California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1881

Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

February 19, 2014

An act to amend Section 130 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care services.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1881, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Publicly funded health care services.

Existing law imposes various functions and duties on the State Department of Health Care Services with respect to the administration and oversight of health programs and facilities, including publicly funded health care services.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes 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 130 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:

130.  

(a) In order to carry out the intention of the begin delete People end delete begin insert people end insert
of California that, excepting emergency medical care as required
by federal law, only citizens of the United States and aliens
lawfully admitted to the United States may receive the benefits of
begin delete publicly-funded end delete begin insert publicly funded end insert health care, and to ensure that all
persons employed in the providing of those services shall diligently
protect public funds from misuse, the provisions of this section
are adopted.

(b) A person shall not receive any health care services from a
begin delete publicly-funded end delete begin insert publicly funded end insert health care facility, to which he
or she is otherwise entitled begin insert , end insert until the legal status of that person has
been verified as one of the following:

(1) A citizen of the United States.

(2) An alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident.

(3) An alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time.

(c) If begin delete any publicly-funded end delete begin insert a publicly funded end insert health care facility
in this state from begin delete whom end delete begin insert which end insert a person seeks health care services,
other than emergency medical care as required by federal law,
determines or reasonably suspects, based upon the information
provided to it, that the person is an alien in the United States in
violation of federal law, the following procedures shall be followed
by the facility:

(1) The facility shall not provide the person with services.

(2) The facility shall, in writing, notify the person of his or her
apparent illegal immigration begin delete status, end delete begin insert status end insert and that the person must
either obtain legal status or leave the United States.

(3) The facility shall begin delete also end delete notify the begin delete State end delete Director of Health
begin insert Care end insert Services, the Attorney General of California, and the United
States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent
illegal status, and shall provide any additional information that
may be requested by any other public entity.

(d) For purposes of this section begin delete ‛publicly-funded health care
facility‛ end delete begin insert “publicly funded health care facility” end insert shall be defined as
specified in Sections 1200 and 1250 begin delete of this code end delete as of January 1,
1993.