Bill Text: CA AB2291 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Mental health services: involuntary treatment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2291 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2291-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Mental health services: involuntary treatment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2291 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2291-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2291
| Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi |
February 16, 2022 |
An act to amend Section 4031 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2291, as introduced, Muratsuchi.
Mental health services: planning, research, and evaluation.
Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to perform various functions with regard to the statewide delivery of mental health services, including, among other things, implementing a system of required performance reporting by local mental health programs.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those 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 4031 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:4031.
The State Department of Health Care Services shall, to the extent resources are available, do all of the following:(a) Conduct, sponsor, coordinate, and disseminate the results of research and evaluation directed to the public policy issues entailed in the selection of resource utilization and service delivery in the state.
(b) Make available technical assistance to local mental health programs incorporating that incorporates the results of research, evaluation, and quality assurance to local mental health programs.
(c) Implement a system of required performance reporting by local mental health programs.
(d) Perform any other activities useful to improving and maintaining the quality of community mental health programs.
