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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 603 (Ortiz-D) Law enforcement: anti-reproductive rights crimes
Requires the Commission on the Status of Women to convene an advisory committee that would be responsible for reporting to the Legislature and specified agencies on the implementation of the Reproductive Rights Law Enforcement Act and the effectiveness of the plan developed by the Attorney General.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2006
SB 1487 (Hollingsworth-R) Coerced abortion
Prohibits a physician or surgeon from performing an abortion unless he or she has obtained the written assurance from the patient that she understands that she may not be coerced into having an abortion, and that her decision to have an abortion is voluntary. Requires a signed form to that effect be placed in the patient's chart.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)
SJR 19 (Alquist-D) Reproductive rights: Roe v. Wade
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to protect and uphold the intent and substance of the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, relating to reproductive rights.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 669 (La Suer-R) Physician and surgeons: abortions: follow-up medical care
Requires a physician who performs an abortion to advise the patient to seek follow-up medical care from the physician, from her personal physician, or from any other physician of her choice.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development 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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2512 (Sharon Runner-R) Fetal pain prevention
Enacts the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2006.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 699* (Soto-D) AIDS: HIV reporting
Requires human immunodeficiency virus cases to be reported to the local health officer by name rather than by code and requires local health officers to report HIV cases by name to the Department of Health Services.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCR 112 (Cedillo-D) The Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument: highway signs
Requests that the Department of Transportation erect informational signs on State Highway Route 5 to direct motorists to the Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument in Los Angeles.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SJR 22 (Speier-D) Microbicide Development Act
Memorializes the United States Congress and the President of the United States to enact the Microbicide Development Act to facilitate the development of microbicides for preventing the transmission of HIV and other diseases.
Resolution Chapter 127, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2076 (Laird-D) Drug paraphernalia: clean needle & syringe exchange project
Permits a public entity that receives general fund money for human immunodeficiency virus prevention and education from the Department of Health Services to use that money to support clean needle and syringe exchange projects.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
AB 2203 (Garcia-R) HIV and AIDS
Requires any woman seeking an annual gynecological examination or family planning appointment, as specified, to be provided an information sheet on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2280 (Leno-D) Sexually transmitted diseases
Permits a physician or nurse practitioner, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted gonorrhea infection, or other sexually transmitted infection as determined by DHS, to prescribe, dispense, furnish, or otherwise provide prescription antibiotic drugs to that patient's sexual partner or partners without examination.
Chapter 771, Statutes of 2006
AB 2383 (Dymally-D) Inmate medical testing
Requires state prison inmates, and state hospital patients committed pursuant to the Penal Code, to receive a health screening prior to being released. Allows inmates to opt-out of the HIV test.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Cancer
SB 583 (Figueroa-D) Cancer treatment
Exempts physicians who provide treatment or advice to cancer patients regarding alternative or complementary medicine from being disciplined solely because that treatment or advice is alternative or complementary medicine if certain conditions are met.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1245 (Figueroa-D) Health care coverage: cervical cancer screening test
Expands the coverage for an annual cervical cancer screening test to include the human papillomavirus (Pap) screening test that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) upon referral by the patient's health care provider, in addition to the Pap test and the option of an FDA-approved cervical cancer screening test.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2006
SB 1508 (Bowen-D) Health care coverage: colonoscopies
Requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies that cover colonoscopies to provide coverage for medically necessary anesthesia services for the covered colonoscopy. Exempts from the requirements, specialized health care service plans and insurance policies that are accident-only, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare, Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services supplement, dental-only, or vision-only policies.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1851 (Assembly Health Committee) Cancer: informed consent
Modifies a requirement that patients with breast cancer be furnished a written summary of alternative efficacious methods of treating breast by requiring it be furnished upon diagnosis, instead of when a patient is being treated for any form of breast care.
Chapter 485, Statutes of 2006
SCR 70 (Chesbro-D) Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Declares the month of November as Lung Cancer Awareness Month and encourages public officials and citizens to observe the month with appropriate activities and programs.
Resolution Chapter 29, Statutes of 2006
SCR 76 (Alquist-D) Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Month
Proclaims the month of October 2006 as Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Month.
Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2006
SCR 100 (Cox-R) Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Designates September 2006 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 19, Statutes of 2006
SCR 111 (Machado-D) California Cancer Survivors Day
Proclaims the first Sunday of June 2006 and in each year thereafter, as California Cancer Survivors Day, to coincide with National Cancer Survivors Day.
Resolution Chapter 61, Statutes of 2006
SCR 134 (Ortiz-D) Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Recognizes September 2006 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.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SR 36 (Ortiz-D) Ovarian Cancer Awareness Week
Recognizes September 2006 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 thereof.
Adopted by the Senate
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1476 (Nakanishi-R) Cancer registry: reporting
Requires the Department of Health Services to query the parents of each minor cancer patient for information on all former residences and to maintain this information in the state's cancer registry.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2339 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Colorectal cancer
Establishes the Colorectal Cancer Screening and Treatment Program within the Department of Health Services to provide colon cancer screening for low-income and underinsured individuals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
ACR 130 (Hancock-D) Kidney Cancer Awareness Month
Designates the month of March 2006 as Kidney Cancer Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2006
ACR 144 (Nation-D) Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2006 as Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and encourages all Californians to make themselves and their families aware of the risk of skin cancer and the measures that can be taken to prevent it.
Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2006
Alzheimer's Disease
SB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Lapses of consciousness: Department of Motor Vehicles report
Allows physicians not to report on patients with lapse of consciousness disorders if those disorders can be controlled and stabilized within 30 days of the initial diagnosis.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 209 (Alquist-D) Stroke education
Requires the Department of Health Services to implement an education program intended to reduce the incidence of strokes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 1205 (Escutia-D) Air pollution: Children's Breathing Rights Act: penalties
Enacts the Children's Breathing Rights Act and increases the penalty caps for specified violations.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 1220 (Migden-D) Vaccines: influenza
Creates an influenza vaccine purchasing and distribution program for smaller physician practices within the Department of Health Services, and authorizes the department to recover all costs from the sale of the vaccine.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1711 (Ortiz-D) Flu vaccinations: report
Requires the Department of Health Services or its contractor to evaluate the effectiveness of the current system of distributing vaccines to local governmental and private nonprofit agencies and provide a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1748 (Figueroa-D) Cystic fibrosis and biotinidase: newborn screening
Adds biotinidase and cystic fibrosis to the existing expansion of the statewide newborn screening program that the Department of Health Services (DHS) is required to implement and extends the date by which DHS can temporarily obtain testing services through a competitive bid process if it is unable to provide the expanded screening to August 1, 2007. Requires DHS to report to the Legislature regarding the progress of the screening program with regard to implementing newborn screening for biotinidase and cystic fibrosis on or before July 1, 2007.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SCR 67 (Speier-D) Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week
Recognizes April 16 through April 22, 2006, as Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2006
SCR 71 (Romero-D) American Heart Month
Recognizes February 2006 as American Heart Month in California in order to raise awareness of the effect of heart disease on women. Recognizes February 3, 2006 as Wear Red for Women Day in California and urges all citizens to become aware of vital issues of women's heart health by wearing and displaying the color red on that day.
