California Welfare and Institutions Code PART 3.5 - HEALTH CARE COVERAGE INITIATIVE

• Section 15900.
  The Legislature finds and declares the following:(a) Approximately 21 percent of nonelderly Californians lack health insurance coverage. Many are low-income individuals who are not eligible for...
• Section 15901.
  (a) There is hereby established the Health Care Coverage Initiative to expand health care coverage to low-income uninsured individuals in California.(b) The Health Care Coverage Initiative shall...
• Section 15902.
  (a) Persons eligible to be served by the Health Care Coverage Initiative are low-income uninsured individuals who are not currently eligible for the Medi-Cal program, Healthy...
• Section 15903.
  The Health Care Coverage Initiative shall be designed and implemented to achieve all of the following outcomes:(a) Expand the number of Californians who have health care...
• Section 15904.
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall issue a request for applications for funding the Health Care Coverage Initiative.(b) The department shall allocate federal funds...
• Section 15905.
  Applications submitted to the department shall include, but not be limited to, each of the following:(a) A description of the proposed Health Care Coverage program, including,...
• Section 15906.
  (a) The department shall seek partnership with an independent, nonprofit group or foundation, an academic institution, or a governmental entity providing grants for health-related activities, to...
• Section 15907.
  (a) The department shall monitor the programs funded under the initiative for compliance with applicable federal requirements and the requirements under this part, and pursuant to...
• Section 15908.
  (a) This part shall become inoperative on the date that the director executes a declaration, which shall be retained by the director and provided to the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018