Bill Text: CA AB1214 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Medi-Cal eligibility.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-23 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. [AB1214 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1214-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 29, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 25, 2021 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Waldron (Coauthor: Assembly Member Wood) |
February 19, 2021 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would make an individual incarcerated in the state prison or a county jail eligible for the Medi-Cal program for 30 days prior to the date they are released from the correctional facility if they have a chronic physical or behavioral health condition, a mental illness, or a substance use disorder. The bill would require the department to seek any waivers or state plan amendments necessary to implement its provisions, and would require the department to send an annual report to the Legislature on the implementation of these provisions, as specified. Because counties are required to make Medi-Cal eligibility determinations, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 14011.12 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:14011.12.
(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 14011.10, an individual(b)This section applies to individuals who are incarcerated in a correctional facility and have any of the following conditions:
(1)A chronic physical or behavioral health condition.
(2)A mental illness.
(3)A substance use disorder, including an opioid or alcohol use disorder.
(c)The department shall seek any federal waivers or state plan amendments necessary to implement this section, and shall only implement this section to the degree that those waivers or state plan amendments are obtained.
(d)If the waiver or state plan amendments required in subdivision (c) are approved, the department shall, while the waiver or state plan amendment is in effect, annually
(e)
(f)For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1)“Correctional facility” means the state prison or a county jail.
(2)“Mental illness” means a psychiatric disorder that substantially impairs an individual’s mental, emotional, behavioral, or related functioning, or the same meaning as defined in either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.