Resolution Chapter 5, Statutes of 2006
SCR 77 (Alquist-D) Lymphedema Awareness Day
Declares March 6, 2006 as Lymphedema Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 42, Statutes of 2006
SCR 80 (Alquist-D) Arthritis awareness
Recognizes the need to create and foster a statewide arthritis awareness program, as prescribed, and to work to adequately fund the program in 2006, and also proclaims August 2006 as Arthritis Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 119, Statutes of 2006
SCR 81 (Alquist-D) Asthma Awareness Month
Designates the month of May 2006 as Asthma Awareness Month in order to increase awareness and understanding about asthma and educate those with the disease on the treatments available and the methods of preventing attacks.
Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2006
SCR 85 (Alquist-D) American Stroke Month 2006
Recognizes May 2006 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.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2006
SCR 103 (Scott-D) Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2006 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 32, Statutes of 2006
SCR 106 (Alquist-D) California Chronic Kidney Disease Education Week
Proclaims August 6 through August 12, 2006 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.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SCR 119 (Soto-D) Polio Awareness Year
Designates 2006 as the Year of Polio Awareness, recognizes the need for every child in America to be vaccinated against polio and to educate polio survivors about post-polio sequelae, and recognizes the 1,630,000 Americans who survived polio and those who suffer with post-polio sequelae.
Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2006
SCR 127 (Ashburn-R) Valley Fever Awareness Month
Proclaims August 2006 as Valley Fever Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2006
SJR 16 (Machado-D) Mad Cow Disease
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to allow private companies to voluntarily meet the requirements of currently closed foreign markets by using approved testing protocols to test cattle. Requests the President and Congress to take additional steps to improve food safety.
(Died in Senate Agriculture Committee)
SJR 21 (Machado-D) Sudden child cardiac arrhythmia syndrome
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to take necessary action to enact HR 1252, thus amending the Public Health Service Act to provide for a program of screenings and education regarding children with sudden cardiac arrhythmia syndromes.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2006
SJR 32 (Machado-D) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Declares the month of May 2006, and each year thereafter, as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Awareness Month. Memorializes Congress and the President to provide additional funding for research in order to find a treatment and eventually a cure for ALS.
Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2006
SR 27 (Margett-R) Asthma Awareness Day
Proclaims April 21, 2006 as Asthma Awareness Day.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 213 (Liu-D) Health care coverage for lymphedema
Requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide coverage for the medical diagnosis and treatment of lymphedema, in accordance with current standards of care for lymphedema, pursuant to treatment guidelines, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 264 (Chan-D) Schools: asthma management
Requires health plans that cover outpatient prescription drugs to cover certain forms of outpatient pediatric asthma self-management training and education.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 291 (Koretz-D) Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders: screening
Requires the Department of Health Services to prepare an information sheet on postpartum mood and anxiety disorders and requires health care providers to provide a copy of the information sheet to pregnant women, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 699 (Chan-D) Vaccines: influenza
Requires manufacturers or distributors of the influenza vaccine, or a nonprofit health care service plan that exclusively contracts with a single medical group in a specified geographic area to provide or arrange for the provision of medical services to its enrollees, to report specified information to the Department of Health Services upon request.
Chapter 589, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1226 (Yee-D) Lyme disease
Establishes the Lyme Disease Advisory Committee Vitalization Act which expands the membership of the Lyme Disease Advisory Committee and the duties of the Department of Health Services relating to Lyme disease.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1811* (Laird-D) Health: budget trailer bill
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 2006 to provide $1 million for mitigation of Valley Fever and eliminates funding and trailer bill language associated with both the planning for expansion of low-income children's health coverage and funds proposed by the Governor in the May Revise for county health initiatives to provide health care to low-income children.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006 -- Item Veto
AB 1956 (Shirley Horton-R) Communicable diseases: reporting
Enacts the Real-Time Disease Detection, Mapping, and Rapid Response Act to establish a two-year pilot program, to be administered by the Department of Health Services, in eight consenting counties to test the cost-effectiveness of clinician-driven, web-based syndrome reporting and mapping systems.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2056 (Aghazarian-R) Public health: exposure to communicable diseases
Cross references current law in two separate Health and Safety Code sections regarding the testing and notification procedures and requirements for health care providers or first responders, as defined, who have been exposed to the blood or other potentially infectious material of a person receiving health care services.
Chapter 102, Statutes of 2006
AB 2226 (Garcia-R) Diabetes screening
Requires, on or after July 1, 2010, each school district or the authority of each public institution to provide an information sheet regarding Type 2 diabetes, as specified, to the parent or guardian of incoming seventh grade pupils, and requires the California Department of Education to develop that information sheet.
Chapter 235, Statutes of 2006
AB 2280 (Leno-D) Sexually transmitted diseases
Permits a physician or nurse practitioner, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted gonorrhea infection, or other sexually transmitted infection as determined by DHS, to prescribe, dispense, furnish, or otherwise provide prescription antibiotic drugs to that patient's sexual partner or partners without examination.
Chapter 771, Statutes of 2006
AB 2317 (Koretz-D) Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders
Requires the Department of Health Services to conduct the Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Community Awareness Campaign, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2584 (De La Torre-D) Emergency/disaster response exercises: infectious diseases
Requires the Department of Health Services and local health departments, when conducting emergency or disaster preparedness exercises relating to the outbreak of an infectious disease, to establish a process to identify any deficiencies in preparedness plans and procedures, and track the implementation of corrective measures to ensure that desired improvements are made to those preparedness plans.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2870 (De La Torre-D) Correctional institutions: communicable diseases
Expands existing provisions of law regarding medical testing of prisoners to include "other infectious, contagious, or communicable disease."
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2006
ACR 112 (Chan-D) Hepatitis B
Encourages public health and medical officials to target vaccination efforts toward Asian and Pacific Islander American children to decrease the incidence rate of this disease in California's Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Resolution Chapter 103, Statutes of 2006
ACR 114 (Coto-D) Legislative Task Force on Diabetes and Obesity
Establishes the Legislative Task Force on Diabetes and Obesity (Task Force), consisting of 20 members, as specified, to study the factors contributing to the high rates of diabetes and obesity in Latinos, African Americans, Asian Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans in this country and requires the Task Force to prepare a report containing recommendations, no later than December 31, 2007, regarding ways to reduce the incidence of those debilitating conditions.
Resolution Chapter 151, Statutes of 2006
ACR 122 (Koretz-D) Guillain-Barre Syndrome Awareness Month
Declares the month of May 2006 as Guillain-Barre Syndrome Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2006
ACR 126 (Keene-R) West Nile Virus & Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week
Declares April 24 through April 30, 2006 as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 35, Statutes of 2006
ACR 138 (Koretz-D) Food Allergy Awareness Month 2006
Recognizes September as Food Allergy Awareness Month 2006 in order to raise awareness about food allergies and to urge continued support for ongoing research into the effects of food allergies.
Resolution Chapter 131, Statutes of 2006
ACR 148 (Plescia-R) Hemophilia Awareness Month
Proclaims May, 2006 as Hemophilia Awareness Month, and encourages all Californians to promote awareness of hemophilia and other related blood disorders. Encourages the continued advancement in the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders and in blood product safety and seek to foster compassion for those individuals in the community who are affected by hemophilia and other related blood disorders.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
ACR 150 (Walters-R) ALS Awareness Month
Proclaims May 2006 as ALS Awareness Month in California, and urges all citizens to become educated about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and lend their aid in combating this disease by all means possible.
Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2006
Stem Cell Research
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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 401 (Ortiz-D) Stem cell research: ICOC procedures
Makes changes to the public meeting, public record, grant and loan licensing conditions and conflict-of-interest provisions of Proposition 71, the Stem Cell and Research and Cures Act. Takes effect only upon approval by the voters at a statewide election. Requires the Secretary of State to submit the changes made by this bill to the voters at the next statewide election.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1260 (Ortiz-D) Reproductive health and research
Deletes sunset dates of certain provisions in existing law relating to the derivation or use of human embryonic stem cell research. Establishes guidelines relating to egg donation for stem cell research funded outside of Proposition 71.
Chapter 483, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
Medi-Cal
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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 452 (Alarcon-D) Medi-Cal: contracts: disclosure and confidentiality
Requires the Governor, after reviewing an annual report comparing drug prices paid by Medi-Cal and AIDS Drug Assistance Program with those paid by the federal government, to decide if additional state rebates should be sought and to include that decision in the Governor's budget.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 458 (Speier-D) Health care: county organized health systems
Permits county operated health systems (COHS) to offer coverage to public agencies, private businesses, and others in the COHS' county of origin, another county, or both.
Chapter 906, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 558 (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, and requires employers, as specified, to notify their employees of the availability of Healthy Families/Medi-Cal services and requires the Healthy Families program to develop a process for deduction of employee premiums.
(Died in Assembly Health 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 676 (Ashburn-R) Medi-Cal: pharmacy reimbursement
Permits the Department of Health Services to establish per diem or bundled reimbursement rates for pharmacies that provide home infusion supplies and services that are budget neutral.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 912* (Ducheny-D) Medi-Cal: provider reimbursement
Eliminates the existing five percent reduction in many Medi-Cal provider payments and makes an appropriation from the General Fund and the Federal Trust Fund.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1233* (Perata-D) Medi-Cal: prescription drug benefit
Extends the authority of the Department of Health Services to provide up to May 16, 2006, drug benefits to beneficiaries dually eligible for Medi-Cal and Medicare (dual eligibles) who are unable to obtain drug benefits from their Medicare prescription drug plan.
Chapter 7, Statutes of 2006
SB 1288 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal: minors: drug and alcohol treatment
Includes, as covered services under Drug Medi-Cal residential drug and alcohol treatment services, and the services described in the Youth Treatment Guidelines, issued by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, in an effort to work towards a continuum of care for youth.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1353 (Romero-D) Medi-Cal: provider enrollment
Requires specified physicians to be eligible for expedited enrollment in the Medi-Cal program., and permits a Medi-Cal physician provider to change locations within the same county by filing a change of location form.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1371 (Maldonado-R) Medi-Cal: smart cards
Requires the Department of Health Services to implement a smart card demonstration project within the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1398 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: managed care: reimbursement
Requires the Department of Health Services to provide to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of each house of the Legislature, on an annual basis, as part of the May Revision of the annual Budget Act, specified information regarding all Medi-Cal managed care plans.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1403 (Scott-D) Medi-Cal: dental restoration documentation requirements
Eliminates the Medi-Cal pretreatment dental x-ray requirement for beneficiaries who are under four years of age or developmentally disabled. States that x-rays or photographs that indicate tooth decay in these beneficiaries are sufficient documentation to establish the medical necessity for treatment provided.
Chapter 61, Statutes of 2006
SB 1405 (Soto-D) Medi-Cal: interpreter services
Requires the Department of Health Services to create the Task Force on Reimbursement for Language Services, as specified, to develop a mechanism for seeking federal matching funds from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to pay for language assistance services, as specified.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1427 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: federally qualified health centers
Authorizes a federally qualified health center (FQHC) to bill the Medi-Cal program for FQHC services delivered in locations other than the FQHCs site, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1439 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal: adult day health care: meals
Requires that certain nutrition services covered by Medi-Cal include a minimum of two meals per day, of a specified quality and quantity.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1448* (Kuehl-D) Health care: Medi-Cal: uninsured persons
Establishes the Health Care Coverage Initiative as required under the Special Terms and Conditions of California's Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration project waiver relating to hospital financing and health coverage expansion that became effective September 1, 2005.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2006
SB 1469 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility: juvenile offenders
Requires, beginning January 1, 2008, county juvenile detention facilities to notify county welfare departments about the release of a ward so that eligibility for Medi-Cal can be determined.
Chapter 657, Statutes of 2006
SB 1520* (Ducheny-D) Medi-Cal: hospital funding demonstration project
Amends the Medi-Cal Hospital and Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act, by requiring the Department of Health Services to adjust, at the request of the governmental entity, Medicaid payment distributions to designated public hospitals that are part of a hospital system licensed to the same governmental entity, prior to distributing those payments.
Chapter 665, Statutes of 2006
SB 1528 (Bowen-D) Medi-Cal: covered services: pregnancy
Provides that home infusion treatments with tocolytic agents for pregnant women are covered under the Medi-Cal program, subject to utilization controls and guidelines or protocols, and requires the Department of Health Services to prepare a report, as specified, by October 1, 2009.
Chapter 666, Statutes of 2006
SB 1616 (Kuehl-D) Juveniles: incarceration: Medi-Cal: SSI: SSDI
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to work with the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health Services to ensure that disabled wards are enrolled in Medi-Cal and that their disability benefits are available to them when they are released from incarceration at a state institution.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1622 (Escutia-D) Healthy Families Program and Medi-Cal: employee eligibility
Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to develop an informational document entitled the "Healthy Families/Medi-Cal Workplace Notice" that California employers within identified industries must provide to their employees regarding the availability of health coverage through the Healthy Families Program and Medi-Cal Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1755 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: adult day health care services
Makes numerous changes to the Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) program, and Medi-Cal coverage for ADHC, including narrowing the program eligibility and medical necessity criteria, revises the service requirements and roles and responsibilities of ADHC providers, and requires the Department of Health Services to establish a new prospective, cost-based reimbursement methodology and to perform field audits of ADHC providers, as specified.
Chapter 691, Statutes of 2006
SB 1766 (Kehoe-D) Medi-Cal: demonstration project
Requires the Department of Health Services to contract with Project Dulce for the implementation of the Project Dulce Diabetes Disease Management and Self-Management Education Demonstration Project for a period of three years in San Diego County, subject to federal financial participation. Under the project, Medi-Cal covered services include those provided by diabetes specialist registered nurses and dieticians and certified peer educators.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 132* (Nunez-D) Medi-Cal: prescription drug benefit
Requires the Department of Health Services to assure and provide for pharmaceutical services to persons eligible for both Medi-Cal and Medicare who are unable to obtain prescription medications through the federal Medicare program. The program authorizes departmental support for an initial period of 15 days with an option to extend the support for an additional 15 days and appropriates $150 million for this purpose.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 470 (Yee-D) Medi-Cal: juveniles: incarceration
Requires the Department of Health Services, in the case of a minor who has been incarcerated, to suspend the minor's Medi-Cal benefits but not terminate the minor's Medi-Cal eligibility.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 530 (Plescia-R) Medi-Cal: withholding payments or suspension
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop a process allowing providers to meet and confer with the department within 30 days of the issuance of notification of a temporary withhold of payments or temporary suspension from Medi-Cal.
