Health and Human Services

Abortion
AIDS
Cancer
Alzheimer's Disease
Other Diseases/Disorders
Stem Cell Research
Medi-Cal
Mental Health
Developmentally Disabled
Tobacco Products
Health Facilities
Health Professionals
Foster Care
Public Social Services
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation

Abortion

SB 147 (Runner-R) Fetal pain prevention

Enacts the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2005, to require, with an exemption for medical emergency, the physician performing the abortion to offer to the pregnant woman information and counseling on fetal pain. Requires the Department of Health Services to develop a related brochure and a waiver form. Requires the California Medical Board to adopt regulations for revocation or suspension of medical licenses for violation of these provisions and authorizes the Attorney General and the woman or her family to bring a civil action for damages and penalties for violation of these provisions.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1427 (Mountjoy-R) Abortion: saving tissue for evidence

Requires a physician or surgeon performing an abortion on a minor to retain sufficient tissue of the aborted fetus to permit DNA testing for the purposes of determining paternity and providing potential evidence in sex crimes cases.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AJR 3 (Cohn-D) Reproductive rights: Roe v. Wade

Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to stand firm in their resolve to uphold the intent and substance of the 32-year old United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) 410 U.S. 113. Makes various statements regarding the effect of Roe v. Wade on women's ability to exercise their full rights under federal and state law.

Resolution Chapter 83, Statutes of 2005

AIDS

SB 235 (Denham-R) HIV exposure: penalties

Enacts a new alternate misdemeanor/felony for the act of engaging in unprotected sex, with willful or wanton disregard for the health of the other person, when a person knows he/she is HIV positive and fails to disclose that fact to the other person.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 945 (Soto-D) HIV testing

Requires, among other things, healthcare providers and laboratories to report cases of HIV infection to the local health officer using the patient's name.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SCR 56 (Alarcon-D) Latino AIDS Awareness Day

Proclaims October 15 as Latino AIDS Awareness Day, and urges all community-based organizations, religious communities, civic groups, health care providers, elected officials, and government agencies to utilize this day to raise awareness of the impact of HIV and AIDS in the Latino community.

Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2005

AB 8* (Chu-D) Medi-Cal: AIDS and cancer treatment drugs: rebates

Removes the sunset date from existing law that requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide a state rebate for HIV-AIDS and cancer drugs added to the Medi-Cal list of contract drugs and reimbursed through the Medi-Cal outpatient fee-for-service program.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2005

AB 95 (Koretz-D) Prescription drugs: Medi-Cal

Requires manufacturers of drugs for life-threatening chronic conditions that are on the list for Medi-Cal or the AIDS Drugs Assistance Program to pay to the Department of Health Services a rebate equal to the costs of marketing that drug.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 228 (Koretz-D) Transplantation services: HIV

Prohibits health care service plans and health insurers from denying coverage for organ or tissue transplantation services on the basis that an enrollee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder is infected with HIV.

Chapter 419, Statutes of 2005

AB 547 (Berg-D) Clean needle and syringe exchange projects

Creates the Clean Needle and Syringe Exchange Program, which eliminates the statutory requirement for a declaration of a local emergency by a public entity in order to operate a needle exchange program.

Chapter 692, Statutes of 2005

AB 568 (Garcia-R) HIV tests

Requires any woman seeking an annual gynecological examination or family planning appointment to be provided information on HIV and AIDS and offered the option of being tested for HIV.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1074 (Chu-D) HIV testing for foster children

Adds a foster parent, relative caregiver, or assigned social worker for a child who has been adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court, to the list of persons to whom disclosure may be made without consent and authorizes a foster parent or relative caregiver of a child adjudged to be a dependent child of the juvenile court, and the child's social worker, to consent to the test on the child's behalf.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1142 (Dymally-D) HIV/AIDS: African-Americans: statewide initiative

Establishes the Statewide African-American Initiative to address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on the health of African-Americans by coordinating prevention and service networks around the state in an effort to increase the capacity of core service providers.

Chapter 403, Statutes of 2005

AB 1217 (Wyland-R) Sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention education

Requires comprehensive sexual health education to provide instruction and materials on sex outside of marriage, and on refraining from making and accepting unwanted physical and verbal sexual advances.

(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1597 (Laird-D) Drug paraphernalia

Permits a public entity that receives General Fund money from the Department of Health Services for HIV prevention and education to use that money to support clean needle and syringe exchange projects including, but not limited to, the purchase of sterile hypodermic needles and syringes.

Vetoed by the Governor

AJR 24 (Calderon-D) Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization

Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to expeditiously reauthorize the Ryan White Comprehensive Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Resources Emergency (CARE) Act.

Resolution Chapter 120, Statutes of 2005

Cancer

SB 583 (Figueroa-D) Cancer treatment

Provides that a licensed physician who provides treatment to cancer patients is not subject to discipline for specified aspects of unprofessional conduct solely on the basis that the physician's treatment or advice is "alternative or complementary medicine" if specified conditions are satisfied.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 615 (Figueroa-D) Cervical cancer

Extends the scope of the Cervical Cancer Community Awareness Campaign at the Department of Health Services to include the human papillomavirus (HPV), including provider education aimed at promoting the awareness of HPV and its link to cervical cancer, and calls for a report by January 1, 2007, on the progress of the campaign and makes the campaign subject to the receipt of voluntary contributions.

Chapter 550, Statutes of 2005

SB 650* (Ortiz-D) Prostate cancer

Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to report to the Legislature its evaluation of the Improving Access, Counseling, and Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer (IMPACT) program, and appropriates $2.404 million from the General Fund to DHS for fiscal year 2005-06 for the implementation of the IMPACT program.

Chapter 442, Statutes of 2005

SB 688 (Speier-D) The Skin Cancer Prevention Act for California Schools

Requires the California Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health Services, to develop a skin cancer prevention policy to educate pupils in grades 1-6.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 704 (Speier-D) State employees: protective clothing

Requires, in cases where the state is required by collective bargaining agreements to provide protective clothing to employees who work outdoors during daylight hours, that the clothing screen the employee from ultraviolet radiation.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCR 61 (Ortiz-D) Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

Provides that the Legislature recognize September 2005, as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month throughout California, and encourages and promotes the efforts of the people and the health care practitioners of the state to increase their awareness of this disease and to educate themselves about its early detection and prevention, the risk factors involved in its development, and the early warning symptoms and signs.

Resolution Chapter 127, Statutes of 2005

AB 8* (Chu-D) Medi-Cal: AIDS and cancer treatment drugs: rebates

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2005

AB 95 (Koretz-D) Prescription drugs: Medi-Cal

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 819 (Ridley-Thomas-D) California Colorectal Cancer Prevention Fund: tax checkoff

Authorizes the addition of the California Colorectal Cancer Prevention Fund income tax checkoff to the personal income tax form upon the removal of another checkoff from the form.

Chapter 697, Statutes of 2005

AB 1476 (Nakanishi-R) Cancer registry: reporting

Requires hospitals or other facilities providing therapy to cancer patients, and any physician and surgeon, dentist, podiatrist, or other health care practitioner diagnosing or providing treatment for cancer patients to include, when the cancer patient is a juvenile, information on the juvenile's current address and all residences during the previous 10 years in an existing report submitted to the Department of Health Services.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

ACR 36 (Berg-D) Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Month

Proclaims the month of October 2005, as Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Month.

Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2005

ACR 82 (Wolk-D) Breast cancer awareness

Declares October 2005, as Breast Cancer Awareness Month in California, and also declares that the Legislature joins with other states and with the federal government in recognizing the important issue of breast cancer, and the critical need to continue spreading awareness of it, and that the Legislature dedicates itself to the cause of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and National Mammography Day.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 87 (Niello-R) Blood cancers

Designates September 2005, as Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma Awareness Month, in order to enhance the understanding of blood 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 138, Statutes of 2005

HR 9 (Frommer-D) Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Declares the month of March 2005, as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 22 (McCarthy-R) Testicular Cancer Awareness Month

Designates the month of October as Testicular Cancer Awareness Month and encourages the medical profession to increase awareness of this disease and show how to conduct proper examinations.

Adopted by the Assembly

Alzheimer's Disease

SB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Lapses of consciousness: Department of Motor Vehicles report

Requires a physician and surgeon to report specified information to the Department of Motor Vehicles, in writing, regarding patients that have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia disorder, or with a disorder characterized by lapses of consciousness that might be recurrent, or with an impairment or disorder that compromises the patient's ability to safely operate a motor vehicle, among other things.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SCR 36 (Alquist-D) Alzheimer's Association anniversary

Commends the Alzheimer's Association for its accomplishments and service to families living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disorders on the Association's 25th anniversary.

Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 2005

AB 230 (Shirley Horton-R) Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Centers

Exempts certain Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Centers and the Linkages Program from the competitive bidding process administered by the Department of Aging and the Area Agencies on Aging.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Other Diseases/Disorders

SB 57 (Alarcon-D) Fines and forfeitures

Amends, until January 1, 2009, the Maddy Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fund to provide that of the money deposited into the EMS Fund pursuant to this bill, 15 percent shall be utilized to provide funding for pediatric trauma centers.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 209 (Alquist-D) Stroke education

Requires the Department of Health Services to implement an education program intended to reduce the incidence of strokes.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 397 (Escutia-D) Elder death review teams

Requires skilled nursing facilities and residential care facilities for the chronically ill within a county that has an elder death review team (EDRT) to notify the chair or chair designee of the EDRT through fax or electronic mail, when there is a death of an elderly resident of the facilities.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 492 (Ashburn-R) Valley fever: vaccine

Appropriates $1,000,000 to the Department of Health Services for continuation of the Valley Fever Vaccine Project.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 913 (Simitian-D) Medication therapies: rheumatic diseases

Prohibits any health care service plan or health insurer that contracts to provide coverage for drugs from requiring a step therapy pharmacy management protocol that makes a distinction between biologic and nonbiologic therapies.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 923* (Florez-D) West Nile virus

Directs that any emergency funds that the Department of Health Services receives shall be spent on West Nile Virus control.

(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SCR 9 (Kehoe-D) American Heart Month

Proclaims February 4, 2005, as Go Red for Women Day and encourages Californians to wear red in support of women whose lives have been touched by heart disease or stroke.

Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2005

SCR 23 (Scott-D) Lyme Disease Awareness Week

Proclaims May 4 through May 10, 2005, as Lyme Disease Awareness Week.

Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2005

SCR 35 (Battin-R) Polio Awareness Day

Declares April 12, 2005, as Polio Awareness Day to commemorate the development of the polio vaccine and to acknowledge polio survivors.

Resolution Chapter 21, Statutes of 2005

SCR 54 (Ashburn-R) Valley Fever Awareness Month

Proclaims August 2005, as Valley Fever Awareness Month.

Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2005

AB 213 (Liu-D) Health care coverage for lymphedema

Requires a health care service plan and a health insurer to provide coverage for the treatment of lymphedema.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 264 (Chan-D) Schools: asthma management

Requires the Department of Education to supply school districts and county offices of education with a copy of the report titled "Guidelines for the Management of Asthma in California Schools."

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 291 (Koretz-D) Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders: screening

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 296 (Negrete McLeod-D) Hepatitis C

Adds additional requirements to the hepatitis C voluntary testing program that the Director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall implement.

Chapter 524, Statutes of 2005

AB 460 (Parra-D) Contagious diseases

Permits the Department of Food and Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements with the United States Department of Agriculture to carry out a program for the prevention and control of Avian Influenza, and also requires the adoption of regulations as needed to implement such program requirements created by the agreement.

Chapter 609, Statutes of 2005

AB 512 (Richman-R) Clinical laboratories

Authorizes the Department of Health Services to revoke or suspend the license of a clinical laboratory, or impose a civil penalty for failure to comply with the infectious disease reporting requirements.

Chapter 219, Statutes of 2005

AB 805 (Chu-D) Occupational safety and health: heat illness prevention

Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to adopt two heat illness standards: an occupational safety and health standard for all employees at risk of heat illness by December 1, 2007, and a standard for heat illness prevention and response for workers subject to specified wage orders by December 1, 2006.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 813 (Baca-D) Women's heart health

Requires the Department of Health Services to place priority on providing information to consumers, patients, and health care providers regarding heart health risks for women.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1648 (Pavley-D) Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Requires the Department of Health Services to create a program for research and education on the debilitating disease called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1736 (Levine-D) Medi-Cal: disease management

Requires the Department of Health Services to test the efficacy of the chronic care model in providing a disease management benefit for individuals with chronic diseases in community-based and public hospital system primary care settings.

Vetoed by the Governor

ACR 18 (Gordon-D) American Stroke Month 2005

Recognizes May 2005, 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 we might begin to reduce the devastating effects strokes have on our population.

Resolution Chapter 43, Statutes of 2005

ACR 32 (Arambula-D) West Nile Virus & Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week

Declares April 25 through May 1, 2005, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.

Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2005

ACR 75 (Oropeza-D) Chronic kidney disease

Designates August 8 through 12, 2005, as California Chronic Kidney Disease Education Week and urges all Californians to familiarize themselves with the causes of chronic kidney disease and the importance of intervention to promote sustained health and a better quality of life.

Resolution Chapter 116, Statutes of 2005

HR 7 (Sharon Runner-R) Endometriosis Awareness Month

Recognizes the efforts of the Endometriosis Research Center and declares March 2005, as Endometriosis Awareness Month.

Adopted by the Assembly

Stem Cell Research

SB 18 (Ortiz-D) Reproductive health and research

Requires the State Auditor to conduct a performance audit of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee, created through voter initiative Proposition 71, California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act. Establishes guidelines for assisted oocyte production.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 340 (Battin-R) Stem cell research: revenues

Requires that all revenues derived from patents, royalties, and licenses paid to the state as a result of intellectual property agreements entered into as a result of Proposition 71 be deposited into the General Fund.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SCA 13 (Ortiz-D) Biomedical research

Modifies provisions of Proposition 71 dealing with reporting of economic interests and conflicts of interest for appointees of the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee (ICOC), employees of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and working group members. Applies open meeting and public records laws to meetings and records of the ICOC, the CIRM, and working groups with exceptions, including to allow for scientific evaluations of applications for funding and to consider matters involving intellectual property or proprietary information. Requires the ICOC to ensure that treatments, therapies, products, and services resulting from technologies and inventions derived from grants awarded are accessible and affordable to low-income residents, including those residents eligible for state and county-funded health care programs.

(On Senate Inactive File)

SJR 17 (Ortiz-D) Stem cell research

Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to lift restrictions on federal funding for stem cell research, to not impair the ability of researchers to conduct stem cell research applications that hold promise for developing therapies for treating and curing chronic diseases, to develop ethical guidelines for federally funded stem cell research, and to prohibit human cloning.

Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2005

ACR 1 (Negrete McLeod-D) Proposition 71: stem cell research

Urges the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee, established pursuant to Proposition 71 as approved by the voters at the November 2, 2004 general election, to adopt robust conflict-of-interest standards for itself and for the members of its working groups, to comply with standards set forth in provisions of law relating to open meetings of public agencies and public records, and to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2006.

Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2005

ACR 24 (Mullin-D) California Council on Science and Technology

Requests, on behalf of the Legislature, that the California Council on Science and Technology (Council) expand the scope of the study group on how the state should treat intellectual property to include contracts, grants and agreements developed under Proposition 71, that the study group also study and report to the Legislature how the commercialization of technology developed with the investment of taxpayer dollars generate some public benefit, and requests the Council to establish a review group to review and comment on the study.

Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2005

Medi-Cal

SB 23 (Migden-D) Healthy Families Program and Medi-Cal

Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the Department of Health Services to collaborate with the Employment Development Department to promote participation in the Healthy Families and Medi-Cal programs.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 131 (Chesbro-D) Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics

Requires federally qualified health centers receiving cost-based reimbursement under the Los Angeles County 1115 Waiver Demonstration Project that expired June 30th to transition to a prospective payment system, and requires a scope-of-service change to be considered timely when filed within 150 days following a federally qualified health center or rural health clinic fiscal year following the year in which the change occurred.

Chapter 548, Statutes of 2005

SB 206 (Dunn-D) Pediatric Outlier Payment Adjustment Program

Establishes the Pediatric Outlier Payment Adjustment Program to provide funding to offset the unfunded costs of eligible hospitals that serve Medi-Cal eligible children with extraordinary health care needs.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 377* (Ortiz-D) Medi-Cal: dental services

Requires the Department of Health Services to inform Denti-Cal and other Medi-Cal providers that prevention and treatment of dental and periodontal disease is a covered benefit for all pregnant beneficiaries.

Chapter 643, Statutes of 2005

SB 442 (Machado-D) Maintenance: income levels

Reduces the share of cost for medically needy persons under the Medi-Cal program by allowing an additional deduction from income of the difference of the current maintenance need level and 133 percent of the corresponding federal poverty level.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 452 (Alarcon-D) Medi-Cal: contracts: disclosure and confidentiality

Requires Medi-Cal confidential contracts with manufacturers of drugs for discount prices and rebates, to be disclosed to the chairs of the health, human services or budget committees of the Legislature upon the request of the chairs, and requires the chairs to treat this information as confidential.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 454 (Ortiz-D) Health counseling

Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the Department of Health Services to establish standards to ensure that educational materials are available to beneficiaries of the Healthy Families Program and Medi-Cal, at their request, on the subjects of nutrition education, increased physical activity and participation in state and federal nutrition programs.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 458 (Speier-D) Basic health care: counties

Authorizes, until January 1, 2009, a pilot project in which up to 200,000 employees at any one time may be enrolled, and for which nonprofit community health centers, nonprofit primary care clinics, nonprofit federally qualified health centers, and look-alikes, may accept prepayment from an administering health care service plan or health insurer for provider services for up to one month at a time. Requires that, before January 1, 2009, an evaluation of the coverage provided pursuant to the pilot project be submitted to the Legislature.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 496 (Kuehl-D) Medi-Cal: administrative claims

Makes changes to the Medi-Cal Administrative Activities claiming process for local governmental agencies, local education agencies, and local educational consortia.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 526 (Alquist-D) Long-term health care

Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to establish dedicated complaint response units in each district office of the Licensing and Certification Division of DHS by January 1, 2007 following a study of unanticipated costs, requires DHS to issue a Class "A" citation when a nursing home resident is sexually assaulted by an employee of the facility, adds to the list of resident rights for long-term health care facilities, including changes to requirements regarding transfer and discharge of patients, creates requirements for skilled nursing facilities for the admission of patients covered by the Medi-Cal program, and requires nursing home operators to document labor costs by submitting payroll records to DHS on a quarterly basis.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 558 (Migden-D) Medi-Cal: third-party liability

Provides that no Medi-Cal claim under specified authorization shall be permitted to the extent that it is inconsistent with a specified decision of the California Supreme Court which limited the right of recovery from third-parties.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 571 (Perata-D) Adult day health care services: certification

Requires applicants for adult day health care facility certification to attend an orientation provided by the Department of Aging (CDA) and submit documentation of the need for the facility and other specified information to CDA, allows CDA to conduct a face-to-face interview with the applicant, and lists the items that must be examined to qualify for certification and authorizes CDA to give priority to certain applications.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 593 (Alarcon-D) Health care costs: recovery

Requires a for-profit corporation with at least 20,000 employees to reimburse the state for costs of providing Medi-Cal and Healthy Families to the corporation employees and dependents.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 642* (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: adult day health care services

Makes various changes to the Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) Program and mainly requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to take all appropriate action to obtain approval for a state plan amendment that conforms the ADHC program to requirements of federal law and include specific requirements, and provides that no single provision of the ADHC state plan amendment shall be implemented unless and until DHS has obtained full approval for that amendment from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the plan can be implemented by DHS.

(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 643 (Chesbro-D) Nursing facilities

Authorizes the expansion of home- and community-based waivers to an additional 500 slots beyond those currently authorized for the home- and community-based Level A/B nursing facility waiver, and requires the Department of Health Services to promptly pay individual nurse providers and to report to the Legislature the time it takes to process Medi-Cal provider applications from individual nurse providers.

