Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Cancer
Alzheimer's Disease
Other Diseases/Disorders
Medi-Cal
Mental Health
Developmentally Disabled
Tobacco Products
Health Facilities
Health Professionals
Foster Care
Public Social Services
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
Autism
Stem Cell
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 221* (Portantino-D) HIV testing: skin punctures
Permits HIV counselors to perform basic skin punctures for the purpose of administering rapid HIV tests.
Chapter 421, Statutes of 2009
AB 367* (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal: HIV treatment
Requires the State Controller to transfer from the General Fund and the Federal Trust Fund to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund a loan amount sufficient to, in the event of a state budget delay, make continued payments to Medi-Cal providers, providers of drug treatment services for persons infected with the HIV, and providers of services to the developmentally disabled, rather than requiring up to $2 billion to be transferred in existing law. Repeals the authority of the Department of Health Care Services to have a one month payment hold in Medi-Cal.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1045 (John Perez-D) HIV and AIDS reporting
Stipulates that a clinical laboratory shall not be required to report a CD4+ T-Cell test results to the local health officer, as required by law, if the clinical laboratory can demonstrate that the CD4+ T-Cell test result is not related to a diagnosed case of HIV infection.
Chapter 501, Statutes of 2009
AB 1397* (Hill-D) Tissue donation
Removes the mandate for the Department of Public Health to adopt regulations regulating facilities that process sperm to minimize risk of HIV infection. Modifies the responsibilities of physicians providing insemination or advanced reproductive technologies to HIV discordant couples where one partner is HIV positive and one is HIV negative. Requires that, in the absence of any regulations from the Department, sperm processing facilities are to follow guidelines developed by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Vetoed
AB 1540 (Assembly Health Committee) AIDS: insurance policies
Among other provisions, deletes the provision clarifying that specialized health care plans and specialized insurance policies, (i.e., dental and vision plans), are not subject to the requirement in existing law to provide coverage for HIV testing.
Chapter 298, Statutes of 2009
AJR 9 (John Perez-D) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006
Urges the United States Congress and the President to enact legislation to extend the sunset of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006 from 9/30/09 to 9/30/12.
Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2009
AJR 17 (Swanson-D) HIV/AIDS health disparities
Urges the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to take specified actions in regard to health disparities, particularly as they relate to HIV/AIDS funding.
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2009
Cancer
SB 148 (Oropeza-D) Mammogram machines: inspection: posting of results
Requires facilities that operate mammogram machines to post notices of "serious violations" in an area that is visible to patients.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2009
SB 158 (Wiggins-D) Health care coverage: human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination
Requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies that provide coverage for cervical cancer treatment or surgery to also provide coverage for a HPV vaccine beginning on or after 1/1/10.
Vetoed
SB 161 (Wright-D) Health care coverage: cancer treatment
Requires a health care service plan contractor health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed after 1/1/10, that provides coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment to provide coverage for an orally administered cancer medication that is no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications covered under the contract or policy.
Vetoed
SB 364 (Florez-D) Cancer centers
Prohibits an officer, director, or member of a governing board of a general acute care hospital designated by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center, and that accepts state funds, from holding a position as an officer, director, or member of the board, or a similar position, of a specified corporation.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SCR 7 (Denham-R) Kidney Cancer Awareness Month
Proclaims March 2009 as Kidney Cancer Awareness Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009
SCR 14 (Aanestad-R) Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Designates the month of September 2009 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in California, encourages public officials and citizens to observe the month with appropriate activities and programs, and encourages the Legislature to join communities across our nation to increase the awareness of the importance of early detection and treatment of prostate cancer.
Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2009
SCR 22 (Steinberg-D) Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Designates March 2009 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2009
SJR 7 (Lowenthal-D) Pancreatic cancer
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to expand federally funded research efforts aimed at developing a reliable means of detecting pancreatic cancer in its early stages.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2009
AB 56 (Portantino-D) Health care coverage: mammographies
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for mammography upon provider referral by 7/1/10, and requires health plans and health insurers to notify subscribers or policyholders of recommended timelines for testing.
Vetoed
AB 128 (Coto-D) Workers' compensation: cancer presumption
Establishes a lifetime workers' compensation cancer presumption for public safety professionals (e.g., firefighters, police officers, highway patrol) with substantial years of service credit. Eliminates a five-year cap imposed following termination of employment, on a workers' compensation cancer presumption for tens of thousands of public safety personnel statewide.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 359 (Nava-D) Breast and cervical cancer: screening
Permits a provider for the Every Woman Counts breast cancer screening program to employ digital mammography commencing 1/1/10, and to be reimbursed by the Every Woman Counts program.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2009
AB 366 (Ruskin-D) Cancer of the bone: orthopedic implantation
Requires the California Medical Assistance Commission to consider, when negotiating contracts for inpatient care or developing specifications for competitive bidding, specialization in orthopedic implantation relating to cancers of the bone, in addition to the factors already required.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AJR 11 (Furutani-D) National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week
Designates the week of 4/9/09 to 4/25/09, inclusive, as National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week, and encourages the promotion of policies and programs that seek to reduce cancer disparities and improve cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care for all Californians.
Resolution Chapter 52, Statutes of 2009
Alzheimer's Disease
SJR 4 (Correa-D) Alzheimer's Silver Alert program
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to act to establish a federally controlled Alzheimer's Silver Alert program to locate missing persons with dementia and establish a federal grant program to aid states in establishing local Silver Alert programs.
Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2009
SR 29 (Alquist-D) Alzheimer's disease
Places the Senate in recognition of the seriousness of Alzheimer's Disease, as specified.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 292 (Yamada-D) Alzheimer's disease: income tax check off
Extends, from 1/1/10 to 1/1/15, the sunset date for the California Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Research Fund voluntary contribution on personal income tax returns.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2009
AB 4XXXX* (Evans-D) Alzheimer's centers: Budget Act of 2009:
Among other provisions, deletes requirements that Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Centers provide or conduct training to students, services to family members, and community outreach. Encourages these activities to the extent possible within existing resources, while continuing to require more direct services to participants. Establishes priority for enrollment in the Linkages case management program for low-income individuals.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 212 (Florez-D) Communicable diseases: pupil health
Authorizes each school district with a high school to provide for the annual cleaning and sterilizing of wrestling equipment, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop information and guidelines regarding the prevention of communicable diseases at school sites.
Vetoed
SB 249 (Cox-R) Meningococcal disease: vaccinations
Requires the Department of Public Health to include children who are between the ages of 11 and 18 years of age, in any meningococcal disease awareness campaign it implements by 4/1/10.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2009
SB 513 (Steinberg-D) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Requests that the Regents of the University of California establish and administer the California Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Disease Team with the goal of promoting and conducting scientific research on ALS and developing effective treatments and diagnostics.
(In Senate Health Committee)
SB 769* (Alquist-D) Federal funding: supplemental appropriations: pandemic flu
Provides that federal funding received, pursuant to the federal 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act, (Public Law 111-32), for pandemic flu preparedness and response is subject to appropriation by the Legislature for allocation by the Department of Public Health, pursuant to the 2008-09 federally approved collaborative state-local plan.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
SCR 18 (Alquist-D) Respiratory Syncytial Virus Awareness Month
Designates the month of March of each year as Respiratory Syncytial Virus Awareness Month in the State of California. Encourages all Californians to observe the month with appropriate activities and education outreach to parents and the medical community, as well as programs to raise awareness about the causes of, symptoms of, and ways of preventing Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2009
SCR 24 (Ashburn-R) Valley Fever Awareness Month
Proclaims August 2009 as Valley Fever Awareness Month. Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis), a progressive, multisymptom, respiratory disorder, is a debilitating disease that attacks the respiratory system causing infection that can lead to symptoms that resemble a cold, flu, or pneumonia.
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2009
SCR 31 (Runner-R) Scleroderma Awareness Month
Proclaims August 2009 as Scleroderma Awareness Month. Scleroderma is a chronic, disabling autoimmune disease in which the body's soft tissues suffer from an overproduction of collagen.
Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2009
SCR 33 (Calderon-D) Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Month
States that the Legislature joins in the fight to defeat Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and to help create critically needed public awareness, and designates the month of May of each year to be Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2009
SCR 39 (Steinberg-D) Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of May as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month in California, and encourages continued research in order to find treatments and eventually a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and care and support for patients and families.
Resolution Chapter 58, Statutes of 2009
SR 16 (Leno-D) World Kidney Day
Recognizes 3/12/09 as World Kidney Day, and the important role World Kidney Day plays in helping health care professionals, kidney patients and their families, and patient advocates in their efforts to stress the importance of early screening and detection of chronic kidney disease.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 26 (Runner-R) Relative to pulmonary hypertension disorder
Proclaims support for continued medical research related to pulmonary hypertension and educational outreach programs designed to increase awareness of this disorder among the general public.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SR 28 (Wyland-R) Relative to Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Promotes greater awareness of Rett syndrome, a childhood neurodevelopmental disorder that almost exclusively affects females.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 159 (Nava-D) Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: task force
Authorizes the California Department of Public Health to establish a statewide perinatal mood and anxiety disorders task force.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 163 (Emmerson-R) Amino acid-based elemental formulas
Requires health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for amino acid-based elemental formulas for the diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic disorders.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 169 (Portantino-D) Communicable disease: involuntary testing
Adds custodial officers, custody assistants, and non-sworn uniformed employees of a law enforcement agency, as defined, to the list of persons who may seek to have an arrestee's blood tested, either voluntarily or by court order, for specified communicable diseases when exposed to an arrestee's bodily fluids while acting within the scope of his/her duties.
Chapter 417, Statutes of 2009
AB 354 (Arambula-IN) Health: immunizations
Deletes certain age limits for specified childhood immunizations required for admission to specified schools or child care centers, and requires the Department of Public Health to consider the immunization recommendations of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 420 (Salas-D) Maternal health
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a statewide Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Community Awareness Campaign.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1418 (Smyth-R) Local health officers: communicable diseases: reporting
Includes electronic mail or electronic facsimile as permitted methods of reporting by a local health officer.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
ACR 17 (Saldana-D) American Heart Month and Wear Red Day
Recognizes the month of February 2009 as American Heart Month in California, and recognizes 2/6/09 as Wear Red Day in California, and urges public support for Go Red for Women events.
Resolution Chapter 14, Statutes of 2009
ACR 18 (Chesbro-D) Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2009 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Declares that Lyme disease is an often misunderstood illness that can cause serious health problems if not caught early and treated properly.
Resolution Chapter 16, Statutes of 2009
ACR 25 (Miller-R) Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week
Proclaims the third full week in September in each year as Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week, and urges California residents to observe the week with appropriate activities and programs.
Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2009
ACR 28 (Ma-D) Eating Disorders Awareness Week
Recognizes the weeks of 2/22/09 through 2/28/09, and 2/21/10 through 2/27/10, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week and encourages citizens and policymakers to learn more about eating disorders and the obstacles to treatment, and to help people overcome and prevent these life-threatening diseases.
Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2009
ACR 35 (Blakeslee-R) Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day
Declares 5/19/09 as Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day in California. 5/19/09, is global day of awareness sponsored by the World Hepatitis Alliance and the theme, "Am I Number 12?" highlights the fact that one in 12 people, globally, suffer from hepatitis and what individual governments can do to prevent this.
Resolution Chapter 19, Statutes of 2009
ACR 62 (Galgiani-D) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness
Designates Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Awareness Day and Month (COPD), and makes legislative findings about the prevalence of the disease. Commends the Department of Health Care Services for implementing a pilot program for COPD Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2009
ACR 64 (Ma-D) Hepatitis B
Declares May 2009, as Hepatitis B Awareness Month in California, recognizes 5/19/09, as World Hepatitis Awareness Day, and calls on all interested parties to come together to raise awareness and educate the public on hepatitis B and to make recommendations on ways to implement best practices in hepatitis B prevention and treatment.
Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2009
ACR 66 (V. Manuel Perez-D) American Stroke Month 2009
Declares May 2009 as American Stroke Month, and urges all Californians to familiarize themselves with the risk factors associated with stroke; to recognize the warning signs and symptoms of stroke; and at the first signs of a stroke, to dial 911 immediately in order to begin to reduce the devastating effects of stroke on our populations.
Resolution Chapter 53, Statutes of 2009
ACR 72 (Huffman-D) Pain Awareness Month
Recognizes September 2009 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.
Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 2009
Medi-Cal
SB 114 (Liu-D) Medi-Cal: independent foster care adolescents
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to deem eligible for and ensure that there is no interruption in Medi-Cal coverage for an independent foster care adolescent that was in foster care on his/her eighteenth birthday. Requires the department to develop and implement a simplified form for the purposes of annually redetermining independent foster care adolescent eligibility, which the individual will return only if his/her information has changed. Provides that failure to return the annual redetermination form could not be the only reason to terminate Medi-Cal benefits to the individual.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 117 (Corbett-D) Adult day health care services
Extends the deadline by which the Department of Health Care Services is required to establish a new Medi-Cal rate reimbursement methodology for adult day health care services, from 8/1/10 to 8/1/12.
Chapter 165, Statutes of 2009
SB 152 (Cox-R) Medi-Cal funding: mental health services
Directs, beginning on 3/1/10, the Department of Mental Health to send a reimbursement claim to the State Controller within 90 days after receipt of mental health services claims submitted by counties and requires interest to accrue starting on the 91st day of an unpaid claim.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 208* (Steinberg-D) Medi-Cal: demonstration project waiver
Directs the Department of Health Care Services to develop a Medicaid waiver for the state's Medi-Cal program and submit the waiver for federal approval by 9/1/10.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 438 (Yee-D) Medi-Cal
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to seek federal approval for an option to accelerate Medi-Cal enrollment for children and pregnant women who apply for Medi-Cal at a county welfare office. Transfers Healthy Families program eligibility determination to county welfare offices.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 732 (Alquist-D) Long-term care reimbursement: cost reporting methodology
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish a skilled nursing facility cost reporting methodology that allows the department to adjust Medi-Cal reimbursement rates in an expedient manner.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 24XXX* (Alquist-D) Medi-Cal: continuous eligibility: semiannual status reports
Temporarily reinstates the 12-month continuous Medi-Cal eligibility for children in order for the state to qualify for nearly $10 billion in federal stimulus funds via a temporary increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage.
Chapter 24, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 75* (Huffman-D) Medi-Cal
Revises, for purposes of Medi-Cal hospital payments, the methodology for determining which non-contract hospitals in an open health facility planning area are subject to a specified reduction in payments by excluding state-owned or operated hospitals from the calculations used to determine if other hospitals are subject to the reduction.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 188* (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: quality assurance fee revenue
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health Care Services for the purposes of administering the programs established in AB 1383 (Jones-D). These programs include a hospital provider fee, increased Medi-Cal Reimbursements for hospitals, and direct grants for public hospitals.
Chapter 645, Statutes of 2009
AB 217 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: alcohol and drug screening
Establishes a screening and brief intervention services program within the Medi-Cal program, to be administered by the Department of Health Care Services, in collaboration with the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, for the purpose of allowing local funds to be used to secure federal matching funds for these services.
Vetoed
AB 303 (Beall-D) Designated public hospitals: seismic safety requirements
Allows designated public hospitals to receive supplemental Medi-Cal reimbursement from the Construction and Renovation Reimbursement Program for new capital projects to meet state seismic safety deadlines for which plans have been submitted to the state after 1/1/07, and before 12/31/11.
Chapter 428, Statutes of 2009
AB 334 (Fuentes-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility: inmates
Expands the duties of county welfare departments regarding benefits provided to an individual 21 years of age or older who is an inmate of a public institution.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 342* (Bass-D) Medi-Cal: demonstration project waiver
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to submit a waiver application to the federal government for a demonstration project that, among other provisions, maximizes opportunities to expand coverage to eligible but uninsured populations.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 366 (Ruskin-D) Medi-Cal: inpatient hospital services contracts: orthopedic
Requires the California Medical Assistance Commission to consider, when negotiating contracts for inpatient care or developing specifications for competitive bidding, specialization in orthopedic implantation relating to cancers of the bone, in addition to the factors already required.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 367* (Galgiani-D) HIV drug treatment: developmental services
Deletes a current law cap on a $2 billion (50% General Fund) continuous appropriation of the Medi-Cal Providers Interim Payment Fund (MPIF) established by AB 561 (Scott-D), Chapter 993, Statutes of 1998. The MPIF funds are available to Medi-Cal providers in the absence of an enacted state budget. Deletes the current law authority of the Department of Health Care Services to impose a one-month cash delay on Medi-Cal provider payments.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 369 (Yamada-D) Adult day health care centers
Exempts two new publicly-financed adult day health care centers serving California veterans from the existing moratorium on new Medi-Cal certified adult day health care centers.
Vetoed
AB 417 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal Drug Treatment Program: buprenorphine
Extends the required buprenorphine services to be included within the scope of Drug Medi-Cal when administered by a licensed narcotic treatment program to treat opioid addiction until 1/1/15.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 511 (De La Torre-D) Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services providers
Imposes a 5.5% quality assurance fee on ambulance transportation services providers through 6/30/16, for purposes of increasing reimbursement rates paid by Medi-Cal for services rendered to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 613 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: treatment authorization requests
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to improve and streamline the treatment authorization request process in Medi-Cal. Treatment authorization requests are the route by which providers receive prior authorization for specified treatments and services provided on behalf of Medi-Cal patients.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 728* (Nielsen-R) Medi-Cal: hospitals: reimbursements
Exempts certain non-contract hospitals from a Medi-Cal inpatient rate reduction by requiring a Medi-Cal inpatient rate reduction to apply in open health facility planning areas with a minimum number of full-service hospitals with licensed general acute care beds, instead of hospitals with licensed general acute care beds under existing law.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 754 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: mental health plans
Requires the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to allocate and distribute the full contracted amount of General Fund payment for the managed mental health care program, exclusive of the Early and Periodic Screening Diagnosis, and Treatment Program specialty mental health services provided under the Medi-Cal specialty mental health services waiver, at the beginning of the contract period. The allocated funds shall be considered to be funds of the plan that may be held by DMH. DMH shall develop a methodology to ensure that these funds are held as the property of the plan and shall not be reallocated by DMH or any other entity of state government for other purposes.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 839 (Emmerson-R) Medi-Cal: providers: remedies
Changes Medi-Cal provider remedies, including specifying the judicial remedy when there is a dispute over processing or payment of money and modifies the date for the beginning of a period when a health care provider is barred from enrollment in Medi-Cal, as specified in law.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2009
AB 963 (Ammiano-D) Medi-Cal eligibility
Deems individuals and families who have completed periodic or annual renewal processes in the Food Stamps Program to be eligible for continued Medi-Cal coverage regardless of whether the Medi-Cal annual renewal form is completed. Requires the Department of Health Care Services to make all necessary technology and policy changes to ensure continuity of Medi-Cal coverage per requirements of this bill and to promulgate related regulations.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 998 (John Perez-D) Medi-Cal: organ transplants: anti-rejection medication
Establishes a state-only program to ensure dialysis-only Medi-Cal beneficiaries remain eligible for anti-rejection medication following a kidney transplant for up to three years, unless the beneficiary becomes eligible for Medicare or private health insurance that covers the medication.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1037 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Medi-Cal: managed care
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop a pilot project in San Bernardino and Riverside counties for the mandatory enrollment of Medi-Cal seniors and persons with disabilities into managed care by 1/1/11.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1142 (Price-D) Medi-Cal: proof of eligibility
Requires a hospital that obtains proof of a patient's Medi-Cal eligibility subsequent to the date of service, to provide all information regarding that person's Medi-Cal eligibility to all hospital-based providers, ambulance service providers, and other hospital-based providers that bill separately for their professional services. Permits the Department of Health Care Services to assess a penalty, up to three times the amount payable by Medi-Cal, against a provider who, despite having proof of Medi-Cal eligibility, seeks payment from or fails to cease collection efforts against the beneficiary.
