Health

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Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.

Affordable Care Act

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SB 22 (Beall-D) Health care coverage: mental health parity

Requires health plans and insurers to report to the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance, respectively, on compliance with state and federal law related to mental health parity.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 189 (Monning-D) Health care coverage: wellness programs

Prohibits a health plan or health insurer from offering a wellness plan unless certain requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 280 (Lieu-D) Insurance affordability programs: application form

Permits, until 1/1/15, the application form for insurance affordability program coverage to include additional voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. Requires, effective 1/1/16, the application form to include voluntary questions regarding demographic data categories, including race, ethnicity, primary language, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and other categories recognized by the federal Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 320 (Beall-D) Health care coverage: acquired brain injury

Prohibits a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy from denying coverage for medically necessary medical or rehabilitation treatment for acquired brain injury at specified facilities. Permits enrollees to seek facilities outside of their service area.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 799* (Calderon-D) Health coverage: colorectal cancer: testing and screening

Requires a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy, except as specified, that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after 1/1/14, to provide coverage for genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, and annual screenings for colorectal cancer under specified circumstances. Requires a physician and surgeon who make a diagnosis that a patient has colorectal cancer to provide the patient with specified information.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 959 (Hernandez-D) Health care coverage

Prohibits a change in premium rate or coverage for an individual plan contract or policy unless the plan or insurer delivers a written notice of the change at least 15 days prior to the start of the annual enrollment period applicable to the contract or 60 days prior to the effective date of renewal, whichever occurs earlier in the calendar year. Makes several corrections and clarifications to provisions of law governing individual and small group health insurance, including clarifying that health plans and insurers have a single risk pool for enrollees and insureds.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2014

SB 972 (Torres-D) California Health Benefit Exchange: board: membership

Expands the criteria for serving on the California Health Benefit Exchange Board by adding marketing of health insurance products, information technology system management, management information systems, and enrollment counseling assistance with priority to cultural and linguistic competency, to the list of areas of expertise that are acceptable for appointment.
Chapter 172, Statutes of 2014

SB 974* (Anderson-R) California Health Benefit Exchange (Covered California)

Makes minor changes to privacy policies related to applications for health coverage through Covered California. Requires Covered California to allow consumers to indicate whether they would like assistance from an agent or enrollment counselor, and prohibits Covered California from disclosing personal information if applicants indicate they do not want assistance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1005 (Lara-D) Health care coverage: immigration status

Extends Medi-Cal eligibility to individuals who would otherwise be eligible, except for their immigration status and creates a new health benefit exchange to provide subsidized health care coverage to individuals who cannot purchase health care.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1052 (Torres-D) Health care coverage

Requires health plans and insurers to use a standard drug formulary template to display their drug formularies and to post their formularies on their Internet Web sites and requires Covered California to provide links to the formularies.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2014

SB 4X1* (Emmerson-R) California Health Benefit Exchange: employees & contractors

Requires all employees, prospective employees, contractors, subcontractors, and vendors, who facilitate enrollment of persons in a qualified health plan in the California Health Benefit Exchange (Covered California) and who, in the course and scope of their employment, have access to the financial or medical information of enrollees or potential enrollees, to be fingerprinted for the purpose of obtaining criminal history information. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of felony crimes of dishonesty or breach of trust in a state or federal jurisdiction or other specified crimes from being hired by or contracting with Covered California for the purpose of facilitating enrollment of persons in a qualified health plan in Covered California or for any position where, in the course and scope of his/her employment, he/she will have access to the financial or medical information of enrollees or potential enrollees of Covered California. Requires an applicant to notify Covered California of any prescribed misdemeanor or felony convictions, filing of charges, or administrative actions.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 18* (Pan-D) Health care coverage: pediatric oral care benefits

Requires a specialized health care service plan contract and specialized health insurance policy that provides pediatric oral care benefits, whether or not it is bundled with a qualified health plan or standing alone, to also comply with minimum medical loss ratios and provide an annual rebate, as specified. Applies existing provisions related to access to care in a timely manner and adequacy of numbers of professional providers and institutional providers to a specialized health care service plan and specialized health insurance policy that provides pediatric oral care benefits, whether or not it is bundled with a qualified health plan or standing alone.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 175 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Health care coverage

Establishes the Uncovered Health Trust Fund (Trust) for the purpose of providing health care coverage to workers ineligible for health care coverage under federal and state programs, including the Affordable Care Act. Authorizes voluntary contributions to be deposited into the Trust. Requires that Trust monies, as specified, be distributed by the Primary Health Care Services Branch of the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) through its Rural Health Clinic Program. Requires DHCS to publish a list of employers who contributed to the Trust and makes that list available to nonprofit community health centers. Also requires DHCS to provide those employers with a list of nonprofit community health centers accessible to workers. Requires DHCS, on or before 1/1/15, to prepare an application form, as specified, for nonprofit community health centers to use to apply for monies from the Trust. Requires that the costs to the DHCS of administering the Trust be provided from the Trust, and prohibits these costs from exceeding 10% of the total Trust monies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 314 (Pan-D) Health care coverage: self-funded student plans

Prohibits a health care plan directly operated by a bona fide public or private college or university that directly provides health care services only to its students, faculty, staff, administration, and their respective dependents from establishing an annual limit or a lifetime limit on the dollar value of essential health benefits, as defined, for any participant or beneficiary.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 390 (Logue-R) Health care

Requires the California Health Benefit Exchange (Covered California) to submit to the Department of Finance (DOF) and the Legislative Analyst's Office a complete and detailed budget, utilizing performance-based budgeting, as defined, that sets forth all proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for the ensuing fiscal year. Requires Covered California to, if necessary, develop a process for consulting with contractors or other responsible entities and stakeholders to develop information related to performance standards and program performance. Requires the DOF to include specified performance-based budgeting information for Covered California in the Governor's Budget proposal and to post that information on the DOF's Internet Web site. Also requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to review the adequacy of performance metrics and progress toward targeted outcomes in preparing its review of the Governor's Budget proposal as it relates to Covered California.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 617 (Nazarian-D) California Health Benefit Exchange: appeals

Requires the California Health Benefits Exchange (Covered California) board to contract with the Department of Social Services to serve as the Covered California entity designated to hear appeals of eligibility or enrollment determination or redetermination for persons in the individual market or exemption determinations within Covered California's jurisdiction. Establishes an appeals process for eligibility or enrollment determinations and redeterminations for insurance affordability programs or exemption determinations within Covered California's jurisdiction, including an informal resolution process, establishing procedures and timelines for hearings with the appeals entity, and notice provisions. Specifies that certain provisions will only be implemented to the extent they do not conflict with federal law.
Chapter 869, Statutes of 2014

AB 710 (Pan-D) California Health Benefit Exchange: multiemployer plans

Adds multiemployer plans to the list of entities permitted to facilitate purchase of qualified health plans in the California Health Benefit Exchange, now called Covered California, no later than 7/1/14, to the extent permitted by federal law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1129* (Beth Gaines-R) Income tax: health savings accounts

Allows a deduction in connection with health savings accounts, in conformity with federal law, for taxable years beginning on and after 1/1/13. Authorizes, in general, the deduction to be an amount equal to the aggregate amount paid in cash during the taxable year by, or on behalf of, an eligible individual, as defined, to a health savings account of that individual, as provided. Provides related conformity to federal law with respect to the allowance of rollovers from Archer Medical Savings Accounts, health flexible spending arrangements, or health reimbursement accounts to a health savings account, and penalties in connection therewith for taxable years beginning on and after 1/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1507* (Logue-R) Health care coverage

Authorizes health plans and insurers to renew individual and small group health benefit plans in effect 10/1/13, as specified, and requires such coverage to be treated as "grandfathered" coverage, exempt from California implementing provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act explicitly identified in this bill.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1829* (Conway-R) Health Benefit Exchange: employees and contractors

Prohibits the California Health Benefit Exchange from hiring or contracting with individuals who have been convicted of certain felonies or violations if the person could have access to specific personal information of enrollees.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1830 (Conway-R) Health Benefit Exchange: confidentiality of information

Prohibits the California Health Benefit Exchange and its contractors from using or disclosing personal information, except as necessary to carry out functions allowed under specified federal regulations under the Affordable Care Act, and creates a civil penalty of up to $25,000 per individual or entity, per use or disclosure in violation of these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1877* (Cooley-D) California Vision Care Access Council

Creates in state government the California Vision Care Access Council, governed by the Board of the California Health Benefit Exchange. Requires the Council to create an Internet Web site to inform consumers about individual and employer-based vision plans offered by participating carriers.
Vetoed

AB 2301 (Mansoor-R) California Health Benefit Exchange: individual market report

Requires the California Health Benefit Exchange to prepare a quarterly report that provides various statistics related to applications, enrollees, and disenrollments under individual health plans purchased.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2375 (Dababneh-D) California Health Benefit Exchange: navigators

Requires the California Health Benefit Exchange Board to ensure that the performance standards selected for navigators are not so burdensome as to prevent a qualified entity from applying.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2546 (Salas-D) Kern County Hospital Authority

Authorizes the Kern County Board of Supervisors to establish the Kern County Hospital Authority to manage, administer, and control the Kern Medical Center and for the operation of additional programs, facilities, care organizations, physical practice plans, and delivery systems that may be affiliated or consolidated with the medical center, and specifies Kern County Hospital Authority's governance, powers, and procedures.
Chapter 613, Statutes of 2014

AB 2601 (Conway-R) Health Benefit Exchange: charge on qualified health plans

Effective 1/1/16, removes the California Health Benefit Exchange's authority to assess or increase a charge on health plans to support its development, operations, and cash management unless that charge is enacted as a statute.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AJR 23 (Logue-R) Requirement to purchase health insurance

Urges the President of the United States to remove any financial oversight responsibilities of the Internal Revenue Service with regard to the administration of the Affordable Care Act and instead has those duties transferred to a separate board, created by and accountable to the United States' Congress.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

Aging and Long Term Care

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SB 728 (Wolk-D) Long-term care facilities: health care decisions

Requires specified health facilities, residential facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly to provide a person with a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form, as defined, upon his/her admission to the facility. Provides that violations of these provisions do not constitute a crime.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 894 (Corbett-D) Residential care facilities: revocation of license

Increases the responsibilities of the Department of Social Services when issuing a temporary suspension order or when revoking the license of a residential care facility for the elderly.
(Died on the Assembly Floor)

SB 895 (Corbett-D) Residential care facilities: unannounced visits

Adds additional requirements to the Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act and requires the Department of Social Services to post specified licensing information on its Internet Web site and provide additional information on the projected costs of conducting annual licensing inspections for residential care facilities for the elderly.
Chapter 704, Statutes of 2014

SB 911 (Block-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Increases the initial and continuing education training requirements for licensees, administrators, and direct care staff of residential care facilities for the elderly, as specified. Prohibits discrimination or retaliation in any manner against a resident or employee for calling 911. Implements these provisions on 1/1/16, and makes other technical changes.
Chapter 705, Statutes of 2014

SB 1153 (Leno-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Authorizes the Department of Social Services (DSS) to order a suspension of new admissions prohibiting a residential care facility for the elderly from admitting new residents if the facility has failed to pay a fine assessed by DSS or if DSS finds that the facility has violated applicable laws and the violation presents a direct or immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of a resident and is not corrected immediately. Authorizes a licensee to appeal the suspension and requires DSS to adopt regulations that specify the appeal procedure.
Chapter 706, Statutes of 2014

SB 1218 (Yee-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly: civil penalties

Increases civil penalties for licensing violations at residential care facilities for the elderly, including the penalties for repeat offenses, and varies the minimum and maximum penalties depending upon the seriousness of the harm to the resident.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1382 (Block-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Increases the initial and annual licensing fees for residential care facilities for the elderly for every sized facility and makes related findings and declarations.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2014

AB 1523 (Atkins-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Requires residential care facilities for the elderly, by 7/1/15, to maintain liability insurance in an amount of at least $1 million per occurrence and $3 million in the annual aggregate for the purpose of covering injury to residents and guests caused by the negligence of the licensee or its employees.
Chapter 205, Statutes of 2014

AB 1534* (Linder-R) Area agencies on aging: independent living centers: funding

Establishes a continuous appropriation of federal funds appropriated to the state for the purpose of supporting independent living centers and area agencies on aging.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1554 (Skinner-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Makes numerous changes, effective 7/1/15, to the complaint investigation process used by the Department of Social Services when responding to complaints submitted against residential care facilities for the elderly and affords complainants with two levels of appeal. Also requires the Department to assess an immediate civil penalty for interfering with a complaint investigation or for retaliating against residents or staff involved in the investigation, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1570 (Chesbro-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Requires the certification program for an applicant for licensure of a residential care facility for the elderly (RCFE) to consist of 80 hours of coursework and a state-administered examination of no less than 100 questions; requires the examination to reflect the uniform core of knowledge required and requires the Department of Social Services to, every other year, review and revise the examination to reflect changes in law and regulations. Requires staff members of RCFEs who assist residents with personal activities of daily living to receive 20 hours of training before working independently with residents, an additional 20 hours within the first four weeks of employment, and an additional 20 hours annually, as prescribed; and applies the training requirements specific to dementia care to all RCFEs.
Chapter 968, Statutes of 2014

AB 1571 (Eggman-D) Residential care facilities: licensing and regulation

Expands the scope of information that prospective residential care facility for the elderly licensees must provide to the Department of Social Services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1572 (Eggman-D) Residential care facilities: resident and family council

Requires a residential care facility for the elderly (RCFE) to assist residents in establishing and maintaining a resident council at the request of two or more residents, instead of at the request of a majority of residents. Additionally requires RCFEs to respond to resident council concerns in writing and to promote the resident council; requires RCFEs to respond to concerns raised by family councils and to include notice of the family council; and requires RCFEs to perform other specified actions pertaining to the resident and family councils.
Chapter 177, Statutes of 2014

AB 1744 (Brown-D) California Department of Aging

Requires the Department of Aging to establish a blue-ribbon task force comprised of at least 13 members to make legislative recommendations to improve services for unpaid and family caregivers in California, if the Department receives sufficient non-state funds from private sources to implement these provisions. Requires the task force to prepare a report of its findings and recommendations and provide it to the Legislature.
Vetoed

AB 1751 (Bloom-D) Continuing care retirement communities

Requires Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) providers to make specified financial statements available to residents on a quarterly basis, rather than semi-annually. Additionally requires CCRC providers that have governing bodies in the state to include at least one resident, or two residents if the facility has more than 21 members, as voting members of the facility's governing body. Requires that providers whose governing bodies administer multiple CCRCs to provide specified information to the residents' association of any facility that does not have voting representation on the governing body. Also provides for alternative representation options for a provider that is a sole proprietorship, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, or a closely held corporation in lieu of appointing a resident as a voting member of the provider's governing body, as specified.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2014

AB 1899 (Brown-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Provides that a licensee who abandons a residential care facility and the residents in care resulting in an immediate and substantial threat to the health and safety of the abandoned residents, in addition to forfeiture of their license, shall be excluded from licensure in facilities licensed by the Department of Social Services without the right to petition for reinstatement.
Chapter 700, Statutes of 2014

AB 2044 (Rodriguez-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Requires that residential care facilities for the elderly maintain at least one administrator, facility manager, or designated substitute who is at least 21 years of age and has adequate qualifications, as specified, to be on the premises 24 hours a day. Additionally requires that at least one staff member who has cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and first aid training shall be on duty and on the premises at all times and that training for direct-care staff include building and fire safety and the appropriate response to emergencies.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2014

AB 2139 (Eggman-D) End-of-life care: patient notification

Requires a health care provider to notify a patient diagnosed with a terminal illness, or when applicable, the other person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient, of his/her right to comprehensive information and counseling regarding legal end-of-life options.
Chapter 568, Statutes of 2014

AB 2171 (Wieckowski-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Establishes a bill of rights for residents at residential care facilities for the elderly.
Chapter 702, Statutes of 2014

AB 2379 (Weber-D) Abuse of elders and dependent adults: multidisciplinary team

Adds child welfare services personnel to the list of persons who may be included in multidisciplinary teams that are trained in the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of abuse of elderly or dependent adults.
Chapter 62, Statutes of 2014

