Bill / Author

Position

Priority

AB 5

Homeless Civil Rights. This bill would enact the Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act, which would provide that no person's rights, privileges, or access to public services may be denied or abridged because he or she is homeless, has a low income, or suffers from a mental illness or physical disability.

Hearing scheduled in Asm Judiciary April 23.

Pending

Ammiano

AB 73

Budget Bill. Language pending.  No hearing set.

Watch

Blumenfield

AB 209

Medi-Cal Managed Care Health Care Quality and Transparency Act of 2013.  Implementation of ACA.  Passed Asm.  In Asm Appropriations.

Pending

Pan

AB 230

Mental Health Services.This bill would enact legislation relating to mental health.  Two-year bill.  

Watch

Maienschein

AB 264

Homelessness: housing. Spot bill.  Two-year bill.  

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Maienschein

AB 346

Emergency youth shelter facilities. This bill would include within the definition of a community care facility an emergency youth shelter facility and require the department to license emergency youth shelter facilities.  These facilities serve youth with mental illnesses and should meet standards.  Asm Human Services.  

Pending

Stone

AB 361

Medi-Cal: Health Homes for Medi-Cal Enrollees and Section 1115 Waiver Demonstration Populations with Chronic and Complex Conditions. This bill would create a health home program for enrollees with chronic conditions.  Part of ACA implementation.  Does not include mental illnesss but many people with mental illnesses have other chronic conditions.  Passed Asm Health.  In Asm Appropriations.

Pending

Mitchell

AB 395

Alcoholism and drug abuse treatment facilities. This bill would include in the definition of alcoholism and drug abuse recovery and treatment facilities a premises, place, or building that does not require a health facility license and that provides a program, accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting organization, that uses a multidisciplinary team to provide 24-hour residential medical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services. Broadening definition of SUD treatment facilities is consistent with today’s practices.  Asm Health Committee.  Hearing April 9.

Pending

Fox

AB 402

Disability income insurance: mental illness. This bill would require every policy of disability income insurance that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014, and that provides disability income benefits to provide coverage for disability caused by severe mental illnesses, as defined.  This would be important to many of our members. Asm Insurance. Hearing April 24.

Approved in concept.

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Ammiano

AB 438

Juveniles: dual-status minors. This bill would delete the prohibition on the filing of a petition or the entry of an order to make a minor simultaneously both a dependent child and a ward of the court.  Asm Judiciary.  Hearing April 9.

Pending

Mitchell

AB 602

Mentally and developmentally disabled persons: reporting abuse: peace officer training. This bill would require the commission to establish, by July 1, 2015, and keep updated a training course relating to law enforcement interaction with mentally disabled or developmentally disabled persons living within a state mental hospital or state developmental center.   Passed Asm Public Safety.  In Asm Approps.

Pending

Yamada

AB 623

Inmates: psychiatric medication: informed consent. This bill would instead prohibit, except as specified, a person confined (as well as imprisoned) in a county jail from being administered any psychiatric medication without his or her prior informed consent.  Asm Public Safety.  April 16.

Pending

Lowenthal

AB 676

Health care coverage: postdischarge care needs. This bill would prohibit health care service plans, health insurers, and the Department of Health Care Services or Medi-Cal managed care plans, as applicable, from causing an enrollee, insured, or beneficiary to remain in a general acute care hospital or an acute psychiatric hospital upon determination by the attending physician on the medical staff that the individual no longer requires inpatient hospital care. The bill would require specified duties within 24 hours of receipt of notice of the discharge and provide that failure to transfer the patient within 72 hours from the health facility to an appropriate community setting would result in a daily penalty amount, as specified, to be paid within 10 days of the patient's discharge.  Asm Health.  Hearing April 16.

Pending

Fox

AB 720

Inmates: health care enrollment. This bill would require the county sheriff, or his or her designee, to assist all individuals sentenced to or detained in county jail who are otherwise eligible for federal Medicaid benefits to enroll in the Medi-Cal program available in that county 30 days before he or she is scheduled to be released. The bill would provide that individuals who are currently enrolled in the Medi-Cal program in the county where they reside would retain enrollment in that program while temporarily detained before any criminal conviction.    Asm Public Safety. April 16  

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Skinner

AB 755

This bill would provide that the construction or reconstruction of a bridge designed for use by motor vehicles shall not be eligible for federal funds apportioned to the state, funds made available from the Highway Users Tax Account, or toll bridge funds unless the planning process for the bridge project takes into account the need for a suicide barrier. To the extent the bill would apply to bridges of local agencies, it would thereby impose a state-mandated local program. Asm Transportation. April 15

Support

Letter has gone to author

Ammiano

AB 760

Taxes: ammunition sales. This bill would impose a tax upon retailers for the privilege of selling ammunition, as defined, at the rate of $0.05 per item of ammunition sold in this state on or after January 1, 2014. It would also impose a complemental excise tax on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of ammunition purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, as provided. This bill would require that revenues collected pursuant to these taxes be allocated to the School-Based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services Matching Grant Program.  Language removed asserting that mental illness and violence related.  It is not clear if this complements SB 330.   Asm Revenue & Taxation.  Hearing April 15.

