Governor, one member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and one member appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, subject to 4-year terms. The bill would authorize the Department of Managed Health Care to accept voluntary contributions to be deposited into the Health Care Affordability Fund, which the bill would create in the State Treasury, to fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the costs of the operation of the commission. The bill would provide that the implementation of these provisions is contingent upon a determination of the department that sufficient voluntary contributions exist or will exist in the Health Care Affordability Fund.begin insert The bill would repeal these provisions on either January 1, 2020, if the department does not, by December 31, 2019, notify the Legislature that it has received sufficient voluntary contributions to fund the costs of operation of the commission, or on January 1, 2025, if the department, by December 31, 2019, notifiesend insertbegin insert the Legislature that it has received sufficient voluntary contributions to fund the costs of operation of the commission.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 127650)
2is added to Part 2 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code,
3to read:
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The Commission on Health Care Cost Review is
8hereby created.
(a) The commission shall consist of five members.
10Three members shall be appointed by the Governor, one member
11shall be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and one
12member shall be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly. Each
13member shall serve a term of four years.
14(b) Members of the commission shall not receive compensation.
15The commission may conduct virtual meetings.
(a) The commission shall study and analyze public
17policies affecting health care costs and access to health care
18coverage in California.
19(b) (1) The commission shall report its findings to the Assembly
20and Senate Committees on Health every two years.
21(2) A report submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be
22submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government
23Code.
(a) The Department of Managed Health Care may
2accept voluntary contributions to pay for the costs of operation of
3the commission established under this chapter. These voluntary
4contributions shall be deposited into the Health Care Affordability
5Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. The moneys
6in the Health Care Affordability Fundbegin delete shall beend deletebegin insert areend insert available, upon
7appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of funding the costs
8of the operation of the commission.begin delete No stateend deletebegin insert
Stateend insert funds shallbegin insert notend insert
9 be used to fund the operation of the commission established under
10this chapter.
11(b) The implementation of this chapterbegin delete shall beend deletebegin insert isend insert contingent
12upon a determination by the Department of Managed Health Care
13that sufficient voluntary contributions exist or will exist in the
14Health Care Affordability Fund. Upon making thisbegin delete determinationend delete
15begin insert determination,end insert
the Department of Managed Health Care shall notify
16the Legislature that sufficient voluntary contributions exist or will
17exist in the Health Care Affordability Fund.
(a) If the Department of Managed Health Care does
19not, by December 31, 2019, notify the Legislature that it has
20received sufficient voluntary contributions to fund the costs of
21operation of the commission established under this chapter, this
22chapter shall be repealed on January 1, 2020.
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(b) If the Department of Managed Health Care, by December
2431, 2019, notifies the Legislature that it has received sufficient
25voluntary contributions to fund the costs of operation of the
26commission established under this chapter, this chapter shall be
27repealed on January 1, 2025.
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