BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
SB 804 (Committee on Health) - Health
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|Version: March 26, 2015 |Policy Vote: HEALTH 9 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: May 11, 2015 |Consultant: Brendan McCarthy |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: SB 804 makes a variety of technical and clarifying
changes to statutes health-related statutes. In addition, the
bill eliminates the existing statutory sunset on the California
Office of Health Information Integrity.
Fiscal
Impact: Annual costs of $3.7 million ($2.4 million General Fund
and $1.3 million reimbursements) to extend indefinitely the
operations of the Office of Health Information Integrity.
Background: Under current law, the Office of Health Information Integrity
is authorized to formulate policy, coordinate with other state
entities, and oversee the state agency efforts to comply with
the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,
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which generally places restrictions and requirements on the use
and protection of health care-related information. Current law
sunsets the authorizing statutes for the Office on June 30,
2016.
Proposed Law:
SB 804 makes a variety of technical and clarifying changes to
statutes health-related statutes.
Specific provisions of the bill would:
Repeal the sunset date on the California Office of Health
Information Integrity;
Replace references in statute to the California Mental
Health Directors Association and the County Alcohol and Drug
Program Administrators Association of California to instead
reference the County Behavioral health Directors'
Association, to reflect the merger of those two entities;
Require the Department of Health Care Services to provide
information to the Legislature quarterly (instead of
biannually) with updates on caseload and projected
expenditures for the Every Woman Counts Program;
Clarify that counties cannot charge any fee when issuing a
replacement birth certificate to an individual who can
verify that he or she is homeless;
Delete obsolete provisions of code.
Related
Legislation: AB 1733 (Quirk-Silva, Statutes of 2014) requires
local registrars or county recorders to issue a replacement
birth certificate without a fee to any individual who can
demonstrate that he or she is homeless.
Staff
Comments: Concerns have been raised that, while the intent of
AB 1733 was to require the issuance of replacement birth
certificates without any fees being charged, the statutory
language is not explicit in prohibiting the requirement to pay
an issuance fee (the typical charge) or any other fee. This bill
makes that requirement explicit.
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