Pending

Dickinson

AB 889

Health care coverage. The bill would require a plan or insurer to have an expeditious process in place to authorize exceptions to step therapy when medically necessary and to conform effectively and efficiently to continuity of care. The bill would require the duration of any step therapy or fail first protocol to be consistent with up-to-date evidence-based outcomes and current published peer-reviewed medical and pharmaceutical literature, and would, except under certain conditions, prohibit a health care service plan or health insurer from requiring that a patient try and fail on more than 2 medications before allowing the patient access to other medication prescribed by the prescribing provider, as specified.  If a support opinion, will express our displeasure with any step therapy.  Asm Health.  Hearing April 30.

Pending

Frazier

AB 915

Juvenile Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2013. This bill would permit each county to establish in each county treasury a Youthful Offender Block Grant Part B account. Asm Public Safety.  No hearing date.

Watch

Jones-Sawyer

AB 936

Group homes: mental health services. Mental health services may be provided to a child in

a group home and shall be a case management responsibility of the placing agency.  

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Wilk

AB 961

This bill would authorize public notice of the survey or licensing reports, or all class “AA,” “A,” or “B” violations issued by the State Department of Public Health, as specified, or facility evaluation, deficiency, or complaint investigation reports issued by the State Department of Social Services, if the information relates to a facility with a license capacity of 16 beds or more and does not include the name or personally identifiable information of any patient or person with a developmental disability. PassedAsm Health.  Referred to Judiciary.

Support

Letter to author.

Levina

AB 1084

Firearms, punishment for possession.  (15) increases the punishment for specified individuals with serious mental illnesses, both lengthening the sentence and stating that imprisonment shall be in state prison rather than county jail.  Asm Public Safety.  Public Safety Hearing April 23.

Pending

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Melendez

AB 1087

Medi-Cal: California's Bridge to Reform Demonstration.

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Torres

AB 1119

This bill would, until January 1, 2018, require the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a 3-year postrelease reentry pilot program, using an existing Sacramento area-based parole reentry program as a model, in 3 additional counties to provide comprehensive, structured reentry services for offenders released from state prison. The bill would require the Counties of San Bernardino, San Joaquin, and San Mateo to participate in the pilot program.  Asm Public Safety.  No hearing date.  

Pending

Hagman

AB 1180

This bill would prohibit the premium for certain healthcare policies and contracts from exceeding the premium for a specified plan offered in the individual market through the California Health Benefit Exchange in the rating area in which the individual resides. Access is increased when premiums are constrained as much as possible.  Asm Health.  April 23.

Pending

Pan

AB 1208

Medical homes. This bill would establish the Patient Centered Medical Home Act of 2013 and would define a "medical home" and a "patient centered medical home" for purposes of the act to refer to a health care delivery model in which a patient establishes an ongoing relationship with a licensed health care provider, as specified.  First step toward ACA medical homes. Asm Health.  Hearing April 9.

Pending

Pan

AB 1225

State and local fund allocations. This bill would authorize a county or city and county to reallocate up to 10% of the amount deposited each fiscal year in the local health account, or local social services account, or both, to the local mental health account, as specified.  May be two-year bill.. Asm Local Government and Health.  No hearing date.

Pending

Maienschein

AB 1264

AB 1264 (Conway)  School safety plans: tactical response.  

 The Board Opposed this bill because it requires setting up a protocol for teachers to "provide notification of a pupil identified as having a potential mental health issue that is likely to result in violence or harm to the pupil or others.”

Oppose

Oppose with letter to author, then to all committees.

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Conway

AB 1265

This bill would provide that upon the release of a person from intensive treatment or postcertification treatment described above, the professional staff of the agency or facility that provided the treatment shall evaluate whether the person meets the criteria for assisted outpatient treatment, if Laura’s Law implemented in county, and authorize staff to request that mental health director file a petition for AOT. Asm Judiciary, hearing April 16.  Also assigned to Asm Health.

Pending

Conway

ABX1 2

Health care coverage. Private plans.  Implement ACA.

SEN Health.  Hearing April 10.

Pending

Pan

ACR 36

This is concurrent resolution, not bill. This measure would encourage all superior courts to consider establishing veterans treatment courts or veterans treatment review calendars to assist troubled veterans who have service-related mental health issues.  

Pending

Atkins

SB 18

Individual health care coverage.  

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Hernandez

SB 22

Health care coverage: mental health parity. This bill would, on or after July 1, 2014, require every health care service plan, contractor of a health service plan, and health insurer to submit an annual report to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate, certifying compliance with specified state laws and the MHPAEA, except as provided. The bill would require the reports to be a public record made available upon request and to be published on the respective department's Internet Web site. The bill would require a plan, contractor, and health insurer to provide an analysis of the entity's compliance with the law using certain mental health parity standards and to conduct surveys of enrollees, insureds, and providers as part of the report, as specified.  Sen Health.  Hearing April 10.

Support

Support position.  Letter has gone to author and Health committee.  Letter & testimony at all policy committees.

