Health and Human Services

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Cancer
Alzheimer's Disease
Other Diseases/Disorders
Medi-Cal
Mental Health
Developmentally Disabled
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Public Social Services
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

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SB 443 (Migden-D) Tissue donors: sperm donors
Authorizes the use of sperm from a donor who has tested reactive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or human T lymphotropic virus-1, for the purpose of insemination or advanced reproductive technology.
Chapter 207, Statutes of 2007

SCR 3 (Cedillo-D) The Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument: highway signs
Requests the installation on State Route 5 of directional signs for The Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2007

AB 53 (Dymally-D) Office of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education
Renames the Office of AIDS the Office of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education, and requires that the Department of Public Health (DPH) establish within the Office six regional HIV/AIDS centers, as prescribed. Requires DPH to fund culturally and linguistically appropriate outreach programs in each of those regional centers designed to significantly increase rates of early HIV/AIDS testing, and provides individuals who test positive for HIV or AIDS with appropriate referrals for care and medical treatment. Requires DPH to work collaboratively with community-based organizations focused on HIV/AIDS prevention services, and to utilize all available private services and existing partnerships to conduct outreach to populations that typically have little or no exposure to HIV/AIDS information.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 66* (Dymally-D) Inmate HIV testing
Requires HIV testing for consenting prison inmates and state hospital patients within 60 days of their entering the facility, and for those due to be incarcerated for at least a year, at least 60 days prior to their discharge. Inmates who test positive for HIV will receive post-test counseling as well as a care and treatment plan appropriate for his/her diagnosis and the opportunity to be housed in a specialized housing unit. Their parole officers will be notified as well, and both the parole officers and the institutions' medical officers will be authorized to inform the inmates' spouses or domestic partners that they may have been exposed to HIV. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop, in conjunction with HIV-positive or hepatitis B or C infected inmates' parole and probation officers and county local health officers, plans to refer inmates to local treatment services.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 110 (Laird-D) Drug paraphernalia: clean needle and syringe exchange
Permits a public entity that receives General Fund money from the Department of Public Health (DPH) for HIV prevention and education to use that money to support clean needle and syringe exchange projects (NEPs) that are authorized by the public entity, and permits the money to be used for, but not limited to, the purchase of sterile hypodermic needles and syringes. Requires funds allocated for the purchase of sterile hypodermic needles and syringes to be based upon epidemiological data as reported by the health jurisdiction in its local HIV prevention plan submitted to DPH, and requires local health officers in jurisdictions with NEPs to include information on the use of public funds for NEPs in their annual report, detailing the status of the project to their boards of supervisors or city councils.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2007

AB 237 (Strickland-R) HIV drug treatment
Increases a continuous appropriation from the Medical Providers Interim Fund from $2 billion to $4 billion for use by Medi-Cal providers between July 1 and September 1 in any year during which a state budget has not been passed by June 30.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 272 (Garcia-R) HIV tests
Requires that any woman seeking an annual gynecological examination or family planning appointment be provided with information on HIV and AIDS, and requires that the woman be offered the option of being tested onsite, if available, or provided referral information to other testing locations. Requires, if the woman chooses to be tested for HIV, the physician or other health care professional attending the woman at the time the results are received to ensure that the woman receives information and counseling, as appropriate, to explain the results and the implications for the woman's health, including any follow-up care that is indicated.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 659 (Ma-D) HIV Study
Requests the University of California to conduct a three-year study on the clinical effects of HIV in individuals over the age of 50.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 682 (Berg-D) HIV/AIDS testing
Revises the written and informed consent standards associated with testing blood for the human immunodeficiency virus.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2007

AB 1442 (Feuer-D) Clinical laboratories
Requires clinical laboratories that perform tests to screen for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), that are classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory and Improvement Amendments of 1988, to enroll in a proficiency testing program and to obtain the appropriate license or registration from the State Department of Public Health, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

HR 4 (Dymally-D) National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Designates 2/7/07 as National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in California, and encourages Californians to strongly support the day and participate in events planned to commemorate the occasion.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 16 (Garcia-R) National HIV/AIDS Testing Day
Recognizes 6/27/07 as National HIV/AIDS Testing Day, and encourages all individuals, state and local health departments, and community-based HIV/AIDS service providers to participate in National HIV/AIDS Testing Day.
Adopted by the Assembly

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Cancer

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SB 458 (Torlakson-D) Lung cancer: early detection and treatment
Requests the Regents of the University of California to establish the Lung Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Research Program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 928* (Harman-R) Cancer: tax credit
Provides a new tax credit for donations to cancer research.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SCR 23 (Cox-R) Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Designates the month of September 2007 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, to raise awareness about the importance of early detection and treatment of prostate cancer, and also encourages California public officials and other citizens to observe the month with appropriate activities and programs.
Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2007

AB 28 (Huffman-D) Breast cancer research: income tax
Extends the sunset date for the California Breast Cancer Research Fund from 1/1/08 to 1/1/13.
Chapter 486, Statutes of 2007

AB 1001 (Parra-D) California Ovarian Cancer Research
Provides a check-off on tax returns that allows taxpayers to designate specified amounts to be transferred to the California Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1429 (Evans-D) Human papillomavirus 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 human papillomavirus vaccine beginning on 1/1/08.
Vetoed

ACR 15 (Lieber-D) Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Recognizes January 2007 as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and encourages all Californians to participate in this observance.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 37 (Mendoza-D) Automotive Career Month
Designates the month of April 2007 as Automotive Career Month.
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2007

ACR 46 (Lieu-D) Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2007 as Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and encourages all Californians to make themselves and their families aware of the risk of skin cancer and the measures that can be taken to prevent it.
Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2007

ACR 47 (Price-D) National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week
Designates the week of 4/15/07 to 4/21/07 as National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week, and encourages the private sector and the state and federal governments to promote policies and programs that seek to reduce cancer disparities and improve cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care for all Californians.
Resolution Chapter 43, Statutes of 2007

ACR 56 (DeSaulnier-D) Mesothelioma Awareness Week
Designates the week of 6/3/07 through 6/10/07 as Mesothelioma Awareness Week, to raise awareness about the symptoms of, and ways of, preventing and treating mesothelioma.
Resolution Chapter 146, Statutes of 2007

ACR 71 (Portantino-D) Blood cancers
Designates September 2007, as Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma Awareness Month to enhance the understanding of blood-related cancers and to encourage participation in voluntary activities to support education programs and funding of research programs to find a cure for them.
Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2007

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Alzheimer's Disease

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SB 321 (Alquist-D) State Alzheimer's Disease Strategic Plan
Requires the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Advisory Committee to develop a State Alzheimer's Disease Strategic Plan for 2010 to 2020 by 9/1/09.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SCR 62 (Alquist-D) Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
Proclaims November 2007 as Alzheimer's Awareness Month and 11/13/07, as National Memory Screening Day.
Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2007

AB 317* (Berg-D) Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Center Program
Requires the Department of Aging to provide onsite technical assistance to Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Centers related to specialized dementia services, and requires the Department of Aging to provide all services required for federal funding, services for dementia related behavioral problems, nursing and psychosocial training, staffing standards, and patient safeguards.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

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Other Diseases/Disorders

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SB 147 (Ashburn-R) Valley fever: vaccine
Appropriates $1 million from the General Fund to the Department of Health Services for the 2007-08 fiscal year for Valley Fever research and the development of a vaccine against the disease.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 356 (Negrete McLeod-D) List of reportable diseases and conditions
Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to establish a list of communicable diseases and conditions for which clinical laboratories must submit a culture or a specimen to the local public health laboratory, and authorizes DPH to modify the list, as specified.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 533 (Yee-D) Health: immunizations: pneumococcus
Adds pneumococcus for children under 24 months of age to the list of diseases for which documentation of immunization is required prior to admission into schools, child care centers, nursery schools, day care, and development centers, commencing 7/1/08.
Vetoed

SB 676 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Health: immunizations
Adds a pertussis (whooping cough) booster to the list of immunizations required for seventh grade students prior to school admission.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 772 (Wiggins-D) Lyme disease
Revises the membership of the Lyme Disease Advisory Committee and makes changes in, and add provisions relating to, the committee's travel expenses, meetings, duties, and terms of committee membership. Authorizes the committee to make recommendations to the Department of Public Health and Senate and Assembly Committees on Health regarding Lyme disease, as specified.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 19 (Negrete McLeod-D) West Nile Virus & Mosquito & Vector Control Awareness Week
Declares 4/23/07 to 4/29/07, inclusive, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 2007

SCR 29 (Scott-D) Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2007 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2007

SCR 30 (Padilla-D) American Diabetes Alert Day
Declares 3/27/07 as American Diabetes Alert Day in California, and encourages all Californians to help fight this disease by increasing awareness of the risk factors for diabetes, making healthy lifestyle choices, and by providing support to those suffering from diabetes.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2007

SCR 59 (Ashburn-R) Valley Fever Awareness Month
Proclaims August 2007 as Valley Fever Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 103, Statutes of 2007

SJR 8 (Migden-D) Diabetes
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to renew the Special Statutory Funding Program for Type 1 Diabetes Research and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians.
Resolution Chapter 98, Statutes of 2007

AB 158 (Ma-D) Public health
Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to establish the Hepatitis B and C Prevention and Management Pilot Program. Requires the DPH to establish the Program within the Office of Multicultural Health to provide program education, outreach, counseling, and social services to ethnic populations that are at high risk of hepatitis B infection. Establishes the Hepatitis B and C Prevention and Management Pilot Program Fund and appropriates $4 million to implement specified activities in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, subject to nonprofit and academic programs in those areas meeting specified financial and subject matter expertise requirements, and specifies activities supported by the Fund to include existing and ongoing nonprofit or academic programs addressing screening to identify chronically infected populations, education and counseling programs, and training programs for health professionals.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 329 (Nakanishi-R) Chronic diseases
Requires the Medical Board of California (MBC) to establish a pilot program to expand the practice of telemedicine in California, and authorizes the MBC to implement this pilot program by convening a working group.
Chapter 386, Statutes of 2007

AB 834 (Hayashi-D) Dental disease prevention
Makes changes to program requirements in the community dental disease prevention program, to address child dental prevention and intervention needs.
Vetoed

AB 857* (Galgiani-D) Sales tax: exemption: diabetic supplies
Exempts the current sales and use tax exemption for diabetic supplies.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 961 (Hernandez-D) Diabetes
Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services to receive funds to support the California Diabetes Program (CDP), and establishes a one- to five-star designation system to recognize donors of $1,000 to more than $50,000 a year. States legislative intent to increase the CDP annual Budget Act allocation by an amount that exceeds donations made pursuant to this bill.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1154 (Leno-D) Diabetes
Requires the Department of Public Health, in consultation with the California Health Alliance Commission, to develop a diabetes risk reduction pilot program within 24 counties.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1323 (DeSaulnier-D) Tuberculosis testing
Expands the types of tuberculosis testing that may be used to screen for, or to report, cases of active tuberculosis to include the use of any test recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, as specified.
Chapter 24, Statutes of 2007

AB 1410 (Feuer-D) Traumatic brain injury
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to submit a home- and community-based federal Medicaid waiver application or state plan amendment by 3/15/09, to serve at least 100 adults with acquired traumatic brain injuries.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2007

AB 1555 (Lieber-D) Health care services: Chronic Care Model Task Force
Establishes a Chronic Care Model Task Force. Requires the Task Force to develop a Chronic Care Model Plan. Requires the Task Force to establish six workgroups: community-based support, health care system improvements, self-management, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 5 (Berg-D) American Heart Month and Wear Red Day
Recognizes February 2007 as American Heart Month in California in order to raise awareness of the effect of heart disease on women. Recognizes 2/2/07 as Wear Red Day in California, and urges all citizens to show their support for women and the fight against heart disease by wearing and displaying the color red on that day.
Resolution Chapter 5, Statutes of 2007

ACR 13 (Galgiani-D) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Commends the Department of Public Health and Department of Health Care Services for implementing a pilot program to provide for the chronic disease management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in an effort to reduce the financial and clinical burden of this disease on the Medi-Cal program. Encourages these departments, upon the program's conclusion, to each prepare and submit a report of the department's respective findings and recommendations regarding the pilot program to the appropriate committees of the Senate and Assembly. Declares November 2007 as COPD Awareness Month, and 11/14/07 as COPD Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2007

ACR 49 (Davis-D) American Stroke Month
Recognizes May 2007 as American Stroke Month in California, and urges all California citizens to familiarize themselves with the warning signs, symptoms, and risk factors associated with stroke, so that Californians might begin to reduce the devastating effects strokes have on the population of California.
Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2007

ACR 66 (Ma-D) Hydrocephalus Awareness Month
Declares September as Hydrocephalus Awareness Month, and urges the President and Congress of the United States to collect comprehensive statistics and data regarding the seriousness of hydrocephalus and its impact on families.
Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2007

ACR 68 (Hayashi-D) Neuropathy Action Awareness Day
Declares 6/26/08 as Neuropathy Action Awareness Day in California, to raise public awareness regarding the symptoms and treatment of peripheral neuropathy.
Resolution Chapter 138, Statutes of 2007

AJR 30 (Berg-D) Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education & Research
Respectfully memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to enact H.R. 741, the Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2007, which would provide funding for additional prevention, education, treatment, and research efforts relating to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 34 (Price-D) National Lupus Awareness Month
Declares that the month of October 2007 be designated as "National Lupus Awareness Month," and encourages state and federal government entities to promote policies and programs that seek to reduce the incidence of lupus, and improve current methods of prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care for all Californians.
Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2007

HR 5 (Nakanishi-R) Glaucoma Awareness Month
Recognizes January 2007 as Glaucoma Awareness Month, commends the many organizations dedicated to preserving sight, and encourages participation in vision health screening activities.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

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Medi-Cal

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SB 32 (Steinberg-D) Medi-Cal: coverage
Expands Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Program (HFP) eligibility to cover all children with family incomes at or below 300% of the federal poverty level (FPL). Establishes an HFP Buy-In Program for children in families with family incomes above 300% FPL. Establishes various presumptive eligibility programs.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 93 (Corbett-D) Medi-Cal: third-party liability
Prohibits the amount paid by Medi-Cal from being considered as evidence of past medical damages or for the purpose of reducing a third party's liability to the beneficiary in any third-party action.
Vetoed

SB 94 (Kuehl-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
Enacts a Medi-Cal rate increase for family planning clinical office visits billed under eight specified procedure codes.
Chapter 636, Statutes of 2007

SB 119 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal: minors: drug and alcohol treatment
Expands the Drug Medi-Cal Program (DMC) for youth 12 to 20 years old. Establishes a youth substance abuse treatment benefit within the state's Medi-Cal program, and directs the Department of Health Services to seek federal financial participation to help support the benefit. Implementation is contingent on federal participation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 238 (Aanestad-R) Medi-Cal
Includes in the definition of a federally qualified health center (FQHC) and rural health center (RHC) "visit" a face-to-face encounter between a FQHC or RHC patient and a dental hygienist or a dental hygienist in alternative practice. Establishes processes for FQHCs and RHCs to bill Medi-Cal for dental hygienist visits.
Chapter 638, Statutes of 2007

SB 260 (Steinberg-D) Medi-Cal
Allows federally qualified health centers 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, and specifically allows for billing for two visits when a patient has a medical visit and an additional visit with a mental health practitioner or a dental professional.
Vetoed

SB 370 (Kuehl-D) Medi-Cal: organ and bone marrow transplants
Clarifies Medi-Cal organ transplant oversight. Specifies organ transplants are an authorized Medi-Cal benefit when specified conditions are met.
Chapter 300, Statutes of 2007

SB 400* (Corbett-D) Medi-Cal: federally qualified health centers
Clarifies, and makes specific, existing authority for federally qualified health centers (FQHC) to provide and bill Medi-Cal for services to FQHC patients at non-clinic locations. Requires that written prescriptions for drugs under the Medi-Cal program be written on tamper resistant prescription forms.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 474 (Kuehl-D) Medi-Cal: hospital demonstration project funding
Makes several changes to the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act, commonly referred to as the Hospital Financing Waiver, and establishes the South Los Angeles Medical Services Preservation Fund, to which $100 million of safety net care pool funds will be deposited per year for the project years 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10, for the purpose of funding health services for the uninsured population of South Los Angeles.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2007

SB 483 (Kuehl-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Clarifies Medi-Cal eligibility for nursing home care and long-term care, pursuant to the federal Deficit Reduction Act, and limits eligibility for these services to individuals with home equity of $750,000 or less instead of $500,000 or less, as required by federal law.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 623 (Wiggins-D) Medi-Cal: drug benefits
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to pay the required co-payments for individuals enrolled in Medicare prescription drug coverage who are also enrolled in Medi-Cal.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 933 (Wiggins-D) Medi-Cal
Requires the Department of Health Care Services, when negotiating Medi-Cal managed care contracts with County Operated Health Systems, to develop rates that are actuarially sound and to ensure long-term cost reimbursements are passed through to the county health system.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 7X (Aanestad-R) Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that increases Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for providers over the next eight years and to make it a budget priority to increase the lowest rates first.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 9X (Runner-R) Medi-Cal: clinic funding
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that permits specified federal funds to be used for the creation of new, and the expansion of existing, clinics.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 184 (Dymally-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
Enacts a Medi-Cal rate increase for family planning clinical office visits billed under eight specified procedure codes. Requires a rate increase to at least 80% of the weighted average of the federal Medicare rates for similar office visits. Specifies that the rate increases will apply to office visits on or after 1/1/08, and authorizes the Director of the Department of Health Care Services to implement these rate increases by means of emergency regulations or provider bulletins.
(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 203* (Assembly Budget Committee) Health care: budget trailer bill
Implements the Health budget trailer bill containing revisions to statutes relating to Medi-Cal.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2007

AB 237 (Strickland-R) Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services
Increases a continuous appropriation from the Medical Providers Interim Fund, from $2 billion to $4 billion, for use by Medi-Cal providers between July 1 and September 1 in any year during which a state budget has not been passed by June 30.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 273 (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: foster children
Requires children removed from their homes as a result of abuse or neglect, and children removed from their homes as a result of being a "delinquent minor," to receive specified Child Health and Disability Prevention program health assessments and oral health services. Requires the county welfare department, at a hearing to terminate jurisdiction over a dependent child, as specified, to submit a report verifying that assistance in understanding the child's health care needs and locating health care providers that will be able to meet those needs has been provided to the child, and requires the Department of Health Care Services, to the extent federal financial participation is available, to extend Medi-Cal benefits to "independent foster care adolescents," as defined, while in foster care or guardianship, until the child reaches the age of 21 years, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 308* (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services
Increases, to an amount not to exceed $2 billion, the annual appropriation from the General Fund and from the Federal Trust Fund to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 363* (Berg-D) Medi-Cal
Authorizes Federally Qualified Health Centers to request Medi-Cal reimbursement for specialty services provided to current patients when the services are delivered off-site and under specified conditions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 381 (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal: provider reimbursement
Allows hospital-based physicians to submit a Medi-Cal reimbursement request containing a beneficiary's social security number even if the beneficiary has been issued a Medi-Cal beneficiary identification card with specified information, and encourages the Department of Health Care Services to establish an automated system, compliant with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, to allow providers to obtain beneficiary identification card information for submitting reimbursement requests.
Chapter 265, Statutes of 2007

AB 383 (Tran-R) Medi-Cal: orthodontic services
Requires that orthodontic services provided through the Denti-Cal Program be reimbursed on a quarterly basis to conform to current orthodontic practice.
Chapter 494, Statutes of 2007

AB 570 (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal reimbursement: intermediate care facilities
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to review the cost reporting, audit, and rate-setting requirements for intermediate care facilities caring for persons with developmental disabilities, and to implement appropriate changes in the Medi-Cal intermediate care facility rates and rate development process.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 585 (Berg-D) Medi-Cal: managed care
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to amend the state Medicaid plan to add Targeted Case Management as a benefit for specified residents of skilled nursing facilities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 606 (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
Provides that, commencing 1/1/08, the reimbursement levels for physician and dental services be increased by 5%.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 661 (Berg-D) Medi-Cal: hospitals
Requires critical access hospitals to be reimbursed based on allowable costs for Medi-Cal-covered outpatient services.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 855 (Hayashi-D) Medi-Cal: managed care
Requires every Medi-Cal managed care contract entered into by the Department of Health Care Services to include alcohol and drug treatment services.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 915 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal managed care
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to approve the use of non-monetary incentives by Medi-Cal managed care (MMC) plans for the MMC plan's Medi-Cal enrollees, in the absence of other countervailing considerations, as specified.
Chapter 500, Statutes of 2007

