Legislation Supported
2011-2012 Legislative Session
The Commission is supporting 14 bills that would implement its recommendations. The Commission only takes positions on legislation that would implement its recommendations and is currently monitoring additional measures. The measures that the Commission has supported during the 2011-12 Legislative Session are in the areas of
economic development,
bond oversight,
emergency preparedness,
career techinical education,
educational governance,
water governance,
juvenile justice,
alcohol and drug treatment,
health and human services,
long-term care and
government operations.
Economic Development
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| AB 29 (Pérez) |
Codifies the creation of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, which the Little Hoover Commission recommended during the previous legislative session and which was created through executive order in 2010. |
Signed by the Governor. Chapter 475, Statutes of 2011. |
Bond Oversight
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| AB 732 (Buchanan) |
Adds an explanatory table to a statewide election ballot pamphlet that includes a bond measure. |
Signed by the Governor. Chapter 453, Statutes of 2011. |
Emergency Preparedness
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| AB 1116 (Fong) |
Improves emergency preparedness, response and recovery for populations who have limited proficiency in the English language. |
Vetoed by the Governor. |
Education
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| SB 500 (Hancock) |
Requires that, if funds are appropriated for the support of certain partnership academies in the annual budget act or any other measure, the superintendent allocate funds to these partnership academies, and that this funding be awarded on a competitive basis in accordance with the provisions of law that govern partnership academies. |
Passed by the Senate. Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations. |
| SB 611 (Steinberg) |
Requests the Regents of the University of California, subject to availability of funds, to establish and maintain the University of California Curriculum Integration Institute to collaboratively develop and promote career-oriented integrated academic and technical education courses that meet course requirements for admission to the University of California and the California State University. |
Signed by the Governor. Chapter 631, Statutes of 2011. |
| SB 885 (Simitian) |
Authorizes key preschool through higher education entities, the California Postsecondary Education Commission and the State Board of Education to enter into a joint powers agreement to facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive longitudinal student database. |
Passed by the Senate. From consent calendar and ordered to a third reading. CPEC has been dismantled. |
Water Governance
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| SB 571 (Wolk) |
Provides for the organization of the California Water Commission as a separate agency in state government, instead of as an agency within the Department of Water Resources, and recasts and revises provisions relating to the commission’s selection of a chairperson and executive officer, employment of staff, and delegation of its functions. Enacts the Water Resources Investment Planning Act, and declares legislative intent relating to the establishment of regional water planning agencies and the development of the California Water Investment Plan. Requires the commission to administer the development and implementation of the California Water Investment Plan. Requires the commission to update the plan regularly, and requires it to include reports developed by the department and regional water planning agencies. |
In Senate Appropriations Committee, awaiting amendment by the author for resuming legislative review next year. |
Juvenile Justice
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| SB 695 (Hancock) |
Provides, subject to federal financial assistance, that Medi-Cal benefits may be offered to individuals awaiting adjudication in county juvenile detention facilities if they are eligible to receive Medi-Cal benefits at the time they are admitted to detention facilities. The bill also calls for the continuation of Medi-Cal benefits until the date of adjudication. The Commission supported this bill, which was under a different title, during the 2009-2010 legislative session. |
Signed by the Governor. Chapter 356, Statutes of 2011. |
Alcohol and Drug Treatment
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| AB 540 (Beall) |
Establishes the Medi-Cal Alcohol and Drug Screening and Brief Intervention Services Program, which will provide reimbursement to beneficiaries who are pregnant or of childbearing age. Requires the nonfederal share of cost to be paid for by counties or other governmental entities designated by the Department of Health Care Services. |
Passed the Assembly. Amended and re-referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations. |
Health and Human Services
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| SB 893 (Wolk) |
Requires the California Health and Human Services agency to establish a system to periodically review specified health and human services programs administered by state and local agencies. The agency would be required to design and implement the system based on input from an advisory workgroup. The agency also would be required to submit specified information to the Legislature and to enhance information sharing between relevant state and local agencies. |
Re-referred to Committee on Governance and Finance. |
Long-Term Care
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| AB 594 (Yamada) |
Establishes the California Department of Adult and Aging Services in the California Health and Human Services Agency. The primary goal of the bill is to maintain individuals in their own homes or the least restrictive homelike environments for as long as possible. |
In Assembly Committee on Human Services. |
| SB 21 (Liu, Alquist) |
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to work with stakeholders to develop or identify a long-term care assessment tool. The bill also requires counties to establish long-term care case management programs for certain long-term care Medi-Cal and Medicare recipients and to provide an integrated continuum of services. |
Held under submission in Senate Appropriations. |
State Government Operations
| Bill, Author |
Summary |
Status |
| SB 14 (Wolk) |
Introduces performance-based budgeting to the state’s budget process, including a role for the Little Hoover Commission. Requires the department to include specified performance-based budgeting information in the Governor’s budget proposal and to post that information on the department’s Web site. Authorizes a committee designated by the Legislature, utilizing the recommendations of specified entities, to propose legislative changes to those programs. |
Vetoed by the Governor. |
| SB 15 (DeSaulnier) |
Requires the Governor’s budget to contain performance measurement standards and other specific provisions. The legislation also requires the budget to contain an estimate of total resources available for recommended state expenditures for the current and future years. The Governor would be required to identify possible reductions in spending when expenditures exceed revenues. The bill also states the intent of the Legislature to formulate a process for assessing and enhancing the performance of all state programs. |
Signed by the Governor. Chapter 737, Statutes of 2011. |
To obtain a copy of the legislation listed, contact the Legislative
Bill Room at (916) 445-2645 or visit the following sites on the Internet:
the California Assembly, the California
Senate or the California Legislative
Counsel Bureau's Legislative Data Center.
If you have specific questions about the legislation, contact the Little
Hoover Commission, littlehoover@lhc.ca.gov, 925 L Street, Suite 805, Sacramento,
CA 95814, (916) 445-2125 or (916) 322-7709 (fax).
