BILL NUMBER: AB 2233	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nielsen

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act relating to inmates.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2233, as introduced, Nielsen. Inmates: health care.
   Existing law provides that the supervision, management and control
of state prisons, and the responsibility for the care, custody,
treatment, training, discipline, and employment of persons confined
therein are vested in the Secretary of the Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to later
amend this bill to authorize the secretary to create and implement a
health management organization or preferred provider organization
system of health care for inmates.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to later amend this
bill to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to create and implement a health management
organization or preferred provider organization system of health care
for inmates.