Budget
CDCAN Report #054-2010: Special Budget Session Ends Thursday - Legislative Democratic Leaders Announce Budget & Legislative Reform Package - Legislative Republican Leaders Say They Will Oppose Because It Eliminates "Taxpayer Protections"
Fri, 2010-03-12 07:07 — chrisSpecial Budget Session Ends – No Action Yet By Governor on Crucial Transit Bills
CDCAN Report #051-2010: Assembly & State Senate Budget Subcommittee Schedule - Hearings on Governor's Proposed 2010-2011 Budget Gets Under Way Beginning Next Week - Olmstead Advisory Committee Meeting March 18th
Wed, 2010-03-10 12:06 — chrisAssembly and State Senate Budget Subcommittee Schedule on Governor’s 2010-2011 Budget
IHSS Teleconference by Dept of Social Services on Integrity and Fraud Program March 17th – CDCAN Townhall Telemeeting on Proposed Lanterman DC Closure March 17th - Olmstead Advisory Committee Meeting March 18th – Special Assembly Budget Subcommittee Hearing on Impact of Health and Human Services Proposed & Enacted Cuts March 24th
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/10/2010 07:40 AM (Pacific Time)] - The next phase of the long seemingly unending State budget process goes back into full swing next week, with Assembly and State Senate budget subcommittee hearings scheduled through early May to hear the Governor’s non-special session items contained in his proposed 2010-2011 State Budget. The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services released late yesterday a schedule of subcommittee hearings (specific Assembly Budget Subcommittee hearing on Medi-Cal and other budget issues proposed by the Governor under the Department of Health Care Services have not yet been scheduled publicly)
Hearings and certain related legislative and state agency meeting – including an important stakeholder teleconference on In-Home Supportive Services by the Department of Social Services (scheduled for March 17th) and the California Health and Human Services Agency Olmstead Advisory Committee public meeting set for March 18th (that can also be accessed by toll free line), and a March 17th CDCAN Townhall Telemeeting on the proposed closure of Lanterman Developmental Center featuring the director and other senior officials from the Department of Developmental Services.
CDCAN Report #050-2010: Governor Signs Several Special Session Budget Bills Including Continuing 3% Regional Center Reductions Into 2010-2011 - 4 Other Bills Including Two Critical Transit Bills Set to Governor - Governor Vetoes 1 Bill
Tue, 2010-03-09 19:46 — chrisGovernor Vetoes $2.2 Billion Special Session Budget Solutions Bill – But Signs Several Others Including Continuing Regional Center 3% Cuts
Advocates Worry About Fate of Two Transportation Funding Special Session Budget Bills Now On Governor’s Desk
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/09/2010 05:50 PM (Pacific Time)] - In what is likely to be a forerunner in what is to come in the battle to close the projected nearly $20 billion budget deficit, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed on Monday ABx8 2 [the “x8” stands for the 8th special or extraordinary session of the Legislature it has held since the start of the 2009-2010 Legislative session] that legislative Democrats contend would have reduced State general fund spending in the proposed 2010-2011 State Budget by $2.2 billion.
The bill largely would have delayed spending on certain projects and programs, including delaying the implementation of the Conservatorship and Guardianship Reform Act of 2006 and implementing an anti-fraud initiative in the Department of Health Care Services focused on pharmacy, transportation, medical equipment and physician services that was projected to save $28.3 million in State general funds. No other health and human service related programs were impacted in that or any other special session budget bill – though cuts to regional centers were made in a separate bill that the Governor did sign.
CDCAN Report #047-2010: Governor Wins Legal Victory - State Appeals Court Says Line Item Vetoes Last July are "Constitutional"
Tue, 2010-03-02 23:21 — chrisGovernor Wins Clear Legal Victory – State Appeals Court Says Line Item Vetoes “Constitutional”
Lawsuit Is One of Three Filed Seeking To Overturn Governor’s Line Item Vetoes Made to 2009-2010 Revised State Budget Last July
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/02/2010 07:40 PM (Pacific Time)] - The Schwarzenegger Administration won a clear legal victory today with the State Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruling 3 to 0 that his line item vetoes made to the revised 2009-2010 State Budget last July were constitutional. The case, St. John’s Well Child and Family Center et al v. Schwarzenegger et al, is one of three different lawsuits seeking to overturn some or all of the Governor’s line item vetoes made last July.
CDCAN Report #045-2010: Legislature Sends Special Session Budget Bill to Governor That Would Continue 3% or $115 Million (All Funds) Cuts to Regional Centers into 2010-2011 State Budget
Tue, 2010-03-02 12:59 — chrisCalifornia Budget Crisis:
LEGISLATURE SENDS SPECIAL SESSION BUDGET BILL THAT WOULD CONTINUE ADDITIONAL $115 MILLION CUT TO REGIONAL CENTERS INTO 2010-2011 STATE BUDGET YEAR
Reduction Would Continue 3% Cut To Payments to Most Regional Center Providers and 3% Cut to Regional Center Operations That Was Set To Expire on June 30th – Would Reinstate Some Reporting Requirements
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/02/2010 3:30 AM (Pacific Time)] - The Legislature passed and sent to the Governor a special session budget related bill (SBx8 4) that would continue into the 2010-2011 State Budget year that begins July 1st, over $115 million (all funds) in additional cuts to the 21 regional centers that coordinate services to over 240,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities that was set to expire on June 30, 2010. Most advocates expected that the reductions would be extended into the 2010-2011 State Budget year.
