Bill Text: CA AB771 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 771 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Public health: wellness programs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB771 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB771-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 771	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

    An act to amend Section 103 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to consumer affairs.   An act
relating to public health. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 771, as amended, Jones.  Department of Consumer
Affairs.   Public health: wellness programs.  
   Existing law establishes various programs to prevent disease and
promote health. Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (PPACA), provides for the establishment, by July
1, 2014, of a 10-state wellness program demonstration project to
promote health and prevent disease.  
   This bill would require the Secretary of California Health and
Human Services to apply to the United States Secretary of Health and
Human Services to allow California to be a participating pilot state
in the wellness program demonstration project in accordance with
federal law.  The bill would also require the Secretary of California
Health and Human Services to petition the United States Secretary of
Health and Human Services to change federal regulations to allow an
employer in California to offer employees rewards of up to 50% of the
cost of health care coverage for participating in a wellness program
that meets all of the requirements of PPACA.  
   Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs, which
is comprised of various boards, commissions, and committees. Under
existing law, members of specified boards, commissions, and
committees who are not public officers or employees are authorized to
receive per diem of $100 for each day actually spent in the
discharge of official duties and traveling and other expenses
necessarily incurred in the performance of official duties. 

   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    The Secretary of California Health and
Human Services shall apply to the United States Secretary of Health
and Human Services to allow California to be a participating pilot
state in the wellness program demonstration project that will be
established no later than July 1, 2014, in accordance with Section
1201 of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(Public Law 111-148). 
  SEC. 2.    The Secretary of California Health and
Human Services shall petition the United States Secretary of Health
and Human Services to change federal regulations to allow an employer
in California to offer employees rewards of up to 50 percent of the
cost of health care coverage for participating in a wellness program
that meets all of the requirements of the federal Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148).  
  SECTION 1.    Section 103 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
   103.  (a) Each member of a board, commission, or committee created
in the various chapters of Division 2 (commencing with Section 500)
and Division 3 (commencing with Section 5000), and in Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 18600) and Chapter 3 (commencing with
Section 19000) of Division 8, shall receive the moneys specified in
this section when authorized by the respective provisions.
   (b) Each member shall receive a per diem of one hundred dollars
($100) for each day actually spent in the discharge of official
duties, and shall be reimbursed for traveling and other expenses
necessarily incurred in the performance of official duties.
   (c) The payments in each instance shall be made only from the fund
from which the expenses of the agency are paid and shall be subject
to the availability of money.
   (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no public officer
or employee shall receive per diem salary compensation for serving on
those boards, commissions, committees, or the Consumer Advisory
Council on any day when the officer or employee also received
compensation for his or her regular public employment.