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Title: California State Senate Health Committee Records
Dates: 1997-2016
Collection number: LP462
Creator:
California State Senate Health Committee
California State Senate Aging and Long-Term Care Subcommittee
Collection Size:
71 cubic feet
Repository:
California State Archives
Sacramento, California
Abstract: The Senate Health Committee is the most recent Senate committee to oversee bills relating to public health, alcohol and drug
abuse, mental health, health insurance and managed care, and related institutions. The Senate Health Committee Records consist
of approximately 71 cubic feet of textual and audiovisual records.
Physical location: California State Archives
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
While the majority of the records are open for research, any access restrictions are noted in the record series descriptions.
For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the California State Archives. Permission for reproduction or publication
is given on behalf of the California State Archives as the owner of the physical items. The researcher assumes all responsibility
for possible infringement which may arise from reproduction or publication of materials from the California State Archives
collections.
[Identification of item], Senate Health Committee Records, LP462:[folder number], California State Archives, Office of the
Secretary of State, Sacramento, California.
The Senate Health Committee is the most recent Senate committee to oversee bills relating to public health, alcohol and drug
abuse, mental health, health insurance and managed care, and related institutions.
The first committee had bills relating to public health, alcohol and drug abuse, mental health, health insurance, and managed
care under its purview was the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. It was created by Senate Resolution 9 on January 6, 1970.
Its purpose was to review "all bills relating to public health; welfare; alcoholic beverages; and all bills relating to the
State Department of Mental Hygiene or to institutions under its jurisdiction, including: state hospitals, homes for the feeble-minded,
inebriate colonies, institutions for delinquents, homes for blind, industrial workshops, and any other institutions of similar
nature; and bills relating to the Youth Authority and to institutions under its jurisdiction" (California Legislature at Sacramento,
1970, p. 93). On February 17, 1984, the Senate passed Resolution 33 which changed the committee name to the Senate Health
and Human Services Committee; the scope remained the same. On December 6, 2004, Senate Resolution 4 disbanded the Senate Health
and Human Services committee and formed the Senate Health Committee. The new committee's scope excluded bills relating to
welfare, social programs and services, and related institutions. Bills relating to welfare programs, are now under the jurisdiction
of the Senate Human Services Committee. The Senate Health Committee heard bills relating to public health, alcohol and drug
abuse, mental health, health insurance and managed care, and related institutions.
From 2005 through 2006, the Senate Health Committee had four subcommittees: Aging and Long-Term Care, Medicine and Health
Care, Mental Health, and Neurodevelopment Disorders and Stem Cell Research Oversight. From 2007 to 2011 the only subcommittee
that remained under the Health Committee was Aging and Long-Term Care.
The Senate Health Committee records consist of Senate Bill Files, 2005-2016, Hearing Files, 2005-2010, and Subject Files,
2005-2006.
The bill files document the bills directed to the committee. The files include committee analysis, letters from interested
parties, and the comments of affected agencies. These files show the close involvement of the committee in such issues as
long-term health care, school food nutrition guidelines, stem cell research, drinking water standards, immunizations, suicide
prevention, and health care programs, including the California Children and Families Act of 1988.
The hearing files for the Senate Health Committee may contain agendas, audiotapes, transcripts, testimony, background, and
working files for regular session hearings as well as interim hearings and select joint committee hearings.
The subject files created by the Senate Health Committee may include correspondence, emails, memoranda, statistical findings,
and published and unpublished reports. Of particular note are those files related to Payment of Provider Services Information
and Complaints, as well as AB1321 (2005) which prohibits a non-contracting emergency physician working at a hospital that
contracts with HMO from billing a patient. This series also contains files related to health care services plans and unfair
payment patterns.
The subcommittee on Aging and Long-Term Care records consist of Bill Files, 2007-2008, Hearing Files, 1997-2009, and Correspondence,
2010-2011.
The bill files document the bills directed to the committee. The files include committee analysis, letters from interested
parties, and the comments of affected agencies. These files show the close involvement of the committee in such issues as
healthy eating and access to healthy foods, amongst other health related legislation.
The hearing files created by the Subcommittee on Aging and Long-Term Care may contain audiotapes, transcripts, background,
and working files for regular session hearings as well as select joint hearings. Hearing topics include renewable energy,
Alzheimer's disease, support for family caregivers, and issues regarding elderly living standards.
The correspondence files created by the Subcommittee on Aging and Long-Term Care include letters from representatives of regional
centers, constituents and medical professionals. The correspondence relates to the funding of California's Burn Institute
in Imperial County, and information regarding Pertussis vaccination.
Further accruals are expected.
Related Collections at the California State Archives
Assembly Health Committee Records
Senate Health and Human Services Committee Records
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
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Health insurance