WELFARE and HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

• AB 110 (Committee on Budget) Makes changes related to foster care placement, immigration detention and other topics to implement the 2017-18 budget:

An act to amend Sections 7284.6 and 27388.1 of the Government Code, and to amend Sections 12306.1 and 12306.16 of, and to add and repeal Section 11461.35 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to government services, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

• AB 1215 (Weber) Encourages a county mental health program (MHP) to conduct research of the brain and its physical and biochemical processes, as specified, including, but not limited to, collaborative, public-private initiatives, if research is chosen by a county MHP for an innovative project for the purpose of assessing a new or changed application of a promising approach to solving persistent mental health challenges.

An act to amend Section 5830 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.

• AB 1694 (Mark Stone) Deletes language prohibiting foster care payments from being considered foster parent or child income when determining eligibility and benefit amounts for certain state or federal programs except as required by federal law, as specified, and enacts this bill as an urgency statute.

An act to repeal Section 11004.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• AB 1811 (Committee on Budget) This bill provides for statutory changes necessary to enact human-services related provisions of the Budget Act of 2018.

An act to amend Section 69519 of the Education Code, to add Section 17566 to, and to add and repeal Section 17705 of, the Family Code, to amend Section 6253.2 of the Government Code, to add and repeal Sections 1531.6 and 1538.75 of the Health and Safety Code, to amend Section 246 of the Labor Code, and to amend Sections 9719.5, 10553.1, 11325.23, 11364, 11387, 11405, 11450, 11462.04, 12301.6, 14132.97, 16121, and 18941 of, to add Sections 10823.1, 10823.2, 11450.021, 11450.022, 11450.026, 11453.01, 11461.36, 12201.01, 14132.971, 16521.7, 18900.5, 18900.6, and 18900.7 to, to add Article 3.4 (commencing with Section 11330.6) to Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division 9 of, to add Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 15770) to Part 3 of Division 9 of, to add and repeal Section 10072.3 of, to repeal Section 12200.5 of, and to repeal and add Section 10626 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to human services, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

• AB 1827 (Committee on Budget) This bill establishes the No Place Like Home (NPLH) Act of 2018, which amends provisions previously enacted as part of the NPLH program. Amends the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) to, among other things, permit the Legislature to appropriate funds from the Mental Health Services Fund, as specified, and provides an opportunity for voter approval in the November 6, 2018 statewide general election.

An act to amend Sections 5849.35, 5849.4, and 5890 of, and to add Section 5849.15 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to housing, and making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• AB 1892 (Jones-Sawyer) Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to issue guidance to counties participating in CalFresh Employment and Training (CFET) program with instructions for providing CFET support services or client reimbursements, requires guidance to include instructions for reimbursing a portion of the cost of Internet service or telephone services, and expands the definition of “participant who faces multiple barriers to employment.”

An act to amend Sections 18926.5 and 18926.7 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalFresh.

• AB 1930 (Mark Stone) Adopts changes to further facilitate implementation of Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) recommendations to better serve children and youth in California’s child welfare services system.

An act to amend Section 7911.1 of the Family Code, to amend Sections 1502.45, 1505, 1507.25, 1517, 1517.1, 1517.5, 1522, 1524, 1527, 1527.1, 1527.2, 1527.4, 1527.5, 1534, 1551.3, 1558, and 1558.1 of, and to add Sections 1524.01 and 1551.15 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 212.5, 316.1, 361.2, 361.4, 4094.2, 4096.1, 4096.55, 11363, 11386, 11402.01, 11461, 11462, 11462.001, 11462.01, 11462.011, 11462.015, 11462.021, 11463, 11466.01, 16120, 16500.5, 16504.5, 16519.5, 16519.58, 16519.6, 16601, 16604, 18360, and 18360.10 of, and to add Sections 362.06, 16501.02, 16519.501, and 16519.555 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care.

• AB 1934 (Jones-Sawyer) This bill clarifies that the terms “dependent person” and “dependent adult” include a person who lives independently.

An act to amend Section 177 of the Evidence Code, to amend Sections 288, 368, and 1336 of the Penal Code, and to amend Section 15610.23 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to dependent persons.

• AB 1957 (Berman) Establishes the Social Services Modernization, Efficiency & Due Process Protection Act of 2018 which would allow applicants for and recipients of certain public benefits to elect to receive certain information and communication electronically, where available, and establishes the parameters of that communication while ensuring the data security and privacy rights of applicants and recipients.