Chapter 511, Statutes of 2009
AB 1174 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services
Requires Medi-Cal to cover ambulance services when a patient reasonably believes that without an ambulance a serious health condition, as specified, might result. Increases and establishes in statute maximum Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for ambulance transportation services, and requires the rates be adjusted per changes in the California Consumer Price Index.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1269 (Brownley-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Expands the Medi-Cal California Working Disabled Program by allowing additional resource exemptions when determining initial and continued eligibility for the program. The exempted resources include Social Security disability benefits and income, as well as retained earned income which is held in a separate account, provided that federal financial participation is available.
Chapter 282, Statutes of 2009
AB 1314 (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: health care coverage
Requires the Health and Human Services Agency, in consultation with consumers, health care providers, and other health care stakeholders, to develop a plan to enact comprehensive reforms to the California health care system and to provide the plan and statutory recommendations to the Legislature no later than 4/1/10.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1383 (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: hospital payments: quality assurance fees
Establishes a provider fee on hospitals, matches a portion of revenues collected from the fee with federal funds in the Medi-Cal program at an enhanced match, provides funding for supplemental payments to hospitals that serve Medi-Cal and uninsured patients, provides direct grants to designated public hospitals, funds health coverage for children, and provides funds for the Department of Health Care Services for the direct costs of administering the program.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2009
AB 1422* (Bass-D) California Children and Families Act of 1998
Provides funding for, and makes program changes to the Healthy Families Program, administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, which provides health care coverage for eligible low- and moderate-income children. Extends the gross premium tax of 2.35% to Medi-Cal managed care plans. Authorizes the California Children and Families Commission to make specified transfers of program revenues.
Chapter 157, Statutes of 2009
AB 1445 (Chesbro-D) Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics
Allows federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics to be reimbursed by Medi-Cal for multiple visits by a patient with a single or different health care professional on the same day at a single location, when a patient has an appointment with a mental health professional or has contracted an illness or been injured and requires additional treatment.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1462 (Feuer-D) Medi-Cal: inpatient hospital services contracts
Requires the California Medical Assistance Commission to consider graduate medical education programs in negotiating Medi-Cal inpatient contracts with hospitals or in drawing specifications for competitive bidding.
Vetoed
AB 1472 (Torrico-D) Long-term care reimbursement: ratesetting methodology
Requires, under the Medic-Cal Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act rate setting methodology, and labor costs to be determined by facility payroll data, submitted electronically to the department on a quarterly basis, as prescribed.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1568 (Salas-D) Property taxation: disaster relief
Adds specified wildfires to the list of disasters eligible for beneficial homeowners' property tax exemption treatment, and special "carry forward" treatment of excess disaster losses and creates the Children's Health and Human Services Special Fund in the State Treasury.
Chapter 299, Statutes of 2009
AB 5XXX* (Evans-D) Medi-Cal program
Eliminates the cost-of-doing-business paid to counties for conducting Medi-Cal eligibility. Eliminates certain Medi-Cal Optional Benefits, including adult dental services, acupuncture, audiology, chiropractic, podiatric, optometric, psychology, and incontinence creams and washes if notification regarding the receipt of federal funds is not received pursuant to Section 99030 of the Government Code.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 78XXX (Jones-D) Adult day health care centers
Adds applicants that are requesting a certification and enrollment expansion for an Adult Day Health Care center to have been Medi-Cal certified as an adult day health care center for at least two years, and located within a county having 2.25% or fewer Medi-Cal beneficiaries over 65 years of age using adult day health care services, to the list of applicants that are not subject to the moratorium.
(Died at Senate Desk)
AB 4XXXX* (Evans-D) Medi-Cal: drug rates
Reduces, by 10%, the rates paid for Drug Medi-Cal services.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 5XXXX* (Evans-D) Medi-Cal program
Makes changes to Medi-Cal to comply with federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act requirements, makes changes to the estimated acquisition cost component of pharmacy reimbursement paid under the Medi-Cal program, requires the use of 340B public health services drug pricing for Medi-Cal enrollees, makes changes in the asset verification program for Medi-Cal enrollees to comply with federal law, and makes other changes to Medi-Cal to implement the 2009-10 State Budget.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 6XXXX* (Evans-D) Medi-Cal
Directs the state to submit an application to the federal government for a waiver or demonstration project to modify Medi-Cal and maximize receipt of federal dollars.
Chapter 6, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Mental Health
SB 152 (Cox-R) Mental health services: Medi-Cal funding
Directs, beginning 3/1/10, the Department of Mental Health to send a reimbursement claim to the State Controller within 90 days after receipt of mental health services claims submitted by counties, and requires interest to accrue starting on the 91st day of an unpaid claim.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SB 296 (Lowenthal-D) Health insurance: mental health services
Requires health care service plans and health insurers that provide professional mental health services to issue identification cards to all enrollees and insured containing specified information by 7/1/11, and provide specified information relating to their policies and procedures on their Internet Web sites by 1/1/12.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2009
SB 543 (Leno-D) Minors: consent to mental health treatment
Expands the rights of minors to receive outpatient mental health treatment or counseling services.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 743 (Assembly Health Committee) Health facilities: psychiatric patient release
Clarifies the immunities from civil and criminal liability that are granted to hospitals and their staff related to the detention of persons who cannot be safely released from the hospital because they are a danger to themselves, to others, or are gravely disabled, as defined.
Chapter 612, Statutes of 2009
SB 10XXX* (Ducheny-D) The Mental Health Services Act: Proposition 63 amendments
Contains necessary statutory initiative changes to the Proposition 63 Mental Health Services Act, subject to approval by the voters at a statewide election, to make appropriations for the Department of Mental Health in the Budget Act of 2009.
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 244 (Beall-D) Health care coverage: mental health services
Requires health plans and health insurers to cover the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of a mental illness, as defined, of a person of any age, including a child, and not limited to coverage for severe mental illness as in existing law.
Vetoed
AB 398 (Monning-D) Acquired brain trauma: administration
Transfers the administrative duties and oversight of the California Traumatic Brain Injury program from the Department of Mental Health to the Department of Rehabilitation, and extends the existing repeal date for the program from 7/1/12 to 7/1/19.
Chapter 439, Statutes of 2009
AB 710 (Yamada-D) Veterans: substance abuse and mental health services
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to consult with the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP), to identify federal funds available for funding community-based organizations that provide substance abuse and mental health services to veterans, as specified. If identified, the DVA will apply for federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funds through DMH or DADP. Requiring DVA to establish a certification process to certify the eligibility of community-based organizations and to establish criteria for determining renewal of funding for recipient organizations.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 754 (Chesbro-D) Mental health plans: Medi-Cal
Requires the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to allocate and distribute the full contracted amount of General Fund payment for the managed mental health care program, exclusive of the Early and Periodic Screening Diagnosis, and Treatment Program specialty mental health services provided under the Medi-Cal specialty mental health services waiver, at the beginning of the contract period. The allocated funds shall be considered to be funds of the plan that may be held by DMH. Requiring DMH to develop a methodology to ensure that these funds are held as the property of the plan and shall not be reallocated by DMH or any other entity of state government for other purposes.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1571 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Mental health services: county plans: veterans
Includes veterans and representatives from a veterans organization in the list of local stakeholders required to be consulted in the development and update of each county's Mental Health Services Act plan. Requires the Department of Mental Health to inform the Department of Veterans Affairs of county plans that have outreach programs or that provide services specifically for veterans.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 2009
AB 5XXX* (Evans-D) Mental health programs
Makes clarifying changes to the Department of Mental Health processing of a county mental health plan and the role of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission and its operations.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 5XXXX* (Evans-D) Mental health: Patton State Hospital
Extends the date that 1,530 patients may be housed at the Patton State Hospital from September 2009 to September 2012.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Developmentally Disabled
SB 110 (Liu-D) People with disabilities: victims of crime
Makes numerous technical and substantive changes regarding provisions of laws relating to crimes against individuals with disabilities.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 209 (Corbett-D) Civil actions: disabled access
Requires a Certified Access Specialist inspection report, submitted to the court in an action involving alleged violations of disability access laws to trigger an early evaluation conference, to remain confidential rather than be under seal and subject to protective orders of the court. Specifies who will have access to the Certified Access Specialist inspection report and when confidentiality of the report would terminate.
Chapter 569, Statutes of 2009
SB 755 (Negrete McLeod-D) State contracts: participation goals
Establishes a statewide participation goal of not less than one percent for persons with developmental disabilities business enterprises to participate in contracts awarded by state agencies for goods and services. Requires, until 6/30/14, that each state agency awarding contracts take specified actions to encourage that participation. Requires the Department of General Services to adopt regulations and consult with the Department of Developmental Disabilities with respect to implementation.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 2XXX* (Ducheny-D) Developmental Services Budget provisions
Reduces funding for regional centers in the Department of Developmental Services by $28.7 million. This is achieved by reducing certain payments for services delivered from 2/1/09 to 6/30/10 by 3% and suspending several administrative and case management requirements in existing law from 2/1/09 to 6/30/10.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session - Item Veto
SB 6XXX* (Ducheny-D) Developmental services: 2008 and 2009 Budgets
Reduces reimbursement of providers participating in the regional center system, and reduces regional center operations.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
SB 58XXX* (Price-D) Regional centers: purchase of consumer services
Requires that a regional center that provides services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities fund the most cost-effective transportation modality that meets the consumer's needs and choice.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 123 (Portantino-D) Housing for elderly or disabled persons
Exempts, from Department of Social Services licensing, two additional types of housing: residences covered by the low income housing tax credit and Section 8 subsidized housing, in order for disabled persons to remain in their residences.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2009
AB 140 (Beall-D) Developmental disabilities
Establishes a process for resolving disputes between regional centers and publicly-funded generic agencies, such as local education agencies.
Chapter 84, Statutes of 2009
AB 152 (Carter-D) Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act: disability
Defines "disability" for purposes of the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act as either a mental or physical disability, as those terms are defined.
(In Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee)
AB 287 (Beall-D) Persons with developmental disabilities: employment
Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to form a standing Employment First Committee, as specified, and requires the Committee to report to the Legislature by 7/1/11, and annually thereafter, describing the Committee's work and recommendations.
Chapter 231, Statutes of 2009
AB 302 (Beall-D) Developmental services: regional centers
Requires the Department of Developmental Services, using existing data, to determine how purchase-of-service funds are spent based on consumer ethnicity and primary language.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)
AB 393 (Yamada-D) Vehicle warranties: disabled rights
Extends the vehicle warranty requirement to any vehicle manufacturer who modifies new vehicles into vehicles usable by persons with disabilities.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 416 (Block-D) Developmental services: consumer abuse registry
Requires providers of services to consumers with developmental disabilities (DD consumers) to report evidence of DD consumer abuse to investigating agencies, requires investigating agencies to report substantiated cases of DD consumer abuse to the Department of Developmental Services, and requires the department to develop a registry of direct service workers with histories of substantiated reports of abuse.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 438 (Beall-D) Persons with developmental disabilities: criminal proceeding
Expands diversion eligibility for persons with cognitive disabilities, and requires the Department of Developmental Services to create a task force to identify strategies and best practices for dealing with persons with developmental disabilities in the criminal justice system.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1171 (Ammiano-D) Rental property: public entity restriction
Specifies that the rent control system of a public entity may require that the one-year extension applies to all tenancies in the applicable accommodations if a tenant or lessee who is at least 62 years of age or disabled and has lived in the accommodations for at least one year prior to the delivery of notice to a public entity and gives the required 60-day notice to the owner.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1213 (Skinner-D) Employment of persons with disabilities
Adds the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a member of the California Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 1260* (Huffman-D) Developmental services: regional centers
Revises the maximum purchase by a regional center of respite services for consumers, from a maximum number of days per year and hours per quarter, to a percentage of the annualized volume of respite services utilized by a consumer who received those services in the 2008-09 fiscal year. Revises the requirement for specified vendors to offer an alternative senior program component to be permissive, and revises the requirement for regional centers to provide information and offer an alternative senior program to be permissive.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1589 (Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee) Regional centers: whistleblower protection
Enacts the Regional Center Whistleblower Protection Act providing protection for regional center employees who report improper regional center activities, as defined, or make a protected disclosure, as defined, to the department or the Legislature.
(Unassigned to a committee)
AB 5XXX* (Evans-D) Developmental services
Specifies a workgroup process for the Department of Developmental Services to identify statutory changes to reduce regional center expenditures by $100 million (General Fund).
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 45XXX (Evans-D) Budget Act of 2009
Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of developmental services in order to amend the 2009 Budget Act.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 5XXXX* (Evans-D) Developmental disabilities
Makes various changes to the 2009-10 budget Act relative to developmental disabilities care and facilities.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 9XXXX* (Evans-D) Developmental services
Contains necessary changes to enact modifications to the 2009 Budget Act relative to developmental services. These changes result in savings of over $200 million (General Fund). All of the proposed changes will occur, unless otherwise specified, at the time of the development, scheduled review, or modification of a client's Individual Program Plan for Individual Family Service Plan.
Chapter 9, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Tobacco Products
SB 4 (Oropeza-D) Smoking ban: state beaches and parks
Makes it a crime for an individual to smoke on a state beach or a state park.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 53* (DeSaulnier-D) Tobacco settlement monies: Master Settlement Agreement
Authorizes the Attorney General to negotiate amendments to the Master Settlement Agreement that will not materially adversely alter, limit, or impair the rights to receive tobacco assets or in any way impair the rights and remedies of bondholders or the security for their bonds.
Chapter 28, Statutes of 2009
SB 76* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Cigarette tax
Among other provisions, imposes an additional $1.50 per pack excise tax on cigarettes.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 400 (Corbett-D) Tobacco
Updates the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act to define electronic cigarettes under state law and to halt the sale of electronic cigarettes.
Vetoed
SB 600* (Padilla-D) Cigarette and tobacco products taxes
Imposes an additional excise tax of $1.50 per package of 20 cigarettes, adjusted annually by the consumer price index, and indirectly increase the tax on other tobacco products. Imposes a one-time "floor stock tax" on the cigarettes held or stored by dealers and wholesalers.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SB 601 (Padilla-D) Retail tobacco licenses
Prohibits the Board of Equalization from issuing a new cigarette and tobacco products license for a retail location within 600 feet of a school, unless public convenience or necessity would be served by the issuance, as specified. Restricts the issuance of a new retail license to "traditional retail locations."
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 603 (Padilla-D) Retail cigarette and tobacco sales: licenses: violations
Establishes a $100 annual fee on each license issued by the Board of Equalization for the retail sale of cigarette and tobacco products. Establishes a statewide standard relative to the traditional retailers definition and proximity limitations.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SJR 8 (Corbett-D) Electronic cigarettes
Requests that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibit all sales of electronic cigarettes until they have been found, by the FDA, to be safe.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 89* (Torlakson-D) Taxation: cigarettes and other tobacco products
Imposes an additional excise tax on the distribution of cigarettes at the rate of $0.105 for each cigarette distributed, and will require a dealer or wholesaler to file a return with the Board of Equalization showing the number of cigarettes in his/her possession or under his/her control on that date, as specified.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 574 (Hill-D) Smoking: health facilities
Prohibits smoking in all areas of acute care hospitals, including the general hospital campus, buildings, parking areas, plazas, and sidewalks.
Vetoed
AB 689 (Charles Calderon-D) Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law: tobacco products
Expands the definition of "tobacco products" contained in both the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act of 1988 (Proposition 99) and the California Children and Families First Act of 1998 (Proposition 10) to include any articles or products made of or containing tobacco.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
ACA 22 (Torlakson-D) Taxation: cigarettes and other tobacco products
Imposes an additional tax on the distribution of cigarettes at the rate of $0.074 for each cigarette distributed, and upon the distribution of tobacco products at an equivalent tax rate. Provides that the revenues collected from the additional tax will be deposited in the Tobacco Excise Tax Fund, which is created by the bill, and will be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for certain education-, health-, and child-related purposes. Imposes a floor stock tax on every distributor and wholesaler for each cigarette or tobacco product in his/her possession on the day the excise tax is first imposed. Prohibits the Legislature, between 1/1/11 and 1/1/16, from imposing any additional tax upon the distribution of cigarettes or tobacco products.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
Health Facilities
SB 117 (Corbett-D) Adult day health care services: eligibility criteria
Extends the deadline by which the Department of Health Care Services is required to establish a new Medi-Cal rate reimbursement methodology for adult day health care services, from 8/1/10 to 8/1/12.
Chapter 165, Statutes of 2009
SB 180* (Florez-D) California Health Alert Network participation
Requires every primary care clinic and general acute care hospital to enroll and participate in the California Health Alert Network administered by the Emergency Preparedness Office in the Department of Public Health.
(In Senate Health Committee)
SB 196 (Corbett-D) Emergency medical services
Increases, from 90 to 120 days, the public notice a general acute care hospital must provide prior to closing or downgrading an emergency department and includes employees among the entities who must be notified. Increases, from 30 to 60 days, the public notice a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital must give prior to closing a facility or eliminating or relocating a supplemental service.
Vetoed
SB 198 (Cogdill-R) Health care districts: John C. Fremont Health Care District
Extends the repayment period for local health care districts lines of credit from 5 years to 20 years provided that the line of credit is established on or after 1/1/10, and established for the sole purpose of consolidating debts incurred by a district prior to 1/1/10. Imposes a $2 million limit on the total amount of debt a district can have outstanding at any one time under the line of credit.
Chapter 37, Statutes of 2009
SB 214 (Benoit-R) Sober living homes
Provides that a sober living home, as defined, is exempt from licensure by Department of Social Services and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
(In Senate Health Committee)
SB 268 (Harman-R) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities
Requires applicants seeking licensure as a residential alcoholism or drug abuse recovery treatment facility (treatment facility) to include in the application to the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs a certification that the proposed facility complies with local zoning, or is a legal non-conforming use, and to submit an approved fire clearance, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 289 (Ducheny-D) Hospitals: seismic safety: periodic reports
Requires owners of hospital buildings that are classified as nonconforming, Structural Performance Category-1 (SPC-1) buildings for which extensions of the 2008 deadline for seismic retrofitting or rebuilding have been requested, to include additional information in statutorily required reports due to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development by 6/30/11.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 303 (Alquist-D) Nursing facility residents: informed consent
Establishes the right of a resident of a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility (nursing facility) to receive information material to the decision to accept or refuse any treatment or procedure, including the administration of psychotherapeutic drugs, and codifies existing regulations requiring attending physicians to obtain informed consent after providing specified material information.
