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About the Bill: This proposes an amendment to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders for the protection of the persons so committed.
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SB 1300 (Cortese): Health facility closure: public noticing for inpatient psychiatric and maternity services – Sponsor Extends the public notice requirement when a health facility eliminates a supplemental service, currently 90 days prior to elimination of the service, to instead be 120 days when it involves the closure of either inpatient psychiat...
AB 2882 (McCarty) California Community Corrections performance incentives – Support Enhances the planning and reporting processes within the community corrections system, particularly focusing on the needs of incarcerated individuals requiring mental health care. Enhanced Stakeholder Inclusion: Adds a representative of a community-based organizatio...
SB 1082 (Eggman): Augmented residential care facilities – Support RCFE/ARF Facility Reimbursement Rates: Seeks to address the chronically low reimbursement rates that adult residential facilities (ARFs) and residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs) encounter. Requires the Department of Health Care services (DHCS), in partnership with the ...
AB 1788 (Quirk-Silva): Mental health multidisciplinary personnel team – Support Expansion of Multidisciplinary Personnel Teams (MPTs) for Behavioral Health Enables counties to establish Behavioral Health MPTs. Promotes collaboration across service providers and government agencies. MPT members can share confidential information as per existing priv...
AB 2466 (Carrillo, Wendy): Cedi-Cal managed care: network adequacy standards- Support Focus is on ensuring that enrollees receive timely access to healthcare services. Under this bill, MCPs would be out of compliance if less than 85% of their doctors get appointments on time. The State Auditor found that health plans were largely unable to meet the...
AB 2154 (Berman): Mental health: involuntary treatment – Support Patients’ Rights Handbook for Family Members Mandates that any facility where a person is involuntarily detained must give a copy of the Patients’ Rights Handbook, prepared by DHCS, to a family member of the detained individual. The definition of “family member” in this context is bro...
ACR 174 (Grayson): Firefighter Suicide Awareness and Prevention Stand Down Week – Support SCR 114 (Sevarto): Suicide Prevention Week in California – Support
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