Bill Text: CA AB861 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Public health services: consolidated contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-14 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB861 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB861-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 861	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ruskin

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to add Section 100571 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 861, Ruskin. Public health services: consolidated contracts.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health is
authorized, within its authority to contract with a provider for the
provision of health services, to enter into a single contractual
instrument encompassing services in any number of specified health
services subject areas.
   This bill, in addition, would require the department, within
existing resources, to develop and implement, in consultation with
local health jurisdiction representatives, a model consolidated and
streamlined administration and contracting process with local health
jurisdictions for the department's Center for Infectious Diseases and
Center for Family Health, and the programs administered by the
respective centers. The bill would require the 2 designated program
centers within the department to develop a single model allocation
contract between the department and local health jurisdictions that
incorporates the programs administered by the program center,
including, but not limited to, specified elements.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 100571 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   100571.  (a) In order to unify overlapping programs that address
community public health needs administered by the program centers
within the State Department of Public Health, and to reduce
administrative costs to counties so that more resources are available
to directly serve the families and the communities toward whom the
programs are directed, the State Department of Public Health, within
existing resources, shall develop and implement, in consultation with
local health jurisdiction representatives, a model consolidated and
streamlined administration and contracting process with local health
jurisdictions for the department's Center for Infectious Diseases and
the Center for Family Health, and the programs administered by the
respective centers.

   (b) Prior to July 1, 2011, the Center for Infectious Diseases and
the Center for Family Health shall each develop a single model
allocation contract between the department and local health
jurisdictions that incorporates the programs administered by the
program center, which shall include, but need not be limited to, all
of the following elements:
   (1) Consistent budget regulations, including format, indirect
costs rate, and allowable costs.
   (2) A single invoice format.
   (3) Uniform reporting requirements and outcome measures.
   (4) Uniform staff time surveys.
   (c) This section shall not authorize a local health jurisdiction
to discontinue meeting its obligations under existing law to provide
services or to reduce its accountability for the provision of these
services.
   (d) The program centers subject to this section may waive
regulations regarding the method of providing services and the method
of reporting and accountability, as may be required to meet the
goals set forth in subdivision (b). However, the program centers
shall not waive a regulation pertaining to privacy and
confidentiality of records, civil service merit systems, or
collective bargaining. The program centers shall not waive a
regulation if the waiver results in a diminished amount or level of
services or benefits to an eligible recipient, as compared to the
benefits and services that would have been provided to a recipient
absent the waiver.
   (e) For purposes of this section,"program center" means an
administrative subdivision of the State Department of Public Health,
whether created by statute or by administrative regulation, that
oversees and administers multiple public health programs relating to
a specified public health subject area.