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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Tangipa</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 135 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 3500 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to health and human services.</ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Health and human services: approved plans or waivers: notifications.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law requires a department within the California Health and Human Services Agency that has received approval of an operational state plan by a federal agency, or that has applied and has been approved for a waiver from a federal law or regulation, to make any and all approved plans and waivers available to the public by publishing a hyperlink to that information on the homepage of the department’s internet website.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would require the above-described department to expeditiously make an approved plan or waiver available to the public. The bill would require the agency to promptly notify the legislative health committees about an approved plan or waiver.</html:p>
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Section 135 of the
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(a)
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If a department within the California Health and Human Services Agency has received approval of an operational state plan by a federal agency, or has applied and has been approved for a waiver from a federal law or federal regulation, the department shall expeditiously make any and all approved plans and waivers available to the public by publishing a hyperlink to that information on the homepage of the department’s
internet website.
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(b)
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The California Health and Human Services Agency shall promptly notify the Assembly Committee on Health and the Senate Committee on Health about approved state plans or federal waivers, as described in subdivision (a) and in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
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Section 3500 of the
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(a)
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If a department within the California Health and Human Services Agency has received approval of an operational state plan by a federal agency, or has applied and has been approved for a waiver from a federal law or federal regulation, the department shall expeditiously make any and all approved plans and waivers available to the public by publishing a hyperlink to that information on the homepage of the department’s
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(b)
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The California Health and Human Services Agency shall promptly notify the Assembly Committee on Health and the Senate Committee on Health about approved state plans or federal waivers, as described in subdivision (a) and in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
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