AB 1113 (Brownley-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Repeals the sunset date for the Medi-Cal program for the California Working Disabled Program, and makes specified changes in the eligibility criteria.
Vetoed

AB 1149 (Beall-D) Disproportionate share hospitals and trauma centers
Permits acute care general hospitals that are designated Level I trauma centers, are located in seismic zone 4, and meet other specified requirements, to obtain supplemental Medi-Cal reimbursement for debt service incurred on revenue bonds related to construction and renovation costs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1226 (Hayashi-D) Medi-Cal: provider enrollment
Allows a physician, enrolled in good standing in the Medi-Cal program, who is changing location within the same county to be eligible to continue enrollment and to file a change of location form in lieu of submitting a complete application package. Provides expedited enrollment into Medi-Cal for licensed physicians and surgeons who meet specified conditions.
Chapter 693, Statutes of 2007

AB 1268 (Dymally-D) Medi-Cal: fiscal intermediary services
Requires each contract for services as a fiscal intermediary to allow all providers to file claims by electronic means.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee )

AB 1312 (Emmerson-R) Medi-Cal: health service costs
Increases Medi-Cal reimbursement paid for physician services to 80% of Medicare rates.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1328 (Hayashi-D) Access for Infants and Mothers Program: eligibility
Deletes the current six-month residency requirement for eligibility for the Access for Infants and Mothers program.
Vetoed

AB 1434* (Dymally-D) Medi-Cal: home health care services
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to implement a rate-setting system, subject to federal approval, for home health agencies. The new rates are to reflect realistic costs and services associated with quality home care services.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1456 (Laird-D) Medi-Cal: third party liability
Prohibits the amount paid by Medi-Cal from being considered as evidence of past medical damages or for the purpose of reducing a third party's liability to the beneficiary in any third-party action.
(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 1512 (Torrico-D) Medi-Cal: foster children
Requires expedited disenrollment of a foster child from a County Organized Health System, when that child has received out-of-county placement, to allow the child to be enrolled in Medi-Cal fee-for-service or managed care in the county where the child has been placed.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2007

AB 1541 (Nava-D) Medi-Cal: family planning services
Requires Medi-Cal to provide comprehensive family planning services to eligible beneficiaries, and codifies a requirement that all Medi-Cal family planning services conform to the current statutory definitions provided under the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment Program waiver.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1635 (Strickland-R) Medi-Cal: health opportunity accounts project
Requires the Department of Health Services to submit a proposal to the federal government to participate in the federal Medicaid Demonstration Project for Health Opportunity Accounts, created pursuant to the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1642* (Hancock-D) Medi-Cal: noncontract hospitals
Makes a hospital providing Medi-Cal services on a noncontractual basis (referred to as a noncontract hospital) eligible to receive Medi-Cal reimbursement if it is an affiliate of a nonprofit health care service plan, is approved in accordance with the standards of the California Children's Services (CCS) program, and is providing medically necessary services for treatment of the CCS-eligible condition of a patient.
Chapter 418, Statutes of 2007

AB 1750* (Assembly Health Committee) Health
Makes various minor, technical, and non-substantive changes in law related to health care service plans and health insurers, the operations of the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, and the Medi-Cal program. Double-jointed with SB 449 (Aanestad), Chapter 578, Statutes of 2007.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2007

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Mental Health

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SB 568 (Wiggins-D) Criminal procedure: mental competence
Defines "treatment facilities" to include a county jail for the sole purpose of administering antipsychotic medication pursuant to a court order. Upon the concurrence of the county board of supervisors, the county mental health director, and the county sheriff, the jail may be used to provide medically approved medication to defendants found to be mentally incompetent and unable to provide informed consent due to a mental disorder, pursuant to this chapter. In the case of Madera, Napa, and Santa Clara Counties, the concurrence shall be with the board of supervisors, the county mental health director, and the county sheriff or the chief of corrections, and states the maximum period of time a defendant may be given antipsychotic medications in a county jail "treatment facility" shall not exceed six months.
Chapter 556, Statutes of 2007

SB 785 (Steinberg-D) Mental health services: foster children
Facilitates the access to mental health services for children who are placed outside of the original county of jurisdiction, including those being adopted or entering into a guardianship with a relative.
Chapter 469, Statutes of 2007

SB 851 (Steinberg-D) Mentally ill offenders
Authorizes superior courts to develop and implement mental health courts, as specified, which may operate a pre-guilty plea program and deferred entry of judgment program, and allows parolee participation in mental health court, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 866* (Runner-R) Mental health: sex offenders
Appropriates $12.5 million from the General Fund to the Department of Mental Health to cover the current year cost of the Sexually Violent Predator program. Provides that any funds not expended by 6/30/07 will revert to the General Fund.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2007

AB 203* (Assembly Budget Committee) Health care
Implements the Health budget trailer bill containing revisions relating to mental health.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2007

AB 386 (Benoit-R) Sexually violent predator proceedings: release notification
Allows an inmate who is found not to be a sexually violent predator to be retained in custody for 90 days beyond the expiration of his/her term of commitment.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 509 (Hayashi-D) Suicide prevention
Requires the Department of Mental Health to establish the Office of Suicide Prevention for the purpose of instituting a statewide suicide prevention strategy, to collect and disseminate information on best practices and suicidal death data, and to develop suicide prevention training standards.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 539 (Blakeslee-R) State mental health system
Requires the Director of the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the United States Department of Homeland Security, under which the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement trains, certifies, and authorizes designated DMH personnel to perform certain immigration processing functions.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1640 (La Malfa-R) Mental incapacity
Deletes various offensive terms relating to mental incompetence and replaces them with the term "mentally incapacitated." Deletes the terms "idiot," "imbecility" and "lunatics," as currently used in reference to mentally incompetent persons in various California statutes dealing with such issues as wharf construction, workers' compensation, and the capacity for committing a crime, and replaces them with the term "mentally incapacitated."
Chapter 31, Statutes of 2007

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Developmentally Disabled

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SB 527 (Steinberg-D) Autism spectrum disorders: screening
Requires pediatricians and primary care physicians to routinely evaluate children under age five for symptoms of autistic spectrum disorders and to inform parents regarding developmental disabilities and potential treatment, and directs the Department of Developmental Services to implement autistic diagnostic guidelines to the degree practicable.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 633 (Alquist-D) Persons with disabilities
Authorizes a private hospital to post its hospital discharge planning policy and to provide specified patients with information relating to community-based long-term care options.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2007

SB 725 (Alquist-D) Agnews Developmental Center closure: outpatient clinic
Requires the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) to continue to provide the specialized health and dental services available through the clinic at the Agnews Developmental Center after the center is closed and until the property is no longer the responsibility of DDS.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 747 (Corbett-D) Disabled persons: equal access rights
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that will promote increased compliance by businesses to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, state laws that govern access to public facilities, and federal and state regulations adopted pursuant to those laws, through education and certification programs, with the complementary goal of reducing litigation that seeks attorney's fees and damages without facilitating compliance with those laws.
(At Assembly Desk)

SB 905 (Runner-R) Physically disabled: service dogs
Revises the definition of "service dog" for purposes of the law relative to housing discrimination to those physically disabled persons using the services of a service dog.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SCR 42 (Steinberg-D) Autism Awareness Month
Proclaims April 2007 as Autism Awareness Month, and acknowledges the contributions made in the area of early autism and autism spectrum disorders intervention treatment.
Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 2007

SCR 55 (Perata-D) Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism
Extends the termination date of the authorization to act of the Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism from 11/30/07 to 11/30/08.
Resolution Chapter 127, Statutes of 2007

SCR 66 (Wyland-R) QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge Commemorative Week
Declares the week of 10/20/07 to 10/28/07 to be QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge Commemorative Week.
Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2007

AB 18 (Blakeslee-R) Disabled persons: election documents
Establishes the Warren Mattingly Signature Stamp Act, allowing a disabled person who is unable to write to use a signature stamp to sign a document whenever a signature is required by an elections-related document.
Chapter 485, Statutes of 2007

AB 203* (Assembly Budget Committee) Health care: budget trailer bill
Implements the Health budget trailer bill, containing revisions to statutes relating to developmentally disabled.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2007

AB 237 (Strickland-R) Developmental disabilities
Increases a continuous appropriation from the Medical Providers Interim Fund, from $2 billion to $4 billion, for use by Medi-Cal providers between July 1 and September 1 in any year during which a state budget has not been passed by June 30.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 322* (Anderson-R) Area agencies on aging and independent living centers
Establishes a continuous appropriation from the Federal Trust Fund for two programs serving the elderly and disabled when the state budget has not been enacted by July 1.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 463 (Huffman-D) Vehicles: disabled persons: parking
Allows a vehicle equipped with a lift, ramp, or assistive equipment used to load a disabled person to park across two stalls on a street or in a private off-street parking facility when no suitability-sized parking space is available.
Chapter 387, Statutes of 2007

AB 825 (Silva-R) Developmental disabilities
Requires a regional center or state developmental center to disclose specified information and records to certain employees of a school district or county office of education, as provided, when disclosure is necessary for a regional center or state developmental center to perform its official duties under existing law.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 910 (Karnette-D) Disabled persons: health insurance
Expands the eligibility criteria under which health plans and insurers must continue coverage for dependents that reach a limiting age--for example, an age when a child is no longer considered a dependent for insurance purposes--and requires health plans and insurers to follow notice requirements regarding dependent coverage termination.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2007

AB 1031 (Levine-D) Developmental services
Creates the Lanterman Accessible and Affordable Housing Program within the Department of Developmental Services, an accessible and affordable housing program for the development of community-based housing for persons with developmental disabilities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1128 (Evans-D) Developmental services: Blue-Ribbon Commission
Establishes a Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act Working Group to study and investigate updating the Lanterman Act and make recommendations to the Legislature.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1184 (Lieber-D) Closure of Agnews Developmental Center: advisory task force
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to establish an advisory task force of current and former residents of Agnews Developmental Center and their families to advise and monitor the transition of current consumers.
Vetoed

AB 1192 (Evans-D) Developmental services: consumer abuse registry
Requires the establishment of a registry of providers and others against whom one or more reports of abuse of a Department of Developmental Services consumer have been substantiated, and requires the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency to designate a department in state government, under its jurisdiction, to be responsible for overseeing the registry and the investigation and substantiation of any allegations of abuse.
Vetoed

AB 1402 (Evans-D) Individual program plan meetings: recordation
Permits the recording of Individual Program Plan meetings upon request by a consumer, and requires that regional centers and vendors post a web link to the Department of Developmental Services' web page on appeal information.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 2007

AB 1427 (Krekorian-D) Developmental services: training pilot program
Creates a developmental services training pilot program for participating agencies to improve the use of recognized training resources for direct support workers in consumer-directed developmental services.
Vetoed

AB 1531 (DeSaulnier-D) Vehicles: disabled parking
Raises the fine for illegally parking in a space reserved for disabled persons. Requires disabled parking spaces to be signed indicating the minimum fine for violations. Allows temporary placards to be renewed no more than six times.
Chapter 413, Statutes of 2007

AB 1704 (La Malfa-R) Developmental services
Makes various changes to the rate structure for the Department of Developmental Services and the Department of Rehabilitation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

HR 11 (Nava-D) Autism Awareness Month
Declares April 2007 as Autism Awareness Month. States the Legislature's support for funding and research of autism. Stresses the need for early intervention services.
Adopted by the Assembly

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Tobacco Products

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SB 4 (Oropeza-D) Smoking ban: state beaches
Prohibits smoking on any state coastal beach or state park unit except in adjacent parking lots. A violation of this section is an infraction and punishable by a $250 fine. Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation, or another state agency, to develop and post signs to provide notice of the smoking prohibition. New signs could only be posted when existing signs are being replaced.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 7 (Oropeza-D) Smoking in vehicles with minor passengers
Makes it an infraction for a person to smoke a cigar, cigarette, or pipe in a vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, in which there is a minor.
Chapter 425, Statutes of 2007

SB 24 (Torlakson-D) Tobacco product environmental smoke: fee
Establishes a fee to be paid at retail by consumers of cigars and cigarettes based on the amount and impact of environmental smoke, also known as secondhand smoke, released during smoking of cigarettes and cigars. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt regulations to establish specific fees per cigar and cigarette to be assessed.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 295* (Cogdill-R) Cigarettes and tobacco products
Corrects a code reference error in the Tobacco Products Tax Law, thereby clarifying the definition of "untaxed tobacco product" and ensuring that distributors are not subject to double taxation.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2007

SB 624 (Padilla-D) Tobacco products: minors
Increases the civil penalties under the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act and expands the agencies that are permitted to carry out investigations of illegal tobacco sales to minors under the STAKE Act, from the Department of Public Health to include the Attorney General and other state and local agencies.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2007

SB 625 (Padilla-D) Cigarette and tobacco product retailers: license fees
Establishes a $100 reinstatement fee upon retailers that engage in the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products in this state but fail to renew the necessary licenses.
Chapter 654, Statutes of 2007

SB 950 (Corbett-D) Tobacco manufacturers and importers
Requires cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers and importers to report to the Department of Public Health the added ingredients and nicotine yield for their individual products.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)

SCA 13 (Torlakson-D) Cigarettes: taxation
Proposes to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Section 37 to Article XIII thereof, relating to taxation.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 647 (Salas-D) Tobacco use programs
Consolidates three existing grant programs administered by the California Department of Education for tobacco education programs into one competitive grant process, beginning 1/1/09.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2007

AB 1585 (Lieber-D) Tobacco products: nonsale distribution
Includes gift certificates, gift cards, or other similar offers, coupon or coupon offers, in the definition of nonsale distribution, or giving away at no or nominal cost, of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco, which is prohibited in public places by anyone in the business of selling or distributing smokeless tobacco or cigarettes.
Chapter 445, Statutes of 2007

AB 1617 (DeSaulnier-D) Tobacco products
Prohibits transportation of cigarettes to persons in California except when such shipments are made either to an entity licensed by the Board of Equalization for tobacco transactions or to certain other specified entities. Also broadens the definition of "bidis," a prohibited tobacco product.
Vetoed

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Health Facilities

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SB 22 (Migden-D) Breast-feeding
Requires the Department of Public Health to recommend training for general acute care hospitals and special hospitals, as defined, to improve breast-feeding rates among mothers and infants.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2007

SB 171 (Perata-D) Hospitals: lift teams
Requires general acute care hospitals to establish a patient protection and health care worker back injury prevention plan that includes identifying patients needing lift teams, and lift, repositioning, or transfer devices.
Vetoed

SB 208 (Runner-R) Correctional treatment center license fees
Exempts county-operated correctional treatment centers from state licensing and inspection fees.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 211 (Cox-R) Seismic safety: application filing fees
Expands the circumstances under which a hospital construction plan application filing fee may be postponed to include any event, not just seismic, that has been declared to be a disaster by the Governor.
Chapter 429, Statutes of 2007

SB 261 (Romero-D) The Trauma Care Fund: state regional trauma system
Requires the California Emergency Medical Services Agency to establish a statewide trauma registry.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 275 (Cedillo-D) Health facilities: patient transporting
Prohibits a general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, or special hospital from causing a patient to be transported to a location other than the patient's residence or another health facility without the patient's written consent, as specified; establishes penalties for violation of the prohibition; authorizes the Attorney General, a district attorney, or a city attorney, as specified, to bring a civil action against the health facility; and directs the Department of Public Health to consider specified enforcement actions if it determines that a hospital has violated the prohibition.
Vetoed

SB 306 (Ducheny-D) Health facilities: seismic safety
Permits a hospital owner to comply with seismic safety deadlines and requirements in current law by replacing all of its buildings subject to seismic retrofit by 1/1/20, rather than retrofitting by 2013, and then replacing them by 2030, if the hospital owner meets specified conditions.
Chapter 642, Statutes of 2007

SB 350 (Runner-R) Hospitals: discount payment and charity care policies
Makes technical and clarifying changes to existing law dealing with hospital charity care and discount payment policies. Establishes time limits for patients to apply and for hospitals to make determinations of their eligibility. Clarifies implementation of a patient extended payment plan, including payment plan renegotiation, inoperability, and reporting to credit agencies.
Chapter 347, Statutes of 2007

SB 400* (Corbett-D) Medi-Cal: federally qualified health centers
Clarifies, and makes specific, existing authority for federally qualified health centers (FQHC) to provide and bill Medi-Cal for services to FQHC patients at nonclinic locations. Requires that written prescriptions for drugs under the Medi-Cal program be written on tamper-resistant prescription forms.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 462* (Torlakson-D) Hospice providers: hospice licensed beds
Facilitates provisions of inpatient hospice services in free-standing health facilities by creating a new licensed bed category.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 474 (Kuehl-D) Medi-Cal: hospital demonstration project funding
Makes several changes to the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act, commonly referred to as the Hospital Financing Waiver, and establishes the South Los Angeles Medical Services Preservation Fund to which $100 million of safety net care pool funds will be deposited per year for the project years 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10, for the purpose of funding health services for the uninsured population of South Los Angeles.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2007

SB 530 (Dutton-R) Alcohol and drug treatment facilities: location
Provides that it is the policy of the state to prevent overconcentration of licensed substance abuse treatment facilities, defines "overconcentration" as occurring when facilities are separated by a distance of 300 feet or less, and establishes a process for providing notice to, and receiving input from, affected cities and counties on license decisions by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 535 (Kuehl-D) Long-term health care facilities
Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and maintain an online long-term care facility consumer information system to be available by 3/1/08. Requires the posting of all complaint data from the last three survey cycles, including outcome, nature of complaint, and date of investigation, and requires the posting of all state and federal deficiencies and enforcement sanctions from the last three survey cycles.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 633 (Alquist-D) Persons with disabilities
Authorizes a private hospital to post its hospital discharge planning policy and to provide specified patients with information relating to community-based long-term care options.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2007

SB 743 (Kuehl-D) Hospitals: medical errors
Requires each general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, and special hospital to conduct an assessment of its processes for detecting, reporting, and remediating preventable medical errors and to prepare and update a plan for reducing the prevalence of preventable medical errors.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 757 (Ridley-Thomas-D) CA Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish, until 1/1/14, a Community Supplemental Education Demonstration Grant Program and a Telemedicine Demonstration Grant Program, meeting certain requirements, with all funding for the programs coming from the moneys repaid to the California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund (Fund) from the moneys loaned by the Fund to the General Fund in the annual Budget Act of 2003. Awards under the grant programs will be for the purpose of providing advanced telecommunications network services to community technology programs and to public libraries that deliver supplemental education services to pupils, and to health care facilities that provide telemedicine services.
(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 891 (Correa-D) Health facilities: coronary intervention
Establishes the Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Pilot Program in the Department of Public Health, which authorizes certain eligible acute care hospitals that are licensed to provide cardiac catheterization laboratory service in California, and that meet prescribed, additional criteria to perform scheduled elective primary percutaneous coronary intervention, as defined, for patients at low to medium risk.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 894 (Ducheny-D) Nonprofit health facility
Allows the Attorney General to withhold consent to a nonprofit health facility transaction in which the nonprofit seller has failed to either market the transaction aggressively or to set aside a portion of the net proceeds of the agreement for the benefit of the affected community.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 916 (Yee-D) Acute psychiatric hospitals
Extends to acute psychiatric hospitals civil and criminal immunity related to the detention and release of individuals that are a harm to themselves or others or gravely disabled, and extends, from eight to 24 hours, the period of time that individuals can be detained in such hospitals, providing the hospital has not been designated by a county to conduct psychiatric evaluations, pursuant to Section 5150 of the Lanterman-Petris Short Act, and specifies the conditions that must be met for the immunity to be granted.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2007

