The California Legislature this week undertook an extremely busy schedule, featuring several committee hearings that stretched many hours and the advancement of a number of high-profile measures. Wednesday was the deadline for policy committees to hear and report fiscal measures to fiscal committees, and today was the deadline for policy committees to hear and report…
Read More »This week, the California Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom finalized a sweeping $26 billion wildfire liability measure aimed at protecting wildfire victims, creating additional safety and oversight processes for public utilities, and holding public utility companies accountable for safety of their infrastructure systems. After extensive negotiations between the Legislature, Administration, and relevant utility and wildfire…
Read More »This week, Covered California announced rates for health plan coverage in 2020, indicating the individual market will see a preliminary rate change of 0.8 percent – the lowest increase in rates since Covered California’s launch in 2014. For context, the five-year actual average increase over previous six years was 7.9 percent. According to Covered California,…
Read More »The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Center for Health Communities (CHC) will be launching quarterly leadership calls with all local health department leaders as a follow up to the Healthy and Resilient Communities: California’s Shared Vision planning convening held in June. The leadership calls are intended to offer regular communication opportunities between state and…
Read More »Facing deadlines for fiscal and non-fiscal bills to be heard and reported to the floor by policy committees in the second house next week, the California Legislature held a series of hearings this week, each often stretching several hours. Lawmakers continued working in earnest to finalize negotiations and amendments for fiscal bills to be advanced…
Read More »As a friendly reminder, the CHEAC Office will be closed tomorrow, July 4, 2019, in observance of Independence Day. CHEAC Staff wishes all a safe and enjoyable holiday.
Read More »The CHEAC Office will be closed on Thursday, July 4 in observance of the Independence Day holiday. CHEAC Staff wishes all a safe and enjoyable holiday!
Read More »Registration for the 2019 CHEAC Annual Meeting is now open! This year’s annual meeting will be held from October 9 – October 11 at the Westin Pasadena and will provide local health department professionals representing a wide variety of disciplines throughout California with networking and learning opportunities. We are pleased to once again offer expanded…
Read More »On Thursday – the deadline for Governor Gavin Newsom to sign the 2019-20 Budget Act into law – Governor Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced they had reached a final agreement on the budget and accompanying legislation. Earlier in the week, Governor Newsom had indicated reluctance to sign…
Read More »The California Legislature this week continued with a steady pace of bill negotiations and amendments and policy committee hearings, facing a looming deadline in two weeks for fiscal and non-fiscal bills to be heard in second house policy committees. Facing an abbreviated timeline next week due to the Independence Day holiday, policy committee hearing agendas…
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