SECTIONS 12693.20-12693.23 - California Statutes

INSURANCE CODE

SECTION 12693.20-12693.23

12693.20. The Healthy Families Program is hereby created and shall
be administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board.

12693.21. The board may do all of the following consistent with the
standards in this part:
(a) Determine eligibility criteria for the program.
(b) Determine the participation requirements of applicants,
subscribers, purchasing credit members, and participating health,
dental, and vision plans.
(c) Determine when subscribers' coverage begins and the extent and
scope of coverage.
(d) Determine family contribution amount schedules and collect the
contributions.
(e) Determine who may be a family contribution sponsor and provide
a mechanism for sponsorship.
(f) Provide or make available subsidized coverage through
participating health, dental, and vision plans, in a purchasing pool,
which may include the use of a purchasing credit mechanism, through
supplemental coverage, or through coordination with other state
programs.
(g) Provide for the processing of applications, the enrollment of
subscribers, and the distribution of purchasing credits.
(h) Determine and approve the benefit designs and copayments
required by health, dental, or vision plans participating in the
purchasing pool component program.
(i) Approve those health plans eligible to receive purchasing
credits.
(j) Enter into contracts.
(k) Sue and be sued.
(l) Employ necessary staff.
(m) Authorize expenditures from the fund to pay program expenses
that exceed subscriber contributions, and to administer the program
as necessary.
(n) Maintain enrollment and expenditures to ensure that
expenditures do not exceed amounts available in the Healthy Families
Fund and if sufficient funds are not available to cover the estimated
cost of program expenditures, the board shall institute appropriate
measures to limit enrollment.
(o) Issue rules and regulations, as necessary. Until January 1,
2000, any rules and regulations issued pursuant to this subdivision
may be adopted as emergency regulations in accordance with the
Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section
11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code).
The adoption of these regulations shall be deemed an emergency and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health,
and safety or general welfare. The regulations shall become
effective immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.
(p) Exercise all powers reasonably necessary to carry out the
powers and responsibilities expressly granted or imposed by this
part.
(q) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after
January 1, 2011, impose any sanction on, and provide notice and a
hearing to, participating health, dental, and vision plans consistent
with Section 403 of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program
Reauthorization Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-3) by applying subsection
(e) of Section 1932 of the federal Social Security Act.

12693.22. During the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal years, the adoption
and readoption of regulations to modify health, dental, and vision
benefits or otherwise modify program requirements and operations
consistent with the provisions of this part shall be deemed to be an
emergency and necessary for the immediate preservation of public
peace, health and safety, or general welfare for purposes of Sections
11346.1 and 11349.6 of the Government Code, and the board is hereby
exempted from the requirement that it describe facts showing the need
for immediate action and from review by the Office of Administrative
Law.

12693.23. Until July 1, 2012, the adoption and readoption of
regulations to implement subdivision (q) of Section 12693.21,
subdivision (b) of Section 12693.26, or subdivision (l) of Section
56.30 of the Civil Code, or any provision of the federal Children's
Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (Public Law
111-3) not addressed by those sections, shall be deemed to be an
emergency and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, or general welfare for purposes of Sections
11346.1 and 11349.6 of the Government Code, and the board is hereby
exempted from the requirement that it describe facts showing the need
for immediate action and from review by the Office of Administrative
Law.