BILL NUMBER: AB 2540	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member De La Torre

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 1324.30 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2540, as introduced, De La Torre. Skilled nursing facilities:
Medi-Cal reimbursement: quality assurance fee.
   Existing law, the Medi-Cal Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act,
requires the department to implement a facility-specific
reimbursement ratesetting system for certain freestanding skilled
nursing facilities. Under existing law, reimbursement rates for these
facilities are funded by a combination of federal funds and moneys
collected pursuant to the above-described uniform quality assurance
fee. Existing law provides that these rate methodology provisions
shall become inoperative on July 31, 2011, and be repealed on January
1, 2012.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
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 1324.30 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1324.30.  This article shall become inoperative on July 31, 2011,
and, as of January 1, 2012, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2012, deletes
or extends the dates  on   upon  which it
becomes inoperative and is repealed.