California 2023-2024 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate

SB 177 — Health.

Last action — Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Gabriel.

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

This bill died with 2023-2024 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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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

Action History

  1. Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Gabriel.

  2. Ordered to third reading.

  3. Withdrawn from committee.

  4. Assembly Rule 63 and 96 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 14. Page 6492.)

  5. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.

  6. Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

  7. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  8. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 511.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. Ordered to second reading.

  11. Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 357.)

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

  13. From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.

  14. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 7 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

3rd Reading SB177 B. & F.R.

Passed 29 Yea · 8 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 10100
Democratic 18103
Republican 1600
Total 29803
% of votes cast 73%20%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Roth — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Newman — Yea
Min — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Ashby, Angelique V. Democratic Not Voting
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Blakespear, Catherine S. Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Gonzalez, Lena A. Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Menjivar, Caroline Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Nay
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Rubio, Susan Democratic Not Voting
Smallwood-Cuevas, Lola Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Not Voting
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wahab, Aisha Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Alvarado-Gil, Marie Republican Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Niello, Roger W. Republican Nay
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Nay
Seyarto, Kelly Republican Nay

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 177 do?
(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.
Who sponsors SB 177?
SB 177 is sponsored by Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review.
What is the current status of SB 177?
This bill died with 2023-2024 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 177?
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