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California Mental Health Services Act. In November 2004, voters in the U.S. state of California passed Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which has been designed to expand and transform California's county mental health service systems. The MHSA is funded by imposing an additional one percent tax on individual, but not ...
California End of Life Option Act is a law enacted in June 2016 by the California State Legislature which allows terminally ill adult residents in the state of California to access medical aid in dying by self-administering lethal drugs, provided specific circumstances are met. [1] The law was signed in by California governor Jerry Brown in ...
Assertive community treatment. Assertive community treatment (ACT) is an intensive and highly integrated approach for community mental health service delivery. [1] ACT teams serve individuals who have been diagnosed with serious and persistent forms of mental illness, predominantly but not exclusively the schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act (Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures in the United States.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is an agency in the California executive branch that "manages pension and health benefits for more than 1.5 million California public employees, retirees, and their families". [3][4] In fiscal year 2020–21, CalPERS paid over $27.4 billion in retirement benefits, [5] and over $9.74 ...
Signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 20, 2019. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019, Pub. L. 116–94 (text) (PDF), was signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 20, 2019 as part of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (2020 United States federal budget). [1]
The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California ( CCCC) is an interdisciplinary collaborative of thought-leaders from healthcare systems and organizations, government agencies, consumer organizations, and the general public. [1] Through advocacy, education, and resource development, it works to ensure organizations and communities have the ...
September 17, 2024 at 7:33 PM. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills Tuesday ...