Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments to be reduced by 1% or 5%, and provider payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 1%, for dates of service on and after March 1, 2009, and until June 1, 2011. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments and payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 10% for dates of service on and after June 1, 2011. This bill would, instead, prohibit the application of those reductions for payments to providers for dates of service on or after June 1, 2011. The bill would also require payments for managed care health plans for dates of service following the effective date of the bill to be determined without application of some of those reductions. The bill would require the Director of Health Care Services to implement this provision to the maximum extent permitted by federal law and for the maximum time period for which the director obtains federal approval for federal financial participation for those payments. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Sponsored bills
Existing law, the Barbering and Cosmetology Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of barbers and cosmetologists, including the practice of skin care by licensed estheticians, by the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology in the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act defines skin care and requires an applicant for an esthetician license to complete an application, pay an application and examination fee, pass the examination, and meet other educational and practice qualifications, such as the completion of an approved skin care course of instruction, as specified. A violation of the act is a crime, unless otherwise provided. This bill would modify the practice of cosmetology by including the practice of giving facials, the use of esthetic devices, as defined, and performing superficial exfoliation, and would modify the practice of skin care, by including the use of esthetic devices, as defined, and performing superficial exfoliation for these purposes. The bill would require the board to recognize the advanced practice of esthetic by certifying a master esthetician who has completed a 1,200-hour board-approved program in advanced esthetics, but an individual enrolling in a master esthetician course who has completed the 600-hour esthetician course from a board-approved school would only be required to obtain the additional 600 hours of practical and technical training not received in the initial 600-hour esthetician course. The bill would make it an unfair business practice for any person to hold oneself out or use the title "master esthetician" or any other specified term that implies or suggests that the person is certified as a master esthetician without meeting the certification requirements. The bill would also prohibit a person who is not licensed as an esthetician from representing himself or herself as an esthetician. The bill would also clarify that the prohibition on those licensed to engage in barbering, cosmetology, skin care, nail care, and electrolysis to practice medicine or surgery would include, but not be limited to, the use of radiographs, the furnishing of drugs or invasive devices, supervising medical personnel, or diagnosing injury, illness, or disease. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, the 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(1) Existing law establishes the public school system in this state and, among other things, provides for the establishment of county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools throughout the state. Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law, by not later than May 1 of each fiscal year, requires the governing board of each local educational agency to provide for an audit of the books and accounts of the local educational agency, as specified. This bill would require an audit of a local educational agency to also include whether expenditures were in compliance with the regulations related to the expenditure of moneys apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils, as defined. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with approval of the State Board of Education, to develop an Academic Performance Index to measure the performance of schools and school districts, especially the academic performance of pupils. Existing law requires a school or school district to demonstrate comparable improvement in academic achievement as measured by the Academic Performance Index by all numerically significant pupil subgroups at the school or school district, as specified. This bill would add reclassified English learners, as provided, to the list of pupil subgroups concerning which a school or school district is required to demonstrate this improvement, if the subgroup is numerically significant. By adding to the duties of local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law requires the State Board of Education, on or before January 31, 2014, to adopt regulations that govern the expenditure of funds apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils pursuant to the local control funding formula. Existing law requires the regulations to include provisions that, among other things, authorize a school district, county office of education, or charter school to use funds apportioned on the basis of the number of unduplicated pupils for schoolwide purposes, or, for school districts, districtwide purposes, for county offices of education, countywide purposes, or for charter schools, charterwide purposes, in a manner no more restrictive than the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2011. This bill would require the state board, on or before January 31, 2015, to revise those regulations to authorize a school district, county office of education, or charter school to use funds apportioned on the basis of both the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils for schoolwide purposes. The bill also would require the revised regulations to authorize a school district or county office of education to use funds apportioned on the basis of both the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils for districtwide or countywide purposes, respectively. (4) Existing law requires a county board of education and a governing board of a school district to annually adopt or revise a local control and accountability plan that aligns with its annual budget and contains certain elements, including, among other elements, a description of the annual goals for all pupils and specified subgroups of pupils to be achieved for each specified state priority. Existing law requires a charter for a charter school to include many of the local control and accountability plan elements and requires the charter school to annually update its plan related to those elements. Existing law, an initiative measure, requires that all children in public schools, with certain exceptions, be taught English by being taught in English, requires that all children be placed in English language classrooms, and requires that children who are English learners be educated through sheltered English immersion during a temporary transition period not normally intended to exceed one year. This bill would revise provisions regarding local control and accountability plans, primarily in regard to English learners, including requiring each county superintendent of schools and the governing board of a school district to include a listing and description of certain expenditures in its local control and accountability plan, as specified. The bill would add to the list of state priorities the extent to which teachers, administrators, and staff receive professional development or participate in induction programs, including the type and subject areas of the professional development provided. By adding to the duties of local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) Existing law, on or before March 31, 2014, requires the State Board of Education to adopt templates for use by school districts and county superintendents of schools to meet the requirements of local control and accountability plans. This bill would, on or before March 31, 2015, require the state board to adopt templates to, among other things, ensure that each school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school that receives supplemental and concentration funds for unduplicated pupils include specified information in its local control and accountability plan. (6) Existing law requires, on or before July 1 of each fiscal year, the governing board of each school district to, among other things, adopt a budget, as provided. Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to determine whether the adopted budget includes the expenditures necessary to implement the local control and accountability plan or annual update to the local control and accountability plan approved by the county superintendent of schools. This bill would require the county superintendent of schools to also determine whether the adopted budget complies with the regulations related to the expenditure of moneys apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils, as defined. (7) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to establish a parent advisory committee to provide advice to the governing board of the school district and the superintendent of the school district, as specified. Existing law additionally requires the governing board of a school district to establish an English learner parent advisory committee if the enrollment of the school district includes at least 15% English learners and the school district enrolls at least 50 pupils who are English learners. This bill would instead require the governing board of a school district to establish a districtwide parent advisory committee and, as a condition of state supplemental grant funds, if either the enrollment of the school district includes at least 15% English learners or the school district enrolls at least 50 pupils who are English learners, to establish a districtwide English learner parent advisory committee. The bill would require the districtwide English learner parent advisory committee to advise the governing board of the school district on specified tasks, including, among others, the establishment of school district goals and objectives for programs and services for English learners and school district reclassification procedures. (8) Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to establish an English learner parent advisory committee if the enrollment of the pupils in the schools and programs operated by the county superintendent of schools includes at least 15% English learners and the schools and programs operated by the county superintendent of schools enroll at least 50 pupils who are English learners. This bill would instead require a county superintendent of schools to establish an English learner parent advisory committee if either the enrollment of the pupils in the schools and programs operated by the county superintendent of schools includes at least 15% English learners or the schools and programs operated by the county superintendent of schools enroll at least 50 pupils who are English learners. (9) This bill would make other related and conforming changes and various nonsubstantive changes. (10) 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.
The measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to take immediate and decisive action to ensure that entry into, and exit from, the United States is properly controlled in order to ensure our national security. The measure would also urge the President and Congress to further broaden political consensus on visitor and immigration law enforcement.
Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which is permitted to adjudge certain children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances, and prescribes various hearings and other procedures for these purposes. Existing law prohibits the court from terminating dependency jurisdiction over a nonminor who has reached 18 years of age until a hearing is conducted and the county welfare department has submitted a report verifying that specified information, documents, and services have been provided to the child. This bill would revise and recast these provisions to, among other things, require the county welfare department to submit reports at the first regularly scheduled review hearing after a dependent child has attained 16 years of age and at the last regularly scheduled review hearing before a minor attains 18 years of age, and at every regularly scheduled review hearing thereafter, verifying that the county has provided certain of the above-described information, documents, and services to the child. By increasing the reporting duties of county welfare departments, 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.
Existing law imposes restrictions upon a person's or beneficiary's entitlement to the estate of a decedent who was an elder or dependent adult if the person or beneficiary has committed certain acts against the decedent, including, but not limited to, physical abuse, neglect, or financial abuse. This bill would recast those provisions to instead provide that a person shall be deemed to have predeceased a decedent if he or she is liable for physical abuse, neglect, or financial abuse of the decedent pursuant to the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act, or if that person has been convicted of a violation of provisions prohibiting willfully causing or permitting any elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflicting thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any elder or dependent adult, willfully causing or permitting the person or health of the elder or dependent adult to be injured, or willfully causing or permitting the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his or her person or health is endangered, as specified, in which the decedent was the victim. The bill would provide that any person who is deemed to have predeceased the decedent shall not receive any property, damages, costs, or restitution that are awarded to the decedent's estate whether that person's entitlement is under a will, a trust, or the laws of intestacy, nor serve as a fiduciary on behalf of the decedent's estate or trust.
(1) The California Constitution requires the Legislature to convene in regular biennial session at noon on the first Monday in December of each even-numbered year to consider legislation and the Budget Bill. This measure would require the Legislature to convene in regular biennial session, but would require, commencing on December 1, 2014, that the sessions held in odd-numbered years be budget sessions, and that the sessions held in even-numbered years be general sessions. The measure would require the Legislature in the budget session to adopt Budget Bills for each of the 2 subsequent fiscal years. While the Legislature would be authorized to conduct any other business during a budget session, the measure would require the Legislature, during a budget session, to consider Budget Bills and budget implementation bills, as defined. The measure would further require the Legislature, during a budget session, to conduct oversight and review of state revenues and expenditures and, in that connection, to establish an oversight and program review process for evaluating public programs supported with state funds, as specified. (2) The California Constitution requires that a budget be submitted by the Governor, and that the Legislature pass a Budget Act on or before June 15. Funds may be expended from the State Treasury for support of the state government only through an appropriation made by law. This measure would require, in each odd-numbered calendar year, commencing in 2015, that the Governor submit to the Legislature a proposed budget for each of the 2 subsequent fiscal years. The measure would require that the budget submitted by the Governor include a goal statement, description of outcome measures, and a historical report for each public program for which state funds are appropriated by that budget, as specified.
This measure would commemorate June 6, 2013, as the 35th anniversary of the approval of Proposition 13 by California voters.
This measure would designate Monday, May 5, 2014, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day, urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers, and recognize specified California peace officers who were killed in defense of their communities.
Existing statutory law, commencing January 1, 2013, establishes the California State Auditor's Office, which is headed by the California State Auditor and has specified statutory duties, including the performance of statutorily mandated audits. Existing statutory law, commencing January 1, 2013, states that the California State Auditor's Office, in order to be free of organizational impairments to independence, shall be independent of the executive branch and legislative control. This measure would require the California State Auditor to biennially conduct a specified financial audit and performance evaluation of each state program, including the administration or oversight of that program by the department or agency that is responsible for the program, and submit a report of the results of that financial audit and performance evaluation to the Legislature, as prescribed. This measure would require the committee that considers the budget in each house of the Legislature to meet and consider recommendations made in each performance evaluation within 90 days of submission by the California State Auditor. This measure would require the California State Auditor to make each financial audit and performance evaluation available to the public on an Internet Web site and in hardcopy format and require the Legislature to appropriate to the California State Auditor's Office funds as necessary to implement these provisions.