BILL NUMBER: AB 1335	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act relating to health care service plans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1335, as introduced, Gomez. Health care service plans.
   Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975
(Knox-Keene Act), provides for the licensure and regulation of health
care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and
makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides
that health care service plans shall not be deemed to be engaged in
the practice of a profession, and may employ, or contract with, any
licensed health care professional to deliver professional services,
and may directly own, and may directly operate through its
professional employees or contracted licensed professionals, offices
and subsidiary corporations.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to clarify the law with regard to health care service
plans and the entities with which a health care service plan may
transact business.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to clarify the law with regard to health care service
plans that are regulated under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service
Plan Act of 1975 (Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 1340) of
Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code) and the entities with which
a health care service plan may transact business.