Bill Text: CA AB2345 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Commission on Health Care Cost Review.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2345 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2345-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2345	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add  and repeal  Chapter 6 (commencing with
Section 127650)  to  of  Part 2 of Division
107 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2345, as amended, Ridley-Thomas. Commission on Health Care Cost
Review.
   Existing law establishes various programs relating to health
policy and planning in this state. Existing law establishes the
California Health Benefit Review Program to assess legislation that
proposes to mandate or repeal a mandated health benefit or service,
as defined, and to prepare a written analysis with relevant data on
specified information, including public health impacts and financial
impacts.
   This bill would establish the Commission on Health Care Cost
Review to study and report every 2 years to the Assembly and Senate
Committees on Health on public policies affecting health care costs
and access to health care coverage in California. The commission
would be comprised of 5 members, with 3 members appointed by the
Governor, one member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and
one member appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, subject to
4-year terms. The bill would authorize the Department of Managed
Health Care to accept voluntary contributions to be deposited into
the Health Care Affordability Fund, which the bill would create in
the State Treasury, to fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
the costs of the operation of the commission. The bill would provide
that the implementation of these provisions is contingent upon a
determination of the department that sufficient voluntary
contributions exist or will exist in the Health Care Affordability
Fund.  The bill would repeal these provisions on either January
1, 2020, if the department does not, by December 31, 2019, notify the
Legislature that it has received sufficient voluntary contributions
to fund the costs of operation of the commission, or on January 1, 2
  025, if the department, by December 31, 2019, notifies
  the Legislature that it has received sufficient voluntary
contributions to fund the costs of operation of the commission.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 127650) is added to
Part 2 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 6.  COMMISSION ON HEALTH CARE COST REVIEW


   127650.  The Commission on Health Care Cost Review is hereby
created.
   127651.  (a) The commission shall consist of five members. Three
members shall be appointed by the Governor, one member shall be
appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and one member shall be
appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly. Each member shall serve a
term of four years.
   (b) Members of the commission shall not receive compensation. The
commission may conduct virtual meetings.
   127652.  (a) The commission shall study and analyze public
policies affecting health care costs and access to health care
coverage in California.
   (b) (1) The commission shall report its findings to the Assembly
and Senate Committees on Health every two years.
   (2) A report submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   127653.  (a) The Department of Managed Health Care may accept
voluntary contributions to pay for the costs of operation of the
commission established under this chapter. These voluntary
contributions shall be deposited into the Health Care Affordability
Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. The moneys in
the Health Care Affordability Fund  shall be  
are  available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for
purposes of funding the costs of the operation of the commission.
 No state   State  funds shall not
 be used to fund the operation of the commission established
under this chapter.
   (b) The implementation of this chapter  shall be 
 is  contingent upon a determination by the Department of
Managed Health Care that sufficient voluntary contributions exist or
will exist in the Health Care Affordability Fund. Upon making this
 determination   determination,  the
Department of Managed Health Care shall notify the Legislature that
sufficient voluntary contributions exist or will exist in the Health
Care Affordability Fund. 
   127654.  (a) If the Department of Managed Health Care does not, by
December 31, 2019, notify the Legislature that it has received
sufficient voluntary contributions to fund the costs of operation of
the commission established under this chapter, this chapter shall be
repealed on January 1, 2020.
   (b) If the Department of Managed Health Care, by December 31,
2019, notifies the Legislature that it has received sufficient
voluntary contributions to fund the costs of operation of the
commission established under this chapter, this chapter shall be
repealed on January 1, 2025.