Bill Text: CA AB492 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medi-Cal: reproductive and behavioral health integration pilot programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-06-14 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH. [AB492 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB492-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 492

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Introduced by Assembly Member Pellerin

February 07, 2023

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An act relating to behavioral health.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 492, as introduced, Pellerin. Reproductive and behavioral health integration pilot program.

Existing law sets forth various reproductive health provisions within the jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Health Care Services, among other entities. Existing law governs various behavioral health services within the jurisdiction of the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Public Health, the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, and county public health or behavioral health departments, among other entities. Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates community clinics.

Existing law, the Maternal Mental Health Conditions Education, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment Act, requires a general acute care hospital or special hospital that has a perinatal unit to develop and implement a program to provide education and information to appropriate health care professionals and patients about maternal mental health conditions, as defined. Existing law sets forth other provisions relating to screening for those conditions.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish a reproductive and behavioral health integration pilot program to support community clinics that are developing or expanding programs to provide screening, referrals, and interventions for Californians at risk for mild-to-moderate mental health conditions in reproductive health services facilities.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish a reproductive and behavioral health integration pilot program to support community clinics that are developing or expanding programs to provide screening, referrals, and interventions for Californians at risk for mild-to-moderate mental health conditions in reproductive health services facilities.