CDCAN Report #044-2010: John Perez Sworn in as Assembly Speaker - Vows More Open Budget Process - Reaches out to Republicans
Tue, 2010-03-02 12:49 — chrisCalifornia Legislature:
- JOHN PEREZ SWORN IN AS ASSEMBLY SPEAKER
- VOWS MORE OPEN BUDGET PROCESS
John Perez - Sworn in as Assembly Speaker: Photo by Hector Amezcua/Sacramento Bee, Perez being sworn in on MondaySACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/01/2010 11:55 PM (Pacific Time)] - Under the shadow of a multi-billion dollar ongoing budget deficit, John A. Pérez (Democrat – Los Angeles, 46th Assembly District) was sworn in as California’s 68th Assembly Speaker on Monday (March 1) in the Assembly Chambers and proclaimed that “our number one focus must be to get Californians working again!”
CDCAN Report #043-2010: Special Session Bill Passes Assembly Budget Committee Extending 3% Regional Center Cuts into 2010-2011 State Budget Year - Reinstates Some Reporting Requirements - Cuts Total Over $115 Million All Funds
Wed, 2010-02-24 20:59 — chrisSpecial Session 3% Developmental Services Reduction Bill Passes Out of Assembly Budget Committee – Cut Totals Over $115 Million State/Federal Funds
Bill Would Extend 3% Cut to Most Regional Center Provider Payments and Regional Center Operations Into the 2010-2011 State Budget Year – Amendments Would Reinstate July 1 Several Previously Suspended Regional Center Reporting Requirements – Bill Requires Final Approval by Assembly Expected Thursday and in the State Senate – No Other Major Cuts to Health and Human Services As This Point In Process
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 02/24/2010 07:00 PM (Pacific Time)] - The Assembly Budget Committee passed, with amendments, a special session budget related bill dealing with continuing additional cuts to the 21 regional centers that coordinate services to over 240,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities, and savings by increasing federal funding to the foster care program, that also includes many children with developmental disabilities and other special needs. Those two programs are the only cuts or savings to health and human services that legislative Democrats are willing to agree to at this point in the budget process.
CDCAN Report #038-2010: Assembly Budget Subcommittee Health & Human Services Feb 11th Hearing Agenda on Gov's Special Session Cuts to Medi-Cal, Adult Day Health, Mental Health, Developmental Services, Healthy Families
Wed, 2010-02-10 18:40 — chrisTHERE IS A CORRECTED REPORT AVAILABLE AS CDCAN Report #039-2010: CORRECTION - Assembly Budget Subcommittee Hearing for Feb 11th is at 1:00PM on Proposed Cuts to Medi-Cal, Proposed Elimination of Adult Day Health, Cuts to Developmental Services, Mental Health - IHSS Stakeholder Meeting
REMEMBERING THAT EVERY LIFE MATTERS: PLEASE REMEMBER & HELP THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
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Assembly Budget Subcommittee Feb 11th Hearing Agenda – Focus on Governor’s Special Session Proposed Cuts To Medi-Cal, Adult Day Health Care Proposed Elimination, Mental Health Services (Prop 63), Developmental Services, Healthy Families
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 02/010/2010 05:00 PM (Pacific Time)] - The 19 page agenda for the February 11th hearing at 1:30 PM in the State Capitol, Room 4202, by the Assembly Budget Subcommittee #1 on Health and Human Services, chaired by Assemblymember Jerry Hill (Democrat – San Mateo, 19th Assembly District) was released this morning that focuses on the Governor’s special session proposed budget cuts impacting the health budget including proposed reductions to Medi-Cal, proposed elimination of Adult Day Health Center funding, proposed cuts to Healthy Families, major fund shift or reductions under the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63), and continuation of a 3% cut to most regional center providers and regional center operations into the entire 2010-2011 State Budget year. The Governor wants these proposals passed by March 1 in order to be implemented by June 1, 2010 or for some proposals, by the start of the new State Budget year that begins July 1, 2010 or in the case of the proposed fund shift/funding cut to the Mental Health Services Act, placementon the June 8, 2010 State primary election for voter approval. [A copy of the 19 page agenda is attached to this CDCAN Report as a pdf file (titled “20100211-AssemblyBudgetSubHealthAgenda.pdf ) and also is available on the CDCAN website at www.cdcan.us in both pdf and word formats. Note: The files are also available at the bottom of this report.]
CDCAN Report #037-2010: Schwarzenegger Administration Announces Feb 24th Public Hearing on Proposed Closure of Lanterman Developmental Center at Lanterman DC from 12 noon to 7 PM
Tue, 2010-02-09 22:03 — chrisREMEMBERING THAT EVERY LIFE MATTERS: PLEASE REMEMBER & HELP THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
American Red Cross: 1-800-HELP NOW (1-800-435-7669) www.redcross.org
UNICEF: 1-800-4UNICEF (1-800-486-4233) www.unicefusa.org
Department of Developmental Services to Hold Public Hearing On Proposed Closure of Lanterman Developmental Center
Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center in 1925: 1925 picture of the first residences at what was then called the “Pacific Colony” then “Pacific State Hospital” before being renamed in 1979 “Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center”SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 02/09/2010 4:45 PM (Pacific Time)] - The Department of Developmental Services (DDS) has scheduled a public hearing on the proposed closure of Frank D. Lanterman Developmental Center for February 24, 2010, Wednesday, from 12 noon to 7:00 PM, at the Lanterman Developmental Center Auditorium, 3530 West Pomona Boulevard, Pomona, CA 91769-0100.
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review: Special Session Budget Proposals
Fri, 2010-02-05 01:16 — chrisInformational hearing – Subject: Governor’s special session budget proposals.