Chapter 551, Statutes of 2005

SB 676 (Ashburn-R) Medi-Cal: pharmacy reimbursement

Requires the Department of Health Services to ensure that Medi-Cal reimbursements for intravenous or infusion therapy are made in a manner that is consistent with the services provided to ensure that patients receiving these services continue to receive appropriate care and continuity of their drug regimen.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 750 (Soto-D) Medi-Cal: disease management

Allows the Department of Health Services to require contractors in their acute long-term care integration pilot project to establish Medi-Cal disease management programs.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 770 (Romero-D) Medi-Cal: provider enrollment

Makes physicians participating in the Medicare program eligible for enrollment in the Medi-Cal program via a short form application if they meet specified criteria, and shortens the time frames for the Department of Health Services to enroll Medi-Cal providers.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 791 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: continuous skilled nursing care benefit

Extends the repeal date from January 1, 2006 to January 1, 2008 for a current pilot project that provides continuous skilled nursing care as a benefit of the Medi-Cal program to individuals with developmental disabilities in the least restrictive health facility setting.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1083 (Ackerman-R) California Medical Assistance Commission: reimbursement

Provides that the California Medical Assistance Commission shall be reimbursed at the annual salary of members of the State Personnel Board.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 1100* (Perata-D) Hospital funding

Establishes the Medi-Cal Hospital Care and Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act, which serves as the statutory framework for implementing a five year waiver of federal Medicaid requirements that provide federal Medicaid funding under the terms of the waiver to pay certain public, private, and district hospitals for services provided to Medi-Cal and uninsured patients.

Chapter 560, Statutes of 2005

AB 8* (Chu-D) Medi-Cal: AIDS and cancer treatment drugs

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2005

AB 65* (Daucher-R) Medi-Cal: health care benefits

Authorizes County Organized Health Systems to extend their Medi-Cal delivery systems to individuals eligible for Medicare or dually eligible for both Medi-Cal and Medicare.

Chapter 13, Statutes of 2005

AB 77 (Frommer-D) Medi-Cal: clinics: reimbursement

Revises the pharmaceutical goods and services reimbursement and billing formula for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.

Chapter 503, Statutes of 2005

AB 95 (Koretz-D) Prescription drugs: Medi-Cal

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 119 (Strickland-R) Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services

Increases the amount from $2 billion to $4 billion in the continuously appropriated Medical Providers Interim Payment fund to pay for Medi-Cal expenses in a fiscal year in which there is no enacted state budget.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 131* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Trailer Bill: Medi-Cal

Implements statutory changes for specified Medi-Cal purposes in order to enact the Budget Act of 2005-06. Places a cap on dental services provided to adults enrolled in the Medi-Cal Program, effective January 1, 2006. Changes the drug formulary pricing effective from a 30-day noticed update to a weekly noticed update so as to assist pharmacists in receiving appropriate reimbursement for their drug ingredient costs.

Chapter 80, Statutes of 2005

AB 170 (Lieber-D) Medi-Cal: utilization controls

Establishes a five-year pilot program relating to Medi-Cal and utilization plans in Santa Clara County and requires the Department of Health Services to submit a report on the pilot program to the Legislature no later than 36 months after commencement of the program.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 201 (Dymally-D) Medi-Cal

Provides an exception from a prohibition regarding door-to-door solicitation for not-for-profit health plans with a Medi-Cal managed care enrollment of less than 100,000 members, under which, commencing January 1, 2006, the health plan may engage in door-to-door solicitation of Medi-Cal enrollees at any time the plan's membership is less than 100,000 members.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 240* (Bermudez-D) Sex offenders

Expands the current limitation on the placement of certain sex offender parolees away from schools to include grades 9-12.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 257 (Matthews-D) Medi-Cal: providers

Requires the Department of Health Services to determine whether an applicant is on the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities excluded from participation in the Medicare Program maintained by the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 258 (Matthews-D) Medi-Cal: durable medical equipment

Requires, effective July 1, 2006, that any Medi-Cal provider of custom rehabilitation equipment and custom rehabilitation technology services ensure that a qualified rehabilitation professional determines the need for, and supervises the fitting of, such equipment.

Chapter 523, Statutes of 2005

AB 341* (Daucher-R) Medi-Cal: county health care

Allows county boards of supervisors to authorize County Organized Health Systems (COHS) to provide services to persons eligible for Medicare and dually eligible for Medicare and Medi-Cal. Allows dual eligible beneficiaries to have all their health care services covered by a single entity (a COHS). Identical to AB 65 (Daucher), Chapter 13, Statutes of 2004, that was chaptered out by the Budget Bill.

Chapter 156, Statutes of 2005

AB 467 (Yee-D) Mental health: hospital contracts: reimbursement

Requests the Department of Mental Health, in consultation with the California Hospital Association and the California Mental Health Directors Association, to evaluate the ratesetting methodology used for fee-for-service Medi-Cal, non-contracting hospitals and recommend to the Legislature by September 1, 2006, an alternative rate-setting structure.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 469 (Yee-D) Medi-Cal: supportive housing

Requires the Department of Health Services to develop, and request approval of, a federal Medicaid waiver to provide for Medi-Cal reimbursement for covered services when provided to beneficiaries residing in supportive housing that is administered by a city, county, city and county, or other local governmental entity.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 522* (Plescia-R) Automated drug delivery system: Medi-Cal coverage

Prohibits the Department of Health Services from paying for any prescription drug or other therapy to treat erectile dysfunction for registered sex offenders, and authorizes the Department of Justice to share information with the Department of Health Services concerning registered sex offenders for this purpose.

Chapter 469, Statutes of 2005

AB 525 (Chu-D) Health care

Requires Department of Health Services to develop and implement a system and a card, to be known as the Health Access Programs Card, to enroll individuals in specified state health care programs.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 530 (Plescia-R) Medi-Cal: withholding payments or suspension

Requires the Department of Health Services to develop a process for conferring with a Medi-Cal provider after the department sanctions the provider.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 624 (Montanez-D) Medi-Cal program: Healthy Families Program

Requires the Department of Health Services and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to, by July 1, 2007, include an application process to be used at the option of the person applying on the child's behalf, to simultaneously pre-enroll and apply for enrollment into the Healthy Families or Medi-Cal programs.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 626 (Matthews-D) Medi-Cal: anti-fraud task force

Creates the Public/Private Anti-Fraud Task Force in the Department of Health Services to review reports of fraud occurring in the delivery of clinical laboratory services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries and to recommend activities to eliminate fraudulent practices.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 699 (Chan-D) Medi-Cal: semi-annual status reports

Eliminates the requirement that certain Medi-Cal recipients file semi-annual status reports, effective July 1, 2006.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 779 (De La Torre-D) Medi-Cal: maintaining eligibility

Requires the Department of Health Services to give Medi-Cal providers access to information regarding the due dates for specified forms from Medi-Cal beneficiaries and permits providers to notify the beneficiary of an approaching due date.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 794 (Chu-D) Health care funding: Access for Infants and Mothers Program

Authorizes the Department of Health Services to accept or use funds allocated to the state under the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program to fund the medically necessary pregnancy-related services provided to immigrants under the Medi-Cal program, and to accept and use these funds for women in the Access for Infants and Mothers Program only when, during the period of coverage, the woman is the beneficiary.

Chapter 23, Statutes of 2005

AB 1175 (Tran-R) Pharmaceutical providers: appeals procedure

Provides that the Department of Health Services shall expeditiously maintain oversight over any appeal made by a pharmaceutical Medi-Cal provider with respect to contract disputes and appeals resolution procedures regarding issues arising from a contract between a provider and the department or a fiscal intermediary for the provision of pharmaceutical services under the Medi-Cal program.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1226 (Yee-D) Workers' compensation: Medi-Cal recoveries

Requires the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation, along with the Department of Industrial Relations, to report to the Legislature on the extent to which Medi-Cal is paying for medical treatment costs that are the responsibility of workers' compensation.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1239 (Chan-D) Medi-Cal: self-certification of assets

Requires the Department of Health Services, beginning January 1, 2006, to allow an individual eligible for benefits under the 1931(b) Medi-Cal category, to self-certify his or her countable resources (commonly referred to as an assets test).

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1396* (Garcia-R) Healthy Families and Medi-Cal programs: outreach assistance

Appropriates $1.3 million from the General Fund to reestablish application assistance payments for individuals assisting applicants to the Healthy Families and Medi-Cal Programs. Effective April 1, 2005, appropriates $1.8 million from the Federal Trust Fund as the federal match.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1481 (Richman-R) Medi-Cal: managed care

Requires that any Medi-Cal beneficiary who is also eligible for Medicare be enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care if federal financial participation is available.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1485 (Wyland-R) Medi-Cal: providers: change in ownership

Requires the Department of Health Services to reimburse a new Medi-Cal provider who is applying for enrollment at the location of an existing Medi-Cal provider, subject to specified criteria.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1591 (Chan-D) Medi-Cal eligibility: Chappell Hayes Health Center

Specifies that there shall be a presumption of eligibility for Medi-Cal benefits for any patient at the Chappell Hayes Health Center at McClymonds High School in Oakland.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1675 (Nation-D) Medi-Cal: contract drug list: generic drugs

Provides that a drug, other than a generic drug, shall not be included on the Medi-Cal contract drug list unless it can be demonstrated that the drug will lead to patient outcomes that are better than the outcomes achieved with a generic drug or drugs for the same condition, provide that a drug that is not available through the Medi-Cal contract drug list may be available through the treatment authorization request process, and requires a Center for Quality Medicine selected by the Department of Managed Health Care to develop guidelines for the treatment authorization request process.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1707* (Chan-D) Medi-Cal financing

Allows the continuously appropriated Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund to be used to pay for Medi-Cal expenses after the beginning of a fiscal year in which there is no enacted state budget.

Chapter 57, Statutes of 2005

AB 1735* (De La Torre-D) Medi-Cal: provider reimbursement: reductions

States that a requirement that the Department of Health Services reduce Medi-Cal provider payments by five percent for dates of service on and after January 1, 2004 does not apply to dates of service between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2005.

Chapter 719, Statutes of 2005

AB 1736 (Levine-D) Medi-Cal: disease management

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1737* (Yee-D) Workers' compensation

Authorizes a study to determine if Medi-Cal payments are covering medical treatments that should be the responsibility of the workers' compensation system.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1745 (Assembly Health Committee) Medi-Cal: administrative costs

Requires the Department of Health Services Medi-Cal Estimate Binder to be made available and forwarded to the legislative health committees.

(In Senate Health Committee)

Mental Health

SB 26* (Hollingsworth-R) Personal income taxes

Reduces, commencing with taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2003, all marginal tax rates, eliminates the tax on taxable income and the alternative minimum tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2007, and repeals the one percent surcharge on taxpayers with annual taxable incomes of more than $1 million (enacted by the Mental Health Services Act).

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 78 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Mental health: caseloads

Among other provisions, provides $19.182 million to supplement the 2004-05 Department of Mental Health budget for increased caseloads.

Chapter 246, Statutes of 2005

SB 91 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Department of Mental Health deficiencies

Augments the 2005-06 Budget Act to provide $5.389 million to the Department of Mental Health to offset the disallowance of federal matching funds and $8.872 million for an increase in state hospital population.

Chapter 79, Statutes of 2005

SB 257 (Chesbro-D) Mental health services

Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission to elect, from its members, a chair and vice chair at its first meeting and annually thereafter.

(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 258 (Chesbro-D) Mental health: client rights

Requires the Department of Mental Health to establish a work group and report to the Legislature by February 15, 2007, with recommendations for improving the quality of care at residential care facilities providing housing and care to adults with mental health issues.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 325 (Ducheny-D) County reimbursement

Appropriates $69 million from funds payable under the Federal Trust Fund, and an undetermined amount from the General Fund, to the Department of Mental Health for allocation to county mental health agencies for the purposes of providing mental health services for the 2005-06 fiscal year under individualized education program developed pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 330 (Cedillo-D) Criminal proceedings: mental competency

Allows a misdemeanor trial to be reset within 30 days following reinstatement of criminal proceedings after a determination that the defendant is competent to stand trial.

Chapter 36, Statutes of 2005

SB 383 (Maldonado-R) Department of Mental Health: sexually violent predators

Allows the Department of Mental Health to enter into an interagency agreement or contract with the Department of Corrections and local law enforcement agencies for services related to the supervision and monitoring of sexually violent predators who have been conditionally released into the community.

Chapter 137, Statutes of 2005

SB 447* (Poochigian-R) Youth authority

Clarifies current law, which allows the court to impose a civil commitment on a juvenile about to be released from the Department of the Youth Authority if that person presents a physical danger to the public because of a mental or physical deficiency, disorder, or abnormality, to require the court to find that the condition "causes the offender to have serious difficulty controlling his or her behavior," as specified by recent case law.

Chapter 110, Statutes of 2005

SB 482 (Chesbro-D) Napa State Hospital: cemetery restoration

Requires the Department of Mental Health to develop a workplan for the restoration of Napa State Hospital gravesites, exempts the workplan from the prohibitions against structural changes, and requires the Governor to submit the workplan and the proposed budget as part the Governor's proposed 2006-07 fiscal year State Budget.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 570 (Migden-D) Mentally incompetent minors

Creates a procedure for minors who are within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court for delinquent conduct to be evaluated for mental disorders, emotional disturbances or developmental disabilities.

Chapter 265, Statutes of 2005

SB 572 (Perata-D) Benefits: mental health

Requires that a health care service plan and a health insurer provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of mental illness, and defines that term to include mental disorders defined in a specified Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, excluding substance abuse disorders.

(In Senate Banking, Finance, and Insurance Committee)

SB 723 (Denham-R) Sexually violent predators: conditional release program

Provides that a conditionally released sexually violent predator patient cannot reside within one-quarter mile of a school for kindergarteners or students in grades 1 through 12.

Chapter 486, Statutes of 2005

SB 864 (Poochigian-R) Sexually violent predators: term of commitment

Lengthens the period of civil commitment for those found to be sexually violent predators from two years to four years.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 1098 (Hollingsworth-R) Sexually violent predators: definition

Allows the commitment of a person as a sexually violent predator if he/she was previously convicted of a sex crime against a single victim under the age of 14 if the crime involved "substantial sexual conduct" or was accomplished by force or duress.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 131* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget trailer bill: mental health

Implements statutory changes for specified mental health programs in order to enact the 2005-06 Budget.

Chapter 80, Statutes of 2005

AB 291 (Koretz-D) Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders: screening

Includes, as a component of the Department of Health Services' program of maternal and child health, a requirement that pregnant women and new mothers be screened for postpartum mood and anxiety disorders at designated intervals, and requires a physician or other health care practitioner to review and discuss the screening tool with the patient, among other things.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 440 (Matthews-D) Department of Mental Health: sexually violent predators

Authorizes the Department of Mental Health to contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for supervision of sexually violent predators who have been conditionally released into the community under the forensic conditional release program.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 467 (Yee-D) Mental health: hospital contracts: reimbursement

Requests the Department of Mental Health (DMH), in consultation with the California Hospital Association and the California Mental Health Directors Association, to evaluate the rate-setting methodology used for fee-for-service Medi-Cal, non-contracting hospitals and recommend to the Legislature by September 1, 2006, an alternative rate-setting structure, and requests the Department of Health Services, by June 15, 2006, to provide to DMH any data necessary to conduct the evaluation.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 468 (Yee-D) Interagency responsibilities over handicapped children

Requires a local education agency referring a special education student to community mental health services to provide parents with an opportunity to provide their advance consent to the community mental health assessment at the same time they provide consent to the referral.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 470 (Yee-D) Mental health assessment and services for children

Requires county mental health agencies to provide a mental health assessment and all necessary mental health services for children whose families are recipients of prescribed general assistance benefits, or who are wards or dependent children of the court.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 599 (Gordon-D) Mental health account: primary goals: California veterans

Specifies that veterans in need of mental health services who are not eligible for care by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA) or other federal health care are prioritized as "targeted populations" and should be provided services to the extent resources are available, and requires counties to refer a veteran to the county veterans service officer to determine the veteran's eligibility for, and the availability of, mental health services provided by the USDVA or other federal health care provider.

Chapter 221, Statutes of 2005

AB 603 (Spitzer-R) Sexually violent predators: parole

Suspends the period of parole of an inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who has been committed to the Department of Mental Health as a sexually violent predator until the person has been discharged from the commitment.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1109 (Shirley Horton-R) Sexually violent predator: conditional release program

Requires the Department of Mental Health, no later than 65 days prior to a hearing on the proposed placement of a sexually violent predator, to notify specified entities of the placement, who in turn shall notify the public.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1484 (Wyland-R) Sexually violent predators: definition

Expands the definition of a "sexually violent predator" to include a person who commits a single sexually violent offense against a minor under the age of 14.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1603 (Shirley Horton-R) High-risk sex offenders

Requires law enforcement agencies to advise persons determined to be in a "risk zone" of the presence of high-risk sex offenders.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1689 (Lieber-D) EPSDT services

Requires any participating county contracting with a provider for Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program services to include in the contract terms and conditions in which the contracting county agrees to pay for those services provided by the contractor to residents of another county, and provides for the reimbursement of counties that pay for those services for children who are not residents of the county.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1720 (Dymally-D) State hospitals: clinical directors

Requires that a clinical director of a state hospital for the mentally disordered be a licensed physician and surgeon and makes other technical, nonsubstantive changes.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

ACR 54 (Yee-D) Mental Health Occupations Week

Makes a number of findings related to mental health and declares the week of May 15 through May 21, 2005, and every third week of May of every year thereafter, to be Mental Health Occupations Week.

Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2005

HR 20 (Nava-D) Suicide Prevention Month

Designates September as Suicide Prevention Month in the State of California.

Adopted by the Assembly

Developmentally Disabled

SB 418 (Escutia-D) Rehabilitation loans

Consolidates two loan programs that assist persons that are disabled in modifying their vehicles and acquiring assistive technology to support their employment, and modifies eligibility for these loan programs.

Chapter 549, Statutes of 2005

SB 481 (Chesbro-D) Self-Directed Services Program

Expands and recasts the Self Determination Program which allows certain regional center clients to become self-directed, more specifically enabled to make decisions regarding which services and at what level services are needed/desired by an individual client within defined parameters.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 570 (Migden-D) Mentally incompetent minors

Creates a procedure for minors who are within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court for delinquent conduct to be evaluated for mental disorders, emotional disturbances or developmental disabilities.

Chapter 265, Statutes of 2005

SB 749 (Speier-D) Health care coverage: pervasive developmental disorders

Requires a health care service plan or a disability insurer to cover the diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorders or autism that follows current best practice standards developed by the Department of Developmental Services, and requires the Department of Managed Health Care Services and the Department of Insurance, in conjunction with each other, to enact regulations specifying how a health care service plan or disability insurer and a separate specialized health care service plan or mental health plan may determine responsibility for reimbursement of these diagnostic services.

(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

SB 855 (Poochigian-R) Special access: liability

Imposes pre-litigation procedural requirements upon the filing of any claim under the state's civil rights and equal access to public or housing accommodation laws, including claims of violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act in state-owned facilities.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 962 (Chesbro-D) Special health care needs: pilot project

Establishes a new type of licensed community care and residential facility as part of a pilot project to serve people with developmental disabilities living at Agnews Developmental Center.

Chapter 558, Statutes of 2005

SB 1114 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Department of Rehabilitation: blindness

Requires that at least 20 percent of the board members of specified organizations and agencies designed to provide services to the blind be blind individuals.

(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SCR 43 (Figueroa-D) Autism Awareness Month

Declares April 2005 as Autism Awareness Month.

Resolution Chapter 52, Statutes of 2005

SCR 51 (Perata-D) Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism

Establishes, until November 30, 2007, the Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism (Commission). Requires the Commission to report related findings and recommendations to the Governor and to the Legislature no later than September 30, 2007.

Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2005

AB 20 (Leslie-R) Disabled persons: access: technical violations

Precludes commencement of an action for damages against a public facility for a de minimus deviation from a code or regulation that has no significant impact on a disabled person's right to the goods and services provided by the facility, and provides that the remedy for a technical violation, as defined, is injunctive relief and the recovery of attorney's fees.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 63 (Strickland-R) Elderly and Disabled Home Improvement Loan Program

Establishes within the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Elderly and Disabled Persons' Revolving Home Improvement Loan Program to provide grants to local public agencies or nonprofit corporations, or to provide no-interest home improvement loans to qualified low- and moderate-income elderly and disabled individuals to assist them with daily activities and prevent injury and to allow them to remain safely in their own homes, and establishes the Elderly and Disabled Persons' Revolving Home Improvement Loan Fund in the State Treasury.

(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 131* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget trailer bill: developmentally disabled

Implements the public health budget trailer bill which, among other provisions, makes changes in developmentally disabled programs.

Chapter 80, Statutes of 2005

AB 410 (Yee-D) Disabled veteran business enterprises

Creates a 10 percent bidding preference for certified disabled veteran business enterprises in bids for contracts for specified goods and services.

(Failed passage in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 462* (Tran-R) Disability access

Authorizes the Department of Transportation to certify disability access for facilities within the state highway rights-of-ways.