AJR 29 (Brown-D) Senior nutrition services and programs: funding

Memorializes the President of the U.S. and Congress to restore federal funding cuts, due to sequestration, to senior nutrition programs, and to declare senior nutrition services and programs exempt from further budget cuts.
Resolution Chapter 13, Statutes of 2014

Emergency Medical Services

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AB 1621 (Lowenthal-D) Emergency medical services: data and information system

Requires the state Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop a single, statewide standard for reporting pre-hospital emergency care. Requires local emergency medical service providers to submit information to the Authority consistent with the standards.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1975 (Roger Hernández-D) Trauma care systems

Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority and local emergency medical services agencies implementing trauma care systems to perform specified planning and reporting activities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AJR 48 (Rodriguez-D) Federal memorials: emergency medical services

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to authorize the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Resolution Chapter 166, Statutes of 2014

Health Coverage/Insurance

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SB 20* (Hernandez-D) Individual health care coverage: enrollment periods

Changes the 2015 open enrollment period for individual market health plans and insurance policies from 10/1/13, through 3/31/14, to 11/15/14, through 2/15/15.
Chapter 24, Statutes of 2014

SB 117 (Hueso-D) Integrative cancer treatment

Prohibits a physician and surgeon, including an osteopathic physician and surgeon, from recommending, prescribing, or providing integrative cancer treatment, as defined, to cancer patients unless certain requirements are met, including, but not limited to, that the treatment is recommended or prescribed after informed consent is given and that the treatment recommended or prescribed meets the evidence-based medical standard, as specified. Specifies that a failure of a physician and surgeon to comply with these requirements constitutes unprofessional conduct and cause for discipline by the applicable licensing board. Requires the Department of Public Health to investigate violations of these provisions and to hold hearings with respect to compliance with these provisions, and makes conforming changes to other related provisions.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 351 (Hernandez-D) Health care coverage: hospital billing

Establishes a method by which hospitals are identified as "diagnosis and billing outlier hospitals," establishes an independent medical review system under which patients and payers could submit bills from outlier hospitals to independent review, and prohibits hospital systems with three or more outlier hospitals from acquiring a new hospital.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 677 (Monning-D) Health care coverage: agencies: reports

Deletes obsolete references to the provision requiring the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, by 1/20/04, report to the Legislature specified information with regard to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and the requirement that the Board provide, by 4/15/98, a proposal relating to drug and alcohol treatment programs for children. Deletes the requirement that the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance joint senior level working group report its findings for review and approval and submission every five years to the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 780 (Jackson-D) Health care coverage

Requires health plans and certain health insurers to provide specified notices to consumers when changes are made to a health care network. Requires health plans and certain health insurers to allow consumers to continue to receive care from certain providers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 917 (Gaines-R) Health care coverage: provider information

Requires health plans and insurers to include a statement that states, among other things, that information in the provider directory is subject to change; requires health plans and insurers to provide specified information to prospective group policyholders; and authorizes health plans and insurers to satisfy the update requirement by providing the information on its Internet Web site.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 964 (Hernandez-D) Health care coverage

Increases oversight of health plans with respect to compliance with timely access and provider network adequacy standards.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2014

SB 1034 (Monning-D) Health care coverage: waiting periods

Prohibits waiting or affiliation periods in the group health insurance market through health benefit plans.
Chapter 195, Statutes of 2014

SB 1046 (Beall-D) Insurance: coverage: penalties

Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance to assess administrative penalties for any violations of the Mental Health Parity Act, including any rules or orders adopted or issued based on violations of those provisions. Also gives the Commissioner authority to assess a penalty for each patient harmed by a violation of the above provisions, as a separate and distinct violation. Imposes penalties of up to $2,500 for each violation, or for an ongoing and continuous violation, $2,500 per day for as long as the violation continues.
Vetoed

SB 1052 (Torres-D) Health care coverage

Requires health plans and insurers to use a standard drug formulary template to display their drug formularies and to post their formularies on their Internet Web sites. Requires Covered California to provide links to the formularies.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2014

SB 1053 (Mitchell-D) Health care coverage: contraceptives

Requires, effective 1/1/16, most health plans and insurers to cover a variety of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive drugs, devices, and products for women, as well as related counseling and follow-up services and voluntary sterilization procedures. Prohibits cost-sharing, restrictions, or delays in the provision of covered services, but allows cost-sharing and utilization management procedures if a therapeutic equivalent drug or device is offered by the plan with no cost-sharing.
Chapter 576, Statutes of 2014

SB 1100 (Hernandez-D) Continuity of care

Allows people with individual health insurance coverage who are in the middle of treatment for certain conditions, such as cancer or a pregnancy, when they make a health plan change to complete the treatment even if their provider is not in the new health plan's network. Requires notice of the process to request completion of covered services to be provided in every disclosure form, as specified, and in any evidence of coverage issued after 1/1/15.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SB 1176 (Steinberg-D) Health care coverage: cost sharing: tracking

Requires health plans and insurers to track out-of-pocket costs, as specified, and notify and reimburse enrollees or insureds when cost sharing reaches the maximum annual out-of-pocket limit.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1182 (Leno-D) Health care coverage: claims data

Requires health plans and insurers to share specified data with purchasers that have 1,000 or more enrollees or that are multiemployer trusts.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2014

SB 1322 (Hernandez-D) California Health Care Cost and Quality Database

Requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to contract with one or more private, independent, nonprofit organizations to establish and administer the California Health Care Cost and Quality Database.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1340 (Hernandez-D) Health care coverage: provider contracts

Makes a number of technical and clarifying changes to existing law prohibiting contracts between health plans or insurers and hospitals restricting the ability of the health plan/insurer from furnishing information concerning the cost range of procedures at the hospital or facility or the quality of services performed by the hospital or facility to subscribers or enrollees. Requires health plans and insurers to give a provider or supplier an advance opportunity of 30 days (rather than at least 20 days) to review the methodology and data developed and compiled by the health plan or insurer.
Chapter 83, Statutes of 2014

SB 1446* (DeSaulnier-D) Health care coverage: small employer market

Allows a small employer health plan contract or a small employer health insurance policy in effect on 12/31/13, that does not qualify as a grandfathered health plan under Affordable Care Act (ACA), to be renewed until 1/1/15, and to continue to be in force until 12/31/15. Exempts those health plan contracts and health insurance policies from various provisions of state law that implement the ACA and requires the contracts and policies to comply with those provisions by 1/1/16, in order to remain in force on and after that date. Requires these provisions be implemented only to the extent permitted by the ACA.
Chapter 84, Statutes of 2014

AB 299 (Holden-D) Prescription drug benefits

Prohibits a health plan or insurer that provides prescription drug benefits from requiring an enrollee to utilize in-network mail order pharmacy services for covered prescription drugs available at an in-network retail pharmacy. Prohibits the plan or insurer from requiring authorization, from either the plan or prescriber, for the enrollee's choice of obtaining a drug through mail order or at a retail pharmacy. Excludes from this provision drugs unavailable in retail pharmacies due to a manufacturer's instructions or restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 369* (Pan-D) Continuity of care

Allows, under certain circumstances, a new health plan enrollee or insured to complete treatment from a non-participating health care provider if the individual health plan contract or insurance policy was terminated between 12/1/13, and 3/31/14, and the individual was receiving services from the non-participating provider for a specified condition on the effective date of new coverage.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2014

AB 676 (Fox-D) Health care coverage: postdischarge care needs

Establishes time frames and requirements for a health plan, insurer, and the Department of Health Care Services with regard to Medi-Cal, including Medi-Cal managed care plans, to facilitate the discharge of a patient who no longer requires inpatient hospital care. Establishes a financial penalty on these payers for failure to comply with these requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 889 (Frazier-D) Health care coverage: prescription drugs

Permits health care service plans and insurers, when there is more than one drug that is appropriate for the treatment of a medical condition, to require step therapy. Prohibits a health plan from requiring an enrollee to try and fail on more than two medications before allowing the enrollee access to the medication, or generically equivalent drug, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1372 (Bonilla-D) Health insurance: pervasive developmental disorder or autism

Extends the operation of specified terms related to behavioral health treatment, including provider, professional provider, and network provider, to include the term qualified autism provider until 7/1/16, and repeals these provisions on 1/1/17.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1771 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Telephone visits

Mandates that health insurers and health plans provide coverage for telephone visits provided by a contracted physician or contracted non-physician health care provider.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1917 (Gordon-D) Outpatient prescription drugs: cost sharing

Establishes limits on the copayment, coinsurance, or any other form of cost sharing for a covered outpatient prescription drug for an individual prescription of 1/12 (equivalent to $529 for 2014) or 1/2 ($3,175 for 2014) applicable to self-coverage only, of the annual out-of-pocket limit (which is $6,350 for 2014), as specified under the Affordable Care Act with respect to a non-grandfathered individual or group health plan contract or insurance policy.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 1962 (Skinner-D) Dental plans: medical loss ratios: reports

Requires a health plan or health insurer that issues, sells, renews, or offers a specialized health plan contract or specialized health insurance policy covering dental services to file a medical loss ratio (MLR) annual report with its regulator that is organized by group and product type that contains the same information required in the 2013 federal MLR Annual Reporting Form required of other health plans and insurers. States legislative intent that the data reported pursuant to this bill be considered by the Legislature in adopting an MLR standard for health plans or health insurers that cover dental services that would take effect no later than 1/1/18. Also authorizes the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance, until 1/1/18, to issue guidance to health care service plans and health insurers of specialized health insurance policies subject to this bill, as specified.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2014

AB 2015 (Chau-D) Health care coverage: discrimination

Prohibits, beginning 1/1/15, a health plan or health insurer from discriminating, with respect to provider participation or coverage under the plan or policy, against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider's license or certification.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2088 (Roger Hernández-D) Health insurance: minimum value: large group market policies

Requires a health plan or insurer that offers, amends, or renews a group plan contract or policy providing minimum value of less than 60% to a large group to require that the persons to be covered by the plan contract or policy are covered by an individual or group plan contract or policy that arranges or provides medical, hospital, and surgical coverage not designed to supplement other private or governmental plans and that provides at least 60% minimum value.
Vetoed

AB 2400 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Health care coverage: physician contracts

Revises the Health Care Providers' Bill of Rights for health plan and insurer provider contracts issued, amended and renewed on or after 1/1/15.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 2418 (Bonilla-D) Health care coverage: prescription drugs: refills

Requires a health plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after 1/1/16, that provides coverage for prescription drug benefits to permit and apply a prorated daily cost-sharing rate to refills of prescriptions that are dispensed by a participating pharmacy for less than the standard refill amount if the prescriber or pharmacist indicates that the refill is in the best interest of the enrollee or insured and is for the purpose of synchronizing the refill dates of the enrollee's or insured's medications, provided that certain requirements are satisfied. Also requires a health plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after 1/1/16, that provides coverage for prescription drug benefits to allow for the early refill of covered topical ophthalmic products at 70% of the predicted days of use.
Vetoed

AB 2433* (Mansoor-R) Health care coverage: catastrophic plans

Allows individuals whose health coverage was canceled between 12/1/13, and 3/31/14, to purchase catastrophic health coverage.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2533 (Ammiano-D) Health care coverage: non-contracting providers

Requires a health plan or health insurer to arrange for, or assist an enrollee or insured in arranging for, the enrollee or insured to receive the care or service in an accessible and timely manner from a non-contracting provider, and prohibits a health plan or insurer from imposing copayments, coinsurance, or deductibles on the enrollee or insured that exceed what the enrollee or insured would pay for services from a contracting provider. Also prohibits a non-contracting provider that agrees to provide services under provisions of this bill from billing an enrollee or insured for any amount in excess of the in-network reimbursement rate.
(Died on Senate Floor)

Health Facilities

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SB 268* (Gaines-R) Health care districts: public contracts: design-build

Allows the Last Frontier Health Care District to use the design-build process when contracting for the construction of a building and improvements directly related to a hospital or health facility building at the Modoc Medical Center.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2014

SB 455 (Hernandez-D) General acute care hospitals: nurse-to-patient ratios

Codifies existing regulations requiring hospitals to have a committee annually review the reliability of its patient classification system, including regulations requiring at least one-half of this committee be composed of registered nurses who provide direct patient care. Requires the registered nurses appointed to this committee to be selected by the collective bargaining agent, if any. Requires the Department of Public Health, during every periodic state inspection of a hospital, to inspect for compliance with nurse-to-patient ratios, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 631 (Beall-D) Health care: health facilities: observation and short-stay

Requires a general acute care hospital that provides observation and short-stay observation services, as defined, to apply for approval from the Department of Public Health to provide the services as a supplemental service, and requires a general acute care hospital to obtain a special permit to provide short-stay observation services. Requires the Department to adopt and enforce staffing standards for certain outpatient services and all ambulatory surgery centers, as specified, and makes other conforming changes.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 701 (Emmerson-R) Hospital-affiliated outpatient settings: accreditation

Creates entities known as hospital-affiliated outpatient settings, as defined, and aligns the accreditation and reporting processes with those of the general acute care hospital with which the hospital-affiliated outpatient settings is affiliated.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 830 (Galgiani-D) Health care: health facility data

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to include additional heart surgery data in their annual reports on heart surgery outcomes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 966 (Lieu-D) Outpatient settings: surgical clinics

Clarifies that surgical clinics are eligible for licensure by the Department of Public Health regardless of physician or dentist ownership. Requires that all subsequent inspections after the initial inspection for accreditation be unannounced. Requires an accredited outpatient setting to pay certain fees and to comply with certain data submission requirements. Also requires that initial certificates of accreditation by an accreditation agency be valid for not more than two years and that renewal certificates be valid for not more than three years.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1094 (Lara-D) Nonprofit health facilities: Attorney General approval

Provides an additional 30 days for the Attorney General (AG) to review proposed transactions involving non-profit health facilities. Allows the AG to enforce the conditions of an approved agreement, and to amend the conditions of an agreement or transaction involving a non-profit health facility if a party to the transaction or agreement made material misrepresentations to the AG. Requires the AG, prior to imposing an amended condition, to provide the parties to the agreement written notice of the proposed condition and allows the parties 30 days to respond.
Vetoed

SB 1238 (Hernandez-D) Health facilities: outpatient care and patient assessment

Limits the ability of hospitals to use "observation services" by requiring a hospital patient to either be discharged or admitted as an inpatient after no more than 24 hours, with limited exceptions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1269 (Beall-D) General acute care hospitals

Prohibits hospitals from providing "observation services" for more than 24 hours. Imposes specified regulatory requirements on hospitals that provide observation services in an observation unit.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1297 (Hueso-D) Hospital Safety and Transparency Act of 2014

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to publish on its Internet Web site historical and current information collected by state and federal regulators about hospitals, including information regarding Medi-Cal payment suspensions and provider preventable conditions, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SB 1299 (Padilla-D) Workplace violence prevention plans: hospitals

Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Standards Board, no later than 7/1/16, to adopt standards that require specified hospitals to adopt a workplace violence prevention plan as part of their injury and illness prevention plan to protect health care workers and other facility personnel from aggressive and violent behavior.
Chapter 842, Statutes of 2014

AB 40 (Mansoor-R) Substance abuse: recovery and treatment facilities

Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Program's death investigation policy be designed to ensure a resident's death is reported by the licensee and addressed by the Department in a timely manner, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 259 (Logue-R) Health and care facilities: CPR

Makes it a misdemeanor for a long-term health care facility, community care facility, adult day health care center, or residential care facility for the elderly, to have a policy that prohibits any employee from administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation with an exception if there is a "do not resuscitate" form or other similar instructions, as specified.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 334* (Gomez-D) Alameda Health System hospital authority

Expands a provision of law restricting the ability of a hospital authority in Alameda County from contracting out physician services to private entities, by clarifying that the hospital authority is also prohibited from contracting out physician services to a subsidiary or other entity established by the hospital authority.
Chapter 585, Statutes of 2014

AB 364 (Ian Calderon-D) Community care facilities: unannounced visits

Changes the requirement that the Department of Social Services visit a licensed community care facility from no less than once every five years to no less than once every two years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 395 (Fox-D) Alcoholism and drug abuse treatment facilities

