NAMI CAN!
Legislative Recess - Where We Stand | |
With a few exceptions, the California legislative policy committees met for the last time on Friday, July 6th. Again, with a few exceptions, only those bills that had cleared all policy committees and been sent on to an Appropriations committee or readied for a floor vote have a chance of making it into law. The legislature has recessed and will begin work again on August 6th.
One of "our bills" is one of those exceptions. AB 154 (Beall), Mental Health/Substance Use Disorder Insurance Parity, failed to make it out of the Senate Health Committee. However, Assembly Member Beall was told by the committee that he could ask for reconsideration when the legislature reconvenes in August. We are deeply disappointed that it has been sidelined and will be keeping you posted about what is next for the bill and what it would mean if the sidelining is permanent.
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NAMI CA Position
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Where It Is Now
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AB 154
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Support
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Failed Senate Health, may be reconsidered
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AB 327
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Support
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Failed Sen. Public Safety, probably will not be reconsidered
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AB 683
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Support
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Senate Appropriations
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AB 826
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Support
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Senate Appropriations
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AB 1453
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Support
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Senate Appropriations
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AB 1569
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Support
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Senate Appropriations
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AB 1709
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Support
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Senate Appropriations
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AB 2134
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Oppose
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Failed in Senate Health, probably will not be reconsidered
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SB 9
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Support
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Assembly Floor
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SB 60
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Oppose
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Assembly Appropriations
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SB 542
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Support
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Assembly Appropriations
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SB 951
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Support
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Assembly Appropriations
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SB 1136
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Support
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Withdrawn from consideration by author
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Please note that, while we do not usually send letters to the Appropriations committees when we have been sending letters to the policy committees, we do send "Floor Alerts" to all members of the Assembly or the Senate before our bills are voted on there. We will be getting those letters ready and making them available to you before early August.
Thanks for working with us on this important NAMI activity,
- - Bettie Reinhardt, MPH
NAMI CAN! Coordinator
bettie.reinhardt@namicalifornia.org
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Working Well Together: Using Recovery and Strengths-based Documentation Methods -- July 11, 4-5 p.m.
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Join presenters Shannon McCleery-Hooper and Denise Walker--Riverside County -- in our monthly WWT networking call for people with lived experience working in public mental health on a pressing issue.
Click here for the agenda.
Please join us by calling 1-877-552-6504. There is no access code required.
-- Karin Lettau Schoeneich, MS
Working Well Together, Southern Region
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California Stakeholder Process Coalition Meeting Invitation - July 11, 10:00-2:00 - New Meeting Location: UCD Health System
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The meeting pertains to the subject also addressed in many of our Regional Meetings across the state - standards and strategies for achieving meaningful and successful engagement of consumers and family members in our county mental health systems and local processes.
The California Stakeholder Process Coalition invites you to participate in a Statewide meeting on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, from 10am-2pm, in Sacramento.
Where: UCD Health System FSSB Building
4800 2nd Ave, Suite 2030
Sacramento, CA 95817
Map
Please RSVP to meeting organizers at:
viviana.criado@gmail.com.
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CalMHSA Advisory Committee - July 12
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The CalMHSA Advisory Committee will be meeting in-person on Thursday, July 12, 2012 from 2:45 PM to 5 PM. This meeting will also be available via teleconference and webinar (link is on the agenda).
The agenda has been posted on the CalMHSA website at: www.calmhsa.org to include the meeting packet (click on the tab for "meetings"). Please make copies of the meeting packet and bring to the meeting if attending in person. Here is the agenda.
WebEx Registration:
https://calmhsa.webex.com/calmhsa/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=597967499
Registration Password: 1234
Public Meeting Location:
Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza
300 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dial-in Number: 877-339-2412
Access Code: 2250381321
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July 17th CFLC Meeting to Discuss Consumer/Family-Run Programs
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At Commissioner Vega's request we are holding a CFLC meeting on July 17th to discuss consumer/family- run programs. We have asked several experts in this area to be available to inform this discussion. As you know we are trying to complete a guidance document that will define suggested criteria for agencies that identify as consumer or family-run programs.
Although anyone is welcome to join staff here at the MHSOAC office for this meeting, we expect that most participants, including the panel, will join us by phone.
Logistics for the meeting are as follows:
Date: July 17, 2012
Time: 2-4 PM
Conference Line: 1-866-817-6533
Participant Code: 1189021
Office Location:
1300 17th Street, Suite 1000
Sacramento, CA 95811
Phone: 916-445-8696
-- Dee Lemonds, MHSOAC
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Mental Health Care Gets My Vote!
Voter Registration Drive - Why, What and How
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If you want to learn how NAMI's Mental Health Care Gets My Vote! campaign is promoting voter registration - and what you can do to make a difference - this webinar is for you. Lynn Williams from the League of Women Voters will discuss why voter registration is so vital, new state laws regulating voter registration and how to make the greatest impact while staying within current guidelines for your state.
Angela Webster of the Tennessee Disability Law and Advocacy Center will help you understand voter rights, will dispel myths about disability and voting and will discuss the power of voting as part of mental health recovery. And the NAMI Policy Team will give tips for using Mental Health Care Gets My Vote! exhibits to promote voter registration. Date: Fri., July 13, 2012
Time: 1-2 p.m. eastern (12 p.m. CT/ 11 a.m. MT/10 a.m. PT) Register Here! Phone: 1-888-858-6021 Access code: 1492189292#
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Conference Update: Save the Date!
| | 2012 NAMI CA Annual Statewide Conference
When: Friday, August 17th & Saturday, August 18th
Where: Marriot Hotel, Irvine, CA
Speakers added: Keris Jän Myrick M.B.A.,M.S.,Ph.D.c; Mike Fitzpatrick MSW (executive director at NAMI); Fred Frese, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Northeast Ohio Medical University. Read about these and other speakers at NAMI California.
Register!
Hope to see you there!
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If You Paid for Paxil®, You Could Get a Payment from a Class Action Settlement
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A class action settlement will provide money to California residents who were 18 years old or older and who paid for any portion of the price of the prescription antidepressant Paxil® while living in California from January 14, 1999 through January 1, 2003, and who qualify under the settlement (these people are called "Class Members"). If you're included, you may ask for a payment, or you can exclude yourself from, or object to, the settlement. The Superior Court for the State of California, County of Los Angeles will have a hearing to decide whether to approve the settlement so that payments can be issued. The lawsuit claims that GlaxoSmithKline falsely advertised and promoted Paxil® as being non-habit forming or non-addictive and that GlaxoSmithKline's advertisements and promotional materials failed to disclose the risk of symptoms from stopping or discontinuing Paxil®. GlaxoSmithKline denies each of these allegations. Click here for details. |
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Contact Information
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Weekly Report
NAMI California
1851 Heritage Lane, Ste 150
Sacramento, CA 95815
Phone: 916-567-0163 Fax: 916-567-1757
www.namicalifornia.org
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