BILL NUMBER: SB 721	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Pan

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 5701.5 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to mental health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 721, as introduced, Pan. Mental Health: community mental health
services.
   Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions
governing the operation and financing of community mental health
services for the mentally disordered in every county through locally
administered and locally controlled community mental health programs.

   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 5701.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   5701.5.  City-operated Bronzan-McCorquodale programs paid by the
state  under   pursuant to  Section 5615
shall be directly funded in accordance with this chapter.