Expands the types of facilities licensed by the Department of Health Care Services as alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities to include facilities that provide medical care.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 462 (Stone-D) Fire protection: residential care facilities

Requires a residential care facility for the elderly or adult residential facility that has a valid license as of a 1/1/14, to have installed and maintained on and after 1/1/18, an operable automatic fire sprinkler system approved by the State Fire Marshal.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 503 (Wieckowski-D) Health facilities: community benefits

Repeals the existing hospital community benefit law and replaces it with a new community benefit law. Requires private non-profit hospitals to complete a community benefit plan and requires 90% of community benefit funds to be allocated to charity care and projects that improve community health for underserved and vulnerable populations or that address specific community health needs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 559 (Gordon-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Adds to the list of facilities that are exempt from regulation as a residential care facility for the elderly a home or facility approved and annually reviewed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a medical foster home, as defined, in which care is provided exclusively to three or fewer veterans.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 591 (Fox-D) Hospital emergency room: geriatric physician

Requires each general acute care hospital with an emergency department to have, at all times, a geriatric physician serving on an "on-call" basis to that department.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 689 (Bonta-D) Health facilities: influenza

Requires each general acute care hospital to offer an onsite influenza vaccine annually to all patients prior to discharge, as specified, and requires hospitals to inform patients the patient may be required to pay for the vaccination.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 697 (Gomez-D) Nursing education: service in state veterans homes

Establishes a loan assumption program for employees of state veterans' homes within the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education program; provides loan assumption benefits to persons who fulfill agreements to work full time for four consecutive years as clinical registered nurses in state veterans' homes, as specified, and provides for a progressive assumption of the amount of a qualifying loan over four consecutive years of qualifying clinical registered nurses service, up to a total loan assumption of $20,000. Requires that, in any fiscal year, the Student Aid Commission award no more than the number of warrants that are authorized in the Budget Act for that fiscal year for the assumption of loans pursuant to the program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 961 (Levine-D) Health facilities: investigations: public disclosure

Requires the Department of Public Health to complete its investigation of a long-term health care facility and issue a citation, if any, within specified time frames. Authorizes the Department of Public Health and the Department of Social Services to publicly notice facility investigation and evaluation information as long as the facility has a license capacity of 16 beds or more and the name and personally identifiable information of any person with developmental disabilities or who is involuntarily detained is not included.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 973 (Quirk-Silva-D) Long-term health facilities: culture change

Requires the Department of Public Health to use specified funds from the state and federal Health Facilities Citation Penalty Accounts to contract through a competitive bid process with a nonprofit organization that meets specified criteria to promote culture change and person-centered care in long-term care facilities.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 975 (Wieckowski-D) Health facilities community benefits

Revises California's nonprofit community benefits requirements to include multispecialty clinics and narrows the activities that constitute community benefits, creates a definition of charity care, requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to develop a standardized methodology for calculating community benefits, calculate the value of community benefits for submitting entities, and to issue civil penalties for noncompliance with filing requirements.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1312 (Brown-D) Health facilities: health care standards of practice

Authorizes the Department of Public Health to, without taking regulatory action, update references in regulations to health care standards of practice adopted by a recognized state or national association, when the state or national association and its outdated standards are already named in the regulations, by posting on its Internet Web site in accordance with specified notice, public comment, and hearing requirements.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1812 (Pan-D) Health facilities: information: disclosure

Expands the list of entities to which the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development is required to disclose information it collects to include any subsidiary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, for the purposes of conducting a statutorily authorized activity.
Chapter 265, Statutes of 2014

AB 1816 (Yamada-D) Long-term health care facilities

Requires the Department of Public Health to set a 60-day performance benchmark for the completion of investigations into complaints against long-term health care facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1819 (Hall-D) Family day care home: smoking prohibition

Extends the existing prohibition against tobacco smoking in a private residence that is licensed as a family day care home to outside the hours of operation of the home.
Chapter 459, Statutes of 2014

AB 1841 (Mullin-D) Medical assistants

Authorizes a medical assistant to hand out properly labeled and prepackaged prescription drugs to patients as part of their existing authorization to provide "technical supportive services."
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2014

AB 1974 (Quirk-D) Health facilities: special services

Specifies that a "special service" does not include a functional division, department, or unit of a nursing facility that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide inpatient physical therapy services, occupational therapy services, or speech pathology and audiology services to residents of the facility if these services are provided solely to meet the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services certification requirements. States that these provisions do not limit the Department of Public Health's ability to enforce or evaluate compliance with specified therapy requirements during investigations or inspections.
Chapter 288, Statutes of 2014

AB 1996 (Brown-D) Long-term health care facilities: quality of care

Requires inspections of a long-term health care facility at least once every year instead of at least once every two years. Deletes obsolete references to a health facility inspection pilot program. Authorizes the inspector to refer the matter for appointment of a temporary manager or receiver if conditions at the facility indicate the need for the appointment.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2062 (Roger Hernández-D) Health facilities: surgical technologists

Prohibits a health facility from employing a surgical technologist unless the individual has completed an accredited educational program and obtained certification as a surgical technologist. Grandfathers in surgical technologists who were employed in health facilities prior to 1/1/15.
Vetoed

AB 2228 (Cooley-D) Crisis nurseries

Revises provisions related to crisis nursery programs by requiring crisis nurseries to be licensed by the Department of Social Services to operate crisis residential overnight programs, as defined, and authorizes crisis nurseries to provide crisis day services, as defined. Establishes the maximum licensed capacity for a crisis residential overnight program at 14 children and requires that the licensee designate at least one lead caregiver, as described, to be present at the crisis nursery at all times when children are present. Also modifies the requirements relating to the use of volunteers to be counted in the staff-to-child ratios in a crisis nursery, as specified, and prescribes requirements relating to when a child has a health condition that requires medication.
Chapter 735, Statutes of 2014

AB 2297 (Levine-D) Health facilities: reliable alternative clean energy

Authorizes health facilities to use clean energy technologies as their primary or backup power system, if the system meets federal requirements. Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to develop building standards for the use of clean energy systems in health facilities for inclusion in the California Building Standards Code.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2491 (Nestande-R) Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate adult recovery maintenance facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2557* (Pan-D) Hospitals: seismic safety

Permits a hospital located in the Counties of Sacramento, San Mateo, or Santa Barbara or the City of San Jose, that has received an additional extension of the 1/1/08, seismic safety requirements under specified provisions of existing law to 1/1/15, to request an additional extension until 9/1/15, in order to obtain either a certificate of occupancy or a construction final from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Chapter 821, Statutes of 2014

Health Professionals

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SB 570 (DeSaulnier-D) Advanced Alcohol and Drug Licensing Act

Establishes licensure and registration provisions relating to advanced alcohol and drug counselors and advanced alcohol and drug counselor interns, respectively, to be administered by the newly created Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor Licensing Board. Makes it a misdemeanor for a person to hold himself/herself out to be a licensed advanced alcohol and drug counselor or advanced alcohol and drug counselor intern, without holding a license or registration in good standing.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 993 (Mitchell-D) Healing arts: dietitians

Modifies educational and training requirements for a dietetic technician, registered; authorizes a registered dietitian to perform additional duties; and makes additional changes to the practice authorizations, as specified.
Chapter 622, Statutes of 2014

SB 1012 (Wyland-R) Healing arts: licensure requirements

Increases the number of hours, from five to six, which a marriage and family therapist trainee or intern and a professional clinical counselor intern may count toward their weekly supervision requirement.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2014

SB 1039 (Hernandez-D) Pharmacy

Makes changes to the authorized tasks of a pharmacy technician under the direct supervision or control of a pharmacist, and authorizes intern pharmacists to perform specified tasks.
Chapter 319, Statutes of 2014

SB 1083 (Pavley-D) Physician assistants: disability certifications

Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act to authorize a physician assistant (PA) to certify claims for disability insurance, after performance of a physical examination by the PA and under the supervision of a physician and surgeon; expands the definition of "practitioner" to include PAs; and requires the Employment Development Department to implement these provisions on or before 1/1/17.
Chapter 438, Statutes of 2014

SB 1148 (Yee-D) Marriage and family therapists: records retention

Requires a marriage and family therapist to retain a patient's health service records for a minimum of seven years from the date therapy is terminated, and also requires a minor patient's health service records to be retained for a minimum of seven years from the date the patient reaches 18 years of age.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1239 (Wolk-D) Pupil health care services: school nurses

Allows the governing board of a school district to bill a pupil's health insurer or the Medi-Cal program, or both, for the cost of health care services provided to the pupil. Requires the governing board of a school district eligible to receive concentration grants, as specified, to employ at least one school nurse as a supervisor of health, as specified. Does not apply to schools served by a school health center, as defined.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1256 (Mitchell-D) Medical services: credit

Extends existing consumer protections regarding lines of credit for dental services to all types of medical or healing arts services by requiring a licensee to provide a patient with a treatment plan, a disclosure form, and information about third-party payment coverage, and also establishes language and competency requirements.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2014

SB 1384 (Mitchell-D) Certified nurse assistants

Deletes the requirement that the Department of Public Health deny, suspend, or revoke a certificate of a certified nurse assistant if the applicant or certificate holder has been convicted of a violation or attempted violation of one or more of the specified crimes. Makes other related and conforming changes to these provisions, and makes findings and declarations.
Chapter 847, Statutes of 2014

SB 1466 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Health care professionals

Makes several non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive or technical changes to various provisions within the Business and Professions Code relating to the regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 316, Statutes of 2014

AB 589 (Fox-D) Medical education: underrepresented medical specialties

Provides loan assumption benefits to persons who agree to work full time for four consecutive years in California as physicians practicing in underrepresented specialties, as specified. Provides for a progressive assumption of the amount of a qualifying loan over four consecutive years of qualifying practice, up to a total loan assumption of $20,000 and requires that, in any fiscal year, the Student Aid Commission award no more than the number of warrants that are authorized in the Budget Act for that fiscal year for the assumption of loans. This program becomes inoperative on 7/1/19, and is repealed on 1/1/20.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 599 (Donnelly-R) Minors: vaccinations: parental consent

Provides that existing law which allows a minor who is 12 years of age or older and who may have come into contact with an infectious, contagious, or communicable disease to consent to medical care, as specified, does not authorize a minor to receive a vaccine without the consent of the parent or guardian of the minor.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 771 (Jones-R) Public health: wellness programs

Requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency to apply to the United States Secretary of HHS to allow California to be a participating pilot state in the wellness program demonstration project in accordance with federal law. Requires the Secretary of California HHS to petition the U.S. Secretary of HHS to change federal regulations to allow an employer in California to offer employees rewards of up to 50% of the cost of health care coverage for participating in a wellness program that meets all of the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 860 (Perea-D) Medical school scholarships

Revises the distribution scheme for funds from the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund by requiring $600,000 to be transferred to the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program before any funds are transferred to the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1176 (Bocanegra-D) Medical residency training program grants

Establishes the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Council and GME Fund and assesses health plans and insurers $5 annually per covered life to fund GME residency training programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1689 (Conway-R) Certified nurse assistants

Requires the Department of Public Health to post the registry of all certified nurse assistants that includes their certification status and the status of any proposed or completed disciplinary actions on its Internet Web site along with additional information in the registry, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1955 (Pan-D) Pupil health: Healthy Kids, Healthy Minds Demonstration

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the Healthy Kids, Healthy Minds Demonstration, to provide grants over a three-year period to local educational agencies to employ one full-time school nurse and one full-time mental health professional, and ensure the schoolsite library is open one hour before and three hours after the regular school day. Authorizes the State Board of Education to adopt emergency regulations to implement the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2346 (Gonzalez-D) Physician and surgeon assistance program

Authorizes the Medical Board of California to establish a voluntary and confidential program to aid physicians struggling with substance abuse, mental health concerns, or other issues, and specifies the program is to be modeled after the State Bar's Lawyer Assistance Program. Also authorizes the Board to charge a reasonable administrative fee to support the program, and requires participants in the program to pay all expenses relating to treatment and recovery.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2458 (Bonilla-D) Medical residency training program grants

Establishes the Graduate Medical Education Fund to administer and fund grants to graduate medical education residency programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2536 (Mullin-D) Employees: emergency rescue personnel

Expands the definition of emergency rescue personnel to include an officer, employee, or member of a disaster medical response team sponsored or requested by the state. Also requires an employee who is a health care provider to notify his/her employer at the time the employee becomes designated as emergency rescue personnel and time of deployment.
Chapter 343, Statutes of 2014

ACR 84 (Rodriguez-D) Emergency Medical Services Week

Proclaims 5/18/14 through 5/24/14, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
Resolution Chapter 53, Statutes of 2014

Medi-Cal

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SB 18 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal renewal

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to accept contributions by private foundations in the amount of at least $6 million for the purposes of providing Medi-Cal renewal assistance payments. Also requires the Department, in collaboration with the County Welfare Directors Association and legal services organizations, to develop renewal assistance training for community-based organizations.
Chapter 551, Statutes of 2014

SB 500 (Lieu-D) Drug Medi-Cal

Requires the Medical Board of California to update pain management case review standards by 7/1/15, and every five years thereafter, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 508 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility

Makes changes to the eligibility requirements for the Medi-Cal program by codifying existing eligibility levels and clarifying changes made to the program's eligibility requirements that were enacted when the state expanded eligibility under the federal Affordable Care Act, and in particular, conforms existing law to the federal requirement to use modified adjusted gross income for eligibility determination.
Chapter 831, Statutes of 2014

SB 640* (Lara-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement: provider payments

Prohibits, to the extent permitted by federal law, Medi-Cal provider payment reductions from applying to skilled nursing facilities or sub-acute care units that are a distinct part of a general acute care hospital, intermediate care or other specified facilities serving developmentally disabled individuals, or specified Medi-Cal provider payments for fee-for-service benefits, including payments to pharmacies, for dates of service on or after 6/1/11. Prohibits this payment reduction from applying to managed health care plans for dates of service after the effective date of this bill.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 645* (Nielsen-R) Diagnosis-related group methodology

Prohibits the Medi-Cal hospital payment methodology based on diagnosis-related groups from being implemented until the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) develops a methodology for hospitals to review base payment rates for health care services, requires the diagnosis-related groups methodology to include an appeals process for changes to a hospitals base rate, requires DHCS to collect codes and establish a database, and requires DHCS to develop an education and training program for hospital billing staff.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 646* (Nielsen-R) Medi-Cal: reimbursement: distinct part nursing facilities

Eliminates reductions in Medi-Cal payments to distinct part nursing facilities adopted as part of the 2011-12 Budget.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 986 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: managed care: exemption from plan enrollment

Establishes requirements for extending the duration of a medical exemption request that was granted to allow a beneficiary receiving a specified transplant to be exempt from mandatory enrollment in Medi-Cal managed care.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1004 (Hernandez-D) Health facilities: hospice care

Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to assist Medi-Cal managed care plans in delivering palliative care services, and requires DHCS to consult with stakeholders and directs DHCS to ensure the delivery of palliative care services in a manner that is cost-neutral to the General Fund, to the extent practicable.
Chapter 574, Statutes of 2014

SB 1045 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal Drug Treatment Program

Changes, for the purposes of Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program reimbursement, the number from a minimum of four and a maximum of 10 individuals to a minimum of two and a maximum of 12 allowed in a group for outpatient drug-free services.
Chapter 80, Statutes of 2014

SB 1081 (Hernandez-D) Federally qualified health centers

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to authorize a three-year alternative payment Medi-Cal methodology pilot project for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) under which participating FQHCs would receive capitated monthly payments for each Medi-Cal managed care enrollee assigned to the FQHC in place of the wrap-around, fee-for-service per-visit payments from the Department.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1089 (Mitchell-D) Medi-Cal: juvenile inmates

Makes clarifying changes to provisions requiring the Department of Health Care Services to develop a process to allow counties to receive federal Medicaid funds to inpatient services provided to otherwise Medi-Cal-eligible juvenile inmates admitted as inpatients in a medical institution off the grounds of the correctional facility.
Chapter 836, Statutes of 2014

SB 1124 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: estate recovery

Limits state recovery from the estate of a deceased Medi-Cal beneficiary to only those costs for health care services that the state is required to recover under federal law.
Vetoed

