Bill Text: CA SB1344 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Developmental services: Sonoma Developmental Center.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - Held in committee and under submission. [SB1344 Detail]
Download: California-2013-SB1344-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1344 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 24, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 26, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Senator Evans
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
An act to add Section 4474.10 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to developmental services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1344, as amended, Evans. Developmental services: Sonoma
Developmental Center.
Existing law vests in the State Department of Developmental
Services jurisdiction over specified state hospitals, referred to as
developmental centers, which provide residential care to persons with
developmental disabilities. Existing law requires the State
Department of Developmental Services to comply with procedural
requirements when closing a developmental center, including
submitting a plan to the Legislature and holding at least one public
hearing.
This bill would require the department to establish the Sonoma
Developmental Center as the center of last resort for Northern
California. The bill would require the department to confer and
cooperate with the County of Sonoma to develop a detailed action
plan, as specified, prior to establishing the Sonoma Developmental
Center as a center of last resort and would require the County of
Sonoma to ensure the inclusion and participation of certain community
entities, including consumers living in the developmental center
and the State Council on Developmental Disabilities . By
imposing additional duties on the County of Sonoma, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares both of
the following:
(a) It
It is the intent of this act to establish a formal
communication process between the State Department of Developmental
Services and the community within and surrounding the Sonoma
Developmental Center in order to ensure that all stakeholders are
involved in the process of determining the future of the Sonoma
Developmental Center.
(b) There is a population within the developmentally disabled
community for whom community placement may not be appropriate and
this act is necessary to best meet the unique medical and behavioral
needs of the residents of the Sonoma Developmental Center.
SEC. 2. Section 4474.10 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
4474.10. (a) The department shall establish the Sonoma
Developmental Center as the center of last resort for northern
California.
(b) (1) Prior to implementing subdivision (a), the department
shall confer and cooperate with the County of Sonoma, as the lead
local agency, to develop a detailed action plan. The County of Sonoma
shall ensure inclusion and participation in developing the action
plan of community entities, including, but not limited to,
the following:
(A) Consumers
consumers living in the developmental
center.
(B) Parents,
center , parents, family members,
guardians, and conservators of persons living in the developmental
center or their representative organizations, including, but not
limited to, the Parent Hospital Association of Sonoma Developmental
Center.
(C) Developmental
Center , developmental center
employees and employee organizations.
(D) The
organizations , the local regional
center. center, the State Council on Developmental
Disabilities, the Association of Regional Center Agencies, the
protection and advocacy agency specified in Section 4901, the local
area board on developmental disabilities, the local regional center,
persons with developmental disabilities living in the community,
community care providers, the affected city and county governments,
and business and civic organizations, as may be recommended by local
state Senate and Assembly representatives.
(2) The action plan developed pursuant to paragraph (1) may
address all of the following:
(A) The appropriate strategy to ensure that the best Medi-Cal
funding structure is available to a consumer, wherever he or she may
live, who transitions from the Sonoma Developmental Center as a
result of the implementation of subdivision (a).
(B) A program for the placement of staff of the Sonoma
Developmental Center who may be displaced as a result of the
implementation of subdivision (a) in similar positions in programs
operated by, or through contract with, the county, regional centers,
or other state departments.
(C) The disposition and reuse of medical and housing facilities
located on Sonoma Developmental Center grounds, including, but not
limited to, the reuse of land and open space that is a part of the
Sonoma Developmental Center campus, that may no longer be required
for the operation of the Sonoma Developmental Center as a result of
the implementation of subdivision (a).
(c) For the purposes of this section, "center of last resort"
means a developmental center that provides services to a small
population of residents for whom community placement has been deemed
insufficient.
SEC. 3. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.
