BILL ANALYSIS �
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 1014 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
As Amended June 25, 2012
Majority vote. Budget Bill Appropriation Takes Effect
Immediately
SENATE VOTE :Vote not relevant
SUMMARY : Contains the necessary changes to enact the Budget Act
of 2012-13 related to the Department of Alcohol and Drug
Programs (DADP) Programmatic Realignment. Specifically, this
bill :
1)Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the realignment
of funds for Substance Use Disorder services to counties,
consistent with 2011 Public Safety Realignment.
2)Requires the DADP and the Department of Health Care Services
(DHCS) to annually report a summary of outcome and expenditure
data that allows for monitoring of changes over time and
indicates the degree to which programs are meeting state and
county-defined outcome measures.
3)Makes programmatic changes necessary to implement and
consistent with the realignment of funding for the Drug
Medi-Cal program and the transfer of remaining state
responsibility for the program to the DHCS.
4)Requires the DHCS to provide quarterly updates to the
Legislature, stakeholders, and public on steps foreseen,
planned, and completed for the Drug Medi-Cal transfer.
5)Establishes legislative support for the adoption of
standardized and simplified forms and procedures in order to
promote the drug treatment of indigent patients who are not
eligible for Medi-Cal.
6)Transfers, effective, July 1, 2013, the administrative and
programmatic functions of DADP to departments within the
Health and Human Services Agency. Requires that, in
consultation with stakeholders and affected departments, the
Health and Human Services Agency prepare a detailed plan for
the reorganization of DADP's functions, as specified. The
plan is to be submitted to the Legislature as part of the
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2013-14 Governor's Budget and the ultimate placement of
functions pursuant to the transfer is contingent upon the
Budget Act of 2013 and implementing legislation.
7)Declares the state's interest in the Women and Children's
Residential Treatment Services program, recognizes the eight
current programs, and allows for the establishment of
additional programs for the purpose of pursuing the following
four primary goals:
a) Demonstrate that alcohol and other drug abuse treatment
services delivered in a residential setting and coupled
with primary health, mental health, and social services for
women and children, can improve overall treatment outcomes
for women, children, and the family unit as a whole;
b) Demonstrate the effectiveness of six-month or 12-month
stays in a comprehensive residential treatment program;
c) Develop models of effective comprehensive services
delivery for women and their children that can be
replicated in similar communities; and,
d) Provide services to promote safe and healthy pregnancies
and perinatal outcomes.
8)Revises various sections to eliminate a county plan
requirement and instead requires counties to, within 60 days
after notice of the final allocation of Federal Substance
Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant Funds,
contract for federal funding from the state to provide alcohol
and other drug prevention, treatment, and recovery services.
9)Establishes that, when a county decides not to enter into a
contract to provide alcohol and drug abuse services or
programs, or both, DADP shall determine the need for the
services or programs and provide the services or programs
directly through contract.
10)Provides that DADP may implement, interpret, or make
amendments to various provisions by means of an all-county
letter, plan letters, plan or provide bulletins, or similar
instructions from the department until regulations are
adopted. In addition, provides for adoption of emergency
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regulations by July 1, 2014, and authorizes the re-adoption of
these emergency regulations, as specified.
11)Removes population cap for two or more counties to jointly
establish county alcohol and other drug programs and removes
state authorization for county-to-county contracts for
service.
12)Establishes that funds in each county's Behavioral Health
Subaccount of the Support Services Account of the Local
Revenue Fund 2011 shall be considered state funds for the
purposes of receipt of the federal block grant.
13)Allows the director of DADP to reduce federal funding, on a
dollar-for-dollar basis, to a county that has reduced or
anticipates reducing expenditures in a way that would result
in a decrease in the federal SAPT funds, as specified.
14)Makes amendments necessary to implement the realignment of
drug court funding pursuant to 2011 Public Safety Realignment.
15)Establishes that if a federal disallowance or other financial
penalty is imposed on the state based on the results of the
federal Children and Family Services Review, the Department of
Social Services, in consultation with the California State
Association of Counties, shall develop an apportionment of the
total counties' share of the penalty to the individual
counties whose performance contributed to the failure to meet
the federal outcome target, as specified.
16)Contains an appropriation allowing this bill to take effect
immediately upon enactment.
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Vazquez / BUDGET / (916)
319-2099
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