17600.60. (Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 358, Sec. 9.)

(a) The County Health Care Funding Resolution Committee is hereby created to do all of the following:

(1) Determine whether the calculation of the historical percentage or amount to be applied in calculations in Sections 17612.3 and 17613.3 complies with those sections, taking into account the data and calculations provided by the county and any alternative data and calculations submitted by the department.

(2) Hear and determine petitions from certain counties, as defined, to make particularized changes in what provisions of Section 17600.50 are controlling.

(3) Hear and determine petitions for an alternative cost calculation to the cost per person calculation in subdivision (c) of Section 17613.2.

(b) The committee shall consist of the following members:

(1) One person selected by the California State Association of Counties.

(2) One person selected by the State Department of Health Care Services.

(3) One person selected by the Director of Finance.

(c) (1) The committee is not subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code) and shall be exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The Department of Finance shall provide staff for the committee.

(2) Pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution, the Legislature finds and declares that the public interest in affordable and accessible health care outweighs the public interest in access to these proceedings.

(d) (1) A county or city and county, that chose to be subject to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) or paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 17600.50 may submit a petition to the committee to be subject to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) or paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 17600.50, as applicable, if the county or city and county demonstrates and provides sufficient evidence of both of the following criteria:

(A) There have been changes in expenditures related to state and federal law, regulation and rulemaking, or court decisions that have a material impact on the provision of health care services to indigent adults.

(B) All of the data necessary to participate in Article 12 (commencing with Section 17612.1) or Article 13 (commencing with Section 17613.1), as appropriate.

(2) The form of petition shall be determined by the committee by January 31, 2014.

(3) If the committee approves the petition the county or city and county shall be subject to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) or paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 17600.50, as applicable, at the start of the next fiscal year.

(e) (1) A county that chose to be subject to Article 13 (commencing with Section 17613.1) may submit a petition to the committee for an alternative cost calculation to the cost per person calculation in subdivision (c) of Section 17613.2 with the documentation of extraordinary circumstances, including circumstances related to the local health care marketplace, provider, and provider contracts.

(2) The county shall submit all necessary data to support its submission.

(f) The committee shall make decisions within 45 days of hearing any petition.