An act to add Section 11023.7 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

• AB 1968 (Low) Requires that a person who has been taken into custody, assessed, and admitted to a designated facility because he or she is a danger to himself, herself, or others, as a result of a mental health disorder more than once within a one-year period be prohibited from owning a firearm for the remainder of his or her life, subject to the right to challenge the prohibition at periodic hearings.

An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 8103 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to firearms.

• AB 2030 (Limón) Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to include, in certain public social services application and redetermination forms, questions regarding the need for accommodation related to disability or domestic violence and requires any single state automated welfare system to include related notifications.

An act to add Sections 10824.5, 11051, and 11262 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalWORKs.

• AB 2083 (Cooley) Requires each county to develop a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to describe the roles and responsibilities certain entities that serve youth in foster care who have experienced severe trauma, and instructs the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a joint interagency resolution team to implement and review aspects of the MOU.

An act to add Section 16521.6 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster youth.

• AB 2099 (Gloria) This bill requires a copy of the application that permits an individual to be involuntarily detained, as specified, to be treated as the original for purposes of evaluation and treatment.

An act to amend Section 5150 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.

• AB 2112 (Santiago) Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to develop and submit an application to solicit a grant authorized under the federal 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) to develop a community-based crisis response plan.

An act to add Section 14124.14 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to crisis intervention.

• AB 2119 (Gloria) Clarifies the right of foster youth to gender affirming health care and gender affirming mental health care and requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to, in consultation with stakeholders, develop and issue written guidance regarding foster youth access to gender affirming health care and gender affirming mental health care by January 1,2020.

An act to amend Sections 16001.9 and 16010.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care.

• AB 2207 (Eggman) Makes Legislative findings and declarations related to the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in California, the intersection between CSEC and the child welfare system, and the provision of services to these youth by the state, and places a deadline of January 1, 2020, on the requirement in current law that the Department of Social Services (DSS), in consultation with stakeholders, must develop model policies, procedures, and protocols to assist counties achieve certain goals related to the commercial sexual exploitation of youth receiving child welfare services, as specified.

An act to amend Section 16501.35 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to sexual abuse.

• AB 2247 (Gipson) Requires a social worker or placement agency to implement a placement preservation strategy prior to changing a dependent child’s placement, and requires at least 14 days’ written notice to be given prior to a placement change, except in instances where delayed placement or prior notice of a placement change would endanger a child’s health or safety or where all specified parties have agreed to waive these requirements.

An act to add Section 16010.7 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster youth.

• AB 2313 (Mark Stone) Expands the list of actions taken by an outside party and resulting in unauthorized acquisition of the cash benefits of a recipient of certain public services for which the recipient shall not incur a loss of those benefits, and allows DSS to issue reimbursements to benefits recipients in certain instances and if certain criteria are met.

An act to amend Section 10072 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

• AB 2316 (Eggman) Requires the State Department of Hospitals (DSH) and the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to develop a comprehensive training and certification program (program) for county patients’ rights advocates (PRAs) that is accessible remotely and at any time.

An act to amend Section 5370.2 of, and to add Section 5524 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health advocacy.

• AB 2325 (Irwin) This bill prohibits eligible California veterans from being denied county mental or behavioral health services while waiting for a determination of eligibility for, and availability of, services provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Clarifies that existing law prohibiting veterans from being denied county mental health services includes whether or not the person is eligible for services provided by the VA.

An act to amend Section 5600.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health services.

• AB 2393 (Committee on Health) Prohibits a county from charging fees for Medi-Cal specialty mental health services (SMHS) to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who do not have a share of cost and Medi-Cal beneficiaries who have met their share of cost. Allows, instead of requires, a county to charge fees to individuals who are not Medi-Cal beneficiaries and Medi-Cal beneficiaries who have a share of cost that has not been met, as specified. Deletes the term SMHS and replaces it with community mental health services. Provides that this bill shall not be construed to waive a county’s responsibility to screen for eligibility for Medi-Cal, any other insurance affordability program, or a county health program.

An act to amend Section 5709 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.

• AB 2661 (Arambula) This bill clarifies that a person’s subsequent conviction for an offense that is not a sexually violent offense committed while in the custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) or the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) while awaiting the resolution of a petition to have the person committed to the DSH as a sexually violent predator (SVP) does not change the jurisdiction over the pending SVP petition, which is the county in which the person was convicted of the sexually violent offense that resulted in commitment to CDCR.

An act to amend Section 6601 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.

