Bill Text: CA SB635 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health care: workforce training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-16 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB635 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB635-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 635	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1341.45 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 635, as amended, Hernandez. Health care: workforce training.
   Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of health
care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and
imposes certain requirements on health care service plans. Existing
law imposes various fines and administrative penalties for certain
violations of these provisions, which are deposited in the Managed
Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund. Existing law requires
the first $1,000,000 in the fund to be transferred each year to the
Medically Underserved Account for Physicians in the Health
Professions Education Fund for purposes of the Steven M. Thompson
Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program. Existing law requires all
remaining funds to be transferred each year to the Major Risk Medical
Insurance Fund for purposes of the Major Risk Medical Insurance
Program.
   This bill, beginning on  January 1, 2014,  
the date that the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program becomes
inoperative,  would instead require all remaining funds over the
first $1,000,000 to be transferred each year to the Office of
Statewide Health Planning and Development for the purposes of the
Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act.  The bill would
require the Director of Finance to notify the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee in that regard. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1341.45 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1341.45.  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund.
   (b) The fines and administrative penalties collected pursuant to
this chapter, on and after the operative date of this section, shall
be deposited into the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties
Fund.
   (c) The fines and administrative penalties deposited into the
Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund shall be
transferred by the department, beginning September 1, 2009, and
annually thereafter, as follows:
   (1) The first one million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be
transferred to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians
within the Health Professions Education Fund and shall, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the purposes of the
Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program, as
specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 128550) or Chapter 5
of Part 3 of Division 107 and, notwithstanding Section 128555, shall
not be used to provide funding for the Physician Volunteer Program.
   (2) (A)  Prior to January 1, 2014, any   Any
 amount over the first one million dollars ($1,000,000),
including accrued interest, in the fund shall be transferred to the
Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund created pursuant to Section 12739
of the Insurance Code and shall, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, be used for the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program for
the purposes specified in Section 12739.1 of the Insurance Code.
 Transfers under this subparagraph shall cease on the date that
the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Program becomes inoperative. The
Director of Finance shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee at the time the program becomes inoperative. 
   (B)  On and after January 1, 2014  
Commencing with the date that transfers under subparagraph (A) cease
 , any amount over the first one million dollars ($1,000,000),
including accrued interest, in the fund shall be transferred to the
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development  for deposit
in the Song-Brown Program Account, which is hereby created, in the
California Health Data and Planning Fund,  and shall, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the purposes specified
in the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act (Article 1
(commencing with Section 128200) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division
107).
   (d) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 1356 and Section
1356.1, the fines and administrative penalties authorized pursuant to
this chapter shall not be used to reduce the assessments imposed on
health care service plans pursuant to Section 1356.