SR 30
- Session Year: 2019-2020
- House: Senate
- Latest Version Date: 2019-05-07
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| May 6, 2019 | Read. Adopted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) |
| Apr 24, 2019 | From committee: Ordered to third reading. |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. |
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Description
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| May 6, 2019 | Senate 3rd Reading SR30 Beall et al. | Senate Floor |
Passed |
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SR 30
Author: Beall (D), Archuleta (D), Hertzberg (D), Hueso (D), Jackson (D), Mitchell (D), Monning (D), Moorlach (R), Nielsen (R), Pan (D), and Portantino (D)
Introduced: 4/4/19
SUBJECT: National Mental Health Awareness Month
DIGEST:
This resolution recognizes May 2019 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative findings:
- Mental illness is one of the leading causes of disabilities in the United States, affecting one out of every four families and victimizing both the person with the illness and those persons who care for and love the person afflicted. Serious mental illness costs Americans approximately $193.2 billion in lost earnings per year.
- Fifty-seven million Americans have a mental disorder in any given year, but fewer than 40 percent of adults living with a mental illness, and slightly more than one-half of youth 8 to 15 years of age, inclusive, with a mental illness, received mental health services in the last year.
- Although mental illness impacts all people, many of those in lower income communities receive less care and poorer quality of care, and often lack access to culturally competent care, thereby resulting in mental health disparities.
- Nearly two-thirds of all people with a diagnosable mental illness do not receive mental health treatment due to stigma, lack of community-based resources, inadequate diagnosis, or no diagnosis.
- Across the United States, 16.5 percent of schoolage children have at least one mental health disorder, and suicide is now the second-leading cause of death for youth. Academic studies show that one-half of those individuals who will develop mental health disorders show symptoms by 14 years of age, yet only 4 percent of eligible children utilize Medi-Cal Specialty Mental Health Services.
- An estimated 70 percent of all youth in the juvenile justice system have at least one mental health condition, and at least 20 percent live with severe mental illness that is usually undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, untreated, or ineffectively treated, thus leaving those detained in the juvenile justice system in a vulnerable condition.
- There is a need to improve public awareness of mental illness and to strengthen local and national awareness of brain diseases, so that all those with mental illness may receive adequate and appropriate treatment that will result in their becoming fully functioning members of society.
- Access to mental health treatment and services is of paramount importance.
This resolution recognizes May 2019 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
Related/Prior Legislation
SCR 127 (Beall, Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2018) recognized May 2018 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
SCR 54 (Beall, Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2017) recognized May 2017 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified 4/23/19)
None received
Prepared by: Jonas Austin / SFA / (916) 651-1520
4/24/19 13:56:50
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