Bill Text: CA SB932 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health care mergers, acquisitions, and collaborations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB932 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB932-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 932	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 1, 2016

   An act relating to health care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 932, as introduced, Hernandez. Health care mergers and
acquisitions.
   Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975,
provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service
plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful
violation of the act a crime. Existing law requires every nonprofit
health care service plan applying to restructure, as defined, or
convert its activities to secure the approval of the Director of the
Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law requires the Director
of the Department of Managed Health Care to provide the public
notice of, reasonable access to, and an opportunity to comment on,
public records relating to the restructure or conversion of a health
care service plan. Existing law requires any nonprofit health care
service plan that is formed under, or subject to, either the
Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law or the Nonprofit Mutual
Benefit Corporation Law to secure the written consent of the Director
of the Department of Managed Health Care prior to any merger.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require a review of health care mergers and
acquisitions for impacts on health care costs, access, and quality of
care.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require a review of health care mergers and
acquisitions for impacts on health care costs, access, and quality of
care.