(1) Existing law authorizes a sheriff to release a prisoner from a county correctional facility for transfer to a medical care facility or residential care facility upon the advice of a physician, as specified, or if the sheriff determines that the prisoner would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety and the prisoner, upon diagnosis by the examining physician, is deemed to have a life expectancy of 6 months or less, provided the sheriff gives specified notice to the superior court. Existing law also authorizes the sheriff to request the court to grant medical probation or to resentence a prisoner to medical probation in lieu of jail time if the prisoner is physically incapacitated with a medical condition that renders the prisoner permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living, which has resulted in the prisoner requiring 24-hour care, and if that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing or if the prisoner would require acute long-term inpatient rehabilitation services. Existing law requires a county that chooses to implement these provisions to pay the nonfederal share of a prisoner's or probationer's Medi-Cal costs for the period that the individual would have otherwise been incarcerated or been on medical probation. Existing law requires a county board of supervisors to adopt a process to fund the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal costs, as specified, before implementing the above-referenced provisions and to notify the State Department of Health Care Services of the process.
(1) Existing law authorizes a sheriff to release a prisoner from a county correctional facility for transfer to a medical care facility or residential care facility upon the advice of a physician, as specified, or if the sheriff determines that the prisoner would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety and the prisoner, upon diagnosis by the examining physician, is deemed to have a life expectancy of 6 months or less, provided the sheriff gives specified notice to the superior court. Existing law also authorizes the sheriff to request the court to grant medical probation or to resentence a prisoner to medical probation in lieu of jail time if the prisoner is physically incapacitated with a medical condition that renders the prisoner permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living, which has resulted in the prisoner requiring 24-hour care, and if that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing or if the prisoner would require acute long-term inpatient rehabilitation services. Existing law requires a county that chooses to implement these provisions to pay the nonfederal share of a prisoner's or probationer's Medi-Cal costs for the period that the individual would have otherwise been incarcerated or been on medical probation. Existing law requires a county board of supervisors to adopt a process to fund the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal costs, as specified, before implementing the above-referenced provisions and to notify the State Department of Health Care Services of the process.
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2013-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2013-05-09 (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 1314.)
2013-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 24. Page 1393.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2013-05-23 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2013-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
2013-06-13 Withdrawn from committee.
2013-06-13 (Ayes 23. Noes 9. Page 1337.)
2013-06-13 Ordered to third reading.
2013-06-13 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
2013-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
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