Legislation We're Tracking
Bills related to our report on:
Senate Bill 14
Requires the Department of Education to recommend best practices and identify evidence-based and evidence-informed training programs for schools to address youth behavioral health.
Assembly Bill 58
Requires local educational agencies to review and update their youth suicide prevention policies.
Assembly Bill 586
Establishes a pilot program to expand comprehensive health and mental health services to public school students by providing local educational agencies with technical assistance to access Medi-Cal funding for those health and mental health services.
Assembly Bill 883
Requires reverted Mental Health Services Act funds to return to counties for the purpose of providing school mental health services.
Bills related to our report on:
Senate Bill 507
Expands the criteria for court-ordered assistant outpatient treatment in certain circumstances, such as to include an eligible individual who may be leaving a conservatorship, and permits court testimony by videoconferencing.
Senate Bill 578
Requires court hearings on conservatorships for people who may be gravely disabled due to mental illness to be presumptively closed to the public.
Assembly Bill 681
Requires the Department of Justice and designated health facilities to share with the Department of Health Care Services reports about individuals who have been committed to involuntary treatment due to mental illness.
Senate Bill 749
Requires comprehensive tracking of county spending on mental and behavioral health programs and services including expenditures and outcomes.
Senate Bill 782
Authorizes counties to file a petition to obtain assisted outpatient treatment for a person who has been placed on a conservatorship due to mental illness.
Bills related to our report on:
Senate Bill 773
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to make incentive payments to qualifying Medi-Cal managed care plans that meet certain goals related to behavioral health services for children.
Bills related to our report on:
Assembly Bill 510
Requires that, when individuals enrolled in managed care plans are granting consent to receive services by a noncontracted provider, they receive a list of contracted providers who could provide the services at lower cost to the individuals.
Bills related to our report on:
Senate Bill 650
Requires skilled nursing facilities to file annual consolidated financial reports with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Assembly Bill 1502
Prohibits individuals or entities from owning or operating skilled nursing facilities without first obtaining a license from the Department of Public Health.
Bills related to our report on:
Assembly Bill 1015
Requires the Board of Registered Nursing to incorporate regional forecasts into its biennial analyses of the nursing workforce as we recommended.