• AB 2719 (Irwin) This bill expands the definition of “greatest social need,” as used by the California Department of Aging (CDA) in their allocation of state and federal funds to programs for older individuals, to include cultural and social isolation caused by sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

An act to amend Section 9015 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to aging.

• AB 2821 (Mayes) Authorizes any county to, upon approval of its county board of supervisors and the California Health and Human Services Agency, operate an integrated and comprehensive health and human services system, and specifies the purview and requirements of this system.

An act to amend Section 18991.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to health and human services.

• AB 2830 (Reyes) Require each county, except a charter county, to develop a program that gives a preference to qualified applicants who are members of a disadvantaged group defined as, but not limited to, a foster youth, homeless youth, formerly homeless youth, or formerly incarcerated youth for the hiring of internship and student assistant positions.

An act to add Section 31000.11 to the Government Code, and to amend Section 391 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public employees.

• AB 3082 (Gonzalez Fletcher) Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to develop or otherwise identify standard educational material and a proposed method for uniform data collection addressing sexual harassment of providers of in-home supportive services (IHSS) and to provide these materials to appropriate Legislative committees.

An act to add Section 12318 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

• AB 3224 (Thurmond) Requires eligibility decisions for certain public benefit programs that are made by counties to be made by a county merit or civil service employee.

An act to add Section 10503 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

• SB 134 (Hernandez) This bill requires a contract between the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) and a regional center operator renewed or entered into on and after January 1, 2019, to include procedures for employee retention and requires regional centers to include information certain managers’ salaries and benefits on their Internet Web sites.

An act to amend Section 4629.5 of, and to add Article 1.1 (commencing with Section 4639.80) to Chapter 5 of Division 4.5 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to regional centers.

• SB 175 (McGuire) This bill, an urgency measure, allows a court, until June 30, 2021, to admit a person with a developmental disability, to a separate and distinct unit at the Canyon Springs Community Facility due to an acute crisis.

An act to amend Sections 6500, 6509, and 7505 of, and to add Section 7502.6 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to developmental services, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• SB 192 (Beall) This bill establishes a Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Reversion Account for the purpose of depositing any MHSA funds allocated to a county that have not been spent for their authorized purpose, as specified. This bill establishes reporting and planning requirements for counties regarding unspent MHSA funds, as specified.

An act to amend Sections 5892 and 5892.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.

• SB 398 (Monning) This bill makes a number of changes related to the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program, including extending the sunset date from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2024, requiring the Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) to seek all available sources of funding, and deleting the requirement that DOR submit a home- and community-based services waiver application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

An act to amend Sections 4353, 4354.5, and 4355 of, to repeal Section 14132.992 of, and to repeal and add Section 4359 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to acquired brain trauma.

• SB 688 (Moorlach) This bill requires each county to prepare its Annual Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Revenue and Expenditure Report in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), as specified, and requires specified entities to post county reports in a machine-readable format on their respective Internet Web sites.

An act to amend Section 5899 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health services.

• SB 726 (Wiener) This bill raises the threshold amount for collection of California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) outstanding overpayments owed by individuals no longer receiving aid from $35 to $250, or a higher amount as determined by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), and establishes circumstances under which overpayment recovery and civil or criminal action are prohibited.

An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 11004 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalWORKs.

• SB 785 (Wiener) This bill prohibits the disclosure of a person’s immigration status in open court unless the judge presiding over the matter first determines that the evidence is admissible in an in camera hearing, as provided.

An act to add and repeal Sections 351.3 and 351.4 of the Evidence Code, relating to evidence, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• SB 849 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) This is a Health Trailer Bill for 2018-19. It contains necessary changes related to the Budget Act of 2018. This bill makes various statutory changes to implement the 2018-19 budget.

An act to amend Section 14169.53 of, to add Section 14184.90 to, and to add and repeal Section 14114 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

• SB 857 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) As part of the 2018 budget package, creates an employee orientation pilot for In Home Supportive Services providers in three counties.

An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 12301.24 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

• SB 876 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) This bill makes technical, clarifying changes to health and human services programs consistent with the Budget Act of 2018.

An act to amend Sections 10553.1, 11330.7, 11364, 11387, 11405, 11461.36, 11462.04, and 16121 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and to amend Section 43 of Chapter 35 of the Statutes of 2018, relating to human services, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

• SB 918 (Wiener) This bill establishes the Homeless Youth Act of 2018 to better serve the state’s homeless youth population and requires the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (Council) to take on additional related responsibilities that are focused on addressing the needs of youth experiencing homelessness

An act to amend Section 8257 of, and to add Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8259) to Division 8 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homeless youth.