Chapter 543, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 813* (Baca-D) Medi-Cal: emergency drug benefits
Extends Medi-Cal emergency drug coverage, with specified limitations, for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medi-Cal (dual eligibles) until January 31, 2007.
Chapter 24, Statutes of 2006
AB 959* (Frommer-D) Medi-Cal: health facilities: reimbursement
Expands eligibility for supplemental Medi-Cal reimbursements to state veterans' homes and to clinics owned or operated by the state, cities, counties, the University of California, and health care districts. Requires eligible facilities, as a condition of receiving supplemental reimbursements, to reimburse the Department of Health Services for the costs of administering the provisions of this bill.
Chapter 162, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Health 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).
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1591 (Chan-D) Medi-Cal: nurse practitioners
Requires the Department of Health Services to permit any certified nurse practitioner to bill Medi-Cal independently for his/her services.
Chapter 719, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1745 (Assembly Health Committee) Medi-Cal: pediatric palliative care benefit
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop, as a pilot project, a pediatric palliative care benefit covered under Medi-Cal. Requires the department to submit a waiver to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the pilot project.
Chapter 330, Statutes of 2006
AB 1807* (Assembly Budget Committee) Medi-Cal: budget trailer bill
Omnibus health trailer bill for the Budget Act of 2006, which among other provisions, conforms state Medi-Cal eligibility processing with federal law, makes revisions in the outreach to aged, blind and disabled for enrollment in Medi-Cal managed care, provides technical, clarifying language for the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program and the California Children Services Program to receive manufacturer drug rebates as provided for under the Medi-Cal program, makes technical changes to the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate for certain durable equipment items, specifically wheelchairs and oxygen equipment, requires the Department of Health Services to report to the legislature on Medi-Cal fee-for-service rates as specified, makes revisions in county administration of the Medi-Cal program, makes changes to existing statutes regarding the moratorium place don Adult Day Health Centers regarding the Medi-Cal certification of new centers, and provides for the Department of health Services to maintain and allocation program for the management and funding of county outreach and enrollment plans to enroll and retain eligible children in both Medi-Cal and Health Families programs.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2006
AB 1908 (Karnette-D) Medi-Cal: pharmacy reimbursement
Requires the Department of Health Services to reimburse for medications provided to Medi-Cal recipients for intravenous or infusion drug therapy in a manner that is consistent with the services provided, in order to ensure that patients receiving these services continue to receive appropriate care and continuity of their drug regimen.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1920 (Chan-D) Medi-Cal: hospital funding
Extends for a second year, the methodology for distributing stabilization funding to designated public hospitals (DPHs) as contained in the Medi-Cal Hospital and Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act established by SB 1100 (Perata), Chapter 560, Statutes of 2005, and makes other clarifying changes with respect to payments for DPHs.
Chapter 270, Statutes of 2006
AB 1930 (Berg-D) Medi-Cal: drug benefits: long-term care facilities
Requires the Department of Health Services to provide Medi-Cal drug benefit coverage, including retroactive coverage, during any period in which drugs are provided to a resident of a long-term health care facility if that resident is Medicare eligible at the time of admission to the facility and the resident applies for and is determined eligible for full benefits under the Medi-Cal program for the period in which the drugs are provided.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1948 (Montanez-D) Child Health and Disability Prevention program
Requires the Department of Health Services to conduct, or contract for the conducting of, a feasibility study report of technological requirements for modifying the Child Health and Disability Prevention Gateway to allow a person applying on behalf of a child the option to simultaneously preenroll and apply for enrollment in Medi-Cal or Healthy Families over the Internet without submitting a follow-up application. Requires the results of the feasibility study to be provided to the fiscal and health policy committees of the Legislature on or before March 1, 2008.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2006
AB 2004 (Yee-D) Medi-Cal: juveniles: incarceration
Requires the Department of Health Services, in the case of a minor who has been incarcerated, to suspend the minor's Medi-Cal benefits but not terminate the minor's Medi-Cal eligibility.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2316 (Spitzer-R) Medi-Cal: county organized health systems: disclosure
Provides governing boards of County Organized Health Systems with the authority to meet in closed session to review specified matters.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2379 (Chan-D) Medi-Cal: managed care
Extends the sunset date, from August 1, 2008 to January 1, 2012, for existing statute which prohibits California Children's Services covered services from being incorporated in a Medi-Cal managed care contract.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2006
AB 2607 (De La Torre-D) Medi-Cal: managed care: persons with disabilities
Enacts the Mandatory Medi-Cal Managed Care Pilot Program authorizing the Department of Health Services to select two counties where seniors and persons with disabilities will be assigned on a pilot basis as mandatory enrollees to new or existing managed care plans. Subsequent legislation will further implement this bill.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2631 (Laird-D) Medi-Cal: injectable drugs: utilization
Requires the Department of Health Services and the Medi-Cal fiscal intermediary to adhere to specified time-frames for establishing utilization policies and reimbursement coding for certain injectable drugs.
Chapter 792, Statutes of 2006
AB 2639 (Levine-D) Medi-Cal: adult day health care
Permits a Medi-Cal beneficiary who has been approved by Medi-Cal to attend an adult day health care (ADHC) center for fewer than five days a week, where the ADHC provider also operates adult day care services under the ADHC license, to receive adult day care services for which payment is provided by the beneficiary or a relative, or through charitable grant funds provided by the nonprofit ADHC center.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2667 (Baca-D) Health care providers and insurers: considerations
Permits the Board of Administration of the Public Employees Retirement System and the Department of Health Services, and requires the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance, when contracting with certain entities for the provision of health care benefits or services, to consider various specified factors, including the entities' history of providing, or arranging to provide, health care services or benefits including services or benefits under the Medicare or Medicaid program.
Chapter 758, Statutes of 2006
AB 2730 (Nation-D) Medi-Cal: direct marketing of contract drugs: rebates
Permits the Department of Health Services (DHS) to increase Medi-Cal rebates payable by the manufacturer of a drug promoted in California through the use of direct-to-consumer advertising if DHS has entered into a contract with the manufacturer or placed that drug on the Medi-Cal contract drug list.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2732 (Baca-D) Medi-Cal: fiscal intermediary services
Requires the Medi-Cal fiscal intermediary to allow providers to submit electronic billings.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2742 (Nava-D) Family planning: Medi-Cal: Family PACT program
Requires family planning services provided under Medi-Cal to be identical to those required pursuant to the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (PACT) Program. Requires all family planning benefits, including services, drugs, and supplies, available to beneficiaries under Medi-Cal and PACT to be uniform and conform to the provisions of current statute that establishes PACT.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2757 (Evans-D) Primary care clinics
Authorizes a primary care clinic to submit to Department of Health Services an application for a clinical laboratory (lab) license prior to or concurrent with an application for clinic licensure, permits a clinic operating within a network of primary care clinics to be issued a clinical lab license for services in the network of clinics, under specified conditions, and specifies conditions under which clinical labs affiliated with primary care clinics bill Medi-Cal for lab services.
