AB 711

This bill prohibits the Department of Health Services from contracting with a

health maintenance organization or other managed care organization to provide

certain mental health services under the Medical Assistance (MA) program unless

that organization allows and pays for qualified treatment trainees to provide those

services to MA recipients. "Qualified treatment trainee" is defined in the bill as

either a graduate student who is enrolled in an accredited institution in psychology,

counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work, nursing, or a closely related

field or an individual who has a graduate degree from an accredited institution in one

of those fields but who has not completed the applicable supervised practice

requirements for licensure as a clinical social worker, certification as a social worker,

licensure as a professional counselor, licensure or certification as a marriage and

family therapist, or licensure as a psychologist.