SB 992 (Wiggins-D) Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
Creates a licensure category for adult recovery maintenance facilities (ARMFs), which are designed to help individuals maintain their newly acquired drug and alcohol sobriety, to be regulated and enforced by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Expresses legislative intent that the licensure and regulation of ARMFs is a matter of statewide concern.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1000 (Harman-R) Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP) to license adult recovery maintenance facilities (ARMFs), and applies many of the existing alcohol and drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities licensure requirements to ARMFs. Requires registration with DADP of sober-living homes with facilities. Enacts a variety of provisions to increase local authority over licensed facilities and sober-living homes. Establishes a variety of administrative procedures related to certification of substance abuse programs by DADP.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 6X (Runner-R) Hospitals: preventative medical services
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that allows hospitals to offer preventative medical services delivered through the hospital's primary care or community-based clinic.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 9X (Runner-R) Medi-Cal: clinic funding
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that permits specified federal funds to be used for the creation of new, and the expansion of existing, clinics.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 12X (Runner-R) Health care providers: incentives: legislative intent
Declares the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that establishes incentives for health care providers, including hospitals, clinics, physician groups, physicians, health care service plans, and health insurers, that are designed to improve the quality of health and medical services for health care consumers in this state.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 13X (Maldonado-R) Health care technology systems: tax credit: loans
Requires the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to establish a low-interest loan program to provide any participating health institution, health facility, hospital, long-term care facility, or licensed physician and surgeon with financing for the costs of purchasing a health care information technology system, as defined. Requires the Authority, by 1/1/10, and on an annual basis thereafter, to provide a report on the status and utilization of this loan program to the Assembly Health Committee and the Senate Health Committee.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 15X (Cogdill-R) Health facility financing: appeals procedure
Declares the intent of the Legislature to establish an appeals procedure for health facility projects that are denied financing by the California Health Facility Financing Authority.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 22X (Battin-R) For-profit clinic facility financing: revenue bonds
Amends the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act and authorizes the authority to issue additional revenue bonds in an unspecified amount for the purpose of providing similar loans for financing construction, as defined, of for-profit clinic facilities, as defined. Establishes the For-Profit Clinic Facility Construction Account within the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Fund for deposit of the proceeds from the issuance of these bonds, and continuously appropriates those funds to the authority for the purposes of this bill.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 10 (De La Torre-D) Children's Hospital Bond Act of 2008
Enacts the Children's Hospital Bond Act which, if adopted by voters, authorizes $980 million in general obligation bonds, to be repaid from the state's General Fund, to fund grants to eligible children's hospitals for the construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing, and equipping of children's hospitals.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 13 (Brownley-D) Hospitals: staffing
Requires, effective 1/1/10, each general acute care, acute psychiatric, and specialty hospital to adopt and annually review a plan or procedure for determining the staffing of non-nurse professional and technical personnel covered under hospital building standards and Department of Health Services (DHS) hospital staffing regulations. Requires DHS to review the plan or procedure as well as the hospital's compliance with it during surveys for compliance with state or federal statutes or regulations. Authorizes the Director of DHS to levy administrative penalties for violations. Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to conduct a comprehensive study that identifies the needs for hospital and health facility non-nurse professional and technical staffing and to report its findings to the Legislature and the Governor by 12/31/08.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 52 (Dymally-D) Health facilities: Office of Hospital Patient Advocate
Establishes the Office of Hospital Patient Advocate (OHPA) within the Department of Public Health (DPH). The mission of the OHPA is to help patients secure quality hospital care. Requires the Hospital Patient Advocate to be appointed by the Governor and to complete specified duties. Requires DPH to establish and maintain a toll-free number and web site for receiving complaints related to certain health facilities, and requires the operating budget of the OHPA to be established in the annual Budget Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 55* (Dymally-D) Los Angeles County Hospital Authority
Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to establish, by ordinance, a hospital authority for the management, administration, and control of the Martin Luther King Jr. Harbor Medical Center, as specified, and requires medical center employees to be considered employees of the county, as provided.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 106 (Berg-D) Immunizations
Requires each general acute care hospital to offer, prior to discharge, immunizations for influenza and pneumococcal disease to inpatients, 65 years of age and older, between October 1 and April 1 of each year, based upon the adult immunization recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and recommendations of appropriate entities for the prevention, detection, and control of influenza outbreaks in California general acute care hospitals.
Chapter 378, Statutes of 2007

AB 113 (Beall-D) Hospitals: emergency medical services: reduction/elimination
Authorizes a county board of supervisors to designate a general acute care hospital as an "essential community facility" (ECF), and creates certain authorizations and requirements related to the ECF designation. Defines an ECF as a hospital that has been determined by the county as essential in promoting the public health and safety. Prohibits a county-owned hospital from being designated as an ECF. Requires an ECF hospital that provides emergency medical services and plans to reduce or eliminate services to notify local health authorities and all health plans that contract with the hospital 180 days in advance of a reduction or closure. Requires an ECF hospital to furnish a performance bond in an amount determined by the county board. A performance bond provided, pursuant to this bill, must be issued by specified insurance companies, pursuant to state and federal law, and requires a hospital that fails to provide the 180 days notice, required by this bill, to provide funds supported by a bond to the county to mitigate the impact of the hospital's closure on the community.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 203* (Assembly Budget Committee) Health care: budget trailer bill
Implements the Health budget trailer bill containing revisions relating to health facilities.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2007

AB 214 (Fuentes-D) Long-term health care facilities: dialysis services
Allows a chronic dialysis clinic to provide services to residents of a long-term health care facility on the premises of that facility, pursuant to a written agreement between the facility and the chronic dialysis clinic, and applies to the services authorized, pursuant to the bill, state standards of personnel, equipment, recordkeeping, and water quality that apply to licensed dialysis clinics. Allows the Department of Public Health to adopt additional requirements if it determines that they are needed.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 304 (Huff-R) Community care residential care facilities
Requires that community care facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly which are licensed, or have a special permit for specialized services, provide a copy of their disaster and mass casualty plan to the fire department, law enforcement agencies, and civil defense and other disaster authorities in the area in which the facility is located, upon request by the entity. Provides that the provision setting forth criminal penalties for violating rules or regulations promulgated under the Community Care Facilities Act do not apply to this bill.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2007

AB 327 (Horton-R) Residential facilities
Requires the Department of Social Service, in consultation with, and with the assistance of, the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Mental Health, and other appropriate state and local agencies, to establish and maintain a statewide computerized database that includes, among other things, all community care facilities except foster family homes and homes certified by foster family agencies, and alcoholism and drug abuse treatment and recovery facilities, including identifying services provided by existing licensed and unlicensed residential programs.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 330 (Hayashi-D) Health disparity report
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in conjunction with the Health and Human Services Agency, to develop a health disparity report by 1/1/09, based on patient hospital discharge data.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 364 (Berg-D) Discharge policy: preadmission screening
Requires that a hospital discharge policy inform patients of the availability of home and community-based options prior to discharge. Requires that prior to a transfer of an older adult patient to any skilled nursing facility, the patient be assessed by a preadmission screening to ensure the appropriateness of the proposed skilled nursing facility placement.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 371 (Huffman-D) Health facilities
Requires hospitals applying for tax-exempt public bond financing to have a worker injury prevention plan which includes a zero patient lift policy.
(At Assembly Desk)

AB 398 (Feuer-D) Long-term health care facilities: information
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish and maintain an online consumer inquiry system, to provide specified information to the public regarding long-term care facilities.
Vetoed

AB 399 (Feuer-D) Long-term health care facilities
Establishes a 40-day timeframe for the Department of Public Health (DPH) to complete a long-term care facility compliant investigation. Requires DPH to include, in the written determination of the investigation, specific findings and a summary of the evidence upon which the determination is made. Provides a complainant additional time to request an informal conference upon receipt of the determination of the investigation.
Vetoed

AB 411 (Emmerson-R) Residential care facilities: over-concentration
Permits a city or county to submit to the Director of the Department of Social Services information regarding the proposed location of residential care facilities with six or fewer residents. Allows the Director to suggest the applicant find an alternate location for the facility if he/she finds the submitted information compelling.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 520 (Brownley-D) Hospitals: staffing
Requires hospitals to adopt and annually review a plan for determining staffing levels for certain non-nursing professional and technical personnel.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 543 (Plescia-R) Surgical clinics: licensure
Establishes licensing requirements for surgical clinics, and requires, effective 1/1/08, that all surgical clinics meet specified operating and staffing standards.
Vetoed

AB 549 (Adams-R) Prevailing wages: exemption: hospital seismic retrofitting
Excludes any hospital seismic retrofitting project from the prevailing wage requirements of current law.
(In Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 570 (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal reimbursement: intermediate care facilities
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to review the cost-reporting, audit, and rate-setting requirements for intermediate care facilities caring for persons with developmental disabilities, and to implement appropriate changes in the Medi-Cal intermediate care facility rates and rate development process.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 632 (Salas-D) Health care facilities: whistleblower protections
Establishes protections, similar to those in existing law for employees and patients, for medical staff and other health care workers who file complaints or grievances concerning a licensed health care facility, or who initiate or participate in an investigation or proceeding related to the quality of care, services, or conditions at the facility.
Chapter 683, Statutes of 2007

AB 661 (Berg-D) Medi-Cal: hospitals
Requires critical access hospitals to be reimbursed based on allowable costs for Medi-Cal covered outpatient services.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 724 (Benoit-R) Sober living homes
Provides a definition of a "sober living" home, which is defined as a residential property which operates as a cooperative living arrangement, to provide an alcohol and drug free environment for persons recovering from alcoholism or drug abuse, or both, who seek a living environment in which to remain clean and sober, and which meets other specified requirements.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 749 (Berg-D) Residential care facilities: elderly
Allows a residential care facility for the elderly to admit or retain, as a resident, a person who is a hospice patient.
(At Senate Desk)

AB 752 (Dymally-D) Medi-Cal: hospital funding
Allows the Department of Health Care Services to continue distributing stabilization funding to designated public hospitals for the three remaining project years of the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act, as established by SB 1100 (Perata and Ducheny), Chapter 560, Statutes of 2005.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2007

AB 759 (Karnette-D) Residential care facilities
Requires every residential care facility for the elderly that is licensed to care for not more than six residents to have an approved, operable automatic fire sprinkler system.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 782 (Berg-D) Long-term health care facilities
Addresses a number of issues related to oversight of long-term care facilities, licensed by the Department of Public Health Licensing and Certification Division.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 827 (Hancock-D) Adult day health care
Requires applicants for certification as an adult day care center provider to complete a pre-application process prior to submitting an application for certification.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 949 (Krekorian-D) Residential care facilities: elderly care
Establishes procedures and duties for a residential care facility for the elderly prior to transferring a resident to another facility or living arrangement as a result of forfeiture or change of use of the facility.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2007

AB 978* (Benoit-R) Care facilities
Establishes standards and timelines for enforcing serious health and safety violations at community care facilities.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1022 (Saldana-D) Continuing care home service
Establishes a category of continuing care home programs in which services are provided to elderly persons in their own residences by continuing care retirement communities, and exempts the residences from licensing provisions applicable to residential care facilities.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1142 (Salas-D) Hospice care
Requires the Department of Public Health to select and distribute end-of-life and palliative care model programs to nursing home and residential care for the elderly facilities.
Vetoed

AB 1174 (Keene-R) Hospital districts
Modifies the current sunset on the authority of the Eastern Plumas Health Care District to obtain and be issued a consolidated license to operate a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that is located on the campus of the Sierra Valley District Hospital.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2007

AB 1175* (Niello-R) Clinical laboratories: personnel
Allows, rather than requires, a clinical laboratory director to appoint a licensed designee to perform validation and documentation of the accuracy and reliability of the results of the autoverified laboratory tests or examinations.
Chapter 61, Statutes of 2007

AB 1203 (Salas-D) Health care service plans: hospital contract cancellation
Requires a general acute care hospital to orally notify a health care service plan within three days, of the number of enrollees who are patients when that hospital cancels its contract as a result of an acquisition.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1304 (Smyth-R) Hospital seismic retrofit
Deems all submissions by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to the California Building Standards Commission pertaining to specified hospital seismic safety reporting requirements to be emergency regulations until 1/1/09.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1384 (Price-D) Health facilities: public notice
Requires every general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital to provide public notice, as specified, at least 60 days prior to the planned date of the closure of the facility, the reduction or elimination of the level of health services provided by the facility, or the lease, sale, or transfer of management of the facility. Requires these hospitals to provide a report on this change within 18 months of its occurrence.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1397 (Soto-D) Long-term health care facilities
Requires the Department of Public Health to post on its web site the specified information regarding funds in the State Health Facilities Citations Penalties Account and the Federal Health Facilities Citations Penalties Account.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2007

AB 1442 (Feuer-D) Clinical laboratories
Requires clinical laboratories that perform tests to screen for human immunodeficiency virus, that are classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory and Improvement Amendments of 1988, to enroll in a proficiency testing program and to obtain the appropriate license or registration from the Department of Public Health, as specified.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

AB 1468 (Garrick-R) Hospitals: patient data
Revises the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development data reporting requirements for hospitals by adding the data field "citizenship status" to the Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1558 (Soto-D) Community care facilities: licenses information system
Requires the Director of the Department of Social Services (DSS) to maintain and update the community care facilities automated licenses information system, authorizes inclusion of administrative or court actions against any facility or staff, and requires DSS to make the public information available by prescribed dates, as specified.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1642* (Hancock-D) Medi-Cal: noncontract hospitals
Makes a hospital providing Medi-Cal services on a noncontractual basis (referred to as a noncontract hospital) eligible to receive Medi-Cal reimbursement if it is an affiliate of a nonprofit health care service plan, is approved in accordance with the standards of the California Children's Services (CCS) program, and is providing medically necessary services for treatment of the CCS-eligible condition of a patient.
Chapter 418, Statutes of 2007

AB 1669 (Leno-D) Crime victims: trauma center grants
Requires the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to administer a program and award grants up to $3 million per year from Restitution Fund monies for trauma centers, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 1749* (Dymally-D) Private nonprofit university medical education project
Revises a certain California Educational Facilities Financing Authority procedure for a project seeking financing during a period in 2006 when statute revised that procedure.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 2007

AJR 1 (Dymally-D) Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Respectfully memorializes the Congress and President of the United States to enact legislation to allow the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science to become a fully and legally designated Historically Black College and University and a Historically Black Graduate Institution, as those terms are defined in the federal Higher Education Act of 1965.
Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2007

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Health Professionals

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SB 102 (Migden-D) Blood transfusions
Allows a nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, or a physician assistant, who is authorized to order a blood transfusion, to provide patients with written documentation of the positive and negative aspects of receiving a blood transfusion and to note on the patient's medical record that a standardized written summary was given to the patient.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2007

SB 136 (Cedillo-D) Acupuncture: Tui Na
Deletes the term "Asian massage" and instead authorizes the holder of an acupuncturist's license to perform or prescribe the use of Tui Na, defined as a hands-on body treatment that uses pressure techniques, including myofascial release, and manual therapy, as specified.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 139 (Scott-D) Nursing education
Establishes the Health Care Workforce Clearinghouse within the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to serve as the central source of health care workforce and educational data in the state. Makes other changes relating to nursing education and student loans.
Chapter 522, Statutes of 2007

SB 238 (Aanestad-R) Medi-Cal
Includes in the definition of a federally qualified health center (FQHC) and rural health center (RHC) "visit" a face-to-face encounter between an FQHC or RHC patient and a dental hygienist or a dental hygienist in alternative practice. Establishes processes for FQHCs and RHCs to bill Medi-Cal for dental hygienist visits.
Chapter 638, Statutes of 2007

SB 252 (Aanestad-R) Dentistry: registered sex offenders
Requires the Dental Board of California to deny an application for licensure or renewal, or revoke the license, of an individual who is required to register as a sex offender, as defined, with specified exceptions.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2007

SB 254 (Ashburn-R) Emergency medical services: licensure
Revises and recasts provisions to require, as of 1/1/09, the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) to be responsible for establishing statewide standards for EMT-Is and EMT-IIs, and to require the authority and local Emergency Medical Services agencies to be jointly responsible for the implementation and enforcement of statewide licensure and discipline of EMT-Is and EMT-IIs, pursuant to regulations adopted by the EMSA. Requires all applicants for EMT-I and EMT-II licensure to have a state and federal criminal history background check.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 366 (Aanestad-R) Clinical laboratories: personnel
Repeals the sunset date of the statute that permits cytotechnologists that examine gynecological slides using an automated or semi-automated screening device to continue adhering to the workload standards established by the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments.
Chapter 198, Statutes 2007

SB 387 (Alquist-D) Dentists: death or incapacity
Allows specified individuals (legal representative, executor or administrator of the estate, trustee of a special trust) to take control of the dental practice of a dentist who has been incapacitated or who has died, for the purpose of an orderly disposition of the dental practice. Under specified conditions, allows these individuals to hire or contract with a licensed dentist to continue providing care to patients of the dental practice for a period of no longer than 12 months.
Chapter 433, Statutes of 2007

SB 472 (Corbett-D) Prescription drugs: labeling requirements
Requires the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations that require a standardized, patient-centered, prescription drug label on all prescription medication dispensed to patients in California.
Chapter 470, Statutes of 2007

SB 534 (Perata-D) Dentistry: dental assistants and hygienists
Abolishes the Committee on Dental Auxiliaries (Committee), creates the Dental Hygiene Committee of California (Board), and extends the sunset date of the Dental Board of California three years. Transfers the regulation of dental hygienists to the Committee, and transfers the regulation of Registered Dental Assistants (RDAs) to the Board. Authorizes the Committee to license and regulate dental hygienists, and stipulates the composition of the Committee to consist of four public members, four dental hygienists and one dentist. Creates within the Board a standing Dental Assisting Committee to advise the Board on issues relating to RDAs, establishes criteria for licensure by the Committee of Registered Dental Hygienists (RDHs), Registered Dental Hygienists in Alternative Practice (RDHAPs), and Registered Dental Hygienists in Extended Functions (RDHEFs), and sets forth that Committee's functions, including issuing, reviewing, and revoking licenses, developing and administering examinations, and determining fees and education programs and continuing education requirements for RDHs, RDHAPs, and RDHEFs.
Vetoed

SB 557 (Wiggins-D) Audiologists: workers' compensation
Adds clinical audiologists to the list of medical professions eligible for appointment as a qualified medical evaluator (QME), as long as all of the following requirements are met: (1) the individual holds a doctoral of audiology (Au.D) degree or a Ph.D., or both, in an audiology-related profession from a university training program recognized by the Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Board and is licensed by the Board; (2) has no less than five years postdoctoral in the practice of audiology; (3) passed the examination demonstrating competence in evaluating medical-legal issues in the workers' compensation system prior to his/her appointment as a QME; and (4) when acting as a QME, bases the diagnosis portion of the QME report on the diagnosis made by a physician who is licensed in the state to practice medicine.
Vetoed

SB 583 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Emergency medical technicians: certificates: discipline
Limits the disciplinary actions local emergency agencies may take against Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) employed by public safety agencies and establishes an alternative system. Requires the state Emergency Medical System Authority to develop specified procedures for review of EMT discipline, and authorizes local Emergency Medical Services agencies to confirm or impose EMT disciplinary actions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 615 (Oropeza-D) Pharmacy technicians: scholarship and loan repayment program
Establishes the California Pharmacy Technician Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program to provide scholarships to pharmacy technician students, and educational loan repayments for pharmacy technicians, who provide services in medically underserved areas.
Vetoed

SB 620 (Correa-D) Dentistry: general anesthesia
Repeals the 1/1/08 sunset date, thereby extending indefinitely the current law authorizing a physician and surgeon to administer general anesthesia to a dental patient in the office of a dentist who does not possess a general anesthesia permit if the physician and surgeon holds a valid general anesthesia permit issued by the Dental Board of California.
Chapter 210, Statutes of 2007

SB 661 (Maldonado-R) Healing arts: anatomic pathology services
Requires direct billing of patients or third-party payers by clinical laboratories providing anatomic pathology services, and expressly prohibits a healing arts practitioner from charging, billing, or otherwise soliciting payment for anatomic pathology services if those services were not actually rendered by the practitioner or under his/her direct supervision, except as specified.
Chapter 656, Statutes of 2007

SB 731 (Oropeza-D) Massage therapy
Provides for certification of massage practitioners and massage therapists by the Massage Therapy Organization, a nonprofit organization that meets specified requirements.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 761 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Healing arts: diversion: investigations
Extends the sunset date from 7/1/08 to 7/1/10, for the diversion program for physicians and surgeons with certain impairments (i.e. substance abuse) that may affect their performance. Requires the Division of Medical Quality of the Medical Board of California, that oversees the program, to transition investigators who are peace officers into a higher special agent classification.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 764 (Migden-D) Health care providers
Requires the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to provide physician information to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), and requires OSHPD to prepare a report with projections concerning primary care physicians for the Legislature and the Department of Health Care Services, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 767 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Drug overdose treatment: liability
Confers a conditional immunity from civil liability and criminal prosecution for persons who administer an opioid antagonist with reasonable care under the good faith belief that another person is experiencing a drug overdose, provided that the opioid antagonist was obtained through a licensed health care provider in conjunction with an opioid prevention and treatment training program. Applies to specified counties and sunsets on 1/1/11.
Chapter 477, Statutes of 2007

