CA AB 1239

Title: Incarcerated persons: Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment Program.
Author: Lisa Calderon

Summary
AB 1239, as amended, Calderon. Incarcerated persons: Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment Program. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, the Medi-Cal program, pursuant to a federal waiver, administers the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program to provide comprehensive clinical family planning services to any person who has a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level and who is eligible to receive those services pursuant to the waiver.Existing law requires the suspension of Medi-Cal benefits for an individual who is an inmate of a public institution, effective the date they become an inmate, and generally requires the suspension to end on the date they are no longer an inmate, as specified. Under existing law, subject to implementation of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative, and no sooner than January 1, 2023, a qualifying inmate of a public institution is eligible to receive targeted Medi-Cal services for 90 days, or as otherwise approved in the CalAIM Terms and Conditions, before they are released from a public institution, if otherwise eligible for the services.Existing law requires the board of supervisors in each county, in consultation with the county sheriff, to designate an entity or entities to assist county jail inmates with submitting an application for a health insurance affordability program, as defined, consistent with federal requirements. Existing law sets forth the procedures for designating a specified county official or a community-based organization to perform those functions. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services, no later than September 1, 2025, to issue a list of Family PACT Program providers and clinics to an entity designated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for voluntary partnership with the department to assist a prison inmate with continuing and receiving specified health care services upon their release. The bill would impose a similar requirement on the State Department of Health Care Services for purposes of a list of Family PACT Program providers and clinics to assist county jail inmates, with the list being issued to an entity designated by county jails. Under the bill, any assistance provided to inmates would be provided only to the extent that the inmate elects to apply for the program and receive assistance, as specified.

Status
In Senate. Held at Desk.

Bill Documents
CA AB 1239 - 09/12/23 - Enrolled
09/12/23 - CA AB 1239 (09/12/23 - Enrolled)