Vetoed
SB 337 (Alquist-D) Health information
Revises the time limits by which clinics, health facilities, home health agencies, and hospices must report instances of unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, patients' medical information, requires these entities to delay reports if a law enforcement agency or official provides the entity with a statement that compliance with the reporting requirement would be likely to impede the law enforcement agency's activities, and specifies a date upon which the delay shall end, with specific requirements for oral, versus written, requests for delays in reporting.
Chapter 180, Statutes of 2009
SB 352 (Dutton-R) Juvenile offenders: health facilities
Clarifies that sexual abuse is a reportable incident for community care facilities, clarifies that runaway incidents are included in "all incidents involving a response by local law enforcement," as specified, and clarifies that known gang affiliation is included in "dangerous behavior", for the purposes creating a case plan, determining supervision, and notifying care facilities, as specified.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2009
SB 360 (Yee-D) Health facilities: direct care nurses
Requires hospitals to ensure that all direct care registered nurses receive and complete an orientation of a minimum of five standard shifts where the orientee would be observed by an experienced direct care nurse, as specified, prior to being counted toward the hospital's established nurse-to-patient ratio.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 364 (Florez-D) Health facilities: cancer centers
Prohibits an officer, director, or member of a governing board of a general acute care hospital designated by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center, and that accepts state funds, from holding a position as an officer, director, or member of the board, or a similar position, of a specified corporation.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 442 (Ducheny-D) Clinic corporation: licensing
Requires the Department of Public Health to issue a single, consolidated license to a clinic corporation, or an entity that operates multiple clinics under a single governing board with a universal administrative and operative structure.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 482 (Padilla-D) Biological data analysis services: regulation
Establishes requirements for entities providing post-Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) bioinformatics, as defined. Requires entities providing post-CLIA bioinformatics, that provides customers with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or FDA-exempt biological specimen kits to have a contractual relationship with a clinical laboratory for the receipt and processing of a customer's biological specimens.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 499 (Ducheny-D) Hospitals: seismic safety
Authorizes, through 1/1/13, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to use current computer modeling based on federally-developed software (known as Hazards US, or HAZUS) to determine the structural performance category (SPC) of general acute care hospital buildings. SPC classifications, ranging from SPC-1 to SPC-5, are used to indicate the structural seismic risk of a hospital building in the event of a major earthquake, with SPC-1 used to designate buildings at potential risk of collapse or significant loss of life in a major earthquake.
Chapter 601, Statutes of 2009
SB 661 (Wolk-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly
Requires that if an admission agreement includes an arbitration agreement, that arbitration agreement comply with prescribed requirements.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 687 (Alquist-D) Long-term health care facilities
Prohibits an individual from being refused placement in a long-term health care facility based on the diagnosis of a health-care-associated infection or a positive test for the presence of an organism, requires long-term health care facilities to implement appropriate infection control measures and to maintain a record of infections, as specified, and requires facility staff to receive appropriate education and training with regards to the control of health-care-associated infections.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 724 (Cogdill-R) Prisoners: hospital services
Requires the State Controller to transfer a third of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) annual payments to hospitals into a newly-created "Hospital Interim Payment Fund" created in the state treasury, from which hospitals that have provided services to CDCR will be paid when the annual state budget is late, with payments thereafter required where (1) an invoice has been submitted for the services, and (2) payment for the services is due and payable and CDCR, including the Division of Juvenile Facilities, determines that payment would be valid.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 726 (Ashburn-R) Health care districts: rural hospitals
Revises an existing pilot project allowing qualified health care districts and qualified rural hospitals, as specified, to directly employ physicians and extends the sunset date for the pilot project from 1/1/11, to 1/1/18.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 743 (Assembly Health Committee) Health facilities: psychiatric patient release
Makes clarifying changes to existing law granting civil and criminal immunity to specified hospitals and staff regarding the detention and release of a person who is a danger to themselves, or others, or is gravely disabled, as defined.
Chapter 612, Statutes of 2009
SB 744* (Strickland-R) Clinical laboratories
Revises licensing and certification requirements for clinical laboratories by recognizing accreditation of clinical laboratories by private, nonprofit organizations, as specified, revises license fees according to the number of tests performed, and makes other administrative changes.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2009
SB 781 (Leno-D) Eviction procedure
Requires a residential care facility for the elderly to include additional information when providing a notice of eviction to a resident, including the reason for the eviction, the effective date of the eviction, and additional information informing the resident of his/her rights regarding evictions.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2009
SB 2XXX* (Ducheny-D) Hospital Building Fund
Provides a $10 million loan from the Hospital Building Fund to the General Fund with repayment by 6/30/11.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session - Item Veto
SJR 13 (Oropeza-D) New dialysis clinic licensure and certification
Urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to adopt regulations, and the Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation, to improve the system and speed up the process for timely licensure and certification surveys of new dialysis clinics.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SJR 15 (Alquist-D) Public health laboratories
Encourages the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to amend regulations, and the Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation, allowing qualified non-doctoral, non-board certified persons to serve as laboratory directors of local public health laboratories.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 57 (Price-D) University of California hospitals: staffing
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a procedure for collecting and reviewing written staffing plans developed by the University of California hospitals, and requires the department to review documentation from each hospital concerning several aspects of its patient classification plan.
Vetoed
AB 188* (Jones-D) Hospital funding
Appropriates $13.5 billion (special fund) from the Hospital Quality Assurance Revenue Fund (HQARF) (established by AB 1383) to the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to increase Medi-Cal payments to hospitals until 1/1/13. Appropriates $2 million (50% General Fund/50% federal) from the Private Hospital Supplemental Fund to DHCS to support administrative requirements of AB 1383. Requires $1 million General Fund to be repaid from the HQARF if federal approval for the quality assurance fee is granted.
Chapter 645, Statutes of 2009
AB 215 (Feuer-D) Skilled nursing facilities: ratings
Requires skilled nursing facilities to post, in accordance with specified requirements, the overall facility rating information determined by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Chapter 420, Statutes of 2009
AB 235 (Hayashi-D) Emergency services and care
Extends the definition of emergency services and care to include additional screening, examination, and evaluation by appropriate medical professionals to determine if a psychiatric emergency medical condition exists, and clarifies hospital and health plan responsibilities regarding psychiatric emergencies.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2009
AB 249 (Carter-D) Health facilities: marking patient devices
Requires the patients written personal property inventory in long-term health care facilities to include a listing, by a unique identification number, of all patient-owned mobility, hearing, or breathing equipment.
Vetoed
AB 303 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: designated public hospitals
Allows designated public hospitals to receive supplemental Medi-Cal reimbursement from the Construction and Renovation Reimbursement Program for new capital projects to meet state seismic safety deadlines for which plans have been submitted to the state after 1/1/07, and before 12/31/11.
Chapter 428, Statutes of 2009
AB 366 (Ruskin-D) Medi-Cal: inpatient hospital services contracts
Requires the California Medical Assistance Commission to consider, when negotiating contracts for inpatient care or developing specifications for competitive bidding, specialization in orthopedic implantation relating to cancers of the bone, in addition to the factors already required.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 369 (Yamada-D) Adult day health care centers
Exempts two veterans facilities (one in Ventura and one in Lancaster) from the moratorium prohibiting the enrollment of adult day health care centers into the Medi-Cal program.
Vetoed
AB 411 (Garrick-R) Health facilities: seismic safety
Requires a health care district that has been denied an extension of the seismic retrofit and replacement deadlines to make a specified report to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, on or before 3/1/10.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 523* (Huffman-D) Hospitals: seismic safety
Allows the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to grant a two-year extension of the 2013 seismic deadline for a hospital building that is owned by a health care district, but is operated by a third party under a lease that extends at least through 12/31/09, based on a declaration that the district has lacked, and continued to lack, unrestricted access to the hospital building for seismic planning purposes during the time of the lease.
Chapter 243, Statutes of 2009
AB 542 (Feuer-D) Hospital acquired conditions
Requires the Department of Managed Health Care to adopt regulations establishing uniform policies and practices governing the nonpayment of hospitals for substantiated adverse events by public and private payers, consistent with those developed by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and revises and expands the existing requirements for hospitals to report specified hospital acquired conditions.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 564 (Portantino-D) Substance abuse treatment
Limits the maximum amount of public funds in the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund that may be used for compensation of a director, officer or employee of a nonprofit entity that provides substance abuse treatment in California to the salary limitations established by the federal government.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor; reconsideration granted)
AB 574 (Hill-D) Health facilities: smoking
Prohibits smoking in all areas of acute care hospitals, including the general hospital campus, buildings, parking areas, plazas, and sidewalks.
Vetoed
AB 599 (Hall-D) Forensic blood alcohol testing laboratories
Provides that, until the effective date of specified regulatory changes, accreditation on the forensic alcohol analysis discipline or subdiscipline by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board is sufficient to comply with proficiency testing requirements, and requires the review committee established by the Department of Public Health to submit its summary of revisions of the regulations to the Health and Human Services Agency by 12/31/10.
Vetoed
AB 639 (Torlakson-D) Poison control centers
Appropriates $3 million from the General Fund to the Emergency Medical Services Authority for the support of poison control centers.
(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
AB 648 (Chesbro-D) Rural hospitals: physician services
Establishes a demonstration project to permit rural hospitals, as defined, whose service area includes a medically underserved or federally designated shortage area and which meet certain specified requirements, to directly employ physicians and surgeons. Provides that the total number of licensees employed shall not exceed 10, unless the Medical Board of California makes a determination that additional physicians and surgeons is deemed appropriate.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 664 (Skinner-D) Workers' compensation: hospital employees: presumption
Establishes several workers' compensation presumptions for more than 500,000 employees at hospitals statewide, including workers at private and non-profit hospitals. Establishes a presumption that back or neck injuries and methicillin-resistant Staphylococus aureus infections are job-related during and after a period of employment at a hospital, and requires specified workers' compensation benefits to be provided.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 762 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Residential facilities: bedridden persons
Defines nonambulatory persons in specified facilities relative to fire clearance, and clarifies the requirements for accepting or retaining a resident in a residential care facility for the elderly when that individual needs assistance transferring to and from bed.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2009
AB 773 (Lieu-D) Health facilities: citations: notifications
Requires long-term care facilities to post Class "AA" and "A" citations for 120 days. Deletes the requirement in existing law that the posting be prescribed in regulations issued by the Department of Public Health, and that the violations be posted until the violation is corrected to the satisfaction of the department, up to a maximum of 120 days, and deletes the requirement in existing law that the citation become final before it is required to be posted.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2009
AB 818 (Hernandez-D) Health facilities: connection ports
Delays the 1/1/11 date for implementation of a prohibition against hospitals using intravenous, epidural, and enteral feeding connection devices that fit into connection ports other than the type they are intended, as specified.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2009
AB 822 (Fletcher-R) Health facilities: program flexibility
Requires the Department of Public Health to approve, or approve with conditions or modifications, a complete application requesting program flexibility for the use of alternate concepts, methods, procedures, techniques, or equipment by a general acute care hospital whenever the hospital demonstrates to the department that this use meets or exceeds the quality of care and patient safety in effect on 1/1/10.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 832 (Jones-D) Ambulatory surgical clinics: workgroup
Requires the Department of Public Health to convene a workgroup to develop recommendations regarding the oversight of ambulatory surgical clinics to address issues raised in recent litigation, Capen v. Shewry, (155 Cal. App. 4th 378). Findings of Capen have led the department to conclude the department no longer has the authority to license certain ambulatory surgical clinics.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 911 (Lieu-D) Emergency room crowding
Requires all hospitals that operate emergency departments to assess the condition of its emergency department by determining a crowding score of one to six, with one being the least crowded and six being the most crowded, and requires hospitals to develop and file full capacity protocols that correspond to the crowding score with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Vetoed
AB 931 (Fletcher-R) Emergency supplies
Increases the limit on the number of forms of drugs, from 24 to 48, that can be stored in a secured emergency supplies container (known as an "emergency kit") provided by a pharmacy to a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, caps the number of psychotherapeutic medications in an emergency kit but allows the number to be increased by the Department of Public Health through a program flexibility request granted to a facility based on the needs of the facility's patient population, and allows the department to increase the limit on the number of doses in an emergency kit from four to 16.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2009
AB 935 (Feuer-D) Long-term health care facilities
Requires at least half of the funds in the Department of Public Health State Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account (state account) and the Federal Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account (federal account) be used to support local long-term care ombudsman programs administered by the Department of Aging, and requires any remaining funds to be used to protect the health and safety of nursing home residents.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 950 (Hernandez-D) Hospice providers: licensed hospice facilities
Establishes the hospice facility as a new type of health facility, defined as a freestanding health facility, which has been licensed by the Department of Public Health as a hospice facility for the provision of all levels of hospice care, including routine care, continuous care, inpatient respite care, and general inpatient care.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 995 (Block-D) Tissue bank licensing
Exempts licensed physicians or podiatrists from registering as a California tissue bank, if they keep a medical device or biologic product in their office for more than 24 hours before implanting or applying the product to their patient.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2009
AB 1038 (Furutani-D) Health facilities: nursing hours
Increases the minimum number of actual nursing hours per patient required in a skilled nursing facility to 3.5 nursing hours per patient.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1044 (Jones-D) Continuing care retirement communities: contracts
Transfers the oversight and regulation of the finances and contracts of continuing care retirement communities from the Department of Social Services (DSS) to the Department of Insurance, and leaves DSS with the oversight and regulation of programs and services provided directly to residents.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)
AB 1055 (Chesbro-D) Substance abuse: treatment facilities
Expands the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs licensure authority for alcohol and drug treatment facilities to include 24-hour facilities that do not require a health facility license.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1083 (John Perez-D) Health facilities: security plans
Requires hospital security and safety assessments to be conducted not less than annually, requires hospital security plans to be updated annually, provides that hospital security plans may additionally include efforts to cooperate with local law enforcement regarding violent acts at the facility, and requires hospitals to consult with affected employees and members of the medical staff in developing their security plans and assessments.
Chapter 506, Statutes of 2009
AB 1113 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Professional mental health providers
Allows a marriage and family therapist intern to gain qualifying experience for licensure as a marriage and family therapist while working in a state correctional facility.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2009
AB 1235 (Hayashi-D) Hospitals: seismic safety
Extends, for a hospital building that is owned or operated by the County of Alameda on the Alameda County Medical Center's Fairmont Campus, the deadline for submitting a facility master plan until 7/1/10, and states the findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding the need for special legislation.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1272 (Hill-D) Emergency medical services: trauma center
Requires a local emergency medical service to include within its trauma system plan the provision of air transport of trauma patients to, and between, trauma centers, if the local emergency medical service agency elects to implement a trauma system.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 1284 (Huffman-D) Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to notify the appropriate city or county planning agency of a proposed facility's application for licensure as a residential alcohol or drug abuse treatment facility if the treatment facility operates as an integral component of an existing licensed treatment facility managed by the same licensee and is located within 300 feet of the existing facility.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1303 (Hall-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital: reopening plan
Directs the Department of Public Health to convene a working group of stakeholders to assist in the reopening of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital in Los Angeles.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1383 (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: hospital payments: quality assurance fees
Establishes a provider fee on hospitals, matches a portion of revenues collected from the fee with federal funds in the Medi-Cal program at an enhanced match, provides funding for supplemental payments to hospitals that serve Medi-Cal and uninsured patients, provides direct grants to designated public hospitals, funds health coverage for children, and provides funds for the Department of Health Care Services for the direct costs of administering the program.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2009
AB 1427 (Hayashi-D) Hospital districts
Provides that a hospital district may transfer, at fair market value, any part of its assets to a county hospital, and requires, before any transfer of an emergency or urgent care department of a general acute care hospital, a measure proposing the transfer to be submitted to the voters.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1433 (Eng-D) Continuing care contracts: retirement communities
Imposes various requirements on a provider with respect to the permanent closure of a continuing care retirement community facility, or a portion thereof, as specified, including providing 100 days' written notice to the Department of Social Services, and affected residents or designated representatives of these residents of the intended date of closure of a facility. Requires a provider, no less than 90 days prior to the closure of a continuing care retirement community facility, or a portion thereof, to provide the department with a written closure and relocation plan for the facility, containing specified information.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1436 (Portantino-D) Hospital districts
Provides that the powers of local health care district includes ownership and revises the definition of health care facilities for purposes of this power to expressly include public hospitals, as defined.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1457 (Davis-D) Long-term health care facilities: admission contracts
Requires a contract for a skilled nursing facility (SNF) to have an attachment that is placed before any other attachment that discloses the name of the owner and licensee of the SNF and the name and contact information of a single entity that is responsible for all aspects of patient care and the operation of the SNF.
Chapter 532, Statutes of 2009
AB 1462 (Feuer-D) Medi-Cal: inpatient hospital services contracts
Requires the California Medical Assistance Commission to include reimbursement for the costs of graduate medical education, in addition to the factors already required, when negotiating contracts for inpatient care or developing specifications for competitive bidding.
Vetoed
AB 1542 (Assembly Health Committee) Medical homes
Defines a patient-centered medical home as an approach to providing health care that fosters partnerships among the patient and health professionals to promote coordinated care, ensure quality and access to care, and to improve health.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 1544 (Jones-D) Health facilities: licensure: outpatient clinic service
Permits a hospital in good standing to apply to the Department of Public Health (DPH) to offer an outpatient service as a supplemental service without a prior onsite survey by DPH, and requires DPH to approve the application and to issue or deny a new license within 100 days of receiving a complete application.
Chapter 543, Statutes of 2009
AB 3X (Evans-D) Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
Exempts from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development's (OSHPD) plan review process nonstructural construction and alteration projects for hospitals with estimated construction costs of less than $500,000. (Under current law, the threshold is $50,000 or less.) Exempts from OSHPD's plan review process nonstructural construction or alteration projects for hospitals with costs of at least $500,000 but less than $1 million if the designs for those projects are independently peer reviewed by independent plan reviewers. Requires the independent plan reviewers to certify to the OSHPD that the plans are in full compliance with the California Building Standards Code. Providing that this certification shall not diminish the liability or responsibility of the independent plan reviewers.
Vetoed
AB 5XXX* (Evans-D) Safety net care hospitals
Redirects $54.2 million from the amount provided to certain safety net care hospitals for medical services if notification regarding the receipt of federal funds is not received pursuant to Section 99030 of the Government Code.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 44XXX (Evans-D) Health
Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of health care, public health and mental health in order to amend the 2009 Budget Act.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 5XXXX* (Evans-D) Health
Makes various changes to statutes related to health care, public health, and mental health which are necessary to enact modifications to the 2009 Budget Act, including provisions relating to Patton State Hospital, intermediate care facilities, adult residential facilities, and Porterville Developmental Center.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 12XXXX* (Evans-D) Health facilities
Removes the income caps on member fees for all levels of care at California veterans homes, establishes a separate fee structure for the residential care for the elderly level-of-care in which the member income contribution percentage is set to 55%, and sets a new level of member fees for non-veteran spouses who enter veteran's homes on or after 7/1/09.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
ACR 2 (Hall-D) Management of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital
Urges the University of California to expedite negotiations with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science regarding future management of Martin Luther King, Jr. Harbor Hospital.
Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2009
Health Professionals
SB 26 (Simitian-D) Home-generated pharmaceutical waste
Defines home-generated pharmaceutical waste and exempts such waste from existing regulatory requirements for the handling of medical waste. Authorizes pharmacies and other facilities to collect home generated pharmaceutical waste, under specified conditions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 33 (Correa-D) Marriage and family therapy: licensure and registration
Updates and recasts the educational curriculum requirements for marriage and family therapists to require persons who begin graduate study after 8/1/12, to meet increased total unit requirements, increases practicum hours for face-to-face counseling, integrates specified elements, including public mental health practices, throughout the curriculum, repeals current marriage and family therapist educational requirements on 1/1/19, and revises requirements for applicants licensed or educated outside of California.
Chapter 26, Statutes of 2009
SB 58 (Aanestad-R) Physicians and surgeons: peer review
Requires peer review bodies to annually report to the Medical Board of California (MBC) on their peer review activities involving licensees of the board and to comply with MBC information requests. Requires peer review bodies to administer an early detection and resolution program in which a peer review body would, where it deems appropriate, allow a physician or surgeon to complete certain training, observation, or consultation requirements instead of being subject to disciplinary action and an "805 report."
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 112* (Oropeza-D) Hemodialysis technicians
Revises existing requirements for the certification of hemodialysis technicians under the Hemodialysis Technicians Training Act.
Chapter 559, Statutes of 2009
SB 119 (Wyland-R) Professional liability insurance: insurers
Revises the sunset date on law that provides immunity from liability for insurers who issue professional liability insurance to health care providers for any statement made in a notice of nonrenewal. The law, which sunsets on 1/1/11, provides that such immunity does not extend to statements shown to have been made in bad faith. Extends the sunset date to 1/1/13, with a specified exception.
Chapter 30, Statutes of 2009
SB 132* (Denham-R) Polysomnographic technologists
Establishes educational and registration requirements for certified polysomnographic technologists (CPT), technicians and trainees, and requires the Medical Board of California to develop regulations for the employment and designation of CPTs, technicians, and trainees.
Chapter 635, Statutes of 2009
SB 196 (Corbett-D) Emergency medical services
Increases from 90 to 120 days the public notice an acute care hospital must provide prior to closing or downgrading an emergency department. Adds employees to the list of entities that must be provided with this notice, requires the hospital to hold a minimum of three public meetings related to the proposed changes, and requires the facility to inform the public of the status at the second public meeting.
Vetoed
SB 221 (Walters-R) Home dialysis agencies
Repeals home dialysis agencies from current law authorization regarding chronic dialysis services.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2009
SB 238 (Calderon-D) Prescription drugs
Allows a pharmacy to mail specified written communications to a patient, without the patient's authorization under specified conditions.
(In Senate Health Committee)
SB 294 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts
Expands the authorized functions that may be performed by nurse practitioners practicing under standard procedures, makes significant revisions to the enforcement programs of healing arts boards, appoints an Enforcement Program Monitor to the Board of Registered Nursing, and makes other changes.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 360 (Yee-D) Health facilities: direct care nurses
Requires hospitals to ensure that all direct care registered nurses receive and complete an orientation of a minimum of five standard shifts where the orientee will be observed by an experienced direct care nurse prior to being counted toward the hospital's established nurse-to-patient ratio.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 368 (Maldonado-R) Confidential medical information
Allows the Office of Health Information Integrity to audit the procedures and records of a health care provider at any time in order to determine the provider's compliance with requirements to establish and implement appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of patient's medical information, and to reasonably safeguard confidential medical information from any unauthorized access or unlawful access, use, or disclosure.
(In Senate Health Committee)
SB 374 (Calderon-D) Personal trainers
Establishes educational and training requirements for personal trainers and after 1/1/12, prohibits a person from calling themselves a personal trainer unless they meet the requirements.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 389 (Negrete McLeod-D) Professions and vocations
Adds specified licensees to the existing list of licensees required to furnish to the licensing agency a full set of fingerprints for purposes of conducting criminal history record checks, and imposes these requirements on a petitioner for reinstatement of a revoked or cancelled license.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 470 (Corbett-D) Pharmacy: prescriptions
Revises the current prescription drug labeling requirement to permit the label to include information on the purpose of the prescribed medication instead of the condition for which it is prescribed if requested by the patient.
Chapter 590, Statutes of 2009
SB 599* (Negrete McLeod-D) Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program
Extends the California Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program of 2002.
Chapter 642, Statutes of 2009
SB 606 (Ducheny-D) Physicians and surgeons: loan repayment
Requires the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to assess an additional $25 fee from an osteopathic physician and surgeon applying for initial or reciprocity licensure, or for a biennial renewal license. Requires the funds collected by the Board to be transferred to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians for the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program.
Chapter 600, Statutes of 2009
SB 620 (Wiggins-D) Healing arts: osteopathic physicians and surgeons
Requires a licensed osteopathic physician and surgeon (D.O.) to report to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California at the time of initial licensure, any specialty board certification and their practice status, as defined. Allows a D.O. to report, and the Board to collect, information regarding his/her cultural background, and foreign language proficiency. Providing that the Information collected may be placed on the Board's Internet Web site.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2009
SB 674 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts
Requires for purposes of advertising that a health care practitioner, include specific professional designation following the health care practitioners name. Requires the Medical Board of California to adopt regulations on the appropriate level of physician availability necessary within clinics or other settings using laser or intense pulse light devices for elective cosmetic surgery.
Vetoed
SB 700 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts: peer review
Makes various changes relating to the peer review process in which a final proposed action may be imposed on a licentiate, if certain conditions are met, for which a report (commonly referred to as an 805 report pursuant to Section 805 of the Business and Professions Code) is required to be filed to the appropriate health care regulatory body.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 707 (DeSaulnier-D) Alcohol and other drug counselor licensing and certification
Institutes a system of certification and licensing for alcohol and other drug counselors by the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 726 (Ashburn-R) Health care districts: rural hospitals
Revises an existing pilot project allowing qualified health care districts and qualified rural hospitals, as specified, to directly employ physicians and extends the sunset date for the pilot project from 1/1/11, to 1/1/18.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 761 (Aanestad-R) Health manpower pilot projects
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, no later than 6/30/10, to submit an annual report to the Legislature on all approved or renewed health workforce pilot projects.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 762 (Aanestad-R) Professions and vocations: healing arts
Makes it unlawful for a city or county to prohibit a healing arts licensee from engaging in any act or performing any procedure that falls within the professionally recognized scope of practice of that licensee, but prohibits construing this provision to prohibit the enforcement of a local ordinance in effect prior to 1/1/10, as specified.
Chapter 16, Statutes of 2009
SB 774 (Ashburn-R) Social workers: criminal history
Requires county welfare departments to obtain background clearances for employment applicants or transferees within the county welfare department who have frequent contact with children, and requires the county welfare director to determine whether or not there is convincing evidence that the person is of good character and should be allowed frequent and direct contact with children.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 788 (Wyland-R) Licensed professional clinical counselors
Establishes the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act which provides for the licensing and regulation of licensed professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Chapter 619, Statutes of 2009
SB 819 (Yee-D) Professions and vocations
Expands the authorized functions that may be performed by nurse practitioners practicing under standard procedures, revises provisions of the Accountancy Act, and makes several non-controversial, minor, non-substantive or technical changes to various provisions pertaining to the regulatory boards in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2009
SB 820 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts: peer review
Makes various changes related to disciplinary reporting by specified healing arts boards.
Vetoed
SB 821 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Consumer affairs: professions and vocations
Makes technical and clarifying changes to statutes governing several professional and Healing Arts boards under the jurisdiction of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 307, Statutes of 2009
SCR 32 (Strickland-R) Emergency Medical Services Week
Declares the week of 5/17/09 to 5/23/09, to be Emergency Medical Service Week in California in recognition of all persons engaged in emergency medical services activities and encourages all Californians to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2009
SR 21 (Alquist-D) Electronic health records
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to provide further amendment to, or regulatory clarification of, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, so that medical groups and independent practice associations may apply for stimulus funding on behalf of their physicians who have accepted deployment of health information technology systems purchased by the group.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 83* (Feuer-D) Torts: personal liability immunity.
Provides that no person who in good faith and not for compensation renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency shall be liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission other than an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2009
AB 107 (Galgiani-D) Veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians
Clarifies the appointment of members to the Veterinary Medical Board by the Governor, requires the Board to offer both a written and practical examination at least twice a year until 1/1/11, and after that date, to offer a national examination and a state specific examination on animal health care tasks. Makes other changes related to reciprocity and temporary licensing requirements for out-of-state veterinarians, and clarifies the enforcement actions that may be taken against a registered veterinarian technician.
Chapter 80, Statutes of 2009
AB 120 (Hayashi-D) Healing arts: peer review
Amends the medical peer review process by recommending external peer review in limited circumstances, requires peer review bodies to share information, establishes the duties of a hearing officer, and sets parameters for attorney representation.
Vetoed
AB 160 (Hayashi-D) Registered nurses: education program
Expands the Registered Nurse Education Program to include registered nursing students who agree to serve in a kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, school.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 171 (Jones-D) Dental services: credit
Establishes requirements governing the arrangement of credit cards and loans for dental services and prohibits a dentist, or an employee or agent of a dentist, from charging to a third party line of credit for services that have not been rendered, or costs that have not been incurred, unless the patient receives a list of treatment and services to be rendered, including the estimated costs, and a written treatment plan, as specified.
Chapter 418, Statutes of 2009
AB 175 (Galgiani-D) Medical telemedicine: optometrists
Expands, for the purposes of Medi-Cal reimbursement, until 1/1/13, the definition of "teleophthalmology and teledermatology by store and forward" to include services of a licensed optometrist.
Chapter 419, Statutes of 2009
AB 245 (Ma-D) Physicians and surgeons
Requires the Medical Board of California to remove an expunged or misdemeanor or felony conviction posted on the Board's Internet Web site within 90 days of receiving a copy of the expungement order from the licensee.
Vetoed
AB 252 (Carter-D) Practice of medicine: cosmetic surgery
Authorizes the revocation of a physician and surgeons license who provides elective cosmetic medical procedures or treatments (cosmetic surgery) in violation of the prohibition against the corporate practice of medicine.
Vetoed
AB 356 (Fletcher-R) Radiologic technology: fluoroscopy
Expands the existing category of licentiates of the healing arts to include a licensed physician assistant who practices pursuant to the Radiologic Technology Act, and authorizes a physician and surgeon to delegate procedures using ionizing radiation, including, but not limited to, fluoroscopy, to a licensed physician assistant, under specified conditions.
Chapter 434, Statutes of 2009
AB 369 (Yamada-D) Adult day health care centers
Exempts two veterans facilities (one in Ventura and one in Lancaster) from the moratorium prohibiting the enrollment of adult day health care centers into the Medi-Cal program.
Vetoed
AB 403 (Fuller-R) Dental hygienists: examinations and licensure
Authorizes registered dental hygienists to meet educational requirements by completing the Western Regional Examining Board examination instead of the California clinical examination.
Chapter 104, Statutes of 2009
AB 418 (Emmerson-R) Pharmacy technicians: licensure requirements
Eliminates the option for a pharmacy technician to obtain licensure by certification by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board. Requires an applicant to pass a pharmacy technician examination recognized by the National Organization for Competency Assurance and approved by the Board of Pharmacy.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 445 (Salas-D) Use of X-ray equipment: prohibition: exemptions
Allows the use of a mini C-arm digital radiography device in connection with the diagnosis of bone fractures in the foot, in a licensed trauma center or an emergency department of a licensed hospital, by an orthopedic resident, an orthopedic nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant, when under the direct or indirect supervision of a certified radiological technologist.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 456 (Emmerson-R) Dentistry: diversion program
Makes changes to the Dental Board of California's diversion program for licensees who are impaired by alcohol and/or drugs.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 492 (Conway-R) Community colleges: nursing faculty
Expands existing law to allow temporary clinical nursing faculty at California Community Colleges (CCC) to teach an unlimited number of semesters or quarters within any period of three consecutive years until 6/30/14, authorizes a CCC district to employ temporary clinical nursing faculty even if the hiring of such faculty results in an increase in the ratio of part-time to full-time nursing faculty in that CCC district, and makes various related findings and declarations.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 497 (Block-D) Physicians: high-occupancy vehicle lane usage
Permits a physician traveling in response to an emergency to use high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, regardless of occupancy level, if the vehicle displays an approved insignia, and doubles the fine for a physician using an HOV lane unlawfully or for a person that is not a licensed physician but who operates a car displaying a physician insignia in an HOV lane.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 501 (Emmerson-R) Physicians and surgeons
Permits the Medical Board of California to issue a limited license to an applicant for a physician and surgeon's license, sets the terms of use for the titles "Dr." and "M.D.," makes changes to the physician and surgeon license fee cap and to the Contingent Fund, and requests a financial audit of the Board.
Chapter 400, Statutes of 2009
AB 526 (Fuentes-D) Public Protection and Physician Health Program Act of 2009
Enacts the Public Protection and Physician Health Program Act of 2009, which will, until 1/1/21, establish the 12-14 member Physician Health Oversight Committee (Committee). Requires the Committee to hold its first meeting by 3/1/10 and to adopt rules and regulations by 6/30/10. Authorizes the committee to contract with any qualified physician health program for purposes of care and rehabilitation of physicians with alcohol or drug abuse or dependency problems or mental disorders, imposes requirements on the program including monitoring the status and compliance of physicians who enter treatment for a qualifying illness pursuant to written voluntary agreements, and requires the Committee to monitor compliance with these requirements.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 543* (Ma-D) Perinatal care: The Nurse-Family Partnership
Authorizes the use of Nurse-Family Partnership Program grant monies as a match for other grants administered by the Department of Public Health. Extends, from 1/1/09 to 1/1/14, the date on which the California Families and Children Account ceases to exist, if it has insufficient funds to implement the Program.
Vetoed
AB 549 (Furutani-D) Licensure: clinical laboratory personnel
Includes "clinical biochemical geneticist" and "clinical cytogeneticist," to the list of individuals licensed by the Department of Health Services who engage in, or supervise others engaged in, clinical laboratory practice limited to his/her area of specialization or to direct a clinical laboratory, or portion thereof, limited to his/her area of specialization. Permits a person licensed as a "clinical biochemical geneticist" or "clinical cytogeneticist," to perform any clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived or of moderate complexity under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 564 (Portantino-D) Substance abuse treatment programs: employee salaries
Limits the maximum amount of public funds in the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust fund that may be used for compensation of a director, officer or employee of a nonprofit entity that provides substance abuse treatment in California to the salary limitations established by the federal government.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor; reconsideration granted)
AB 583 (Hayashi-D) Health care practitioners
Revises and recasts existing law to require health care practitioners to display their license type and, except for nurses, the highest level of academic degree on any of the following: on a nametag, the office, or in writing given to a patient. Requires a physician, surgeon, osteopathic physician and surgeon, and doctor of podiatric medicine who is certified in a medical specialty to disclose his/her board certification in one of the three ways identified above, and requires physicians and surgeons who supervise an office in addition to their primary practice location to post their hours in each office.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 646 (Swanson-D) Physicians and surgeons: employment
Revises and expands an existing pilot project which authorized qualified health care district hospitals, as defined, to directly employ a limited number of physicians and surgeons, and instead allows for health care districts, which meet certain requirements, to employ up to five physicians and surgeons within each district and to provide employment contracts of up to 10 years, and to allow employment contracts to be renewed or extended to 12/31/20. Requires a study to be completed regarding the program and submitted to the Legislature by 6/1/18.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 648 (Chesbro-D) Rural hospitals: physician services.
Establishes a demonstration project to permit rural hospitals, as defined, whose service area includes a medically underserved or federally designated shortage area and which meet certain specified requirements, to directly employ physicians and surgeons. Provides that the total number of licensees employed shall not exceed 10, unless the Medical Board of California makes a determination that additional physicians and surgeons is deemed appropriate
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 657 (Hernandez-D) Health professions workforce: master plan
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), in collaboration with the California Workforce Investment Board, to establish a task force to assist OSHPD in developing a health care workforce master plan for the state.
Vetoed
AB 664 (Skinner-D) Hospital employees: workers' compensation: presumption
Establishes several workers' compensation presumptions for more than 500,000 employees at hospitals statewide, including workers at private and non-profit hospitals. Establishes a presumption that back or neck injuries and methicillin-resistant Staphylococus aureus infections are job-related during and after a period of employment at a hospital, and requires specified workers' compensation benefits to be provided.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 667 (Block-D) Topical fluoride application
Authorizes a dental assistant or specified non-healthcare professional, to apply topical fluoride under the general direction of a licensed dentist or physician when operating in a school-based setting or public health program and according to a prescription and medical protocol.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2009
AB 681 (Hernandez-D) Confidentiality of medical information: psychotherapy
Permits, with specified exceptions, a health care provider to disclose information about a patient's participation in outpatient psychotherapy without requiring a written signed request from the entity requesting the information.
Chapter 464, Statutes of 2009
AB 721 (Nava-D) Physical therapists: direct access to services
Allows an individual to initiate physical therapy treatment directly from a licensed physical therapists without a referral, as specified.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 834 (Solorio-D) Health care practitioners
Authorizes the peer review body to limit the practitioner's staff privileges, and prohibit a practitioner from seeking new staff privileges, during the pendency of the voluntary remediation. Requires the reporting person, as defined, to file a report, as specified, with the applicable agency within 15 days following the commencement date of a voluntary remediation, to immediately file a supplementary report if the practitioner fails to fulfill the terms of the remediation, and to file another report within 30 days following completion of a remediation.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 839 (Emmerson-R) Medi-Cal: providers: remedies
Changes Medi-Cal provider remedies, including specifying the judicial remedy when there is a dispute over processing or payment of money and modifies the date for the beginning of a period when a health care provider is barred from enrollment in Medi-Cal, as specified in law.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2009
AB 867 (Nava-D) Doctor of Nursing Practice degree
Authorizes the California State University (CSU) to award a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The program will focus on the preparation of clinical faculty to teach in postsecondary nursing education programs and may also train nurses for advanced nursing practice or leadership. If CSU creates a degree, it will be required to report annually on the status of the program to the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and legislative budget subcommittees.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 877 (Emmerson-R) Healing arts: scope of practice
Restricts legislative authority over the scope of a healing arts practice to actions and conclusions of the Executive Branch of Government.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 896 (Galgiani-D) Health care programs: provider reimbursement rates
Extends the current requirement that inpatient payment rates for the California Children's Services Program and the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program be 90% of the Medi-Cal hospital interim rate until 1/1/11, after which provider payment rates for services rendered in those programs must be identical to the Medi-Cal rates of payment for the same service performed by the same provider type.
Chaptered 260, Statutes of 2009
AB 923 (Swanson-D) Veterinarians: Department of Motor Vehicles: public records
Adds certain veterinarians, and officers to the list of occupations whose records are granted enhanced confidentiality by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 933 (Fong-D) Workers' compensation: utilization review
Requires that a physician who is conducting medical treatment utilization review, be licensed in California.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 952 (Krekorian-D) Health information: disclosure: Taft-Hartley plans
Authorizes a health care provider or a health care service plan (health plan) to disclose private medical information to an employee welfare benefit plan formed under the federal Taft-Hartley Act (Taft-Hartley plan), or an entity contracting with the Taft-Hartley plan, providing the disclosure is for billing, claims management, medical data processing, or other administrative services related to the provision of medical care to employees enrolled in the Taft-Hartley plan, providing specified conditions are met.
