ARTICLE 2.81. Managed Health Care System for Los Angeles County

Article 2.81 added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 632, Sec. 2.5.

§§ 14087.96–14087.9730 · 30 sections

• § 14087.96 The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this article: (a) “County” means the County of Los Angeles. (b) “Board of supervisors” means the Board of…
• § 14087.9605 (a) The board of supervisors may, by ordinance, resolution, or other action, establish a commission in order to meet the problems of delivery of publicly…
• § 14087.961 Governance of the commission shall be vested in a governing body consisting of 13 members, each of whom shall have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest…
• § 14087.9615 (a) The composition of the 13-member governing body of the commission, as prescribed in Section 14087.961, shall be subject to alteration upon a two-thirds…
• § 14087.962 Members of the governing body shall either reside, be employed, or provide services in the geographic area served by the local initiative. Nominees shall be…
• § 14087.9625 (a) Members of the governing body of the commission shall serve four-year terms. (b) Individuals shall be limited to serving on the governing body for two…
• § 14087.963 (a) The governing body of the commission shall establish rules for its proceedings. There shall be at least six meetings per year. (b) (1) Each governing body…
• § 14087.9635 (a) A majority of the members of the governing body shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the governing body…
• § 14087.964 A member of the governing body shall be removed from office if a majority of the members present and voting find that one or more of the following causes for…
• § 14087.9645 A member of the governing body may be removed at the request of the entity that nominated the member. The entity that nominated a member may request removal of…
• § 14087.965 (a) A request for removal under Section 14087.9645 shall be adopted by the nominating entity in the same manner as the nomination was adopted and shall be…
• § 14087.9655 (a) The governing body shall establish a technical advisory committee to provide technical expertise to the governing body. (b) Members of the committee shall…
• § 14087.9657 (a) The governing body shall establish a children’s health consultant advisory committee to provide to the governing body expertise on child, adolescent, and…
• § 14087.966 (a) The governing body for each geographic region served by the local initiative shall establish a regional community advisory committee to ensure community…
• § 14087.9665 (a) The commission may borrow or receive funds from any person or entity as necessary to cover development costs and other actual or projected obligations of…
• § 14087.967 To the full extent permitted by federal law, the department and the commission may enter into contracts to provide or arrange for health care services for any…
• § 14087.9675 (a) The auditor-controller of the county, at those intervals the auditor-controller deems appropriate, but no less frequently than annually, shall conduct a…
• § 14087.968 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county shall not be liable for any damages or losses, whether financial or in any other form, that may result…
• § 14087.9685 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any obligation of the commission and its local initiative, statutory, contractual, or otherwise, shall be an…
• § 14087.969 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither a member of the governing body of the commission nor a member of any advisory panel to the governing…
• § 14087.9695 The department, if at no state General Fund expense, may take all appropriate steps, in cooperation with the county and the commission, to obtain approval for…
• § 14087.9697 In any transfer of functions from county employees to the commission, the commission shall continue to recognize the employee organization that represented the…
• § 14087.97 The commission shall be deemed to be a public agency that is a local unit of government for purposes of all grant programs and other funding and loan guarantee…
• § 14087.9705 (a) The commission shall obtain licensure as a health care service plan under Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 1340) of Division 3 of the Health and Safety…
• § 14087.971 (a) Contracts under this article between the department and the commission shall be on a nonbid basis and shall be exempt from Chapter 2 (commencing with…
• § 14087.9715 The Legislature intends that implementation of this article shall involve consultation and cooperative activities among various agencies of the state and…
• § 14087.972 Neither the commission nor its local initiative shall be considered to be an agency, division, department, or instrumentality of the county, and neither the…
• § 14087.9722 (a) If the commission established pursuant to this article no longer functions for the purposes for which it was established, when the commission’s existing…
• § 14087.9725 (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed as amending the requirements of Section 17000. (b) Nothing in this article shall be construed to preclude the…
• § 14087.9730 (a) In an effort to determine whether children’s access to, and utilization of, vision care services can be increased by providing vision care services at…