SB 801 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Chiropractors
Places a legislative proposition on the statewide ballot for approval by the voters to amend the Chiropractic Initiative Act of California to bring the Board of Chiropractic Examiners under the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Vetoed

SB 809 (Ashburn-R) Nurse practitioners
Sets forth the activities that a nurse practitioner is allowed to engage in, and deletes the requirement that the Board of Registered Nursing consult with physicians and surgeons in establishing categories of nurse practitioners.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 812 (Correa-D) Pharmacists: alternative workweek schedules
Provides that pharmacists employed in the mercantile industry are authorized to adopt alternative workweek schedules, as specified.
Chapter 480, Statutes of 2007

SB 822 (Aanestad-R) Psychology
Adds psychology to the qualified immunity provided under current law to medical, dental, podiatric, and veterinary school supervisors, or other persons, who provide information that is intended to aid in the evaluation of students' qualifications, fitness, character, or insurability as healing arts practitioners.
Chapter 36, Statutes of 2007

SB 843 (Calderon-D) Pharmacists: medical information
Specifies that under the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, a pharmacy may make specified communications to a patient, without the patient's authorization, so long as the patient may opt out of receiving those communications.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 906 (Runner-R) Medical providers
Clarifies processing and submission of pharmacy claims and other medical service claims in the workers' compensation system.
Vetoed

SB 907 (Calderon-D) Physicians and surgeons
Provides that it is not unlawful for a physician or surgeon to provide consideration for a referral for an elective cosmetic procedure if specified conditions are met.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 963 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Regulatory boards
Makes each of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) regulatory boards subject to review by a standing policy committee of the Legislature, upon request by a member of the Legislature or the Chief of the Office of the Consumer Advocate, which the bill creates in DCA.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 969 (Aanestad-R) Veterinary medicine
Allows a registered veterinarian technician or an unregistered assistant to administer a drug, including controlled substances, under the direct or indirect supervision, as defined, of a licensed veterinarian.
Chapter 83, Statutes of 2007

SB 981 (Perata-D) Health care coverage
Establishes statutory standards and requirements for claims payment and dispute resolution for non-contracting hospital-based physicians who provide emergency services in a hospital to enrollees of a health care service plan licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 993 (Aanestad-R) Psychologists: scope of practice: prescribing drugs
Revises the Psychology Licensing Law to authorize a "prescribing psychologist," as defined, to prescribe and administer drugs, and requires the Board of Psychology to establish and administer a certification process to grant licensed psychologists the authority to write prescriptions.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1048 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Healing arts
Makes nonsubstantive and technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions pertaining to the health-related regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 588, Statutes of 2007

SB 1049* (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Healing arts
Extends the sunset date for the authorization of the Physical Therapy Board of California to appoint a person, exempt from civil service, to serve as executive officer, from 7/1/07 to 7/1/13, and extends the operative date provision of law governing the educational and examination requirements for licensing registered dental assistants.
Chapter 587, Statutes of 2007

SB 12X (Runner-R) Health care providers: incentives: legislative intent
Declares the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that establishes incentives for health care providers, including hospitals, clinics, physician groups, physicians, health care service plans, and health insurers, that are designed to improve the quality of health and medical services for health care consumers in this state.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 19X (Cogdill-R) Medical corporations
Deletes a prohibition regarding corporations and legal entities having specified rights, and related exceptions, and authorizes corporations and artificial legal entities to have professional rights, privileges, or powers.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 24X (Ashburn-R) Nurse practitioners: scope of practice
Sets forth the activities that a nurse practitioner is authorized to engage in, and deletes the requirement that the Board of Registered Nurses consult with physicians and surgeons in establishing categories of nurse practitioners. Revises the educational requirements for certification as a nurse practitioner, and requires a nurse practitioner to be certified by a nationally recognized certifying body, approved by the Board. Allows a nurse practitioner to prescribe drugs and devices if he/she has been certified by the Board to have satisfactorily completed at least six months of supervised experience in the prescribing of drugs and devices and if such prescribing is consistent with his/her education or established clinical competency. Deletes the requirement for standardized procedures and protocols, and deletes the requirement of physician supervision. Requires that a nurse practitioner be issued a Board number prior to prescribing drugs and devices, and allows revocation or suspension or denial of a Board number for incompetence or gross negligence. Deletes the prohibition against a physician and surgeon supervising more than four nurse practitioners at one time.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 49 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Make It In Scrubs Month
Proclaims June 2007 as Make It In Scrubs Month in order to recognize the importance of encouraging the state's youth to pursue careers in the health care profession and the need to expand health care education programs in the state's universities and colleges.
Resolution Chapter 58, Statutes of 2007

AB 3 (Bass-D) Physician assistants
Creates the California Team Practice Improvement Act, which deletes the prohibition on the authority of a physician assistant to issue a drug order for specified classes of controlled substances, but only if the physician assistant has completed a specified education course. Requires a physician assistant and his/her supervising physician and surgeon to establish written supervisory guidelines and protocols, increases to four the number of physician assistants a physician and surgeon may supervise, and specifies that services provided by a physician assistant are included as covered benefits under the Medi-Cal program.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2007

AB 17* (Emmerson-R) Radiologic technologists
Requires, until 1/1/12, the Department of Public Health, when approving a school for radiologic technologists, to approve a school that it determines has met the requirements in a specified document published by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 64 (Berg-D) Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act
Enacts the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act, which provides procedures to register, in this state, volunteer health practitioners with valid and current licenses in other states. Allows a volunteer to provide, in this state, through a host entity, health or veterinary services, as appropriate, pursuant to his/her license, for the duration of a state, local, or health emergency or a state of war, and requires a host entity, in this state, to coordinate its activities with the Emergency Medical Services Authority, to the extent practicable.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 139 (Bass-D) Medical examinations
Authorizes a licensed advanced practice registered nurse qualified to perform a medical examination, or a licensed physician assistant, to give the medical examination required of an applicant for a certificate to drive a school bus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor vehicle.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2007

AB 163 (Eng-D) Chiropractors
Places a legislative proposition on the statewide ballot for approval by the voters to amend the Chiropractic Initiative Act of California, to bring the Board of Chiropractic Examiners under the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 185 (Dymally-D) Clinical laboratories: personnel
Expands the duties that unlicensed personnel are authorized to perform in a clinical laboratory, and revises the levels of supervision required when unlicensed personnel perform them.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 234 (Eng-D) Family therapists and psychologists
Makes clarifying changes and updates to the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Law, specifies the experience providing psychotherapy services via telemedicine that may count toward licensure, prohibits trainees and interns from renting space or from paying for the obligations of their employer, and clarifies that out-of-state education that may be applied toward licensure shall be gained while residing outside of California.
Chapter 586, Statutes of 2007

AB 249 (Eng-D) Licensees: healing arts: settlement agreements
Prohibits a healing arts professional licensed by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) from including in a civil settlement agreement any gag clause provision that prohibits the other party from contacting or filing a complaint with DCA or the appropriate licensing board.
Vetoed

AB 253 (Eng-D) Medical Board of California
Reduces the membership of the Medical Board of California (MBC) from 21 to 15 members, consisting of eight physicians and seven public members, and eliminates the MBC's Division of Licensing and Division of Medical Quality, instead requiring the MBC, as a whole, to handle the responsibilities of its two divisions.
Chapter 678, Statutes of 2007

AB 269 (Eng-D) Dentists: dental auxiliaries: licensure renewal
Creates new reporting requirements for dentists and dental auxiliaries upon their application for initial licensure and renewal, including reporting their completion of any advanced educational program and their current employment status, and requires the Dental Board of California and the Committee on Dental Auxiliaries to collect and aggregate information received from dentists and dental auxiliaries relating to cultural background and foreign language proficiency.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2007

AB 329 (Nakanishi-R) Chronic diseases: telemedicine
Requires the Medical Board of California (MBC) to establish a pilot program to expand the practice of telemedicine in California, and authorizes the MBC to implement this pilot program by convening a working group.
Chapter 386, Statutes of 2007

AB 342 (Saldana-D) Nurses: pupil health
Reinstates public health nurses to the list of qualified persons allowed to assist individuals with exceptional needs with specialized physical health care services during the regular school day, and allowed to supervise other qualified designated school personnel trained in the administration of specialized physical health care services.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2007

AB 436 (Salas-D) Medical records
Removes the sunset date for the California Office of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) implementation, established by the Governor's Office within the Department of Health and Human Services, and revises the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 573 (Horton-R) Nursing education programs: community colleges
Requires any community college district that offers a nursing education program to students to select the students to be enrolled in that program on the basis of its determination of which of those students possess more of the academic and other pertinent characteristics of a successful nursing student. Prohibits a community college district from using a lottery system, or any other random selection method, for choosing candidates for any nursing education program that it offers.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 606 (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
Provides that, commencing 1/1/08, the reimbursement levels for physician and dental services be increased by 5%.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 623 (Lieu-D) Radiologic technology: radiologist assistants
Requires the Department of Public Health to develop a certification process for radiologist assistants (RAs). Outlines the requirements for certification for RAs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 636 (Levine-D) Acupuncture
Expands the list of techniques which an acupuncturist can use on their patients.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 644 (Dymally-D) Medical treatment utilization
Requires any physician who conducts a medical treatment utilization review, in compliance with workers' compensation, to hold an identical type of license as that of the physician requesting the treatment.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 807 (Hancock-D) Medical treatment: workers' compensation
Specifies that the limits provided under workers' compensation for chiropractic treatment, occupational therapy treatment, and physical therapy will not apply when prescribed as follow-up care after surgery in accordance with evidence-based medical treatment guidelines generally recognized by the national medical community.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 851 (Brownley-D) Pharmacists: prescription drugs
Requires a pharmacist to include a large-print informational insert with any dispensed prescription that poses substantial risk when taken with alcohol or other medication, warning of the risks involved.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 941* (Torrico-D) Emergency medical technicians
Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to maintain a centralized system for monitoring and tracing EMT-I and EMT-II certification status and EMT-P licensure status, to be used by employers and local Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies as part of the background check process, and requires EMS providers to verify that a background check is completed on all EMT-I and EMT-II holders and to submit certification data.
Vetoed

AB 962 (Houston-R) Speech-language pathologists
Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to assess information and barriers relating to the creation of new speech-language pathology assistant training programs.
Chapter 688, Statutes of 2007

AB 986 (Eng-D) Optometrists: regulation
Establishes a retention period for optometrists to maintain patient records, allows the practice of optometry at temporary locations, under certain conditions, increases the amount of fees charged for optometry licensing, and creates new fees to be paid by licensed optometrists for services provided to them by the Board of Optometry.
Chapter 276, Statutes of 2007

AB 1044 (Strickland-R) Optometrists: regulation
Clarifies the specifics for the registration and regulation of optometrists who engage in the "temporary practice" of optometry.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1137 (Eng-D) Chiropractors
Places an initiative statute on the 6/3/08 primary ballot to amend the Chiropractic Initiative Act allowing the Legislature to further amend or modify the Act, and proposes to amend and codify the Act into the Business and Professions Code if the initiative statute is approved by the voters.
(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1178 (Hernandez-D) Medical information: disclosures
Permits a psychotherapist to disclose medical information, consistent with applicable law and standards of ethical conduct, if the psychotherapist, in good faith, believes the disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health and safety of a reasonably foreseeable victim(s), and the disclosure is made to a person(s) reasonably able to prevent or lessen the threat, including the target of the threat.
Chapter 506, Statutes of 2007

AB 1201 (Leno-D) Collective bargaining: direct care registered nurses
Authorizes "direct care registered nurses" employed by non-public health facilities to organize for purposes of collective bargaining.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1224 (Hernandez-D) Optometrists: telemedicine
Adds optometrists to the list of health professionals authorized to practice telemedicine. Clarifies that "collaborating ophthalmologist" means a physician and surgeon who is licensed by the state and in the active practice of ophthalmology in the state.
Chapter 507, Statutes of 2007

AB 1226 (Hayashi-D) Medi-Cal: provider enrollment
Allows a physician, enrolled in good standing in the Medi-Cal program, who is changing locations within the same county to be eligible to continue enrollment and to file a change of location form in lieu of submitting a complete application package. Provides expedited enrollment into Medi-Cal for licensed physicians and surgeons who meet specified conditions.
Chapter 693, Statutes of 2007

AB 1276 (Karnette-D) Pharmacies: prescription containers: labels
Requires prescribers of medications to ask the patient whether or not to indicate the intended purpose of the prescription on the prescription container's label.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1329 (Houston-R) Occupational therapists
Requires the California State University, in coordination with the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction and in consultation with interested groups, to assess the barriers to creation of additional occupational therapist training programs and report to the Legislature by 6/1/08.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1367 (DeSaulnier-D) Alcoholism and drug abuse counselors
Enacts the Substance Abuse Professionals Licensing Law, and provides for the licensing or registration and regulation of alcoholism and drug abuse counselors and interns by the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1399 (Richardson-D) Pharmacies: prescription labels
Requires a prescription drug label, upon request of a blind or visually impaired customer, to be readable by an assistive technology device for the blind or visually impaired.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1436 (Hernandez-D) Nurse practitioners: scope of practice
Defines the scope of practice of nurse practitioners, revises the educational requirements for certification as a nurse practitioner, and authorizes a nurse practitioner to perform comprehensive health care services, as specified, and to admit and discharge patients from hospitals and other health facilities in collaboration with a physician, surgeon, or osteopath.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1444 (Emmerson-R) Physical therapists: scope of practice
Permits patients direct access to a physical therapist without first obtaining a physician referral.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1486 (Charles Calderon-D) Licensed professional counselors
Creates the Licensed Professional Counselors Act that provides for the licensing and regulation of licensed professional counselors, as defined, by the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1587 (De La Torre-D) Pharmacy: personal information
Lowers the current restrictions against the use of patients' medical information for "marketing" by establishing that a written communication given to a pharmacy patient during a face-to-face interaction with a pharmacist or pharmacy personnel where a prescription drug is being dispensed is not "marketing" when certain requirements are met.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1592* (Huff-R) Personal income taxes
Allows a tax credit in an amount equal to 50% of the "fair market value of uncompensated medical care" provided by a physician during the taxable year to an "eligible individual."
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1643 (Niello-R) Nurse practitioners
Repeals the current prohibition against a physician and surgeon supervising more than four nurse practitioners at one time. Makes other conforming changes.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1687 (Brownley-D) Confidential information
Amends the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to permit a health care provider, in certain instances, to disclose medical information relating to a minor who has been taken into temporary custody or for whom a petition has been filed with the court seeking a judgment that he/she is a dependent child or ward of the juvenile court, and applies to a minor who has been judged to be a dependent child or ward of the court.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2007

AB 1692 (Villines-R) Healthy Families Advisory Panel
Requires a member of the Healthy Families Advisory Panel to be a practicing physician and surgeon who is board certified in pediatrics.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 6X (Nakanishi-R) Physician assistants: educational loan program
Creates the California Physician Assistant Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program within the Health Professions Education Foundation, to provide scholarships to physician assistant students and to repay qualifying educational loans of physician assistants who practice in medically underserved areas of the state.
(Unassigned to a committee)

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SB 648 (Calderon-D) Rights of foster children
Clarifies existing state policy that declares that children in foster care who have certain prescribed rights to also provide that those children retain these rights, notwithstanding the commission of a public offense or crime.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 710 (Dutton-R) AFDC-FC: group homes: rates
Requires a foster care group home operator seeking to establish a rate for a new program or a new location to have a letter of support from the host county or regional consortium of counties.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 720 (Kuehl-D) Foster children
Makes clarifying changes to recent state law to encourage the joint placement of infants and their teen parent when both are in foster care.
Chapter 475, Statutes of 2007

SB 776 (Vincent-D) Community care facilities
Allows county child welfare agencies to exchange criminal record clearances when a child in foster care moves with a relative from one county to another.
Chapter 580, Statutes of 2007

SB 785 (Steinberg-D) Foster children: mental health services
Facilitates the access to mental health services for foster children who are placed outside of the original county of jurisdiction, including those being adopted or entering into a guardianship with a relative.
Chapter 469, Statutes of 2007

AB 121* (Maze-R) Foster youth: hiring preferences
Expands the definition of "qualified employee" to include qualified former foster care recipients for purposes of the hiring credit available to employers located in an enterprise zone. Defines a "qualified former foster care recipient" as an individual certified by the local designated agency to having attained 17 years of age, but not 25 years of age, on the hiring date and having, before attaining 18 years of age, been either a recipient of foster care maintenance payments under a state plan approved under 42 United States Code Section 301, or in foster care under the responsibility of a state.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 172 (Bass-D) Foster care: instruction and education pilot project
Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to conduct a home instruction pilot project for foster parents and foster children, using materials consistent with those created by Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters, USA (HIPPY USA). Requires DSS, in consultation with the Legislative Analyst's Office, to establish the evaluation criteria for determining the success of the project, and requires DSS to report to the Legislature on the effectiveness of the pilot project by 10/1/12. Specifies that the project shall be conducted in two counties, one of which shall be Los Angeles, with the county board of supervisor's permission.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 273 (Jones-D) Foster children: health
Requires children removed from their homes as a result of abuse or neglect, and children removed from their homes as a result of being a "delinquent minor," to receive specified Child Health and Disability Prevention program health assessments and oral health services. Requires the county welfare department, at a hearing to terminate jurisdiction over a dependent child, as specified, to submit a report verifying that assistance in understanding the child's health care needs and locating health care providers that will be able to meet those needs has been provided to the child, and requires the Department of Health Care Services, to the extent federal financial participation is available, to extend Medi-Cal benefits to "independent foster care adolescents," as defined, while in foster care or guardianship, until the child reaches the age of 21 years, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 277 (Soto-D) Foster care: foster family home licensing
Deletes the prohibition that the inability, in and of itself, of a prospective foster parent to meet a child's varying needs does not preclude a prospective foster parent from obtaining a foster family home license. Increases, from eight to 12, the annual number of post-placement training hours that a foster parent must complete to retain eligibility for foster child placements. Specifies that the post-placement annual training include courses that cover the dependency court process, the participation of foster children and foster parents in the court process, permanency options for foster children, and services and supports available to foster parents that provide permanent placements for foster children.
Vetoed

AB 324 (Beall-D) Foster care
Increases grant payments for foster family home providers, and provides funding for the recruitment and retention of foster parents and adoptive parents.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 402 (Ma-D) Foster care: property transfers
Extends change of ownership exclusion to transfers between foster parents and foster children under the property tax law.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2007

AB 497 (Portantino-D) Special education: foster children: funding
Requires a local educational agency to include payment for services provided to a pupil prior to approval of an individualized education program that authorizes placement in the school if the pupil has been placed in a specified group home or community treatment facility by the county welfare or probation department, except as prescribed, the pupil was placed in the school by the person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil, and an individualized education program is approved for the pupil that authorizes placement in the school.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 671 (Beall-D) State employment: foster youth
Requires the State Personnel Board to promote the hiring of qualified foster youth in specified state agency positions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 795 (Keene-R) Foster children: special education
Requires the state, for out-of-county foster children residing in a licensed children's institution who have been certified as seriously emotionally disturbed by the mental health director from the county of jurisdiction, to assume the educational costs incurred in any fiscal year by a special education local plan area that are in excess of the revenues received.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 845* (Bass-D) Foster youth: transitional housing
Appropriates $10.5 million to the Department of Social Services to supplement funding for the Transitional Housing for Foster Youth Program.
(Failed passage on the Senate Floor)

AB 914 (Saldana-D) Foster caregivers
Excludes from the California Community Care Facilities Act's application any home of a nonrelative community support system caregiver, and allows the County of San Diego to establish a pilot program to test the effectiveness of nonrelative community support system caregivers on increasing the availability of recruiting neighborhood placements and reducing the number of placements in emergency shelter facilities.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1217 (Sharon Runner-R) Foster care: AFDC-FC: supplemental clothing allowance
Authorizes the use of the supplemental clothing allowance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Foster Care program for the purchase of diapers for the foster child.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1330 (Evans-D) Foster children: psychotropic drugs: data
Requires the Department of Social Services to collect and maintain data on all youth in foster care that are prescribed psychotropic medication.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1331 (Evans-D) Foster youth: federal benefits
Requires counties to screen potentially disabled emancipating foster youth to determine their potential eligibility for federal Supplemental Security Income disability benefits and to make applications for those who may be eligible.
Chapter 465, Statutes of 2007

