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Board hears legislative updates; members consider support for county policy asks and AB2138 (peer support)
Summary
Members returned from Sacramento with a recommended county advocacy ask (nearly $2 billion request from county associations) and discussed state bills including AB2138, which would expand peer support roles in Medi-Cal enhanced care management (reported to have passed a policy committee 15-1). Members proposed drafting letters of support.
A board member who attended a Sacramento legislative conference updated the group on statewide negotiations and asked whether the advisory board would support circulating talking points to legislators on a county association $2 billion request for eligibility workers, county behavioral health funding, and public-hospital support. He said now is a key moment during the budget negotiations to contact legislators.
Separately, members updated the board about specific bills. Speaker 10 reported on Assembly Bill 2138—a bill to expand the role of peer support specialists in Medi-Cal enhanced care management—saying the policy committee hearing was 05/13/2026 and it passed 15-1. He said he plans to collect letters of support and bring them to the board for a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors. The advisory board agreed to continue ad hoc committee work reviewing relevant legislation and to consider sending letters to state legislators.
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