Bill Text: CA SB742 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Intercity passenger rail services: motor carrier transportation of passengers.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 652, Statutes of 2019. [SB742 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB742-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 742

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Introduced by Senator Allen

February 22, 2019

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An act to amend Section 1501 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health and care facilities.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 742, as introduced, Allen. Community care facilities.

The California Community Care Facilities Act provides for the licensure and regulation of community care facilities by the State Department of Social Services. The act includes legislative findings and declarations that there is an urgent need to establish a coordinated and comprehensive statewide service of quality community care for the mentally ill, the developmentally and physically disabled, and children and adults who require care or services.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those legislative findings and declarations.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 1501 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

1501.

 (a)  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is an urgent need to establish a coordinated and comprehensive statewide service system of quality community care for mentally ill, developmentally and physically disabled, and children and adults who require care or services by a facility or organization issued a license or special permit pursuant to this chapter.

(b)  Therefore, the Legislature declares it is the intent of the state to develop policies and programs designed to: (1) insure ensure a level of care and services in the community which that is equal to or better than that provided by the state hospitals; (2) assure ensure that all people who require them are provided with the appropriate range of social rehabilitative, habilitative and treatment services, including residential and nonresidential programs tailored to their needs; (3) protect the legal and human rights of a person in or receiving services from a community care facility; (4) insure ensure continuity of care between the medical-health elements and the supportive care-rehabilitation elements of California’s health systems; (5) insure ensure that facilities providing community care are adequate, safe safe, and sanitary; (6) assure ensure that rehabilitative and treatment services are provided at a reasonable cost; (7) assure ensure that state payments for community care services are based on a flexible rate schedule varying according to type and cost of care and services provided; (8) encourage the utilization of personnel from state hospitals and the development of training programs to improve the quality of staff in community care facilities; and (9) insure ensure the quality of community care facilities by evaluating the care and services provided and furnishing incentives to upgrade their quality.