AB 1453 (Soto-D) Foster care: residentially based services
Directs the Department of Social Services to develop a plan to transform the current statewide system of group homes into a system of residentially based services and, in the interim, permits some counties to enter into voluntary agreements with private nonprofit agencies to transform individual group home programs.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2007

AB 1462 (Adams-R) Child care institutions
Permits federal financial participation for the foster care of children placed in for-profit facilities, and sets limits on that federal financial participation.
Chapter 65, Statutes of 2007

AB 1494 (DeSaulnier-D) Foster care: group homes
Expands the definition of a "group home" to include the Chris Adams Center, operated by the County of Contra Costa.
Vetoed

AB 1512 (Torrico-D) Foster children: Medi-Cal benefit
Requires expedited disenrollment of a foster child from a County Organized Health System, when that child has received out-of-county placement, to allow the child to be enrolled in Medi-Cal fee-for-service or managed care in the county where the child has been placed.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2007

AB 1578 (Leno-D) Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act
Enacts the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2007. Provides that current or former foster youth in their first year of postsecondary enrollment will be eligible for tuition and fee coverage under the Cal Grant B program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AJR 26 (Bass-D) United States Census: Foster Child Category
Expresses the Legislature's opposition to the decision of the United States Census Bureau to remove the foster child relationship category from the 2010 United States Census and the American Community Survey, and calls on the federal government to recognize the importance of collecting census information relating to foster children.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

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SB 39 (Migden-D) County welfare agencies: child abuse
Provides for the release of certain information by county welfare agencies regarding a deceased child if the death is the result of abuse or neglect.
Chapter 468, Statutes of 2007

SB 42 (Torlakson-D) CalWORKs
Allows persons who have applied for but not yet been accepted in a qualifying degree or certificate program to be considered "enrolled" for purposes of participation in a California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program self-initiated welfare-to-work program.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 58* (Hollingsworth-R) CalWORKs program
Clarifies, as it relates to welfare-to-work services, when benefit limits have been reached and removal from the assistance unit is to occur.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 84* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Human services
Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2007 relating to human services programs.
Chapter 177, Statutes of 2007

SB 104 (Machado-D) Crisis nurseries
Extends the 1/1/08 sunset date relating to establishing crisis nurseries as a category of community care facilities to 1/1/11, and requires crisis nurseries to submit an annual report to the Department of Social Services.
Chapter 288, Statutes of 2007

SB 179 (Ashburn-R) CalWORKs: reporting requirements
Replaces the current quarterly income reporting system for recipients of CalWORKs and food stamps with a semi-annual reporting system that also includes reporting changes in income that exceed a stated threshold.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 269 (McClintock-R) Public assistance: home visits
Requires an investigator from the district attorney's office to conduct an interview and a walk-through at the home of each applicant for the CalWORKs program.
(Failed passage in Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 330 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Community services programs
Makes technical changes in state statutes related to the Department of Community Services and Development to reflect changes in federal and state law.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2007

SB 434 (Romero-D) In-Home Supportive Service program
Increases the cap on state participation in hourly wages and benefits paid to In-Home Supportive Services workers. Increases the state participation cap in the total cost of wages and benefits to $13.35 per hour, makes the increase operative commencing the next state fiscal year for which the May Revision forecast of General Fund revenue exceeds the most current estimates by at least 5%, and requires subsequent annual increases up to $14.35 and $15.35 per hour when General Fund revenue forecasts grow an additional 5%.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 489 (Steinberg-D) Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: closure
Imposes patient protection requirements on continuing care retirement communities in the event of their closure by (1) requiring providers to provide written notice a minimum of 120 days before closure, (2) requiring the provider to provide the Department of Social Services (DSS) with a closure notice and relocation plan no less than 90 days prior to closure, (3) requiring DSS to approve the closure plan and monitor the facility closure in order to prohibit the providers from displacing residents, and (4) requiring the provider to offer residents the choice of placement options or a lump sum buy-out option in cases where comparable replacement housing and care are not available.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 688 (Cox-R) California Children and Families Program: communications
Prohibits any funds from being expended from the California Children and Families Program, or any other allocation to the California Children and Families Commission, advocating or promoting programs or activities that are not expressly authorized by a statute enacted by the Legislature or an initiative enacted by the voters.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 692 (Ashburn-R) In-home supportive services: criminal background checks
Authorizes a public authority or nonprofit consortium to assist a recipient of care who is not eligible to receive in-home supportive services in obtaining a criminal background check.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 693 (Ashburn-R) Child day care: payment programs
Specifies that payment to a child care provider shall not commence until the Department of Social Services confirms that the child care provider is a registered child care trustline provider or is exempted from trustline registration, and revises the scope of circumstances that require that the payment shall immediately cease. Applies these provisions only in counties in which the trustline automated registration process and the LiveScan system are operational, and makes additional changes to conform to existing law.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 703 (Ducheny-D) Placement of children
Conforms various provisions of state law to federal law as it relates to inter-county adoptions, home studies for foster care and adoptive placements, criminal background checks for foster and adoptive placements, and relative to Indian Child Welfare Services.
Chapter 583, Statutes of 2007

SB 708 (Dutton-R) Group homes
Requires group homes for six or fewer persons to obtain a conditional use permit as a condition of licensure.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 709 (Dutton-R) Residential care facilities
Authorizes cities or counties to submit, and requires the Department of Social Services to review, information regarding the location of community care facilities for six or fewer residents.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 782* (Cogdill-R) In-Home Supportive Services
Revises the state participation in in-home supportive services provider wage and benefit increases.
(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 867 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Supportive service providers
Extends to recipients of publicly funded programs who are receiving personal care and in-home services the right to select any qualified person to provide that care.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 868 (Ridley-Thomas-D) In-home supportive services
Requires a public authority or nonprofit consortium investigating potential in-home supportive service personnel to get criminal history information.
Chapter 447, Statutes of 2007

SB 887 (Calderon-D) Low-income water ratepayers
Requires each local public water agency to establish a low-income ratepayer assistance program.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 913 (Hollingsworth-R) Group homes: sex offenders
Expands the existing law which prohibits sex offenders on parole from residing in any single family dwelling with any other registered sex offender to include residential facilities which serve six or fewer persons.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 914 (Hollingsworth-R) Community care facilities
Allows local jurisdictions to require community care facilities housing an adult or juvenile offender to obtain a business license.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 915 (Hollingsworth-R) Group homes: zoning
Allows a city, county, or city and county to adopt a local ordinance to zone as an adult-oriented business any community care facility that houses a parolee for whom registration as a sex offender is required.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 945 (Padilla-D) In-home supportive services
Permits an applicant or recipient of in-home supportive services to authorize any person, including a family member or provider, to receive a copy of the notice of action affecting the amount of services to be provided and to request a hearing to challenge any proposed action.
Vetoed

SJR 11 (Correa-D) National Children's Study
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation to ensure the continuation of funding for the National Children's Study, which is a longitudinal study focusing on a long-term observation of children's health as impacted by genetics and environmental conditions.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 22 (Lieber-D) CalWORKs: maximum aid determination
Repeals the exclusion of any children born into a family more than 10 months after the family begins receiving CalWORKs benefits when calculating the family's grant amount. Phases out the exclusion of children born into CalWORKs families by applying it prospectively to any child born on or after 1/1/08, and repeals the provision completely as of 1/1/11.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 56 (Ma-D) Secretary for Poverty
Creates a cabinet-level position of Secretary for Poverty in California, and provides that the Secretary shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. Requires the Secretary to review the work of the state agencies, departments, and offices that implement and administer antipoverty programs in the state to determine whether those agencies, departments, and offices are operating in the most efficient and effective manner possible. Requires the Secretary to submit his/her findings with respect to that review to the Legislature and the Governor, and requires the Secretary to report to the Legislature, on a regular basis, regarding any pending bills that may impact programs for the working poor in the state.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 98 (Niello-R) CalWORKs eligibility: work activities
Requires the Department of Social Services to pay 50% of the wage subsidy for programs operated by counties pursuant to private or public subsidized employment programs for CalWORKs welfare-to-work participants, independent of the county allocations for employment services. Limits the state's share of the wage to 50% of the maximum aid payment for the family of the adult participating in the subsidized employment program, and limits state participation to county programs providing a maximum of six months of wage subsidies for each participant.
Chapter 589, Statutes of 2007

AB 149 (Bass-D) Dependent children: caregivers
Requires the Department of Social Services to contract for technology to assist counties in searching for relatives to serve as caretakers for foster children, and establishes a pilot project to use technology which will assist counties in identifying relatives and to assist family caregivers in navigating the services available to children in out-of-home care.
Vetoed

AB 167 (Bass-D) CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits
Provides that there shall be no limit on the assets of any individual or family as a condition of eligibility for aid for CalWORKs to the extent permitted under federal law. Defines "assets" to include investments that appreciate over time, including but not limited to investments that can be converted into cash, as well as personal or real property that holds monetary value, such as a house, automobile, or small business. Makes legislative findings and declarations describing the purpose of asset rules in public assistance programs, the adverse consequences of asset limits on the ability of low-income families to accumulate resources as a path to self-sufficiency, and the successful efforts of other states to reform asset rules.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 176 (Jones-D) CalWORKs: child support
Provides, effective 10/12/09, that a family no longer be mandated to assign their rights to past-due child support that accrued before receiving cash assistance when they apply for cash assistance.
Chapter 488, Statutes of 2007

AB 182 (Ma-D) In-home supportive services: training for providers
Requires public authorities and nonprofit consortiums, in consultation with its advisory committees and stakeholders, to develop training standards and core topics provided to in-home supportive services providers and recipients.
Vetoed

AB 190 (Bass-D) Child welfare services
Requires a five-year phase-in of the optimal social worker-to-child ratios recommended by the Child Welfare Workload Study of 2000. Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to annually update the recommended budgeting standards based on statutory, regulatory, and practice changes that may affect social worker workloads, and requires DSS to take into account the funding level of the child welfare services program when setting any compliance thresholds for performance outcome measures.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 238 (Beall-D) In-home supportive services: reading services
Adds reading assistance for financial and other documents to the required supportive services available to in-home supportive services consumers who are blind or visually impaired, or who have another disability that affects their ability to read.
Vetoed

AB 298 (Maze-R) Relative caregivers
Provides that a relative caregiver's preference for legal guardianship over adoption cannot constitute the sole basis for the social services agency or licensed county adoption agency to recommend removal of the child from the relative caregiver for purposes of adoption, provided the relative is not unwilling to accept legal or financial responsibility for the child. Requires that a relative caregiver be given information regarding permanency adoption.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2007

AB 313 (Benoit-R) Child day care facility rating system
Requires the Department of Social Services to develop and implement a licensed child care facility rating system that encompasses child health and safety by 1/1/10.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 314 (Soto-D) CalWORKs: welfare-to-work activities
Permits structured and monitored study time hours related to vocational training and education to count as a core welfare-to-work activity in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program.
Vetoed

AB 335 (De Leon-D) CalWORKs: aid: homeless assistance
Allows sworn statements by victims of domestic violence to be sufficient to establish eligibility for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids homeless assistance, and limits persons who qualify for the program to not more than 16 calendar days of temporary assistance and two payments of permanent assistance.
Chapter 726, Statutes of 2007

AB 340 (Hancock-D) Child welfare services: resource family pilot program
Creates a pilot project in up to five counties that will allow county welfare departments to merge duplicative foster placement processes for licensing and approving relatives, foster families, and adoptive parents.
Chapter 464, Statutes of 2007

AB 344 (Huff-R) Child day care facilities
Exempts from the California Child Day Care Facilities Act any program that provides activities for children of an instructional nature in a classroom-like setting that is otherwise subject to the act if the instruction is based upon the language, customs, and traditions of a population group that is primarily located outside of the United States and the program is registered as a trustline provider.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 380 (Berg-D) Multipurpose Senior Services Program
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to annually increase reimbursement rates for the Multipurpose Senior Services Program by an amount based on the Medi-Cal rate adjustment for intermediate care facilities.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 420 (Wolk-D) Supplemental Nutrition Program
Requires all California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) agencies that serve large numbers of participants and a high proportion of uninsured participants to use the WIC gateway system only if funding is available.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 433 (Beall-D) Food Stamp Program: categorical eligibility
Requires the Department of Social Services to propose a new name for the food stamp program and to establish categorical eligibility for food stamp benefits for Medi-Cal recipients who are eligible for services funded by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 459 (Cook-R) In-home supportive services: criminal background checks
Authorizes criminal background checks of potential in-home supportive services personnel, conducted by the Department of Justice or investigative consumer reporting agency, and allows potential providers or service recipients to be charged for the cost of conducting the investigations.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 508 (Swanson-D) Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies
Repeals the lifetime disqualification from food stamps for persons convicted of specified felonies involving controlled substances.
Vetoed

AB 572 (Berg-D) Adult day health care: licensure
Requires the Department of Health Services to adopt new certification and licensing regulations for adult day health care.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 672 (Beall-D) Child Welfare Council
Requires the Child Welfare Council to develop a plan for addressing the disproportionate number of children of color involved in the child welfare system.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 674 (Charles Calderon-D) CalWORKs: aid payment increase
Requires an increase in the maximum aid payment for an assistance unit that includes a child who is enrolled as a pupil in elementary or secondary schools, in the amount of $50 annually for each enrolled child, if the parent or guardian satisfies specified parental involvement requirements.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 736 (Strickland-R) Senior nutrition
Allows the Department of Aging to provide an eligible senior citizen a multivitamin supplement as an addition to a meal.
(In Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee)

AB 827 (Hancock-D) Adult day health care
Requires applicants for certification as an adult day care center provider to complete a pre-application process prior to submitting an application for certification.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 836 (Bass-D) In-home supportive services
Requires the State Controller to inform all providers of in-home supportive services that they may qualify for the federal earned income tax credit.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2007

AB 853 (Jones-D) Home Care Services Act
Enacts the Home Care Services Act to provide for the licensure and regulation of home care organizations by the Department of Social Services.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 907 (Strickland-R) Child welfare proceedings
Requires, among other things, a welfare agency to submit a parent's fingerprints to the Department of Justice for a complete criminal history when determining the parent's suitability for reunification.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 921 (Krekorian-D) Public social services: hearings
Extends the deadlines for social services recipients seeking reconsideration of a county determination based on good cause, and requires the Department of Social Services to grant or deny a decision within specified timeframes.
Chapter 502, Statutes of 2007

AB 978* (Benoit-R) Care facilities
Establishes standards and timelines for enforcing serious health and safety violations at community care facilities.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 979 (Price-D) In-home supportive services
Requires the Department of Social Services to seek federal funding for all aspects of the in-home supportive services program, including training for providers of services.
Vetoed

AB 1060* (Laird-D) Public social services: CalWORKs and the Food Stamp Program
Repeals quarterly redeterminations of eligibility for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids and the Food Stamp programs, and establishes semiannual redeterminations in their place.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1062 (Ma-D) CalWORKs: work support pilot project
Establishes a three-year, statewide pilot project to improve employment opportunities for CalWORKs families by providing additional housing assistance.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1078 (Lieber-D) CalWORKs: eligibility: income and assets
Seeks to maximize the ability of California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS) program recipients to realize and maintain cash savings to assist them in achieving independence.
Chapter 622, Statutes of 2007

AB 1118 (Jones-D) Childhood poverty
Creates the California Child Poverty Council as an advisory body to develop a comprehensive plan for reducing child poverty in California by 50% by 1/1/17 and eliminating it completely by 1/1/27. Requires the Council to report at least once a year to the Governor, Legislature, and the public on the development and implementation of the plan.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1299 (Fuller-R) Public social services: child abuse
Authorizes members of children's multidisciplinary teams, persons, or agencies engaged in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse to inspect juvenile case files. Extends confidentiality to written reports prepared by the team, and provides that the team's discussions writings, and written reports be exempt from discovery, and inadmissible, in any criminal, civil, or juvenile court proceeding.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1382 (Leno-D) Public social services: CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program
Eliminates the requirement that applicants for, and recipients of, food stamp benefits not receiving general assistance be fingerprint imaged as a condition of receiving benefits.
Vetoed

AB 1386 (Price-D) Public social services
Allows an In-Home Supportive Services provider to receive additional wages for up to one hour per month for assistance provided during health-related and alternative resource site appointments for their clients if those services have been determined to be necessary.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1674 (Richardson-D) In-home supportive services: pilot project
Authorizes five county pilot projects to offer recipients of in-home supportive services a choice of having services provided by a contracting agency or a public authority.
(At Senate Desk)

AJR 4 (Beall-D) CalWORKs
Requests the United States Congress to repeal or amend provisions of federal law affecting the state's implementation of welfare-to-work and child support collection practices, in connection with the CalWORKs program.
Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2007

AJR 11 (Swanson-D) In-Home Supportive Services Plus Waiver
Encourages the Department of Social Services, the Department of Health Care Services, the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency, and other relevant departments to work to ensure that the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Plus Waiver is renewed and protected, and urges the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to renew the waiver.
Resolution Chapter 108, Statutes of 2007

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SB 22 (Migden-D) Breast-feeding
Requires the Department of Public Health to recommend training for general acute care hospitals and special hospitals, as defined, to improve breast-feeding rates among mothers and infants.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2007

SB 48 (Alquist-D) Community development: healthy food choices
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish the Access to Healthy Food program and make grants and loans available to retail food markets that agree to offer quality fruits and vegetables for residents of low-income, underserved communities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 51 (Ducheny-D) San Diego Health Care Connection Demonstration Project
Establishes a demonstration project to expand and subsidize employer-based health insurance in San Diego County. Establishes the San Diego Health Care Connection Demonstration Project to assist employers in providing health care benefits to employees and to test one element (subsidized private employer insurance) of health care reform.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 63 (Migden-D) Food labeling: cloned animals
Requires producers of livestock who sell or transfer any cloned animal or its progeny to disclose specified information to the buyer or transferee, and requires food manufacturers and processors to label food products that include the product of a cloned animal or its progeny.
Vetoed

SB 107 (Alquist-D) Wave pools
Enacts the Wave Pool Safety Act and requires a wave pool operator to comply with several specified safety requirements.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 120 (Padilla-D) Food facilities: nutritional information
Requires restaurant chains with at least 14 branches (including franchises) to make specified nutrition information available for all standard menu items.
Vetoed

SB 137 (Torlakson-D) Children's health: medical treatment
Changes the current family income eligibility limit for the California Children's Services program.
Vetoed

SB 164 (Migden-D) Prenatal screening
Makes changes to the Birth Defects Monitoring Program related to the research use of prenatal blood samples and the fees to be charged in support of the Program.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 200 (Florez-D) Food safety: leafy green vegetable inspection program
Authorizes the State Public Health Officer to establish regulations and take actions to dispose of or destroy contaminated produce, and requires the State Public Health Officer and the Department of Food and Agriculture to jointly establish a leafy green vegetable inspection program in the field, as specified.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 201* (Florez-D) Leafy green vegetable crop safety
Establishes requirements for growers, handlers, shippers, and processors of leafy green vegetables for growing practices, handling, processing, and testing.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 202 (Florez-D) Leafy green vegetable crop traceback
Establishes the dating and tracking requirements for growers, handlers, and processors of leafy green vegetables.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 220 (Corbett-D) Vended water
Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH), starting 1/1/09, to inspect at least 20% of water-vending machines (WVMs) annually. Allows DPH to conduct more frequent and timely inspections of WVMs that violate provisions, embargo a violating WVM, and impose any penalty deemed appropriate.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2007

SB 261 (Romero-D) The Trauma Care Fund: state regional trauma system
Requires the California Emergency Medical Services Agency to establish a statewide trauma registry.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 315 (Cogdill-R) Food facilities: permit fees
Allows a local health agency, providing an inspection and issuing a permit to a food facility under the Uniform Retail Food Facilities Law, to require a school district that operates a food facility to pay a permit fee.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