SB 1150 (Hueso-D) Medi-Cal: health centers and rural health clinics

Requires Medi-Cal reimbursement to federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics for two visits taking place on the same day at a single location when the patient suffers illness or injury requiring additional diagnosis or treatment after the first visit, or when the patient has a medical visit and another health visit with a mental health provider or dental provider.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1161 (Beall-D) Drug Medi-Cal

Requires the Department of Health Care Services, if it seeks a waiver of federal law regarding the Drug Medi-Cal program, to pursue federal approvals to address the need for greater capacity in both short-term residential treatment facilities and hospital settings providing short-term voluntary inpatient detoxification service.
Chapter 486, Statutes of 2014

SB 1212 (Walters-R) Medi-Cal: moratoria on enrollment of providers

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to exempt a clinical laboratory provider that has an existing relationship as a provider of benefits through a contract with a Medi-Cal managed care plan, if the Department has a moratorium on the enrollment of clinical laboratories in Medi-Cal.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1315 (Monning-D) Medi-Cal: providers

Requires a notice of temporary suspension issued to a health care provider by the Department of Health Care Services Medi-Cal Provider Enrollment Division to include a list of discrepancies required to be remediated and the timeframe in which a provider can demonstrate that the discrepancies identified have been remediated, which must be at least 60 days from the date the notice is issued, and requires the provider to be removed from enrollment as a Medi-Cal provider if a provider fails to remediate the identified discrepancies, as specified.
Chapter 844, Statutes of 2014

SB 1320 (Torres-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility

Allows a military service member's dependent, who is receiving home- and community-based services, to retain eligibility for those services or have his/her benefits temporarily suspended while he/she is living out of state due to the military service member being posted outside the state on military assignment, as provided. Also requires the Department of Health Care Services to approve the application if the dependent is otherwise eligible, requires the Department to direct services to the dependent upon receipt of certain documents, and requires the services to be furnished on the date of the dependent's expected residency in this state.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1339 (Cannella-R) Medi-Cal: Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program providers

Specifies that, for purposes of identifying potential fraud, waste, or abuse in the Medi-Cal program, criminal background checks are to be conducted on the officers and executive director of the provider or applicant, if the provider or applicant is a nonprofit Drug Medi-Cal provider or applicant; and specifies fingerprint requirement for these persons and any person with a 5% or greater ownership interest in the provider or applicant.
Chapter 488, Statutes of 2014

SB 1341 (Mitchell-D) Medi-Cal: Statewide Automated Welfare System

Requires the Statewide Automated Welfare System to be the system of record for Medi-Cal and to contain all Medi-Cal eligibility rules and case management functionality. Authorizes the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System to house the business rules necessary for an eligibility determination to be made for a Modified Adjusted Gross Income eligibility determination. Specifies the manner in which the functionality to create and send notices of action for Medi-Cal and advanced premium tax credits would be implemented.
Chapter 846, Statutes of 2014

SB 1374 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: ground ambulance rates

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to adopt regulations establishing the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate for ground ambulance services using one of two specified methodologies.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1452 (Wolk-D) Medi-Cal: managed care

Provides, to the extent permitted by federal law, that a Medi-Cal beneficiary for whom a conservator has been appointed under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act shall be exempt from mandatory enrollment in a managed care plan under the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1457 (Evans-D) Medical care: electronic treatment authorization requests

Requires requests for authorization for treatment or services in the Medi-Cal program, California Children's Services Program, and the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program, excluding those submitted by dental providers enrolled in the Medi-Cal Dental Program, to be submitted in an electronic format determined by the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) via DHCS' Internet Web site or other electronic means designated by DHCS. Requires DHCS to implement an alternate format for submission when DHCS' Internet Web site is unavailable due to a system disruption. Implements this requirement by 7/1/15, or a subsequent date determined by DHCS.
Chapter 849, Statutes of 2014

AB 39* (Skinner-D) Medi-Cal: designated public hospitals

Designates Doctors San Pablo as a designated public hospital, thereby allowing the hospital to access federal Medicaid funds under the state's Section 1115 Bridge to Reform Medicaid waiver for which they have not received federal approval.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 209 (Pan-D) Managed care: quality, accessibility, and utilization

Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to develop and implement a plan that includes specified components to monitor, evaluate, and improve the quality, accessibility, and utilization of health care and dental services provided through Medi-Cal managed care. Requires DHCS to hold public meetings to report on the plan and to invite public comments. Requires DHCS to appoint an advisory committee for the purpose of making recommendations to improve quality and access in the delivery of Medi-Cal managed care services.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 318 (Logue-R) Medi-Cal: teledentistry

Enacts provisions related to the use of teledentistry, as defined, under the Medi-Cal program. Provides that, to the extent that federal financial participation is available, face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient is not required under the Medi-Cal program for "teledentistry by store and forward." Provides that dentist participation in services provided at an intermittent clinic, as defined, through the use of telehealth, as defined, is considered a billable encounter under Medi-Cal. Requires, on or before 1/1/17, the Department of Health Care Services to report to the Legislature the number and type of services provided, and the payments made related to the application of teledentistry, as specified.
(Died In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 357 (Pan-D) Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel

Renames the Healthy Families Advisory Board as the Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel, transfers the new entity to the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), requires the Panel to be an independent statewide advisory board that advises DHCS on matters relevant to children enrolled in Medi-Cal and their families, and requires DHCS to provide general support and staff assistance to the Panel.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2014

AB 468 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: nondesignated public hospitals

Requires nondesignated public hospitals (NDPHs) to report and certify specified information for the 2012-13 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter. Requires the Department of Health Care Services to pay rate range increases, as defined, to Medi-Cal managed care plans that contract with the Department to provide Medi-Cal services in specified counties for the purpose of providing additional payments to NDPHs for purposes of equaling the amount of reimbursement the NDPH would have received through certified public expenditures under the fee-for-service payment methodology.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 505 (Nazarian-D) Medi-Cal: managed care: language assistance services

Requires all managed care plans contracting with the Department of Health Care Services to provide Medi-Cal services, except as specified, to provide language assistance services, which includes oral interpretation and translation services, to limited-English-proficient Medi-Cal beneficiaries, as defined. Requires the Department to determine when a limited-English-proficient population meets the requirement for translation services, as prescribed.
Chapter 788, Statutes of 2014

AB 804 (Lowenthal-D) Medi-Cal: pharmacy providers: invoices

Requires pharmacy invoice information that is submitted to the Department of Health Care Services or a designated vendor for the purpose of establishing average acquisition cost to be confidential and exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 880* (Gomez-D) Medi-Cal program costs: large employer responsibility

Creates the Employer Responsibility for Medi-Cal Cost of Employees Act of 2013. Among other provisions, requires large employers, employing 500 or more employees, to pay an employer responsibility penalty, if their employees who work more than 12 hours per week and more than 45 days in a calendar year are enrolled in Medi-Cal based on the Modified Adjusted Gross Income eligibility standard. Excludes clients of a regional center who are persons with disabilities from being counted in the calculation of 500 employees.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 900* (Alejo-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement: distinct part nursing facilities

Eliminates reductions in Medi-Cal payments to distinct part nursing facilities adopted as part of the 2011-12 Budget for services provided on or after 7/1/13.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1124* (Muratsuchi-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates

Extends the duration of the exemption for laboratory providers from compliance with the Medi-Cal "comparable price" regulation until 7/1/15. Delays the requirement that the Department of Health Care Services adopt regulations regarding Medi-Cal laboratory service rates, until 6/30/16.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2014

AB 1174 (Bocanegra-D) Dental professionals

Authorizes certain allied dental professionals to perform additional activities using telehealth; extends the duration of the Health Workforce Pilot Project No. 172 until 1/1/16; and prohibits Medi-Cal from requiring a face-to-face visit between a patient and provider before allowing for teledentistry services.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 2014

AB 1310 (Brown-D) Medi-Cal: telehealth

Revises the eligibility criteria for access to pediatric sub-acute care services in the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1552* (Lowenthal-D) Community-based adult services: adult day health care center

Requires Community-Based Adult Services to be a Medi-Cal benefit, and to be included as a covered service in contracts with all Medi-Cal managed health care plans, with standards, eligibility criteria, and provisions that are at least equal to those contained in the Special Terms and Conditions of the state's "Bridge to Reform" Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waiver.
Vetoed

AB 1644 (Medina-D) Medi-Cal: Drug Medi-Cal Program providers

Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to designate providers in the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program as high categorical risk, subjecting providers to background checks. Authorizes DHCS to lower the risk level after 1/1/18, if DHCS executes a related declaration.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1792 (Gomez-D) Public benefits: reports on employers

Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to annually inform the Employment Development Department (EDD) of the names and social security numbers of all recipients of the Medi-Cal program; requires DHCS to determine the average per-individual cost of state and federally funded benefits provided by the Medi-Cal program and inform EDD of these costs; defines an employer as an individual or organization that employs 100 or more beneficiaries of the Medi-Cal program; requires the Department of Finance to, after obtaining specified information from EDD, annually transmit to the Legislature and post on the Department of Finance Internet Web site a report that, among other things, identifies the 500 employers in the state with the most number of employees enrolled in a public assistance program ranked by the number of those employees, as specified; and establishes a 1/1/20, sunset date.
Chapter 889, Statutes of 2014

AB 1805* (Skinner-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement: provider payments

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to disregard the 10% payment reductions for Medi-Cal providers, to the maximum extent permitted by federal law and for the maximum time period for which federal financial participation is obtained.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1814 (Waldron-R) Prescriber Prevails Act

Establishes "prescriber prevails" for purposes of certain drug classes covered by the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1868 (Gomez-D) Medi-Cal: optional benefits: podiatric medicine

Reinstates podiatric benefits to the Medi-Cal program when the services are provided by a podiatrist and the service is currently covered by Medi-Cal as a physician service.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1967 (Pan-D) Drug Medi-Cal

Requires the Department of Health Care Services, if it commences a preliminary criminal investigation of a certified Drug Medi-Cal provider, to promptly notify each county that currently contracts with the provider for Drug Medi-Cal services that a preliminary criminal investigation has commenced.
Chapter 461, Statutes of 2014

AB 2025 (Dickinson-D) Medi-Cal: program for aged and disabled persons

Increases the amount of the income that is disregarded in calculating eligibility for purposes of the Medi-Cal aged and disabled program which effectively increases the upper limit of financial eligibility to 138% of the federal poverty level.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2051 (Gonzalez-D) Medi-Cal: providers: affiliate primary care clinics

Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), within 30 calendar days of receiving confirmation of certification as a Medi-Cal provider for an applicant that is an affiliate primary care clinic, to provide written notice to the applicant informing the applicant that its Medi-Cal enrollment is approved. Requires DHCS to enroll the affiliate primary care clinic retroactive to the date of certification. Imposes similar requirements upon DHCS with respect to an application for enrollment into the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program from an affiliate primary care clinic. Makes the effective date of enrollment into the Family PACT Program the later of the date DHCS receives confirmation of enrollment as a Medi-Cal provider, or the date the applicant meets all Family PACT provider enrollment requirements.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2014

AB 2212 (Gray-D) Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to allow county mental health plans (MHPs) to contract with local education agencies (LEAs) as providers of Medi-Cal Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment services to eligible students and, in counties where the LEA does not have a contract with the county MHP, to allow the MHP to obtain federal funds on behalf of nonpublic agencies that contract with LEAs to provide those services, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2325 (John A. Pérez-D) Medi-Cal: CommuniCal

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish the Medi-Cal Patient-Centered Communication Program, called CommuniCal, to provide and reimburse for medical interpretation services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who have limited English proficiency, establishes a certification process and registry of CommuniCal interpreters at the Department, and grants CommuniCal interpreters collective bargaining rights with the state.
Vetoed

AB 2340 (Garcia-D) Medi-Cal: benefits: clinic costs for drugs and supplies

Removes the cap on dispensing fees and requires the clinic dispensing fee to be the difference between the actual acquisition cost of a drug or supply, to be calculated not less than annually, and the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate. Also removes the cap on reimbursement that is based on the cost of drugs or supplies provided by retail pharmacies.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 2577 (Cooley-D) Medi-Cal: ground emergency medical transportation services

Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to provide supplemental reimbursement under existing provisions of law for the cost of paramedic services at a rate of payment equal to cost. Requires DHCS to develop and implement an intergovernmental transfer (IGT) program in order to increase capitation payments to Medi-Cal managed care plans for covered ground emergency medical transportation services, as specified, and requires DHCS to implement the IGT program on 1/1/15, or a later date if otherwise required pursuant to any necessary federal approvals obtained. Also provides that participation in the IGTs is voluntary on the part of the transferring entity and requires Medi-Cal managed care plans to pay 100% of any amount of increased capitation payments made to eligible providers for providing and making available ground emergency medical transportation services.
Vetoed

AB 2612 (Dababneh-D) Medi-Cal

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to request a federal waiver to authorize federal financial participation for health home services provided to individuals who are otherwise eligible to receive health home services and who are state or county inmates in their last 30 days in custody.
Vetoed

AB 2659 (Brown-D) Health Access Zones: income tax: credits

Requires the Director of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and the California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission to adopt regulations relating to the designation of health access zones, as defined, for the purpose of targeting state resources to reduce health disparities, increase access to primary care for the state's growing Medi-Cal population, improve health outcomes, and reduce health care costs and hospital admissions and readmissions in certain parts of the state. Requires the Director and the Commission to begin accepting applications from nonprofit community-based organizations and local government agencies for health access zone designation, and requires the Director and the Commission to designate areas as health access zones in accordance with specified criteria. Also authorizes the Director and the Commission to issue grants to the nonprofit community-based organizations, local government agencies, and health access zone practitioners, as defined, for specified purposes. Creates the Health Access Zone Reserve Fund, which would consist of monies appropriated by the Legislature, to be used, upon appropriation of the Legislature, by the Director and the Commission for these purposes.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

Mental Health

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SB 664 (Yee-D) Mental health: Laura's Law

Deletes the requirement under the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, which is also known as "Laura's Law," that county Boards of Supervisors must pass a resolution authorizing Laura's Law and make a finding that no voluntary mental health programs may be reduced as a result of the Laura's Law's implementation. Allows counties to place a cap on the number of persons to whom it provides services under Laura's Law.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 987 (Maienschein-R) Mental health: conservatorship hearings

Expands the duties of a county officer providing a conservatorship investigation by requiring the officer to petition the superior court for a conservatorship for a gravely disabled person whenever the professional person in charge of an agency providing comprehensive evaluation or a facility providing intensive treatment recommends conservatorship for a gravely disabled person.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1225 (Maienschein-R) State and local fund allocations

Authorizes a county or city and county to reallocate up to 10% of the amount deposited each fiscal year in the local health account, or local social services account, or both, to the local mental health account, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1296 (Skinner-D) Firearms: mentally disordered persons

Increases the period of time that a person is prohibited from possessing a firearm based on a mental illness, mental disorder, or a serious threat of violence communicated to a licensed psychotherapist.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1340 (Achadjian-R) Enhanced treatment programs

Authorizes the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) to establish and maintain pilot enhanced treatment programs (ETPs) for the treatment of patients who are at high risk of most dangerous behavior. Authorizes the Department of Public Health to approve an ETP as a supplemental service for an acute psychiatric hospital. Also requires, if the forensic needs assessment team determines that the patient requires continued ETP placement, that the patient's case be referred to a forensic psychiatrist or psychologist outside of DSH for independent review, that a hearing be conducted, and notice given, as specified. Requires DSH to monitor the ETPs, evaluate outcomes, and report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2014

AB 1367 (Mansoor-R) Mental health: Mental Health Services Fund

Declares that it is consistent with and furthers the intent of the Mental Health Services Act and clarifies that services provided under the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, which is also known as Laura's Law, may be provided pursuant to the Mental Health Services Act. Provides that outreach under prevention and early intervention programs may include the provision of funds to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for the purposes of obtaining and providing training to identify students with mental health issues that may result in a threat to themselves or others.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1725 (Maienschein-R) Conservatorship hearings

Allows a probate court to recommend a Lanterman-Petris-Short conservatorship for an individual for whom a conservatorship has been established under the Probate Code, subject to a hearing attended by the proposed conservatee or the proposed conservatee's counsel, as specified. Also requires the officer providing conservatorship investigation to file a copy of his/her report with the court making the recommendation in the probate conservatorship within 30 days of the recommendation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1929 (Chau-D) California Housing Finance Agency: MHSA funding

