Bill Text: CA AB2551 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health workforce planning.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-30 - Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 5028.) [AB2551 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB2551-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2551 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 20, 2010
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 2, 2010
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 26, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Hernandez
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Monning)
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
An act to add Article 3 (commencing with Section 128198.6) to
Chapter 3 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health workers, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2551, as amended, Hernandez. Health workforce planning.
Existing law establishes the California Workforce Investment Board
(CWIB) to assist the Governor in the development, oversight, and
continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system.
Existing law establishes the Office of Statewide Health Planning
and Development (OSHPD) that is vested with duties, powers, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction relating to health planning and
research development.
Existing law provides for various programs to research the need
for, and develop programs to improve, the quality and availability of
health workers in the state.
This bill would require the CWIB and the OSHPD to jointly
establish a special committee known as
the Health Workforce Development Council Fund
consisting of moneys received from federal and private sources
, as specified. The bill would require the council to take
specified actions relating to the health workforce
authorize the fund to be used, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, for prescribed purposes relating to health workforce
development and would require the CWIB and the OSHPD to report
specified information to the Legislature annually from April 1, 2012,
to April 1, 2016, inclusive.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) The passage of the federal health care reform bill has
resulted in billions of dollars of investment capital flowing into
the State of California for research, development, and the expansion
of access to health care. This investment of capital is indicative of
the rapidly growing need to address health workforce shortages.
(b) California faces a dramatic and pressing challenge related to
the supply and distribution of health care professionals. In addition
to the challenges present in urban areas, rural areas face ongoing
challenges to recruitment and retention.
(c) California's population is aging, growing, and becoming
increasingly more diverse. California's workforce of health
professionals has not reflected these changes and is ill equipped to
reduce new pressures on the health care system.
(d) Developing California's health workforce so that it better
represents and serves its consumer population will help to contain
health care costs.
(e) There exist separate private and public statewide efforts to
address health workforce shortage issues. However, there is no
coordinated plan of action to develop the state's health workforce.
(f) In order to prepare the highly skilled health workforce
necessary, to keep California's economy competitive, to maintain the
income and quality of life for California residents, and ensure
access to high-quality and affordable health care in California, both
of the following issues must be addressed:
(1) A comprehensive network and strategy must be established to
develop California's health workforce.
(2) The comprehensive strategy must involve a state-level effort
involving multiple health professions, business and labor,
educational institutions, including primary, secondary, and
postsecondary institutions, state government workforce boards,
regional leadership, consumers, and other stakeholders. These groups
should work together to forecast health workforce demand and plan
comprehensive pathways to support multiple target groups.
SEC. 2. Article 3 (commencing with Section 128198.6) is added to
Chapter 3 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
Article 3. The California Health Workforce Development
Act of 2010 Fund
128198.6. This article shall be known and may be cited as the
California Health Workforce Development Act of 2010
Fund .
128198.7. (a) The California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB),
as established by Section 14010 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD)
shall jointly establish a special committee known as the Health
Workforce Development Council comprised of the appropriate
representatives from the CWIB existing membership, including the K-12
representative, the Employment Development Department
representative, the California Community Colleges representative, and
representatives from the OSHPD, the State Department of Public
Health, and other appropriate members.
(b) The CWIB or OSHPD may call on other state agencies, other
higher education representatives, and industry representatives as
well as philanthropic, nongovernmental, and environmental groups as
appropriate and necessary to serve as consultants to the council in
the development of this strategic initiative.
(c) The council shall do all of the following:
(1) As part of the strategic initiative, identify and develop the
framework, funding, strategies, programs, policies, partnerships, and
opportunities necessary to address the growing need for a highly
skilled and well-trained health workforce to meet the needs of
California's health care infrastructure.
(2) Assist
12198.6. (a) There is hereby established in the
State Treasury the California Health Workforce Development Fund.
(b) The fund may include moneys received for the purposes of this
article from federal and private sources. The fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, shall be used to do all of the
following:
(1) Support the development of a health workforce council.
(2) Develop a strategic health workforce plan.
(3) Assist in identifying and
linking health care job opportunities with health workforce
development training opportunities in local workforce investment
areas (LWIAs) and encourage regional collaboration among LWIAs to
meet regional economic demands.
(3)
(4) Develop public, private, philanthropic, and
nongovernmental partnerships to build and expand the state's health
workforce development programs, network, and infrastructure.
(4)
(5) Provide policy guidance for job training programs
in the health care sector to assist and prepare specific populations,
such as including, but not limited to,
at-risk youth, displaced workers, veterans, formerly incarcerated
individuals, and others facing barriers to employment.
(5)
(6) Develop, collect, interpret, and distribute
statewide and regional labor market data on California's health
workforce needs, trends, and job growth.
(6) Identify funding resources and make recommendations on how to
expand and leverage these funds.
(7) Foster regional collaboration in the health sector.
(d)
(c) (1) By April 1, 2012, and
each April 1 thereafter, the CWIB and OSHPD shall report to the
Legislature on the status of the council's activities and
its development of a health workforce strategic initiative.
fund and provide a list of its expenditures.
(1)
(2) The requirement for submitting a report pursuant to
this subdivision is inoperative on April 1, 2016, pursuant to Section
10231.5 of the Government Code.
(2)
(3) The report to be submitted pursuant to this
subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the
Government Code.
SEC. 3. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to resolve problems related to health workforce shortages
as soon as possible, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.
