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          Date of Hearing:   May 14, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

              AB 2547 (Beth Gaines) - As Introduced:  February 21, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              Human  
          ServicesVote:7 - 0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          As proposed to be amended, this bill would delete the January 1,  
          2017 sunset date for the Placer County Integrated Health and  
          Human Services Pilot Program. It would also delete an obsolete  
          reporting requirement and make conforming changes.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          There are no significant costs associated with this legislation.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  . In response to uncoordinated approaches to both  
            delivering services to families who were in crisis and  
            protecting and meeting the specialized needs of children in  
            those families, several pieces of legislation were authored in  
            the early 1990s to facilitate better control over program  
            expenditures and coordination at the county level. 

             SB 1846 (Leslie), Chapter 899, Statutes of 1996, created the  
            integrated pilot program for Placer County which allows 16  
            otherwise individual contracts, allocations, and reporting  
            methods to be consolidated into one contract. This reduces the  
            amount of administrative time needed to monitor and maintain  
            the contracts at both the county and the state level. 

            After nearly 18 years of operation and three sunset  
            extensions, this bill would allow Placer County to make this  
            pilot project permanent, thus allowing them to maintain the  
            efficiencies they have achieved by consolidating contracts and  
            programs.








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           2)Previous Legislation  .
           
              a)   AB 1766 (Gaines) Chapter 364, Statutes of 2010, extended  
               Placer County's pilot program five years to July 1, 2016.

             b)   AB 2039 (Logue), 2010, would have deleted the pilot  
               status and made the Placer County program permanent.  The  
               bill was vetoed by the Governor.
             
              c)   AB 1859 (Leslie), Chapter 268, Statutes of 2006,  
               extended Placer County's pilot program five years to July  
               1, 2011.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jennifer Swenson / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081