BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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SENATE THIRD READING
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131 (Beall)
As Introduced April 14, 2016
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE: 39-0
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|Rules |11-0 |Gordon, Chang, | |
| | |Arambula, Brough, | |
| | |Cooley, Gomez, | |
| | |Holden, Jones, Quirk, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Waldron | |
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SUMMARY: Recognizes May 2016 as National Mental Health
Awareness Month in California 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
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persons who care for and love the person afflicted.
2)Fifty seven million Americans have a mental disorder in any
given year, but fewer than 40% of adults living with a mental
illness, and slightly more than one-half of youth eight 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
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
Analysis Prepared by:
Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 FN:
0002821
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