BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: July 2, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Richard Gordon, Chair
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67 (Stone) - As Introduced May 22, 2015
SENATE VOTE: 38-0
SUBJECT: National Mental Health Awareness Month.
SUMMARY: Recognizes May 2015 as National Mental Health
Awareness Month to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1)Mental illness is one of the leading causes of disabilities in
the United States, affecting one out of every four families
and victimizing both the person with the illness and those
persons who care for and love the person afflicted.
2)57 million Americans have a mental disorder in any given year,
but fewer than 40 percent of adults living with a mental
illness, and slightly more than one-half of youth 8 to 15
years of age, inclusive, with a mental illness received mental
health services in the last year.
3)Although mental illness impacts all people, many of those in
lower-income communities receive less care, poorer quality of
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care, and often lack access to culturally competent care,
thereby resulting in mental health disparities.
4)Nearly two-thirds of all people with a diagnosable mental
illness do not receive mental health treatment due to stigma,
lack of community-based resources, inadequate diagnosis, or no
diagnosis.
5)Access to mental health treatment and services is of paramount
importance and there is a need to encourage primary care
physicians to offer screenings, to partner with mental health
care providers, to seek appropriate referrals to specialists,
and to encourage timely and accurate diagnoses of mental
disorders.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
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Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916)
319-2800