AB 177 — Health.

Summary

(1) The California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990 requires a person, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health to provide hospice services to an individual who is experiencing the last phase of life due to a terminal disease, as defined, and their family, except as provided. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2025, to adopt emergency regulations to implement the recommendations in a specified report of the California State Auditor. Existing law requires the department to maintain the general moratorium on new hospice agency licenses until the department adopts the regulations. Existing law requires the moratorium to end the date the emergency regulations are adopted. This bill would extend the deadline by which the department is required to adopt those regulations to January 1, 2026, and would require the moratorium to end January 1, 2027, or one year after the date the emergency regulations are adopted. (2) Existing law requires a disability insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders and cover services identified in a fee-for-service reimbursement schedule published by the State Department of Health Care Services when those services are delivered at schoolsites, regardless of the network status of the local educational agency, institution of higher education, or health care provider. Existing law requires the Insurance Commissioner to issue guidance to disability insurers regarding compliance with these provisions. Existing law, as part of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, requires the State Department of Health Care Services to develop and maintain a school-linked statewide provider network of schoolsite behavior health counselors and requires a health care service plan, insurer, or Medi-Cal managed care plan that covers necessary schoolsite services, as specified, to comply with all administrative requirements to cover and reimburse the services set forth by the network administrator. This bill would require the commissioner to additionally issue guidance to disability insurers regarding compliance with provisions regarding administrative requirements to cover and reimburse services under the school-linked statewide behavioral health provider network. (3) 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. Existing law provides that Medi-Cal funding be made available to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, to serve the population of South Los Angeles, as specified. This bill would, for dates of service commencing no later than January 1, 2026, and subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, require the department to establish a Medi-Cal managed care directed payment reimbursement methodology in accordance with federal regulations. The bill would specify the minimum requirements for the reimbursement methodology. The bill would authorize the department to adjust or modify the directed payment reimbursement methodology to meet applicable federal requirements. The bill would specify, for any dates of service for which these provisions are implemented, that a Medi-Cal managed care plan is not required to make payments pursuant to existing specified provisions. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions by means of all-county letters, plan letters, or other similar instructions. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles. (4) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of certain health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires health facilities to annually report certain information to the state, including the current inventory of beds and services. This bill, upon appropriation or availability of funds, would authorize the State Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services, to contract, or develop and administer, a capacity data solution, as specified. The bill would require specified entities, as defined, to submit data to the capacity data solution, which would both collect data and enable searches to identify available behavioral health beds. The bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to impose a plan of correction or assess civil money penalties against an entity licensed or certified by the State Department of Health Care Services that fails to submit data accurately, timely, or as required by the State Department of Public Health. (5) Existing law authorizes a state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals to develop a list of items that are deemed contraband and prohibited on hospital grounds and control and eliminate the contraband on hospital grounds. This bill would authorize the department to adopt emergency regulations related to the management, inspection, and disposition of contraband identified by the department pursuant to these provisions until June 30, 2026. (6) The bill would also reappropriate specified funds from the Budget Act of 2021 related to the CalHOPE Student Support Program. (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

• Chaptered 09/30/24 - Chaptered Current pdf September 30, 2024
• Enrolled 09/03/24 - Enrolled pdf September 03, 2024
• Amended 08/23/24 - Amended Senate pdf August 23, 2024
• Amended 02/01/23 - Amended Assembly pdf February 01, 2023
• Introduced 01/09/23 - Introduced pdf January 09, 2023
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Action History

1. September 30, 2024

   Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 999, Statutes of 2024.

2. September 30, 2024

   Approved by the Governor.

3. September 10, 2024

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

4. August 29, 2024

   Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 1.).

5. August 29, 2024

   Assembly Rule 77 suspended.

6. August 28, 2024

   In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.

7. August 28, 2024

   Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).

8. August 27, 2024

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

9. August 26, 2024

   From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 26).

10. August 23, 2024

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

11. August 22, 2024

    (Ayes 24. Noes 9. Page 5300.)

12. August 22, 2024

    Senate rules suspended.

13. August 15, 2024

    Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5070.)

14. August 14, 2024

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

15. June 26, 2024

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

16. June 20, 2024

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

17. June 19, 2024

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

18. April 12, 2023

    Referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

19. March 23, 2023

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

20. March 23, 2023

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 867.)

21. March 21, 2023

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

22. March 20, 2023

    Ordered to second reading.

23. March 20, 2023

    Withdrawn from committee.

24. March 20, 2023

    Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 732.)

25. February 02, 2023

    Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.

26. February 01, 2023

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

27. January 26, 2023

    Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

28. January 10, 2023

    From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.

29. January 09, 2023

    Read first time. To print.

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• Committee on Budget · Primary

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