Chapter 795, Statutes of 2006
AB 2759 (Wyland-R) Medi-Cal: provisional providers: termination
Requires the Department of Health Services to consider specific mitigating factors before terminating Medi-Cal provisional provider status. Prohibits the existence of an investigation from constituting grounds for prohibiting reapplication for provisional provider status. Requires deactivation and removal from Medi-Cal of a provider only with respect to the provider number issued for the location for which grounds exist for denial or termination, while allowing the provider to continue to be a Medi-Cal provider at other locations.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2775 (Daucher-R) Medi-Cal: dental services: anesthesia
Requires dental anesthesiologists to be reimbursed at a Denti-Cal rate equal to that of medical anesthesiologists who provide similar sedation and anesthesia services in the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2837* (Baca-D) Medi-Cal: local educational agency services
Requires the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) to issue preliminary and professional credentials in speech-language pathology (SLP) to qualified individuals, as specified, on or before January 1, 2007, and after an Attorney General's opinion finding that the new certification by the CTC complies with applicable federal law. Specifies the qualifications required for a provider of SLP services employed by local educational agencies to bill Medi-Cal.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2006
AB 2885* (Plescia-R) Medi-Cal: benefits: prescribed drugs
States that purchase of drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction or any off-label uses of those drugs are a covered Medi-Cal benefit only to the extent that federal financial participation is available.
Chapter 95, Statutes of 2006
AB 2918 (Wolk-D) Medi-Cal: county organized health systems
Authorizes Medi-Cal county organized health systems, as defined, to provide health care services for non-Medi-Cal and non-Medicare individuals or groups and prohibits the use of Medi-Cal payments or reserves for that purpose.
Chapter 905, Statutes of 2006
AB 2950 (Daucher-R) Medi-Cal billing reductions
Eliminates reductions in Medi-Cal payments for late claims submissions in programs for which there is no state general fund match, including but not limited to, the Local Education Agency Medi-Cal Billing Option program and the Targeted Case Management program.
Chapter 131, Statutes of 2006
AB 2968 (Leno-D) Medi-Cal: community-living support benefit
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop and implement a program to provide a community-living support benefit, as specified, for Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are residents of San Francisco and would otherwise be homeless, living in shelters, or institutionalized.
Chapter 830, Statutes of 2006
AB 2979* (Richman-R) Medi-Cal: managed care
Authorizes the Department of Health Services to implement the Medicare Health Maintenance Organization Wraparound pilot project to test Medi-Cal Managed Care services for elderly/disabled individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal. Directs the department to develop a statewide education program specific to the needs of elderly/disabled individuals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 3000 (Frommer-D) Health care: Medi-Cal: uninsured persons
Establishes the Health Care Coverage Initiative as required under the terms of a federal Medicaid demonstration project waiver related to hospital financing and health care coverage expansion approved in 2005.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
AB 3019* (Daucher-R) Medi-Cal: Community options and assessment protocol
Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to develop and test the Community Options and Assessment Protocol to minimize duplication and redundancy of multiple assessments for home- and community-based services, and to connect consumers with the appropriate program services, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 3070 (Assembly Health Committee) Medi-Cal: demonstration project: hospital funding
Makes clarifying corrections to SB 1100 (Perata), Chapter 560, Statutes of 2005, which establishes the Medi-Cal Hospital Care and Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act.
Chapter 327, Statutes of 2006
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).
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 258 (Chesbro-D) State hospitals: deaths: memorials
Authorizes the Department of Mental Health to include information on a grave marker for any person being memorialized at a state hospital or developmental center and who was buried by the state.
Chapter 391, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
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 of the Governor's proposed 2006-07 fiscal year State Budget.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
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 an indeterminate term.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1323 (Cedillo-D) Los Angeles County mental health: treatment pilot program
Appropriates $350,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Mental Health for allocation over five years to the County of Los Angeles to fund one probation position to work in conjunction with the Los Angeles Superior Court on the Prototype Court Pilot Program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1356 (Lowenthal-D) Suicide prevention
Requires the Department of Mental Health, on or before May 1, 2008, to adopt and distribute a statewide strategic plan for suicide prevention, which shall incorporate to the extent appropriate and feasible, the strategic plan developed by the Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network-California.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1372 (Maldonado-R) Mentally disordered offenders: reimbursement of county costs
Provides that a city, county, or superior court shall be entitled to reimbursement for reasonable and necessary costs connected with state prisons or prisoners in connection with any crime committed at a state hospital for the care, treatment, and education of the mentally disordered, as specified, whether by a prisoner, employee, or other person.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SCR 65 (Hollingsworth-R) Fragile X Awareness Day
Declares April 18 of each year to be California Fragile X Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 4, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1689 (Lieber-D) Early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment
Establishes a statewide protocol for foster children who receive mental health services through Medi-Cal and requires the Department of Mental Health to establish a provider certification process and adopt a dispute resolution process.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1807* (Assembly Budget Committee) Mental health services
Omnibus health trailer bill for the 2006 Budget, which among other provisions, provides that until 2009, up to 1,530 patients may be housed at Patton State Hospital; creates a special fund in the Department of Mental Health for the deposit and expenditure of fees paid by facilities that are licensed and certified by the Department of Mental Health; and revises criteria for mental health services for special education students.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2006
AB 1852 (Yee-D) Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program
Revises the definition of licensed mental health care practitioner relating to the Licensed Mental Health Services Provider Education Program to include a marriage and family therapist intern, associate clinical social worker, a psychologist licensed by the Board of Psychology, and a registered psychologist, postdoctoral psychological assistant, or postdoctoral psychology trainee employed in an exempt setting, as specified.
Chapter 557, Statutes of 2006
AB 1880 (Blakeslee-R) State hospitals: care of the mentally disordered
Requires the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to adopt regulations prohibiting the use of tobacco products by patients in all state hospitals, with the exception of tobacco products in religious rites or ceremonies approved by DMH, and exempts from the prohibition the use of tobacco in a designated smoking area for staff and others where patients are not present.
Chapter 316, Statutes of 2006
AB 2357 (Karnette-D) Assisted outpatient mental health treatment
Extends the sunset date of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002 from January 1, 2008 to January 1, 2013.
Chapter 774, Statutes of 2006
AB 2776 (Yee-D) Mental health: community treatment facilities: seclusions
Extends the sunset date, from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2010, of AB 1370 (Yee), Chapter 575, Statutes of 2003, which, among other things, prohibits the Department of Mental Health from requiring 24-hour onsite nursing staff at community treatment facilities that do not use mechanical restraints, and only admit youths that do not require 24-hour nursing coverage as determined by a licensed primary care provider and a licensed psychiatrist at the point of admission.
