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LEGISLATION COMMITTEE

  May 14, 2018
10:30 A.M.
651 Pine Street, Room 101, Martinez

 
Supervisor Karen Mitchoff, Chair
Supervisor Diane Burgis, Vice Chair
Agenda Items: Items may be taken out of order based on the business of the day and preference of the Committee
 
             
1.   Introductions
 
2.   Public comment on any item under the jurisdiction of the Committee and not on this agenda (speakers may be limited to three minutes).
 
3.   APPROVE the Record of Action for the April 9, 2018 meeting of the Legislation Committee with any necessary corrections.
 
Attachments
Draft Record of Action
 
4.   ACCEPT the reports to be presented to the Committee at the meeting regarding the Governor's Revised Budget for FY 2018-19 and provide direction to staff.
 
5.   CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position of "Oppose" on AB 2293 (Reyes):  Emergency Medical Services: Licensure, a bill that would limit and narrow the types of crimes and violations that can result in the denial of an application for emergency medical technician-paramedic (EMT-P) license, as recommended by Patricia Frost, Emergency Medical Services Director of Contra Costa County.
 
Attachments
Attachment A: Oppose Letter
 
6.   CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position of "Support, if funded" for AB 2043 (Arambula), a bill that requires the Department of Social Services to establish a statewide hotline as the entry point for a Family Urgent Response System to respond to calls from caregivers or current or former foster youth when a crisis arises; and "Support" for AB 2083 (Cooley), a bill that requires county-level Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between agencies directly responsible for the most-traumatized children in foster care, as recommended by the Director of the Employment and Human Services Department.
 
7.   CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position of "Oppose unless amended" on AB 3087 (Kalra), a bill that creates the State Health Care Cost, Quality, and Equity Commission, an independent state agency, to control in-state health care costs and set the amounts accepted as payment by health plans, hospitals, physicians, and other health care provider and requires the Commission to annually determine the base amounts that health care entities are required to accept as full payment for health care service, as recommended by the Chief Executive Officer of the Contra Costa Health Plan.
 
Attachments
Attachment A: Bil Analysis
Attachment B: Oppose Letters
 
8.   CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position of "Support" for SB 910 (Hernandez):  Short-term Limited Duration Health Insurance, a bill that prohibits a health insurer from issuing, selling, renewing, or offering a short-term limited duration health insurance policy for health care coverage in this state, as recommended by the Chief Executive Officer of the Contra Costa Health Plan.
 
9.   CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position of "Support" on SB 974 (Lara):  Medi-Cal: Immigration Status: Adults, a bill that extends full-scope Medi-Cal benefits to undocumented adults age 19 and above who are otherwise eligible for those benefits but for their immigration status, as recommended by the Chief Executive Officer of the Contra Costa Health Plan .
 
Attachments
Attachment A: Bill Analysis
 
10.   CONSIDER recommending to the Board of Supervisors a position of "Support" on SB 1105 (Skinner):  Vehicles: Driving Offenses: Prosecution, a bill that would extend existing laws relating to the dismissal of Vehicle Code violations pending at the time of a defendant's commitment to state prison or county jail on a jail-eligible felony to provide the same relief to persons sentenced to county jail or other alternatives to incarceration, as recommended by the Deputy Director of the Office of Reentry and Justice.
 
Attachments
Attachment A: Bill Analysis
 
11.   CONSIDER providing feedback on SB 828 (Weiner) and AB 1771 (Bloom):  Planning and Zoning: Regional Housing Needs Assessment, as requested by California State Association of Counties (CSAC) staff.
 
12.   CONSIDER recommending a position of “Support” to the Board of Supervisors for H.R. 5003 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate advance refunding bonds and authorize the Chair of the Board to send a letter to the County's congressional delegation requesting co-sponsorship of the bill, as recommended by the Chief Assistant County Administrator.
 
Attachments
Attachment A: HR 5003
Attachment B: Support Letter
 
13.   The next meeting is currently scheduled for Monday, June 11, 2018 at 10:30 a.m.
 
14.   Adjourn
 

The Legislation Committee will provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities planning to attend Legislation Committee meetings. Contact the staff person listed below at least 72 hours before the meeting.
Any disclosable public records related to an open session item on a regular meeting agenda and distributed by the County to a majority of members of the Legislation Committee less than 96 hours prior to that meeting are available for public inspection at 651 Pine Street, 10th floor, during normal business hours.
Public comment may be submitted via electronic mail on agenda items at least one full work day prior to the published meeting time.


For Additional Information Contact:

Lara DeLaney, Committee Staff
Phone (925) 335-1097, Fax (925) 646-1353
lara.delaney@cao.cccounty.us

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