Chapter 299, Statutes of 2005

AB 472 (Benoit-R) Elder and disabled abuse

Authorizes In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) non-profit consortia and public authorities to include criminal background checks, conducted by the Department of Justice, in processing potential IHSS caregivers.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 609 (Lieber-D) Agnews Developmental Center: closure

Creates an advisory group to provide the Legislature with recommendations regarding the disposition of state property related to the proposed closure of the Agnews Developmental Center.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 768 (Nation-D) Touch-screen devices

Requires touch-screen devices that are used for the purposes of self-service check-in at a hotel or at a location providing passenger transportation services that are installed or renovated after January 1, 2010, to be equipped with necessary technology that enables a visually-impaired person to access the device.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 789 (Lieber-D) Crimes against individuals with disabilities

Requires law enforcement agencies, during the next substantive revision of the local forms used to collect and report criminal statistics to the Department of Justice, but in no event later than January 1, 2009, to modify the local forms to allow identification of whether or not the victim of a crime has a disability and, if so, whether the disability is psychiatric, cognitive, or physical, and requires each law enforcement agency to develop a protocol during criminal investigations to note in crime reports whether or not the officer(s) investigating the criminal activity identified the victim as disabled. Requires the Attorney General to include specified information regarding crime victims with disabilities in his/her annual "Crime in California" report.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 913 (Saldana-D) Vehicles: environmental license plates: disabled persons

Allows special license plates for disabled persons to be issued as environmental license plates, and allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue "regular series license plates" for use on vehicles operated by state constitutional officers.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1079 (Sharon Runner-R) Department of Developmental Services: criminal histories

Requires the Director of the Department of Developmental Services to obtain criminal history information regarding the clients of a regional center and, notwithstanding confidentiality provisions, to disclose that information to the regional centers and existing or prospective community care providers.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1130 (Ruskin-D) Regional center employee liability

Extends, for three years, the existing qualified immunity of regional center employees responsible for providing services to the developmentally disabled.

Chapter 30, Statutes of 2005

AB 1141 (Dymally-D) Developmental services

Requires each regional center to obtain and maintain appropriate levels of general and professional liability insurance, and prohibits the requirement for a provider of services to name the regional center as an additional insured on its liability insurance policies.

(Failed passage in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1145 (Huff-R) Developmental disability: habilitation services

Restores the Department of Developmental Services supportive employment program worker to supervisor ratio from four workers to one supervisor to three workers to one supervisor.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1378 (Lieber-D) Developmental services facilities

Allows employees of the Department of Developmental Services to work in community-based programs related to the closure of Agnew Developmental Center.

Chapter 538, Statutes of 2005

AB 1379 (Lieber-D) Agnews Developmental Center: closure

Establishes the Agnews Developmental Center Campus Advisory Group by March 1, 2006, to provide the Legislature with recommendations regarding the disposition of land at Agnews Developmental Center, and requires that the property be subject to certain conditions.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1535 (Bass-D) Developmental services

Requires the Department of Developmental Services to conduct a study, once every three years, comparing per capita expenditures by ethnic group.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1607 (Houston-R) Developmental disability: habilitation services

Restores Department of Developmental Services hourly Work Activity Program and Supportive Employment Program rate cuts of five percent and 2.5 percent enacted in 2002-03, as a part of the annual state budget.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1645 (Matthews-D) Regional center services

Requires, commencing July 1, 2005, the Department of Developmental Services to establish permanent payment rates for community-based day programs and in-home respite agency providers who have been reimbursed under a temporary payment rate for 18 months or more, and requires the rate to go into effect commencing July 1, 2005.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

ACR 29 (Leslie-R) Access Awareness Month

Recognizes July 2005, as Access Awareness Month, and urges all citizens to join in the recognition of the 15th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and encourages businesses and the disabled to work together in the same bipartisan spirit that accompanied the original enactment of ADA in order to achieve a greater cooperation towards compliance in this state.

Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2005

Tobacco Products

SB 400 (Kuehl-D) Tobacco licensing

Makes changes to the penalties imposed on a retailer convicted of furnishing cigarettes or tobacco products to a person under the age of 18.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 564* (Torlakson-D) California Healthy Children Trust Fund

Imposes three tax increases on cigarettes and triggers a tax increase on all tobacco products.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 576 (Ortiz-D) Health care coverage: tobacco cessation services

Requires health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for two courses of tobacco cessation treatments per year, including counseling and prescription and over-the-counter medications, and prohibits plans and insurers from applying deductibles but allows specified co-payments for those benefits.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 942 (Chesbro-D) Cigarettes: pollution: litter

Imposes a fee of no more than one-half of one cent per cigarette on cigarette manufacturers for various programs and activities related to cigarette pollution and litter prevention and cleanup.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 178 (Koretz-D) California cigarette fire safety and firefighter protection

Prohibits the sale of cigarettes that do not meet specified fire safety standards beginning January 1, 2007, establishes fire safety certification requirements, and establishes new civil penalties for violations.

Chapter 633, Statutes of 2005

AB 616 (Vargas-D) Public buildings: smoking areas

Prohibits smoking in an outdoor area enclosed on at least four sides by a state public building or buildings, excluding buildings on a campus of the California State University or a campus of the University of California.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 892 (Cogdill-R) Cigarettes and tobacco products

Provides the Board of Equalization (BOE) investigators with an additional tool to verify taxes were paid on cigarette and tobacco products on a retailer's shelf and to allow distributors and wholesalers the option of including a statement that all cigarette and tobacco product taxes are included in the total amount of the invoice or the actual amount of excise tax due to BOE for the purpose of showing that tax was paid on such products.

Chapter 512, Statutes of 2005

AB 1389 (Oropeza-D) Littering: cigarette butts

Increases the fines for both littering small quantities of waste matter on public or private property, and discarding any substance that may cause a fire on any highway, sidewalk, or on any public or private property.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1612 (Pavley-D) Cigarettes: litter

Imposes a 10 cent excise fee on every pack of cigarettes distributed for sale in California and allocates revenue generated by this fee to various programs and activities at the Department of Conservation and the Department of Health Services related to cigarette pollution and litter prevention and cleanup.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1749 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Cigarettes and tobacco products

Clarifies certain provisions of the California Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003.

(On Senate Inactive File)

Health Facilities

SB 24 (Ortiz-D) Hospital charity care

Requires hospitals to implement a charity-care and reduced-payments policy, and directs acute-care, acute-psychiatric and special hospitals to limit charges imposed on patients with incomes below 400 percent of federal poverty guidelines.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 47 (Scott-D) Clinics

Removes the January 1, 2008 sunset date for the exemption from licensure requirements for nonprofit clinics that satisfy requirements regarding medical research and the receipt of charitable contributions, including satisfying requirements regarding medical research and the receipt of charitable contributions before January 1, 2005, and requires such clinics to report to the Legislative on their activities by January 1, 2007, and every five years thereafter, at a cost borne by the clinics.

Chapter 135, Statutes of 2005

SB 103 (Ducheny-D) Primary care clinic licensing: timing

Makes changes to the licensure requirements for primary care clinics.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 141 (Soto-D) Residential care facilities: preadmission fee refunds

Establishes the refund policy in state law for any preadmission fees paid by a new resident of a facility licensed as a residential care facility for the elderly.

Chapter 250, Statutes of 2005

SB 167 (Speier-D) Seismic and patient safety

Amends the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 to permit delays of the 2008 seismic safety deadline for specified hospitals that do not exceed maximum allowable seismic risk, as determined by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and expedites the final compliance deadline to 2020 for hospitals granted the delay.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 190* (Cedillo-D) Community clinics

Deletes language that requires an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2000 in order for the California Facilities Financing Authority to award grants to eligible clinics for financing capital outlay projects and makes other technical, conforming changes.

Chapter 493, Statutes of 2005

SB 224 (Chesbro-D) Health facilities: construction plans

Creates a project to demonstrate and evaluate a plan review process for multistory hospital buildings that exempts specified repair and maintenance projects from preconstruction review and inspection by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.

Chapter 494, Statutes of 2005

SB 315 (Margett-R) Reduction or elimination of emergency medical services

Requires a hospital that plans to reduce or eliminate emergency medical services to notify those entities and all local emergency medical services agencies within the region served by the hospital at least 90 days before a planned reduction or elimination of the level of emergency medical services or closure of the hospital, and requires the Department of Health Services to impose a $10,000 civil penalty on a licensee that does not comply with the notification requirements of the bill.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 328 (Cedillo-D) Health facilities: Medi-Cal reimbursement

Establishes criteria that must be considered by the California Medical Assistance Commission in negotiating Medi-Cal inpatient payment rates for hospitals that are not "disproportionate share hospitals.'

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 363 (Perata-D) Hospitals: lift teams

Requires each general acute care hospital, except rural general acute care hospitals, to establish a health care worker back injury prevention plan which includes identifying the need of lift teams and devices for all shifts.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 374 (Alquist-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly: evaluations

Requires the Department of Social Services to make an unannounced evaluation visit to each residential care facility for the elderly at least once every two years.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 380 (Alquist-D) Drugs: adverse event reporting

Requires a licensed health professional and a health facility to report suspicious serious adverse drug events to the federal Food and Drug Administration.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 397 (Escutia-D) Elder death review teams

Requires skilled nursing facilities and residential care facilities for the chronically ill, within a county that has an elder death review team (EDRT), to notify the chair or chair designee of the EDRT, through fax or e-mail, when there is a death of an elderly resident of the facilities.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 491* (Ducheny-D) Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act

Establishes the Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Program within the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to provide funds to nonprofit and public general acute care hospitals for retrofit or construction projects necessary to bring the hospitals in compliance with seismic safety standards.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 499 (Alarcon-D) Hospitals: emergency medical services elimination

Requires a hospital, prior to issuing notice to the Department of Health Services of a planned elimination of emergency medical services or closure of the hospital, to prepare a public health and safety report, and requires the report to be submitted to the county supervisors and the local emergency medical services agency.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 516 (Ortiz-D) Fire protection: residential care facility for the elderly

Requires small residential care facilities for the elderly to install and maintain automatic fire sprinklers by January 1, 2013.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 526 (Alquist-D) Long-term health care

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 533 (Dunn-D) Long-term health care facilities: admission contracts

Requires a statement in an abbreviated contract of admission to a long-term health care facility informing the person being admitted whether or not the facility is covered by liability insurance.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 610 (Alarcon-D) Property tax: welfare exemption

Clarifies existing law regarding hospitals entitled to claim the welfare exemption for property tax purposes.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 643 (Chesbro-D) Nursing facilities

Chapter 551, Statutes of 2005

SB 666 (Aanestad-R) Congregate living health facilities

Increases the capacity of a congregate living health facility from no more than six beds to no more than 12 beds, with certain exceptions.

Chapter 443, Statutes of 2005

SB 708 (Speier-D) Drug discount program: conditions of participation

Requires the Department of Health Services to develop a standard contract for private nonprofit hospitals whereby a hospital that elects to participate in the drug discount program established under federal law shall agree to provide charity care on a continuing basis.

Chapter 207, Statutes of 2005

SB 739 (Speier-D) Hospitals: infection control

Requires hospitals to participate in hospital acquired infection reporting systems, expresses legislative intent that data regarding hospital acquired infections be made public in order to improve quality of care, establishes an advisory panel to advise the Office of Statewide Planning and Development (OSHPD) on reporting requirements, requires hospitals to report to OSHPD risk-adjusted data on selected infections, process measures, and infection rate trends, and sunsets the reporting provision of this bill five years after it begins.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 776 (Runner-R) Health care districts: mortgage insurance, loans, credit

Allows a health care district to secure federally insured loans issued under the National Housing Act through specified financing mechanisms, and allows a health care district to establish a line of credit secured by accounts receivable or other noncapital assets.

Chapter 554, Statutes of 2005

SB 917 (Speier-D) Payers' Bill of Rights: diagnostic related groups

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to publish specified information about hospital charges on its web site, and requires hospitals to provide a copy of its charge description master.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1034 (Hollingsworth-R) Community care facilities: wards of the juvenile court

Requires at least two-thirds of residents housed by a state-funded or state-reimbursed facility that serves wards of the juvenile court to be wards of the court of the county in which the facility is located.

(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 1100* (Perata-D) Hospital funding

Establishes the Medi-Cal Hospital Care and Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act, which serves as the statutory framework for implementing a five-year waiver of federal Medicaid requirements that provide federal Medicaid funding under the terms of the waiver to pay certain public, private and district hospitals for services provided to Medi-Cal and uninsured patients.

Chapter 560, Statutes of 2005

SCR 44 (Maldonado-R) Community residential care

Recognizes May 2005 as California Community Residential Care Month, applauds the Community Residential Care Association of California for its commitment to educating and training community residential care administrators, and conveys the public's appreciation to community residential care administrators for their hard work and dedication to their residents.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 9 (Morrow-R) Retired military personnel: Medicare

Requests that Congress and the President of the United States enact legislation that provides payment of Medicare payments to military treatment facilities for retired military personnel and their dependents who meet Medicare age standards.

Resolution Chapter 89, Statutes of 2005

AB 10 (Daucher-R) Appropriate facility placement standards

Requires the Department of Health Services to select, implement, and assess three voluntary representative pilot programs which identify elderly or disabled individual's medical, social and supportive service needs.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 44 (Cohn-D) Health facilities

Requires a hospital owner to submit to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, six months prior to January 1, 2008, or six months prior to the compliance deadline if an extension has been granted, a written plan for the disposition of each pre-1973 hospital building, specifying its replacement, removal from acute care services, or retrofit.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 126 (Dymally-D) County hospitals: indigent services

Enacts the Bielenson Fair Hearing Act of 2005.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 166 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Los Angeles County hospital authority

Authorizes the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to establish an office of inspector general to conduct audits and investigations of the health system in Los Angeles and to establish a hospital authority for which the management or ownership of the county's medical centers can be transferred.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 179 (Bermudez-D) Elder abuse information

Directs all residential care facilities for the elderly to include, in the statement of residents rights, information on reporting elder and dependent adult abuse.

Chapter 456, Statutes of 2005

AB 217 (Vargas-D) Sex offenders: nursing facilities

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Mental Health, or any other official in charge of the place of confinement, to notify a long-term health care facility before a sex offender registrant is released to the facility.

Chapter 466, Statutes of 2005

AB 300 (Walters-R) Licensing

Clarifies that the Department of Social Services is the sole agency for oversight of continuing education vendors who provide curricula for administrators of group homes, adult residential facilities, and residential care facilities for the elderly.

Chapter 423, Statutes of 2005

AB 330 (Gordon-D) Management requirements

Requires the Department of Health Services to consider whether an applicant to operate or manage a general acute care hospital, acute care psychiatric hospital, or special hospital is of reputable and responsible character and has demonstrated an ability to comply with licensing laws and regulations.

Chapter 507, Statutes of 2005

AB 360* (Frommer-D) Skilled nursing facilities

Exempts units that provide pediatric subacute services in skilled nursing facilities and institutions for mental disease from a skilled nursing facilities requirement to pay a quality assurance fee.

Chapter 508, Statutes of 2005

AB 433 (Nava-D) Physician office laboratories

Exempts physician office laboratories from specified licensure and regulatory requirements.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 512 (Richman-R) Clinical laboratories

Authorizes the Department of Health Services to revoke or suspend the license of a clinical laboratory, or impose a civil money penalty for failure to comply with the infectious disease reporting requirements.

Chapter 219, Statutes of 2005

AB 688 (Matthews-D) Health facilities: quality assurance fees

Requires the Department of Health Services to notify county organized health systems contracting with immediate care facilities of their obligation to pay any rate increases to the designated facility.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 717 (Gordon-D) Centinela Airport Clinic: emergency care

Requires the Centinela Airport Clinic to receive private and government reimbursement rates equivalent to that of a contiguous emergency department of a general acute care hospital if it meets certain specified requirements, authorizes the Centinela Airport Clinic to receive 911 telephone system transports of basic life-support at the rate applicable in October, 2004, and requires the Los Angeles Emergency Medical Services Agency to report to the Legislature by May 1, 2008, on the effect the clinic has had on the quality of emergency health care services provided by the clinic.

(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)

AB 761 (Jones-D) Health facilities: staffing

Requires acute general hospitals, psychiatric hospitals and special hospitals to consider any staffing guidelines developed by relevant professional associations and to annually review and report worker and patient injury rates.

(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 774 (Chan-D) Hospitals: self-pay policies

Requires hospitals to develop a policy specifying how the hospital will determine financial liability for services rendered to financially qualified patients and self-pay patients, and requires each hospital to perform various functions in connection with the hospital self-pay policy, including notifying patients of the policy, and attempting to determine the availability of private or public health insurance coverage for each patient.

(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 775 (Yee-D) Interpreters: prohibition on use of children

Prohibits any state or local governmental agency, or any public or private agency, organization, entity, or program that receives state funding, from using any child under 15 years, or permitting any such child, to be used as an interpreter, as defined, in any hospital, clinic, or physician office in the context of diagnosis or treatment, among other things.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 800 (Yee-D) Medical records: patient's spoken language

Requires all health facilities, including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, and physician and surgeons offices, to include a patient's principal spoken languages on the patient's health records.

Chapter 313, Statutes of 2005

AB 811 (Matthews-D) Licensing and certification functions: consolidation

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 926 (Chu-D) Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities

Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug programs to develop, adopt, and administer emergency regulations governing the licensing and operation of adult recovery maintenance facilities by July 1, 2006.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1045 (Frommer-D) Payers' Bill of Rights: procedure charges

Revises hospital charge disclosure and reporting requirements for the most common charges or services provided by hospitals.

Chapter 532, Statutes of 2005

AB 1046* (Frommer-D) Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to develop a California Hospital Report Card by July 1, 2006, to provide health care consumers, purchasers, and providers with information about the quality of hospital care.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1047 (Levine-D) Health facilities: financing

Enacts the Safe Hospitals Bond Act of 2005, which, if adopted, authorizes the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed an unspecified amount, to provide for the construction, replacement, renovation, and retrofit of currently licensed hospitals.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1050 (Gordon-D) Emergency receiving centers: demonstration project

Creates a demonstration project that requires the Department of Health Services to issue a special permit to up to four general acute care hospital applicants in Los Angeles County to operate freestanding emergency receiving centers.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1116 (Yee-D) Community care facilities: foster children: injections

Authorizes foster parents, under certain conditions, to administer injections for diabetes shock or other prescribed medication to a foster child.

Chapter 637, Statutes of 2005

AB 1225 (Strickland-R) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities

Requires the owner of an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility that serves more than six unrelated persons to notify the local law enforcement agency of the facility's existence, and prohibits a facility from existing in a location with more than five facilities located within one square mile, with more than one facility located on a single city block, or within 1,000 of another facility.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1230 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public hospitals: inspector general: Los Angeles County

Authorizes the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to establish an office of Inspector General to conduct audits and investigations of the county health care system in Los Angeles County.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1235 (Emmerson-R) In-service training

Allows a certified nurse assistant applying for certification renewal to complete 24 of the requisite 48 hours of training using an online computer training program approved by the Licensing and Certification Division of the Department of Health Services.

Chapter 615, Statutes of 2005

AB 1275 (Frommer-D) Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act

Enacts the Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act which, if adopted, authorizes, for purposes of financing a seismic safety program for nonprofit and public general acute care hospitals, the issuance of General Obligation Bonds in the amount of $5 billion.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1316* (Salinas-D) Health facilities: construction

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, with regard to construction plans submitted by public hospitals, to perform a review of the completed plans and supporting design data, submitted by a qualified design professional, as defined, within 60 days of initial or subsequent submission, but no later than 160 days.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1321 (Yee-D) Health care coverage: claims

Requires the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to implement independent provider dispute resolution and prohibits certain hospital-based physicians from billing patients for services if the hospital is under contract with the health plan.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1346 (Richman-R) Acute care hospitals: surgical and anesthesia services

Authorizes a state-operated general acute care hospital to provide surgical and anesthesia services on less than a 24-hour basis, requires the hospital to comply with operational standards for such services only during the times that such services are provided and allows the general acute care hospital operated by the Department of Developmental Services at Agnews Developmental Center to provide surgery and anesthesia services until a specified date.

Chapter 333, Statutes of 2005

AB 1376 (Harman-R) Long-term health care facilities: violations

Corrects the judicial appeals process for long-term care facilities challenging a citation issued by the Department of Health Services.