Chapter 796, Statutes of 2006
AB 2844 (Nation-D) Mental health: veterans' eligibility for services
Establishes the California Veterans Mental Health Services Act of 2006 and makes changes relating to the provision of mental health services to California veterans.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2006
Developmentally Disabled
SB 267* (Romero-D) California High School Exit Examination: disabilities
Extends, until December 31, 2007, current provisions exempting pupils with disabilities from the requirement of passing the California High School Exit Examination as a condition of receiving a high school diploma, if the pupils meet specified criteria.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Health 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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1114 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Department of Rehabilitation: blindness
Requires that at least 20 percent of the board members of organizations and agencies whose sole mission is to provide services to persons who are blind or visually impaired and which receive grants from or contract with the Department of Rehabilitation consist of persons who are blind or visually impaired.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1270 (Chesbro-D) Developmental services: service methods
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to assist people with developmental disabilities with finding employment, and requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to convene a workgroup to study new and innovative service delivery models.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2006
SB 1283 (Chesbro-D) Area Boards on Developmental Disabilities
Makes changes to the Governor's appointment process to the State Council on Developmental Disabilities and changes the method and timetable of service data collection from the state's 21 regional centers.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2006
SB 1337 (Alquist-D) Developmental services: rental assistance
Adds to the existing range of housing options for residents moving out of Agnews Developmental Center the possible addition of a mixed use community" to serve a portion of those residents.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 1451 (Kehoe-D) Emergency preparedness: disabled community
Requires the Office of Emergency Services to ensure that members of the disabled community are represented on all pertinent emergency preparedness committees.
Chapter 600, Statutes of 2006
SCR 115 (Chesbro-D) Year of the Community and Developmental Disabilities
Proclaims the year 2006 as Year of the Community and declares that the Legislature will actively promote the rights of persons with developmental disabilities and their full inclusion into community life.
Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development 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. Contains a $2 billion appropriation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 410 (Yee-D) Disabled veteran business enterprises
Establishes a 10 percent bid preference for disabled veteran business enterprises on state contracts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 768 (Nation-D) Touch-screen devices
Requires that on or after January 1, 2009, a manufacturer or distributor of touch-screen devices used for purposes of self-service check-in at specified locations shall offer for availability touch-screen check-in devices that enable the visually impaired to independently enter personal information that is necessary to process the transaction.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1478 (Frommer-D) Developmental services
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to develop guidelines for treatment of autism in children.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1807* (Assembly Budget Committee) Developmental services
Omnibus health trailer bill for the 2006 Budget, which among other provisions, provides for an increase in the hourly rate paid for supported employment services; provides a three percent across the board rate increase for most programs that serve individuals with developmental disabilities; enhances wages for direct care staff; revises the criteria for expanding program development and start-up funds; provides for increased receipt of federal funds by changing billing processes; and allows the chief deputy, supervising investigators, and investigators of the Office of Protective Services in the Department of Developmental Services to be considered peace officers, as specified.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2006
AB 1847* (Leslie-R) Taxation: tax credit: access to disabled individuals
Increases the amount of the state tax credit allowed for expenses incurred by small businesses for disabled access under the personal income tax and corporations tax laws.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1964 (Nakanishi-R) Health care: blood glucose monitoring
Authorizes dire t care staff at an adult community care facility, an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative, an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled nursing, a residential care facility for the elderly, and an adult day health care facility, who are not health care professionals, but who are trained to administer injections, to perform blood glucose monitoring tests and administer emergency glucagon injections on developmentally disabled adults with diabetes, if specified criteria are met.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1991 (Saldana-D) Vehicles: environmental license plates: disabled persons
Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue disabled license plates with personalized numbers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2120 (Liu-D) Vehicles: disabled persons/veterans: parking placards
Allows, under certain circumstances, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants to sign a certification that qualifies a person to obtain a disabled person or disabled veteran license plate, parking placard or temporary parking placard.
Chapter 116, Statutes of 2006
AB 2278 (Koretz-D) Assistive animals
Requires the state to designate a lead agency to create and produce an Assistive Animal Identification Card.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 2513 (Pavley-D) Pupils: autism: training and information
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene, with input from the Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute at the University of California, Davis, an advisory committee. Requires the advisory committee to develop specified recommendations that identify the means by which schools may better serve students with autism. Requires the advisory committee to submit its recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor by November 1, 2007.
Chapter 783, Statutes of 2006
AB 2749 (Strickland-R) Home improvement loans for elderly and disabled persons
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a pilot program to provide a revolving home improvement loan fund for qualified low and moderate income elderly and disabled persons in two counties.
(Died in Assembly Aging and Long Term Care Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1141 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Tobacco assets: sales
Authorizes the sale of additional tobacco settlement bonds backed by the state's residual interest in future tobacco settlement revenues.
Chapter 641, Statutes of 2006
SB 1208 (Ortiz-D) Tobacco products
Prohibits transportation of cigarettes to persons in California except when such shipments are made to a licensed entity.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 379 (Koretz-D) Smoking in vehicles with minor passengers
Makes it unlawful to smoke a pipe, cigar, or cigarette in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, in which there is a child who is required under current law to be secured in a child passenger restraint system.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1749 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Cigarettes and tobacco products
Contains various technical clarifications of the California Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003 and other sections of the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law.
Chapter 501, Statutes of 2006
AB 2001 (Cogdill-R) Cigarettes and tobacco products
Deletes the January 1, 2007 sunset date on the bonding, remittance, and reporting requirements that the Board of Equalization (BOE) applies to tobacco product distributors who submit twice-monthly payments of applicable tobacco taxes. Specifies that the security deposit required by the BOE from distributors who defer submittal of tobacco tax payments must be in the form of cash, a cash equivalent, or a surety bond.
Chapter 70, Statutes of 2006
AB 2067 (Oropeza-D) Smoking: enclosed spaces of buildings
Adds a further definition of "enclosed spaces" to current law that prohibits smoking in enclosed spaces of employment to include areas such as lobbies, lounges, waiting areas, elevators, stairwells and restrooms that are a structural part of the building at places of employment. Defines "covered parking lot" with respect to public buildings to mean an area designated for the parking of vehicles that is enclosed or contains a roof or ceiling, but excludes certain areas, as defined above, that are a structural part of the parking lot.
Chapter 736, Statutes of 2006
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 limits charges imposed on patients with incomes below 400 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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 minimum 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 315 (Margett-R) Hospitals: emergency medical services reduction/elimination
Requires hospitals to give a 90-day notice of a planned hospital closure to Department of Health Services, the local government entity that provides health services, contracting health service plans or providers, and local emergency medical services agencies within the region served by the hospital.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 491 (Ducheny-D) Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act
Enacts the Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act which authorizes issuance of bonds in an unspecified amount for financing required seismic safety modifications to hospitals.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
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.
(Died in Senate 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, and requires DHS to issue a Class "A" citation when a nursing home resident is sexually assaulted by an employee of the facility.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 559 (Torlakson-D) Health facilities: general acute care hospitals: permits
Authorizes the Director of the Department of Health Services to issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord campus.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2006
SB 739 (Speier-D) Hospitals: infection control
Requires the Department of Health Services to appoint a healthcare associated infection (HAI) advisory committee by July 1, 2007 to make recommendations regarding reporting cases of HAI in hospitals. Requires each general acute care hospital, on or after January 1, 2008, to implement and annually report to the department its implementation of infection surveillance and infection prevention process measures that have been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, as suitable for a mandatory public reporting program.
