BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 2399
Page 1
ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB
2399 (Nazarian)
As Amended May 31, 2016
Majority vote
------------------------------------------------------------------
|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
|----------------+-----+----------------------+--------------------|
|Health |17-0 |Wood, Maienschein, | |
| | |Bonilla, Burke, Chiu, | |
| | |Dababneh, Gomez, | |
| | |Lackey, Nazarian, | |
| | |Olsen, Patterson, | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Ridley-Thomas, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Santiago, | |
| | |Steinorth, Thurmond, | |
| | |Waldron | |
| | | | |
|----------------+-----+----------------------+--------------------|
|Appropriations |15-1 |Gonzalez, Bloom, |Bigelow |
| | |Bonilla, Bonta, | |
| | |Calderon, Chang, | |
| | |Daly, Eggman, Eduardo | |
| | |Garcia, Roger | |
| | |Hernández, Holden, | |
| | |Quirk, Santiago, | |
AB 2399
Page 2
| | |Weber, Wood | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to make
the informational materials provided to women and infants
infected with or exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
available in the Medi-Cal threshold languages, as specified.
EXISTING LAW:
1)Requires DPH, in consultation with the Office of AIDS and
other stakeholders, to develop culturally sensitive
informational material adequate to inform pregnant women, at
the time of labor or delivery, that they will be tested for
HIV, the routine nature of the test, the purpose, risks and
benefits of the test, and that she has the right to decline
the test.
2)Requires all managed care plans contracting with the
Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to provide language
assistance services to limited-English-proficient (LEP)
Medic-Cal beneficiaries who are mandatorily enrolled in
managed care. Requires DHCS to determine when a LEP
population meets the requirement for translation services
using one of the following numeric thresholds:
a) A population group of at least 3,000 or 5% of the
beneficiary population, whichever is fewer, mandatory
managed care Medi-Cal beneficiaries, residing in the
service area, who indicate their primary language as other
than English; or,
AB 2399
Page 3
b) A population group of mandatory managed care Medi-Cal
beneficiaries, residing in the service area, who indicate
their primary language as other than English, and that meet
a concentration standard of 1,000 beneficiaries in a single
ZIP Code or 1,500 beneficiaries in two contiguous ZIP
Codes.
FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, costs to DPH of approximately $30,000 to translate
the prenatal information into the additional languages (Genetic
Disease Fund).
COMMENTS: According to the author this bill will provide women
with the HIV informational material in the language they know
best by requiring the materials to be made available in all 14
of the languages used to satisfy the translation services
requirements for Medi-Cal managed care plans.
As noted in Existing Law above, managed care plans contracting
with DHCS provide language assistance services to LEP Medi-Cal
beneficiaries who are mandatorily enrolled in managed care when
a regional LEP population meets the certain numeric thresholds.
The Medi-Cal threshold languages are: English, Arabic,
Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Farsi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean,
Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
Analysis Prepared by:
Lara Flynn / HEALTH / (916) 319-2097 FN:
0003253
AB 2399
Page 4