BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 27, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
AB
2889 (Committee on Health) - As Introduced February 29, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill restores the California Department of Public Health
(CDPH) to the list of departments that may make advanced
payments to community-based private nonprofit agency
contractors.
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FISCAL EFFECT:
Negligible state fiscal effect.
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose. This bill is a technical cleanup to an inadvertent
deletion of CDPH from a list of departments that may make
advanced payments to community-based private nonprofit agency
contractors. This bill is supported by CDPH and has no
opposition.
2)Background. DPH is comprised of over 200 programs and centers,
with areas of focus such as infectious diseases, environmental
health, emergency preparedness, and health equity. CDPH
routinely contracts with community-based nonprofit agencies to
provide services directly to the public. Prior to 2014,
Government Code (GC) section 11019, subdivision (b), which the
bill is amending, granted advance payment authority to the
former Department of Health Services (DHS), DPH's predecessor
department. Both DPH and the DHCS continued to utilize this
advance payment statutory authority after DHS was split,
effective 2007. Clean-up legislative language to that GC
section, effective in 2014, amended the DHS advance payment
statutory reference to only include DHCS, inadvertently
removing DPH's authority.
Analysis Prepared by:Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
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