Chapter 493, Statutes of 2009
AB 977 (Skinner-D) Pharmacists: immunization protocols with physicians
Requests the California Pharmacists Association provide information to the respective chairpersons of the Assembly Committees on Business and Professions and Committee on Health and the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development and the Committee on Health, on the status of immunization protocols between independent pharmacists and physicians.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 995 (Block-D) Tissue bank licensing
Exempts from tissue bank licensing requirements a licensed physician or podiatrist storing a human cell, tissue, or cellular- or tissue-based medical device or biologic product, as specified.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2009
AB 1070 (Hill-D) Healing arts
Revises reporting requirements for arbitration awards, specified settlements, or civil judgments to the Medical Board of California if based on the licensee's alleged negligence, error, or omission related to the practice of medicine.
Chapter 505, Statutes of 2009
AB 1071 (Emmerson-R) Professions and vocations
Increases fees charged to various licensees of the Board of Pharmacy, and extends the inoperative and repeal (sunset) dates on eight regulatory programs until 1/1/13.
Chapter 270, Statutes of 2009
AB 1116 (Carter-D) Cosmetic surgery
Enacts the Donda West Law, which will prohibit elective cosmetic surgery on a patient unless, prior to surgery, the patient has received a physical examination and clearance for surgery, as specified.
Chapter 509, Statutes of 2009
AB 1140 (Niello-R) Diagnostic imaging services
Revises the definition of "responsible third-party payer" to include a person or entity who contracts with insurance carriers, self-insured employers, third-party administrators, or any other person or entity who, pursuant to a contract, is responsible to pay for Computerized Tomography, Positron Emission Tomography, or Magnetic Resonance Imaging diagnostic imaging services provided to a patient covered by that contract.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 1152 (Anderson-R) Professional corporations: licensed physical therapists
Adds licensed physical therapists to the list of licensed health care professionals who under existing law could be shareholders, officers, directors, or professional employees of a medical corporation, podiatric medical corporation or chiropractic corporation, so long as the sum of all shares owned by the licensed persons does not exceed 49% of the total number of shares of the professional corporation, as specified.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 1201 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Immunizations for children: reimbursement of physicians
Expands provisions established by SB 168 (Speier-D), Chapter 845, Statutes of 2000, and requires health plans and insurers to reimburse physicians for childhood vaccinations according to specified conditions.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1295 (Fuller-R) Nursing degree programs: postsecondary education
Requires the Chancellor of the California State University to implement articulated nursing degree transfer pathways between the California Community Colleges and the California State University prior to the commencement of the 2012-13 academic year. Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to report on the status of the plans to implement articulated pathways by March 2011.
Chapter 283, Statutes of 2009
AB 1310 (Hernandez-D) Healing arts: database
Requires specified healing arts boards, bureaus and committees to collect specified information from their licensees and requires those entities and the Department of Consumer Affairs to, as much as practicable, work with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) to transfer that data to the Health Care Workforce Clearinghouse. Requires the OSHPD to select a database and to also add the collected data to the database. Requires the clearinghouse to report to the Legislature on an annual basis.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1391 (Eng-D) Acupuncture Board
Extends the sunset date for the Acupuncture Board until 1/1/17.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1397* (Hill-D) Tissue donation
Requires a physician providing insemination and advanced reproductive technologies inform the recipient that she must document that she is under the ongoing care of a physician, and clarifies that a physician providing insemination or ART is not responsible for prophylactic testing, monitoring, and follow-up of the recipient.
Vetoed
AB 1430 (Swanson-D) Pupil health: health care professionals
Requires any necessary medication to be administered to a student by a licensed health care professional operating within the scope of his/her practice.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1478 (Ammiano-D) Medical nutrition therapy: written acknowledgment
Requires that a physician and surgeon obtain a patient's written acknowledgment confirming the receipt of information regarding treatment through medical nutrition therapy prior to delivering nonemergency treatment for diabetes or heart disease.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1503 (Lieu-D) Emergency medical care: billing
Requires emergency room physicians to provide a discount payment policy for uninsured and specified low-income patients and revises the conditions under which emergency room physicians may seek uncompensated care payments through the Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 1524 (Hayashi-D) Dentistry: examination requirements
Abolishes the requirement that applicants for a dental license take a clinical and written examination administered by the Dental Board of California, and instead replaces that examination with an assessment process in which an applicant is assessed while enrolled at an in-state dental school utilizing uniform standards of minimal clinical experiences and competencies at the end of his/her dental school program.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1535 (Jones-D) Audiologists: hearing aids
Revises the definition of the practice of audiology to include the selling of hearing aids, and specifies certain requirements for the sale of hearing aids. Provides that on and after 1/1/10, in addition to satisfying the licensure and examination requirements, as specified, no licensed audiologists shall sell hearing aids unless he/she passed an examination, approved by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board (SLPAB) relating to selling hearing aids, eliminates the Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau and consolidates its functions into the SLPAB, changes the composition of the SLPAB, and renames it the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board.
Chapter 309, Statutes of 2009
AB 1542 (Assembly Health Committee) Medical homes
Defines a patient-centered medical home as an approach to providing health care that fosters partnerships among the patient and health professionals to promote coordinated care, ensure quality and access to care, and to improve health.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 20XXXX (Audra Strickland-R) Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine: Budget trailer bill
Among other provisions, abolishes the Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine, and creates a Naturopathic Medicine Committee within the Osteopathic Medical Board of California (OMBC) to administer the Naturopathic Doctors Act. Eliminates the Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine and moves oversight responsibilities to the OMBC. Creates a nine-member committee under the OMBC, adds two naturopathic doctors to the OMBC, and repeals these provisions on 1/1/13.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
HR 15 (Tran-R) School Nurse Day
Declares May 7 of each year to be School Nurse Day in California, encourages Californians to promote good health of our pupils, and recognizes California's Credentialed School Nurses for their contributions to the health of our children.
Adopted by the Assembly
Foster Care
SB 114 (Liu-D) Medi-Cal: independent foster care adolescents
Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), commencing 4/1/10, to deem eligible for and ensure that there is no interruption in Medi-Cal coverage for an independent foster care adolescent that was in foster care on his/her 18th birthday. Requires DHCS to develop and implement a simplified form for the purposes of annually re-determining independent foster care adolescent eligibility, which the individual will return only if his/her information has changed. Provides that failure to return the annual re-determination form could not be the only reason to terminate Medi-Cal benefits to the individual. Specifies that benefits may be discontinued only after DHCS established ineligibility.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 309 (Ducheny-D) Public resources: conservation corps
Gives preference for membership to the California Conservation Corps to emancipated foster and at-risk youth.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 597 (Liu-D) Child welfare services: foster care services and adoption
Makes changes in state law relative to child welfare services to conform to Public Law 110-351, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, and modifies foster family agency staffing ratios and foster care group home payment rates and levels.
Chapter 339, Statutes of 2009
SB 654 (Leno-D) Independent Living Program
Extends eligibility for independent living skills education services to former foster youth placed with non-related legal guardians.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCR 35 (Steinberg-D) Foster Care Month
Designates May 2009 as Foster Care Month.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 12 (Beall-D) California Fostering Connections to Success Act
Replaces California's Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Programs, Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program (KinGAP) with a new federal KinGAP program. Extends foster care, KinGAP, and the Adoptions Assistance Program to age 21 for certain youth.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 81 (Audra Strickland-R) Interscholastic athletics: pupils in foster care
Provides that a foster child who changes residences pursuant to a court order or decision of a child welfare worker is immediately deemed to have met all residency requirements for participation in interscholastic sports or other extracurricular activities.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2009
AB 167 (Adams-R) High school graduation: local requirements: foster children
Exempts pupils in foster care from district graduation requirements that exceed state requirements if the pupil transfers to the district, or transfers from one high school to another within a district, in the 11th or 12th grade. Requires the district to notify the pupil if the exemption granted will affect the pupil's ability to gain admission to postsecondary institution and to provide information about transfer opportunities available through the California Community Colleges.
Chapter 223, Statutes of 2009
AB 345 (Torlakson-D) Regional occupational centers or programs
Exempts former dependents or wards of the juvenile court who reached the age of majority while in foster care (i.e., emancipated foster youth) from the regional occupational center or program adult participation cap of 10%, which is operative in the 2011-12 fiscal year.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 421* (Beall-D) Seriously emotionally disturbed children
Authorizes payments for 24-hour care of a child classified as seriously emotionally disturbed and placed out-of-home in an out-of-state, for-profit residential facility.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 706* (Assembly Human Services Committee) Dependent children
Makes technical, clarifying, and conforming changes to provisions related to providing reunification services and scheduling of juvenile court review hearings concerning children who are dependents of the juvenile court and their parents or guardians.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2009
AB 719 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Transitional food stamps for foster youth
Provides 12 months of federal food stamp benefits to youth emancipating from foster care, effective 7/1/10.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2009
AB 743 (Portantino-D) Foster care: sibling placement
Requires social workers to make reasonable efforts to place and keep siblings together when they have been removed from their parents or guardians due to abuse or neglect.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 770 (Torres-D) Indian tribes: foster care and adoption programs
Ensures that the state maximizes the opportunities for Indian tribes to operate foster care programs for Indian children pursuant to federal law.
Chapter 124, Statutes of 2009
AB 939 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Family Law Access to Justice Act
Enacts the Family Law Access to Justice Act which authorizes the court to order that case management plans be developed or that case management services be provided for any family law case at the request of a party or on the court's own motion, without stipulation by the parties. Requires the Judicial Council to adopt a rule on or before 1/1/11, setting forth the procedures that may be used to implement the use of case management plans or services for family law litigants, as specified.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 997 (Krekorian-D) Sex offenders: licensed residential facilities: information
Requires the Department of Justice, the Department of Social Services, and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to coordinate with one another to develop an approach that allows these departments to generate information identifying all sex offenders living in licensed residential, child care, or foster care facilities.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1067 (Brownley-D) Children in foster care: school proximity and travel costs
Intended to increase educational stability for children in foster care, including requiring local education agencies to provide the transportation necessary to allow foster children to remain in the school in which they were enrolled at the time of foster care placement.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1148 (Davis-D) Virtual Assistant Living and Education program
Requires the Office of the State Foster Care Ombudsperson to take all necessary steps to establish and implement the Virtual Assistant Living and Education (VALE) program, an interactive, secured Internet Web site that will maintain personal information relating to foster youth, as well as other specified contents, to provide the youth and their care providers with centralized access to this information. Requires the Office to ensure the confidentiality of information on the VALE Internet Web site, as specified.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1258 (Arambula-IN) Foster youth services
Deletes the statute that limits the Foster Youth Services Program to foster children who reside in a licensed foster care home or county operated juvenile detention facility.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1324 (Bass-D) Foster youth: identity theft
Makes changes to the requirements on county welfare departments to request consumer disclosures of credit reports for specified foster youth, as well as to the procedures for handling suspected identity theft that may be discovered during this process. Requires the Office of Privacy Protection to develop a list of nonprofit organizations and government agencies that assist consumers with identify theft issues.
Vetoed
AB 1393 (Skinner-D) Foster youth
Changes the definition of "technology-based materials," for purposes of the instructional materials and testing part of the Education Code, to include the electronic equipment required to make use of those materials only if that equipment is to be used by pupils and teachers as a learning resource. Ensures that school districts continue to provide all students with sufficient textbooks and instructional materials by clarifying that the authority provided by this bill does not relieve a district from complying with the requirements of the Education Code and may not occur if a county office of education has found the district to be out of compliance with that code section.
Chapter 391, Statutes of 2009
AB 1402 (Bass-D) Family connection grants
Requires the Department of Social Services to support California-based applications for the federal matching Family Connection Grant in order to connect foster children with family members.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 4XXXX* (Evans-D) Foster care
Reduces, by 10%, the rates paid to foster family agencies, group homes and other programs for which rates are tied to these, for care and services provided to foster children.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
ACR 63 (Bass-D) Foster Care Month
Declares the month of May 2009 as Foster Care Month.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
Public Social Services
SB 65* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State Supplementary Program for Aged, Blind and Disabled
Among other provisions, delays the State Supplementary Program for Aged, Blind and Disabled payment to the federal government in February and March 2010 to no earlier than April 20th, but no later than May 31, 2010.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2009
SB 69* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) In-home supportive services
Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a stakeholder group process and delays implementation of various provisions that were intended to take effect 11/1/09 pursuant to AB 4 X4 (Evans), Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session, and AB 19 X4 (Evans), Chapter 17, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session, until 60 days after the completion of the stakeholder group process.
(On Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 118 (Liu-D) Child welfare services: incarcerated parents
Directs counties to include information about incarcerated parents who receive services required by the court to reunify that parent with his/her children. Double-jointed to SB 597 (Liu-D), Chapter 597, Statutes of 2009.
Chapter 338, Statutes of 2009
SB 141 (Maldonado-R) In-home supportive services: provider timesheets
Requires that timesheets for in-home supportive services, which are signed by the recipient and the provider of services, contain a legal certification. Provides that a person who knowingly provides false information shall be subject to a civil penalty, the minimum of which is $500 and the maximum is $1,000.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 142 (Maldonado-R) In-home supportive services: provider timesheets
Requires the Department of Social Services, on or before 12/31/11, to devise a method to ensure that an in-home supportive services (IHSS) provider receives a list of approved tasks before working for an IHSS consumer.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 246 (Benoit-R) In-home supportive services: registries
Requires persons to obtain a criminal background check in order to be employed as a provider of in-home supportive services.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 384 (Benoit-R) CalWORKs eligibility: drug testing
Establishes random drug testing for California Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program (CalWORKs) recipients and requires recipients who fail the test to complete a one-year drug treatment program to avoid loss of CalWORKs aid.
(Failed passage in Senate Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 452 (Dutton-R) At-risk children: registration of birth
Requires the state registrar of vital statistics to notify the appropriate child protective services agency of the birth of a child to a parent who has had his/her parental rights terminated due to abuse or neglect of a child, and requires that agency to conduct an immediate investigation to ensure the infant's safety and well-being.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 597 (Liu-D) Child welfare services, foster care services, & adoption
Makes changes in state law relative to child welfare services to conform to Public Law 110-351, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, and modifies foster family agency staffing ratios and foster care group home payment rates and levels. Extends the sunset date for staffing flexibility for community treatment facilities from 1/1/10, until 1/1/13.
Chapter 339, Statutes of 2009
SB 654 (Leno-D) Independent Living Program
Extends eligibility for independent living skills education services to former foster youth placed with non-related legal guardians.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 702 (DeSaulnier-D) Ancillary day care centers: employees: trustline providers
Directs public authorities (the employer of record for In-Home Supportive Services [IHSS] workers) to develop training standards and core topics for the training they provide to IHSS workers and clients.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 2009
SB 718 (Leno-D) Public social services: CalWORKs and the Food Stamp Program
Repeals the current requirement that all adult members of a household applying for or receiving food stamps be fingerprinted as a condition of eligibility. Maintains the fingerprinting requirement for adults applying for any type of cash aid, such as California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program or general relief, and requires the Department of Social Services and the Office of Systems Integration to maintain the finger imaging system.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 791* (Yee-D) In-home supportive services: providers: COBRA
Provides that, for purposes of in-home supportive services providers, the entity that administers health benefits under the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) shall be the same entity that implements a specified federal COBRA subsidy program for these providers.
Vetoed
SB 5X (Ducheny-D) 2008-09 Human Services Budget trailer bill
Makes the necessary changes to amend appropriations for the Department of Social Services contained in the Budget Act of 2008.
Vetoed
SB 2XXX* (Ducheny-D) SSI/SSP: budget provisions
Reduces SSI/SSP funding in the Department of Social Services by $79.8 million. This is done by suspending the pass-through of the January 2009 federal SSI cost-of-living adjustment, effective as of 5/1/09.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session - Item Veto
SB 6XXX* (Ducheny-D) Public Social Services Budget trailer bill
Suspends the pass-through of the federal Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Program (SSI/SSP) effective 5/1/09, and suspends the June 2010 state SSI cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA). Suspends the July 2009 CalWORKs COLA for 2009-10. Makes revisions to the In-Home Supportive Services program.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
AB 154 (Evans-D) Adoption assistance: federal law
Conforms state law to new federal requirements related to the adoption assistance program. Double-jointed to SB 597 (Liu-D), Chapter 597, Statutes of 2009.
Chapter 222, Statutes of 2009
AB 295 (Ammiano-D) Children: adoption services
Extends the availability of funds appropriated for a pilot program that focuses on pre-adoption and post-adoption activities to 6/30/10, and extends the date for the Department of Social Services to provide the related information on the pilot program to the Legislature to 5/31/11.
Chapter 427, Statutes of 2009
AB 324 (Beall-D) Aging: Elder Economic Security Standard Index
Requires area agencies on aging to utilize the Elder Index in it four-year plans, and requires the Department of Aging to include the Elder Index in the four-year State Plan and review area agencies on aging area plans for inclusion of the Elder Index.
Vetoed
AB 325 (Beall-D) Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: community outreach
Designates the Department of Community Services Development as the lead agency responsible for administering the federal Earned Income Tax Credit programs in the state.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 378 (Cook-R) In-Home Supportive Services: provider training
Directs public authorities (the employer of record for In-Home Supportive Services [IHSS], workers) to develop training standards and core topics for the training they provide to IHSS workers and clients.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 407 (Beall-D) Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: closure
Imposes requirements on continuing care retirement communities in the event of their permanent closure.
Chapter 442, Statutes of 2009
AB 422 (Torres-D) State Youth and Family Master Plan
Requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to develop the State Youth and Family Master Plan to achieve specified goals that include setting the general guiding principles the state should follow when developing policies affecting the state's youth and families and identifying all state governmental entities responsible for delivering services to youth and families and bridging the communication gaps between those entities. Requires the Secretary to schedule meetings that seek input from certain government, nonprofit, and private sector stakeholders. Requires the Secretary to annually report on the progress of the development of the plan to the Legislature and the Governor.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 452 (Yamada-D) In-home supportive services: CA Independence Act of 2009
Establishes the California Independence Program, a voluntary program for the provision of in-home supportive services (IHSS) to certain aged, blind, and disabled individuals who are otherwise ineligible for IHSS services. Makes recipients and providers of services under the California Independence Program subject to specified requirements.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 488 (Torres-D) Children's services programs: performance agreement contract
Authorizes the Department of Social Services to renew or extend beyond a three-year time period specified performance agreements with private, nonprofit agencies that provide child welfare services. Requires the county or private nonprofit agency to fund an independent evaluation of the agency's performance, with a report of the results due to the department six months prior to the end of the agreement period, as specified.
Chapter 445, Statutes of 2009
AB 510 (Evans-D) CalWORKs: aid amount calculation
Provides that, as of 1/1/09, any month in which California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program (CalWORKs) program participants are excused from participation in welfare to work activities because the necessary supportive services are unavailable due to insufficient funding in the CalWORKs will not be counted as a month of receipt of aid, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 595* (Adams-R) Placement of children: criminal background checks
Conforms state law to federal law by requiring background checks and by prohibiting persons convicted of specified offenses from becoming foster or adoptive parents.
