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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Contra
FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator
Costa
County
DATE: June 18, 19 9 2 "T
SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: AB 3426 (FILANTE)
SPECIFIC REOUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)8 BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a position. in SUPPORT of AB 3426 by Assemblyman Filante which
would enact a .$25 'fee to be billed to applicants and licensees for
a license as a physician and surgeon, but which would be voluntary
and which any applicant or licensee could refuse to contribute. The
fee would be used to fund the Song-Brown Family Physician Training
Act.
BACKGROUND:
Under current law, each applicant for a license as a physician and.
surgeon and .all licensees as physicians and surgeons are required
to pay a fee at the time of application and at the time of the
biennial renewal of the license.
Under current law there is also the Song-Brown Family Physician
Training Act which is intended to provide funding to train medical
students and residents in the specialty of family practice in order
to increase the delivery of primary care health services in areas
of the state with` unmet needs for providers of these services .
Assemblyman Filante has introduced AB 3426 which, as introduced,
would require the Medical Board of California to charge an
additional $25 fee to applicants and licensees at the time of
initial issuance and biennial renewal of a license. The bill would
also provide, however, that payment of the $25 fee is entirely
voluntary and would require that physicians and surgeons be given
the opportunity to expressly refuse to contribute.
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PHIL BAT HELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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The bill would also require the Medical Board to transfer the fees
that are collected to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development for support of the Song-Brown Family Physician Training
Act. The bill further expresses the intent of the Legislature to
match the funds contributed by physicians and surgeons with one
dollar from the General Fund and one dollar from the University of
California for each one dollar contributed by physicians and
surgeons . AB 3426 includes an urgency clause and thus would become
effective upon passage by the Legislature and approval by the
Governor.
Milt Camhi, Executive Director of the Contra Costa Health Plan
supports AB 3426 and recommends that the Board of Supervisors
likewise support the bill as one method of continuing to fund
family practice training for physicians .
AB 3426 passed the Assembly on May 21, 1992 by a vote of 73 : 0 and
is currently awaiting a hearing in the Senate Business and
Professions Committee.
cc: County Administrator
Health Services Director
Executive Director, Contra Costa Health Plan
Les Spahnn, SRJ. Jackson, Barish & Associates
Assemblyman William Filante
Room 5135, State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814