Each year, the CBHDA Governing Board – acting on preliminary recommendations from the CBHDA Legislative Committee – identifies major public policy issues that the Association should be focusing on, and develops a platform that will guide the association’s advocacy efforts in the coming year. The following links will provide you with information about CBHDA’s legislative and public policy priorities.

2018 Sponsored Bills

• SB 688 (Moorlach) Mental Health Services Act: revenue and expenditure reports
  • CBHDA Support letter (February 16, 2018) 
  • Fact Sheet
• SB 1010 (Beall) Parolees: Supportive Housing Pilot Program 
  • CBHDA Support letter (March 7, 2018)
  • Fact Sheet
  • Sample letter
• AB 2043 (Arambula) Foster youth: family urgent response system
  • CBHDA Support letter (March 15, 2018) 
  • Fact Sheet
• AB 2861 (Salas) Medi-Cal: telehealth: substance use disorders
  • CBHDA Support letter (March 26, 2018) 
  • Fact Sheet

Legislative Bill Tracking

CBHDA tracks and monitors legislative activity through a web interface that allows us to receive up-to-date information on state legislation. Our legislative bill matrix is linked to this service, which will allow you to view the most recent activity on those bills we are tracking.

• CBHDA Legislative Bill Matrix To read CBHDA letters on bills click on the bill number in the matrix. (Link)
• California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Legislative Tracking (Link)

CBHDA Legislative Score Card

• CBHDA Legislative Score Card 2016-17 (Link)

Other Resources

• To find out which Legislators represent you and your community, visit www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html and enter your zip code.
• Senate Budget Committee Members (Link)
• Assembly Budget Committee Members (Link)
• Official California Legislative Information: Bill Information (Link)
• Official California Legislative Information: Code of Regulations (Link)
• (CA State Senate) Legislative Process (Link)
• (California Budget Project) Dollars & Democracy: A Guide to the State Budget Process (Link)

For More Information

• Thomas Renfree – Interim Executive Director
  Contact for current legislation, state budget issues, and association matters.
  trenfree@cbhda.org 
• Mary Adèr, MPP, MPH – Deputy Director, Legislative Affairs
  mader@cbhda.org