Bill Text: CA SCR63 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: National Health Center Week.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 53-23)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 116, Statutes of 2013. [SCR63 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SCR63-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 63	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  116
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano,
Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown,
Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway,
Cooley, Dahle, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth
Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove,
Hagman, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine,
Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez,
Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen,
Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk,
Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber,
Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, and Yamada)

                        JULY 11, 2013

   Relative to National Health Center Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 63, Hernandez. National Health Center Week.
   This measure would proclaim the week of August 11 through August
17, 2013, as National Health Center Week.




   WHEREAS, Community clinics and health centers have been at the
core of the nation's health care safety net, serving anyone and
everyone who walks through their doors, regardless of ability to pay,
and they are the medical homes for more than 22 million needy and
uninsured patients; and
   WHEREAS, According to multiple government, academic, and private
studies, community clinics and health centers have been proven to be
the most cost-effective health care providers in the field, saving
nearly $24 billion annually by keeping patients out of costlier
health care settings, such as emergency rooms; and
   WHEREAS, Community clinics and health centers are private,
nonprofit corporations. The majority of their boards of directors, by
law, must be their patients and consumers, and their services are
funded primarily through public programs such as Medicaid, federal
grants, and state initiatives; and
   WHEREAS, Community clinics and health centers in California and
throughout the nation have led the movement for a fair and equitable
health care system, treating medically underserved populations in
medically underserved areas, reaching into the inner city, the most
rural, and the most geographically isolated communities; and
   WHEREAS, In California, more than five million low-income
families, children, seniors, women, non-English speakers, people of
color, and homeless individuals currently receive comprehensive
primary care services at more than 900 community clinics and health
centers throughout the state; and
   WHEREAS, Primary care at California community clinics and health
centers involves a wide range of services, including preventive care,
chronic disease management, well child, dental, pharmaceutical,
immunization, mental health, substance abuse, breast cancer,
nutrition, family planning, and pregnancy-related services, all of
which are provided with particular sensitivity to language and
cultural competency; and
   WHEREAS, California's community clinics and health centers have
the major responsibility for providing health care services to the
state's most disadvantaged families and individuals, will be at the
forefront in implementing the national Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, and are preparing to serve up to an additional
1.4 million newly eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries under the act, as
well as the several million persons who will remain uninsured; and
   WHEREAS, California's and the nation's community clinics and
health centers deserve to be recognized and acknowledged for their
valuable services to their communities and the state, their
cost-effective delivery of primary health care services to the most
vulnerable populations, and their leadership in working for fair and
equitable health care reform; and
   WHEREAS, The federal government, many other states, and local
communities in all 50 states have observed and celebrated an annual
National Health Center Week for 30 years; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature joins in proclaiming the
week of August 11 through August 17, 2013, as National Health Center
Week; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature commends California's community
clinics and health centers for their valuable contributions to the
state, their communities, and the populations they serve and urges
the Members of the Legislature to visit their local community clinics
and health centers in observance of National Health Center Week; and
be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.