Chapter 246, Statutes of 2009
AB 631 (Tran-R) Public assistance: home visits
Requires an inspection of all homes for applicants to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program.
(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 643 (Skinner-D) Public aid programs: eligibility: change of residence
Specifies that "aid", for purposes of the provisions relating to a recipient's change of residence, includes benefits under the food stamp program, thereby requiring county welfare offices to transfer a food stamp recipient's benefits from one county to another without requiring the recipient to reapply in the new county.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 665 (Torrico-D) State adoption services: investment
Expands the use of improving adoption incentive bonus dollars.
Chapter 250, Statutes of 2009
AB 682 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) In-Home Supportive Services program: fraud
Requires that the criminal background checks be conducted at the provider's expense, unless the nonprofit consortium or public authority agrees to pay for the criminal background check in which case the department shall seek federal financial participation, to the extent possible, to cover costs associated with conducting the criminal background check. Contingent upon enactment of AB 19XXXX (Evans-D), Chapter 17, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 719 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Transitional food stamps for foster youth
Provides 12 months of federal food stamp benefits to youths emancipating from foster care, effective 7/1/10.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2009
AB 885* (Nestande-R) Area agencies on aging and independent living centers
Establishes a continuous appropriation from the Federal Trust Fund to the Department of Aging for the Area Agencies on Aging and to the Department of Rehabilitation for the Independent Living Centers in any year in which the state budget is not enacted by July 1. Authorizes the Department of Finance to reduce the applicable Budget Act allocations by the amount paid pursuant to this bill.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 921 (Jones-D) Juvenile court jurisdiction: services and benefits
Requires the juvenile court, whenever it terminates jurisdiction over a ward, or upon release of a ward from a non foster care facility, who was at any point previously adjudged a dependent child of juvenile court, to order the probation or parole officer to provide the ward with (1) a written notice stating that he/she is a former foster child and may be eligible for the services and benefits that are available to former foster children through public and private programs, including, but not limited to, any independent living program for former foster children, and (2) information on the availability of, and assistance to enable the person to apply for and gain acceptance into, federal and state programs that provide independent living services and benefits to former foster children.
Vetoed
AB 1057 (Beall-D) CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program: reporting
Eliminates the Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System requirement for Food Stamp-only applicants, and instead, uses Department of Motor Vehicles or other state agency information to verify an applicant's identification and prevent duplicate aid fraud. Moves the Food Stamp and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS) programs recipient income reporting periods from quarterly to semi-annually.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1058 (Beall-D) CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits: vehicles
Excludes the value of a motor vehicle from consideration when determining or re-determining California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program eligibility. Deletes existing requirements on counties for assessing the value of a motor vehicle for the purposes of CalWORKs eligibility.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1169 (Ruskin-D) Elderly care: continuing care contracts
Specifies disclosures required of continuing care retirement community providers in continuing care contracts and annual financial reports.
Chapter 513, Statutes of 2009
AB 1193 (Audra Strickland-R) Public assistance: home visits
Requires the district attorney's office in the county of residence of an applicant for aid, within 10 days of the applicant's preliminary approval, to arrange for an authorized investigator to conduct a home call, consisting of a brief interview with the applicant and walk-through of the applicant's residence. Requires the district attorney's office to report its findings to the appropriate county officials prior to final approval of aid for the applicant.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1198 (Swanson-D) Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies
Eliminates California's lifetime disqualification from federal food stamps benefits for individuals who have been convicted of drug-related felonies. Allows individuals who have been convicted of drug-related felonies to receive federal food stamps benefits if certain requirements are met.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1259 (Arambula-IN) Area agencies on aging: federal funding allocations
Allows an Area Agency on Aging (AAA) to carry over, without regard to fiscal year, up to 5% of its annual total baseline allocation under Titles III (nutrition) and VII (elder abuse prevention), of the federal Older Americans Act. Prohibits an AAA from using the carried over funds to expand baseline services and specifies that carryover funds may only be used to fund the purchase of equipment, home and community-based projects approved by the Department of Aging, or pilot projects approved by the department.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1325 (Cook-R) Tribal customary adoption
Establishes, as of 7/1/10, customary adoption as an additional exception to termination of parental rights for parents of Indian children who have been adjudicated dependents of the court. Sunsets this additional exception on 1/1/14.
Chapter 287, Statutes of 2009
AB 1479 (Duvall-R) Public assistance: home visits
Requires the district attorney's office in the county of residence of an applicant for aid, within 10 days of the applicant's preliminary approval, to arrange for an authorized investigator to conduct a home call, consisting of a brief interview with the applicant and walk-through of the applicant's residence. Requires the district attorney's office to report its findings to the appropriate county officials prior to final approval of aid for the applicant.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
A similar bill is AB 1193 (Strickland-R) which is in Assembly Human Services Committee.
AB 1532* (Lieu-D) In-home supportive services
Requires specified additional funding made available to counties for in-home supportive services (IHSS) for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years, to be used to supplement, and not to supplant, the level of county expenditures made for the 2007-08 fiscal year for the IHSS program, and prohibits those funds from being used to fund any other program.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 17XXX* (Evans-D) Budget Act of 2008: California Children and Families Act
Contains necessary statutory initiative changes to the California Children and Families Act of 1998 (Proposition 10), subject to approval by the voters at a statewide election, to make appropriations for the Department of Social Services in the Budget Act of 2009.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
A similar bill is SB 9XXX (Ducheny-D) which died on Senate Third Reading File.
AB 43XXX (Evans-D) Human services
Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of human services in order to amend the 2009 Budget Act.
(Died on the Assembly Desk)
AB 4XXXX* (Evans-D) Human services
Makes changes to the 2009-10 Budget Act in the following social services areas: child support, community care licensing, Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP) assistance, group homes, adoption assistance, CalWORKS, Older Californians assistance, In-Home Supportive Services, and SSI/SSP (reduction of grants).
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 7XXXX (Evans-D) Public social services: statewide enrollment process
Provides for the Department of Health Care Services and the Department of Social Services to develop a statewide eligibility and enrollment determination process for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS) Program, Medi-Cal Program, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Chapter 7, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 8XXXX (Evans-D) Human services
Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the human services portions of the Budget Act of 2009.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 19XXXX (Evans-D) In-home supportive services
Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the in-home supportive services program portion of the Budget Act of 2009.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 35 (Oropeza-D) Food donations
Requires the Governor to direct a state agency to establish and maintain a clearinghouse database that would allow a food bank or a nonprofit charitable organization that would like to receive food to contact a food facility that has an interest in donating food.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 173 (Florez-D) Food safety: testing and recalls
Authorizes the State Public Health Officer to adopt regulations for the voluntary recall of food suspected of carrying an illness, infection, pathogen, contagion, toxin, or condition that, without intervention, could kill or seriously affect the health of humans.
Vetoed
SB 181 (Wright-D) Health and safety code enforcement: definitions
Defines the terms "code enforcement" and "code enforcement officers" as used in the Health and Safety Code.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 183 (Lowenthal-D) Carbon monoxide poisoning
Enacts the Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act of 2009 requiring all existing dwellings, completed or occupied by 1/1/10, intended for human occupancy that have a fossil fuel burning appliance, a fireplace, or an attached garage to install a carbon monoxide device.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 190 (Wright-D) Misbranded food: pomegranate juice
Directs the Department of Public Health to adopt regulations establishing definitions and standards of identity for 100% pomegranate juice in consultation with interested parties by 7/1/11.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 241* (Runner-R) Retail food facilities
Makes a number of technical and clarifying changes to food safety laws governing retail food facilities regulated under the California Retail Food Code and establishes a new category of single operating site mobile food facilities subject to the California Retail Food Code.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2009
SB 250 (Florez-D) Dogs and cats: sterilization
Restricts the ownership of unsterilized dogs and cats and requires surgical sterilization of the animal in specified circumstances.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 270 (Alquist-D) Health information technology
Creates a health information technology advisory panel to advise the Governor and the Legislature on health information technology in California.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 371* (Cogdill-R) Clean drinking water
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2009 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.98 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 416 (Florez-D) Antibiotics
Allows a school district to make every effort to purchase poultry and meat products that have not been treated with nontherapeutic antibiotics.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 443 (Pavley-D) Public health: supermarkets
Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to conduct reviews of cleaning products used in supermarkets, to determine whether there is any potential harm to consumers, employees, or the environment.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 453 (Padilla-D) Food safety
Requires an individual involved in the preparation, storage, or service of food to obtain a food handler card within 30 days after his/her hire date commencing 1/1/11.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is SB 602 (Padilla-D) which is in Assembly Health Committee.
SB 456* (Wolk-D) Clean drinking water
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.805 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 486 (Simitian-D) Medical waste: sharps waste
Requires a pharmaceutical manufacturer that sells or distributes a medication that is self-injected at home through the use of a hypodermic needle, pen needle, intravenous needle, or any other similar devices to submit to the California Integrated Waste Management Board, or its successor agency, a plan that describes how the manufacturer supports the safe collection and destruction of home-generated sharps waste.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2009
SB 550 (Florez-D) Food safety
Requires a grocery store or a general retail merchandise store with a grocery department to notify employees and customers of product recalls through their point-of-sale system, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 558 (DeSaulnier-D) Alcohol abuse
Establishes the Alcohol Abuse Treatment Program Fund and authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to assess and collect a fee in an amount not to exceed $0.05 per drink from every person who is engaged in business in this state and sells alcoholic beverages for resale, as prescribed to be used for alcohol abuse treatment programs.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 635 (Wiggins-D) Domestic violence programs
Authorizes, until 1/1/15, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to increase marriage and some vital record fees to fund domestic violence prevention programs, and extends the sunset for a similar program in Solano County by one year.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2009
SB 662 (Yee-D) Domestic violence prevention
Appropriates $16.3 million from the Restitution Fund to the Department of Public Health to be allocated for purposes of funding a shelter-based services grant program.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 735* (Steinberg-D) Clean drinking water
Enacts the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.785 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a water supply reliability and water source protection program.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 797 (Pavley-D) Product safety: bisphenol A
Prohibits, beginning in 2011, the sale, manufacture or distribution of a bottle or cup or a liquid, food or beverage in a can, jar or plastic bottle that contains bisphenol A if the item is primarily intended for children three years of age or younger. Repeals this prohibition if the Department of Toxic Substances Control adopts a regulatory response, pursuant to current "Green Chemistry" law, regarding the use of bisphenol A.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 13XXX* (Alquist-D) Domestic violence shelters: funding
Requires the Department of Finance to transfer $16.3 million from the Alternative and Renewal Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund to the General Fund as a loan to appropriate those funds to the California Emergency Management Agency to support domestic violence shelters, as specified, for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
SB 27XXX* (Negrete McLeod-D) Clean drinking water
Expands authorized uses for clean drinking water and wastewater funding from the federal government pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
SCA 23 (Florez-D) Food safety: antibiotics
Provides that, as of 1/1/15, no person shall, for a nontherapeutic purpose, cause any animal raised for the production of any human food product to ingest, or administer to any such animal, any antibiotic. Makes the violation of that provision a misdemeanor.
(Unassigned to a committee)
SCR 16 (Runner-R) DMV/Donate Life California Registry
Proclaims 4/4/09 as DMV/Donate Life California Day and the month of April 2009 as DMV/Donate Life California Month and encourages all Californians to sign up with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.
Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2009
SCR 36 (Alquist-D) Adolescent health
Recognizes and commends the Department of Public Health, the California Department of Education, and the Department of Health Care Services for their "well adolescent" programs and initiatives, and encourages all Californians to recognize and support the efforts of these departments.
Resolution Chapter 86, Statutes of 2009
SCR 46 (Harman-R) Aquatics Safety Month
Declares May as Aquatics Safety Month.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
SCR 55 (Wolk-D) Health Care Decisions Week.
Recognizes the week of 10/25/09 through 10/31/09 as Health Care Decisions Week in California, and encourages all Californians to think, and talk with loved ones, about their wishes for medical care.
Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2009
SJR 10 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Military: health care
Requests that the President and the Congress of the United States pass H.R. 816 which will prohibit certain increases in fees for military health care.
Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2009
SJR 14 (Leno-D) Medical marijuana
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to take specific actions relating to the use of medical marijuana, including ending federal raids, intimidation and interference with state medical cannabis laws; adopting policies and laws to encourage advanced clinical research trials into the therapeutic use of cannabis; establishes an affirmative defense to medical cannabis charges in federal court; and establishes a comprehensive federal medical cannabis policy that ensures safe and legal access for patients.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
SR 30 (Florez-D) Horse slaughtering
Urges the Congress of the United States to support federal legislation to protect American horses from slaughter for human consumption.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 52* (Portantino-D) Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program
Extends for one year the date by which the Department of Public Health is required to establish the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program; and requires the department to contract with up to five licensed or accredited blood banks to collect and store umbilical cord blood, as specified. Imposes a temporary $1 fee on specified birth certificates to fund the program.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 372 (Ma-D) Vital records: adoptees and birth certificates
Allows an adoptee, under certain conditions, to have access to his/her original and unredacted birth certificate.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 390 (Ammiano-D) Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act
Legalizes marijuana and its derivatives. Removes all existing civil and criminal penalties for adults 21 years of age or older who cultivate, possess, transport, sell, or use marijuana, without impacting existing laws proscribing dangerous activities while under the influence of marijuana, or certain conduct that exposes younger persons to marijuana.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 426 (Hall-D) Pupil health
Requires the California Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, the California Diabetes Program, and the Department of Health Care Services, to recommend to the Legislature ways to address specific health-related needs of pupils on a school campus.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 471 (Arambula-IN) Safe drinking water, clean water, and watershed protection
Expands the definition of "eligible project" for purposes of provisions of the Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2000 to mean a project that is either (1) identified in the CALFED EIS/EIR (environmental impact statement/environmental impact report), or (2) within at least one of the six prescribed categories of projects. Changes the barrier improvement project category to, instead, include a project that constructs a barrier to protect fish and other barriers in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta channels to improve water quality and water level for local diversions. Provides for the submission of its provisions as a proposed amendment of a general obligation bond act to the voters at the next statewide election in accordance with specified law.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 503 (Furutani-D) Battered women's shelters: grant program
Extends to 1/1/15, the sunset date of an advisory council which provides consultation to the Department of Public Health Domestic Violence Program, and requires the department and the Emergency Management Agency to consider consolidation of their respective domestic violence programs.
Vetoed
AB 517 (Ma-D) Safe Body Art Act
Establishes the Safe Body Art Act to provide minimum statewide standards for the regulation of practitioners engaged in the business of tattooing, body piercing, and the application of permanent cosmetics in California.
Vetoed
AB 535 (Ammiano-D) Elder death review teams: information requests
Allows a county elder death team to request and obtain copies of certificates of death from the local registrar of births and deaths, subject to any fee requirements. Requires the registrar of births and deaths in a county that elects to participate in the Internet-based electronic death registration system to provide specified information in a report to the chair or specified person upon request of a county death review team.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 538 (Arambula-IN) Emergency telephone system: abuse
Authorizes agencies that provide emergency medical services to report misuse of the 911 system to the public safety entity that originally received the call.
Vetoed
AB 598 (De La Torre-D) California Health Information Network
Establishes the California Health Information Network, with a specified advisory board within the Health and Human Services Agency. Requires the Network to adopt health information exchange standards by July 2010 and address a dozen goals including standardization of health transactions, gathering health data statewide, reducing administrative burdens on government, increasing uniformity of information exchanged between providers and health care settings, and providing health consumers access to health information.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 625 (Lieu-D) Novelty lighters
Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or offering for promotion an operable novelty lighter. Makes a violation of this prohibition an infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed $500.
Vetoed
AB 635 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Fire protection: air purifying devices
Provides that a state or local agency, including a city, county, city and county, or district, shall not prohibit a firefighter from using an air purifying device during a wildland fire.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 710 (Yamada-D) Substance abuse and mental health services: veteran
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to consult with the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP) to identify federal funds available for funding community-based organizations that provide substance abuse and mental health services to veterans, as specified. If identified, the DVA will apply for federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funds through DMH or DADP. DVA will be required to establish a certification process to certify the eligibility of community-based organizations and to establish criteria for determining renewal of funding for recipient organizations.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 752* (Caballero-D) Safe Drinking Water and Water Supply Reliability Act of 2010
Defines a severely disadvantaged community as a community with a median household income of less than 60% of the statewide median household income for purposes of the provisions governing expenditure of monies in the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Small Community Grant Fund.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 830 (Cook-R) Drugs and devices
Revises various provisions in existing law requiring health plan coverage of "off label" medication used to treat life-threatening or chronic and seriously debilitating conditions, and Medi-Cal coverage of drugs to treat AIDS-associated opportunistic infections and cancer to delete references to specific drug guides, or compendia, and include, instead, specified drug compendia approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2009
AB 861 (Ruskin-D) Public health services: consolidated contracts
Requires the Department of Public Health to develop consolidated contracts with local health jurisdictions administering specified public health programs.
Vetoed
AB 890 (John Perez-D) City of Maywood: drinking water
Provides for a review of the public water systems in the City of Maywood for manganese contamination.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2009
AB 1020 (Emmerson-R) Public swimming pools: anti-entrapment devices and systems
Conforms state law to recently enacted federal pool safety standards by requiring a public swimming pool, as defined, to be equipped with anti-entrapment devices or systems that meet federal requirements. Authorizes the Department of Public Health to assess a fee of up to $6 for state and local enforcement.
Chapter 267, Statutes of 2009
AB 1021 (Emmerson-R) Food processing establishments: suspension
Permits authorized agents of the Department of Public Health who identify conditions likely to result in illness or injury at a food processing establishment to immediately suspend the license or registration of the food processing establishment and order the food processing establishment to close immediately pending an administrative hearing. Requires the department to provide a licensee or registrant with a written notice that contains prescribed information about the suspension and administrative hearing.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1041 (Audra Strickland-R) Drinking water: private wells: county regulation
Prohibits a city, county, or city and county from regulating a private water system with four or fewer service connections.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1049 (Torrico-D) Safely Surrendered Baby Fund
Authorizes the addition of the Safely Surrendered Baby Fund check-off to the personal income tax form upon the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the form.
Vetoed
AB 1100 (Duvall-R) Potable reuse demonstration water
Defines potable reuse demonstration water and allows it to be bottled for consumption, subject to distribution limits and labeling requirements, for educational purposes only.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1122 (Lieu-D) Animal abuse: sale of live animals
Prohibits the sale of pet animals on roadsides or in other outdoor venues, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 1132 (Jones-D) Organ and tissue donation: vehicle registration
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to make information available about organ donation as part of the online vehicle registration renewal process.
Vetoed
AB 1147 (Arambula-IN) Medical waste: treatment, containment, and storage
Allows the Department of Public Health to approve alternatives to existing medical waste requirements for storage of medical waste.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1153 (Beall-D) Emergency air medical transportation providers: penalty levy
Establishes the Emergency Air Medical Transportation Act, which creates a $3 penalty assessment on all Vehicle Code violations (except parking offenses) to provide a funding source to augment Medi-Cal reimbursement for air ambulance services.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1185 (Lieu-D) Birth certificates: new issuance: venue
Provides that an individual who has undergone a sex change operation may obtain, by court order, a new birth certificate reflecting his/her change of sex and any name change requested, from his/her county of birth, in addition to his/her county of residence.
