Bill Text: CA AB1107 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Proclaimed state emergencies: proclamations, materials, and announcements: translation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-08-20 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1107 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1107
| Introduced by Assembly Member Chu |
February 21, 2019 |
An act to add Sections Section 8626.5 and 8634.5 to the Government Code, relating to emergency services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1107, as amended, Chu.
Proclaimed state and local emergencies: proclamations, communications, and materials: materials, and announcements: translation.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. The act also authorizes the governing body of a city, county, city and county, or an official designated by ordinance adopted by that governing body, to proclaim a local emergency, and to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. Existing law defines the terms term “state of emergency” and “local emergency”
to mean the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by, among other things, fire, storm, riot, epidemic, or cyberterrorism.
Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to require managed care plans providing Medi-Cal services to provide language assistance services to limited-English-proficient (LEP) beneficiaries. Existing law requires the department to determine, at least every 3 years, or more often as specified, when an LEP population meets the requirement for translation services by using a numeric threshold, including a population group of at least 3,000 or 5% of the beneficiary population, whichever is fewer, mandatory managed care Medi-Cal beneficiaries, residing in the service area, who indicate their primary language as other than English.
This bill would require all proclamations, communications,
materials, and announcements made by the Governor or issued by a state agency related to a duly proclaimed state of emergency to be made available statewide in all the threshold languages spoken by LEP speakers. The bill would define the term “threshold languages spoken by limited-English-proficient speakers ” speakers” to mean the
all Medi-Cal threshold languages spoken by any threshold population group, without limitation to county-specific thresholds, that are determined by the State Department of Health Care Services pursuant to the above-described language assistance services provisions.
This bill would also require each county to translate all emergency-related proclamations, communications, materials, and announcements made by the county related to a duly proclaimed state of emergency or a local emergency duly proclaimed by the county into all languages spoken by 1,000 or more of the county’s residents.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 8626.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:8626.5.
(a)(b) For purposes of this section:
(1) “Proclamations, communications, materials, and announcements” includes, but is not limited to, information posted or broadcasted on or through an internet website of the state, newspaper, social media platform, television, or radio.
(2) “Threshold languages spoken by limited-English-proficient speakers” means the all Medi-Cal threshold languages spoken by any threshold population group, without limitation to county-specific thresholds,
as determined by the State Department of Health Care Services pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 14029.91 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter, limit, or negate any other obligations, rights, remedies, or procedures provided by law.
(a)Each county shall translate all emergency-related proclamations, communications, materials, and announcements made by the county related to a duly proclaimed state of emergency or a local emergency duly proclaimed by the county into all languages spoken by 1,000 or more of the county’s residents.
(b)For purposes of this section, “proclamations, communications, materials, and announcements” includes, but is not limited to, information posted or broadcasted on or through an internet website of the county, newspaper, social media platform, television, or radio.