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Beall

SB 28

Medi-Cal: eligibility. The bill would extend Medi-Cal eligibility to specified adults and would require that income eligibility be determined based on modified adjusted gross income (MAGI), as prescribed. The bill would prohibit the use of an asset or resources test for individuals whose financial eligibility for Medi-Cal is determined based on the application of MAGI. The bill would also add, commencing January 1, 2014, benefits, services, and coverage included in the essential health benefits package.  Part of the implementation of ACA.  Sen Health.  Hearing April 24.

Pending

Hernandez

SB 65

2013-14 Budget.

Watch

Leno

SB 127

Firearms: mentally disordered persons: reporting. Bill has been changed to only address provider/facility reporting.  Not a current NAMI CA bill.  Sen Public Safety.  Hearing April 30.

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Gaines

SB 278

Land use: housing element.

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Gaines

SB 330

Comprehensive K-12 mental health education plans.  Language developed with the assistance of NAMI CA and other members of mental health community. Fact sheet available. Still in Rules committee.

Support

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Padilla

SB 364

Mental health.  LPS Reform toimplement consistent statewide standards.  Sen Health.  Hearing April 24.

Support Letter sent

to Author, Health Committee

Steinberg

SB 494

Health care providers: California Health Benefit Exchange. This bill would ensure that qualified health plans participating in the California Health Benefit Exchange provide an adequate network of primary care providers, including non-physician providers.  Hearing April 24.  

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Monning

SB 528

Dependents: care and treatment: minor and nonminor dependent parents. This bill would specify that nothing in those provisions shall be construed to limit the rights of dependent children to consent to specified types of medical and other care, including the diagnosis and treatment of sexual assault, medical care relating to the prevention or treatment of pregnancy, treatment of infectious, contagious, and communicable diseases, mental health treatment, and treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. This bill would require a dependent child's social worker, if the child is 10 years of age or older, to ensure that the child is informed of his or her right as a minor to consent to and receive those health services, and provided with prescribed information regarding, among other things, reproductive health care. Sen Human Services.  Hearing April 23.

Pending

Yee

SB 561

Pupil discipline: expelled pupils: mental health evaluation. This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by further requiring that a pupil expelled from school for any of these offenses undergo a mental health evaluation conducted by a licensed clinical psychologist in order to enroll in one of these schools. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature that any state-mandated costs incurred pursuant to the bill be backfilled with an appropriation from the Mental Health Services Fund. This amounts to taking MHSA funds for general fund purposes. Sen Education.  Hearing April 10.

Oppose

Position

Letter to author

Letter to Education Committee

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Fuller

SB 585

Mental health: Mental Health Services Fund. This bill would clarify that mental health services provided under Laura's Law may be provided pursuant to the procedures specified in the Mental Health Services Act, thereby making an appropriation. The intent is to clarify and not change the Act. It does not speak to local implementation issues.  Sen Health Hearing April 24.

Support

Letter sent to author

Letter sent to committee

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Steinberg

SB 664

Mental health: Laura's Law: Mental Health Services Fund. This bill would no longer require a county to authorize the program (designated assisted outpatient treatment services under Laura's Law) by resolution and make those findings to implement the program. This bill would authorize a county to limit the number of persons to whom it provides assisted outpatient treatment services. Sen Health.  Hearing April 24.

Yee

SB 709

Inmates: mental evaluations. Person in charge of treating the prisoner and a practicing

psychiatrist or psychologist from the State Department of State Hospitals have evaluated the prisoner at a facility of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. This bill would require the evaluation to be a face-to-face evaluation. Sen Public Safety. No hearing date.

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Nielsen

SB 769

Veterans: criminal defendants. …Mental health problems stemming from service in the United States military…or mental health problems as a result of that service. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.  Still in Rules.  

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Block

SBX1 1

Medi-Cal: eligibility. The bill would extend Medi-Cal eligibility to specified adults and would require that income eligibility be determined based on modified adjusted gross income (MAGI), as prescribed. The bill would prohibit the use of an asset or resources test for individuals whose financial eligibility for Medi-Cal is determined based on the application of MAGI..  Passed Senate.  Held at desk in Asm.

Pending

Hernandez

SBX1 2

Health care coverage. This bill would require a plan on and after October 1, 2013, to offer, market, and sell all of the plan' s health benefit plans that are sold in the individual market for policy years on or after January 1, 2014, to all individuals and dependents in each service area in which the plan provides or arranges for the provision of health care services, as specified, but would require plans to limit enrollment in individual health benefit plans to specified open enrollment and special enrollment periods. Passed Senate.  Asm Health April 9.

Pending

Hernandez

SBX1 3

Health care coverage: bridge plan. Existing law requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that makes available qualified health plans to qualified individuals and small employers. This bill would exempt a bridge plan product, as defined, from that latter requirement.  Sen Appropriations (likely to stay there until June)

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Hernandez

SB 391

California Homes and Jobs Act of 2013. Provides funding for affordable housing development and other housing programs via a real estate recording fee.

Support Letter Sent to Author and Gov and Finance Committee

DeSaulnier