• SB 1004 (Wiener) This bill requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) to establish priorities for the use of Mental Health Services Act prevention and early intervention (PEI) funds, as specified, and to develop a statewide strategy for monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of PEI programs, as specified.

An act to add a heading to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 5840) of, and to add Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5840.5) to, Part 3.6 of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.

• SB 1012 (Delgado) This bill allows personnel of a city within a county that has established a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team (MDT) to request to participate in that MDT and requires the county to allow for city personnel participation, unless the county determines that such participation would hinder compliance with the requirements and obligations of the MDT or otherwise conflict with the county’s goals and objectives.

An act to amend Section 18999.8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

• SB 1040 (Dodd) This bill makes adjustments to the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program that would take effect in the event of a state of emergency to allow recipients to continue receiving services and providers to obtain replacement payroll checks, if their checks were damaged or uncashed as a result of the emergency. This bill specifies that recipients of IHSS services are among the low income persons given first priority for loans from the Predevelopment Loans Fund, in the event of a natural disaster. This bill also requires a county, including a city and county, at the next update to its emergency plan, to integrate and require the assessment and provision of supportive services to IHSS recipients.

An act to amend Section 34052 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 12301.1 of, and to add Sections 12304.41 and 12312 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to in-home supportive services.

• SB 1045 (Wiener) This bill allows, until January 1, 2024, San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles Counties to place in a conservatorship, as specified, a person who is chronically homeless and incapable of caring for his or her own health and wellbeing due to serious mental illness and substance use disorder.

An act to add and repeal Article 7 (commencing with Section 5555) of Chapter 6.2 of, and to add and repeal Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 5450) of, Part 1 of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to conservatorship.

• SB 1083 (Mitchell) This bill makes certain changes to the resource family approval (RFA) process related to foster family homes that have not yet been approved as resource family homes.

An act to amend Sections 1517 and 1517.1 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 11402, 11461.6, 16501.01, 16507.5, 16519.5, and 18360 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to child welfare.

• SB 1107 (Leyva) Includes a private for-profit agency in the definition of “family home agency” (FHA), thereby authorizing private for-profit agencies to be selected as FHAs for purposes of the developmental services system.

An act to amend Section 4689.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

• SB 1113 (Monning) This bill permits the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) to establish a framework and voluntary standard for mental health in the workplace, as specified, and to provide guidance to California’s employer community to support the mental health and wellness of employees, as specified.

An act to amend Section 5845 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.

• SB 1274 (McGuire) This bill requires the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to provide information to the State Department of Developmental Services (DDS) about DDS consumers’ participation in California Work Opportunity and Responsibility for Kids (CalWORKs) and CalFresh in order to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the state’s Employment First Policy.

An act to amend Section 4514 of, and to add Section 10850.6 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to developmental services.

• SB 1287 (Hernandez) This bill defines in state law, for individuals under age 21 years of age enrolled in Medi-Cal, a service as medically necessary or a medical necessity by reference to the federal Medicaid standard, which requires coverage when the service would correct or ameliorate defects and physical and mental illnesses.

An act to amend Sections 14059.5 and 14133.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal.

• SB 1423 (Hernandez) Revises existing law relating to Medi-Cal managed care (MCMC) and mental health plan oral interpretation services for an individual who is limited-English-proficient (LEP) to require that an interpreter must have the ability to provide effective, accurate, and impartial, interpreter services to and from the language spoken by the LEP beneficiary and in English, using any necessary specialized vocabulary, terminology, and phraseology, and makes other clarifying changes. An act to amend Sections 14029.91 and 14727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal.

• SB 1446 (Glazer) Deems a California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) recipient who is meeting certain federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) participation requirements to be in compliance with welfare-to-work activity requirements.

An act to add Section 11322.81 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalWORKs.

• SB 1495 (Committee on Health) This bill makes noncontroversial changes to various provisions of health law, including revising the reporting structure of law enforcement personnel at state hospitals, revising mental health services performance contract requirements, requiring the Department of Public Health (DPH) to license hospice providers who are accredited by an approved accrediting organization, and making clean-up changes to two recently enacted bills.

An act to amend Section 684 of the Business and Professions Code, to amend Sections 1728.7, 1797.188 and 101080 of, and to add Section 1751.5 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 4300, 4301, 4311, 4313, 5349, 5651, and 5897 of, to add Section 4005.8 to, to repeal Sections 5651.2 and 5666 of, and to repeal and add Section 5650 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to health.