Bill Text: CA SB1372 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Sugar-sweetened beverages: study.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-22 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1372 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB1372-Amended.html

Amended  IN  Senate  March 22, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill No. 1372


Introduced by Senator Pan

February 16, 2018


An act to amend Section 14129.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal. An act to add and repeal Section 39 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1372, as amended, Pan. Medi-Cal: emergency medical transport providers. Sugar-sweetened beverages: study.
Existing law establishes the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, within the Government Operations Agency, to administer various state taxes, among other things.
This bill, on or before January 1, 2021, would require the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to conduct a study and to submit a report to the Legislature, and to appropriate policy and fiscal committees, on how sugar-sweetened beverage taxes affect residents where those taxes are locally imposed within the state. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2023.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law requires an emergency medical transport provider to report data to the department on the number of actual emergency medical transports by payer type and on gross receipts, as defined, in accordance with a specified timeline in a manner and form prescribed by the department. Existing law authorizes the department to require a certification by an emergency medical transport provider, under penalty of perjury, of the truth of these data reports.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 39 is added to the Revenue and Taxation Code, to read:

39.
 (a) On or before January 1, 2021, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration shall conduct a study and submit a report to the Legislature, and to appropriate policy and fiscal committees, on how sugar-sweetened beverage taxes affect residents where those taxes are locally imposed within the state.
(b) The report shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
(1) Data on the sugar-sweetened beverage drinking habits of the residents where the tax is imposed.
(2) Whether the tax impacted the purchasing behaviors of residents where the tax is imposed.
(3) Demographic data on the populations most affected by the imposed taxes.
(4) Recommendations on whether implementing a statewide sugar-sweetened beverage tax will better serve the residents of the state and how such a tax should be imposed.
(c) The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code and posted to the department’s Internet Web site.
(d) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2023, and as of that date is repealed.

SECTION 1.Section 14129.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:
14129.1.

(a)(1)The department shall establish the manner and format for emergency medical transport providers to report the data required pursuant to this section.

(2)The department may establish an Internet Web site for the submission of reports required by this section.

(3)The department may require a certification by an emergency medical transport provider, under penalty of perjury, of the truth of the reports required under this section. Upon written notice to an emergency medical transport provider, the department may impose a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) per day against an emergency medical transport provider for every day that an emergency medical transport provider fails to make a report required by this section within five days of the date upon which the report was due. Any funds resulting from a penalty imposed pursuant to this paragraph shall be deposited in the Medi-Cal Emergency Medical Transport Fund created pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 14129.2.

(b)An emergency medical transport provider shall report to the department data on the number of actual emergency medical transports by payer type, including, without limitation, Medi-Cal fee-for-service emergency medical transports and Medi-Cal managed care emergency medical transports per quarter, as follows:

(1)For each quarter beginning on July 1, 2015, through the quarter beginning on July 1, 2017, inclusive, the data shall be submitted on or before October 15, 2017.

(2)For the quarter beginning on October 1, 2017, and continuing each quarter thereafter, the data shall be submitted on or before the 45th day after the last day of the applicable quarter.

(c)An emergency medical transport provider shall report to the department data on the gross receipts received from the provision of emergency medical transports per state fiscal year, as follows:

(1)For the state fiscal years beginning on July 1, 2015, and July 1, 2016, the data shall be submitted on or before October 15, 2017.

(2)For each state fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2017, and continuing each state fiscal year thereafter, the data shall be submitted on or before the 45th day after the last day of the applicable state fiscal year.

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