BILL NUMBER: AB 2540INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member De La Torre FEBRUARY 19, 2010 An act to amend Section 1324.30 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2540, as introduced, De La Torre. Skilled nursing facilities: Medi-Cal reimbursement: quality assurance fee. Existing law, the Medi-Cal Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act, requires the department to implement a facility-specific reimbursement ratesetting system for certain freestanding skilled nursing facilities. Under existing law, reimbursement rates for these facilities are funded by a combination of federal funds and moneys collected pursuant to the above-described uniform quality assurance fee. Existing law provides that these rate methodology provisions shall become inoperative on July 31, 2011, and be repealed on January 1, 2012. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1324.30 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 1324.30. This article shall become inoperative on July 31, 2011, and, as of January 1, 2012, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends the datesonupon which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.