Chapter 56, Statutes of 2005

AB 1408 (Shirley Horton-R) Residential care facilities: overconcentration

Changes the definition of "overconcentration" for the purpose of locating certain residential community care facilities.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1422 (Bogh-R) Long-term health care facilities: sexual offenders

Creates special notification procedures, above and beyond Megan's Law requirements, for registered sex offenders who apply to, or live in, long-term health care facilities.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1534 (Bass-D) Residential care for children: inspection

Requires the Department of Social Services, Division of Community Care Licensing, to conduct annual unannounced visits to foster family homes and foster care group homes serving children who are supervised by county welfare.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1579 (Aghazarian-R) Long-term health care facilities: funds

Requires that funds in the Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account be continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal year or plan year, and requires the Department of Health Services to make available information about the expenditure of funds for the prior fiscal year from the Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account by March 17th of each year to interested parties, upon request.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1639 (Sharon Runner-R) Hospital buildings: seismic safety

Deletes existing reporting requirements for general acute care hospitals with regard to plans and schedules for complying with seismic safety retrofitting requirements and, instead, requires the hospital owner, one year prior to the January 1, 2008 compliance deadline, or one year prior to the deadline approved by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), whichever is later, to submit to OSHPD a written plan for the disposition of each pre-1973 hospital building, specifying its replacement, its retrofit, or its removal from general acute care service.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1673 (Nation-D) Seismic and patient safety

Repeals the provisions of the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 that require specified hospitals to meet seismic retrofitting requirements by 2008, revises the final 2030 deadline requirement to 2020, and makes the bill contingent upon the enactment of AB 1672 (Nation).

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1711 (Strickland-R) Health facilities: immunizations

Authorizes a registered nurse or licensed pharmacist to administer influenza and pneumoccocal immunizations, without patient-specific orders, to patients age 50 years or older in a skilled nursing facility, under standing orders, when they meet federal recommendations and are approved by the medical director of the skilled nursing facility.

Chapter 58, Statutes of 2005

ACR 22 (Dymally-D) Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

Urges the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Board of Trustees of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science to enter into a joint agreement to name a Chief Executive Officer to be granted full authority of the joint operations of the university and the hospital.

Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2005

Health Professionals

SB 102 (Ducheny-D) Nurse training funding

Authorizes the Employment Training Panel to allocate funds for up to five licensed nurse training pilot programs to train individuals who are currently working as nurse assistants or caregivers in a health facility.

Chapter 593, Statutes of 2005

SB 152 (Speier-D) Pseudoephedrine

Requires, as of June 1, 2006, a pharmacist and retail distributor to store pseudoephedrine in a locked area, and requires a purchaser to provide valid identification prior to purchase. Requires staff of a retail distributor to be trained in identification of pseudoephedrine products and in the usage of pseudoephedrine to make methamphetamine. Requires, as of January 1, 2008, that an electronic system be set up by a pharmacy and retail distributor to track the sale of pseudoephedrine and assure that no more than three packages or no more than nine grams are sold within a 30-day period to a single purchaser.

(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Lapses of consciousness: reports to the DMV

Removes the requirement that physicians report to the Department of Motor Vehicles every patient diagnosed with a condition characterized by a lapse of consciousness, except those patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia disorders and other patients with similar impairments that cannot be controlled with a clinically reasonable period of time.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 230 (Figueroa-D) Osteopathic Medical Board of California

Extends the date for sunset review of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California from September 1, 2004, to September 1, 2010.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 231 (Figueroa-D) Healing arts: Medical Board of California

Extends the sunset date for the Medical Board of California (MBC) and provides for changes to the MBC, as recommended by an Enforcement Monitor, established by statute to review the MBC.

Chapter 674, Statutes of 2005

SB 232 (Figueroa-D) Boards and commissions

Extends the sunset dates among others, the Board of Podiatric Medicine, the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board, the Physician Assistant Committee, the Respiratory Care Board of California.

Chapter 675, Statutes of 2005

SB 233 (Figueroa-D) Acupuncture

Provides for the sunset of the Acupuncture Board and modifies the definition of acupuncture.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 248 (Figueroa-D) Professions and vocations

Extends the provisions establishing the Dental Board of California, the Committee on Dental Auxiliaries, and the Acupuncture Board, and extends the date for sunset review of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.

Chapter 659, Statutes of 2005

SB 279 (Cedillo-D) Physicians and surgeons: locum tenens services

Declares that a temporary physician staffing agency, commonly referred to as a locum tenens agency, is not an employer of physicians they place.

Chapter 596, Statutes of 2005

SB 299 (Chesbro-D) Dentistry

Makes modifications to the Dental Boards Licensure by Credential program, providing that the five year clinical practice requirement is met by the applicant contracting to practice dentistry full time for two years in a specified licensed primary care clinic, or teach two years in an accredited dental education program.

(On Senate Third Reading File)

SB 356 (Alarcon-D) Acupuncture

Authorizes an acupuncturist to order diagnostic tests commonly accepted in the medical community and to perform or prescribe electrical stimulation.

(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 380 (Alquist-D) Drugs: adverse event reporting

Requires health care providers to report suspicious serious adverse drug events to the federal Food and Drug Administration.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 399 (Escutia-D) Health services: third-party liability

Provides that certain health care providers who have rendered services to a Medi-Cal beneficiary because of an injury caused by a third party are entitled to a lien against the portion of the beneficiary's recovery relating to past medical expenses. Establishes new judicial procedures to resolve disputes between a Medi-Cal beneficiary and a health care provider regarding the amount to be reimbursed to the provider out of the beneficiary's recovery against a third party. Extends counties' current lien rights against judgments to also include settlements and compromises.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 401 (Ortiz-D) Medical information: pharmacies: marketing

Includes in the definition of "marketing," under the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, written communications, which pharmacists provide to patients when dispensing prescription drugs, if the communication includes the trade name or commercial slogan for any drug other than the dispensed drug when the cost of the communication is paid, directly or indirectly, by a drug manufacturer or distributor.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 438 (Migden-D) Oral and maxillofacial surgery

Authorizes Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons licensed by the Dental Board, who are not also licensed as physicians by the Medical Board of California, to perform elective facial cosmetic surgery.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 524 (Torlakson-D) Primary care physicians: continuing education

Requires primary care physicians who treat patients for depression and other related ailments, specifically through the use of certain antidepressant drugs, to complete four units of mandatory continuing education course on that subject every four years.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 579 (Aanestad-R) Optometry: advertisement

Revises the optometry advertising provisions to prohibit advertising optometric services as being free or without cost where the services are contingent upon other purchases, unless the contingency is fully disclosed in the advertisement.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 583 (Figueroa-D) Cancer: treatment

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 592 (Aanestad-R) Acute care hospitals: inpatient pharmacy technician services

Allows a general acute care hospital to implement a program of allowing specially trained pharmacy technicians to check the work of other pharmacy technicians relating to the filling of floor and ward stock and unit dose distribution for patients whose orders have previously been reviewed by a licensed pharmacist.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 614 (Figueroa-D) Certified nurse-midwives

Authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to furnish or order Schedule II controlled substances under conditions applicable to the furnishing or ordering of Schedule III, IV, or V controlled substances, including patient-approved protocols approved by the treating supervising physician and surgeon, and to receive continuing education specific to the use of Schedule II drugs in settings other than a hospital.

Chapter 266, Statutes of 2005

SB 644 (Ortiz-D) Dispensing prescription drugs and devices.

Prohibits a health care licentiate (such as a pharmacist) from obstructing a patient from obtaining prescribed drugs or devices, except under specified conditions.

Chapter 417, Statutes of 2005

SB 683 (Aanestad-R) Dentistry: licensure

Authorizes the Dental Board of California (Board) to grant a license to an applicant who completes a one-year, clinically-based, postdoctoral program in general practice or specialty dental residency program, and who passes an examination in California law and ethics.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 700 (Aanestad-R) Radiologic technology: radiologist assistants

Requires the State Department of Health Services to provide for the certification of radiologist assistants, sets forth their qualifications and duties, and makes conforming changes.

(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 736 (Speier-D) Healing arts: financial interest reporting

Requires the Medical Board of California (Board) to report to the Legislature, by July 1, 2006, on all information reported to the Board on or after January 1, 2000, regarding the financial interest that a physician or surgeon or their immediate family may have in a health-related facility.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 1111 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Professions and vocations

Makes several non-controversial, minor, non-substantive or technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions, pertaining to the Medical Board of California, the Board of Pharmacy, and the Veterinary Medical Board, the Dental Board, the Board of Occupational Therapy, the Respiratory Care Board and the Board of Podiatric Medicine.

Chapter 621, Statutes of 2005

AB 21 (Levine-D) Pharmacists: practice requirements

Requires pharmacists to dispense a lawful prescription unless certain specified circumstances exist, including allowing a pharmacist to decline on ethical, moral, or religious grounds to dispense a drug if the pharmacist satisfies certain conditions, and deems a violation of these provisions unprofessional conduct and harassment.

(Failed passage In Senate Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 78 (Pavley-D) Pharmacy benefits management

Requires specified disclosures related to contracts between a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) and a purchaser of a PBM's service.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 139* (Assembly Budget Committee) General government trailer bill

Modifies existing continuous appropriation for the Medically Underserved Account to allow expenditure of $3 million transferred to the Account from the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Program. The Medically Underserved Account was created to repay student loans for physicians who have committed to work in underserved areas, as per agreement made under the terms of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program.

Chapter 74, Statutes of 2005

AB 167 (Cohn-D) Nursing Workforce Education Investment Act

Establishes the Nursing Workforce Education Investment Act. Establishes in the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) a state nursing contract program with accredited schools and programs that educate and train licensed vocational nurses and registered nurses to increase the supply of nurses in California. Requires OSHPD to give priority to programs that include training specifically designed for medically underserved multicultural communities, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, or rural communities, and prepare program graduates for service in those neighborhoods and communities.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 205 (Ruskin-D) Denture identification

Revises the provisions for marking dentures to remove the option of using the patient's social security number.

Chapter 182, Statutes of 2005

AB 218* (Maze-R) Income tax credit: qualified medical care professionals

Allows a nonrefundable tax credit to certain medical care professionals.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 225 (Negrete McLeod-D) Electronic prescription information

Allows the provision of nonmonetary remuneration, in the form of hardware, software, or information technology and training services, necessary and used solely to receive and transmit electronic prescription information in accordance with the standards set forth in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.

(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 232 (Arambula-D) Registered nursing programs: CCC: CSU

Requires specified designees of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCCs) and the Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) to adopt prerequisites for registered nurse training programs that is accepted by both the CCCs and the CSU for admission to their nursing programs.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 268 (Matthews-D) Unprofessional conduct

Assures the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, similar to the Medical Board of California, will receive information on its licensees regarding any convictions, malpractice judgments and other matters related to their gross negligence or incompetence from such entities as malpractice insurers, coroner offices, district attorneys and the courts.

Chapter 216, Statutes of 2005

AB 288 (Mountjoy-R) Pharmacies: prescription containers: labels

Revises the prescription container labeling requirement, as prescribed by the Pharmacy Law in its enforcement of the practice of pharmacy by the California State Board of Pharmacy, to require a container to be labeled with, among other things, the condition for which the drug was prescribed, unless the patient, physician, or a parent or legal guardian of a minor patient requests that the information be omitted.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 302* (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Professions and vocations

Makes technical, clarifying and conforming changes regarding the limited prescribing authority of naturopathic doctors.

Chapter 506, Statutes of 2005

AB 327 (De La Torre-D) Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program

Permits the Medical Board of California to give a physician and surgeon the option of making a $50 voluntary donation upon the initial issuance or biennial renewal of a physician and surgeon's certificate in order to fund the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program.

Chapter 293, Statute of 2005

AB 354 (Cogdill-R) Telemedicine

Expands the definition of telemedicine to include the use of store and forward technology for two applications, teledermatology and teleophthalmology services, and allows Medi-Cal reimbursement for these two types of services provided by health care practitioners via telemedicine.

Chapter 449, Statutes of 2005

AB 366 (Maze-R) Healing arts: peer review

Provides that bias in the outcome of a peer review hearing cannot be established or implied by a hearing officer's receipt of compensation for services rendered or the possibility of future engagement to serve in a similar capacity.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 367 (Nakanishi-R) Physician and surgeon's fee waiver

Provides a waiver for the initial license fee paid by a physician and surgeon that certifies that the sole purpose for the license is to provide voluntary, unpaid service to indigent patients in medically underserved areas of the state.

Chapter 144, Statutes of 2005

AB 370 (Aghazarian-R) Optometry

Requires the Board of Optometry to file an accusation against a licensee within particular time periods, subject to specific exceptions.

Chapter 186, Statutes of 2005

AB 433 (Nava-D) Physician office laboratories

Exempts physician office laboratories from specified licensure and regulatory requirements by the State Department of Health Services.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 446 (Negrete McLeod-D) Licensees: settlement agreements

Prohibits any licensee overseen by a board, bureau, or program within the Department of Consumer Affairs, or any entity or person acting as an authorized agent, from including in a civil settlement agreement any "gag clause" provision that prohibits the other party from contacting, filing a complaint with, pursuing a filed complaint, or cooperating with the regulatory body.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 488 (Bermudez-D) Optometry

Revises and recasts the Optometry Practice Act relating to disciplinary action and licensing revenue, eliminates redundant and outdated provisions, and makes clarifying and conforming changes.

Chapter 393, Statutes of 2005

AB 497 (Negrete McLeod-D) Drug wholesalers and manufacturers: nonresident wholesalers

Allows a nonresident wholesaler of pharmaceutical drugs to submit a single surety bond for all licensed sites, rather than a surety bond for each individual site.

Chapter 301, Statutes of 2005

AB 516 (Yee-D) Health care practitioners: unlawful referrals

Specifies that, for magnetic resonance imaging services, computed axial tomography services, or positron emission tomography, the specified exemption relating to the referral of a person for certain health care services when a licensee has a financial interest only applies to a radiologist group practice or an office consisting solely of one or more radiologists.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 592 (Yee-D) Physicians and surgeons

Chapter 304, Statutes of 2005)

AB 595 (Negrete McLeod-D) Pharmacy: compounding of prescription drugs

Defines compounding of prescription drugs and establishes standards for pharmacies that compound drug products for the patients.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 657 (Karnette-D) Pharmacies: prescription containers: labels

Requires prescription labels to include the intended purpose of the drug, if indicated on the prescription. Requires a physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, and other specified drug prescriber, to ask the patient or the patient's authorized representative, if the patient is either incapacitated or a minor who can not provide informed consent, whether to indicate the intended purpose of the prescription on the label.

(In Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee)

AB 702 (Koretz-D) Nursing education

Provides authority to the Health Professions Education Foundation to expand the criteria for scholarship and loan repayment programs in the Registered Nurse Education Program to include persons who commit to teaching in California nursing schools.

Chapter 611, Statutes of 2005

AB 704 (Dymally-D) Geriatric health care assistants: licensing and regulation

Provides for the licensing and regulation of geriatric health care assistants by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, and would set forth related provisions.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 733 (Nation-D) Psychotherapists: duty to warn

Clarifies that a psychotherapist's duty to warn others of a patients' violent threats is limited to patient communications and does not apply to communications by others.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 757 (Chan-D) Health care providers: contracts

Prohibits an underlying contract from obligating a health care provider to participate in materially different networks, products, or business lines. Requires a contracting agent's (such as a health plan, self-insured employer, third-party administrator or a health insurer) contract with a health care provider to make specified disclosures.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 775 (Yee-D) Interpreters: prohibition on use of children

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 859 (Bass-D) Medical assistants: authorized activities

Authorizes specified treatment activities to be performed by a medical assistant under the certain circumstances in specified clinics exempt from licensure.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 894 (La Suer-R) Licensed professional counselors

Provides for the licensing and regulation of professional counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Adds four additional persons to the board and requires the Governor to appoint these four additional persons to the board.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 896 (Matthews-D) Clinical laboratories

Authorizes a pharmacist to serve as a laboratory director of a clinical laboratory that provides routine patient assessment procedures, under specified conditions.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 920 (Aghazarian-R) California Physicians Corps Program

Provides for the transfer of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program and the Physician Volunteer Program from the Medical Board of California to the California Physician Corps Program within the Health Professions Education Foundation, effective July 1, 2006.

Chapter 317, Statutes of 2005

AB 929 (Oropeza-D) Radiologic technology: radiation exposure

Requires the Radiologic Health Branch of the Department of Health Services to adopt regulations regarding quality assurance standards for facilities using specified radiation-producing equipment.

Chapter 427, Statutes of 2005

AB 966 (Saldana-D) Dental amalgam separators

Requires most dental practices to install an approved amalgam separator and to implement best management practices to minimize discharge of mercury into wastewater.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1113 (Yee-D) Acupuncturists: diagnosis

Provides that an individual who holds an acupuncture license may diagnose within the scope of his/her practice.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1114 (Yee-D) Acupuncture: continuing education

Increases continuing education requirements of acupuncturists from 30 to 50 hours and requires that no more than five of these hours to be spent on issues unrelated to clinical matters or the actual provision of health care to patients.

Chapter 648, Statutes of 2005

AB 1115 (Yee-D) Acupuncture assistants

Provides that an "acupuncture assistant" is someone who does not hold an acupuncture license and who performs basic administrative, clerical, and supportive services under the supervision of a licensed acupuncturist.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1117 (Yee-D) Asian medicine

Changes the terms "oriental medicine" and "oriental massage" in existing statutes to "Asian medicine" and "Asian massage."

Chapter 649, Statutes of 2005

AB 1143 (Emmerson-R) Dentistry

Revises the provision for a dentist licensed in another state to receive a special permit to practice dentistry at a California dental college.

Chapter 534, Statutes of 2005

AB 1175 (Tran-R) Pharmaceutical providers: appeals procedure

Provides that the State Department of Health Services shall expeditiously maintain oversight over any appeal made by a pharmaceutical Medi-Cal provider with respect to contract disputes and appeals resolution procedures regarding issues arising from a contract between a provider and the department or a fiscal intermediary for the provision of pharmaceutical services under the Medi-Cal program.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1184 (Koretz-D) Nurses and certified nurse assistants: overtime

Prohibits mandatory overtime for state nurses and certified nursing assistants, except under certain circumstances, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1185 (Koretz-D) Chiropractic services

Requires a health care service plan contract and a health insurance policy to provide coverage for chiropractic services, and make these services available to an enrollee or subscriber without a referral from the primary care physician and would require that a sufficient number of chiropractors be available to provide meaningful access to chiropractic services under the plan contract or policy.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1195 (Coto-D) Continuing education: cultural and linguistic competency

Requires all continuing medical education courses, except as specified, to contain curriculum pertaining to cultural and linguistic competency in the practice of medicine by July 1, 2006.

Chapter 514, Statutes of 2005

AB 1235 (Emmerson-R) In-service training

Chapter 615, Statutes of 2005

AB 1268 (Oropeza-D) Dentistry

Revises and recasts provisions relating to the conditions under which a licensed dentist may advertise himself or herself as a specialist or practicing in a specialty area.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1286 (Evans-D) Physician assistant training

Establishes and appropriates funding for a physician assistant training program.

(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1321 (Yee-D) Health care coverage: claims

Requires the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) and the Department of Insurance (DOI) to implement independent provider dispute resolution, and prohibits certain hospital-based physicians from billing patients for services if the hospital is under contract with the health plan.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1334 (Salinas-D) Dentistry: registered dental hygienists

Authorizes a Registered Dental Hygienist in Alternative Practice (RDHAP) to perform all the duties of a Registered Dental Hygienist and eliminates the requirement that a patient must present a prescription from a dentist or physician to be treated by a RDHAP.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1370 (Matthews-D) Clinical laboratory director: pharmacists

Includes a pharmacist within the definition of laboratory director if the clinical laboratory test or examination is a routine patient assessment procedure, as defined.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1386 (Laird-D) Dentistry: oral conscious sedation

Revises and recasts the Dental Practice Act relating to general anesthesia, conscious sedation, and oral conscious sedation of minors and further establishes specific provisions relating to oral conscious sedation for adults.

Chapter 539, Statutes of 2005

AB 1427 (Mountjoy-R) Abortion: saving tissue for evidence

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1549 (Koretz-D) Workers' compensation

Permits acupuncturists to be appointed as qualified medical evaluators and expands the types of the medical professions who may be appointed as independent medical reviewers.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1720 (Dymally-D) State hospitals: clinical directors

Requires that the clinical director of a state hospital for the mentally disordered be a licensed physician and surgeon.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

ACR 96 (Saldana-D) Registered nurses: Hurricane Katrina

Urges hospitals and corporate health care employers to support registered nurses who volunteer to provide nursing services as a result of Hurricane Katrina and any future disaster relief effort, and to assure registered nurses that they will return from their humanitarian mission to their original employment position without loss of benefits and without penalty for leaving to volunteer for disaster relief.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

Foster Care

SB 63* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Trailer Bill: Foster Care: Education

Implements the education finance budget trailer bill which among other provisions makes changes in the foster care parenting programs conducted by community colleges

Chapter 73, Statutes of 2005

SB 358 (Scott-D) Child care

Allows foster parents, approved relative caregivers or approved non-relative extended family members to hire short-term babysitters to supervise the foster child without the health screening and fingerprinting required of licensed or certified foster parents.

