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a) Each county mental health system shall comply with reporting requirements developed by the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the California Behavioral Health Planning Council and the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, which shall be uniform and simplified. The department shall review existing data requirements to eliminate unnecessary requirements and consolidate requirements that are necessary. These requirements shall provide comparability between counties in reports. (

b) The department shall develop, in consultation with the Performance Outcome Committee, the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, and the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, pursuant to

Section 5611, and with the California Health and Human Services Agency, uniform

definitions and formats for a statewide, nonduplicative client-based information system that includes all information necessary to meet federal mental health grant requirements and state and federal Medicaid reporting requirements, and any other state requirements established by law. The data system, including performance outcome measures reported pursuant to

Section 5613, shall be developed by July 1, 1992. (

c) Unless determined necessary by the department to comply with federal law and regulations, the data system developed pursuant to subdivision (

b) shall not be more costly than that in place during the 1990–91 fiscal year. (d)

(1) The department shall develop unique client identifiers that permit development of client-specific cost and outcome measures and related research and analysis.

(2) The department’s collection and use of client information, and the development and use of client identifiers, shall be consistent with clients’ constitutional and statutory rights to privacy and confidentiality.

(3) Data reported to the department may include name and other personal identifiers. That information is confidential and subject to

Section and any other state and federal laws regarding confidential client information.

(4) Personal client identifiers reported to the department shall be protected to ensure confidentiality during transmission and storage through encryption and other appropriate means.

(5) Information reported to the department may be shared with local public mental health agencies submitting records for the same person and that information is subject to

Section 5328. (

e) All client information reported to the department pursuant to

Chapter 2 (commencing with

Section 4030) of Part of Division 4, Sections to 5772.5, inclusive,

Chapter 8.9 (commencing with

Section 14700) of Part of Division 9, and any other state and federal laws regarding reporting requirements, consistent with

Section 5328, shall not be used for purposes other than those purposes expressly stated in the reporting requirements referred to in this subdivision. (

f) The department may adopt emergency regulations to implement this

section in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with

Section 11340) of Part of Division of Title of the Government Code). The adoption of emergency regulations to implement this

section that are filed with the Office of Administrative Law within one year of the date on which the act that added this subdivision took effect shall be deemed to be an emergency and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, or general welfare and shall remain in effect for no more than days. (

g) If amendments to the Mental Health Services Act are approved by the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide primary election, this

section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2026, and as of January 1, 2027, is repealed.