Bill Text: CA SB1466 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-30 - Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5. [SB1466 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SB1466-Enrolled.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1466 ENROLLED
BILL TEXT
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 29, 2016
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 23, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 15, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 1, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 31, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 14, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 28, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Senator Mitchell
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to add Section 14132.19 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to Medi-Cal.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1466, Mitchell. Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and
Treatment Program: trauma screening.
Existing law provides for 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,
including early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment for
any individual under 21 years of age who is covered under Medi-Cal
consistent with the requirements under federal law. The Medi-Cal
program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program
provisions.
Existing federal law provides that EPSDT services include periodic
screening services, vision services, dental services, hearing
services, and other necessary services to correct or ameliorate
defects and physical and mental illnesses and conditions discovered
by the screening services, whether or not the services are covered
under the state plan. In addition to the required periodic screening
services, existing federal law provides that Medicaid-eligible
children are entitled to interperiodic screenings in order to
identify a suspected illness or condition not present or discovered
during the periodic examination.
The bill would require, consistent with federal law, that
screening services under the EPSDT program include screening for
trauma, as defined by the bill and as specified. The bill also would
require the department, in consultation with the State Department of
Social Services and others, to adopt, employ, and develop, as
appropriate, tools and protocols for screening children for trauma
and would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make
specific the screening tools and protocols by means of all-county
letters, plan letters, or plan or provider bulletins, as specified.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 14132.19 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
14132.19. (a) Consistent with federal law, screening services
provided under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and
Treatment (EPSDT) benefit pursuant to subdivision (v) of Section
14132 shall include screening for trauma consistent with the
protocols the department develops pursuant to subdivision (c).
(b) "Trauma," as used in this section, means the result of an
event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced
by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening
and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning
and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
(c) (1) The department, in consultation with the State Department
of Social Services, behavioral health experts, child welfare experts,
and stakeholders, shall adopt, employ, and develop, as appropriate,
tools and protocols for the screening of children for trauma,
consistent with existing law and this section.
(2) Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of
Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the
department may implement, interpret, or make specific this
subdivision by means of all-county letters, plan letters, plan or
provider bulletins, or similar instructions, without taking
regulatory action.