Chapter 628, Statutes of 2005

SB 436 (Migden-D) Foster care: transitional housing

Requires any county that provides transitional housing placement services for foster youth to report a description of currently available transitional housing resources for foster youth.

Chapter 629, Statutes of 2005

SB 500 (Kuehl-D) AFDC-FC: pregnant and parenting foster youth

Creates an option for teen foster parents to live with their children in foster homes.

Chapter 630, Statutes of 2005

SB 679 (Simitian-D) Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care

Includes within the definition of "group home," as defined by state law, a non-detention licensed resident home operated by the County of San Mateo with a capacity of up to 25 beds that provides services in a group setting to children in need of care and supervision.

Chapter 268, Statutes of 2005

SB 726 (Florez-D) Dependent children

Creates Adams Law to emphasize to foster parents the importance of providing courts with information to determine whether a non-custodial parent is an appropriate placement for a foster child.

Chapter 632, Statutes of 2005

AB 628 (Strickland-R) Foster care givers

Specifies that the religious or moral beliefs of a person licensed or certified, or applying to be licensed or certified to provide foster care, will not render the person ineligible to provide foster care.

(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee, reconsideration granted)

AB 824 (Chu-D) AFDC-FC benefits: transitional housing

Expands the eligibility for the Transitional Housing Program-Plus for emancipated foster youth by extending the maximum eligible age from 21 to 24 years.

Chapter 636, Statutes of 2005

AB 863 (Bass-D) Child Welfare Council

Establishes the Child Welfare Council, which advises the management of the multiple agencies that provide services to children and youth in contact with courts, and the child welfare and foster care systems.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1074 (Chu-D) HIV testing for foster children

Adds a foster parent, relative caregiver, or assigned social worker for a child who has been adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court, to the list of persons to whom disclosure of the results of an HIV test may be made without consent, and authorizes a foster parent or relative caregiver of a child adjudged to be a dependent child of the juvenile court, and the child's social worker, to consent to the HIV test on the child's behalf.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1116 (Yee-D) Community care facilities: foster children: injections

Authorizes foster parents, under certain conditions, to administer injections for diabetes shock or other prescribed medication to a foster child.

Chapter 637, Statutes of 2005

AB 1261 (Leno-D) Foster children: education

Clarifies provisions related to the education of foster youth in the areas of educational placement, coursework credit, records transfer, and educational programs offered to foster youth, and revises the definition of "nonpublic, nonsectarian schools" and makes changes to some provisions in the Education Code relating to nonpublic, nonsectarian schools.

Chapter 639, Statutes of 2005

AB 1338 (Nation-D) Immigrant children.

Seeks to provide certain immigrant children with immigration counsel and to require adoption agencies to disclose information to prospective adoptive parents regarding a child's immigration status.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1534 (Bass-D) Residential care for children: inspection

Requires the Department of Social Services Division of Community Care Licensing to conduct annual unannounced visits to foster family homes and foster care group homes serving children who are supervised by county welfare.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1633 (Evans-D) Foster children: high school: social security assistance

Creates a policy to extend foster care placement beyond age 18 when a foster child is pursuing a high school equivalency certificates, and requires the Department of Social Services to convene a workgroup to establish a best practices guidelines by December, 2006 for county welfare departments to follow in assisting foster children to receive federal benefits under the Social Security Act.

Chapter 641, Statutes of 2005

ACR 58 (Parra-D) Foster youth

Recognizes the rights of foster youth as outlined in state law and urges various entities that work with foster youth to assist foster youth in understanding their rights and available resources.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AJR 10 (Chu-D) Foster care services: funding: Title IV-E Waiver

Urges the federal government to approve California's application for a Title IV-E Waiver and urges the Department of Social Services to work with the federal government to expedite approval but also to work with the counties on improvements in outcomes for at-risk abused and neglected children.

Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2005

Public Social Services

SB 13 (Bowen-D) Personal information

Permits state agencies to release personal information to the University of California or a nonprofit educational institution conducting scientific research only if the research proposal has been reviewed and approved by the Committee for the Protection of Human Subject's (the state's Institutional Review Board) for the Health and Human Services Agency, and requires the committee to apply specified standards pertaining to data protection to its review of research proposals.

Chapter 241, Statutes of 2005

SB 35 (Florez-D) California Children and Families Program

Expands auditing requirements under the California Children and Families Act of 1998 (Proposition 10). Requires county commissions to submit specified annual audit reports and authorizes the state commission to withhold funds from county commissions who fail to report, and requires the State Controller to issue guidelines for the expanded audits of county commissions and quality control functions, and present the final guidelines and an implementation plan to the state commission.

Chapter 243, Statutes of 2005

SB 68* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Trailer Bill: human services

Implements the human services budget trailer bill. Among other provisions, suspends the state cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for SSI/SSP (aged, blind or disabled persons), in January 2006 and 2007; delays the pass-through of the federal COLA for SSI/SSP grants in January 2006 and 2007 by three months in each year; suspends the COLA for CalWORKs grants in July 2005 and 2006; establishes performance measures and an incentive structure for county welfare agencies to encourage counties to increase CalWORKs work participation; appropriates $37.9 million from the Employment Training Fund to support CalWORKs welfare-to-work activities; and requires the Department of Social Services to seek a federal waiver to allow Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents in the state to receive Food Stamps from ore than three months in any three-year period.

Chapter 78, Statutes of 2005

SB 112 (Ortiz-D) Refugee social services

Changes the funding formula for dividing among counties federal funds for social services for refugees.

Chapter 492, Statutes of 2005

SB 164 (Ducheny-D) In-home supportive and personal care services

Eliminates the county share of cost in In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) for those individuals in excess of 1.4 percent of a county's population who receive IHSS. Applies only to counties with populations of 250,000 or less.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 188 (Simitian-D) CalWORKs eligibility: income

Provides an income disregard for any military pay received by deployed National Guard member families in determining cash grant assistance under the CalWORKs program.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 201 (Simitian-D) Inventory

Requires the Department of Social Services to submit an annual inventory to the Legislature of current and proposed cooperative agreements, state plans, and contracts with the federal government.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 244 (Romero-D) Continuing care retirement communities

Establishes various rights for residents of continuing care retirement communities and creates a new process governing transfers between levels of care.

Chapter 454, Statutes of 2005

SB 493 (Kuehl-D) Cal-Learn Program: school age teens

Extends eligibility for the Cal-Learn program, which helps pregnant and parenting teens attend school, to certain otherwise ineligible teen parents.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 678* (Ducheny-D) Indian children

Revises and recasts the portions of the Family, Probate, and Welfare and Institutions Codes that address Indian child custody proceedings by codifying into state law various provisions of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Guidelines for State Courts, and state Rules of Court.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 786 (McClintock-R) Public assistance: home visits

Establishes a statewide requirement for all welfare applicants to participate in a home visit from a District Attorney's Office investigator within 10 days of application.

(Failed passage in Senate Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 1071* (McClintock-R) CalWORKs: Cola elimination

Repeals the statutory cost of living adjustment for welfare recipients and establishes new maximum aid payments, 6.5 percent below the current maximums, to go into effect on July 1, 2005.

(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 109 (Chan-D) California Children and Families Program

Adds three requirements before a county children and families commission is eligible to receive its share of tobacco tax revenues, and requires the county commissions strategic plans to measure program outcomes, using applicable indicators.

Chapter 284, Statutes of 2005

AB 116 (Shirley Horton-R) Child Health and Disability Prevention Program

Provides that a licensed physician, regardless of whether he or she is board certified, board eligible, or is separately enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as an individual or rendering provider, including a licensed osteopath, is eligible to participate as a Child Health and Disability Prevention Program provider so long as he or she holds an unrestricted license to practice medicine or osteopathy, provides primary care services as a family practitioner, pediatrician, internist, or general practitioner, and delivers services as an employee or contractor of a clinic.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 133* (Assembly Budget Committee) In-home supportive services

Makes conforming changes necessary to implement the In-Home Supportive Services share-of-cost provisions that were included in SB 68 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 78, Chapter 2005, the omnibus human services trailer bill for the Budget Act of 2005.

Chapter 504, Statutes of 2005

AB 233 (Haynes-R) CalWORKs: eligibility

Denies assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program to persons convicted of felony crimes involving abuse or sexual molestation of children, with certain exceptions.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 269 (Haynes-R) CalWORKs: sanctions

Requires, notwithstanding existing law and subject to specified good cause exemptions, the removal of a sanctioned individual from a primary assistance unit for a specified period, or the termination of cash payments to the family, including qualified state expenditures, until the individual resumes full participation in program activities, and applies these sanctions based on whether the individual's failure to comply is partial or total, and the length of time for which the failure to comply persists.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 363 (Chu-D) Child and Family Service Review System

Specifies requirements for the allocation and expenditure of funds that may be appropriated in the annual Budget Act to be used by counties as they implement improvements outlined through their County Child and Family Service Reviews.

Chapter 296, Statutes of 2005

AB 368 (Evans-D) CalWORKs

States principles governing state implementation of federal reauthorization of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grants and requires preparation of a report outlining state options under federal law.

(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 392 (Chan-D) County integrated health and human services

Permits any county, with the assistance and participation of the appropriate state departments, to eliminate a program for the funding and delivery of services and benefits through an integrated and comprehensive county health and human services system.

(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 477 (Baca-D) In-home supportive services pilot project

Establishes a pilot project in three counties, lasting four years, to authorize qualified individuals to purchase in-home supportive services.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 503 (Lieber-D) CalWORKs: bill of rights

Enacts the omnibus California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program reform bill.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 652* (Levine-D) In-home supportive services program: pilot project

Establishes a pilot project to authorize certain qualified individuals to purchase in-home supportive services.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 686 (Chu-D) Children's services

Requires the State Auditor to conduct an audit of the state's processing of claims for services as they relate to the California Children's Services Program and to issue and provide the audit report to the Legislature no later than May 31, 2006. Requires the State Auditor to provide to specified legislative committees an analysis of the auditor's one-year status report on the auditee's implementation of the recommendation contained in the audit report, and remains in effect only until January 1, 2011.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 696 (Chu-D) Public social services: CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program

Exempts food stamp only recipients from the requirement that they be finger printed.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 766 (Chavez-D) WIC program vendors

Requires the Department of Health Services to establish competitive price criteria and allowable reimbursement levels for WIC-only (California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children) vendors, as defined, and provides for the payment of those vendors at the average payment per voucher paid to comparable vendors.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 778 (Mullin-D) Auto insurance: in-home supportive services

Prohibits an auto liability policy from containing any provision that expressly or impliedly excludes from coverage under the policy, the operation or use of an insured motor vehicle by the named insured in the performance of any in-home supportive services, and prohibits a vehicle covered under an auto liability policy from being classified as a common carrier, livery, or for-hire vehicle solely for the reason that the named insured or applicant is operating or using the insured vehicle to provide transportation incidental to the provision of in-home supportive services.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 811 (Matthews-D) Licensing and certification functions: consolidation

Requires, by January 1, 2006, the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency to initiate a review of all administrative, statutory, and regulatory requirements and functions relating to the licensing and certification of facilities, programs, and individuals responsible for providing health and social services to the public, and requires the Secretary to submit a report to Legislature regarding recommendations for statutory changes necessary to implement a centralized licensure and certification program.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 824 (Chu-D) AFDC-FC benefits: transitional housing

Expands the eligibility for the Transitional Housing Program-Plus for emancipated foster youth by extending the maximum eligible age from 21 to 24 years.

Chapter 636, Statutes of 2005

AB 842 (Arambula-D) Federal refugee cash assistance funds: county transfers

Requires that if a refugee receiving cash assistance from the county from funds received under the federal Refugee Act of 1980 moves to another county eligible to receive those funds, the county from which the refugee moves shall transfer a proportionate share of those funds to the receiving county.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 847 (Berg-D) Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly

Allows the Department of Health Services to negotiate and grant exemptions from existing regulations and licensing requirements to the California Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly programs.

Chapter 315, Statutes of 2005

AB 855 (Bass-D) CalWORKs

Allows certain drug felons to receive CalWORKs cash grant assistance when amenability to treatment is documented.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 863 (Bass-D) Child Welfare Council

Establishes the Child Welfare Council, which will advise on the management of the multiple agencies that provide services to children and youth in contact with courts and the child welfare and foster care systems.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 899 (Ridley-Thomas-D) In-home supportive services

Authorizes In-Home Supportive Service Workers to be paid for up to six hours of training.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 930 (De La Torre-D) Naturalization services program

Seeks to establish a comprehensive, coordinated, accessible and accountable naturalization and civic participation program.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 943 (Keene-R) Aid to indigents

Authorizes a board of supervisors of a county to adopt a lower standard of aid if the board adopts a resolution making a finding that meeting a specified general assistance standard of aid will result in a significant financial distress to the county, and revises the procedures and standards applicable to making a finding of significant financial distress.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1242 (Arambula-D) In-home supportive services: provider timesheets

Requires the Department of Social Services to develop and distribute to counties a standardized provider timesheet and daily log, requires the use of the timesheet and daily log by all counties, requires the timesheet and daily log to contain a legal verification to be signed by the provider verifying under penalty of perjury that the information provided by the provider is true and correct.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1258* (Daucher-R) Adult day health care

Makes various changes to the Adult Day Health Center Program.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1298 (Evans-D) Health and human services

Establishes a workgroup to streamline the application and eligibility processes for a host of means-tested health and social services, and permits self-certification of assets when applying for Medi-Cal, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility for Kids (CalWORKs) and food stamps.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1326 (Vargas-D) In-home supportive services

Extends to recipients of in-home supportive services which occur as part of a long-term care integration pilot program the same right to choose their provider as they already have under the state's In-Home Supportive Services Program.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1538 (Bass-D) In-home supportive service: provider wages and benefits

Requires a county to provide the same wages and benefits authorized pursuant to the collective bargaining process to any in-home supportive services provider who is qualified to receive wages and benefits under the applicable collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding, but who is ineligible to receive those wages and benefits as a result of maximum provider enrollment provisions in the collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1541 (Chavez-D) WIC nutrition vendors

Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to establish five peer group vendor register groupings, based upon the number of registers possessed by a vendor, and establishes a category of a "50 percent vendor," which means a food vendor for which more than 50 percent of the vendor's annual revenue form the sale of food items consists of revenue from the sale of supplemental foods that are obtained with food instruments. Limits the maximum allowable reimbursement by DHS for a food item redeemed by a 50 percent vendor, based on the redemption price for the same item by all commercial retail vendors within the same register groupings, and prohibits a 50 percent vendor from providing incentive items to WIC program (California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children) participants, except as provided by the bill.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1593 (Coto-D) Child nutrition

Defines pattern of occurrences of vendor fraud or abuse by stores selling goods under the California Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children to exclude violations found during a single monitoring visit, and rescinds prior disqualifications based upon prior definition of pattern of abuse.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1653* (Haynes-R) In-Home Supportive Services: wage and benefit increases

Limits state participation in wages of In-Home Supportive Services providers to the minimum wage.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1664 (De La Torre-D) Naturalization Services Program

Establishes, within the Department of Community Services and Development (DCSD), the New Californians Act to develop a program to assist eligible immigrants through the naturalization process. Requires DCSD to contract with, and allocate funds to, organizations to provide free naturalization services, as specified. Prohibits contractors of citizenship assistance services from specified activities that may be a conflict of interest.

(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

ACA 6 (Wyland-R) Public benefits

Seeks to amend the California Constitution to prevent the state from providing assistance to immigrants who do not meet certain federal residency requirements, or to their children who may be citizens of the United States.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 15 (Evans-D) In-Home Supportive Services Home Care Worker Recognition

Proclaims the second week of November to be In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Home Care Worker Recognition Week, and recognizes and commends the contributions of IHSS caregivers who give their time, patience, care and support to their families and the entire community.

Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2005

Other Public Health and Safety Legislation

SB 12 (Escutia-D) School food nutrition

Removes the requirement that SB 19 (Escutia), Chapter 913, Statutes of 2001, be funded in order to be implemented, thereby implementing nutrition standards in elementary schools, and extends the standards to secondary schools.

Chapter 235, Statutes of 2005

SB 19 (Ortiz-D) California Rx Program

Establishes the California State Pharmacy Assistance Program, a state pharmacy assistance program under the authority of the Department of Health Services, to provide prescription drug discounts for California residents with income up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level.

(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 29* (Perata-D) Budget Trailer Bill: Tobacco Surtax Fund

Reappropriates $24.8 million from various accounts in the Proposition 99 Tobacco Product Surtax Fund to the Department of Health Services for emergency medical services.

Chapter 4, Statutes of 2005

SB 37 (Speier-D) Prohibited substances

Requires the Department of Health Services to provide the United States Anti-Doping Agency's "Guide to Prohibited Substances and Prohibited Methods of Doping," to the California Department of Education on or before March 30, 2006, and makes changes relating to the 1998 California High School Coaching Education Program.

Chapter 673, Statutes of 2005

SB 57 (Alarcon-D) Fines and forfeitures

Amends the Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund to earmark funds for pediatric trauma centers.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 88* (Ducheny-D) Fiscal affairs: health care funding: Proposition 99

Permits the use of Proposition 99 monies from the Physician Services, Hospital Services and Unallocated Accounts to be used as the state matching funds for federal funding for hospital and physician services.

Chapter 14, Statutes of 2005

SB 104 (Ortiz-D) Public health orders: enforcement

States in the codes that local peace officers may enforce the orders of the Department of Health Services (DHS) and of local health officers issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, requires the Director of DHS and the local health officer to advise measures to be taken to prevent infection of enforcement officers when requesting enforcement of their orders, and deems monies made available in the 2004-05 Budget Act for bioterrorism preparedness available for expenditure and encumbrance until August 30, 2006.

Chapter 478, Statutes of 2005

SB 144 (Runner-R) Retail food

Repeals the California Uniform Retail Food Facilities Law and, effective January 1, 2007, recasts, expands and revises its provisions into a newly created California Retail Food Code.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 159 (Runner-R) Inmates: health care services

Enacts, until January 1, 2009, a new section in law for sheriffs and police chiefs, similar to that in Section 5023.5 of the Penal Code concerning the Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority, setting statutory limits on payments for emergency health care services to non-contract emergency providers for persons in custody, victims of crime, and jail inmates.

Chapter 481, Statutes of 2005

SB 162 (Ortiz-D) Department of Public Health

Establishes a Department of Public Health within the Health and Human Services Agency, and transfers various responsibilities relating to public health, currently administered by the Department of Health Services, to the new department.

(In Senate Government Modernization, Efficiency, and Accountability Committee)

SB 187 (Soto-D) Drinking water: contaminants

Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to revise the public health goal health standard for perchlorate under certain circumstances.

(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

SB 197* (Cox-R) Sly Park Reservoir

Modifies the conditions under which swimming and other recreational activities will continue to be allowed at Sly Park Reservoir in El Dorado County.

Chapter 252, Statutes of 2005

SB 266 (Romero-D) Trauma care

Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) to establish a trauma care advisory committee, as specified, and requires the committee to develop a statewide trauma care plan, present the plan to the EMSA, and provide the plan to the Legislature along with the EMSA's comment by January 1, 2007.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 267 (Romero-D) Emergency medical services: Trauma Care Fund

Changes the distribution formula that local emergency medical services agencies must use to distribute money from the Trauma Care Fund to trauma care centers.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 281* (Maldonado-R) California Fresh Start Pilot Program

Establishes the California Fresh Start Pilot Program, administered by the California Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Health Services.

Chapter 236, Statutes of 2005

SB 307 (Simitian-D) Dextromethorphan: sale to minors prohibited

Makes it an infraction for any person in an over-the-counter sale to, without a prescription, willfully and knowingly deliver to a person under 18 years of age a nonprescription drug containing dextromethorphan.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 329 (Cedillo-D) Calif. Prescription Drug Safety and Effectiveness Commission

Establishes the California Prescription Drug Safety and Effectiveness Commission within the Health and Human Services Agency.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 380 (Alquist-D) Drugs: adverse event reporting

Requires health care providers to report suspicious serious adverse drug events to the federal Food and Drug Administration.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 392* (Cedillo-D) Sales and use taxes: public safety and emergency services

Increases the state sales and use tax by 0.50 percent to fund public safety programs.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 415* (Alquist-D) Advance health care directive

Requires the Secretary of State to establish an Internet web site that allows an individual to register with the Advance Health Care Directive Registry, and specified entities to request information from the registry on a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week basis, and authorizes the Secretary of State to receive voluntary contributions to be deposited in the Advance Health Care Directive Registry Fund created by the bill to support the registry and its activities.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 429 (Florez-D) Recreational bathing: sanitation

Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to convene a public advisory group consisting of specified members to advise DHS on the development of minimum sanitation standards of high-use or priority freshwater bathing areas.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 454 (Ortiz-D) Health counseling

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 456 (Runner-R) Access for Infants and Mothers: federal funding

Provides that federal funds allocated to the state under the State Children's Health Insurance Program will also be allowed to support the Access for Infants and Mothers Program and prenatal services provided through Medi-Cal.