SB 320 (Alquist-D) California Health Care Information Infrastructure Program
Extends the repeal date of the Office of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Implementation (CalOHI). Requires CalOHI, in consultation with the Department of Health Care Services, the Department of Public Health, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, and the Department of Managed Health Care, to develop a plan for implementing the California Health Care Information Infrastructure Program.
Vetoed

SB 358 (Maldonado-R) Foodborne illness
Makes findings regarding the importance of the leafy green industry, and appropriates $2 million to the University of California's Division of Agriculture to fund cooperative food safety advisors and to conduct food safety research.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 459 (Florez-D) Public cemetery districts
Creates a statutory scheme for succession to interment rights to plots, niches, or mausoleums in public cemetery districts when the owner has died, leaving no written instruction or designation of the person to whom the right would transfer.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 468 (Padilla-D) Shaken baby syndrome
Establishes the Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Pilot Program for up to 10 counties who volunteer to provide public education on shaken baby syndrome. Requires the Department of Social Services, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, to establish the pilot no later than 7/1/09 and to evaluate the program and report to the Legislature on its success by 1/1/13.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 471 (Margett-R) Birth and death records: certified copies: identification
Requires any person who requests, in person, a certified copy of a birth or death record to provide the official with valid identification, as provided, unless that person is a parent or legal guardian and is requesting a certified copy of his/her child's birth or death record; in which case, the person need only provide a sworn statement under penalty of perjury that he/she is an authorized person. Establishes requirements for a person who has been a victim of identity theft to obtain a birth or death record.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 490 (Alquist-D) Pupil nutrition: trans fats
Prohibits schools and school districts from making available through vending machines or school food establishments foods containing artificial trans fat, as defined, or from using food containing artificial trans fat in the preparation of a food item served to pupils enrolled in elementary or middle schools.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 2007

SB 529 (Migden-D) Medical marijuana
Declares that the Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, made certain findings in their decision in the matter of People v. Urziceanu (2005) 132 Cal.App.4th 747 with respect to the provisions of the Compassionate Use Act, approved by voters in 1996 as Proposition 215, and requires any medical marijuana program to be applied consistently with the opinion of the appellate court as stated in that decision.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 544 (Cox-R) Fire alarms and safety devices
Modifies the process by which the State Fire Marshal (SFM) approves and introduces fire alarm equipment to the marketplace. Deletes the newly established workgroup that was tasked with developing a new process for certifying fire alarms in the state, requires any fire alarm system to be tested in accordance with SFM standards and listed by a nationally recognized testing laboratory, and restricts the SFM from creating any additional quality assurance requirements.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 564 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public School Health Center Support Program
Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH), to the extent funds are appropriated for implementation of the Public School Health Center Support Program (PSHCSP), to establish a grant program to provide technical assistance and funding for the expansion, renovation, and retrofitting of existing school health centers and the development of new school health centers, and requires a school health center receiving grant funds under the PSHCSP have a plan regarding how the center will provide comprehensive services; provide primary and other health services, including mental health and oral health; work in partnership with the school nurse; coordinate services with health care providers; serve all students regardless of ability to pay; and operate during school hours and facilitate transportation.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 606* (Scott-D) Pharmaceutical information: clinical trial data
Requires any pharmaceutical manufacturer that sells drugs in California to make publicly available the results of every completed clinical trial, except for a Phase I trial or bioequivalence study that the company conducts or sponsors on and after 1/15/02, for every pharmaceutical drug that the company sells in this state.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 651* (Calderon-D) Drinking water: pipes and fittings: lead content
Revises provisions, that will otherwise take effect on 1/1/10, to require that plumbing materials be certified for compliance, with these provisions, by the American National Standards Institute. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt emergency regulations, as may be necessary and proper, to carry out the provisions becoming effective immediately and becoming operative as of 1/1/10.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 744* (Runner-R) Food facilities
Makes various changes to the California Retail Food Code, including revising the definition of a "commissary," revising the definition of "limited food preparation," revising the requirements regarding identification and certification of molluscan shellfish, removing authority to restrict a food employee applicant's access to a food facility, requiring owners or employees who have food safety certificates, rather than a food facility permit, to provide instruction on food safety, as specified, and deleting the requirement for food facilities that engage in the brewing of alcoholic beverages to file a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan, in addition to other changes.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 2007

SB 775 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Childhood lead poisoning
Requires the Department of Public Health to make available information on lead exposure to prenatal health care providers, requires all school children under six to be assessed before enrolling, and requires testing laboratories to report additional information to the department.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 790 (Torlakson-D) Public health: county health officers
Allows a city, county, or city and county to establish a joint powers authority with another public agency that has laboratories in place that can conduct stormwater and urban runoff analyses, if the city, county, or city and county does not have existing statutory authorization for the formation of such a joint powers authority.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 793 (Harman-R) Public swimming pools
Requires both lifeguards and swimming instructors at public swimming pools to possess current certificates from an American Red Cross, YMCA of the U.S.A., or the equivalent, as determined by the Department of Public Health.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2007

SB 828 (Padilla-D) Firefighters: accelerant detecting canines
Requires the State Fire Marshal, in conjunction with recognized statewide fire investigation entities, to update and amend standards and procedures for accelerant detecting canines and their handlers, as specified. Requires these standards and procedures to be updated and amended on or before 1/1/09, and to consider information from publications by recognized statewide fire investigation entities, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 838 (Cogdill-R) Fire prevention and protection
Authorizes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to award grants to the California Fire Safe Council, which is a non-profit organization that engages in fire prevention and education activities in the state.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 839 (Calderon-D) Fireworks
Revises the penalties for possession and transportation of dangerous fireworks, as specified. Establishes a fund from the proceeds of all fines and fees collected in relation to dangerous fireworks violations, with those funds earmarked for enforcement of dangerous fireworks law.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2007

SB 850 (Maldonado-R) Vital records
Enacts the Missing Angels Act and allows for the elective issuance of a certificate of stillbirth, as specified.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 2007

SB 893 (Cox-R) California Children and Families Program
Eliminates existing allocations of tobacco tax revenue under Proposition 10 to state and local county children and families commission accounts, and instead requires those funds to be allocated and appropriated to the California Children and Families Commission to provide health care services to children consistent with the purposes of Proposition 10.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 962 (Migden-D) Umbilical cord blood
Requires the Department of Public Health, as part of the Hereditary Disorders Act, to provide umbilical cord blood samples to the Birth Defect Monitoring Program for storage and research. Makes legislative findings and declarations, as specified.
Chapter 517, Statutes of 2007

SB 1029 (Ducheny-D) Drinking water standards
Establishes timeframes by which regulations relating to maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for primary and secondary drinking water standards proposed by the Department of Public Health (DPH) must be reviewed as part of the regulatory adoption process. For regulations pertaining to issues other than MCLs for primary or secondary drinking water standards, authorizes DPH to adopt specified federal rules and regulations in accordance with specified procedures.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2007

SB 1039 (Assembly Health Committee) State Department of Public Health
Makes technical and nonsubstantive corrections in code references to the Department of Health Services (DHS) for statutes enacted or amended in 2006 legislation, and substitutes either the newly established Department of Public Health (DPH) or Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), consistent with the statutory framework that reassigns the programs and responsibilities of DHS to DPH or DHCS, effective 7/1/07, and requires Senate confirmation of the appointed Chief Deputies for DPH and the renamed DHCS.
Chapter 483, Statutes of 2007

SCR 9 (Steinberg-D) Spay Day USA 2007
Declares 2/27/07 to be Spay Day USA 2007, 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 13, Statutes of 2007

SCR 12 (Alquist-D) Brain Injury Awareness Month
Designates the month of March of each year as Brain Injury Awareness Month, to raise awareness about the symptoms of, and ways of preventing, brain injuries.
Resolution Chapter 14, Statutes of 2007

SCR 18 (Torlakson-D) California Fitness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2007 as California Fitness Month, and encourages all Californians to enrich their lives through proper diet and exercise.
Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2007

SCR 28 (Torlakson-D) Youth sports
Recognizes the importance of quality youth sports experiences, as well as the important role that local park and recreation agencies play in providing safe and enjoyable youth sports experiences.
Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2007

SCR 31 (Padilla-D) Healthy Communities Awareness Month
Recognizes the importance of health and wellness in communities and declares May as Healthy Communities Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2007

SCR 39 (Torlakson-D) Physical fitness and wellness
Urges all Californians to enrich their lives through proper diet and exercise. Encourages members of the Legislature to increase public awareness about the benefits of exercise and physical fitness by hosting events in their districts that encourage physical fitness, and increase participation in activities that promote physical and mental health and a nutritious and well-balanced diet.
Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2007

SCR 48 (Harman-R) Child Awareness Week
Designates the week of 9/17/07 as Child Awareness Week, to honor children's charities, youth-serving organizations, and other nongovernmental organizations that are committed to enriching and bettering the lives of children and youth in California and the rest of the country.
Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 2007

SCR 54 (Perata-D) 9-1-1 for Kids Safety Education Month
Designates the month of June 2007 as "9-1-1 for Kids Safety Education Month" in the State of California.
Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 2007

SCR 61 (Lowenthal-D) Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week
Declares and recognizes the second week of November as Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week, and urges the State Fire Marshal, local fire departments, public schools, and all other interested persons or organizations to initiate awareness activities during that week to alert the general public to the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning and ways to reduce the risk factors in their homes.
Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2007

SJR 9 (Oropeza-D) Funding: veterans health care
Urges Congress and the President of the United States to pass assured funding for veterans health care.
Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2007

SJR 14 (Wyland-R) Food safety: labeling
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation to require labels on ingestible food products delineating the country from which the food originated.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 16 (Hernandez-D) Pupil immunizations
Requires, effective 7/1/09, the State Public Health Officer, in consultation with the California Conference of Local Health Officers, to create a list of diseases, and required doses, for which immunization is to be required prior to entry into a private or public elementary or secondary school, child day care center, day care center, or child care and development center. Prohibits those institutions from unconditionally admitting a pupil unless, prior to his/her first admission, he/she has been fully immunized against the diseases identified on the list.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 34 (Portantino-D) Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program
Requires, until 1/1/15, the Department of Public Health to establish the Umbilical Cord Collection Program for the purpose of collecting and storing umbilical cord blood. Requires that when umbilical cord blood is used for research, research protocols approved by the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, or an institutional review board, be followed. Establishes that federal, state, and private funds can be made available for the purposes of the Program, and prohibits the use of state funds, unless specifically appropriated, to be used for implementation of the Program. Contingent upon enactment of SB 962 (Migden).
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2007

AB 74 (Dymally-D) Obesity, diabetes and related illnesses
Requests the Regents of the University of California to establish and administer an Institute for the Phenomenon of Obesity and Diabetes Experimental Research at the University of California, Irvine, in coordination with the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, to promote and conduct basic science research on obesity and diabetes, and to develop effective education and treatments. Defines "obesity" as a chronic disease with a strong familial component, characterized by a body mass index of 30 or greater, that increases one's risk of develop conditions such as high blood pressure, Type II diabetes, heart disease, stroke, gall bladder disease, and cancer of the breast, prostate, and colon, and defines "diabetes" as a disease in which a person has blood glucose levels that are above normal.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 81 (Torrico-D) Child protection: safe surrender
Increases the age at which an infant can be anonymously surrendered by a birth parent without criminal liability for child abandonment under the "safe-surrender" statute from 72 hours, or younger, to seven days, or younger, and expressly authorizes a local fire agency to be a safe-surrender site, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 86 (Lieu-D) Trans fat: school food
Prohibits snack and entree food items sold to pupils from containing partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated vegetable oils, except to the extent that these oils are naturally occurring in the food item.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 90 (Lieu-D) Trans fat: pupil nutrition
Prohibits a school or school district, beginning 7/1/09, from serving or selling to K-12 students any food containing artificial trans fat, and prohibits the use of artificial trans fat in the preparation of food served or sold to those pupils. Specifies the ban on artificial trans fat applies to schools or school districts participating in the United States Department of Agriculture meal program and individually sold meal items (ala carte foods), and defines "a food containing artificial trans fat" as a food containing vegetable shortening, margarine, or any kind of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, unless the label required on the food lists the trans fat content as less than 0.5 grams per serving, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 92 (Garcia-R) School meals: pupil nutrition
Requires each schoolsite that meets the qualifications of the federal severe need reimbursement to offer breakfast, beginning with the 2008-09 school year. Authorizes the California Department of Education (CDE) to grant a waiver of the breakfast requirement if the local school governing board declares that providing breakfast is financially infeasible for the school and local education agency (LEA), even with a school breakfast start-up or expansion grant. Further specifies that prior to granting the waiver, CDE must provide the LEA with technical assistance to attempt to overcome barriers to offering school breakfast, and requires schools offering the federal school breakfast program for the first time to receive priority in funding for school-breakfast start-up grants.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 93 (Garcia-R) Food facilities: trans fat: study
Requires the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency, in coordination with other organizations and state agencies, to prepare and provide to the Legislature, by 7/1/08, a study to determine the benefits to the public health of eliminating saturated and artificial trans fat from food facilities. Requires the study to include, but not be limited to, (1) identification of the types and uses of products containing saturated and artificial trans fats in food facilities, (2) identification of substitutes for products containing saturated and artificial trans fats, prices of substitutes compared with the products containing saturated and artificial trans fats, and an examination of the available supply of substitute products, (3) examination of the percentage of meals consumed outside the home in California and the dollar amount of those meals, and (4) examination of the various negative health effects related to the consumption of artificial trans fats, and an estimated cost of health care related to the treatment of those effects.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 97 (Mendoza-D) Food facilities: trans fats
Prohibits, commencing 1/1/10, food facilities from storing, distributing, serving, or using in food preparation any oil, shortening, or margarine containing artificial trans fat for use in spreads or frying. Allows an exception for the deep frying of yeast dough and cake batter until 1/1/11. Commencing 1/1/11, prohibits food facilities from storing, distributing, serving, or using in food preparation any food containing artificial trans fat. Requires food facilities to maintain on their premises the labeling information, as defined, for any food or food additive that is, or includes any, fat, oil, or shortening for as long as the food or food additive is stored, distributed, served, or used in food preparation by the facility.
(On the Senate Floor)

AB 136 (Emmerson-R) Search and Rescue Memorial
Authorizes the California State Sheriffs Search and Rescue Coordinators, in consultation with the Department of General Services (DGS), to be in charge of planning, construction, and maintenance of a memorial for search-and-rescue volunteers who have died in the line of duty in California. Establishes the Search and Rescue Memorial Review Committee consisting of representatives from DGS, the State Historic Preservation Office, the Assembly, and the Senate to identify an appropriate location for the memorial, and prohibits construction of the memorial until the master plan for the State Capitol Park is approved by the Joint Rules Committee.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2007

AB 166 (Bass-D) Public safety personnel: presumption: MRSA skin infections
Adds methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureaus (MRSA) or Staph/MRSA skin infection to the list of disputable presumptions for workers' compensation claims for public safety personnel.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 194* (Assembly Budget Committee) Health care
Shifts $2 million in Proposition 99 funds to the Expanded Access to Primary Care Program.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2007

AB 195* (Assembly Budget Committee) Expanded Access to Primary Care Program
Contains the statutory changes needed to ensure $10 million in Proposition 99 funds are made available on a one-time basis for the Expanded Access to Primary Care Program.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 2007

AB 203* (Assembly Budget Committee) Health care: budget trailer bill
Implements the Health Care budget trailer bill.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2007

AB 211 (Jones-D) Local health officers
Permits local health officers to provide assistance to cities and counties regarding public health issues as they relate to local land use and transportation planning processes, as specified.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 220 (Bass-D) Firefighters
Enacts the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act to mirror the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act (commonly known as POBOR) that is applicable to public safety officers. Specifies the procedure to be followed whenever a firefighter is subject to investigation and interrogation for alleged misconduct which may result in punitive action, such as dismissal, demotion, suspension, salary reduction, written reprimand, transfer, or even temporary reassignment. Allows a firefighter to bring suit in superior court for alleged violations of the act, and obtain appropriate injunctive or other extraordinary relief to remedy the violation and to prevent future violations.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2007

AB 315 (Berg-D) Integrated health and human services programs
Repeals the sunset date for the County Integrated Health and Human Services Program, which authorizes Humboldt, Mendocino, Alameda, and other specified counties, upon approval of the county boards of supervisors, to implement programs for the funding and delivery of specified services and benefits through integrated county health and human services systems.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2007

AB 336 (Dymally-D) Narcotic treatment programs
Requires the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP) to conduct a pilot project in two counties aimed at reducing recidivism rates by jointly treating addiction and joblessness, through providing intensive employment services along with substance abuse treatment. Requires DADP to make an allocation for this pilot project.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 374 (Berg-D) California Compassionate Choices Act
Enacts the California Compassionate Choices Act, which authorizes competent adults who have been determined by two physicians to be suffering from a terminal disease to make a request for medication to hasten the end of their lives in a humane manner.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 417 (Blakeslee-R) Regional health authority: Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo
Makes changes to the structure and authority of the Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority (SBRHA), a Medi-Cal managed care county organized health system, for the purpose of expansion of the SBRHA into San Luis Obispo County.
Chapter 266, Statutes of 2007

AB 476 (De La Torre-D) Fireworks
Increases the fines for violating state fireworks laws from $1,000 to not less than $2,000, and not more than $5,000, and authorizes the impounding of vehicles used to transport "dangerous fireworks" by the State Fire Marshal.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 501 (Swanson-D) Pharmaceutical devices
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to make available specified methods for patients to safely dispose of prefilled syringes, pen needles, or other injection devices.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 559 (Ruskin-D) Public water systems: investigation: drinking water
Asks the University of California (UC) to direct the UC Center for Water Resources to study the potential adverse effects on human health of compounds used to disinfect drinking water and byproducts resulting from disinfection, with emphasis on chloramine use by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and to report the Center's findings to the Legislature by 7/1/09.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 595 (Dymally-D) Cosmetics: misbranding
Permits the Department of Public Health to require cosmetic product manufacturers that do not comply with voluntary federal reporting programs to provide the Department with a full listing of their product's ingredients.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 681 (Carter-D) Local health departments
Requires the San Bernardino County health department, and allows any other county and city with a local health department, to establish a five-year pilot program to develop a process for the preparation of a local health assessment.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 706 (Leno-D) Fire retardants: toxic effects
Bans, beginning 1/1/10, the use of brominated fire retardants and chlorinated fire retardants in all seating furniture, mattresses, box springs, mattress sets, futons, other bedding products, and reupholstered furniture to which filling materials are added.
(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 708 (Huff-R) Reproductive health: abstinence
Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and implement a program of abstinence education in a manner that maximizes federal financial participation, as specified.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 728* (Plescia-R) Food products: sales tax
Exempts packaged candy, gums, confectionary, snack foods, and bottled water from sales tax when those products are actually sold through a vending machine.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 736 (Strickland-R) Senior nutrition
Allows the Department of Aging to provide an eligible senior citizen a multivitamin supplement as an addition to a meal.
(In Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee)

AB 741 (Bass-D) Infant mortality
Requires the Department of Public Health to undertake a three-year demonstration program intended to reduce the number of very low weight births.
Vetoed

AB 760 (Coto-D) Pupil health: school health services
Requires each school district to report to the Department of Education the number of pupils who have acute or chronic health conditions, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 783 (Arambula-D) Public water systems
Directs the Department of Public Health (DPH) to prioritize funding of water projects in disadvantaged communities; directs DPH to promote, provide funds for studies on, and prioritize funding for projects which consolidate small public water systems in certain situations; and raises the maximum value of oral contracts that DPH may enter into to address threats to public health from water contamination.
Chapter 614, Statutes of 2007

AB 898 (Saldana-D) Nutrition education
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish and administer a pilot grant program to award a three-year grant to three to five school health centers that are using a "Promotores de Salud" model to provide a nutrition education program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 993 (Aghazarian-R) Licensure: home health agencies
Establishes a timeframe for the Department of Public Health (DPH) to process home health agency (HHA) licensure and certification applications, complete surveys, and issue license renewals. Requires DPH to restructure HHA licensure fees, and modifies certified home health aid training requirements.
Chapter 620, Statutes of 2007