Chapter 526, Statutes of 2006
SB 1034 (Hollingsworth-R) Community care facilities: business licenses
Allows a local jurisdiction that requires any type of business to obtain a business license to require that a community care facility obtain a business license if the facility serves any adult or juvenile who is under the supervision of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or whose use of the facility is required pursuant to a court order related to an offense committed by the adult or juvenile.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1504 (Hollingsworth-R) which died in Senate Human Services Committee.
SB 1204 (Perata-D) Hospitals: lift teams
Requires general acute care hospitals to establish health care worker back injury prevention plans and implement "zero lift policies," as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
A similar bill was AB 2716 (Strickland-R) which died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee.
SB 1248 (Alquist-D) Long-term health care facilities: resident rights
Applies existing federal patient rights regulations to all residents in skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes regardless of the facility or source of payment for services.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2006
SB 1301 (Alquist-D) Health facilities: reporting and inspection requirements.
Requires general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals to report an adverse event to the Department of Health Services (DHS) no later than five days after the event has been detected or in the case of an urgent or emergent threat, not later than 24 hours after the adverse event has been detected. Requires DHS to make onsite inspections or investigations within 48 hours or two business days, whichever is greater, upon receipt of a report that indicates an ongoing threat of imminent danger of death or harm. Requires DHS, by January 1, 2013, to provide information regarding reports of substantiated adverse events and the outcomes of inspections on the DHS web site.
Chapter 647, Statutes of 2006
SB 1312 (Alquist-D) Health care facilities
Requires inspections and investigations of long-term care facilities certified by the Medicare or Medicaid program to determine compliance with federal standards and California statutes and regulations. Eliminates existing law that provides an exemption for specified health care facilities from periodic inspections by the Department of Health Services, and authorizes the department to assess administrative penalties on hospitals based on deficiencies constituting immediate jeopardy to the health and safety of a patient.
Chapter 895, Statutes of 2006
SB 1369 (Maldonado-R) Clinical laboratories: anatomic pathology services
Expands the existing prohibition on health care professionals charging, billing, or soliciting payments from any patient, client or customer, or third-party payer for cytologic services relating to the examination of gynecologic slides, to include the professional assessment and interpretation of anatomic pathology services, if the services were not actually rendered by that person or under his or her direct supervision.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1427 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: federally qualified health centers
Authorizes a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) to bill the Medi-Cal program for FQHC services delivered in locations other than the FQHC's site, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1461 (Florez-D) Health care: primary care: grants in aid
Revises the conditions that the Department of Health Services uses to allocate grants to primary care clinics to include that they are located in a federally designated health professional shortage area and makes other technical changes.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2006
SB 1470 (Cedillo-D) Health facility patient charges: health record copy
Increases the fee a health facility may charge for a copy of a health record to 30 cents per page.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1520* (Ducheny-D) Medi-Cal: hospital funding demonstration project
Amends the Medi-Cal Hospital and Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act, by requiring the Department of Health Services to adjust, at the request of the governmental entity, Medicaid payment distributions to designated public hospitals that are part of a hospital system licensed to the same governmental entity, prior to distributing those payments.
Chapter 665, Statutes of 2006
SB 1562 (Maldonado-R) Inmates: state hospitals: reimbursement of costs
Provides that the state shall reimburse any county for costs associated with mentally disordered persons held in state hospitals and that the state shall reimburse counties for any trial costs for state prison inmates who are being treated in a state hospital.
Chapter 812, Statutes of 2006
SB 1659 (Cox-R) Hospital seismic retrofit
Allows for the electronic submission of hospital plans to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Chapter 678, Statutes of 2006
SB 1661 (Cox-R) Health facilities: seismic safety: construction
Authorizes an extension of up to an additional two years for hospitals that have already received extensions of the January 1, 2008 seismic safety compliance deadline if specified criteria are met, and requires specified hospital reports to be posted on the web site of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Chapter 679, Statutes of 2006
SB 1759 (Ashburn-R) Health: background checks: fees: inspections
Makes a number of revisions to criminal clearance provisions for departments under the jurisdiction of the California Health and Human Services Agency including the Department of Health Services and the Department of Social Services with regard to clearance requirements before work.
Chapter 902, Statutes of 2006
SB 1773 (Alarcon-D) Fines and forfeitures
Authorizes counties to elect to levy an additional $2 for every $10 in base fines for purposes of supporting emergency medical services (EMS), and requires the additional assessment to be deposited in local Maddy EMS Funds, with 15 percent to be directed to pediatric trauma services. Authorizes up to 10 percent to be used for administrative expenses and sunsets the provisions of this bill on January 1, 2009.
Chapter 841, Statutes of 2006
SB 1780 (Alarcon-D) Health facilities: nosocomial infections
Requires that on and after January 1, 2008, each health facility transmit notification of a nosocomial infection to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Requires that the office on or before January 1, 2009, and annually thereafter, compile this data and establish an aggregate nosocomial infection rate per health facility and transmit the aggregate nosocomial infection rate of each health facility to all applicable local health agencies.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1801 (Ducheny-D) Municipal hospitals: closed meetings
Allows a city council, in a city where a municipal hospital is managed by an appointed board of trustees, to meet in a closed session held solely to consider reports involving trade secrets of the municipal hospital.
Chapter 157, Statutes of 2006
SB 1838 (Perata-D) Health facilities: construction plans
Authorizes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) to establish a training program for personnel who review hospital construction and design plans, exempts hospital and skilled nursing facility projects that cost less than $50,000 from the OSHPD plan review process, and requires a presubmittal meeting with OSHPD plan review staff on hospital and skilled nursing facility projects costing over $20 million.
Chapter 693, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 36 (Strickland-R) Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to license Adult Recovery Maintenance Facilities, and applies existing alcohol and drug abuse treatment recovery facility licensure standards to these facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 107* (Benoit-R) Care facilities
Increases the frequency of licensing inspections for all community care facilities, child care facilities and residential facilities for the elderly.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 126 (Dymally-D) County hospitals: indigent services
Enacts the Bielenson Fair Hearing Act of 2005.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 433 (Nava-D) Physician office laboratories
Exempts physician office laboratories from specified licensure and regulatory requirements.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 759 (Lieber-D) El Camino Hospital District
Makes findings and declarations regarding the El Camino Hospital District, a public entity, and the El Camino Hospital-Corporation, a public benefit nonprofit corporation created by the district, to clarify that El Camino Hospital and all other entities operated by the corporation are part of the District, and are therefore subject to laws governing meetings, records and operations of public entities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 774 (Chan-D) Hospitals: fair pricing policies
Requires hospitals to develop and implement policies providing discounted payments or charity care for poor uninsured or underinsured individuals. Hospital charges for eligible patients will be limited and require notice, reporting, compliance and collection procedures are specified.
Chapter 755, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1316 (Salinas-D) Hospital districts: hospital rules: indemnification
Provides that a hospital district board of directors may indemnify nonemployee medical staff members for damages and for costs associated with the legal defense of the medical staff member arising from participation in the medical peer review activities of the district and prohibits indemnification of medical staff members for punitive or exemplary damages but allows districts to pay the costs of such judgments under certain circumstances.