(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 458 (Speier-D) Basic health care: counties

Allows existing county commissions, organizers of County Organized Health Systems established to offer Medi-Cal managed care, to also offer health coverage paid for from private sources.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 479 (Lowenthal-D) Childhood obesity mitigation

Requires the Department of Health Services to establish the Childhood Obesity Mitigation Pilot Project until January 1, 2008, and authorizes local agencies and certain health care providers to participate in the pilot project.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 484 (Migden-D) Cosmetics: chronic health effects

Establishes the California Safe Cosmetics Act of 2005.

Chapter 729, Statutes of 2005

SB 556* (Migden-D) Drug treatment

Allows the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs to waive the requirement that no more than 25 percent of the money expended by a county for the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA) implementation be for "criminal justice activities," allows a court to retain a probationer in SACPA upon a third or subsequent drug-related probation violation, allows the parole authority to retain a parolee in SACPA upon a second drug-related parole violation, ensures that no person is denied SACPA treatment because of a co-occurring psychiatric disorder, extends the maximum length of treatment and aftercare in SACPA from 18 to 24 months, provides that the court shall deem a person to have successfully completed SACPA treatment in a narcotics replacement program if he or she has participated in treatment for at least three months and the treating physician or program reports adequate compliance with the program, and allows funding for narcotics replacement treatment for up to 18 months, regardless of whether the charges have been dismissed.

(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 567 (Torlakson-D) Pupil nutrition: school wellness policy

Requires, consistent with federal law, a school district participating in federal school meal programs to implement a school wellness policy by the beginning of the 2006-07 school year.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 600 (Ortiz-D) Biomonitoring

Establishes the Health Californians Biomonitoring Program and directs the Department of Health Services to adopt guidelines and protocols for the states biomonitoring program.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 611 (Speier-D) Meat and poultry recalls

Requires a meat or poultry supplier, distributor, broker or processor to immediately notify the Department of Health Services, as specified, when meat or poultry products they sell are subject to a voluntary recall by the United States Department of Agriculture.

(On Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 630 (Dutton-R) Anatomical gifts: organs: inquests

Removes the sunset date for statutes governing procedures for removal or organs for transplant when a death requires an inquest by the medical examiner or coroner.

Chapter 138, Statutes of 2005

SB 689 (Speier-D) Vehicles: organ and tissue donors: registry

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, beginning July of 2006, to collect organ and tissue donor designation information on its applications for drivers' licenses and identification cards rather than to provide a standardized form for a donor to mail in to the state's donor registrar.

Chapter 665, Statutes of 2005

SB 708 (Speier-D) Drug discount program: conditions of participation

Chapter 207, Statutes of 2005

SB 730 (Speier-D) Organic products: aquaculture products

Prohibits any aquaculture, fish, or seafood product (including farmed and wild species) from being labeled or represented as "organic," until such a time that the United States Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program, or the California Department of Food and Agriculture implements formal certification standards.

Chapter 685, Statutes of 2005

SB 798 (Simitian-D) Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program

Establishes a voluntary, county-option drug repository and distribution program to distribute surplus medications to persons in need of financial assistance to ensure access to necessary pharmaceutical therapies.

Chapter 444, Statutes of 2005

SB 803* (Ducheny-D) Ongoing Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2005

Makes several changes to the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, also known by its ballot initiative designation, Proposition 36.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 849 (Escutia-D) Environmental health data tracking

Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) and the California Environmental Protection Agency to establish the Interagency Office of Environmental Health Tracking within DHS' Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control for the purpose of implementing the California Health Tracking Program.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 861 (Speier-D) Animals: dogs: spay, neuter, and breeding programs

Allows cities and counties to enact breed-specific ordinances for mandatory spaying and neutering and breeding restrictions.

Chapter 668, Statutes of 2005

SB 869 (Bowen-D) Nurse-Family Partnership program

Establishes the Nurse-Family Partnership program, which will be administered and implemented by the Department of Health Services, for purposes of making grants to eligible participating counties for the provision of voluntary registered nurse home visiting services for expectant first-time low-income mothers, their children, and their families.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 905 (Machado-D) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Deletes the requirement of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to select an independent evaluator to conduct a long-term evaluation of Partnership Academies and, instead, requires the California Department of Education to submit a specified report.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 914 (Kehoe-D) Animal cruelty

Makes the selling of a dog under the age of eight weeks, except as specified, an infraction or a misdemeanor, and specifies that with respect to the sale of two or more drugs in violation of the bill's provisions, each dog unlawfully sold shall represent a separate offense.

Chapter 669, Statutes of 2005

SB 917 (Speier-D) Payers' Bill of Rights: diagnostic related groups

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 934 (Vincent-D) Dogs and cats: spay or neuter agreement

Provides that any entity selling or giving away an unspayed or unneutered dog or cat shall require the adopter or purchaser to execute a written agreement acknowledging that the dog or cat is not spayed or neutered and agreeing that the adopter or purchaser shall be responsible for ensuring that the dog or cat will be spayed or neutered.

(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 937 (Aanestad-R) Liability: obesity

Immunizes a manufacturer, distributor, packer, carrier, marketer, advertiser, or seller of food or nonalcoholic beverages intended for human consumption, or an association of one or more of those entities, from liability in any civil action arising out of weight gain, obesity, or related health condition, or any other generally known health condition allegedly caused by or likely to result form the long-term consumption of food or nonalcoholic beverage that results in weight gain or obesity.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 941 (Alquist-D) Emergency medical services fund

Establishes the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Funding Act, which revises existing law governing administration of the Maddy EMS Fund and the California Tobacco Tax and Health Promotion Act of 1988 (Proposition 98) Physician Services Account to make the statutes more consistent.

Chapter 671, Statutes of 2005

SB 985 (Dunn-D) Adulterated candy: lead poisoning prevention

Requires the Department of Health Services to regulate lead in candy to ensure that the candy is not adulterated.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCR 4 (Torlakson-D) Public health awareness

Encourages various government, community, school, and workplace activities in support of public health awareness and prevention of obesity and diabetes.

Resolution Chapter 32, Statutes of 2005

SCR 33 (Torlakson-D) California Fitness Month

Proclaims May 2005 as California Fitness Month and encourages all Californians to enrich their lives through proper diet and exercise.

Resolution Chapter 36, Statutes of 2005

SCR 47 (Alquist-D) Health Care Decisions Week

Recognizes the week of October 24 through 30, 2005, as Health Care Decisions Week in California, and encourages all citizens to think and talk with loved ones about their wishes for medical care.

Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2005

SCR 49 (Speier-D) Medication errors panel

Creates a panel to study the causes of medication errors and recommend changes in the health care system that reduces errors associated with the delivery of prescription and over the counter medication to consumers.

Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2005

SCR 58 (Alquist-D) Assisted Living Week

Proclaims the week of September 11 through 17, 2005, as Assisted Living Week, and encourages all residents to visit friends and loved ones who reside in assisted living communities and to learn more about this valuable service.

Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2005

SCR 59 (Figueroa-D) Pain Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of September 2005 as Pain Awareness Month.

Resolution Chapter 126, Statutes of 2005

SJR 5 (Speier-D) Food recalls

Makes various findings concerning food and other product recalls and memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to give the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration the authority to implement a mandatory food recall system.

(On Senate Third Reading File)

SJR 16 (Machado-D) Mad Cow Disease

Urges the President to allow private companies to test cattle for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, commonly referred to as "Mad Cow Disease," using approved testing protocols, and requests the President and Congress to close loopholes in the cattle feed rules and maintain the ban on using "downer" animals for human consumption.

(Failed passage in Senate Agriculture Committee; reconsideration granted)

SR 18 (Romero-D) Baby Bill of Rights

Establishes the Baby Bill of Rights.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 47 (Cohn-D) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Prohibits the Department of General Services from approving a contract for medical care services prepared by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation unless the contract was competitively bid pursuant to provisions of existing law.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 71 (Chan-D) California Drug Safety Watch

Establishes the Office of California Drug Safety Watch within the Department of Health Services to create a central repository of information about the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs that are frequently advertised on television.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 72 (Frommer-D) Prescription drugs: clinical trials

Requires sponsors of clinical trials to certify that they have registered the clinical trials and that they will publish the results of the trial, whether positive or negative.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 73 (Frommer-D) Prescription drugs: importation: procurement

Establishes the California Rx Prescription Drug web site program, to be administered by the Department of Health Services (DHS), and requires DHS to establish a web site on or before July 1, 2006, to provide information to California residents about options for obtaining prescription drugs at affordable prices.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 74 (Gordon-D) California Rx Prescription Drug Hotline

Requires the Department of Health Services to establish the California Rx Prescription Drug Hotline, on or before July 1, 2006, to provide information to consumers and health care providers about options for obtaining prescription drugs at affordable prices.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 75 (Frommer-D) Pharmaceutical assistance program

Establishes the California Rx Plus State Pharmacy Assistance Program, to be administered by the Department of Health Services.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 76 (Frommer-D) Office of Pharmaceutical Purchasing

Establishes the Office of Pharmaceutical Purchasing in the Health and Human Services Agency to purchase prescription drugs for state agencies.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 78 (Pavley-D) Pharmacy benefits management

Requires specified disclosures related to contracts between a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) and a purchase of a PBM's service.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 83* (Leslie-R) Cameron Park Community Services District

Exempts the Cameron Park Community Services District manmade lake and swimming lagoon with a sand bottom from the Department of Health Services swimming pool water clarity standards upon the approval of the local health office, and requires the Department of Health Services to form a committee to review whether manmade lakes and swimming lagoons with sand bottoms should be regulated to the same water clarity of swimming pools.

Chapter 283, Statutes of 2005

AB 103 (Cohn-D) School districts: contraceptives

Prohibits the governing board of a school district from prohibiting a licensed health clinic from entering upon and dispensing contraceptives on a school site.

(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 105 (Cohn-D) Food labeling: California Choice Seal Program

Requires the Department of Health Services to establish a voluntary food inspection program, to authorize placement of the "California Choice Seal" upon, or in association with, compliant food products, and to assess a fee upon participants to cover the costs of the program.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 121 (Vargas-D) Adulterated candy: maximum allowable lead levels

Requires the Department of Health Services to regulate lead content in candy.

Chapter 707, Statutes of 2005

AB 131* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Trailer Bill: general health and safety

Implements statutory changes for specified health programs in order to enact the 2005-06 Budget Act.

Chapter 80, Statutes of 2005

AB 139* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Trailer Bill: Rural Health Care Equity Program

Continuously appropriates general funds, not to exceed expenditures of $15.3 million, to support secondary claims in the Rural Health Care Equity Program. This same amount is reverted to the General Fund by the 2005 Budget Act, because future claims are not anticipated at the level needed to liquidate the existing balance. The continuous appropriation was proposed to allow the reversion of funds, without violating any contractual obligations with employee bargaining units.

Chapter 74, Statutes of 2005

AB 247* (Walters-R) Tax credit: long-term care

Allows a credit for 20 percent, not to exceed $1,000 per taxpayer, or in the case of taxpayers filing a joint return, $2,000 of the amount paid or incurred by the taxpayer for long-term care or long-term insurance provided for the taxpayer or a parent of the taxpayer.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 254 (Nakanishi-R) Automatic external defibrillators

Requires the principal of a public or private K-12 school to meet specific guidelines in order to be exempt from liability for civil damages associated with the use of an automatic external defibrillator.

Chapter 111, Statutes of 2005

AB 260 (Bermudez-D) State Fire Marshal: fire response time: reports

Makes several changes regarding reporting local fire fighting data to the State Fire Marshal.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 298* (Berg-D) Personal income tax: credit: caregivers

Extends the sunset date for the existing credit for caregivers.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 319 (Chan-D) Phthalates and bisphenol-A in children's products

Prohibits the use of Bisphenol-A and phthalates in toys and childcare products designed for babies and children under three years of age.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 341* (Daucher-R) County health care delivery systems

Allows county boards of supervisors to authorize County Organized Health Systems to provide services to persons eligible for Medicare and dually eligible for Medicare and Medi-Cal, and allows dual eligible beneficiaries to have all their health care services covered by a single entity.

Chapter 156, Statutes of 2005

AB 392 (Chan-D) County integrated health and human services

Permits any county, with the assistance and participation of the appropriate state departments, to implement a program for the funding and delivery of services and benefits through an integrated and comprehensive county health and human services system.

(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 418 (Koretz-D) Dogs: animal cruelty: ear cropping

Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $10,000, for any person to perform, procure or arrange an ear cropping procedure on any dog within California, except as performed by a licensed veterinarian solely for a therapeutic purpose.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 444 (Yee-D) School food: nutrition guidelines

Adds to the requirement that the California Department of Education develop nutrition guidelines for all food and beverages sold on public school campuses to include all food and beverages served, as well as sold.

Vetoed by the governor

AB 460 (Parra-D) Contagious diseases

Permits the Department of Food and Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements with the United States Department of Agriculture to carry out a program for the prevention and control of Avian Influenza, and requires the adoption of regulations as needed to implement such program requirements created by the agreement.

Chapter 609, Statutes of 2005

AB 464 (Daucher-R) Health Care Directives: natural death

Specifies that a health care provider who honors an "allow natural death" order, as defined, is not subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability, or other disciplinary proceedings, defines the term "allow natural death" for purposes of those provisions, and allows a health care provider to make a presumption about the validity of a request for natural death.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 525 (Chu-D) Health care

Requires Department of Health Services to develop and implement a system and a card, to be known as the Health Access Programs Card, to enroll individuals in specified state health care programs.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 562 (Levine-D) Discount health programs

Requires discount health programs to register with the Department of Managed Health Care, prohibits a discount program from offering certain services, including physician and hospital services, and establishes various marketing-related requirements.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 566 (Bermudez-D) State Fire Marshal: fire response time: reports

Requires fire agencies to report staffing and response time information to the State Fire Marshal using a standardized format referred to as the "National Fire Incident Reporting System" and requires the reports to include data specified in the Apparatus or Resources module and the Personnel module of this system.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 569 (Garcia-R) Pupil nutrition: food service

Makes the entire campus of an elementary, junior high, or middle school, a food service area during breakfast and lunch periods, and prohibits the sale or serving of foods of minimal nutritional value during those periods.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 576 (Wolk-D) Immunizations

Makes changes to the statute authorizing the California State Immunization Information System.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 584 (Blakeslee-R) Seismic safety

Deletes the obsolete Alfred E. Alquist Earthquake Fund, transfers the remaining $106 in the fund to the Seismic Safety Commission and appropriates the funds to the Seismic Safety Commission for expenditure in this fiscal year.

Chapter 92, Statutes of 2005

AB 586 (Negrete McLeod-D) Medical disaster mobilization

Authorizes the designation of a Medical/Health Operational Area Coordinator in each county to be the point of contact for regional disaster medical/health coordinators and others in the event of a local, state, or federal emergency.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 615 (Vargas-D) Hearing aids: over-the-counter sales

Authorizes the over-the-counter sale of hearing aid devices.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 622 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public schools: pupil nutrition

Extends the requirement that schools be funded in order to be required to meet specified nutritional standards when selling or serving food to pupils in elementary, middle, and high schools and modifies nutrition standards for schools.

(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 631 (Leno-D) Narcotic treatment programs: mobile service units

Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to provide for mobile narcotic treatment programs.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 651 (Berg-D) California Compassionate Choices Act

Requires the Department of Health Services to conduct a demonstration to test the efficacy of the chronic care model in providing a disease management benefit to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 656 (Hancock-D) Pupil attendance: county school attendance review boards

Declares that rules and regulations adopted by county school attendance review boards may include a procedure for the submission of recommendation of the school attendance review board to the appropriate school district personnel.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 669* (La Suer-R) Firefighter training and standards

Creates the California Firefighter Training Standards Task Force to develop new and comprehensive firefighter training and education standards.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 672 (Klehs-D) Reservoirs with water intended for domestic use

Allows certain recreational activities at public agency reservoirs if certain conditions are met.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 794 (Chu-D) Health care funding: Access for Infants and Mothers Program

Chapter 23, Statutes of 2005

AB 811 (Matthews-D) California Health and Human Services Agency

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 812 (Matthews-D) Health and Human Services Agency: employment: consolidation

Requires standardized background checks within the California Health and Human Services Agency.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 858 (Bass-D) Substance abuse and crime prevention: funding

Makes changes relating to Proposition 36 or the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 864 (Levine-D) California Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

Creates the California Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

(In Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)

AB 908 (Chu-D) Cosmetics

Prohibits a person or entity, on or after January 1, 2007, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in commerce any cosmetic that contains dibutyl phthalate or di-phthalate and provides that any cosmetic is misbranded if it is sold by an Internet Web site where the list of ingredients in the cosmetic is not easily and readily available to be viewed by the prospective purchaser before the purchase is completed.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 910 (Mullin-D) Life sciences: ombudsman

Establishes until January 1, 2011, the Life Sciences Ombudsman Program in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, and assigns the Ombudsman certain tasks, including working with the life sciences industry to identify existing programs that support the life sciences industry, serving as a resource to new and expanding life sciences companies, and serving as a liaison between the state and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine that was created by Proposition 71.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 914 (Cogdill-R) Authorized emergency vehicles

Modifies provisions concerning vehicles used by privately owned ambulance operators.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 923 (Chavez-D) Fireworks: sale: disposal

Authorizes the sale of certified safe and sane fireworks from 9:00 a.m. on December 26 through January 1 pursuant to a license issued by the State Fire Marshal, if authorized by a city, county, or city and county ordinance or resolution that may also restrict the hours of use of those fireworks.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 972 (Sharon Runner-R) Boxing: pregnancy tests

Requires all female boxers, kickboxers and martial artists to take a pregnancy test before they would be allowed to compete in a match.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 991 (DeVore-R) Mosquito abatement and vector control districts

Reduces the size of the board of trustees for the Orange County Vector Control District.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1058 (Koretz-D) Retail food: beef labeling and information

Requires, beginning January 1, 2007, retailers to label meat products offered for sale with the country or countries of origin to the extent permitted under federal law.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1062 (Saldana-D) Medical experimentation: informed consent

Expands disclosures and rights of subjects of medical experimentation.

(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1075 (Blakeslee-R) County organized health systems

Expands the potential service area of the county organized health system for Santa Barbara County, the Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority, to include counties contiguous to Santa Barbara County.

Chapter 29, Statutes of 2005

AB 1077 (Chan-D) Pupil health

Requires a pupil attending a public school to present proof of having received, while in kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 6th grade, an oral health assessment by a licensed dentist or other licensed or registered dental health professional before January 15 of that school year.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1081 (Matthews-D) Sherman Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Law: bottled or vended water

Increases inspection fees and civil and criminal penalties for violations of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, including intentional adulteration.

Chapter 401, Statutes of 2005

AB 1091 (Parra-D) Discount buying services

Establishes requirements for discount health care programs including provisions related to contracts with providers, marketing, requiring a toll-free telephone number and registering with the Department of Managed Health Care.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1105 (Mullin-D) Food establishments: toilet facilities

Requires a food establishment to provide a baby changing table within or adjacent to all restroom facilities intended for public use.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1131 (Torrico-D) Health care districts: asset transfer

Extends the termination data in statute that allows local health care districts to transfer their assets to for-profit corporations from January 1, 2006 to January 1, 2011.

Chapter 194, Statutes of 2005

AB 1144 (Harman-R) Playground safety standards

Requires the Department of Health Services to adopt, and amend as necessary, its playground safety regulations in order to meet the current American Society for Testing and Materials standards for playground safety and other standards that relate to playground equipment.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1155 (La Suer-R) Grossmont Healthcare District

Allows the Grossmont Healthcare District to renegotiate or extend its lease with Sharp Healthcare for an additional 30 years, subject to majority-voter approval.

Chapter 195, Statutes of 2005

AB 1168 (Saldana-D) Drinking water standards

Requires the Department of Health Services, when reviewing an application for a water system operating permit for a ground or ocean water desalination project, to identify potential contaminants and sources of contamination and ensure the safety and effectiveness of treatment processes.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1194 (Oropeza-D) Entertainment: emergency exits

Requires venues of live entertainment to announce the availability of emergency exits prior to the beginning of the event.

