Bill Text: CA SB628 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 785, Statutes of 2014. [SB628 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB628-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 628	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 7, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 5, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 17, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 14, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Beall

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section  53395.7.5 to the Government Code,
relating to local planning.   1374.78 to the Health and
Safety Code, relating to health care coverage. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 628, as amended, Beall.  Infrastructure financing:
transit priority projects.   Health care coverage:
mental health parity: medical surveys.  
   Existing law requires large group, small group, and individual
health care service plan contracts to provide covered mental health
and substance use disorder benefits in compliance with the provisions
of federal law governing mental health parity, no later than January
1, 2015.  
   This bill, on and after January 1, 2016, would require the
Department of Managed Health Care to conduct medical surveys of
health care service plans chosen by the Director of the Department of
Managed Health Care, as provided, in order to evaluate those plans'
compliance with the above requirements. The bill would require the
surveys to be conducted annually for at least 5 years, and would
require the department, from April 1, 2017, to April 1, 2021,
inclusive, to provide the Legislature with an annual report on the
survey findings, as provided. The bill would also require the
department to hire 5 staff members prior to June 30, 2015, to
implement these provisions, funded by moneys in the Managed Care
Fund. The bill would require all actual reasonable costs incurred by
the department for the purposes of the surveys to be paid from the
annual assessments imposed on health care service plans. 

   Existing law establishes the Transit Priority Project Program, and
authorizes a city or county to participate in the program by
adopting an ordinance indicating its intent to participate in the
program and by forming an infrastructure financing district. Existing
law requires a city or county that elects to participate in the
program to amend, if necessary, its general plan, and any related
specific plan, to authorize participating developers to build at an
increased height of a minimum of 3 stories within the newly created
infrastructure financing district. Existing law exempts from these
provisions a city or county that has adopted specified language in
its charter, or by ordinance or resolution. Under existing law, a
transit priority project that meets specified criteria is designated
as a sustainable communities project, and is thus exempt from certain
environmental review requirements.  
   This bill would eliminate the requirement of voter approval for
the creation of an infrastructure financing district, the issuance of
bonds, and the establishment or change of the appropriations limit
with respect to a transit priority project. The bill would require a
city or county that uses infrastructure financing district bonds to
finance its transit priority project to use at least 25% of the
associated property tax increment revenues for the purposes of
increasing, improving, and preserving the supply of lower and
moderate-income housing available in the district and occupied by
persons and families of moderate-, low-, very low, and extremely low
income. The bill would require the district to implement these
affordable housing provisions in accordance with specified provisions
of the Community Redevelopment Law, to the extent not inconsistent
with the provisions governing infrastructure financing districts. The
bill would require the adoption of an ordinance that would require
the replacement of designated low-income dwelling units, upon their
removal from the district, within 2 years of their displacement. The
bill would set forth the findings and declarations of the
Legislature, and the intent of the Legislature that the development
of transit priority projects be environmentally conscious and
sustainable, and that related construction meet or exceed the
requirements of the California Green Building Standards Code.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 1374.78 is added to the 
 Health and Safety Code   ,  immediately following
Section 1374.76  , to read:  
   1374.78.  (a) (1) On and after January 1, 2016, consistent with
Section 1380, the Department of Managed Health Care shall conduct
medical surveys of health care service plans to evaluate those plans'
compliance with Section 1374.76. The surveys shall be conducted
annually for at least five years.
   (2) The director shall determine no fewer than seven of the
largest health care service plans to be surveyed each year
representing no fewer than 80 percent of covered lives among any of
the plans subject to the requirements of Section 1374.76.
   (b) (1) From April 1, 2017, to April 1, 2021, inclusive, the
department shall provide the Legislature with an annual report on the
survey findings, including analysis of health care service plan
compliance with timely access to services and compliance with
cost-sharing and treatment requirements of state and federal mental
health parity laws and all rules, regulations, and guidance issued
thereunder.
   (2) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under this
subdivision is inoperative on April 2, 2021, pursuant to Section
10231.5 of the Government Code.
   (3) The report to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall
be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   (c) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall hire five
staff members, prior to June 30, 2015, to implement this section,
funded through the Managed Care Fund.
   (d) All actual reasonable costs incurred by the department for the
purposes of the surveys of health care service plan compliance with
Section 1374.76 shall be paid from the annual plan assessments
imposed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1356.  All matter
omitted in this version of the bill appears in the bill as amended
in the Assembly, August 5, 2013. (JR11)