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          Bill No:  SB 97
          Author:   Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
          Amended:  7/14/11
          Vote:     21

           
          PRIOR SENATE VOTES NOT RELEVANT

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  52-13, 7/14/11 - See last page for vote


           SUBJECT  :    Adult day health care

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill contains a technical change to the 
          date of implementation of a Medi-Cal provision contained in 
          AB 97 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 3, Statutes of 
          2011 (Budget trailer bill, March 2011).

           Assembly Amendments  delete the prior version of the bill 
          passed in the Senate regarding the Budget Act of 2011, and 
          insert language regarding adult day health care.

           ANALYSIS  :    

          Existing law:

          1.Establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the 
            Department of Health Care Services, under which health 
            care services are provided to qualified, low-income 
            persons.  The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and 
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            funded by the federal Medicaid Program provisions.  

          2.Provides, to the extent permitted by federal law, that 
            adult day health care (ADHC) be excluded from coverage 
            under the Medi-Cal program on the first day of the first 
            calendar month following 90 days after the effective date 
            of the act that added that provision or on the first day 
            of the first calendar month following 60 days after the 
            date the Department of Health Care Services secures all 
            necessary federal approvals to implement that provision, 
            whichever is later.

          This bill:

          1.Delays, by two months, the implementation of the 
            elimination of ADHC as a Medi-Cal optional benefit.  
            Provides that ADHC will no longer be a benefit in the 
            Medi-Cal program and that the benefit will end on the 
            first day of the month that follows 60 days after the 
            state receives approval from the federal government to 
            end the benefit.  The state received federal approval on 
            July 1, thereby ending the benefit on September 1, 2011.  
            This bill delays the date to November 1, 2011.

          2.Adds an appropriation allowing this bill to take effect 
            immediately upon enactment.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  Yes   Fiscal Com.:  Yes   
          Local:  No

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR :  52-13, 7/14/11
          AYES:  Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Block, 
            Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, 
            Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter, Cedillo, 
            Chesbro, Davis, Dickinson, Eng, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, 
            Furutani, Galgiani, Gatto, Gordon, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, 
            Roger Hern�ndez, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Lara, 
            Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Monning, Pan, Perea, V. 
            Manuel P�rez, Portantino, Skinner, Solorio, Swanson, 
            Torres, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
          NOES:  Donnelly, Fletcher, Grove, Halderman, Jones, Knight, 
            Logue, Mansoor, Miller, Morrell, Norby, Olsen, Wagner
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Achadjian, Bill Berryhill, Conway, Cook, 
            Beth Gaines, Garrick, Gorell, Hagman, Jeffries, Mitchell, 







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            Nestande, Nielsen, Silva, Smyth, Valadao

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