Requires the California Housing Finance Agency, with the concurrence of the Department of Health Care Services to release unencumbered Mental Health Services Fund monies dedicated to the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) housing program upon the request of the respective county, and requires these counties to use these to provide housing assistance, as defined, to identified target populations, including persons with a serious mental disorder. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the need to encourage counties, the agency, and the Department to continue partnering in the development of supportive housing, and to ensure county mental health departments are able to more fully utilize the MHSA funds for supportive housing and other housing assistance purposes. Declares that it clarifies procedures and terms of the MHSA.
Chapter 674, Statutes of 2014

AB 2190 (Maienschein-R) Criminal defendants: gravely disabled persons

Allows a court to place a person found to be incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity on outpatient status within a mental health treatment facility, as specified. Requires a conservatorship investigator to submit a copy of his/her report, upon prior written request of the defendant or the defendant's attorney, to specified entities in a criminal case.
Chapter 734, Statutes of 2014

AB 2543 (Levine-D) State hospitals: placement evaluations

Allows, at the election of the Director of the Department of State Hospitals, for an evaluation panel, instead of the treating psychiatrist, to determine whether a defendant committed to the Department to regain competency lacks capacity to make decisions regarding antipsychotic medication, as specified, and allows the lead member of the panel to present the case for the certification for involuntary treatment.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2679 (Logue-R) County mental health services: baseline reports

Requires the Department of Health Care Services and the California Mental Health Planning Council to make specified information related to mental health services client outcomes and cost effectiveness available on their respective Internet Web sites.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2014

ACR 148 (Lowenthal-D) Task Force on the Status of Maternal Mental Health Care

Requests the California Maternal Mental Health Collaborative, a nonprofit organization, to establish a task force on the status of maternal mental health care.
Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2014

ACR 163 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Bebe Moore Campbell Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

Recognizes July 2014 as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 161, Statutes of 2014

Public Health

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SB 224 (Walters-R) Newborn screening program

Requires the Department of Public Health, until 1/1/19, to expand the screening of newborns in Orange County to include screening for Krabbe disease.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 564 (Monning-D) Ski resorts: accident reports

Requires California ski resorts to report injuries to the Department of Public Health on a monthly basis and for the Department to make these reports publicly available on its Internet web site.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 596 (Yee-D) Pilot program: pupil mental health

Requires the Department of Education to establish a three-year pilot program, as specified, to encourage inclusive practices that integrate mental health, special education, and school climate interventions following a multi-tiered framework.
(Held at Assembly Desk)

SB 622 (Monning-D) Taxation: sweetened beverage tax

Enacts the Sweetened Beverage Tax Law, which imposes a one-cent per fluid ounce tax on any beverage that adds caloric sweeteners, such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas, and sports drinks. Requires funds generated by the Sweetened Beverage Tax to be directed to the newly created Children's Health Promotion Fund and allocated to statewide childhood obesity prevention activities and programs and to provide funds to either the University of California or the California State University to conduct a specified report.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 648 (Corbett-D) Electronic cigarettes: restriction of use and advertising

Prohibits the offer, sale, or distribution of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) from a vending machine or other coin or token operated mechanical device or appliance, unless that machine or appliance is located on a premises issued an on-sale public license to sell alcoholic beverages and is at least 15 feet from the entrance to that premises. Harmonizes vending machine restrictions for e-cigarettes with those of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and does not preempt any local standard that further restricts the sale of e-cigarettes. Violations result in civil penalties from $400 to $600 for the first violation up to $5,000 to $6,000 for a fifth violation within a five-year period.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 747 (DeSaulnier-D) Public Health impact assessments

Authorizes the Department of Public Health to request manufacturers of products contributing to a recognized public health epidemic to provide information to the Department on the public health impacts of the products.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 768* (De León-D) California Tobacco Tax Act of 2014

Imposes an additional tax on the distribution of cigarettes at the rate of $0.10 for each cigarette distributed; requires a dealer and a wholesaler to file a return with the Board of Equalization showing the number of cigarettes in its possession or under its control on that date, and imposes a related floor stock tax; requires a licensed cigarette distributor to file a return with the Board and pay a cigarette indicia adjustment tax for cigarette tax stamps in its possession or under its control on that date. Provides that the revenues collected from the additional tax be deposited in the California Tobacco Tax Act of 2014 Fund and transferred into the Tobacco Prevention and Education Account, the Tobacco Disease Related Health Care Account, and the Tobacco Law Enforcement Account to be expended for specified purposes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 949 (Jackson-D) After school programs

Establishes the Distinguished After School Health Recognition Program, for after school programs meeting specified requirements, to be administered by the Department of Education. Requires that funding for the recognition program be subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute, or by funding from nonstate sources and sunsets these provisions on 1/1/18.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2014

SB 973 (Hernandez-D) Narcotic treatment programs

Revises existing law related to patient treatment in narcotic treatment programs (NTPs) by permitting an NTP to admit a patient to narcotic maintenance or detoxification treatment at the discretion of an NTP's medical director, rather than after seven days after completion of a prior treatment episode. Also requires NTPs to assign a unique identifier to, and maintain an individual record for, each patient of the program rather than assigning consecutive numbers to each patient.
Chapter 484, Statutes of 2014

SB 1000 (Monning-D) Public health: sugar-sweetened beverages: safety warnings

Establishes the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Act, to be administered by the Department of Public Health, and requires a safety warning on all sealed sugar-sweetened beverage containers; multipacks of sealed containers; packages of concentrates, as defined; vending machines; and self-serve beverage dispensing machines. Requires the safety warning to be affixed to beverage containers, as specified, if the safety warning is not printed directly on the container. Requires the label to be posted in a place that is easily visible at the point-of-purchase of an establishment where a beverage dispensing machine is not self-serve.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SB 1040 (Evans-D) Food labeling: genetically engineered food

Requires that any food, except as provided, offered for retail sale in the state be considered misbranded if it is entirely or partially genetically engineered, as defined, and that fact is not disclosed in a specified manner. Prescribes labeling requirements for a raw agricultural commodity that is genetically engineered and packaged foods, as defined, containing some products of genetic engineering. Imposes these labeling requirements on manufacturers and retailers, as defined, of the commodities and foods.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 1044 (Fuller-R) Valley fever

Appropriates the sum of $1 million from the General Fund to the Department of Public Health for the 2014-15 fiscal year, for purposes of valley fever vaccine research. Allocates $100,000 to the Department in the 2014-15 fiscal year for purposes of costs associated with the administration of these provisions.
(Died in Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

SB 1055 (Liu-D) Public School Health Center Support Program

Renames the Public School Health Center Support Program the School-Based Health and Education Partnership Program and makes changes to the requirements and funding levels. Creates a new type of grant to fund interventions related to obesity, asthma, alcohol and substance abuse, and mental health.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1135 (Jackson-D) Inmates: sterilization

Prohibits sterilization for the purpose of birth control of an individual under the control of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as specified. Requires the Department to publish data on its Internet Web site related to the number of sterilizations performed, as specified.
Chapter 558, Statutes of 2014

SB 1138 (Padilla-D) Fish and shellfish: labeling and identification

Provides that it is unlawful to sell or offer for sale any fresh, frozen, or processed fish or shellfish intended for human consumption, without clearly identifying specified information, including the species of fish or shellfish by its common name. Prohibits a restaurant from knowingly misidentifying the species of fish or shellfish by its common name.
Vetoed

SB 1235 (Knight-R) Prepackaged food

Excludes from the definition of a food facility a premises set aside by a beer manufacturer for the purposes of beer tasting that offers crackers, pretzels, or prepackaged food for onsite consumption.
Chapter 927, Statutes of 2014

SB 1262 (Correa-D) Medical marijuana

Creates a licensing and regulatory framework for the cultivation, transportation, testing, and sale of medical marijuana, administered by the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1266 (Huff-R) Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors

Requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, as specified. Authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use the epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction.
Chapter 321, Statutes of 2014

SB 1303 (Torres-D) Public health: hepatitis C

Requires every "qualifying individual," as defined, who receives medical care from a health care practitioner to be offered a hepatitis C screening test or diagnostic test, unless the health care practitioner providing those services reasonably believes that any one of specified criteria applies.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1311 (Hill-D) Hospitals: antimicrobial stewardship

Requires all general acute care hospitals, as defined, to adopt and implement by 7/1/15, an antimicrobial stewardship policy, that includes a process to evaluate the judicious use of antibiotics, as specified. Requires a general acute care hospital to develop a physician-supervised multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship committee, subcommittee, or workgroup, and to appoint at least one physician or pharmacist who is knowledgeable about antimicrobial stewardship through prior training or attendance at continuing education programs. Also requires a general acute care hospital to report antimicrobial stewardship program activities to each appropriate hospital committee undertaking clinical quality improvement activities.
Chapter 843, Statutes of 2014

SB 1333 (Wyland-R) Vitamin and supplement ingredients: certification

Requires that a manufacturer and a wholesaler or distributor of vitamins or supplements in the state certify certain information to the Department of Public Health (DPH), including the country of origin for the vitamins and supplements. Also requires DPH to create a form for a manufacturer and a wholesaler or distributor to certify the required information to DPH and for DPH to adopt a procedure for the submission of the form.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1381 (Evans-D) Food labeling: genetically engineered food

Enacts "The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act" to require the labeling of genetically engineered foods sold within California, as specified.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

SB 1395 (Block-D) Public beaches: inspection for contaminants

Authorizes the Department of Public Health to allow a local health officer (LHO) to use specified polymerase chain reaction testing methods published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or an approved alternative test procedure to determine the level of enterococci bacteria as a single test based on a single indicator at one or more beach locations within that jurisdiction if the LHO demonstrates through side-by-side testing over a beach season that the use of the test method provides a reliable indication of overall microbiological contamination conditions. Also requires the Department, in making the determination of whether to authorize the use of those testing methods by a LHO, to take into account whether the alternative indicators and related test method can provide results more quickly, but does not require the use of those testing methods.
Chapter 928, Statutes of 2014

SB 1438 (Pavley-D) Controlled substances: opioid antagonists

Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop and adopt training and standards for all prehospital emergency care personnel regarding the use and administration of naloxone hydrochloride and other opioid antagonists and to include the administration of naloxone hydrochloride in the training and scope of practice, consistent with current law, for emergency medical technician I certification. Requires the Attorney General to authorize hospitals and trauma centers to share data on controlled substance overdose trends with local law enforcement agencies and local emergency medical services agencies, as specified.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2014

AB 145 (Perea-D) State Water Resources Control Board: drinking water

Transfers, from the Department of Public Health to the State Water Resources Control Board, all of the authority, duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction for the purposes of the California Safe Drinking Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 678 (Gordon-D) Health care districts: community health needs assessment

Requires health care districts to conduct a community health needs assessment every five years with the involvement of specified stakeholders, and to include progress toward meeting the health needs identified in this assessment in an existing annual report that is required of health care districts.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1592* (Beth Gaines-R) California Diabetes Program

Requires the Department of Public Health to submit a report to the Legislature regarding a diabetes action plan for the state. Permits the Department to issue updates, as necessary, to the reports and requires the report to be posted on their Internet Web site.
Vetoed

AB 1667 (Williams-D) Tuberculosis testing in schools

Replaces current mandatory tuberculosis testing for school employees and volunteers with a tuberculosis risk assessment administered by a health care provider.
Chapter 329, Statutes of 2014

AB 1683 (Jones-R) Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry

Requires the Department of Public Health to notify a patient diagnosed with cancer, or provided treatment for cancer, of the requirement that their data be reported to the California Cancer Registry.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1727 (Rodriguez-D) Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program

Exempts a prescription drug under the federal Food and Drug Administration Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies from being donated through a prescription drug donation program.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 2014

AB 1743 (Ting-D) Hypodermic needles and syringes

Deletes the limit on the number of syringes a pharmacist has the discretion to sell to an adult without a prescription and extends, until 1/1/21, the statewide authorization for pharmacists to sell syringes without a prescription, as specified.
Chapter 331, Statutes of 2014

AB 1755 (Gomez-D) Medical information

Revises provisions of law requiring licensed health facilities to prevent disclosure of patients' medical information by extending the deadline for health facilities to report unauthorized disclosures from five to 15 business days after unlawful or unauthorized access, use, or disclosure has been detected, and authorizes the report made to the patient or the patient's representative to be made by alternative means, including email, as specified. Also requires a delayed report for law enforcement purposes to be made within 15 business days of the end of the delay. Grants the Department of Public Health full discretion to consider all factors when determining whether to investigate under these provisions.
Chapter 412, Statutes of 2014

AB 1819 (Hall-D) Family day care home: smoking prohibition

Extends the existing prohibition against tobacco smoking in a private residence that is licensed as a family day care home to outside the hours of operation of the home.
Chapter 459, Statutes of 2014

AB 1822 (Bonta-D) Tissue banks

Creates an additional exemption from the tissue bank licensing requirement for the storage of tissue if that person is a hospital or outpatient setting and the tissue meets specified requirements, including, among other things, that the tissue was obtained from a tissue bank licensed by the state, is stored in the original unopened enclosure for one finished unit of transplantable tissue and in strict accordance with the package insert and any other manufacturer instructions and guidelines, and is intended for the express purpose of implantation into or application on a patient.
Vetoed

AB 1840 (Campos-D) Pupil health: vision appraisal

Clarifies that a child's vision is permitted to be appraised by using an eye chart or any scientifically validated photoscreening test. Requires photoscreening tests to be performed, under an agreement with, or the supervision of, an optometrist or ophthalmologist, by the school nurse or a trained individual who meets requirements established by the Department of Education.
Chapter 803, Statutes of 2014

AB 1893 (Stone-D) Sharps waste

Requires that customers be given a free sharps disposal container with the sale of 50 or more medical sharps for self-injection.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 1898 (Brown-D) Public health records: reporting: HIV/AIDS

Adds hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and meningococcal infection to the list of diseases that local public health agencies are permitted to disclose, along with personally identifying information in public health records, to state public health agency staff for the purposes of the investigation, control, or surveillance of HIV co-infection.
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2014

AB 1965 (Yamada-D) Outdoor dining facilities: pet dogs

Permits pet dogs under control of a person to be in outdoor dining areas at food facilities under specified conditions and clarifies that local governing bodies may prohibit that conduct by ordinance.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2014

AB 2029 (Cooley-D) Inquests: sudden unexplained death in childhood

Defines "sudden unexplained death in childhood" as the sudden death of a child one year of age or older but under 18 years of age that is unexplained by the history of the child and for which a thorough postmortem examination fails to demonstrate an adequate cause of death. Requires the coroner to notify the parent or responsible adult of a child within that definition about the importance of taking tissue samples. Also exempts the coroner from liability for damages in a civil action for any act or omission done in compliance with these provisions.
Vetoed

AB 2069 (Maienschein-R) Immunizations: influenza

Requires the Department of Public Health to post educational information on its Internet Web site, in accordance with the latest recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, regarding influenza disease and the availability of the flu vaccine.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2014

AB 2130* (Pan-D) Retail food safety

Repeals provisions of law enacted in 2013 that prohibits retail food employees from contacting exposed ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands, and replaces these provisions with the law that existed prior to the enactment of these provisions, which requires food employees to minimize bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2014

AB 2336 (Grove-R) Abortion: gender selection

Prohibits a person from performing, or attempting to perform an abortion if they know the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion on account of the gender of the unborn child.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2374 (Mansoor-R) Substance abuse: recovery and treatment services

Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to design its death investigation policy to ensure that the death of a resident at a licensed adult residential treatment facility is addressed and investigated in a timely manner and specifies the content of telephonic and written reports of residential treatment facility deaths that are required to be reported. Requires that a telephonic report be submitted to DHCS within one working day, and a written report within seven calendar days, of the event or incident. Prohibits DHCS from approving a certifying organization (CO) for purposes of providing counseling services if the CO does not, prior to registering or certifying an individual, contact other DHCS-approved COs to determine whether the individual has ever had his/her registration or certification revoked. Requires a CO to deny a counselor's request for registration if the counselor's registration or certification has been previously revoked, and to send the counselor a written notice of denial.
Chapter 815, Statutes of 2014

