Bill Text: CA AB648 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health care access demonstration project grants: Virtual
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB648 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB648-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 648 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 1, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 29, 2015
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 11, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Low
(Coauthor: Senator Nguyen)
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
An act to add Section 15438.11 to the Government
104755.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating
to oral health, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 648, as amended, Low. Health care access demonstration project
grants: Virtual Dental Home program. Grant
Program.
Existing law, the California Health Facilities Financing Authority
Act, establishes a program for the California Health Facilities
Authority to award grants that do not exceed $1,500,000 to one or
more projects designed to demonstrate specified new or enhanced
cost-effective methods of delivering quality health care services to
improve access to quality health care for vulnerable populations or
communities, or both, that are effective at enhancing health outcomes
and improving access to quality health care and preventive services.
Existing law requires the authority to prepare and provide a report
to the Legislature and the Governor on the outcomes of the
demonstration grant program that includes, among other information,
the total amount of grants issued and the amount of each grant
issued. Existing law establishes the California Health Facilities
Financing Authority Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for these
purposes.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and
sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the
administration of a state oral health program known as the Office of
Oral Health for the purposes of, among other things, developing
comprehensive dental health plans within the framework of the State
Plan for Health to maximize utilization of all resources.
This bill would establish the Virtual Dental Home Grant Program,
to be administered by the authority, to expand
allocate funds, under the direction of the state dental
director, for the virtual dental home (VDH) model of
community-based delivery of dental care
to the residents of this state who are in greatest in
geographic areas of highest need, as prescribed. The
bill would also create the California Virtual Dental Home Grant
Program Account (VDH account) within the California Health Facilities
Financing Authority Fund. The bill would require the
program to facilitate, coordinate, and encourage development
and expansion of the delivery of dental health services through use
of the VDH model by providing grants to, allocate the
grants to organizations to, among other things, develop
training modules and establish community-based learning
collaboratives, as prescribed. The bill would require the
authority to evaluate the grant program's progress toward meeting the
objective to expand the VDH model of the community-based delivery of
dental care and to post the evaluation and a summary of the
evaluation, as specified. The bill would require
organizations receiving grants to submit an evaluation on the
effectiveness of the program to the department and would authorize
the department to post the evaluations on its Internet Web site.
The bill would transfer up to $6,500,000 from the
California Health Facilities Financing Authority Hospital Equipment
Loan Program Fund to the VDH account appropriate
$4,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Public
Health for the purposes of the bill. By expanding the
purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund may be used, this
bill would make an appropriation.
This bill would become operative only if SB 315 is enacted and
takes effect on or before January 1, 2016.
Vote: majority 2/3 . Appropriation:
yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 15438.11 104755.5
is added to the Government Health and Safety
Code, to read:
15438.11. (a) (1) There is hereby created the California Virtual
Dental Home Grant Program Account in the California Health Facilities
Financing Authority Fund for the purpose of administering a
competitive grant selection process, in accordance with this section.
(2) An amount of up to three million dollars ($3,000,000) shall be
transferred from funds in the California Health Facilities Financing
Authority Hospital Equipment Loan Program that are not impressed
with a trust for other purposes into the California Virtual Dental
Home Grant Program Account for the purpose of administering a
competitive grant selection process pursuant to this section.
(b) The Virtual Dental Home (VDH) Grant Program is hereby
established to expand the virtual dental home model of
community-based delivery of dental care to the residents of this
state who are in greatest need. The program shall be administered by
the authority.
(c) The VDH Grant Program shall facilitate, coordinate, and
encourage development and expansion of the delivery of dental health
services through the use of the VDH model by providing grants to do
all of the following:
104755.5. (a) The Virtual Dental Home (VDH) Grant
Program is hereby established to allocate funds for the virtual
dental home model of community-based dental care.
(b) Under the direction of the state dental director, the program
shall allocate grants to organizations to do one or more of the
following:
(1) Develop training modules and Internet-based technical
assistance.
(2) Establish community-based learning collaboratives.
(3) Fund essential VDH technology and equipment.
technology and equipment essential to establishing VDH
delivery models.
(4) Develop and fund other services, as determined by the
grant administrator, as required state dental
director to meet the requirements of this section.
(d) The authority may seek additional private or public funds to
expand access to the VDH Grant Program.
(e) The VDH Grant Program shall be focused on
(c) Under the direction of the state
dental director, the program shall focus on providing needed
services in geographic areas of highest need, as determined by the
authority. state dental director.
(f) The authority may grant funds directly to public and private
educational institutions or nonprofit entities as required to meet
the requirements of this section.
(g) The authority shall evaluate the VDH Grant Program's progress
toward meeting the objective to expand the VDH model of the
community-based delivery of dental care to residents in geographic
areas of highest need. On or before January 1, 2020, the authority
shall post the evaluation and a summary of the evaluation on its
Internet Web site.
(d) Organizations provided grants pursuant to subdivision (b)
shall submit an evaluation of the program to the department. The
evaluation shall include statistics on the effectiveness of the
program and outreach. The department may post the evaluations on its
Internet Web site.
SEC. 2. This act shall become operative only if
Senate Bill 315 is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1,
2016.
SEC. 2. The sum of four million dollars
($4,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the
State Department of Public Health for purposes of the Virtual Dental
Home (VDH) Grant Program established pursuant to Section 104755.5 of
the Health and Safety Code.
