California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 2.81 - Managed Health Care System for Los Angeles County

• Section 14087.96.
  The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this article:(a) “County” means the County of Los Angeles.(b) “Board of supervisors” means the Board of Supervisors of the...
• Section 14087.9605.
  (a) The board of supervisors may, by ordinance, resolution, or other action, establish a commission in order to meet the problems of delivery of publicly assisted...
• Section 14087.961.
  Governance of the commission shall be vested in a governing body consisting of 13 members, each of whom shall have a fiduciary duty to act...
• Section 14087.9615.
  (a) The composition of the 13-member governing body of the commission, as prescribed in Section 14087.961, shall be subject to alteration upon a two-thirds vote of...
• Section 14087.962.
  Members of the governing body shall either reside, be employed, or provide services in the geographic area served by the local initiative. Nominees shall be...
• Section 14087.9625.
  (a) Members of the governing body of the commission shall serve four-year terms.(b) Individuals shall be limited to serving on the governing body for two consecutive four-year...
• Section 14087.963.
  (a) The governing body of the commission shall establish rules for its proceedings. There shall be at least six meetings per year.(b) (1) Each governing body member shall...
• Section 14087.9635.
  (a) A majority of the members of the governing body shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the governing...
• Section 14087.964.
  A member of the governing body shall be removed from office if a majority of the members present and voting find that one or more...
• Section 14087.9645.
  A member of the governing body may be removed at the request of the entity that nominated the member. The entity that nominated a member...
• Section 14087.965.
  (a) A request for removal under Section 14087.9645 shall be adopted by the nominating entity in the same manner as the nomination was adopted and shall...
• Section 14087.9655.
  (a) The governing body shall establish a technical advisory committee to provide technical expertise to the governing body.(b) Members of the committee shall include a medical school...
• Section 14087.9657.
  (a) The governing body shall establish a children’s health consultant advisory committee to provide to the governing body expertise on child, adolescent, and maternal health issues.(b) Members...
• Section 14087.966.
  (a) The governing body for each geographic region served by the local initiative shall establish a regional community advisory committee to ensure community involvement.(b) Each regional community...
• Section 14087.9665.
  (a) The commission may borrow or receive funds from any person or entity as necessary to cover development costs and other actual or projected obligations of...
• Section 14087.967.
  To the full extent permitted by federal law, the department and the commission may enter into contracts to provide or arrange for health care services...
• Section 14087.9675.
  (a) The auditor-controller of the county, at those intervals the auditor-controller deems appropriate, but no less frequently than annually, shall conduct a review of the fiscal...
• Section 14087.968.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county shall not be liable for any damages or losses, whether financial or in any other form, that...
• Section 14087.9685.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any obligation of the commission and its local initiative, statutory, contractual, or otherwise, shall be an obligation solely of...
• Section 14087.969.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither a member of the governing body of the commission nor a member of any advisory panel to the...
• Section 14087.9695.
  The department, if at no state General Fund expense, may take all appropriate steps, in cooperation with the county and the commission, to obtain approval...
• Section 14087.9697.
  In any transfer of functions from county employees to the commission, the commission shall continue to recognize the employee organization that represented the employees performing...
• Section 14087.97.
  The commission shall be deemed to be a public agency that is a local unit of government for purposes of all grant programs and other...
• Section 14087.9705.
  (a) The commission shall obtain licensure as a health care service plan under Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 1340) of Division 3 of the Health and...
• Section 14087.971.
  (a) Contracts under this article between the department and the commission shall be on a nonbid basis and shall be exempt from Chapter 2 (commencing with...
• Section 14087.9715.
  The Legislature intends that implementation of this article shall involve consultation and cooperative activities among various agencies of the state and county, and the commission....
• Section 14087.972.
  Neither the commission nor its local initiative shall be considered to be an agency, division, department, or instrumentality of the county, and neither the commission...
• Section 14087.9722.
  (a) If the commission established pursuant to this article no longer functions for the purposes for which it was established, when the commission’s existing obligations have...
• Section 14087.9725.
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed as amending the requirements of Section 17000.(b) Nothing in this article shall be construed to preclude the department from...
• Section 14087.9730.
  (a) In an effort to determine whether children’s access to, and utilization of, vision care services can be increased by providing vision care services at schools,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018