AB 2644 (Nazarian-D) Toilet facilities

Requires each toilet stall in specified facilities to contain a waste receptacle, unless the addition of a waste receptacle would result in noncompliance with a local, state, or federal law relating to access for persons with disabilities, as determined by the local health officer.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AJR 50 (Bloom-D) Blood donation

Requests the President of the United States and the federal Department of Health and Human Services to adopt science-based policies that repeal current Food and Drug Administration policies that prohibit men who have had sex with men from donating blood.
Resolution Chapter 170, Statutes of 2014

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SB 170 (Wolk-D) Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park

Exempts from the requirements to register as a food processing facility, and to obtain a permit as a retail food facility, a historic water-driven grist mill in order to allow grain to be milled, packaged and sold at the mill without having to meet the requirements of a food processing facility or a retail food facility.
Vetoed

SB 264 (Pavley-D) Accountable care organizations

Requires an accountable care organization, as defined, operating in the state to have a clinical laboratory testing advisory board, as specified, to recommend testing guidelines that the accountable care organization may adopt.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 430 (Wright-D) Pupil health: vision examination: binocular function

Deletes an existing requirement that upon first enrollment in a California school district of a child at an elementary school, and at least every third year thereafter until the child has completed the eighth grade, the child's vision to be appraised by the school nurse or other authorized person, and replaces it with a requirement that, upon first enrollment in a private or public elementary school, a pupil receive a vision examination from a physician, optometrist, or ophthalmologist and requires that screening to include a test for binocular function, refraction, and eye health.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SB 443 (Walters-R) Organized camps

Includes "organized resident camp" and "organized day camp" within the definition of the term "organized camp." Requires an "organized resident camp" and an "organized day camp" to provide written verification that the camp is accredited by the American Camp Association or the Boy Scouts of America or develop a written operating plan and file the plan with the local health officer at least 30 days prior to operation of the camp. Requires submissions of an operating plan to the local public health officer, authorizes the local health officer to assess related fees, and requires camps operated by a city or a county, or a city and county, to comply with applicable provisions. Exempts a public recreation program, as defined, from organized camp regulations. Exempts an organized day camp from certain construction and other standards generally applicable to organized resident camps. Requires the Department of Public Health, in amending the rules and regulations pertaining to organized camps, to obtain the input and advice of prescribed organizations.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 588 (Emmerson-R) Medical records: reproduction fees

Revises provisions of law governing disclosure of medical records to attorneys prior to the filing of any action by (1) increasing the fees that may be charged for copying these records, including distinguishing costs for paper and electronic medical records; (2) deleting the prohibition on medical providers performing the copying when the attorney has employed a professional copier; and (3) only permitting the attorney to employ a professional photocopying service when the records are in paper form.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 600 (Lieu-D) Drugs

Repeals provisions of existing Pharmacy Law to conform to the federal Drug Quality and Security Act; declares any that foreign dangerous drug that is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or that is obtained outside the state-licensed supply chain is misbranded; and provides that anyone who purchases that drug is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $10,000.
Chapter 492, Statutes of 2014

SB 836 (Corbett-D) Brain research: Cal-BRAIN program

Requests the University of California to establish the California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience Act of 2014 (Cal-BRAIN) program to leverage California's research assets and the federal Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative funding opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 857 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Act of 2014: Health

Enacts necessary changes related to the Budget Act of 2014 as the Omnibus Health Trailer Bill for 2014-15.
Chapter 31, Statutes of 2014

SB 870 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Act of 2014: Health

Enacts necessary changes related to the Budget Act of 2014 as the Omnibus Health Trailer Bill for 2014-15.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2014

SB 883 (Hancock-D) Appropriation to West Contra Costa Healthcare District

Appropriates $3 million in funds from the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund from funds deposited from the Cigarette and Tobacco Tax Surtax Fund (Proposition 99 funds) to West Contra Costa Healthcare District for support of Doctors Medical Center.
Chapter 691, Statutes of 2014

SB 906 (Correa-D) Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Offsite Program

Creates the Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Offsite Program in the Department of Public Health (DPH) to certify an unlimited number of general acute care hospitals that are licensed to provide cardiac catheterization laboratory service in California, and that meet prescribed, additional criteria, to perform scheduled, elective PCI. Authorizes a hospital that was participating in the Elective PCI Pilot Program as of 12/31/14, to continue to perform elective PCI but requires the hospital to obtain a certification, as specified, by 1/1/16. Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to annually develop and make available to the public a report regarding each participating hospital's performance, as specified, and authorizes DPH to form an advisory oversight committee for the purpose of analyzing those reports and recommending changes. Also authorizes DPH to charge each participating hospital a supplemental licensing fee not to exceed the reasonable cost to DPH of overseeing the program.
Chapter 368, Statutes of 2014

SB 1172 (Steinberg-D) Pupil health: vision appraisals

Deletes the existing vision screening requirements and instead, requires, during the kindergarten year or upon first enrollment or entry in a California school district of a pupil at an elementary school, and in grades 2, 5, and 8, the pupil's vision to be appraised by the school nurse or other authorized person.
Chapter 925, Statutes of 2014

SB 1276 (Hernandez-D) Health care: fair billing policies

Revises the hospital charity care programs by making individuals who meet the income requirements eligible, even if they have received a discounted rate from the hospital as a result of third-party coverage. Defines "reasonable payment formula," for purposes of these charity care programs, as monthly payments that do not exceed 10% of a patient's family income.
Chapter 758, Statutes of 2014

SB 1334 (Walters-R) Newborn screening program

Requires the Department of Public Health, until 1/1/20, to expand the screening of newborns in Orange County to include screening for Krabbe disease. Permits monies from the Genetic Disease Testing Fund to be used to implement this pilot program.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 1357 (Wolk-D) Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form

Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to create a statewide registry for Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment forms.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1465* (Senate Health Committee) Health

Requires local emergency medical services agencies to send Emergency Medical Services Fund reports to the Emergency Medical Services Authority, rather than to the Legislature; allows the Department of Health Care Services to develop a Medi-Cal provider enrollment application withdrawal process; and makes numerous technical, clarifying changes to existing law.
Chapter 442, Statutes of 2014

SCR 21 (Emmerson-R) Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month

Designates March 2013 as Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 31 (Hernandez-D) California Osteopathic Medicine Week

Annually proclaims, commencing April 2013, the third week of April as California Osteopathic Medicine Week.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 75 (Galgiani-D) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness

Encourages the Department of Health Care Services, the Department of Public Health, and other state entities to partner with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease stakeholders to improve education regarding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the course of implementing the statewide strategic plan and designates November 2014 as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2014

SCR 81 (Monning-D) California Essential Tremor Awareness Month

Designates March 2014 as California Essential Tremor Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 16, Statutes of 2014

SCR 88 (Evans-D) Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week

Declares the week of 3/3/14, through 3/9/14, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 19, Statutes of 2014

SCR 89 (Wolk-D) Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Public Awareness Day

Recognizes and supports the importance of public awareness and education regarding Lynch syndrome by declaring 3/22/14, as Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Public Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 12, Statutes of 2014

SCR 91 (Fuller-R) Valley Fever Awareness Month

Declares August 2014 as Valley Fever Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2014

SCR 99 (Beall-D) Autism Awareness Month

Designates April 2014 as Autism Awareness Month and encourages residents to show support for autism awareness by lighting their homes, businesses, schools, and places of worship with blue light bulbs.
Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2014

SCR 101 (Gaines-R) Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Designates September 2014 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2014

SCR 104 (Huff-R) Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week

Declares the third week of September 2014, and the third week of September in each subsequent year, as Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2014

SCR 106 (Fuller-R) Chiari Malformation Awareness Month

Declares the month of September 2014 as Chiari Malformation Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2014

SCR 109 (Lara-D) STD Awareness Month and Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day

Recognizes April 2014 as National STD Awareness Month, and recognizes 4/10/14, as National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 119, Statutes of 2014

SCR 124 (Corbett-D) Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month and The Longest Day

Recognizes June 2014 as Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month and urges all residents to wear purple to help spread global awareness of the Alzheimer's Association's vision of imagining a world without Alzheimer's disease. Also recognizes 6/21/14, as The Longest Day in California and urges all residents to show their support on that day by wearing purple and engaging in a day of activities, honoring the strength, passion, and endurance of people facing Alzheimer's disease.
Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2014

SCR 126 (Fuller-R) Adrenoleukodystrophy Awareness Month

Memorializes the month of November 2014 as Adrenoleukodystrophy Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2014

SCR 129 (Liu-D) Pain Awareness Month and Women In Pain Awareness Day

Recognizes September 2014 as Pain Awareness Month and calls upon all Californians to observe that month by learning how to improve the quality of life of Californians suffering from pain. Also recognizes 9/12/14, as Women In Pain Awareness Day to draw public attention to gender disparity in pain assessment and treatment in the United States.
Resolution Chapter 138, Statutes of 2014

SCR 132 (Lieu-D) Scoliosis Awareness Month

Proclaims June 2014, as Scoliosis Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2014

SCR 133 (Hill-D) Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of September 2014 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and states the commitment of the Legislature to support efforts to find cures for, and achieve prevention of, childhood cancer.
Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2014

SCR 134 (Beall-D) Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month

Proclaims November 2014 as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and urges all Californians to know, fight, and end pancreatic cancer.
Resolution Chapter 126, Statutes of 2014

SR 36 (Walters-R) Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month

Declares March 2014 as Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 809* (Logue-R) Healing arts: telehealth

Revises the informed consent requirements relating to the delivery of health care via telehealth by permitting consent to be made verbally or in writing, and by deleting the requirement that the health care provider who obtains the consent be at the originating site where the patient is physically located.
Chapter 404, Statutes of 2014

AB 831 (Bloom-D) Drug overdoses

Requires, until 1/1/16, the Health and Human Services Agency to convene a temporary working group to develop a state plan to reduce the rate of fatal drug overdoses and appropriates $500,000 from the General Fund to the Agency to provide grants to local agencies to implement drug overdose prevention and response programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1278 (Hueso-D) Integrative cancer treatment

Prohibits a physician and surgeon, including an osteopathic physician and surgeon, from recommending, prescribing, or providing integrative cancer treatment, as defined, to cancer patients unless certain requirements are met. Specifies that a failure of a physician and surgeon to comply with these requirements constitutes unprofessional conduct and cause for discipline by the individual's licensing entity. Requires the Department of Public Health to investigate violations of these provisions and to hold hearings with respect to compliance with these provisions and makes conforming changes to other related provisions.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1357 (Roger Hernández-D) Emergency departments: diversion of patients

Requires funds, collected by the County of Los Angeles through a voter approved initiative for emergency rooms from properties within the San Gabriel Valley, to remain within that geographic region of the county. Requires the funds to be used for the purposes intended by the voter initiative, within that geographic area, to reduce ambulance diversion. Establishes a task force consisting of the Director of the Emergency Medical Services Authority, the Director of the Department of Public Health, the State Auditor, and a representative of a local hospital task force to be selected by the other members. Requires the task force to study and audit the funds collected from properties in San Gabriel Valley since the passage of the local voter initiative to gain an understanding as to how the monies have been allocated and to gauge what improvements, if any, have been made. Requires the task force to report its findings to the Legislature by 1/1/15.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1462 (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Act of 2014: Health

Enacts necessary changes related to the Budget Act of 2014 as the Omnibus Health Trailer Bill for 2014-15.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1474 (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Act of 2014: Health

Enacts necessary changes related to the Budget Act of 2014 as the Omnibus Health Trailer Bill for 2014-15.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1558 (Roger Hernández-D) California Health Data Organization: claims database

Requests the University of California to establish the California Health Data Organization, and requires private payers to regularly submit claims data, including encounter data, as defined, to the Organization on utilization, payment and cost sharing for services delivered to beneficiaries. Establishes minimum specifications for the data submitted for each claim or encounter, as described. Requests the Organization to design and maintain an interactive searchable Internet Web site that is accessible to the public. Requests the Organization to use the data and produce annual reports so as not to identify individual physicians.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1559 (Pan-D) Newborn screening program

Requires the Department of Public Health to expand statewide screening of newborns to include screening for adrenoleukodystrophy as soon as it is adopted by the federal Recommended Uniform Screening Panel.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2014

AB 1577 (Atkins-D) Certificates of death: gender identity

Requires, beginning 7/1/15, a person completing a death certificate to record the decedent's sex to reflect the decedent's gender identity, as specified.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2014

AB 1578* (Pan-D) Health: The California Health Benefit Review Program

Requests the California Health Benefit Review Program, in addition to analyzing the public health impacts, medical effectiveness, and financial impacts of legislation proposing to mandate or repeal benefits or services, to also analyze the impact on essential health benefits and Covered California. Extends the annual fee assessed on health plans and insurers for this purpose to fiscal year 2015-16. Extends operation of the Program, from 6/30/15, to 6/30/16.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 1733 (Quirk-Silva-D) Public records: fee waiver

Requires local registrars or county recorders to issue a birth certificate without a fee to any person who can verify his/her status as a homeless person or a homeless child or youth; prohibits a fee from being charged for an original or replacement identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles to any person who can verify his/her status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth; and requires the Department of Public Health to develop an affidavit attesting to an applicant's status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth.
Chapter 764, Statutes of 2014

AB 1952 (Pan-D) Nonprofit hospitals: charity care

Requires nonprofit hospitals to annually provide charity care amounting to 5% of the hospital's net patient revenue.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1960 (Perea-D) State summary criminal history information: state hospitals

Requires a director of a state hospital or a clinician, as defined, to obtain state summary criminal history information on patients only to be used for the purposes specified, including a patient's violence risk and appropriate treatment planning.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2014

AB 2059 (Muratsuchi-D) Medical records: electronic delivery

Requires a health care provider to provide an electronic copy of an electronic medical record or electronic health record, when an electronic copy is requested, if the medical record exists in digital or electronic format and the medical record can be delivered electronically. Authorizes a health care provider that provides electronic copies of medical records to charge $.25 per page, not to exceed $125, and retrieval or processing fee in an amount not to exceed $30. Additionally extends the period in which a health care provider must make records available or be subject to liability for all reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees and court costs, from five days to 20 business days.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2144 (Yamada-D) Staff-to-patient ratios

Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt regulations by 1/1/16, that establish minimum, specific, and numerical licensed nursing and ancillary staff-to-patient ratios for all hospitals operated by the Department of State Hospitals.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2187 (Cooley-D) County children's trust funds

Requires that birth certificate fees collected by a county for a child, whose mother resides in another county, to be transmitted to the county children's trust fund in the county of the mother's residence. Removes the specification that the transfer is only required if the county of residence has no licensed health facility that provides maternity services within its jurisdiction.
Chapter 61, Statutes of 2014

AB 2425 (Quirk-D) Laboratories: review committee

Prohibits laboratories that are accredited in forensic alcohol analysis by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board from being required to establish the concentration of each lot of secondary alcohol standards it uses, whether prepared or acquired, by an oxidimetric method that employs a primary standard, and specifies that those laboratories are not limited to reporting analytical results to the second decimal place. Also changes the requirement that the Forensic Alcohol Review Committee meet at least once in each five-year period and instead requires them to meet at least once in each three-year period, as specified.
Chapter 570, Statutes of 2014

AB 2450 (Logue-R) Special-interest license plates: Department of Public Health

Requires the Department of Public Health to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a special-interest license plate that promotes awareness of kidney disease.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2014

AB 2452 (Pan-D) Advance health care directive registry

Requires the Secretary of State to transfer the contents of its Advance Health Care Directive's Registry to the Department of Public Health (DPH) on 1/1/16. Requires DPH to maintain a health care decision registry, to be referred to as the California Health Care Decisions Online Registry and to establish and maintain access, as specified, to a secure portion of DPH's Internet Web site that provides an electronic reproduction of an advance health care directive and other specified documents submitted to the registry system. Requires this access to include the ability to view the electronic reproduction on the Internet Web site, as well as download, print, and otherwise retrieve a copy of the electronic reproduction. Requires, among other things, DPH to establish procedures to register, replace, and remove an advance health care directive, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2528 (Skinner-D) State-issued identity documents: diacritical marks

