Loni Hancock voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) on this Legislation.
Title: Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Program Amendments
Signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
NOTE: AN URGENCY CLAUSE REQUIRES A 2/3 MAJORITY VOTE FOR PASSAGE IN THE HOUSE AND IMMEDIATELY PUTS THE BILL INTO EFFECT UPON THE GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE.
Title: Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Program Amendments
Vote to pass a bill that applies the gross premiums tax to all Medi-Cal managed care plans and increases premiums for families enrolled in the Health Families Program with annual household incomes between 150 and 250 percent of the federal poverty level.
-Expands the tax imposed on annual gross premiums of insurers in the state at a rate of 2.35 percent, as provided by the state constitution, to include the premiums of all Medi-Cal managed care plans until January 1, 2011 (Sec. 5). -Requires Medi-Cal managed care plans to make prepayments equal to 25 percent of the gross premiums tax on April 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1 of each year the tax is due, and specifies that no prepayment is required prior to the effective date of this Act (Secs. 13 & 15). -Appropriates the revenue derived from the imposition of the gross premiums tax on all Medi-Cal managed care plans as follows (Sec. 5):
NOTE: AN URGENCY CLAUSE REQUIRES 27 VOTES FOR PASSAGE IN THE SENATE AND IMMEDIATELY PUTS THE BILL INTO EFFECT UPON THE GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE.
NOTE: AN URGENCY CLAUSE REQUIRES A 2/3 MAJORITY VOTE FOR PASSAGE IN THE HOUSE AND IMMEDIATELY PUTS THE BILL INTO EFFECT UPON THE GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE.
Title: Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Program Amendments