Chapter 537, Statutes of 2005

AB 1278 (Emmerson-R) Vital records

Revises the management and collection of information included on certificates of live birth and fetal death.

Chapter 430, Statutes of 2005

AB 1291 (Pavley-D) Consumer products: state-certified logo

Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to, by January 1, 2007, design a state-certified logo that could be affixed to consumer products that do not contain, produce, or emit, certain substances, or that for which the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment issues a certificate of compliance that the substance, if present in the product, will not harm the health or development of a developing fetus, infant, or child.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1295 (Bermudez-D) Fireworks: sale: disposal

Authorizes the sale of fireworks from December 26 through January 1 each year and establishes the State Fire Marshal Dangerous Fireworks Management Fund.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1309* (Yee-D) Local health authorities and commissions

Requires licensed health plans established under joint powers authority for the purpose of contracting as a local initiative to meet all of the requirements in existing law applicable to local initiatives regarding governance, public records requirements, open meeting requirements, and conflicts of interest.

Chapter 516, Statutes of 2005

AB 1349* (Goldberg-D) Narcotic treatment programs

Provides guidelines for developing sliding fee scales for indigent clients who are receiving narcotic treatment but are ineligible for Medi-Cal.

Chapter 616, Statutes of 2005

AB 1374 (Liu-D) Seismic Safety Commission

Extends the seismic safety assessments from July 1, 2007 to January 1, 2014.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1382 (Nakanishi-R) Prescription lenses

Provides that it is a deceptive marketing practice for any person to advertise that contact lenses may be obtained without confirmation of a valid prescription.

(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1385 (Laird-D) School meals

Requires the California Department of Education to develop and implement a data matching system to directly certify recipients of public assistance programs for enrollment in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs.

Chapter 361, Statutes of 2005

AB 1392 (Umberg-D) Free or reduced-price meals

Changes the conditions under which the State Board of Education is required to grant a waiver to school districts and county offices of education from participating in the Summer Food Service Program.

Chapter 651, Statutes of 2005

AB 1398 (Plescia-R) Life sciences

Encourages the Public Employees' Retirement System to fully deploy funds earmarked for life science investments, and to ensure that its asset allocation reflects the long-term value that the corporations present to California.

(In Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1426 (Liu-D) Animal euthanasia

Prohibits the use of intracardiac injections of a euthanasia agent to kill any animal.

Chapter 352, Statutes of 2005

AB 1428 (Levine-D) Clones and genetically modified pets

Establishes the Cloned and Genetically Modified Pet and Consumer Protection Act that prohibits the retail sale or transfer of cloned or genetically modified pets, as defined, within California.

(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1434 (Shirley Horton-R) Home health agencies: licensing enforcement

Requires organizations that provide skilled nursing services in the home to obtain a home health agency license, and prohibits unlicensed entities from representing themselves as a home health agency.

Chapter 335, Statutes of 2005

AB 1465 (Mountjoy-R) Prisoners: medical treatment

Prohibits facility staff, other than a physician, at the Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority from interfering with the delivery of a treatment prescribed by a physician unless imminent risk of bodily harm to the physician, staff, or inmate requires alternate or modified procedures.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1507 (Pavley-D) Automatic external defibrillators: health studios

Seeks to ensure that all health studios in the state have automatic external defibrillators available with properly trained personnel to help save lives of club members experiencing potential cardiac arrest.

Chapter 431, Statutes of 2005

AB 1593 (Coto-D) Child nutrition

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1667 (Saldana-D) Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs

Expands the definition of specialized physical health care services to include the administration of medication, and expands the pool of students with health care needs that may be assisted by specified qualified individuals while at school.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1671 (Richman-R) Cal-Health Act

Requires the Department of Health Services to establish an enrollment and retention program known as Cal-Health, which will be a single point of entry for all health care programs offered by state and local government agencies.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1673 (Nation-D) Seismic and patient safety

Repeals the provisions of the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 that require specified hospitals to meet seismic retrofitting requirements by 2008, revises the final 2030 deadline requirement to 2020, and makes this bill contingent upon the enactment of AB 1672 (Richman).

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1674 (Richman-R) Center of Quality Health Care

Requires the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency to contract with an academic institution or public policy research institution for the establishment of a Center of Quality Health Care.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1676 (Richman-R) Advanced Directives and Terminal Illness Decisions Program

Enacts the Advanced Directives and Terminal Illness Decisions Program and calls for collaboration among state entities to develop information about end-of-life care and advance health directives.

Chapter 434, Statutes of 2005

AB 1689 (Lieber-D) EPSDT services

Requires any participating county contracting with a provider for Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program services to include in the contract terms and conditions in which the contracting county agrees to pay for those services provided by a contractor to residents of another county, and provides for the reimbursement of counties that pay for those services for children who are not residents of the county.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1701 (Bass-D) Birth Defects Monitoring Program: fees

Requires the assessment of an additional $2 for every certified copy of a death certificate to fund the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 13 (Wolk-D) Spay Day USA 2005

Declares February 22, 2005, to be Spay Day USA 2005, 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 4, Statutes of 2005

ACR 44 (Baca-D) Minority Health Awareness Month

Proclaims August of each year as Minority Health Awareness Month.

Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 2005

ACR 53 (Lieber-D) Organ and tissue donation

Proclaims the support and observation of the Legislature of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week, April 20 through 26, 2005, and urges every Californian to consider becoming an organ donor, and encourages organ and tissue recipients to tell others how their lives and health have changed because of the generosity of an organ donor.

Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2005

ACR 57 (Salinas-D) Automated external defibrillator programs

Encourages all California public schools maintaining grades K-12 to set as a top priority the implementation of an automated external defibrillator program.

Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2005

ACR 83 (Frommer-D) White Cane Safety Day

Proclaims October 15, 2005, as White Cane Safety Day and calls upon schools to offer opportunities for training to blind persons, public and private employers to utilize the skills of blind persons and open new opportunities for the blind, and all citizens to recognize the white cane and guide dog as instruments of safety and self-help for blind pedestrians.

Resolution Chapter 135, Statutes of 2005

ACR 86 (Parra-D) Emergency assistance

Urges all Californians to participate in the In Case of Emergency campaign by entering an emergency contact number into their cell phone memory in order to assist medical and emergency personnel.

Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2005

ACR 88 (Parra-D) Firefighters Memorial Day

Designates October 15, 2005, as California Firefighters Memorial Day and urges all Californians to remember firefighters who have given their lives in the line of duty and express appreciation to those who continue to protect the state against fires.

Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2005

ACR 90 (Arambula-D) Red Ribbon Week

Proclaims October 23 through October 29, 2005, as Red Ribbon Week, and encourages all Californians to build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.

Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2005

HR 21 (Chan-D) Children's Vision and Learning Month

Encourages parents, educators, school nurses, and concerned adults to celebrate Children's Vision and Learning Month, August 2005, by recognizing the role good vision plays in learning.

Adopted by the Assembly

Index (in Bill Order)