Requires the State Registrar to ensure that diacritical marks on English letters are properly recorded on birth certificates, including, but not limited to, accents, tildes, graves, umlauts, and cedillas and to develop procedures to include other reasonable requests relating to names on birth certificates and creates substantially similar requirements for the Secretary of State relating to certificates of registered domestic partnerships, and the Department of Motor Vehicles relating to identification cards.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACA 5 (Grove-R) Abortion: parental notification

Establishes the Parental Notification, Child and Teen Safety, Stop Predators Act, and prohibits a physician and surgeon from performing an abortion on an unemancipated minor, as defined, unless the physician and surgeon or his/her agent has delivered written notice to the parent of the unemancipated minor, or until a waiver of that notice has been received from the parent or issued by a court pursuant to a prescribed process. Requires the physician and surgeon performing an abortion on an unemancipated minor to report specified information to the Department of Public Health and requires the Department to compile an annual statistical report with that information. Imposes civil and criminal liability for violation of these provisions, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

ACR 38 (Cooley-D) American Red Cross Month

Recognizes the month of March 2013 as American Red Cross Month in California.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 82 (Pan-D) Food allergy awareness

Declares September as Food Allergy Awareness Month and encourages all Californians to make themselves and their families aware of the risk of food allergies and preventative measures, and to educate themselves regarding emergency responses.
Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2014

ACR 83 (Buchanan-D) Alcohol Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of April 2014 as Alcohol Awareness Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2014

ACR 86 (Buchanan-D) American Heart Month

Recognizes February 2014 as American Heart Month and 2/7/14, as Wear Red Day in California in order to raise awareness of the importance of the ongoing fight against heart disease and stroke and urges all Californians to show support for women and the fight against heart disease by wearing the color red.
Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2014

ACR 93 (Buchanan-D) Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of March 2014 as Drug Abuse Awareness Month in California, and encourages all citizens to participate in prevention programs and activities and to pledge to "Spread the Word ... One Pill Can Kill."
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2014

ACR 107 (Bloom-D) Year of the Family Physician

Designates 2014 as the "Year of the Family Physician."
Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 2014

ACR 110 (Fox-D) Health Care District Month

Proclaims the month of May 2014 as Health Care District Month in California and recognizes the essential role that health care districts have in California.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2014

ACR 111 (Levine-D) Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Designates the month of March 2014 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2014

ACR 113 (Hagman-R) Epilepsy awareness

Proclaims 3/26/14, as Purple Day to increase epilepsy awareness.
Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2014

ACR 122 (Beth Gaines-R) Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month

Designates the month of May 2014 as Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2014

ACR 123 (Harkey-R) Arthritis Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of May 2014 as Arthritis Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2014

ACR 132 (Eggman-D) West Nile Virus and Vector Control Awareness Week

Declares the week of 4/20/14, through 4/26/14, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 2014

ACR 138 (Achadjian-R) Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day

Proclaims 5/19/14, as Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 59, Statutes of 2014

ACR 139 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month

Designates the month of April 2014 as Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 2014

ACR 141 (Holden-D) American Stroke Month 2014

Declares May 2014 to be American Stroke Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 86, Statutes of 2014

ACR 151 (Wilk-R) Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Week

Declares the week of 5/25/14, to 5/31/14, inclusive, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Week to honor those who work to make research and resources a reality for children suffering from Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma and their families.
Resolution Chapter 98, Statutes of 2014

ACR 152 (Pan-D) Patient centered medical homes

States that the Legislature supports and encourages the development and expansion of a California health care delivery system that identifies patient-centered medical homes and is based upon certain principles of coordination of patient care.
Resolution Chapter 143, Statutes of 2014

ACR 155 (Bocanegra-D) Childhood brain development: toxic stress

Urges the Governor to identify evidence-based solutions to reduce children's exposure to adverse childhood experiences, address the impacts of those experiences, and invest in preventive health care and mental health and wellness interventions.
Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2014

ACR 164 (Waldron-R) World Hepatitis Day

Proclaims 7/28/14, as World Hepatitis Day in California.
Resolution Chapter 178, Statutes of 2014

ACR 171 (Wilk-R) Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Awareness Month

Declares September 2014 as Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 182, Statutes of 2014

ACR 172 (Beth Gaines-R) Diabetes Awareness Month

Declares November 2014 as Diabetes Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 183, Statutes of 2014

ACR 175 (Ian Calderon-D) Red Ribbon Week

Proclaims 10/23/14 to 10/31/14, as Red Ribbon Week and encourages all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
Resolution Chapter 186, Statutes of 2014

AJR 5 (Gomez-D) National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week

Designates the week of 4/20/14 to 4/26/14, inclusive, as National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week, encourages continued research into policies and programs that seek to reduce cancer disparities and, as a result, improve cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care for all Californians. Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to recognize National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 2014

AJR 50 (Bloom-D) Blood donation

Requests the President and the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt science-based policies that repeal current Food and Drug Administration policies that prohibit men who have had sex with men from donating blood.
Resolution Chapter 170, Statutes of 2014

AJR 51 (Brown-D) Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month

Recognizes the month of September 2014, as Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month in California, and urges Congress of the United States to support the President's continuation of funding for sickle cell anemia centers and research.
Resolution Chapter 171, Statutes of 2014

HR 32 (Mullin-D) Rare Disease Day

Proclaims 2/28/14, as Rare Disease Day in California.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 35 (Campos-D) Lupus Awareness Month

Designates May 2014 as Lupus Awareness Month and extends heartfelt wishes to the Lupus Foundations in California for success in their core objectives in the future.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 53 (Levine-D) National Health Center Week

Proclaims the week of 8/10/14, to 8/16/14, inclusive, as National Health Center Week in California.
Adopted by the Assembly