AB 1009 (Benoit-R) Fetal pain prevention
Enacts the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2009.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1024 (Caballero-D) Food safety
Creates the Fresh Produce Food Safety Research Fund, to be administered by the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security within the University of California, Davis. Specifies monies in the fund are to be used to finance research to significantly reduce the risk of contamination of fresh produce.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1057 (Beall-D) Health care: traumatic brain injury: pilot program
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a one-year pilot program in ten trauma facilities to increase the use of an evidence-based treatment guideline model for traumatic brain injury, and makes a General Fund appropriation in the amount of $1.25 million for this program.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1085 (Richardson-D) Pupils with hearing impairment
Requires parents of a hearing impaired child to file a written certificate with the school district stating that he or she, or a family member, has completed an age-appropriate course on specified communication options for his or her child.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1100* (Ruskin-D) Food labeling: cloned animals
Requires manufacturers and producers of food for human consumption to label foods as containing the product of a cloned animal or its progeny.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1108 (Ma-D) Children's products: phthalates
Prohibits the use of phthalates in toys and child care products designed for babies and children under three years of age.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2007

AB 1196 (Gaines-R) Flamethrowing devices
Exempts firefighters who use flamethrowing devices in the scope of their employment from having to obtain a permit from the State Fire Marshal to possess or use flamethrowers.
Chapter 30, Statutes of 2007

AB 1298 (Jones-D) Personal information: disclosure
Changes existing law relating to the disclosure of personal information, including medical information, maintained by a business or state agency or contained in a credit report.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2007

AB 1336 (Bass-D) Problem and pathological gambling: substance abuse
Requires the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling, within the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, to develop a grant program to provide problem gambling training reimbursement grants to substance abuse prevention and treatment facilities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1339 (Torrico-D) Problem and pathological gambling
Requires the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling, within the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, to develop a statewide strategic plan for the prevention, intervention, treatment, and research of problem and pathological gambling in California, and creates a nine-member advisory board.
Vetoed

AB 1406 (Huffman-D) Recycled water: toilet and urinal flushing: condominiums
Adds condominium projects to the definition of "structures" where use of potable water for toilets is deemed "unreasonable," and updates the statute to refer to the recently created Department of Public Health.
Chapter 537, Statutes of 2007

AB 1461 (Krekorian-D) Alcohol and drug abuse
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to initiate and operate a drug deterrence/intervention program, and prohibits limitations on insurance coverage for losses sustained under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1472 (Leno-D) Public health: California Healthy Places Act of 2008
Creates the California Healthy Places Act of 2008. Requires the Department of Public Health to establish an interagency working group to identify and evaluate existing environmental health factors and to make recommendations for improvements.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1511 (Leno-D) Sexual health: Stronger Families for California Act
Establishes a continuing statewide public education campaign designed to encourage parental communication on sexual topics, to promote well-informed sexual health decision-making by adolescents.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1521 (Salas-D) Drinking water: bottled drinking water
Requires that each bottle of water sold in the state identify the source from which the water was last obtained prior to being bottled, and requires each water-bottling plant to annually submit a consumer confidence report to the Department of Public Health.
Vetoed

AB 1530 (Lieber-D) Pesticide poisoning
Requires clinical laboratories that perform cholinesterase testing on a specimen of human blood, for the purpose of determining pesticide levels, to electronically report specified information about the test to the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, as specified.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1603 (Caballero-D) Emergency services: cities
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any prior statement of intent to not provide ambulance transportation service, any city, district, or other local government agency that currently provides paramedic service may elect to provide ambulance transportation service within its geographic jurisdiction, provided that this service complies with guidelines established by the emergency services agency for the county in which that city, district, or other local government agency is located.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1605 (Lieber-D) Department of Public Health: State Public Health Nurse
Requires the State Public Health Officer in the Department of Public Health to appoint a State Public Health Nurse at the Chief Deputy Director level or higher.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1634 (Levine-D) California Healthy Pets Act
Prohibits any person from owning or possessing any cat or dog over the age of six months that has not been spayed or neutered, unless that person possesses an intact permit. Establishes an intact permit fee in an amount to be determined by a local jurisdiction, and requires the revenue from these fees to be used for the administration of the local jurisdiction's permit program. Makes a violation of these provisions punishable by a prescribed civil penalty. Requires all revenues derived from these civil penalties be used for funding the outreach efforts in connection with, and the administration and enforcement of, these provisions, and to the extent funding is available, free and low-cost spay and neuter programs, and outreach efforts for those programs, which shall be required to be established by each local animal control agency. Authorizes, until 1/1/12, a local jurisdiction or its authorized local animal control agency to allow for issuance of an intact permit for one male and one female dog per household in order to allow the dogs to produce a single litter of offspring, subject to specified criteria. Authorizes the imposition of an intact permit fee for these purposes, in an amount determined by the local jurisdiction, to be used for funding the administration of the local jurisdiction's permit program. Provides that these provisions shall become operative on 4/1/08.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1646 (DeSaulnier-D) Public health districts
Authorizes the board of supervisors of a county to establish public health districts for specified purposes.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1689 (Lieber-D) The revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Repeals and reenacts the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act into the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, which regulates anatomical gifts and the disposition of donated bodies and body parts.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2007

AB 1709 (Hancock-D) Temporary local public health emergency
Authorizes the governing body of a public agency that contracts with a nonpublic entity to collect, transfer, or otherwise dispose of solid waste or recycling materials to declare a temporary local public health emergency when the nonpublic entity is unable to perform the contract services and the public agency determines that the failure to perform these services threatens the public health and safety. Authorizes, upon declaring the emergency, the public agency to perform all or any portion of the services specified in the contract, as specified.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1735 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Milk and dairy products: standards
Makes several changes to state sanitation standards applicable to dairies, primarily to conform to federal milk product guidelines.
Chapter 339, Statutes of 2007

AB 1750* (Assembly Health Committee) Health
Makes various minor, technical, and nonsubstantive changes in law related to health care service plans and health insurers, the operations of the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, and the Medi-Cal program. Double-jointed with SB 449 (Aanestad), Chapter 578, Statutes of 2007.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2007

ACR 9 (Dymally-D) Legislative Task Force on Substance Abuse
Establishes, until 11/30/08, the Legislative Task Force on Substance Abuse. Requires the task force to report findings and recommendations on specified issues to the Governor and to the Legislature no later than 9/30/08.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 34 (Nakanishi-R) Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week
Recognizes 4/15/07 to 4/21/07, inclusive, as Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2007

ACR 36 (Strickland-R) National Nutrition Month
Recognizes the 2007 "March is National Nutrition Month" campaign and encourages citizens to join that campaign.
Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2007

ACR 42 (Berryhill-R) Donate Life California Registry
Proclaims 4/4/07 as DMV/Donate Life California Day and the month of April 2007 as DMV/Donate Life California Month, and encourages all Californians to register with the Donate Life California Registry for the purpose of organ and tissue donation.
Resolution Chapter 35, Statutes of 2007

ACR 53 (Walters-R) Make-A-Wish Day celebrating Destination Joy
Designates 6/5/07 as Make-A-Wish Day celebrating Destination Joy in the state, and encourages the state's residents and organizations to recognize the many contributions of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in supporting the care and well-being of children with life-threatening illnesses.
Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2007

ACR 54 (Salas-D) Physical Education and Sport Week
Acknowledges the value of high-quality daily physical education programs for all youth, encourages local governments to support, and local educational agencies to provide, high-quality daily physical education experiences for all California children in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and proclaims 5/1/07 through 5/7/07 as "Physical Education and Sport Week" and May 2007 as "Physical Fitness and Sport Month."
Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2007

ACR 70 (Galgiani-D) Red Ribbon Week
Proclaims the period of 10/23/07 through 10/31/07, as including Red Ribbon Week, and encourages all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2007

AJR 1 (Dymally-D) Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Respectfully memorializes the Congress and President of the United States to enact legislation to allow the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science to become a fully and legally designated Historically Black College and University and a Historically Black Graduate Institution, as those terms are defined in the federal Higher Education Act of 1965.
Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2007

AJR 13 (Caballero-D) Food safety
Requests additional funds from the federal government to the Western Center for Food Safety and Security at the University of California, Davis, for research into the best practices to avoid E. coli contamination of leafy green vegetables.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2007

HR 15 (Soto-D) Pain Awareness Month
Recognizes the month of 9/07 as Pain Awareness Month, and calls upon all Californians to observe this month by participating in appropriate ceremonies and activities and by learning how to improve the quality of life for people in California suffering from pain.
Adopted by the Assembly

