Bill Text: CA AB1666 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Health care service plans.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1666 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1666-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1666 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Kiley |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to amend Section 1341 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care coverage.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1666, as introduced, Kiley.
Health care service plans.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law charges the Department of Managed Health Care with the execution of the laws of this state relating to health care service plans to ensure that health care service plans provide enrollees with access to quality health care services.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1341 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1341.
(a) There is in state government, in the California Health and Human Services Agency, a Department of Managed Health Care that has charge of the execution of the laws of this state relating to health care service plans and the health care service plan(b) The chief officer of the Department of Managed Health Care is the Director of the
Department of Managed Health Care. The director shall be appointed by the Governor and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. The director shall receive an annual salary as fixed in the Government Code. Within 15 days from the time of the director’s appointment, the director shall take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office and file it in the office of the Secretary of State.
(c) The director shall be responsible for the performance of all duties, the exercise of all powers and jurisdiction, and the assumption and discharge of all responsibilities vested by law in the department. The director has and may exercise all powers necessary or convenient for the administration and enforcement of, among other laws, the laws described in subdivision (a).