Bill	Author and Bill Title	Reference Links
SB 12	Escutia-D School food nutrition	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 13	Bowen-D Personal information	Public Social Services
SB 18	Ortiz-D Reproductive health and research	Stem Cell Research
SB 19	Ortiz-D California Rx Program	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 23	Migden-D Healthy Families Program and Medi-Cal	Medi-Cal
SB 24	Ortiz-D Hospital charity care	Health Facilities
SB 26*	Hollingsworth-R Personal income taxes	Mental Health
SB 29*	Perata-D Budget Trailer Bill: Tobacco Surtax Fund	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 35	Florez-D California Children and Families Program	Public Social Services
SB 37	Speier-D Prohibited substances	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 47	Scott-D Clinics	Health Facilities
SB 57	Alarcon-D Fines and forfeitures	Other Diseases/Disorders Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 63*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget Trailer Bill: Foster Care: Education	Foster Care
SB 68*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget Trailer Bill: human services	Public Social Services
SB 78	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Mental health: caseloads	Mental Health
SB 88*	Ducheny-D Fiscal affairs: health care funding: Proposition 99	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 91	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Department of Mental Health deficiencies	Mental Health
SB 102	Ducheny-D Nurse training funding	Health Professionals
SB 103	Ducheny-D Primary care clinic licensing: timing	Health Facilities
SB 104	Ortiz-D Public health orders: enforcement	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 112	Ortiz-D Refugee social services	Public Social Services
SB 131	Chesbro-D Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics	Medi-Cal
SB 141	Soto-D Residential care facilities: preadmission fee refunds	Health Facilities
SB 144	Runner-R Retail food	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 147	Runner-R Fetal pain prevention	Abortion
SB 152	Speier-D Pseudoephedrine	Health Professionals
SB 159	Runner-R Inmates: health care services	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 162	Ortiz-D Department of Public Health	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 164	Ducheny-D In-home supportive and personal care services	Public Social Services
SB 167	Speier-D Seismic and patient safety	Health Facilities
SB 187	Soto-D Drinking water: contaminants	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 188	Simitian-D CalWORKs eligibility: income	Public Social Services
SB 190*	Cedillo-D Community clinics	Health Facilities
SB 197*	Cox-R Sly Park Reservoir	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 201	Simitian-D Inventory	Public Social Services
SB 206	Dunn-D Pediatric Outlier Payment Adjustment Program	Medi-Cal
SB 209	Alquist-D Stroke education	Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 212	Lowenthal-D Lapses of consciousness: Department of Motor Vehicles report	Alzheimer's Disease Health Professionals
SB 224	Chesbro-D Health facilities: construction plans	Health Facilities
SB 230	Figueroa-D Osteopathic Medical Board of California	Health Professionals
SB 231	Figueroa-D Healing arts: Medical Board of California	Health Professionals
SB 232	Figueroa-D Boards and commissions	Health Professionals
SB 233	Figueroa-D Acupuncture	Health Professionals
SB 235	Denham-R HIV exposure: penalties	AIDS
SB 244	Romero-D Continuing care retirement communities	Public Social Services
SB 248	Figueroa-D Professions and vocations	Health Professionals
SB 257	Chesbro-D Mental health services	Mental Health
SB 258	Chesbro-D Mental health: client rights	Mental Health
SB 266	Romero-D Trauma care	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 267	Romero-D Emergency medical services: Trauma Care Fund	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 279	Cedillo-D Physicians and surgeons: locum tenens services	Health Professionals
SB 281*	Maldonado-R California Fresh Start Pilot Program	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 299	Chesbro-D Dentistry	Health Professionals
SB 307	Simitian-D Dextromethorphan: sale to minors prohibited	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 315	Margett-R Reduction or elimination of emergency medical services	Health Facilities
SB 325	Ducheny-D County reimbursement	Mental Health
SB 328	Cedillo-D Health facilities: Medi-Cal reimbursement	Health Facilities
SB 329	Cedillo-D Calif. Prescription Drug Safety and Effectiveness Commission	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 330	Cedillo-D Criminal proceedings: mental competency	Mental Health
SB 340	Battin-R Stem cell research: revenues	Stem Cell Research
SB 356	Alarcon-D Acupuncture	Health Professionals
SB 358	Scott-D Child care	Foster Care
SB 363	Perata-D Hospitals: lift teams	Health Facilities
SB 374	Alquist-D Residential care facilities for the elderly: evaluations	Health Facilities
SB 377*	Ortiz-D Medi-Cal: dental services	Medi-Cal
SB 380	Alquist-D Drugs: adverse event reporting	Health Facilities Health Professionals Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 383	Maldonado-R Department of Mental Health: sexually violent predators	Mental Health
SB 392*	Cedillo-D Sales and use taxes: public safety and emergency services	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 397	Escutia-D Elder death review teams	Other Diseases/Disorders Health Facilities
SB 399	Escutia-D Health services: third-party liability	Health Professionals
SB 400	Kuehl-D Tobacco licensing	Tobacco Products
SB 401	Ortiz-D Medical information: pharmacies: marketing	Health Professionals
SB 415*	Alquist-D Advance health care directive	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 418	Escutia-D Rehabilitation loans	Developmentally Disabled
SB 429	Florez-D Recreational bathing: sanitation	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 436	Migden-D Foster care: transitional housing	Foster Care
SB 438	Migden-D Oral and maxillofacial surgery	Health Professionals
SB 442	Machado-D Maintenance: income levels	Medi-Cal
SB 447*	Poochigian-R Youth authority	Mental Health
SB 452	Alarcon-D Medi-Cal: contracts: disclosure and confidentiality	Medi-Cal
SB 454	Ortiz-D Health counseling	Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 456	Runner-R Access for Infants and Mothers: federal funding	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 458	Speier-D Basic health care: counties	Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 479	Lowenthal-D Childhood obesity mitigation	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 481	Chesbro-D Self-Directed Services Program	Developmentally Disabled
SB 482	Chesbro-D Napa State Hospital: cemetery restoration	Mental Health
SB 484	Migden-D Cosmetics: chronic health effects	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 491*	Ducheny-D Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act	Health Facilities
SB 492	Ashburn-R Valley fever: vaccine	Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 493	Kuehl-D Cal-Learn Program: school age teens	Public Social Services
SB 496	Kuehl-D Medi-Cal: administrative claims	Medi-Cal
SB 499	Alarcon-D Hospitals: emergency medical services elimination	Health Facilities
SB 500	Kuehl-D AFDC-FC: pregnant and parenting foster youth	Foster Care
SB 516	Ortiz-D Fire protection: residential care facility for the elderly	Health Facilities
SB 524	Torlakson-D Primary care physicians: continuing education	Health Professionals
SB 526	Alquist-D Long-term health care	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
SB 533	Dunn-D Long-term health care facilities: admission contracts	Health Facilities
SB 556*	Migden-D Drug treatment	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 558	Migden-D Medi-Cal: third-party liability	Medi-Cal
SB 564*	Torlakson-D California Healthy Children Trust Fund	Tobacco Products
SB 567	Torlakson-D Pupil nutrition: school wellness policy	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 570	Migden-D Mentally incompetent minors	Mental Health Developmentally Disabled
SB 571	Perata-D Adult day health care services: certification	Medi-Cal
SB 572	Perata-D Benefits: mental health	Mental Health
SB 576	Ortiz-D Health care coverage: tobacco cessation services	Tobacco Products
SB 579	Aanestad-R Optometry: advertisement	Health Professionals
SB 583	Figueroa-D Cancer treatment	Cancer Health Professionals
SB 592	Aanestad-R Acute care hospitals: inpatient pharmacy technician services	Health Professionals
SB 593	Alarcon-D Health care costs: recovery	Medi-Cal
SB 600	Ortiz-D Biomonitoring	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 610	Alarcon-D Property tax: welfare exemption	Health Facilities
SB 611	Speier-D Meat and poultry recalls	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 614	Figueroa-D Certified nurse-midwives	Health Professionals
SB 615	Figueroa-D Cervical cancer	Cancer
SB 630	Dutton-R Anatomical gifts: organs: inquests	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 642*	Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: adult day health care services	Medi-Cal
SB 643	Chesbro-D Nursing facilities	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
SB 644	Ortiz-D Dispensing prescription drugs and devices.	Health Professionals
SB 650*	Ortiz-D Prostate cancer	Cancer
SB 666	Aanestad-R Congregate living health facilities	Health Facilities
SB 676	Ashburn-R Medi-Cal: pharmacy reimbursement	Medi-Cal
SB 678*	Ducheny-D Indian children	Public Social Services
SB 679	Simitian-D Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care	Foster Care
SB 683	Aanestad-R Dentistry: licensure	Health Professionals
SB 688	Speier-D The Skin Cancer Prevention Act for California Schools	Cancer
SB 689	Speier-D Vehicles: organ and tissue donors: registry	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 700	Aanestad-R Radiologic technology: radiologist assistants	Health Professionals
SB 704	Speier-D State employees: protective clothing	Cancer
SB 708	Speier-D Drug discount program: conditions of participation	Health Facilities Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 723	Denham-R Sexually violent predators: conditional release program	Mental Health
SB 726	Florez-D Dependent children	Foster Care
SB 730	Speier-D Organic products: aquaculture products	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 736	Speier-D Healing arts: financial interest reporting	Health Professionals
SB 739	Speier-D Hospitals: infection control	Health Facilities
SB 749	Speier-D Health care coverage: pervasive developmental disorders	Developmentally Disabled
SB 750	Soto-D Medi-Cal: disease management	Medi-Cal
SB 770	Romero-D Medi-Cal: provider enrollment	Medi-Cal
SB 776	Runner-R Health care districts: mortgage insurance, loans, credit	Health Facilities
SB 786	McClintock-R Public assistance: home visits	Public Social Services
SB 791	Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: continuous skilled nursing care benefit	Medi-Cal
SB 798	Simitian-D Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 803*	Ducheny-D Ongoing Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2005	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 849	Escutia-D Environmental health data tracking	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 855	Poochigian-R Special access: liability	Developmentally Disabled
SB 861	Speier-D Animals: dogs: spay, neuter, and breeding programs	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 864	Poochigian-R Sexually violent predators: term of commitment	Mental Health
SB 869	Bowen-D Nurse-Family Partnership program	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 905	Machado-D Bovine spongiform encephalopathy	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 913	Simitian-D Medication therapies: rheumatic diseases	Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 914	Kehoe-D Animal cruelty	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 917	Speier-D Payers' Bill of Rights: diagnostic related groups	Health Facilities Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 923*	Florez-D West Nile virus	Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 934	Vincent-D Dogs and cats: spay or neuter agreement	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 937	Aanestad-R Liability: obesity	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 941	Alquist-D Emergency medical services fund	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 942	Chesbro-D Cigarettes: pollution: litter	Tobacco Products
SB 945	Soto-D HIV testing	AIDS
SB 962	Chesbro-D Special health care needs: pilot project	Developmentally Disabled
SB 985	Dunn-D Adulterated candy: lead poisoning prevention	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 1034	Hollingsworth-R Community care facilities: wards of the juvenile court	Health Facilities
SB 1071*	McClintock-R CalWORKs: Cola elimination	Public Social Services
SB 1083	Ackerman-R California Medical Assistance Commission: reimbursement	Medi-Cal
SB 1098	Hollingsworth-R Sexually violent predators: definition	Mental Health
SB 1100*	Perata-D Hospital funding	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
SB 1111	Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee Professions and vocations	Health Professionals
SB 1114	Assembly Human Services Committee Department of Rehabilitation: blindness	Developmentally Disabled
SCA 13	Ortiz-D Biomedical research	Stem Cell Research
SCR 4	Torlakson-D Public health awareness	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 9	Kehoe-D American Heart Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 23	Scott-D Lyme Disease Awareness Week	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 33	Torlakson-D California Fitness Month	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 35	Battin-R Polio Awareness Day	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 36	Alquist-D Alzheimer's Association anniversary	Alzheimer's Disease
SCR 43	Figueroa-D Autism Awareness Month	Developmentally Disabled
SCR 44	Maldonado-R Community residential care	Health Facilities
SCR 47	Alquist-D Health Care Decisions Week	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 49	Speier-D Medication errors panel	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 51	Perata-D Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism	Developmentally Disabled
SCR 54	Ashburn-R Valley Fever Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 56	Alarcon-D Latino AIDS Awareness Day	AIDS
SCR 58	Alquist-D Assisted Living Week	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 59	Figueroa-D Pain Awareness Month	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 61	Ortiz-D Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month	Cancer
SJR 5	Speier-D Food recalls	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SJR 9	Morrow-R Retired military personnel: Medicare	Health Facilities
SJR 16	Machado-D Mad Cow Disease	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SJR 17	Ortiz-D Stem cell research	Stem Cell Research
SR 18	Romero-D Baby Bill of Rights	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 8*	Chu-D Medi-Cal: AIDS and cancer treatment drugs: rebates	AIDS Cancer Medi-Cal
AB 10	Daucher-R Appropriate facility placement standards	Health Facilities
AB 20	Leslie-R Disabled persons: access: technical violations	Developmentally Disabled
AB 21	Levine-D Pharmacists: practice requirements	Health Professionals
AB 44	Cohn-D Health facilities	Health Facilities
AB 47	Cohn-D Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 63	Strickland-R Elderly and Disabled Home Improvement Loan Program	Developmentally Disabled
AB 65*	Daucher-R Medi-Cal: health care benefits	Medi-Cal
AB 71	Chan-D California Drug Safety Watch	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 72	Frommer-D Prescription drugs: clinical trials	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 73	Frommer-D Prescription drugs: importation: procurement	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 74	Gordon-D California Rx Prescription Drug Hotline	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 75	Frommer-D Pharmaceutical assistance program	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 76	Frommer-D Office of Pharmaceutical Purchasing	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 77	Frommer-D Medi-Cal: clinics: reimbursement	Medi-Cal
AB 78	Pavley-D Pharmacy benefits management	Health Professionals Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 83*	Leslie-R Cameron Park Community Services District	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 95	Koretz-D Prescription drugs: Medi-Cal	AIDS Cancer Medi-Cal
AB 103	Cohn-D School districts: contraceptives	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 105	Cohn-D Food labeling: California Choice Seal Program	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 109	Chan-D California Children and Families Program	Public Social Services
AB 116	Shirley Horton-R Child Health and Disability Prevention Program	Public Social Services
AB 119	Strickland-R Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services	Medi-Cal
AB 121	Vargas-D Adulterated candy: maximum allowable lead levels	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 126	Dymally-D County hospitals: indigent services	Health Facilities
AB 131*	Assembly Budget Committee Budget Trailer Bill: Medi-Cal	Medi-Cal Mental Health Developmentally Disabled Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 133*	Assembly Budget Committee In-home supportive services	Public Social Services
AB 139*	Assembly Budget Committee General government trailer bill	Health Professionals Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 166	Ridley-Thomas-D Los Angeles County hospital authority	Health Facilities
AB 167	Cohn-D Nursing Workforce Education Investment Act	Health Professionals
AB 170	Lieber-D Medi-Cal: utilization controls	Medi-Cal
AB 178	Koretz-D California cigarette fire safety and firefighter protection	Tobacco Products
AB 179	Bermudez-D Elder abuse information	Health Facilities
AB 201	Dymally-D Medi-Cal	Medi-Cal
AB 205	Ruskin-D Denture identification	Health Professionals
AB 213	Liu-D Health care coverage for lymphedema	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 217	Vargas-D Sex offenders: nursing facilities	Health Facilities
AB 218*	Maze-R Income tax credit: qualified medical care professionals	Health Professionals
AB 225	Negrete McLeod-D Electronic prescription information	Health Professionals
AB 228	Koretz-D Transplantation services: HIV	AIDS
AB 230	Shirley Horton-R Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Centers	Alzheimer's Disease
AB 232	Arambula-D Registered nursing programs: CCC: CSU	Health Professionals
AB 233	Haynes-R CalWORKs: eligibility	Public Social Services
AB 240*	Bermudez-D Sex offenders	Medi-Cal
AB 247*	Walters-R Tax credit: long-term care	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 254	Nakanishi-R Automatic external defibrillators	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 257	Matthews-D Medi-Cal: providers	Medi-Cal
AB 258	Matthews-D Medi-Cal: durable medical equipment	Medi-Cal
AB 260	Bermudez-D State Fire Marshal: fire response time: reports	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 264	Chan-D Schools: asthma management	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 268	Matthews-D Unprofessional conduct	Health Professionals
AB 269	Haynes-R CalWORKs: sanctions	Public Social Services
AB 288	Mountjoy-R Pharmacies: prescription containers: labels	Health Professionals
AB 291	Koretz-D Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders: screening	Other Diseases/Disorders Mental Health
AB 296	Negrete McLeod-D Hepatitis C	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 298*	Berg-D Personal income tax: credit: caregivers	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 300	Walters-R Licensing	Health Facilities
AB 302*	Assembly Business And Professions Committee Professions and vocations	Health Professionals
AB 319	Chan-D Phthalates and bisphenol-A in children's products	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 327	De La Torre-D Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program	Health Professionals
AB 330	Gordon-D Management requirements	Health Facilities
AB 341*	Daucher-R Medi-Cal: county health care	Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 354	Cogdill-R Telemedicine	Health Professionals
AB 360*	Frommer-D Skilled nursing facilities	Health Facilities
AB 363	Chu-D Child and Family Service Review System	Public Social Services
AB 366	Maze-R Healing arts: peer review	Health Professionals
AB 367	Nakanishi-R Physician and surgeon's fee waiver	Health Professionals
AB 368	Evans-D CalWORKs	Public Social Services
AB 370	Aghazarian-R Optometry	Health Professionals
AB 392	Chan-D County integrated health and human services	Public Social Services Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 410	Yee-D Disabled veteran business enterprises	Developmentally Disabled
AB 418	Koretz-D Dogs: animal cruelty: ear cropping	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 433	Nava-D Physician office laboratories	Health Facilities Health Professionals
AB 440	Matthews-D Department of Mental Health: sexually violent predators	Mental Health
AB 444	Yee-D School food: nutrition guidelines	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 446	Negrete McLeod-D Licensees: settlement agreements	Health Professionals
AB 460	Parra-D Contagious diseases	Other Diseases/Disorders Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 462*	Tran-R Disability access	Developmentally Disabled
AB 464	Daucher-R Health Care Directives: natural death	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 467	Yee-D Mental health: hospital contracts: reimbursement	Medi-Cal Mental Health
AB 468	Yee-D Interagency responsibilities over handicapped children	Mental Health
AB 469	Yee-D Medi-Cal: supportive housing	Medi-Cal
AB 470	Yee-D Mental health assessment and services for children	Mental Health
AB 472	Benoit-R Elder and disabled abuse	Developmentally Disabled
AB 477	Baca-D In-home supportive services pilot project	Public Social Services
AB 488	Bermudez-D Optometry	Health Professionals
AB 497	Negrete McLeod-D Drug wholesalers and manufacturers: nonresident wholesalers	Health Professionals
AB 503	Lieber-D CalWORKs: bill of rights	Public Social Services
AB 512	Richman-R Clinical laboratories	Other Diseases/Disorders Health Facilities
AB 516	Yee-D Health care practitioners: unlawful referrals	Health Professionals
AB 522*	Plescia-R Automated drug delivery system: Medi-Cal coverage	Medi-Cal
AB 525	Chu-D Health care	Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 530	Plescia-R Medi-Cal: withholding payments or suspension	Medi-Cal
AB 547	Berg-D Clean needle and syringe exchange projects	AIDS
AB 562	Levine-D Discount health programs	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 566	Bermudez-D State Fire Marshal: fire response time: reports	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 568	Garcia-R HIV tests	AIDS
AB 569	Garcia-R Pupil nutrition: food service	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 576	Wolk-D Immunizations	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 584	Blakeslee-R Seismic safety	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 586	Negrete McLeod-D Medical disaster mobilization	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 592	Yee-D Physicians and surgeons	Health Professionals
AB 595	Negrete McLeod-D Pharmacy: compounding of prescription drugs	Health Professionals
AB 599	Gordon-D Mental health account: primary goals: California veterans	Mental Health
AB 603	Spitzer-R Sexually violent predators: parole	Mental Health
AB 609	Lieber-D Agnews Developmental Center: closure	Developmentally Disabled
AB 615	Vargas-D Hearing aids: over-the-counter sales	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 616	Vargas-D Public buildings: smoking areas	Tobacco Products
AB 622	Negrete McLeod-D Public schools: pupil nutrition	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 624	Montanez-D Medi-Cal program: Healthy Families Program	Medi-Cal
AB 626	Matthews-D Medi-Cal: anti-fraud task force	Medi-Cal
AB 628	Strickland-R Foster care givers	Foster Care
AB 631	Leno-D Narcotic treatment programs: mobile service units	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 651	Berg-D California Compassionate Choices Act	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 652*	Levine-D In-home supportive services program: pilot project	Public Social Services
AB 656	Hancock-D Pupil attendance: county school attendance review boards	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 657	Karnette-D Pharmacies: prescription containers: labels	Health Professionals
AB 669*	La Suer-R Firefighter training and standards	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 672	Klehs-D Reservoirs with water intended for domestic use	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 686	Chu-D Children's services	Public Social Services
AB 688	Matthews-D Health facilities: quality assurance fees	Health Facilities
AB 696	Chu-D Public social services: CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program	Public Social Services
AB 699	Chan-D Medi-Cal: semi-annual status reports	Medi-Cal
AB 702	Koretz-D Nursing education	Health Professionals
AB 704	Dymally-D Geriatric health care assistants: licensing and regulation	Health Professionals
AB 717	Gordon-D Centinela Airport Clinic: emergency care	Health Facilities
AB 733	Nation-D Psychotherapists: duty to warn	Health Professionals
AB 757	Chan-D Health care providers: contracts	Health Professionals
AB 761	Jones-D Health facilities: staffing	Health Facilities
AB 766	Chavez-D WIC program vendors	Public Social Services
AB 768	Nation-D Touch-screen devices	Developmentally Disabled
AB 774	Chan-D Hospitals: self-pay policies	Health Facilities
AB 775	Yee-D Interpreters: prohibition on use of children	Health Facilities Health Professionals
AB 778	Mullin-D Auto insurance: in-home supportive services	Public Social Services
AB 779	De La Torre-D Medi-Cal: maintaining eligibility	Medi-Cal
AB 789	Lieber-D Crimes against individuals with disabilities	Developmentally Disabled
AB 794	Chu-D Health care funding: Access for Infants and Mothers Program	Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 800	Yee-D Medical records: patient's spoken language	Health Facilities
AB 805	Chu-D Occupational safety and health: heat illness prevention	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 811	Matthews-D Licensing and certification functions: consolidation	Health Facilities Public Social Services Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 812	Matthews-D Health and Human Services Agency: employment: consolidation	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 813	Baca-D Women's heart health	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 819	Ridley-Thomas-D California Colorectal Cancer Prevention Fund: tax checkoff	Cancer
AB 824	Chu-D AFDC-FC benefits: transitional housing	Foster Care Public Social Services
AB 842	Arambula-D Federal refugee cash assistance funds: county transfers	Public Social Services
AB 847	Berg-D Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly	Public Social Services
AB 855	Bass-D CalWORKs	Public Social Services
AB 858	Bass-D Substance abuse and crime prevention: funding	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 859	Bass-D Medical assistants: authorized activities	Health Professionals
AB 863	Bass-D Child Welfare Council	Foster Care Public Social Services
AB 864	Levine-D California Council on Physical Fitness and Sports	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 892	Cogdill-R Cigarettes and tobacco products	Tobacco Products
AB 894	La Suer-R Licensed professional counselors	Health Professionals
AB 896	Matthews-D Clinical laboratories	Health Professionals
AB 899	Ridley-Thomas-D In-home supportive services	Public Social Services
AB 908	Chu-D Cosmetics	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 910	Mullin-D Life sciences: ombudsman	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 913	Saldana-D Vehicles: environmental license plates: disabled persons	Developmentally Disabled
AB 914	Cogdill-R Authorized emergency vehicles	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 920	Aghazarian-R California Physicians Corps Program	Health Professionals
AB 923	Chavez-D Fireworks: sale: disposal	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 926	Chu-D Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities	Health Facilities
AB 929	Oropeza-D Radiologic technology: radiation exposure	Health Professionals
AB 930	De La Torre-D Naturalization services program	Public Social Services
AB 943	Keene-R Aid to indigents	Public Social Services
AB 966	Saldana-D Dental amalgam separators	Health Professionals
AB 972	Sharon Runner-R Boxing: pregnancy tests	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 991	DeVore-R Mosquito abatement and vector control districts	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1045	Frommer-D Payers' Bill of Rights: procedure charges	Health Facilities
AB 1046*	Frommer-D Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act	Health Facilities
AB 1047	Levine-D Health facilities: financing	Health Facilities
AB 1050	Gordon-D Emergency receiving centers: demonstration project	Health Facilities
AB 1058	Koretz-D Retail food: beef labeling and information	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1062	Saldana-D Medical experimentation: informed consent	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1074	Chu-D HIV testing for foster children	AIDS Foster Care
AB 1075	Blakeslee-R County organized health systems	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1077	Chan-D Pupil health	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1079	Sharon Runner-R Department of Developmental Services: criminal histories	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1081	Matthews-D Sherman Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Law: bottled or vended water	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1091	Parra-D Discount buying services	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1105	Mullin-D Food establishments: toilet facilities	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1109	Shirley Horton-R Sexually violent predator: conditional release program	Mental Health
AB 1113	Yee-D Acupuncturists: diagnosis	Health Professionals
AB 1114	Yee-D Acupuncture: continuing education	Health Professionals
AB 1115	Yee-D Acupuncture assistants	Health Professionals
AB 1116	Yee-D Community care facilities: foster children: injections	Health Facilities Foster Care
AB 1117	Yee-D Asian medicine	Health Professionals
AB 1130	Ruskin-D Regional center employee liability	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1131	Torrico-D Health care districts: asset transfer	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1141	Dymally-D Developmental services	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1142	Dymally-D HIV/AIDS: African-Americans: statewide initiative	AIDS
AB 1143	Emmerson-R Dentistry	Health Professionals
AB 1144	Harman-R Playground safety standards	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1145	Huff-R Developmental disability: habilitation services	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1155	La Suer-R Grossmont Healthcare District	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1168	Saldana-D Drinking water standards	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1175	Tran-R Pharmaceutical providers: appeals procedure	Medi-Cal Health Professionals
AB 1184	Koretz-D Nurses and certified nurse assistants: overtime	Health Professionals
AB 1185	Koretz-D Chiropractic services	Health Professionals
AB 1194	Oropeza-D Entertainment: emergency exits	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1195	Coto-D Continuing education: cultural and linguistic competency	Health Professionals
AB 1217	Wyland-R Sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention education	AIDS
AB 1225	Strickland-R Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities	Health Facilities
AB 1226	Yee-D Workers' compensation: Medi-Cal recoveries	Medi-Cal
AB 1230	Ridley-Thomas-D Public hospitals: inspector general: Los Angeles County	Health Facilities
AB 1235	Emmerson-R In-service training	Health Facilities Health Professionals
AB 1239	Chan-D Medi-Cal: self-certification of assets	Medi-Cal
AB 1242	Arambula-D In-home supportive services: provider timesheets	Public Social Services
AB 1258*	Daucher-R Adult day health care	Public Social Services
AB 1261	Leno-D Foster children: education	Foster Care
AB 1268	Oropeza-D Dentistry	Health Professionals
AB 1275	Frommer-D Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act	Health Facilities
AB 1278	Emmerson-R Vital records	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1286	Evans-D Physician assistant training	Health Professionals
AB 1291	Pavley-D Consumer products: state-certified logo	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1295	Bermudez-D Fireworks: sale: disposal	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1298	Evans-D Health and human services	Public Social Services
AB 1309*	Yee-D Local health authorities and commissions	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1316*	Salinas-D Health facilities: construction	Health Facilities
AB 1321	Yee-D Health care coverage: claims	Health Facilities Health Professionals
AB 1326	Vargas-D In-home supportive services	Public Social Services
AB 1334	Salinas-D Dentistry: registered dental hygienists	Health Professionals
AB 1338	Nation-D Immigrant children.	Foster Care
AB 1346	Richman-R Acute care hospitals: surgical and anesthesia services	Health Facilities
AB 1349*	Goldberg-D Narcotic treatment programs	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1370	Matthews-D Clinical laboratory director: pharmacists	Health Professionals
AB 1374	Liu-D Seismic Safety Commission	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1376	Harman-R Long-term health care facilities: violations	Health Facilities
AB 1378	Lieber-D Developmental services facilities	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1379	Lieber-D Agnews Developmental Center: closure	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1382	Nakanishi-R Prescription lenses	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1385	Laird-D School meals	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1386	Laird-D Dentistry: oral conscious sedation	Health Professionals
AB 1389	Oropeza-D Littering: cigarette butts	Tobacco Products
AB 1392	Umberg-D Free or reduced-price meals	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1396*	Garcia-R Healthy Families and Medi-Cal programs: outreach assistance	Medi-Cal
AB 1398	Plescia-R Life sciences	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1408	Shirley Horton-R Residential care facilities: overconcentration	Health Facilities
AB 1422	Bogh-R Long-term health care facilities: sexual offenders	Health Facilities
AB 1426	Liu-D Animal euthanasia	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1427	Mountjoy-R Abortion: saving tissue for evidence	Abortion Health Professionals
AB 1428	Levine-D Clones and genetically modified pets	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1434	Shirley Horton-R Home health agencies: licensing enforcement	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1465	Mountjoy-R Prisoners: medical treatment	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1476	Nakanishi-R Cancer registry: reporting	Cancer
AB 1481	Richman-R Medi-Cal: managed care	Medi-Cal
AB 1484	Wyland-R Sexually violent predators: definition	Mental Health
AB 1485	Wyland-R Medi-Cal: providers: change in ownership	Medi-Cal
AB 1507	Pavley-D Automatic external defibrillators: health studios	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1534	Bass-D Residential care for children: inspection	Health Facilities Foster Care
AB 1535	Bass-D Developmental services	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1538	Bass-D In-home supportive service: provider wages and benefits	Public Social Services
AB 1541	Chavez-D WIC nutrition vendors	Public Social Services
AB 1549	Koretz-D Workers' compensation	Health Professionals
AB 1579	Aghazarian-R Long-term health care facilities: funds	Health Facilities
AB 1591	Chan-D Medi-Cal eligibility: Chappell Hayes Health Center	Medi-Cal
AB 1593	Coto-D Child nutrition	Public Social Services Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1597	Laird-D Drug paraphernalia	AIDS
AB 1603	Shirley Horton-R High-risk sex offenders	Mental Health
AB 1607	Houston-R Developmental disability: habilitation services	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1612	Pavley-D Cigarettes: litter	Tobacco Products
AB 1633	Evans-D Foster children: high school: social security assistance	Foster Care
AB 1639	Sharon Runner-R Hospital buildings: seismic safety	Health Facilities
AB 1645	Matthews-D Regional center services	Developmentally Disabled
AB 1648	Pavley-D Reflex sympathetic dystrophy	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 1653*	Haynes-R In-Home Supportive Services: wage and benefit increases	Public Social Services
AB 1664	De La Torre-D Naturalization Services Program	Public Social Services
AB 1667	Saldana-D Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1671	Richman-R Cal-Health Act	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1673	Nation-D Seismic and patient safety	Health Facilities Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1674	Richman-R Center of Quality Health Care	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1675	Nation-D Medi-Cal: contract drug list: generic drugs	Medi-Cal
AB 1676	Richman-R Advanced Directives and Terminal Illness Decisions Program	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1689	Lieber-D EPSDT services	Mental Health Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1701	Bass-D Birth Defects Monitoring Program: fees	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1707*	Chan-D Medi-Cal financing	Medi-Cal
AB 1711	Strickland-R Health facilities: immunizations	Health Facilities
AB 1720	Dymally-D State hospitals: clinical directors	Mental Health Health Professionals
AB 1735*	De La Torre-D Medi-Cal: provider reimbursement: reductions	Medi-Cal
AB 1736	Levine-D Medi-Cal: disease management	Other Diseases/Disorders Medi-Cal
AB 1737*	Yee-D Workers' compensation	Medi-Cal
AB 1745	Assembly Health Committee Medi-Cal: administrative costs	Medi-Cal
AB 1749	Assembly Governmental Organization Committee Cigarettes and tobacco products	Tobacco Products
ACA 6	Wyland-R Public benefits	Public Social Services
ACR 1	Negrete McLeod-D Proposition 71: stem cell research	Stem Cell Research
ACR 13	Wolk-D Spay Day USA 2005	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 15	Evans-D In-Home Supportive Services Home Care Worker Recognition	Public Social Services
ACR 18	Gordon-D American Stroke Month 2005	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 22	Dymally-D Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science	Health Facilities
ACR 24	Mullin-D California Council on Science and Technology	Stem Cell Research
ACR 29	Leslie-R Access Awareness Month	Developmentally Disabled
ACR 32	Arambula-D West Nile Virus & Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 36	Berg-D Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Month	Cancer
ACR 44	Baca-D Minority Health Awareness Month	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 53	Lieber-D Organ and tissue donation	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 54	Yee-D Mental Health Occupations Week	Mental Health
ACR 57	Salinas-D Automated external defibrillator programs	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 58	Parra-D Foster youth	Foster Care
ACR 75	Oropeza-D Chronic kidney disease	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 82	Wolk-D Breast cancer awareness	Cancer
ACR 83	Frommer-D White Cane Safety Day	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 86	Parra-D Emergency assistance	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 87	Niello-R Blood cancers	Cancer
ACR 88	Parra-D Firefighters Memorial Day	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 90	Arambula-D Red Ribbon Week	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 96	Saldana-D Registered nurses: Hurricane Katrina	Health Professionals
AJR 3	Cohn-D Reproductive rights: Roe v. Wade	Abortion
AJR 10	Chu-D Foster care services: funding: Title IV-E Waiver	Foster Care
AJR 24	Calderon-D Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization	AIDS
HR 7	Sharon Runner-R Endometriosis Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
HR 9	Frommer-D Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month	Cancer
HR 20	Nava-D Suicide Prevention Month	Mental Health
HR 21	Chan-D Children's Vision and Learning Month	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
HR 22	McCarthy-R Testicular Cancer Awareness Month	Cancer