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Index (in bill order)
SB 4 Oropeza-D
Smoking ban: state beaches
Tobacco Products
SB 7 Oropeza-D
Smoking in vehicles with minor passengers
Tobacco Products
SB 22 Migden-D
Breast-feeding
Health Facilities
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 24 Torlakson-D
Tobacco product environmental smoke: fee
Tobacco Products
SB 32 Steinberg-D
Medi-Cal: coverage
Medi-Cal
SB 39 Migden-D
County welfare agencies: child abuse
Public Social Services
SB 42 Torlakson-D
CalWORKs
Public Social Services
SB 48 Alquist-D
Community development: healthy food choices
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 51 Ducheny-D
San Diego Health Care Connection Demonstration Project
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 58* Hollingsworth-R
CalWORKs program
Public Social Services
SB 63 Migden-D
Food labeling: cloned animals
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 84* Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee
Human services
Public Social Services
SB 93 Corbett-D
Medi-Cal: third-party liability
Medi-Cal
SB 94 Kuehl-D
Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
Medi-Cal
SB 102 Migden-D
Blood transfusions
Health Professionals
SB 104 Machado-D
Crisis nurseries
Public Social Services
SB 107 Alquist-D
Wave pools
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 119 Cedillo-D
Medi-Cal: minors: drug and alcohol treatment
Medi-Cal
SB 120 Padilla-D
Food facilities: nutritional information
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 136 Cedillo-D
Acupuncture: Tui Na
Health Professionals
SB 137 Torlakson-D
Children's health: medical treatment
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 139 Scott-D
Nursing education
Health Professionals
SB 147 Ashburn-R
Valley fever: vaccine
Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 164 Migden-D
Prenatal screening
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 171 Perata-D
Hospitals: lift teams
Health Facilities
SB 179 Ashburn-R
CalWORKs: reporting requirements
Public Social Services
SB 200 Florez-D
Food safety: leafy green vegetable inspection program
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 201* Florez-D
Leafy green vegetable crop safety
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 202 Florez-D
Leafy green vegetable crop traceback
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 208 Runner-R
Correctional treatment center license fees
Health Facilities
SB 211 Cox-R
Seismic safety: application filing fees
Health Facilities
SB 220 Corbett-D
Vended water
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 238 Aanestad-R
Medi-Cal
Medi-Cal
Health Professionals
SB 252 Aanestad-R
Dentistry: registered sex offenders
Health Professionals
SB 254 Ashburn-R
Emergency medical services: licensure
Health Professionals
SB 260 Steinberg-D
Medi-Cal
Medi-Cal
SB 261 Romero-D
The Trauma Care Fund: state regional trauma system
Health Facilities
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 269 McClintock-R
Public assistance: home visits
Public Social Services
SB 275 Cedillo-D
Health facilities: patient transporting
Health Facilities
SB 295* Cogdill-R
Cigarettes and tobacco products
Tobacco Products
SB 306 Ducheny-D
Health facilities: seismic safety
Health Facilities
SB 315 Cogdill-R
Food facilities: permit fees
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 320 Alquist-D
California Health Care Information Infrastructure Program
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 321 Alquist-D
State Alzheimer's Disease Strategic Plan
Alzheimer's Disease
SB 330 Assembly Human Services Committee
Community services programs
Public Social Services
SB 350 Runner-R
Hospitals: discount payment and charity care policies
Health Facilities
SB 356 Negrete McLeod-D
List of reportable diseases and conditions
Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 358 Maldonado-R
Foodborne illness
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 366 Aanestad-R
Clinical laboratories: personnel
Health Professionals
SB 370 Kuehl-D
Medi-Cal: organ and bone marrow transplants
Medi-Cal
SB 387 Alquist-D
Dentists: death or incapacity
Health Professionals
SB 400* Corbett-D
Medi-Cal: federally qualified health centers
Medi-Cal
Health Facilities
SB 434 Romero-D
In-Home Supportive Service program
Public Social Services
SB 443 Migden-D
Tissue donors: sperm donors
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
SB 458 Torlakson-D
Lung cancer: early detection and treatment
Cancer
SB 459 Florez-D
Public cemetery districts
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 462* Torlakson-D
Hospice providers: hospice licensed beds
Health Facilities
SB 468 Padilla-D
Shaken baby syndrome
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 471 Margett-R
Birth and death records: certified copies: identification
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 472 Corbett-D
Prescription drugs: labeling requirements
Health Professionals
SB 474 Kuehl-D
Medi-Cal: hospital demonstration project funding
Medi-Cal
Health Facilities
SB 483 Kuehl-D
Medi-Cal: eligibility
Medi-Cal
SB 489 Steinberg-D
Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: closure
Public Social Services
SB 490 Alquist-D
Pupil nutrition: trans fats
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 527 Steinberg-D
Autism spectrum disorders: screening
Developmentally Disabled
SB 529 Migden-D
Medical marijuana
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 530 Dutton-R
Alcohol and drug treatment facilities: location
Health Facilities
SB 533 Yee-D
Health: immunizations: pneumococcus
Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 534 Perata-D
Dentistry: dental assistants and hygienists
Health Professionals
SB 535 Kuehl-D
Long-term health care facilities
Health Facilities
SB 544 Cox-R
Fire alarms and safety devices
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 557 Wiggins-D
Audiologists: workers' compensation
Health Professionals
SB 564 Ridley-Thomas-D
Public School Health Center Support Program
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 568 Wiggins-D
Criminal procedure: mental competence
Mental Health
SB 583 Ridley-Thomas-D
Emergency medical technicians: certificates: discipline
Health Professionals
SB 606* Scott-D
Pharmaceutical information: clinical trial data
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 615 Oropeza-D
Pharmacy technicians: scholarship and loan repayment program
Health Professionals
SB 620 Correa-D
Dentistry: general anesthesia
Health Professionals
SB 623 Wiggins-D
Medi-Cal: drug benefits
Medi-Cal
SB 624 Padilla-D
Tobacco products: minors
Tobacco Products
SB 625 Padilla-D
Cigarette and tobacco product retailers: license fees
Tobacco Products
SB 633 Alquist-D
Persons with disabilities
Developmentally Disabled
Health Facilities
SB 648 Calderon-D
Rights of foster children
Foster Care
SB 651* Calderon-D
Drinking water: pipes and fittings: lead content
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 661 Maldonado-R
Healing arts: anatomic pathology services
Health Professionals
SB 676 Ridley-Thomas-D
Health: immunizations
Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 688 Cox-R
California Children and Families Program: communications
Public Social Services
SB 692 Ashburn-R
In-home supportive services: criminal background checks
Public Social Services
SB 693 Ashburn-R
Child day care: payment programs
Public Social Services
SB 703 Ducheny-D
Placement of children
Public Social Services
SB 708 Dutton-R
Group homes
Public Social Services
SB 709 Dutton-R
Residential care facilities
Public Social Services
SB 710 Dutton-R
AFDC-FC: group homes: rates
Foster Care
SB 720 Kuehl-D
Foster children
Foster Care
SB 725 Alquist-D
Agnews Developmental Center closure: outpatient clinic
Developmentally Disabled
SB 731 Oropeza-D
Massage therapy
Health Professionals
SB 743 Kuehl-D
Hospitals: medical errors
Health Facilities
SB 744* Runner-R
Food facilities
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 747 Corbett-D
Disabled persons: equal access rights
Developmentally Disabled
SB 757 Ridley-Thomas-D
CA Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund
Health Facilities
SB 761 Ridley-Thomas-D
Healing arts: diversion: investigations
Health Professionals
SB 764 Migden-D
Health care providers
Health Professionals
SB 767 Ridley-Thomas-D
Drug overdose treatment: liability
Health Professionals
SB 772 Wiggins-D
Lyme disease
Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 775 Ridley-Thomas-D
Childhood lead poisoning
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 776 Vincent-D
Community care facilities
Foster Care
SB 782* Cogdill-R
In-Home Supportive Services
Public Social Services
SB 785 Steinberg-D
Mental health services: foster children
Mental Health
Foster Care
SB 790 Torlakson-D
Public health: county health officers
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 793 Harman-R
Public swimming pools
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 801 Ridley-Thomas-D
Chiropractors
Health Professionals
SB 809 Ashburn-R
Nurse practitioners
Health Professionals
SB 812 Correa-D
Pharmacists: alternative workweek schedules
Health Professionals
SB 822 Aanestad-R
Psychology
Health Professionals
SB 828 Padilla-D
Firefighters: accelerant detecting canines
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 838 Cogdill-R
Fire prevention and protection
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 839 Calderon-D
Fireworks
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 843 Calderon-D
Pharmacists: medical information
Health Professionals
SB 850 Maldonado-R
Vital records
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 851 Steinberg-D
Mentally ill offenders
Mental Health
SB 866* Runner-R
Mental health: sex offenders
Mental Health
SB 867 Ridley-Thomas-D
Supportive service providers
Public Social Services
SB 868 Ridley-Thomas-D
In-home supportive services
Public Social Services
SB 887 Calderon-D
Low-income water ratepayers
Public Social Services
SB 891 Correa-D
Health facilities: coronary intervention
Health Facilities
SB 893 Cox-R
California Children and Families Program
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 894 Ducheny-D
Nonprofit health facility
Health Facilities
SB 905 Runner-R
Physically disabled: service dogs
Developmentally Disabled
SB 906 Runner-R
Medical providers
Health Professionals
SB 907 Calderon-D
Physicians and surgeons
Health Professionals
SB 913 Hollingsworth-R
Group homes: sex offenders
Public Social Services
SB 914 Hollingsworth-R
Community care facilities
Public Social Services
SB 915 Hollingsworth-R
Group homes: zoning
Public Social Services
SB 916 Yee-D
Acute psychiatric hospitals
Health Facilities
SB 928* Harman-R
Cancer: tax credit
Cancer
SB 933 Wiggins-D
Medi-Cal
Medi-Cal
SB 945 Padilla-D
In-home supportive services
Public Social Services
SB 950 Corbett-D
Tobacco manufacturers and importers
Tobacco Products
SB 962 Migden-D
Umbilical cord blood
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 963 Ridley-Thomas-D
Regulatory boards
Health Professionals
SB 969 Aanestad-R
Veterinary medicine
Health Professionals
SB 981 Perata-D
Health care coverage
Health Professionals
SB 992 Wiggins-D
Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
Health Facilities
SB 993 Aanestad-R
Psychologists: scope of practice: prescribing drugs
Health Professionals
SB 1000 Harman-R
Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
Health Facilities
SB 1029 Ducheny-D
Drinking water standards
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 1039 Assembly Health Committee
State Department of Public Health
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 1048 Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee
Healing arts
Health Professionals
SB 1049* Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee
Healing arts
Health Professionals
SCA 13 Torlakson-D
Cigarettes: taxation
Tobacco Products
SCR 3 Cedillo-D
The Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument: highway signs
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
SCR 9 Steinberg-D
Spay Day USA 2007
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 12 Alquist-D
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 18 Torlakson-D
California Fitness Month
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 19 Negrete McLeod-D
West Nile Virus & Mosquito & Vector Control Awareness Week
Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 23 Cox-R
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Cancer
SCR 28 Torlakson-D
Youth sports
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 29 Scott-D
Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 30 Padilla-D
American Diabetes Alert Day
Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 31 Padilla-D
Healthy Communities Awareness Month
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 39 Torlakson-D
Physical fitness and wellness
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 42 Steinberg-D
Autism Awareness Month
Developmentally Disabled
SCR 48 Harman-R
Child Awareness Week
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 49 Ridley-Thomas-D
Make It In Scrubs Month
Health Professionals
SCR 54 Perata-D
9-1-1 for Kids Safety Education Month
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 55 Perata-D
Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism
Developmentally Disabled
SCR 59 Ashburn-R
Valley Fever Awareness Month
Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 61 Lowenthal-D
Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 62 Alquist-D
Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
Alzheimer's Disease
SCR 66 Wyland-R
QUALCOMM Million Dollar Challenge Commemorative Week
Developmentally Disabled
SJR 8 Migden-D
Diabetes
Other Diseases/Disorders
SJR 9 Oropeza-D
Funding: veterans health care
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SJR 11 Correa-D
National Children's Study
Public Social Services
SJR 14 Wyland-R
Food safety: labeling
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 6X Runner-R
Hospitals: preventative medical services
Health Facilities
SB 7X Aanestad-R
Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
Medi-Cal
SB 9X Runner-R
Medi-Cal: clinic funding
Medi-Cal
Health Facilities
SB 12X Runner-R
Health care providers: incentives: legislative intent
Health Facilities
Health Professionals
SB 13X Maldonado-R
Health care technology systems: tax credit: loans
Health Facilities
SB 15X Cogdill-R
Health facility financing: appeals procedure
Health Facilities
SB 19X Cogdill-R
Medical corporations
Health Professionals
SB 22X Battin-R
For-profit clinic facility financing: revenue bonds
Health Facilities
SB 24X Ashburn-R
Nurse practitioners: scope of practice
Health Professionals
AB 3 Bass-D
Physician assistants
Health Professionals
AB 10 De La Torre-D
Children's Hospital Bond Act of 2008
Health Facilities
AB 13 Brownley-D
Hospitals: staffing
Health Facilities
AB 16 Hernandez-D
Pupil immunizations
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 17* Emmerson-R
Radiologic technologists
Health Professionals
AB 18 Blakeslee-R
Disabled persons: election documents
Developmentally Disabled
AB 22 Lieber-D
CalWORKs: maximum aid determination
Public Social Services
AB 28 Huffman-D
Breast cancer research: income tax
Cancer
AB 34 Portantino-D
Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 52 Dymally-D
Health facilities: Office of Hospital Patient Advocate
Health Facilities
AB 53 Dymally-D
Office of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 55* Dymally-D
Los Angeles County Hospital Authority
Health Facilities
AB 56 Ma-D
Secretary for Poverty
Public Social Services
AB 64 Berg-D
Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act
Health Professionals
AB 66* Dymally-D
Inmate HIV testing
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 74 Dymally-D
Obesity, diabetes and related illnesses
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 81 Torrico-D
Child protection: safe surrender
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 86 Lieu-D
Trans fat: school food
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 90 Lieu-D
Trans fat: pupil nutrition
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 92 Garcia-R
School meals: pupil nutrition
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 93 Garcia-R
Food facilities: trans fat: study
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 97 Mendoza-D
Food facilities: trans fats
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 98 Niello-R
CalWORKs eligibility: work activities
Public Social Services
AB 106 Berg-D
Immunizations
Health Facilities
AB 110 Laird-D
Drug paraphernalia: clean needle and syringe exchange
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 113 Beall-D
Hospitals: emergency medical services: reduction/elimination
Health Facilities
AB 121* Maze-R
Foster youth: hiring preferences
Foster Care
AB 136 Emmerson-R
Search and Rescue Memorial
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 139 Bass-D
Medical examinations
Health Professionals
AB 149 Bass-D
Dependent children: caregivers
Public Social Services
AB 158 Ma-D
Public health
Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 163 Eng-D
Chiropractors
Health Professionals
AB 166 Bass-D
Public safety personnel: presumption: MRSA skin infections
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 167 Bass-D
CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits
Public Social Services
AB 172 Bass-D
Foster care: instruction and education pilot project
Foster Care
AB 176 Jones-D
CalWORKs: child support
Public Social Services
AB 182 Ma-D
In-home supportive services: training for providers
Public Social Services
AB 184 Dymally-D
Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
Medi-Cal
AB 185 Dymally-D
Clinical laboratories: personnel
Health Professionals
AB 190 Bass-D
Child welfare services
Public Social Services
AB 194* Assembly Budget Committee
Health care
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 195* Assembly Budget Committee
Expanded Access to Primary Care Program
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 203* Assembly Budget Committee
Health care: budget trailer bill
Medi-Cal
Mental Health
Developmentally Disabled
Health Facilities
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 211 Jones-D
Local health officers
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 214 Fuentes-D
Long-term health care facilities: dialysis services
Health Facilities
AB 220 Bass-D
Firefighters
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 234 Eng-D
Family therapists and psychologists
Health Professionals
AB 237 Strickland-R
HIV drug treatment
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Medi-Cal
Developmentally Disabled
AB 238 Beall-D
In-home supportive services: reading services
Public Social Services
AB 249 Eng-D
Licensees: healing arts: settlement agreements
Health Professionals
AB 253 Eng-D
Medical Board of California
Health Professionals
AB 269 Eng-D
Dentists: dental auxiliaries: licensure renewal
Health Professionals
AB 272 Garcia-R
HIV tests
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 273 Jones-D
Medi-Cal: foster children
Medi-Cal
Foster Care
AB 277 Soto-D
Foster care: foster family home licensing
Foster Care
AB 298 Maze-R
Relative caregivers
Public Social Services
AB 304 Huff-R
Community care residential care facilities
Health Facilities
AB 308* Galgiani-D
Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services
Medi-Cal
AB 313 Benoit-R
Child day care facility rating system
Public Social Services
AB 314 Soto-D
CalWORKs: welfare-to-work activities
Public Social Services
AB 315 Berg-D
Integrated health and human services programs
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 317* Berg-D
Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Center Program
Alzheimer's Disease
AB 322* Anderson-R
Area agencies on aging and independent living centers
Developmentally Disabled
AB 324 Beall-D
Foster care
Foster Care
AB 327 Horton-R
Residential facilities
Health Facilities
AB 329 Nakanishi-R
Chronic diseases
Other Diseases/Disorders
Health Professionals
AB 330 Hayashi-D
Health disparity report
Health Facilities
AB 335 De Leon-D
CalWORKs: aid: homeless assistance
Public Social Services
AB 336 Dymally-D
Narcotic treatment programs
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 340 Hancock-D
Child welfare services: resource family pilot program
Public Social Services
AB 342 Saldana-D
Nurses: pupil health
Health Professionals
AB 344 Huff-R
Child day care facilities
Public Social Services
AB 363* Berg-D
Medi-Cal
Medi-Cal
AB 364 Berg-D
Discharge policy: preadmission screening
Health Facilities
AB 371 Huffman-D
Health facilities
Health Facilities
AB 374 Berg-D
California Compassionate Choices Act
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 380 Berg-D
Multipurpose Senior Services Program
Public Social Services
AB 381 Galgiani-D
Medi-Cal: provider reimbursement
Medi-Cal
AB 383 Tran-R
Medi-Cal: orthodontic services
Medi-Cal
AB 386 Benoit-R
Sexually violent predator proceedings: release notification
Mental Health
AB 398 Feuer-D
Long-term health care facilities: information
Health Facilities
AB 399 Feuer-D
Long-term health care facilities
Health Facilities
AB 402 Ma-D
Foster care: property transfers
Foster Care
AB 411 Emmerson-R
Residential care facilities: over-concentration
Health Facilities
AB 417 Blakeslee-R
Regional health authority: Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 420 Wolk-D
Supplemental Nutrition Program
Public Social Services
AB 433 Beall-D
Food Stamp Program: categorical eligibility
Public Social Services
AB 436 Salas-D
Medical records
Health Professionals
AB 459 Cook-R
In-home supportive services: criminal background checks
Public Social Services
AB 463 Huffman-D
Vehicles: disabled persons: parking
Developmentally Disabled
AB 476 De La Torre-D
Fireworks
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 497 Portantino-D
Special education: foster children: funding
Foster Care
AB 501 Swanson-D
Pharmaceutical devices
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 508 Swanson-D
Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies
Public Social Services
AB 509 Hayashi-D
Suicide prevention
Mental Health
AB 520 Brownley-D
Hospitals: staffing
Health Facilities
AB 539 Blakeslee-R
State mental health system
Mental Health
AB 543 Plescia-R
Surgical clinics: licensure
Health Facilities
AB 549 Adams-R
Prevailing wages: exemption: hospital seismic retrofitting
Health Facilities
AB 559 Ruskin-D
Public water systems: investigation: drinking water
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 570 Galgiani-D
Medi-Cal reimbursement: intermediate care facilities
Medi-Cal
Health Facilities
AB 572 Berg-D
Adult day health care: licensure
Public Social Services
AB 573 Horton-R
Nursing education programs: community colleges
Health Professionals
AB 585 Berg-D
Medi-Cal: managed care
Medi-Cal
AB 595 Dymally-D
Cosmetics: misbranding
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 606 Galgiani-D
Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates
Medi-Cal
Health Professionals
AB 623 Lieu-D
Radiologic technology: radiologist assistants
Health Professionals
AB 632 Salas-D
Health care facilities: whistleblower protections
Health Facilities
AB 636 Levine-D
Acupuncture
Health Professionals
AB 644 Dymally-D
Medical treatment utilization
Health Professionals
AB 647 Salas-D
Tobacco use programs
Tobacco Products
AB 659 Ma-D
HIV Study
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 661 Berg-D
Medi-Cal: hospitals
Medi-Cal
Health Facilities
AB 671 Beall-D
State employment: foster youth
Foster Care
AB 672 Beall-D
Child Welfare Council
Public Social Services
AB 674 Charles Calderon-D
CalWORKs: aid payment increase
Public Social Services
AB 681 Carter-D
Local health departments
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 682 Berg-D
HIV/AIDS testing
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 706 Leno-D
Fire retardants: toxic effects
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 708 Huff-R
Reproductive health: abstinence
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 724 Benoit-R
Sober living homes
Health Facilities
AB 728* Plescia-R
Food products: sales tax
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 736 Strickland-R
Senior nutrition
Public Social Services
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 741 Bass-D
Infant mortality
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 749 Berg-D
Residential care facilities: elderly
Health Facilities
AB 752 Dymally-D
Medi-Cal: hospital funding
Health Facilities
AB 759 Karnette-D
Residential care facilities
Health Facilities
AB 760 Coto-D
Pupil health: school health services
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 782 Berg-D
Long-term health care facilities
Health Facilities
AB 783 Arambula-D
Public water systems
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 795 Keene-R
Foster children: special education
Foster Care
AB 807 Hancock-D
Medical treatment: workers' compensation
Health Professionals
AB 825 Silva-R
Developmental disabilities
Developmentally Disabled
AB 827 Hancock-D
Adult day health care
Health Facilities
Public Social Services
AB 834 Hayashi-D
Dental disease prevention
Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 836 Bass-D
In-home supportive services
Public Social Services
AB 845* Bass-D
Foster youth: transitional housing
Foster Care
AB 851 Brownley-D
Pharmacists: prescription drugs
Health Professionals
AB 853 Jones-D
Home Care Services Act
Public Social Services
AB 855 Hayashi-D
Medi-Cal: managed care
Medi-Cal
AB 857* Galgiani-D
Sales tax: exemption: diabetic supplies
Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 898 Saldana-D
Nutrition education
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 907 Strickland-R
Child welfare proceedings
Public Social Services
AB 910 Karnette-D
Disabled persons: health insurance
Developmentally Disabled
AB 914 Saldana-D
Foster caregivers
Foster Care
AB 915 Hernandez-D
Medi-Cal managed care
Medi-Cal
AB 921 Krekorian-D
Public social services: hearings
Public Social Services
AB 941* Torrico-D
Emergency medical technicians
Health Professionals
AB 949 Krekorian-D
Residential care facilities: elderly care
Health Facilities
AB 961 Hernandez-D
Diabetes
Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 962 Houston-R
Speech-language pathologists
Health Professionals
AB 978* Benoit-R
Care facilities
Health Facilities
Public Social Services
AB 979 Price-D
In-home supportive services
Public Social Services
AB 986 Eng-D
Optometrists: regulation
Health Professionals
AB 993 Aghazarian-R
Licensure: home health agencies
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1001 Parra-D
California Ovarian Cancer Research
Cancer
AB 1009 Benoit-R
Fetal pain prevention
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1022 Saldana-D
Continuing care home service
Health Facilities
AB 1024 Caballero-D
Food safety
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1031 Levine-D
Developmental services
Developmentally Disabled
AB 1044 Strickland-R
Optometrists: regulation
Health Professionals
AB 1057 Beall-D
Health care: traumatic brain injury: pilot program
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1060* Laird-D
Public social services: CalWORKs and the Food Stamp Program
Public Social Services
AB 1062 Ma-D
CalWORKs: work support pilot project
Public Social Services
AB 1078 Lieber-D
CalWORKs: eligibility: income and assets
Public Social Services
AB 1085 Richardson-D
Pupils with hearing impairment
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1100* Ruskin-D
Food labeling: cloned animals
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1108 Ma-D
Children's products: phthalates
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1113 Brownley-D
Medi-Cal: eligibility
Medi-Cal
AB 1118 Jones-D
Childhood poverty
Public Social Services
AB 1128 Evans-D
Developmental services: Blue-Ribbon Commission
Developmentally Disabled
AB 1137 Eng-D
Chiropractors
Health Professionals
AB 1142 Salas-D
Hospice care
Health Facilities
AB 1149 Beall-D
Disproportionate share hospitals and trauma centers
Medi-Cal
AB 1154 Leno-D
Diabetes
Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 1174 Keene-R
Hospital districts
Health Facilities
AB 1175* Niello-R
Clinical laboratories: personnel
Health Facilities
AB 1178 Hernandez-D
Medical information: disclosures
Health Professionals
AB 1184 Lieber-D
Closure of Agnews Developmental Center: advisory task force
Developmentally Disabled
AB 1192 Evans-D
Developmental services: consumer abuse registry
Developmentally Disabled
AB 1196 Gaines-R
Flamethrowing devices
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1201 Leno-D
Collective bargaining: direct care registered nurses
Health Professionals
AB 1203 Salas-D
Health care service plans: hospital contract cancellation
Health Facilities
AB 1217 Sharon Runner-R
Foster care: AFDC-FC: supplemental clothing allowance
Foster Care
AB 1224 Hernandez-D
Optometrists: telemedicine
Health Professionals
AB 1226 Hayashi-D
Medi-Cal: provider enrollment
Medi-Cal
Health Professionals
AB 1268 Dymally-D
Medi-Cal: fiscal intermediary services
Medi-Cal
AB 1276 Karnette-D
Pharmacies: prescription containers: labels
Health Professionals
AB 1298 Jones-D
Personal information: disclosure
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1299 Fuller-R
Public social services: child abuse
Public Social Services
AB 1304 Smyth-R
Hospital seismic retrofit
Health Facilities
AB 1312 Emmerson-R
Medi-Cal: health service costs
Medi-Cal
AB 1323 DeSaulnier-D
Tuberculosis testing
Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 1328 Hayashi-D
Access for Infants and Mothers Program: eligibility
Medi-Cal
AB 1329 Houston-R
Occupational therapists
Health Professionals
AB 1330 Evans-D
Foster children: psychotropic drugs: data
Foster Care
AB 1331 Evans-D
Foster youth: federal benefits
Foster Care
AB 1336 Bass-D
Problem and pathological gambling: substance abuse
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1339 Torrico-D
Problem and pathological gambling
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1367 DeSaulnier-D
Alcoholism and drug abuse counselors
Health Professionals
AB 1382 Leno-D
Public social services: CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program
Public Social Services
AB 1384 Price-D
Health facilities: public notice
Health Facilities
AB 1386 Price-D
Public social services
Public Social Services
AB 1397 Soto-D
Long-term health care facilities
Health Facilities
AB 1399 Richardson-D
Pharmacies: prescription labels
Health Professionals
AB 1402 Evans-D
Individual program plan meetings: recordation
Developmentally Disabled
AB 1406 Huffman-D
Recycled water: toilet and urinal flushing: condominiums
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1410 Feuer-D
Traumatic brain injury
Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 1427 Krekorian-D
Developmental services: training pilot program
Developmentally Disabled
AB 1429 Evans-D
Human papillomavirus vaccination
Cancer
AB 1434* Dymally-D
Medi-Cal: home health care services
Medi-Cal
AB 1436 Hernandez-D
Nurse practitioners: scope of practice
Health Professionals
AB 1442 Feuer-D
Clinical laboratories
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Health Facilities
AB 1444 Emmerson-R
Physical therapists: scope of practice
Health Professionals
AB 1453 Soto-D
Foster care: residentially based services
Foster Care
AB 1456 Laird-D
Medi-Cal: third party liability
Medi-Cal
AB 1461 Krekorian-D
Alcohol and drug abuse
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1462 Adams-R
Child care institutions
Foster Care
AB 1468 Garrick-R
Hospitals: patient data
Health Facilities
AB 1472 Leno-D
Public health: California Healthy Places Act of 2008
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1486 Charles Calderon-D
Licensed professional counselors
Health Professionals
AB 1494 DeSaulnier-D
Foster care: group homes
Foster Care
AB 1511 Leno-D
Sexual health: Stronger Families for California Act
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1512 Torrico-D
Medi-Cal: foster children
Medi-Cal
Foster Care
AB 1521 Salas-D
Drinking water: bottled drinking water
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1530 Lieber-D
Pesticide poisoning
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1531 DeSaulnier-D
Vehicles: disabled parking
Developmentally Disabled
AB 1541 Nava-D
Medi-Cal: family planning services
Medi-Cal
AB 1555 Lieber-D
Health care services: Chronic Care Model Task Force
Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 1558 Soto-D
Community care facilities: licenses information system
Health Facilities
AB 1578 Leno-D
Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act
Foster Care
AB 1585 Lieber-D
Tobacco products: nonsale distribution
Tobacco Products
AB 1587 De La Torre-D
Pharmacy: personal information
Health Professionals
AB 1592* Huff-R
Personal income taxes
Health Professionals
AB 1603 Caballero-D
Emergency services: cities
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1605 Lieber-D
Department of Public Health: State Public Health Nurse
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1617 DeSaulnier-D
Tobacco products
Tobacco Products
AB 1634 Levine-D
California Healthy Pets Act
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1635 Strickland-R
Medi-Cal: health opportunity accounts project
Medi-Cal
AB 1640 La Malfa-R
Mental incapacity
Mental Health
AB 1642* Hancock-D
Medi-Cal: noncontract hospitals
Medi-Cal
Health Facilities
AB 1643 Niello-R
Nurse practitioners
Health Professionals
AB 1646 DeSaulnier-D
Public health districts
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1669 Leno-D
Crime victims: trauma center grants
Health Facilities
AB 1674 Richardson-D
In-home supportive services: pilot project
Public Social Services
AB 1687 Brownley-D
Confidential information
Health Professionals
AB 1689 Lieber-D
The revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1692 Villines-R
Healthy Families Advisory Panel
Health Professionals
AB 1704 La Malfa-R
Developmental services
Developmentally Disabled
AB 1709 Hancock-D
Temporary local public health emergency
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1735 Assembly Agriculture Committee
Milk and dairy products: standards
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1749* Dymally-D
Private nonprofit university medical education project
Health Facilities
AB 1750* Assembly Health Committee
Health
Medi-Cal
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 5 Berg-D
American Heart Month and Wear Red Day
Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 9 Dymally-D
Legislative Task Force on Substance Abuse
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 13 Galgiani-D
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 15 Lieber-D
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Cancer
ACR 34 Nakanishi-R
Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 36 Strickland-R
National Nutrition Month
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 37 Mendoza-D
Automotive Career Month
Cancer
ACR 42 Berryhill-R
Donate Life California Registry
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 46 Lieu-D
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Cancer
ACR 47 Price-D
National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week
Cancer
ACR 49 Davis-D
American Stroke Month
Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 53 Walters-R
Make-A-Wish Day celebrating Destination Joy
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 54 Salas-D
Physical Education and Sport Week
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 56 DeSaulnier-D
Mesothelioma Awareness Week
Cancer
ACR 66 Ma-D
Hydrocephalus Awareness Month
Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 68 Hayashi-D
Neuropathy Action Awareness Day
Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 70 Galgiani-D
Red Ribbon Week
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 71 Portantino-D
Blood cancers
Cancer
AJR 1 Dymally-D
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Health Facilities
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AJR 4 Beall-D
CalWORKs
Public Social Services
AJR 11 Swanson-D
In-Home Supportive Services Plus Waiver
Public Social Services
AJR 13 Caballero-D
Food safety
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AJR 26 Bass-D
United States Census: Foster Child Category
Foster Care
AJR 30 Berg-D
Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education & Research
Other Diseases/Disorders
AJR 34 Price-D
National Lupus Awareness Month
Other Diseases/Disorders
HR 4 Dymally-D
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
HR 5 Nakanishi-R
Glaucoma Awareness Month
Other Diseases/Disorders
HR 11 Nava-D
Autism Awareness Month
Developmentally Disabled
HR 15 Soto-D
Pain Awareness Month
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
HR 16 Garcia-R
National HIV/AIDS Testing Day
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 6X Nakanishi-R
Physician assistants: educational loan program
Health Professionals

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