BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
SB 118 (Liu) - School-Based Health and Education Partnership
Program
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|Version: April 7, 2015 |Policy Vote: ED. 8 - 0, HEALTH |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: April 27, 2015 |Consultant: Brendan McCarthy |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: SB 118 would authorize a new category of grants within
an existing grant program. The bill would also rename the
program and change some of the program's goals and procedures.
Fiscal
Impact: Unknown costs to provide additional grants (General
Fund or other, unknown fund source). The bill authorizes a new
category of grants that may be issued to schools with school
health centers for interventions such as obesity prevention or
mental health prevention. The bill does not identify a source of
funds for these new grants. The current program has been
authorized in statute for eight years, but has never been
funded.
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Background: Under current law, schools may operate student health centers
to provide health services to students.
Under current law, the Department of Public Health is required
to establish a Public School Health Center Support Program to
support the establishment of school health centers. The
Department is also required to establish a grant program to
provide funding to school health centers. This program has been
in place for the past eight years. To date, no funding has been
made available and no program activities have taken place.
Proposed Law:
SB 118 would authorize a new category of grants within an
existing grant program. The bill would also rename the program
and change some of the program's goals and procedures.
Specific provisions of the bill would:
Rename the existing Public School Health Center Support
Program as the School-Based Health and Education
Partnership;
Add program goals that participating school health centers
provide alcohol and substance abuse services, focus on
prevention services, and provide support for students and
families;
Change the criteria for awarding sustainability grants to
schools;
Create a new category of grants to fund interventions
focusing on issues such as obesity, asthma, mental health
and substance abuse prevention;
Make technical corrections to current law.
Related
Legislation:
AB 766 (Ridley-Thomas) would expand the characteristics of
schools that receive preference in the awarding of grant
funds from the program that is the subject of this bill.
That bill is pending in the Assembly Health Committee.
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AB 1025 (Thurmond) requires the Department of Education to
establish a pilot program to encourage practices that
integrate mental health, special education, and other
issues. That bill is pending in the Assembly Education
Committee.
AB 1133 (Achadjian) would make changes to the statute
governing grants to local education agencies to pay for the
costs of providing early mental health interventions. That
bill is pending in the Assembly.
AB 1055 (Liu, 2014) was substantially similar to this bill.
That bill was held in the Senate Rules Committee.
AB 174 (Bonta, 2013) would have required the Department of
Public Health to establish a pilot program in Alameda County
to address trauma and mental health issues in schools. That
bill was vetoed by Governor Brown.
Staff
Comments: As noted above, the current program has never been funded.
Staff is not aware of any new sources of non-General Fund
funding that could be used to fund the existing program or the
newly authorized activities in this bill.
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