Bill Text: CA ACR180 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Concurrent Resolution 180

Introduced

Bill Title: Health for All Week.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - From printer. [ACR180 Detail]

Download: California-2023-ACR180-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Concurrent Resolution

No. 180

Introduced by Assembly Member Weber

April 18, 2024

Relative to health care coverage.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

ACR 180, as introduced, Weber. Health for All Week.

This measure would proclaim the week of April 18, 2024, to April 24, 2024, inclusive, as 2024 Health for All Week. The measure would recognize the important role of community health centers and our entire health care system in increasing enrollment in Medi-Cal coverage for all eligible Californians.

Fiscal Committee: NO

WHEREAS, No Californian should endure suffering and pain due to a lack of access to health care services; and

WHEREAS, Expanding access and increasing enrollment in comprehensive health care coverage benefits the health and welfare of all Californians; and

WHEREAS, Discrimination against people based on national origin or immigration status has no place in our health care system; and

WHEREAS, Community members and health care advocates worked for more than a decade to secure access to health care for all Californians regardless of their place of birth or immigration status through full-scope Medi-Cal coverage; and

WHEREAS, The Legislature passed the first Health for All legislation in 2015 with the passage of Senate Bill 75 and Senate Bill 4 of the 2015–16 Regular Session to cover all children; and

WHEREAS, Over the past decade, the Legislature and Governor have eliminated barriers for undocumented Californians to access full-scope Medi-Cal, ensuring that all Californians now have access to health coverage and care; and

WHEREAS, California has achieved the lowest uninsured rate ever, according to the California Health Care Foundation, yet Asian, Black, and Latino Californians are two to three times more likely to be uninsured; and

WHEREAS, Education and outreach are needed to increase awareness of the availability of Health for All and make health care a reality for all; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature proclaims the week of April 18, 2024, to April 24, 2024, inclusive, as 2024 Health for All Week; and be it further

Resolved, That the Legislature recognizes the important role of community health centers and our entire health care system in increasing enrollment in Medi-Cal coverage for all eligible Californians.