Services

Providing Everything You Need for Success in California

Bill Tracking and Monitoring

Identification of all legislation that presents threats or opportunities for behavioral health businesses.
Detailed analyses of all identified bills and amendments to give a clear, boiled-down snapshot of what impact a bill may have.
Access to a live “hot list” of bills you may be hearing about, with industry perspective analyses and links to bill text and relevant background materials.
A calendar for when each bill is being heard, so you can engage.
Review or attend health and insurance committee hearings to report any consequential actions taken by the Legislature.
Monthly “comprehensive reports” that keep you updated about the prospects for bills' success or failure, who supports and opposes them, and what the administration is proposing for them.
A year-end summary that identifies which bills have passed and timelines for implementation.
Fast-tracked answers to questions that your organization may have about the content or direction of proposed laws.

Regulation Monitoring

Direct access to regulatory drafts BEFORE they are sent to the Office of Administrative Law for public hearing – giving you the ability to weigh in as stakeholders while the administration is developing regs.
Carefully prepared analyses of draft regulation – pinpointing significant changes amidst hundreds of pages of text.
Representation at high-level policy meetings held by the administration.
Representation at all coalition meetings where advocacy groups unify industry positions and comments, giving you an inside track to changes that affect your business.
Posting of all Behavioral Health Information Notices and All Plan Letters with short descriptions and implementation highlights.
Past BHINs and APLs are indexed in a search-by-topic format.
A year-end summary detailing the outcome for all tracked regulations.

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Legislative & Regulatory Alerts

• Carefully crafted business alerts informing key decision makers of changes in law and regulation.
• Calls for support, opposition, or sign-on opportunities for those who choose to receive calls to action (separate alert).
• Carefully curated calendar of public meetings that focus on behavioral health policy, with links to web-invitations and recordings for those who want to become better informed.

Outreach

• Bi-monthly legislative and regulatory e-newsletter highlighting bills, regulations, and California-specific political news about the behavioral health industry.
• Quarterly legislative and regulatory online meeting where leaders and members can pose questions and voice concerns.
• Convening of special meetings, when warranted, to understand regulatory and legislative changes, with time for Q&A, to determine what your organization needs more information about.

Individual Consultations

• Use of Sherry Daley’s expansive contact list of legislative and administrative leaders for introductions and to set meetings when needed.
• One-hour per quarter private, individual consultations with DBHA for any client/member with concerns.
• Easy access to DBHA for staff and members with questions about legislative and regulatory research needs.
• Distribution of Sherry Daley’s email contact to pose questions via email.

Local Government Assistance

• Local government assistance when challenges occur (pre-litigation).
• Access to templated letters regarding zoning, licensing, and housing conflicts.
• Intervention with county-level audits and licensing problems.

Dedicated Public Relations

• Access to press pipelines that give your organization and members the ability to be quoted in major publications and news programs to give an industry response to current events.
• Quarterly ghost editorials for C-suite representatives.
• Coordination of positive press stories for key individuals willing to participate in shifting the narrative about the treatment industry.
• Emergency response for negative press issues.

Raising Visibility

• Provide opportunities to present at relevant conferences (assist with “pitches” to be considered for presentations).
• Seek appointments to relevant stakeholder groups for DBHA to represent, or for designated leaders to be appointed as desired.
• Provide access to legislators who need expert witnesses to testify on pending legislation.
• Present specified leaders as possible panelists when informational hearings on behavioral health are scheduled.

Advocacy "Light"

• Debut your organization as an entity with a stake in policy and legislation.
• Give “me too” support and opposition positions in committees on behalf of your organization.
• Encourage sending support and opposition letters from approved templates for the most urgent legislative proposals (DBHA collects the letters and files them).
• Set meetings for leaders who would like to meet with their legislators in their district (include pre-determined advocacy package for visits).
• Provide a data set of legislators matched to key individuals and notify them when their legislators are holding fundraisers for possible participation in face-to-face events.

Full-Service Lobbying

• Research relevant legislation to provide support and opposition positions.
• Draft legislation for introduction.
• Identification of possible authors for legislation.
• Coalition building for successful outcomes.
• Press releases for sponsored legislation.
• Development of amendments to increase opportunity and reduce risk.
• Face-to-face lobbying at the Capitol.
• Background and testimony for committees.
• Committed resources throughout the legislative process.
• Advocacy at the Governor’s office.

***Note: lobbying services require registration and quarterly reporting with the Secretary of State, Political Reform Division.