California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 85 — Health and human services.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 24, Statutes of 2013.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 10, 2013. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 3 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

(1) Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states, with California's version of this program being known as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Under the CalWORKs program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals who meet specified eligibility criteria, including participating in specified welfare-to-work activities. This bill would increase aid payments by 5% as of March 1, 2014, and would specify a process by which additional grant increases could be made depending on projected revenue and costs. (2) Existing law establishes the Local Revenue Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, that allocates Vehicle License Fund moneys and sales tax moneys. Existing law creates various accounts and subaccounts within that fund, including the Health Subaccount and the Social Services Subaccount, each of which get funding from the Local Revenue Fund. This bill would make an appropriation by reallocating funds in the 2012–13 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years to change the relative percentages of funds from those 2 sources that are allocated to the Health Subaccount and the Social Services Subaccount. (3) Existing law provides for the establishment of the Sales Tax Growth Account in the continuously appropriated Local Revenue Fund for the allocation of sales and use tax growth revenues to local government. This bill would delete specified subaccounts in the Sales Tax Growth Account and would add a Family Support Subaccount and a Child Poverty and Family Supplemental Support Subaccount to the Sales Tax Account. The bill would provide funding for the Child Poverty and Family Supplemental Support Subaccount from the Sales Tax Growth Account in the 2013–14 fiscal year and from sales tax in later fiscal years. The bill would require the transfer of funds from the Child Poverty and Family Services Supplemental Support Subaccount to the counties for use to support the CalWORKs program, as specified. This bill would establish funding for the Family Support Subaccount from the Health Subaccount. The bill would require the transfer of funds from the Family Services Support Subaccount to the counties for use to support the CalWORKs program, as specified. Under existing law, cities and counties that receive funds from the Local Revenue Fund are required to establish and maintain a local health and welfare trust fund comprised of specified accounts. This bill would also require counties to establish a family support account in their local health and welfare trust accounts. By requiring additional duties from the counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law requires counties, through a choice of methodologies, including County Medical Services Programs, nonpublic hospitals, and public hospitals, to provide specified health services eligible county residents who are indigent. Funding for this program, under existing law, has come from the Health Subaccount. This bill would allow counties to receive funding from the Health Subaccount by either proving actual costs or by electing to receive 60% of the funds that would otherwise have been allocated to them, and would establish a default contribution for counties that fail to make a choice or to inform the Director of Health Care Services by December 4, 2013. The bill would place the difference between prior fiscal year contributions to counties from the Health Subaccount and the new contributions to counties in the Family Support Subaccount, to be used by counties for CalWORKs, as specified. This bill would establish processes by which the counties prove actual costs to the Department of Health Care Services, as specified. (5) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Under existing law, eligibility for the Medi-Cal program is expanding. This bill would require specified percentages of newly eligible beneficiaries to be assigned to public hospital health systems in an eligible county, if applicable, until the county public hospital health system meets its enrollment target, as defined. The bill would also require, subject to specified criteria, Medi-Cal managed care plans serving newly eligible beneficiaries to pay county public hospital health systems for services provided to newly eligible beneficiaries in amounts that are no less than the cost of providing those services, as specified. (6) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions. (7) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 24, Statutes of 2013.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 23. Page 2046.).

  5. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 2045.)

  6. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 2045.)

  7. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.

  8. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 1384.).

  9. Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1363.)

  10. (Ayes 24. Noes 6. Page 1361.)

  11. Ordered to third reading.

  12. Withdrawn from committee.

  13. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  14. Referred to Com. on RLS.

  15. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  16. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 24. Page 1395.)

  17. (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 1314.)

  18. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  19. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 1313.)

  20. Ordered to second reading.

  21. (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 1312.)

  22. Withdrawn from committee.

  23. Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

  24. From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.

  25. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Committee on Budget · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 6 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Budget

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

3rd Reading AB85 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) By Leno

Passed 24 Yea · 11 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 211104
Democratic 3000
Total 241104
% of votes cast 62%28%0%10%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huff — Nay
Knight — Nay
Lara — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Liu — Not Voting
Nielsen — Nay
Walters — Nay
Wyland — Nay
Emmerson — Nay
Correa — Not Voting
Evans — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hueso — Yea
De León — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Leno — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Price — Yea
Roth — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Torres — Yea
Wright — Yea
Cannella — Nay
Monning — Not Voting
Wolk — Yea
Fuller — Nay
Galgiani — Yea
Yee — Yea
Hancock — Nay
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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AB 85 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLUMENFIELD

Passed 53 Yea · 23 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 471803
Democratic 6100
Republican 0400
Total 532303
% of votes cast 67%29%0%4%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Not Voting
Alejo — Yea
Bigelow — Not Voting
Bloom — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Harkey — Nay
Holden — Yea
Levine — Yea
Linder — Nay
Maienschein — Nay
Olsen — Nay
Perea — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Wilk — Nay
Yamada — Yea
Stone — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Campos — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Hagman — Nay
Hall — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Logue — Nay
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Mansoor — Nay
Medina — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Daly — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Pan — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Waldron — Nay
Weber — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Williams — Yea
Melendez — Nay
Morrell — Nay
Chávez — Nay
Conway — Nay
Donnelly — Nay
Nestande — Nay
Fox — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gorell — Nay
Beth Gaines — Nay
Roger Hernández — Not Voting
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Nay
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Yea
Garcia, Robert Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Patterson, Joe Republican Nay

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AB 85 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD

Passed 51 Yea · 24 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 452003
Democratic 6001
Republican 0400
Total 512404
% of votes cast 65%30%0%5%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Nay
Alejo — Yea
Ammiano — Not Voting
Bigelow — Nay
Bloom — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Holden — Not Voting
Levine — Yea
Mansoor — Nay
Nestande — Nay
Olsen — Nay
Pan — Yea
Torres — Yea
Weber — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Chau — Yea
Linder — Nay
Daly — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Stone — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Campos — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Hall — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Medina — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Perea — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Ting — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Williams — Yea
Logue — Nay
Waldron — Nay
Harkey — Nay
Chávez — Nay
Conway — Nay
Lowenthal — Not Voting
Donnelly — Nay
Maienschein — Nay
Melendez — Nay
Morrell — Nay
Wagner — Nay
Fox — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Gorell — Nay
Hagman — Nay
Beth Gaines — Nay
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Not Voting
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Yea
Garcia, Robert Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Patterson, Joe Republican Nay

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 85 do?
(1) Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states, with California's version of this program being known as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Under the CalWORKs program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals who meet specified eligibility criteria, including participating in specified welfare-to-work activities. This bill would increase aid payments by 5% as of March 1, 2014, and would specify a process by which additional grant increases could be made depending on projected revenue and costs. (2) Existing law establishes the Local Revenue Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, that allocates Vehicle License Fund moneys and sales tax moneys. Existing law creates various accounts and subaccounts within that fund, including the Health Subaccount and the Social Services Subaccount, each of which get funding from the Local Revenue Fund. This bill would make an appropriation by reallocating funds in the 2012–13 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years to change the relative percentages of funds from those 2 sources that are allocated to the Health Subaccount and the Social Services Subaccount. (3) Existing law provides for the establishment of the Sales Tax Growth Account in the continuously appropriated Local Revenue Fund for the allocation of sales and use tax growth revenues to local government. This bill would delete specified subaccounts in the Sales Tax Growth Account and would add a Family Support Subaccount and a Child Poverty and Family Supplemental Support Subaccount to the Sales Tax Account. The bill would provide funding for the Child Poverty and Family Supplemental Support Subaccount from the Sales Tax Growth Account in the 2013–14 fiscal year and from sales tax in later fiscal years. The bill would require the transfer of funds from the Child Poverty and Family Services Supplemental Support Subaccount to the counties for use to support the CalWORKs program, as specified. This bill would establish funding for the Family Support Subaccount from the Health Subaccount. The bill would require the transfer of funds from the Family Services Support Subaccount to the counties for use to support the CalWORKs program, as specified. Under existing law, cities and counties that receive funds from the Local Revenue Fund are required to establish and maintain a local health and welfare trust fund comprised of specified accounts. This bill would also require counties to establish a family support account in their local health and welfare trust accounts. By requiring additional duties from the counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law requires counties, through a choice of methodologies, including County Medical Services Programs, nonpublic hospitals, and public hospitals, to provide specified health services eligible county residents who are indigent. Funding for this program, under existing law, has come from the Health Subaccount. This bill would allow counties to receive funding from the Health Subaccount by either proving actual costs or by electing to receive 60% of the funds that would otherwise have been allocated to them, and would establish a default contribution for counties that fail to make a choice or to inform the Director of Health Care Services by December 4, 2013. The bill would place the difference between prior fiscal year contributions to counties from the Health Subaccount and the new contributions to counties in the Family Support Subaccount, to be used by counties for CalWORKs, as specified. This bill would establish processes by which the counties prove actual costs to the Department of Health Care Services, as specified. (5) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Under existing law, eligibility for the Medi-Cal program is expanding. This bill would require specified percentages of newly eligible beneficiaries to be assigned to public hospital health systems in an eligible county, if applicable, until the county public hospital health system meets its enrollment target, as defined. The bill would also require, subject to specified criteria, Medi-Cal managed care plans serving newly eligible beneficiaries to pay county public hospital health systems for services provided to newly eligible beneficiaries in amounts that are no less than the cost of providing those services, as specified. (6) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions. (7) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
Who sponsors AB 85?
AB 85 is sponsored by Committee on Budget.
What is the current status of AB 85?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 10, 2013. Enacted.
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