Bill Text: CA AB1011 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Insurance: green investments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 418, Statutes of 2010. [AB1011 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1011-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1011	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 29, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 15, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

    An act to add Section 130206 to the Health and Safety
Code, relating to public health.   An act to add Section
14167.40 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1011, as amended, Jones.  Office of Health Information
Integrity: report.   Medi-Cal: hospitals.  
   Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the
State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health
care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. Under
existing law, the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration
Project Act, specified hospital reimbursement methodologies are
applied in order to maximize the use of federal funds consistent with
federal Medicaid law and stabilize the distribution of funding for
hospitals that provide care to Medi-Cal beneficiaries and uninsured
patients.  
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would implement supplemental payments to hospitals,
impose a coverage dividend fee on hospitals, provide funding for
coverage for children, establish direct grants to designated public
hospitals, and impose other requirements necessary to implement the
provisions of AB 1383 of the 2009-10 Regular Session and to obtain
necessary federal approvals, waivers, and waiver modifications. 

   Existing federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), extends health coverage benefits
to workers after they terminate coverage plans. Existing state law,
to become inoperative on July 1, 2010, establishes the Office of
HIPAA Implementation to, among other things, assume statewide
leadership, coordination, direction, and oversight responsibilities
for determining which provisions of state law concerning medical
information are preempted by HIPAA.  
   Existing law establishes the Office of Health Information
Integrity within the California Health and Human Services Agency to
ensure the enforcement of state law mandating confidentiality of
medical information and to impose administrative fines for the
unauthorized use of medical information.  
   This bill would require the Office of Health Information
Integrity, by April 1, 2010, to report to the appropriate policy and
fiscal committees of the Legislature on the impact of federal changes
related to health care technology and the privacy of health and
medical information. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 14167.40 is added to the 
 Welfare and Institutions Code   , immediately following
Section 14167.39, to read:  
   14167.40.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would implement supplemental payments to hospitals,
impose a coverage dividend fee on hospitals, provide funding for
coverage for children, establish direct grants to designated public
hospitals, and impose other requirements necessary to implement
Article 5.21 (commencing with Section 14167.1) and Article 5.22
(commencing with Section 14167.31), as contained in Assembly Bill
1383 of the 2009-10 Regular Session, and to obtain necessary federal
approvals, waivers, and waiver modifications.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 130206 is added to the
Health and Safety Code, to read:
   130206.  By April 1, 2010, the Office of Health Information
Integrity shall report to the appropriate policy and fiscal
committees of the Legislature on the impact of federal changes
related to health care technology and the privacy of health and
medical information.