Vetoed
AB 1199 (Ammiano-D) Local health care master plans
Requires each county in the state to establish a working group for the purpose of creating a local health care master plan for the county that considers various issues, including equitable distribution of health care services.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1307 (Buchanan-D) Newborn genetic screening
Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to consider including in the Newborn Screening Program screening for all conditions recommended by the American College of Medical Genetics, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1312 (Swanson-D) Defibrillators
Extends the requirement that all health studios in California have automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) available with AED-trained personnel present to help save the lives of club members who might experience cardiac arrest, and requires that golf clubs and amusement parks also provide visitors with AED assistance in case of a cardiac arrest.
Vetoed
AB 1317 (Block-D) Assisted oocyte production: advertisement: information
Enacts specified disclosures and requirements related to human egg donation associated with fertility treatments and for advertisement related to egg donation.
Chapter 523, Statutes of 2009
AB 1370 (Solorio-D) Drugs and devices: labeling: expiration date
Requires that a drug or device label contain a "best before" date in addition to the expiration date of the effectiveness of the drug or device.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1372 (Feuer-D) Food processing establishments
Requires certain food processing facilities to adopt and implement a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points plan, conduct regular testing of ingredient and product samples or specimens, and report any test result that is positive for poisonous or deleterious substances to the Department of Public Health within 24 hours.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1433 (Eng-D) Continuing care contracts: retirement communities
Imposes various requirements on a continuing care provider with respect to the permanent closure of a continuing care retirement community facility, or a portion thereof, as specified, including providing 100 days' written notice to the Department of Social Services, and affected residents or designated representatives of these residents of the intended date of closure of a facility.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1437 (Huffman-D) Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption
Prohibits, by 1/1/15, the sale of eggs in California for human consumption that do not meet the animal welfare standards of Proposition 2.
(In Senate Health Committee)
AB 1438 (Conway-R) Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
Revises the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, including eliminating the $1 million maximum amount of a grant award for single projects and instead setting specific statutory caps for different types of grants.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2009
AB 1458 (Davis-D) Health Professional: adverse drug reporting
Requires hundreds of thousands of medical professionals statewide and in all health care settings to report adverse drug events to MedWatch, the Federal Drug Administration confidential, voluntary reporting system established in 1993 to detect safety problems with medications and medical devices.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1475 (Solorio-D) Emergency medical services
Limits the reimbursement for administering county Maddy Emergency Medical Services Funds to actual administrative costs or ten percent, whichever is lower, including additional penalty assessment funds authorized until January 2014.
Chapter 537, Statutes of 2009
AB 1487 (Hill-D) Inmate medical expenses
Increases the fee charged to county jail inmates for inmate-initiated medical visits from $3 to $6. The first $3 collected will continue to go to the county or city general fund and any amount over $3 will be deposited in the inmate welfare fund to be expended, as specified.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1488 (Hall-D) Public health: food justice
Requires, by 7/1/10, the Department of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Public Health and the Department of Social Services, to provide recommendations to the Legislature regarding actions that need to be taken to promote food justice in the state.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 1512 (Lieu-D) Food and drugs: sale
Prohibits a retailer from selling, or permitting to be sold, infant formula, baby food, and over-the-counter drugs beyond the expiration date indicated on the product's packaging and imposes a $10 fine per item per day in violation.
Vetoed
AB 1540 (Assembly Health Committee) Health
Makes a number of technical and non-controversial changes to the laws affecting various health and human services agencies.
Chapter 298, Statutes of 2009
AB 1577 (Coto-D) Problem and pathological gambling
Requires the Office of Problem Gambling within the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to include specific education and awareness outreach efforts within its existing prevention programs, and authorizes the Office to use existing funds to develop a grant program, as specified.
Vetoed
ACR 8 (Torlakson-D) California Fitness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2009 as California Fitness Month, and encourages all Californians to enrich their lives through proper diet and exercise.
Resolution Chapter 13, Statutes of 2009
ACR 19 (Smyth-R) Spaying and neutering
Declares 2/24/09 as Spay Day USA 2009, and requests that Californians observe that day by having their dogs or cats spayed or neutered and by contributing to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2009
ACR 29 (Jones-D) Health disparities: racial and ethnic populations
Requests the Health and Human Services Agency provide leadership to encourage departments within the agency focus on preventing, reducing, and eliminating health disparities among racial and ethnic population subgroups.
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2009
ACR 57 (Eng-D) Acupuncture
Proclaims 4/23/09 as California Acupuncture Day, and encourages all Californians to consider the use of acupuncture.
Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2009
ACR 74 (Portantino-D) Animal shelters: No Kill movement policies
Urges local animal services agencies, local animal shelters, agencies under contract to provide animal services, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and humane societies to embrace the philosophy of the "No Kill" movement and implement its programs and services aimed at ending the mass killing of sheltered animals.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
ACR 80 (Hill-D) Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of California
Declares the Legislature's support for a Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of California that resolves to invest in all children and youth so that certain goals may be achieved.
Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2009
ACR 90 (Beall-D) Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
Recognizes September 2009 as Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in California in order to raise awareness of the importance of substance use disorders treatment and to help those suffering from substance use disorders and their families to receive treatment.
Resolution Chapter 114, Statutes of 2009
ACR 91 (Lieu-D) Adopt a Shelter Pet Month
Declares the month of September 2009 as Adopt a Shelter Pet Month, encourages all Californians to save a life at a local shelter.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 93 (Torres-D) Red Ribbon Week
Proclaims the period of 10/23/09 through 10/31/09 as Red Ribbon Week, and encourages all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2009
AJR 13 (Ammiano-D) Blood donation
Requests the President of the United States 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.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
HR 10 (Salas-D) Relative to Drinking Water Week
Proclaims 5/3/09 through 5/9/09 as Drinking Water Week, and makes legislative findings related to water.
Adopted by the Assembly
Autism
SB 383 (Liu-D) Autism spectrum disorders: screening
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to partner with a regional center to create a two-year Autism Spectrum Disorders Early Screening, Intervention, and Treatment Pilot Program that would establish the best practices for early screening, diagnosis, referral, and treatment for children with autism spectrum disorders.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 682 (Padilla-D) Individuals with exceptional needs
Authorizes a county office of education or consortium of county offices of education to establish and administer, to the extent federal funds are available, a pilot program to provide combined academic and occupational training to secondary school pupils with autism spectrum disorders and other exceptional needs. Sunsets 1/1/15, and requires a county office of education or consortium of county offices of education that establishes a pilot program to submit an evaluation to the California Department of Education and the Legislature by 1/1/14, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 812 (Ashburn-R) Developmental services: housing
Requires a city or county's housing element to include an analysis of the special housing needs of persons with autism spectrum disorders. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in cooperation with the Department of Developmental Services, to report to the Legislature on the housing needs of persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
ACR 53 (Price-D) Autism Awareness Month
Declares April 2009 as Autism Awareness Month. Recognizes that individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are valued and important members of society. Recognizes the parents and relatives of individuals with ASD for their sacrifice and dedication in providing for the special needs of individuals with ASD. Declares the Legislature's continued support of the work of specified organizations related to ASDs.
Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 2009
Stem Cell
SB 343 (Alquist-D) Stem cell research: intellectual property standards
Requires that intellectual property standards that the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee (ICOC) develops shall include a requirement that each grantee and the licensees of the grantee submit to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for approval of a plan that will afford uninsured Californians access to any drug that is, in whole or in part, the result of research funded by the CIRM, and requires that the grantees and licenses thereof provide drugs to California state and local government funded programs at one of the three benchmark prices in the California Discount Prescription Drug Program, except when the ICOC adopts a waiver, as specified.
(In Senate Health Committee)
SB 471 (Romero-D) Stem cell and biotechnology education/workforce development
Creates the California Stem Cell and Biotechnology Education and Workforce Development Act of 2009 to establish stem cell and biotechnology education and workforce development as a state priority and to promote stronger links among industry sectors, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and California public schools, as specified.
Chapter 185, Statutes of 2009
AJR 7 (Bass-D) Stem cell research: federal legislation
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to enact, as expeditiously as possible, legislation that embodies the policies advanced in the federal Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 4 |
Oropeza-D Smoking ban: state beaches and parks |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 26 |
Simitian-D Home-generated pharmaceutical waste |
Health Professionals |
| SB 33 |
Correa-D Marriage and family therapy: licensure and registration |
Health Professionals |
| SB 35 |
Oropeza-D Food donations |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 53* |
DeSaulnier-D Tobacco settlement monies: Master Settlement Agreement |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 58 |
Aanestad-R Physicians and surgeons: peer review |
Health Professionals |
| SB 65* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee State Supplementary Program for Aged, Blind and Disabled |
Public Social Services |
| SB 69* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee In-home supportive services |
Public Social Services |
| SB 76* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Cigarette tax |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 110 |
Liu-D People with disabilities: victims of crime |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 112* |
Oropeza-D Hemodialysis technicians |
Health Professionals |
| SB 114 |
Liu-D Medi-Cal: independent foster care adolescents |
Medi-Cal Foster Care |
| SB 117 |
Corbett-D Adult day health care services |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| SB 118 |
Liu-D Child welfare services: incarcerated parents |
Public Social Services |
| SB 119 |
Wyland-R Professional liability insurance: insurers |
Health Professionals |
| SB 132* |
Denham-R Polysomnographic technologists |
Health Professionals |
| SB 141 |
Maldonado-R In-home supportive services: provider timesheets |
Public Social Services |
| SB 142 |
Maldonado-R In-home supportive services: provider timesheets |
Public Social Services |
| SB 148 |
Oropeza-D Mammogram machines: inspection: posting of results |
Cancer |
| SB 152 |
Cox-R Medi-Cal funding: mental health services |
Medi-Cal Mental Health |
| SB 158 |
Wiggins-D Health care coverage: human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination |
Cancer |
| SB 161 |
Wright-D Health care coverage: cancer treatment |
Cancer |
| SB 173 |
Florez-D Food safety: testing and recalls |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 180* |
Florez-D California Health Alert Network participation |
Health Facilities |
| SB 181 |
Wright-D Health and safety code enforcement: definitions |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 183 |
Lowenthal-D Carbon monoxide poisoning |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 190 |
Wright-D Misbranded food: pomegranate juice |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 196 |
Corbett-D Emergency medical services |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| SB 198 |
Cogdill-R Health care districts: John C. Fremont Health Care District |
Health Facilities |
| SB 208* |
Steinberg-D Medi-Cal: demonstration project waiver |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 209 |
Corbett-D Civil actions: disabled access |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 212 |
Florez-D Communicable diseases: pupil health |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 214 |
Benoit-R Sober living homes |
Health Facilities |
| SB 221 |
Walters-R Home dialysis agencies |
Health Professionals |
| SB 238 |
Calderon-D Prescription drugs |
Health Professionals |
| SB 241* |
Runner-R Retail food facilities |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 246 |
Benoit-R In-home supportive services: registries |
Public Social Services |
| SB 249 |
Cox-R Meningococcal disease: vaccinations |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 250 |
Florez-D Dogs and cats: sterilization |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 268 |
Harman-R Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities |
Health Facilities |
| SB 270 |
Alquist-D Health information technology |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 289 |
Ducheny-D Hospitals: seismic safety: periodic reports |
Health Facilities |
| SB 294 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts |
Health Professionals |
| SB 296 |
Lowenthal-D Health insurance: mental health services |
Mental Health |
| SB 303 |
Alquist-D Nursing facility residents: informed consent |
Health Facilities |
| SB 309 |
Ducheny-D Public resources: conservation corps |
Foster Care |
| SB 337 |
Alquist-D Health information |
Health Facilities |
| SB 343 |
Alquist-D Stem cell research: intellectual property standards |
Stem Cell |
| SB 352 |
Dutton-R Juvenile offenders: health facilities |
Health Facilities |
| SB 360 |
Yee-D Health facilities: direct care nurses |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| SB 364 |
Florez-D Cancer centers |
Cancer Health Facilities |
| SB 368 |
Maldonado-R Confidential medical information |
Health Professionals |
| SB 371* |
Cogdill-R Clean drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 374 |
Calderon-D Personal trainers |
Health Professionals |
| SB 383 |
Liu-D Autism spectrum disorders: screening |
Autism |
| SB 384 |
Benoit-R CalWORKs eligibility: drug testing |
Public Social Services |
| SB 389 |
Negrete McLeod-D Professions and vocations |
Health Professionals |
| SB 400 |
Corbett-D Tobacco |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 416 |
Florez-D Antibiotics |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 438 |
Yee-D Medi-Cal |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 442 |
Ducheny-D Clinic corporation: licensing |
Health Facilities |
| SB 443 |
Pavley-D Public health: supermarkets |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 452 |
Dutton-R At-risk children: registration of birth |
Public Social Services |
| SB 453 |
Padilla-D Food safety |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 456* |
Wolk-D Clean drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 470 |
Corbett-D Pharmacy: prescriptions |
Health Professionals |
| SB 471 |
Romero-D Stem cell and biotechnology education/workforce development |
Stem Cell |
| SB 482 |
Padilla-D Biological data analysis services: regulation |
Health Facilities |
| SB 486 |
Simitian-D Medical waste: sharps waste |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 499 |
Ducheny-D Hospitals: seismic safety |
Health Facilities |
| SB 513 |
Steinberg-D Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 543 |
Leno-D Minors: consent to mental health treatment |
Mental Health |
| SB 550 |
Florez-D Food safety |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 558 |
DeSaulnier-D Alcohol abuse |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 597 |
Liu-D Child welfare services: foster care services and adoption |
Foster Care Public Social Services |
| SB 599* |
Negrete McLeod-D Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program |
Health Professionals |
| SB 600* |
Padilla-D Cigarette and tobacco products taxes |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 601 |
Padilla-D Retail tobacco licenses |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 603 |
Padilla-D Retail cigarette and tobacco sales: licenses: violations |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 606 |
Ducheny-D Physicians and surgeons: loan repayment |
Health Professionals |
| SB 620 |
Wiggins-D Healing arts: osteopathic physicians and surgeons |
Health Professionals |
| SB 635 |
Wiggins-D Domestic violence programs |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 654 |
Leno-D Independent Living Program |
Foster Care Public Social Services |
| SB 661 |
Wolk-D Residential care facilities for the elderly |
Health Facilities |
| SB 662 |
Yee-D Domestic violence prevention |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 674 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts |
Health Professionals |
| SB 682 |
Padilla-D Individuals with exceptional needs |
Autism |
| SB 687 |
Alquist-D Long-term health care facilities |
Health Facilities |
| SB 700 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts: peer review |
Health Professionals |
| SB 702 |
DeSaulnier-D Ancillary day care centers: employees: trustline providers |
Public Social Services |
| SB 707 |
DeSaulnier-D Alcohol and other drug counselor licensing and certification |
Health Professionals |
| SB 718 |
Leno-D Public social services: CalWORKs and the Food Stamp Program |
Public Social Services |
| SB 724 |
Cogdill-R Prisoners: hospital services |
Health Facilities |
| SB 726 |
Ashburn-R Health care districts: rural hospitals |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| SB 732 |
Alquist-D Long-term care reimbursement: cost reporting methodology |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 735* |
Steinberg-D Clean drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 743 |
Assembly Health Committee Health facilities: psychiatric patient release |
Mental Health Health Facilities |
| SB 744* |
Strickland-R Clinical laboratories |
Health Facilities |
| SB 755 |
Negrete McLeod-D State contracts: participation goals |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 761 |
Aanestad-R Health manpower pilot projects |
Health Professionals |
| SB 762 |
Aanestad-R Professions and vocations: healing arts |
Health Professionals |
| SB 769* |
Alquist-D Federal funding: supplemental appropriations: pandemic flu |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 774 |
Ashburn-R Social workers: criminal history |
Health Professionals |
| SB 781 |
Leno-D Eviction procedure |
Health Facilities |
| SB 788 |
Wyland-R Licensed professional clinical counselors |
Health Professionals |
| SB 791* |
Yee-D In-home supportive services: providers: COBRA |
Public Social Services |
| SB 797 |
Pavley-D Product safety: bisphenol A |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 812 |
Ashburn-R Developmental services: housing |
Autism |
| SB 819 |
Yee-D Professions and vocations |
Health Professionals |
| SB 820 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts: peer review |
Health Professionals |
| SB 821 |
Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee Consumer affairs: professions and vocations |
Health Professionals |
| SCA 23 |
Florez-D Food safety: antibiotics |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 7 |
Denham-R Kidney Cancer Awareness Month |
Cancer |
| SCR 14 |
Aanestad-R Prostate Cancer Awareness Month |
Cancer |
| SCR 16 |
Runner-R DMV/Donate Life California Registry |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 18 |
Alquist-D Respiratory Syncytial Virus Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 22 |
Steinberg-D Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month |
Cancer |
| SCR 24 |
Ashburn-R Valley Fever Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 31 |
Runner-R Scleroderma Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 32 |
Strickland-R Emergency Medical Services Week |
Health Professionals |
| SCR 33 |
Calderon-D Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 35 |
Steinberg-D Foster Care Month |
Foster Care |
| SCR 36 |
Alquist-D Adolescent health |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 39 |
Steinberg-D Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 46 |
Harman-R Aquatics Safety Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 55 |
Wolk-D Health Care Decisions Week. |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 4 |
Correa-D Alzheimer's Silver Alert program |
Alzheimer's Disease |
| SJR 7 |
Lowenthal-D Pancreatic cancer |
Cancer |
| SJR 8 |
Corbett-D Electronic cigarettes |
Tobacco Products |
| SJR 10 |
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Military: health care |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 13 |
Oropeza-D New dialysis clinic licensure and certification |
Health Facilities |
| SJR 14 |
Leno-D Medical marijuana |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 15 |
Alquist-D Public health laboratories |
Health Facilities |
| SR 16 |
Leno-D World Kidney Day |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SR 21 |
Alquist-D Electronic health records |
Health Professionals |
| SR 26 |
Runner-R Relative to pulmonary hypertension disorder |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SR 28 |
Wyland-R Relative to Rett Syndrome Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SR 29 |
Alquist-D Alzheimer's disease |
Alzheimer's Disease |
| SR 30 |
Florez-D Horse slaughtering |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 5X |
Ducheny-D 2008-09 Human Services Budget trailer bill |
Public Social Services |
| SB 2XXX* |
Ducheny-D Developmental Services Budget provisions |
Developmentally Disabled Health Facilities Public Social Services |
| SB 6XXX* |
Ducheny-D Developmental services: 2008 and 2009 Budgets |
Developmentally Disabled Public Social Services |
| SB 10XXX* |
Ducheny-D The Mental Health Services Act: Proposition 63 amendments |
Mental Health |
| SB 13XXX* |
Alquist-D Domestic violence shelters: funding |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 24XXX* |
Alquist-D Medi-Cal: continuous eligibility: semiannual status reports |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 27XXX* |
Negrete McLeod-D Clean drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 58XXX* |
Price-D Regional centers: purchase of consumer services |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 12 |
Beall-D California Fostering Connections to Success Act |
Foster Care |
| AB 52* |
Portantino-D Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 56 |
Portantino-D Health care coverage: mammographies |
Cancer |
| AB 57 |
Price-D University of California hospitals: staffing |
Health Facilities |
| AB 75* |
Huffman-D Medi-Cal |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 81 |
Audra Strickland-R Interscholastic athletics: pupils in foster care |
Foster Care |
| AB 83* |
Feuer-D Torts: personal liability immunity. |
Health Professionals |
| AB 89* |
Torlakson-D Taxation: cigarettes and other tobacco products |
Tobacco Products |
| AB 107 |
Galgiani-D Veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians |
Health Professionals |
| AB 120 |
Hayashi-D Healing arts: peer review |
Health Professionals |
| AB 123 |
Portantino-D Housing for elderly or disabled persons |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 128 |
Coto-D Workers' compensation: cancer presumption |
Cancer |
| AB 140 |
Beall-D Developmental disabilities |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 152 |
Carter-D Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act: disability |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 154 |
Evans-D Adoption assistance: federal law |
Public Social Services |
| AB 159 |
Nava-D Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: task force |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 160 |
Hayashi-D Registered nurses: education program |
Health Professionals |
| AB 163 |
Emmerson-R Amino acid-based elemental formulas |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 167 |
Adams-R High school graduation: local requirements: foster children |
Foster Care |
| AB 169 |
Portantino-D Communicable disease: involuntary testing |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 171 |
Jones-D Dental services: credit |
Health Professionals |
| AB 175 |
Galgiani-D Medical telemedicine: optometrists |
Health Professionals |
| AB 188* |
Jones-D Medi-Cal: quality assurance fee revenue |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 215 |
Feuer-D Skilled nursing facilities: ratings |
Health Facilities |
| AB 217 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal: alcohol and drug screening |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 221* |
Portantino-D HIV testing: skin punctures |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AB 235 |
Hayashi-D Emergency services and care |
Health Facilities |
| AB 244 |
Beall-D Health care coverage: mental health services |
Mental Health |
| AB 245 |
Ma-D Physicians and surgeons |
Health Professionals |
| AB 249 |
Carter-D Health facilities: marking patient devices |
Health Facilities |
| AB 252 |
Carter-D Practice of medicine: cosmetic surgery |
Health Professionals |
| AB 287 |
Beall-D Persons with developmental disabilities: employment |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 292 |
Yamada-D Alzheimer's disease: income tax check off |
Alzheimer's Disease |
| AB 295 |
Ammiano-D Children: adoption services |
Public Social Services |
| AB 302 |
Beall-D Developmental services: regional centers |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 303 |
Beall-D Designated public hospitals: seismic safety requirements |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 324 |
Beall-D Aging: Elder Economic Security Standard Index |
Public Social Services |
| AB 325 |
Beall-D Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: community outreach |
Public Social Services |
| AB 334 |
Fuentes-D Medi-Cal: eligibility: inmates |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 342* |
Bass-D Medi-Cal: demonstration project waiver |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 345 |
Torlakson-D Regional occupational centers or programs |
Foster Care |
| AB 354 |
Arambula-IN Health: immunizations |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 356 |
Fletcher-R Radiologic technology: fluoroscopy |
Health Professionals |
| AB 359 |
Nava-D Breast and cervical cancer: screening |
Cancer |
| AB 366 |
Ruskin-D Cancer of the bone: orthopedic implantation |
Cancer Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 367* |
Galgiani-D Medi-Cal: HIV treatment |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Medi-Cal |
| AB 369 |
Yamada-D Adult day health care centers |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 372 |
Ma-D Vital records: adoptees and birth certificates |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 378 |
Cook-R In-Home Supportive Services: provider training |
Public Social Services |
| AB 390 |
Ammiano-D Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 393 |
Yamada-D Vehicle warranties: disabled rights |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 398 |
Monning-D Acquired brain trauma: administration |
Mental Health |
| AB 403 |
Fuller-R Dental hygienists: examinations and licensure |
Health Professionals |
| AB 407 |
Beall-D Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: closure |
Public Social Services |
| AB 411 |
Garrick-R Health facilities: seismic safety |
Health Facilities |
| AB 416 |
Block-D Developmental services: consumer abuse registry |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 417 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal Drug Treatment Program: buprenorphine |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 418 |
Emmerson-R Pharmacy technicians: licensure requirements |
Health Professionals |
| AB 420 |
Salas-D Maternal health |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 421* |
Beall-D Seriously emotionally disturbed children |
Foster Care |
| AB 422 |
Torres-D State Youth and Family Master Plan |
Public Social Services |
| AB 426 |
Hall-D Pupil health |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 438 |
Beall-D Persons with developmental disabilities: criminal proceeding |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 445 |
Salas-D Use of X-ray equipment: prohibition: exemptions |
Health Professionals |
| AB 452 |
Yamada-D In-home supportive services: CA Independence Act of 2009 |
Public Social Services |
| AB 456 |
Emmerson-R Dentistry: diversion program |
Health Professionals |
| AB 471 |
Arambula-IN Safe drinking water, clean water, and watershed protection |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 488 |
Torres-D Children's services programs: performance agreement contract |
Public Social Services |
| AB 492 |
Conway-R Community colleges: nursing faculty |
Health Professionals |
| AB 497 |
Block-D Physicians: high-occupancy vehicle lane usage |
Health Professionals |
| AB 501 |
Emmerson-R Physicians and surgeons |
Health Professionals |
| AB 503 |
Furutani-D Battered women's shelters: grant program |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 510 |
Evans-D CalWORKs: aid amount calculation |
Public Social Services |
| AB 511 |
De La Torre-D Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services providers |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 517 |
Ma-D Safe Body Art Act |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 523* |
Huffman-D Hospitals: seismic safety |
Health Facilities |
| AB 526 |
Fuentes-D Public Protection and Physician Health Program Act of 2009 |
Health Professionals |
| AB 535 |
Ammiano-D Elder death review teams: information requests |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 538 |
Arambula-IN Emergency telephone system: abuse |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 542 |
Feuer-D Hospital acquired conditions |
Health Facilities |
| AB 543* |
Ma-D Perinatal care: The Nurse-Family Partnership |
Health Professionals |
| AB 549 |
Furutani-D Licensure: clinical laboratory personnel |
Health Professionals |
| AB 564 |
Portantino-D Substance abuse treatment |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 574 |
Hill-D Smoking: health facilities |
Tobacco Products Health Facilities |
| AB 583 |
Hayashi-D Health care practitioners |
Health Professionals |
| AB 595* |
Adams-R Placement of children: criminal background checks |
Public Social Services |
| AB 598 |
De La Torre-D California Health Information Network |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 599 |
Hall-D Forensic blood alcohol testing laboratories |
Health Facilities |
| AB 613 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal: treatment authorization requests |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 625 |
Lieu-D Novelty lighters |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 631 |
Tran-R Public assistance: home visits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 635 |
V. Manuel Perez-D Fire protection: air purifying devices |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 639 |
Torlakson-D Poison control centers |
Health Facilities |
| AB 643 |
Skinner-D Public aid programs: eligibility: change of residence |
Public Social Services |
| AB 646 |
Swanson-D Physicians and surgeons: employment |
Health Professionals |
| AB 648 |
Chesbro-D Rural hospitals: physician services |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 657 |
Hernandez-D Health professions workforce: master plan |
Health Professionals |
| AB 664 |
Skinner-D Workers' compensation: hospital employees: presumption |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 665 |
Torrico-D State adoption services: investment |
Public Social Services |
| AB 667 |
Block-D Topical fluoride application |
Health Professionals |
| AB 681 |
Hernandez-D Confidentiality of medical information: psychotherapy |
Health Professionals |
| AB 682 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D In-Home Supportive Services program: fraud |
Public Social Services |
| AB 689 |
Charles Calderon-D Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law: tobacco products |
Tobacco Products |
| AB 706* |
Assembly Human Services Committee Dependent children |
Foster Care |
| AB 710 |
Yamada-D Veterans: substance abuse and mental health services |
Mental Health Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 719 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Transitional food stamps for foster youth |
Foster Care Public Social Services |
| AB 721 |
Nava-D Physical therapists: direct access to services |
Health Professionals |
| AB 728* |
Nielsen-R Medi-Cal: hospitals: reimbursements |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 743 |
Portantino-D Foster care: sibling placement |
Foster Care |
| AB 752* |
Caballero-D Safe Drinking Water and Water Supply Reliability Act of 2010 |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 754 |
Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: mental health plans |
Medi-Cal Mental Health |
| AB 762 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Residential facilities: bedridden persons |
Health Facilities |
| AB 770 |
Torres-D Indian tribes: foster care and adoption programs |
Foster Care |
| AB 773 |
Lieu-D Health facilities: citations: notifications |
Health Facilities |
| AB 818 |
Hernandez-D Health facilities: connection ports |
Health Facilities |
| AB 822 |
Fletcher-R Health facilities: program flexibility |
Health Facilities |
| AB 830 |
Cook-R Drugs and devices |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 832 |
Jones-D Ambulatory surgical clinics: workgroup |
Health Facilities |
| AB 834 |
Solorio-D Health care practitioners |
Health Professionals |
| AB 839 |
Emmerson-R Medi-Cal: providers: remedies |
Medi-Cal Health Professionals |
| AB 861 |
Ruskin-D Public health services: consolidated contracts |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 867 |
Nava-D Doctor of Nursing Practice degree |
Health Professionals |
| AB 877 |
Emmerson-R Healing arts: scope of practice |
Health Professionals |
| AB 885* |
Nestande-R Area agencies on aging and independent living centers |
Public Social Services |
| AB 890 |
John Perez-D City of Maywood: drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 896 |
Galgiani-D Health care programs: provider reimbursement rates |
Health Professionals |
| AB 911 |
Lieu-D Emergency room crowding |
Health Facilities |
| AB 921 |
Jones-D Juvenile court jurisdiction: services and benefits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 923 |
Swanson-D Veterinarians: Department of Motor Vehicles: public records |
Health Professionals |
| AB 931 |
Fletcher-R Emergency supplies |
Health Facilities |
| AB 933 |
Fong-D Workers' compensation: utilization review |
Health Professionals |
| AB 935 |
Feuer-D Long-term health care facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 939 |
Assembly Judiciary Committee Family Law Access to Justice Act |
Foster Care |
| AB 950 |
Hernandez-D Hospice providers: licensed hospice facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 952 |
Krekorian-D Health information: disclosure: Taft-Hartley plans |
Health Professionals |
| AB 963 |
Ammiano-D Medi-Cal eligibility |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 977 |
Skinner-D Pharmacists: immunization protocols with physicians |
Health Professionals |
| AB 995 |
Block-D Tissue bank licensing |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 997 |
Krekorian-D Sex offenders: licensed residential facilities: information |
Foster Care |
| AB 998 |
John Perez-D Medi-Cal: organ transplants: anti-rejection medication |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1020 |
Emmerson-R Public swimming pools: anti-entrapment devices and systems |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1021 |
Emmerson-R Food processing establishments: suspension |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1037 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Medi-Cal: managed care |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1038 |
Furutani-D Health facilities: nursing hours |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1041 |
Audra Strickland-R Drinking water: private wells: county regulation |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1044 |
Jones-D Continuing care retirement communities: contracts |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1045 |
John Perez-D HIV and AIDS reporting |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AB 1049 |
Torrico-D Safely Surrendered Baby Fund |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1055 |
Chesbro-D Substance abuse: treatment facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1057 |
Beall-D CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program: reporting |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1058 |
Beall-D CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits: vehicles |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1067 |
Brownley-D Children in foster care: school proximity and travel costs |
Foster Care |
| AB 1070 |
Hill-D Healing arts |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1071 |
Emmerson-R Professions and vocations |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1083 |
John Perez-D Health facilities: security plans |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1100 |
Duvall-R Potable reuse demonstration water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1113 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Professional mental health providers |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1116 |
Carter-D Cosmetic surgery |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1122 |
Lieu-D Animal abuse: sale of live animals |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1132 |
Jones-D Organ and tissue donation: vehicle registration |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1140 |
Niello-R Diagnostic imaging services |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1142 |
Price-D Medi-Cal: proof of eligibility |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1147 |
Arambula-IN Medical waste: treatment, containment, and storage |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1148 |
Davis-D Virtual Assistant Living and Education program |
Foster Care |
| AB 1152 |
Anderson-R Professional corporations: licensed physical therapists |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1153 |
Beall-D Emergency air medical transportation providers: penalty levy |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1169 |
Ruskin-D Elderly care: continuing care contracts |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1171 |
Ammiano-D Rental property: public entity restriction |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1174 |
Hernandez-D Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1185 |
Lieu-D Birth certificates: new issuance: venue |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1193 |
Audra Strickland-R Public assistance: home visits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1198 |
Swanson-D Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1199 |
Ammiano-D Local health care master plans |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1201 |
V. Manuel Perez-D Immunizations for children: reimbursement of physicians |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1213 |
Skinner-D Employment of persons with disabilities |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1235 |
Hayashi-D Hospitals: seismic safety |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1258 |
Arambula-IN Foster youth services |
Foster Care |
| AB 1259 |
Arambula-IN Area agencies on aging: federal funding allocations |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1260* |
Huffman-D Developmental services: regional centers |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1269 |
Brownley-D Medi-Cal: eligibility |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1272 |
Hill-D Emergency medical services: trauma center |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1284 |
Huffman-D Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1295 |
Fuller-R Nursing degree programs: postsecondary education |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1303 |
Hall-D Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital: reopening plan |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1307 |
Buchanan-D Newborn genetic screening |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1310 |
Hernandez-D Healing arts: database |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1312 |
Swanson-D Defibrillators |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1314 |
Jones-D Medi-Cal: health care coverage |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1317 |
Block-D Assisted oocyte production: advertisement: information |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1324 |
Bass-D Foster youth: identity theft |
Foster Care |
| AB 1325 |
Cook-R Tribal customary adoption |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1370 |
Solorio-D Drugs and devices: labeling: expiration date |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1372 |
Feuer-D Food processing establishments |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1383 |
Jones-D Medi-Cal: hospital payments: quality assurance fees |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 1391 |
Eng-D Acupuncture Board |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1393 |
Skinner-D Foster youth |
Foster Care |
| AB 1397* |
Hill-D Tissue donation |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Health Professionals |
| AB 1402 |
Bass-D Family connection grants |
Foster Care |
| AB 1418 |
Smyth-R Local health officers: communicable diseases: reporting |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 1422* |
Bass-D California Children and Families Act of 1998 |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1427 |
Hayashi-D Hospital districts |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1430 |
Swanson-D Pupil health: health care professionals |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1433 |
Eng-D Continuing care contracts: retirement communities |
Health Facilities Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1436 |
Portantino-D Hospital districts |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1437 |
Huffman-D Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1438 |
Conway-R Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1445 |
Chesbro-D Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1457 |
Davis-D Long-term health care facilities: admission contracts |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1458 |
Davis-D Health Professional: adverse drug reporting |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1462 |
Feuer-D Medi-Cal: inpatient hospital services contracts |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 1472 |
Torrico-D Long-term care reimbursement: ratesetting methodology |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1475 |
Solorio-D Emergency medical services |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1478 |
Ammiano-D Medical nutrition therapy: written acknowledgment |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1479 |
Duvall-R Public assistance: home visits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1487 |
Hill-D Inmate medical expenses |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1488 |
Hall-D Public health: food justice |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1503 |
Lieu-D Emergency medical care: billing |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1512 |
Lieu-D Food and drugs: sale |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1524 |
Hayashi-D Dentistry: examination requirements |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1532* |
Lieu-D In-home supportive services |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1535 |
Jones-D Audiologists: hearing aids |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1540 |
Assembly Health Committee AIDS: insurance policies |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1542 |
Assembly Health Committee Medical homes |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 1544 |
Jones-D Health facilities: licensure: outpatient clinic service |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1568 |
Salas-D Property taxation: disaster relief |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1571 |
Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee Mental health services: county plans: veterans |
Mental Health |
| AB 1577 |
Coto-D Problem and pathological gambling |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1589 |
Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee Regional centers: whistleblower protection |
Developmentally Disabled |
| ACA 22 |
Torlakson-D Taxation: cigarettes and other tobacco products |
Tobacco Products |
| ACR 2 |
Hall-D Management of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital |
Health Facilities |
| ACR 8 |
Torlakson-D California Fitness Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 17 |
Saldana-D American Heart Month and Wear Red Day |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 18 |
Chesbro-D Lyme Disease Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 19 |
Smyth-R Spaying and neutering |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 25 |
Miller-R Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 28 |
Ma-D Eating Disorders Awareness Week |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 29 |
Jones-D Health disparities: racial and ethnic populations |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 35 |
Blakeslee-R Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 53 |
Price-D Autism Awareness Month |
Autism |
| ACR 57 |
Eng-D Acupuncture |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 62 |
Galgiani-D Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 63 |
Bass-D Foster Care Month |
Foster Care |
| ACR 64 |
Ma-D Hepatitis B |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 66 |
V. Manuel Perez-D American Stroke Month 2009 |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 72 |
Huffman-D Pain Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 74 |
Portantino-D Animal shelters: No Kill movement policies |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 80 |
Hill-D Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of California |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 90 |
Beall-D Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 91 |
Lieu-D Adopt a Shelter Pet Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 93 |
Torres-D Red Ribbon Week |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AJR 7 |
Bass-D Stem cell research: federal legislation |
Stem Cell |
| AJR 9 |
John Perez-D Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006 |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AJR 11 |
Furutani-D National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week |
Cancer |
| AJR 13 |
Ammiano-D Blood donation |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AJR 17 |
Swanson-D HIV/AIDS health disparities |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| HR 10 |
Salas-D Relative to Drinking Water Week |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| HR 15 |
Tran-R School Nurse Day |
Health Professionals |
| AB 3X |
Evans-D Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development |
Health Facilities |
| AB 5XXX* |
Evans-D Medi-Cal program |
Medi-Cal Mental Health Developmentally Disabled Health Facilities |
| AB 17XXX* |
Evans-D Budget Act of 2008: California Children and Families Act |
Public Social Services |
| AB 43XXX |
Evans-D Human services |
Public Social Services |
| AB 44XXX |
Evans-D Health |
Health Facilities |
| AB 45XXX |
Evans-D Budget Act of 2009 |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 78XXX |
Jones-D Adult day health care centers |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 4XXXX* |
Evans-D Alzheimer's centers: Budget Act of 2009: |
Alzheimer's Disease Medi-Cal Foster Care Public Social Services |
| AB 5XXXX* |
Evans-D Medi-Cal program |
Medi-Cal Mental Health Developmentally Disabled Health Facilities |
| AB 6XXXX* |
Evans-D Medi-Cal |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 7XXXX |
Evans-D Public social services: statewide enrollment process |
Public Social Services |
| AB 8XXXX |
Evans-D Human services |
Public Social Services |
| AB 9XXXX* |
Evans-D Developmental services |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 12XXXX* |
Evans-D Health facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 19XXXX |
Evans-D In-home supportive services |
Public Social Services |
| AB 20XXXX |
Audra Strickland-R Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine: Budget trailer bill |
Health Professionals |
