Bill Text: CA AB2108 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal: adult dental services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2108 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2108	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Waldron

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to amend Section 38050 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to human services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2108, as introduced, Waldron. Human services: dispute
resolution.
   Existing law finds, among other things, that in contractual
relationships between the California Health and Human Services Agency
and other specified entities, problems arise under cooperative
agreements that end in disputes. Existing law establishes a formal
administrative appeal process available to private, nonprofit human
service organizations seeking resolution of any dispute arising out
of a direct service contract with the California Health and Human
Services Agency or a component department of the agency, except as
provided.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 38050 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   38050.  The Legislature hereby finds that in a contractual
relationship between the  Health and Welfare  
California Health and Human Services  Agency, its component
departments, and private, nonprofit human service organizations:
   (a)  Problems arise under cooperative agreements that end in
disputes.
   (b)  The intent between the disputing parties is to resolve their
controversy through an informal dispute process. The parties should
set a goal of no more than 60 days from receipt of a complaint to
 a  resolution.
   (c)  If the parties reach an impasse, then there should be a
logical intermediate appeal authority as the next level in the appeal
process.
   (d)  In California, there exists no process between informal
dispute resolution and judicial review that is available  to
and   to, and that  can properly address
controversies between the  Health and Welfare  
California Health and Human Services  Agency and human service
organizations.