Bill Text: CA AB1011 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal: cooperative arrangements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1011 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1011-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1011	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garrick

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 14000.03 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1011, as introduced, Garrick. Medi-Cal: cooperative
arrangements.
   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 federal law requires the state'
s plan for medical assistance under Medi-Cal to provide for entering
into cooperative arrangements with the state agencies responsible for
administering or supervising the administration of health services
and vocational rehabilitation services in the state. Existing law
requires, upon additional funds being appropriated and budgeted for
the support of services within the scope of work of a cooperative
arrangement, the amount of the encumbrance in the agreement shall be
amended, by operation of law, to reflect the newly appropriated and
budgeted funds.
   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 14000.03 of the Welfare and Institutions Code
is amended to read:
   14000.03.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that Section
1396a(a)(11)(A) of Title 42 of the United States Code provides that
California's state plan for medical assistance under the Medicaid
program must "provide for entering into cooperative arrangements with
the State agencies responsible for administering or supervising the
administration of health services and vocational rehabilitation
services in the State looking toward maximum utilization of such
services in the provision of medical assistance under the plan."
   (b) In furtherance of Section 1396a(a)(11)(A) of Title 42 of the
United States Code and Section 7560 of the Government Code, it is the
intent of the Legislature to maximize the amount of federal and
state funds continually available under agreements identified in
Section 1396a(a)(11)(A) of Title 42 of the United States Code and
entered into by the State Department of Health  Care 
Services by making later-appropriated and budgeted funds immediately
encumbered and available for expenditure under agreements by
operation of law.
   (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon additional
funds being appropriated and budgeted for the support of the services
identified within the scope of work of an agreement of the type
identified in Section 1396a(a)(11)(A) of Title 42 of the United
States Code and previously entered into by the State Department of
Health  Care  Services, the amount of the encumbrance in
 such an   the  agreement shall be amended,
by operation of law, to reflect the newly appropriated and budgeted
funds.
   (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, once an agreement
of the type identified in Section 1396a(a)(11)(A) of Title 42 of the
United States Code is entered into by the State Department of Health
 Care  Services, the agreement shall continue in effect
indefinitely and need not be amended unless the State Department of
Health  Care  Services changes the scope of work to be
provided under the agreement.