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Measure and Reference	Author	Measure Title
SB 18 - Medi-Cal	Hernandez-D	Medi-Cal renewal
SB 20* - Health Coverage/Insurance	Hernandez-D	Individual health care coverage: enrollment periods
SB 22 - Affordable Care Act	Beall-D	Health care coverage: mental health parity
SB 117 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Hueso-D	Integrative cancer treatment
SB 170 - Miscellaneous	Wolk-D	Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park
SB 189 - Affordable Care Act	Monning-D	Health care coverage: wellness programs
SB 224 - Public Health	Walters-R	Newborn screening program
SB 264 - Miscellaneous	Pavley-D	Accountable care organizations
SB 268* - Health Facilities	Gaines-R	Health care districts: public contracts: design-build
SB 280 - Affordable Care Act	Lieu-D	Insurance affordability programs: application form
SB 320 - Affordable Care Act	Beall-D	Health care coverage: acquired brain injury
SB 351 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Hernandez-D	Health care coverage: hospital billing
SB 430 - Miscellaneous	Wright-D	Pupil health: vision examination: binocular function
SB 443 - Miscellaneous	Walters-R	Organized camps
SB 455 - Health Facilities	Hernandez-D	General acute care hospitals: nurse-to-patient ratios
SB 500 - Medi-Cal	Lieu-D	Drug Medi-Cal
SB 508 - Medi-Cal	Hernandez-D	Medi-Cal: eligibility
SB 564 - Public Health	Monning-D	Ski resorts: accident reports
SB 570 - Health Professionals	DeSaulnier-D	Advanced Alcohol and Drug Licensing Act
SB 588 - Miscellaneous	Emmerson-R	Medical records: reproduction fees
SB 596 - Public Health	Yee-D	Pilot program: pupil mental health
SB 600 - Miscellaneous	Lieu-D	Drugs
SB 622 - Public Health	Monning-D	Taxation: sweetened beverage tax
SB 631 - Health Facilities	Beall-D	Health care: health facilities: observation and short-stay
SB 640* - Medi-Cal	Lara-D	Medi-Cal: reimbursement: provider payments
SB 645* - Medi-Cal	Nielsen-R	Diagnosis-related group methodology
SB 646* - Medi-Cal	Nielsen-R	Medi-Cal: reimbursement: distinct part nursing facilities
SB 648 - Public Health	Corbett-D	Electronic cigarettes: restriction of use and advertising
SB 664 - Mental Health	Yee-D	Mental health: Laura's Law
SB 677 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Monning-D	Health care coverage: agencies: reports
SB 701 - Health Facilities	Emmerson-R	Hospital-affiliated outpatient settings: accreditation
SB 728 - Aging and Long Term Care	Wolk-D	Long-term care facilities: health care decisions
SB 747 - Public Health	DeSaulnier-D	Public Health impact assessments
SB 768* - Public Health	De León-D	California Tobacco Tax Act of 2014
SB 780 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Jackson-D	Health care coverage
SB 799* - Affordable Care Act	Calderon-D	Health coverage: colorectal cancer: testing and screening
SB 830 - Health Facilities	Galgiani-D	Health care: health facility data
SB 836 - Miscellaneous	Corbett-D	Brain research: Cal-BRAIN program
SB 857 - Miscellaneous	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee	Budget Act of 2014: Health
SB 870 - Miscellaneous	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee	Budget Act of 2014: Health
SB 883 - Miscellaneous	Hancock-D	Appropriation to West Contra Costa Healthcare District
SB 894 - Aging and Long Term Care	Corbett-D	Residential care facilities: revocation of license
SB 895 - Aging and Long Term Care	Corbett-D	Residential care facilities: unannounced visits
SB 906 - Miscellaneous	Correa-D	Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Offsite Program
SB 911 - Aging and Long Term Care	Block-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
SB 917 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Gaines-R	Health care coverage: provider information
SB 949 - Public Health	Jackson-D	After school programs
SB 959 - Affordable Care Act	Hernandez-D	Health care coverage
SB 964 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Hernandez-D	Health care coverage
SB 966 - Health Facilities	Lieu-D	Outpatient settings: surgical clinics
SB 972 - Affordable Care Act	Torres-D	California Health Benefit Exchange: board: membership
SB 973 - Public Health	Hernandez-D	Narcotic treatment programs
SB 974* - Affordable Care Act	Anderson-R	California Health Benefit Exchange (Covered California)
SB 986 - Medi-Cal	Hernandez-D	Medi-Cal: managed care: exemption from plan enrollment
SB 993 - Health Professionals	Mitchell-D	Healing arts: dietitians
SB 1000 - Public Health	Monning-D	Public health: sugar-sweetened beverages: safety warnings
SB 1004 - Medi-Cal	Hernandez-D	Health facilities: hospice care
SB 1005 - Affordable Care Act	Lara-D	Health care coverage: immigration status
SB 1012 - Health Professionals	Wyland-R	Healing arts: licensure requirements
SB 1034 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Monning-D	Health care coverage: waiting periods
SB 1039 - Health Professionals	Hernandez-D	Pharmacy
SB 1040 - Public Health	Evans-D	Food labeling: genetically engineered food
SB 1044 - Public Health	Fuller-R	Valley fever
SB 1045 - Medi-Cal	Beall-D	Medi-Cal Drug Treatment Program
SB 1046 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Beall-D	Insurance: coverage: penalties
SB 1052 - Affordable Care Act	Torres-D	Health care coverage
SB 1052 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Torres-D	Health care coverage
SB 1053 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Mitchell-D	Health care coverage: contraceptives
SB 1055 - Public Health	Liu-D	Public School Health Center Support Program
SB 1081 - Medi-Cal	Hernandez-D	Federally qualified health centers
SB 1083 - Health Professionals	Pavley-D	Physician assistants: disability certifications
SB 1089 - Medi-Cal	Mitchell-D	Medi-Cal: juvenile inmates
SB 1094 - Health Facilities	Lara-D	Nonprofit health facilities: Attorney General approval
SB 1100 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Hernandez-D	Continuity of care
SB 1124 - Medi-Cal	Hernandez-D	Medi-Cal: estate recovery
SB 1135 - Public Health	Jackson-D	Inmates: sterilization
SB 1138 - Public Health	Padilla-D	Fish and shellfish: labeling and identification
SB 1148 - Health Professionals	Yee-D	Marriage and family therapists: records retention
SB 1150 - Medi-Cal	Hueso-D	Medi-Cal: health centers and rural health clinics
SB 1153 - Aging and Long Term Care	Leno-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
SB 1161 - Medi-Cal	Beall-D	Drug Medi-Cal
SB 1172 - Miscellaneous	Steinberg-D	Pupil health: vision appraisals
SB 1176 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Steinberg-D	Health care coverage: cost sharing: tracking
SB 1182 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Leno-D	Health care coverage: claims data
SB 1212 - Medi-Cal	Walters-R	Medi-Cal: moratoria on enrollment of providers
SB 1218 - Aging and Long Term Care	Yee-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly: civil penalties
SB 1235 - Public Health	Knight-R	Prepackaged food
SB 1238 - Health Facilities	Hernandez-D	Health facilities: outpatient care and patient assessment
SB 1239 - Health Professionals	Wolk-D	Pupil health care services: school nurses
SB 1256 - Health Professionals	Mitchell-D	Medical services: credit
SB 1262 - Public Health	Correa-D	Medical marijuana
SB 1266 - Public Health	Huff-R	Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors
SB 1269 - Health Facilities	Beall-D	General acute care hospitals
SB 1276 - Miscellaneous	Hernandez-D	Health care: fair billing policies
SB 1297 - Health Facilities	Hueso-D	Hospital Safety and Transparency Act of 2014
SB 1299 - Health Facilities	Padilla-D	Workplace violence prevention plans: hospitals
SB 1303 - Public Health	Torres-D	Public health: hepatitis C
SB 1311 - Public Health	Hill-D	Hospitals: antimicrobial stewardship
SB 1315 - Medi-Cal	Monning-D	Medi-Cal: providers
SB 1320 - Medi-Cal	Torres-D	Medi-Cal: eligibility
SB 1322 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Hernandez-D	California Health Care Cost and Quality Database
SB 1333 - Public Health	Wyland-R	Vitamin and supplement ingredients: certification
SB 1334 - Miscellaneous	Walters-R	Newborn screening program
SB 1339 - Medi-Cal	Cannella-R	Medi-Cal: Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program providers
SB 1340 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Hernandez-D	Health care coverage: provider contracts
SB 1341 - Medi-Cal	Mitchell-D	Medi-Cal: Statewide Automated Welfare System
SB 1357 - Miscellaneous	Wolk-D	Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form
SB 1374 - Medi-Cal	Hernandez-D	Medi-Cal: ground ambulance rates
SB 1381 - Public Health	Evans-D	Food labeling: genetically engineered food
SB 1382 - Aging and Long Term Care	Block-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
SB 1384 - Health Professionals	Mitchell-D	Certified nurse assistants
SB 1395 - Public Health	Block-D	Public beaches: inspection for contaminants
SB 1438 - Public Health	Pavley-D	Controlled substances: opioid antagonists
SB 1446* - Health Coverage/Insurance	DeSaulnier-D	Health care coverage: small employer market
SB 1452 - Medi-Cal	Wolk-D	Medi-Cal: managed care
SB 1457 - Medi-Cal	Evans-D	Medical care: electronic treatment authorization requests
SB 1465* - Miscellaneous	Senate Health Committee	Health
SB 1466 - Health Professionals	Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee	Health care professionals
SCR 21 - Miscellaneous	Emmerson-R	Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month
SCR 31 - Miscellaneous	Hernandez-D	California Osteopathic Medicine Week
SCR 75 - Miscellaneous	Galgiani-D	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness
SCR 81 - Miscellaneous	Monning-D	California Essential Tremor Awareness Month
SCR 88 - Miscellaneous	Evans-D	Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week
SCR 89 - Miscellaneous	Wolk-D	Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Public Awareness Day
SCR 91 - Miscellaneous	Fuller-R	Valley Fever Awareness Month
SCR 99 - Miscellaneous	Beall-D	Autism Awareness Month
SCR 101 - Miscellaneous	Gaines-R	Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
SCR 104 - Miscellaneous	Huff-R	Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week
SCR 106 - Miscellaneous	Fuller-R	Chiari Malformation Awareness Month
SCR 109 - Miscellaneous	Lara-D	STD Awareness Month and Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day
SCR 124 - Miscellaneous	Corbett-D	Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month and The Longest Day
SCR 126 - Miscellaneous	Fuller-R	Adrenoleukodystrophy Awareness Month
SCR 129 - Miscellaneous	Liu-D	Pain Awareness Month and Women In Pain Awareness Day
SCR 132 - Miscellaneous	Lieu-D	Scoliosis Awareness Month
SCR 133 - Miscellaneous	Hill-D	Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
SCR 134 - Miscellaneous	Beall-D	Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
SR 36 - Miscellaneous	Walters-R	Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month
SB 4X1* - Affordable Care Act	Emmerson-R	California Health Benefit Exchange: employees & contractors
AB 18* - Affordable Care Act	Pan-D	Health care coverage: pediatric oral care benefits
AB 39* - Medi-Cal	Skinner-D	Medi-Cal: designated public hospitals
AB 40 - Health Facilities	Mansoor-R	Substance abuse: recovery and treatment facilities
AB 145 - Public Health	Perea-D	State Water Resources Control Board: drinking water
AB 175 - Affordable Care Act	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Health care coverage
AB 209 - Medi-Cal	Pan-D	Managed care: quality, accessibility, and utilization
AB 259 - Health Facilities	Logue-R	Health and care facilities: CPR
AB 299 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Holden-D	Prescription drug benefits
AB 314 - Affordable Care Act	Pan-D	Health care coverage: self-funded student plans
AB 318 - Medi-Cal	Logue-R	Medi-Cal: teledentistry
AB 334* - Health Facilities	Gomez-D	Alameda Health System hospital authority
AB 357 - Medi-Cal	Pan-D	Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel
AB 364 - Health Facilities	Ian Calderon-D	Community care facilities: unannounced visits
AB 369* - Health Coverage/Insurance	Pan-D	Continuity of care
AB 390 - Affordable Care Act	Logue-R	Health care
AB 395 - Health Facilities	Fox-D	Alcoholism and drug abuse treatment facilities
AB 462 - Health Facilities	Stone-D	Fire protection: residential care facilities
AB 468 - Medi-Cal	Chesbro-D	Medi-Cal: nondesignated public hospitals
AB 503 - Health Facilities	Wieckowski-D	Health facilities: community benefits
AB 505 - Medi-Cal	Nazarian-D	Medi-Cal: managed care: language assistance services
AB 559 - Health Facilities	Gordon-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
AB 589 - Health Professionals	Fox-D	Medical education: underrepresented medical specialties
AB 591 - Health Facilities	Fox-D	Hospital emergency room: geriatric physician
AB 599 - Health Professionals	Donnelly-R	Minors: vaccinations: parental consent
AB 617 - Affordable Care Act	Nazarian-D	California Health Benefit Exchange: appeals
AB 676 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Fox-D	Health care coverage: postdischarge care needs
AB 678 - Public Health	Gordon-D	Health care districts: community health needs assessment
AB 689 - Health Facilities	Bonta-D	Health facilities: influenza
AB 697 - Health Facilities	Gomez-D	Nursing education: service in state veterans homes
AB 710 - Affordable Care Act	Pan-D	California Health Benefit Exchange: multiemployer plans
AB 771 - Health Professionals	Jones-R	Public health: wellness programs
AB 804 - Medi-Cal	Lowenthal-D	Medi-Cal: pharmacy providers: invoices
AB 809* - Miscellaneous	Logue-R	Healing arts: telehealth
AB 831 - Miscellaneous	Bloom-D	Drug overdoses
AB 860 - Health Professionals	Perea-D	Medical school scholarships
AB 880* - Medi-Cal	Gomez-D	Medi-Cal program costs: large employer responsibility
AB 889 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Frazier-D	Health care coverage: prescription drugs
AB 900* - Medi-Cal	Alejo-D	Medi-Cal: reimbursement: distinct part nursing facilities
AB 961 - Health Facilities	Levine-D	Health facilities: investigations: public disclosure
AB 973 - Health Facilities	Quirk-Silva-D	Long-term health facilities: culture change
AB 975 - Health Facilities	Wieckowski-D	Health facilities community benefits
AB 987 - Mental Health	Maienschein-R	Mental health: conservatorship hearings
AB 1124* - Medi-Cal	Muratsuchi-D	Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
AB 1129* - Affordable Care Act	Beth Gaines-R	Income tax: health savings accounts
AB 1174 - Medi-Cal	Bocanegra-D	Dental professionals
AB 1176 - Health Professionals	Bocanegra-D	Medical residency training program grants
AB 1225 - Mental Health	Maienschein-R	State and local fund allocations
AB 1278 - Miscellaneous	Hueso-D	Integrative cancer treatment
AB 1296 - Mental Health	Skinner-D	Firearms: mentally disordered persons
AB 1310 - Medi-Cal	Brown-D	Medi-Cal: telehealth
AB 1312 - Health Facilities	Brown-D	Health facilities: health care standards of practice
AB 1340 - Mental Health	Achadjian-R	Enhanced treatment programs
AB 1357 - Miscellaneous	Roger Hernández-D	Emergency departments: diversion of patients
AB 1367 - Mental Health	Mansoor-R	Mental health: Mental Health Services Fund
AB 1372 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Bonilla-D	Health insurance: pervasive developmental disorder or autism
AB 1462 - Miscellaneous	Assembly Budget Committee	Budget Act of 2014: Health
AB 1474 - Miscellaneous	Assembly Budget Committee	Budget Act of 2014: Health
AB 1507* - Affordable Care Act	Logue-R	Health care coverage
AB 1523 - Aging and Long Term Care	Atkins-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
AB 1534* - Aging and Long Term Care	Linder-R	Area agencies on aging: independent living centers: funding
AB 1552* - Medi-Cal	Lowenthal-D	Community-based adult services: adult day health care center
AB 1554 - Aging and Long Term Care	Skinner-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
AB 1558 - Miscellaneous	Roger Hernández-D	California Health Data Organization: claims database
AB 1559 - Miscellaneous	Pan-D	Newborn screening program
AB 1570 - Aging and Long Term Care	Chesbro-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
AB 1571 - Aging and Long Term Care	Eggman-D	Residential care facilities: licensing and regulation
AB 1572 - Aging and Long Term Care	Eggman-D	Residential care facilities: resident and family council
AB 1577 - Miscellaneous	Atkins-D	Certificates of death: gender identity
AB 1578* - Miscellaneous	Pan-D	Health: The California Health Benefit Review Program
AB 1592* - Public Health	Beth Gaines-R	California Diabetes Program
AB 1621 - Emergency Medical Services	Lowenthal-D	Emergency medical services: data and information system
AB 1644 - Medi-Cal	Medina-D	Medi-Cal: Drug Medi-Cal Program providers
AB 1667 - Public Health	Williams-D	Tuberculosis testing in schools
AB 1683 - Public Health	Jones-R	Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry
AB 1689 - Health Professionals	Conway-R	Certified nurse assistants
AB 1725 - Mental Health	Maienschein-R	Conservatorship hearings
AB 1727 - Public Health	Rodriguez-D	Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program
AB 1733 - Miscellaneous	Quirk-Silva-D	Public records: fee waiver
AB 1743 - Public Health	Ting-D	Hypodermic needles and syringes
AB 1744 - Aging and Long Term Care	Brown-D	California Department of Aging
AB 1751 - Aging and Long Term Care	Bloom-D	Continuing care retirement communities
AB 1755 - Public Health	Gomez-D	Medical information
AB 1771 - Health Coverage/Insurance	V. Manuel Pérez-D	Telephone visits
AB 1792 - Medi-Cal	Gomez-D	Public benefits: reports on employers
AB 1805* - Medi-Cal	Skinner-D	Medi-Cal: reimbursement: provider payments
AB 1812 - Health Facilities	Pan-D	Health facilities: information: disclosure
AB 1814 - Medi-Cal	Waldron-R	Prescriber Prevails Act
AB 1816 - Health Facilities	Yamada-D	Long-term health care facilities
AB 1819 - Health Facilities	Hall-D	Family day care home: smoking prohibition
AB 1819 - Public Health	Hall-D	Family day care home: smoking prohibition
AB 1822 - Public Health	Bonta-D	Tissue banks
AB 1829* - Affordable Care Act	Conway-R	Health Benefit Exchange: employees and contractors
AB 1830 - Affordable Care Act	Conway-R	Health Benefit Exchange: confidentiality of information
AB 1840 - Public Health	Campos-D	Pupil health: vision appraisal
AB 1841 - Health Facilities	Mullin-D	Medical assistants
AB 1868 - Medi-Cal	Gomez-D	Medi-Cal: optional benefits: podiatric medicine
AB 1877* - Affordable Care Act	Cooley-D	California Vision Care Access Council
AB 1893 - Public Health	Stone-D	Sharps waste
AB 1898 - Public Health	Brown-D	Public health records: reporting: HIV/AIDS
AB 1899 - Aging and Long Term Care	Brown-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
AB 1917 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Gordon-D	Outpatient prescription drugs: cost sharing
AB 1929 - Mental Health	Chau-D	California Housing Finance Agency: MHSA funding
AB 1952 - Miscellaneous	Pan-D	Nonprofit hospitals: charity care
AB 1955 - Health Professionals	Pan-D	Pupil health: Healthy Kids, Healthy Minds Demonstration
AB 1960 - Miscellaneous	Perea-D	State summary criminal history information: state hospitals
AB 1962 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Skinner-D	Dental plans: medical loss ratios: reports
AB 1965 - Public Health	Yamada-D	Outdoor dining facilities: pet dogs
AB 1967 - Medi-Cal	Pan-D	Drug Medi-Cal
AB 1974 - Health Facilities	Quirk-D	Health facilities: special services
AB 1975 - Emergency Medical Services	Roger Hernández-D	Trauma care systems
AB 1996 - Health Facilities	Brown-D	Long-term health care facilities: quality of care
AB 2015 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Chau-D	Health care coverage: discrimination
AB 2025 - Medi-Cal	Dickinson-D	Medi-Cal: program for aged and disabled persons
AB 2029 - Public Health	Cooley-D	Inquests: sudden unexplained death in childhood
AB 2044 - Aging and Long Term Care	Rodriguez-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
AB 2051 - Medi-Cal	Gonzalez-D	Medi-Cal: providers: affiliate primary care clinics
AB 2059 - Miscellaneous	Muratsuchi-D	Medical records: electronic delivery
AB 2062 - Health Facilities	Roger Hernández-D	Health facilities: surgical technologists
AB 2069 - Public Health	Maienschein-R	Immunizations: influenza
AB 2088 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Roger Hernández-D	Health insurance: minimum value: large group market policies
AB 2130* - Public Health	Pan-D	Retail food safety
AB 2139 - Aging and Long Term Care	Eggman-D	End-of-life care: patient notification
AB 2144 - Miscellaneous	Yamada-D	Staff-to-patient ratios
AB 2171 - Aging and Long Term Care	Wieckowski-D	Residential care facilities for the elderly
AB 2187 - Miscellaneous	Cooley-D	County children's trust funds
AB 2190 - Mental Health	Maienschein-R	Criminal defendants: gravely disabled persons
AB 2212 - Medi-Cal	Gray-D	Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
AB 2228 - Health Facilities	Cooley-D	Crisis nurseries
AB 2297 - Health Facilities	Levine-D	Health facilities: reliable alternative clean energy
AB 2301 - Affordable Care Act	Mansoor-R	California Health Benefit Exchange: individual market report
AB 2325 - Medi-Cal	John A. Pérez-D	Medi-Cal: CommuniCal
AB 2336 - Public Health	Grove-R	Abortion: gender selection
AB 2340 - Medi-Cal	Garcia-D	Medi-Cal: benefits: clinic costs for drugs and supplies
AB 2346 - Health Professionals	Gonzalez-D	Physician and surgeon assistance program
AB 2374 - Public Health	Mansoor-R	Substance abuse: recovery and treatment services
AB 2375 - Affordable Care Act	Dababneh-D	California Health Benefit Exchange: navigators
AB 2379 - Aging and Long Term Care	Weber-D	Abuse of elders and dependent adults: multidisciplinary team
AB 2400 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Ridley-Thomas-D	Health care coverage: physician contracts
AB 2418 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Bonilla-D	Health care coverage: prescription drugs: refills
AB 2425 - Miscellaneous	Quirk-D	Laboratories: review committee
AB 2433* - Health Coverage/Insurance	Mansoor-R	Health care coverage: catastrophic plans
AB 2450 - Miscellaneous	Logue-R	Special-interest license plates: Department of Public Health
AB 2452 - Miscellaneous	Pan-D	Advance health care directive registry
AB 2458 - Health Professionals	Bonilla-D	Medical residency training program grants
AB 2491 - Health Facilities	Nestande-R	Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
AB 2528 - Miscellaneous	Skinner-D	State-issued identity documents: diacritical marks
AB 2533 - Health Coverage/Insurance	Ammiano-D	Health care coverage: non-contracting providers
AB 2536 - Health Professionals	Mullin-D	Employees: emergency rescue personnel
AB 2543 - Mental Health	Levine-D	State hospitals: placement evaluations
AB 2546 - Affordable Care Act	Salas-D	Kern County Hospital Authority
AB 2557* - Health Facilities	Pan-D	Hospitals: seismic safety
AB 2577 - Medi-Cal	Cooley-D	Medi-Cal: ground emergency medical transportation services
AB 2601 - Affordable Care Act	Conway-R	Health Benefit Exchange: charge on qualified health plans
AB 2612 - Medi-Cal	Dababneh-D	Medi-Cal
AB 2644 - Public Health	Nazarian-D	Toilet facilities
AB 2659 - Medi-Cal	Brown-D	Health Access Zones: income tax: credits
AB 2679 - Mental Health	Logue-R	County mental health services: baseline reports
ACA 5 - Miscellaneous	Grove-R	Abortion: parental notification
ACR 38 - Miscellaneous	Cooley-D	American Red Cross Month
ACR 82 - Miscellaneous	Pan-D	Food allergy awareness
ACR 83 - Miscellaneous	Buchanan-D	Alcohol Awareness Month
ACR 84 - Health Professionals	Rodriguez-D	Emergency Medical Services Week
ACR 86 - Miscellaneous	Buchanan-D	American Heart Month
ACR 93 - Miscellaneous	Buchanan-D	Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month
ACR 107 - Miscellaneous	Bloom-D	Year of the Family Physician
ACR 110 - Miscellaneous	Fox-D	Health Care District Month
ACR 111 - Miscellaneous	Levine-D	Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
ACR 113 - Miscellaneous	Hagman-R	Epilepsy awareness
ACR 122 - Miscellaneous	Beth Gaines-R	Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month
ACR 123 - Miscellaneous	Harkey-R	Arthritis Awareness Month
ACR 132 - Miscellaneous	Eggman-D	West Nile Virus and Vector Control Awareness Week
ACR 138 - Miscellaneous	Achadjian-R	Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day
ACR 139 - Miscellaneous	Ridley-Thomas-D	Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month
ACR 141 - Miscellaneous	Holden-D	American Stroke Month 2014
ACR 148 - Mental Health	Lowenthal-D	Task Force on the Status of Maternal Mental Health Care
ACR 151 - Miscellaneous	Wilk-R	Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Week
ACR 152 - Miscellaneous	Pan-D	Patient centered medical homes
ACR 155 - Miscellaneous	Bocanegra-D	Childhood brain development: toxic stress
ACR 163 - Mental Health	Ridley-Thomas-D	Bebe Moore Campbell Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
ACR 164 - Miscellaneous	Waldron-R	World Hepatitis Day
ACR 171 - Miscellaneous	Wilk-R	Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Awareness Month
ACR 172 - Miscellaneous	Beth Gaines-R	Diabetes Awareness Month
ACR 175 - Miscellaneous	Ian Calderon-D	Red Ribbon Week
AJR 5 - Miscellaneous	Gomez-D	National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week
AJR 23 - Affordable Care Act	Logue-R	Requirement to purchase health insurance
AJR 29 - Aging and Long Term Care	Brown-D	Senior nutrition services and programs: funding
AJR 48 - Emergency Medical Services	Rodriguez-D	Federal memorials: emergency medical services
AJR 50 - Public Health	Bloom-D	Blood donation
AJR 50 - Miscellaneous	Bloom-D	Blood donation
AJR 51 - Miscellaneous	Brown-D	Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month
HR 32 - Miscellaneous	Mullin-D	Rare Disease Day
HR 35 - Miscellaneous	Campos-D	Lupus Awareness Month
HR 53 - Miscellaneous	Levine-D	National Health Center Week