Chapter 314, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1341* (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Financing authorities: grants and loans
Extends the sunset for the California Pollution Control Financing Authority's Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan Program from 2007 to 2012, and increases the total amount available for grants and loans to cities and counties from $5 million to $7.5 million.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2006
AB 1402 (McCarthy-R) Community care facilities
Authorizes persons licensed to provide residential foster care to a ward of the court to petition the juvenile court to order a placement agency to develop a plan on how to provide the child with greater supervision. Requires the placement agency, if so ordered by the court, to submit the plan to the court for approval, and would permit the court, upon approving the plan, to require the placement agency to place the child in accordance with the plan.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1408 (Shirley Horton-R) Residential care facilities: overconcentration
Changes the definition of "overconcentration" for the purpose of locating certain residential community care facilities.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1508 (Salinas-D) Natividad Medical Center
Provides that, if the County of Monterey enters into a joint powers agreement to establish a separate public entity with the authority to manage, administer, govern, and control the Natividad Medical Center, in addition to any authority which may be provided by law, the agreement may also authorize the separate public entity to exercise specified powers.
(Died in Senate Health 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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 (Hospital Seismic Safety Act) that require specified hospitals to meet seismic retrofitting requirements by 2008, revises the final 2030 deadline requirement to 2020.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
Contingent upon the enactment of AB 1672 (Nation-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1720 (Dymally-D) State hospitals: clinical directors
Requires that the clinical director of a state hospital be a licensed physician and surgeon.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1795 (Bermudez-D) Residential facilities: licensure applications
Requires notification to a city or county planning agency by the state or county licensing agency of an application for a new residential care facility to be provided by certified mail.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1807* (Assembly Budget Committee) Health budget trailer bill
Implements the health portions of the 2006 Budget Act, which among other provisions, makes considerable statutory changes to modify the fee structure paid by hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and other facilities that are licensed and/or certified by the Licensing and Certification Division of the Department of Health Services. Requests the Bureau of State Audits to consider conducting an audit of the clinical laboratory oversight programs operated by the department. Requires the department to report to the Legislature regarding the signed consent decree between the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and the state pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2006
AB 1810 (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget deficiencies: health facilities
Appropriates $1.5 million to the Department of Health Services to address an increase in the number of long-term health care facilities that require department intervention, in the form of temporary management or receivership, to protect the health and safety of residents.
Chapter 55, Statutes of 2006
AB 1880 (Blakeslee-R) State hospitals: care of the mentally disordered
Requires the Department of Mental Health to do the following: (1) adopt regulations prohibiting the use of tobacco products by patients in all state hospitals, with the exception of tobacco products in religious rites or ceremonies approved by the department, and (2) prohibit the use of tobacco products by any person not covered by subdivision (a), on the grounds of a state hospital. Exempts from the prohibition the use of tobacco in a designated smoking area for staff and others where patients are not present.
Chapter 316, Statutes of 2006
AB 1964 (Nakanishi-R) Health care: blood glucose monitoring
Allows direct care staff at specified facilities, who are not licensed health care professionals, but who are trained to assist a licensed health care professional, to administer blood glucose testing and emergency glucagon injections for severe diabetic hypoglycemia, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1978 (Walters-R) Hospital seismic retrofit
Extends, from January 1, 2008 to January 1, 2015, the deadline for any general acute care hospital building determined to be a potential risk of collapse or pose significant loss of life to only be used for nonacute care purposes. Permits hospitals subject to the 2015 deadline to request additional extensions to 2020, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1979 (Bass-D) Community care facilities: criminal record information: fees
Clarifies that volunteer candidates for mentoring children in foster care settings must comply with provisions for criminal background investigations, and prohibits the Department of Justice and the Department of Social Services from charging specified fees for the cost of the investigations.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2006
AB 2156 (Niello-R) Clinical laboratories
Requires "histocompatibility laboratory directors" to pass a written and oral examination in order to be licensed by the Department of Health Services, provides for the implementation of "autoverification" of clinical laboratory test results, and authorizes certified pathology assistants, pathology assistants, histologic assistants, and histotechnologists to perform specified activities under the direct supervision of a pathologist.
Chapter 319, Statutes of 2006
AB 2184 (Bogh-R) Residential facilities: land use regulations
Provides that the state statute governing zoning and conditional use permits for residential care facilities for six or fewer persons shall not be construed to prohibit a local public entity from enforcing a local ordinance.
Chapter 746, Statutes of 2006
AB 2212 (Torrico-D) Health facilities
Prohibits the licensure of specialty hospitals as defined, with exceptions, until December 31, 2007.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2282 (Oropeza-D) Federally-qualified health centers
Establishes for federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs) meeting specific requirements a state exception to the prohibition against licensed providers receiving rebates, refunds, commissions or other consideration for referring patients, clients, or customers to any person, to the extent sanctioned or permitted under federal law. Establishes the same exception for FQHCs for purposes of the Medi-Cal program.
Chapter 772, Statutes of 2006
AB 2308 (Plescia-R) Ambulatory surgical centers: licensure
Requires the Department of Health Services to convene a workgroup to develop licensure criteria to protect patients receiving care in ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), and to submit workgroup conclusions and recommendations to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature no later than March 1, 2007. Revises existing law to replace the term "licensed surgical clinic" with ASC.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2373 (Aghazarian-R) Automated drug delivery system
Expands the use of automated drug delivery systems (ADDS) in nursing facilities and makes other changes related to the stocking of ADDS. Exempts drugs dispensed from an ADDS machine from existing law labeling requirements if the drugs are in blister pack cards.
Chapter 775, Statutes of 2006
AB 2452 (Richman-R) Physician office laboratories: fees
Exempts physician office laboratories from registration and licensure fees outlined in California law until the state receives an exemption under the federal law, Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, governing clinical laboratories.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2509 (Daucher-R) Immunizations
Requires hospitals to offer flu and pneumonia immunizations to hospital inpatients over 65 years of age.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2564 (Matthews-D) Health facilities: criminal record clearances
Exempts from the criminal record clearance requirement direct care staff employed as consultants in various intermediate care facilities who have already obtained a criminal record clearance, and authorizes direct care staff, who are trained and certified by a registered nurse acting within the scope of his/her practice, to administer blood glucose testing for a person with developmental disabilities who has diabetes and who is residing in an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative or an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled nursing, if specified criteria are met.
Chapter 889, Statutes of 2006
AB 2609 (Evans-D) Residential facilities for the elderly: employee training
Increases required training for staff at Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly who assist residents with self-administration of medication.
Chapter 615, Statutes of 2006
AB 2675 (Strickland-R) Community care facilities: continuing education: online
Authorizes online education for specified community care facility administrators.
Chapter 421, Statutes of 2006
AB 2703 (Aghazarian-R) Health and human services
Makes numerous changes in existing law to implement licensing reform of various health and human service programs.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2745 (Jones-D) Hospitals: discharge plans: homeless patients
Prohibit a hospital from causing the transfer of homeless patients from one county to another county for the purpose of receiving supportive services from specified agencies without prior notification to, and authorization from, the agency.
Chapter 794, Statutes of 2006
AB 2754 (Chan-D) Hospitals: staffing
Requires, beginning January 1, 2009, general acute care, acute psychiatric and special hospitals to adopt and annually update a plan or procedure for determining staffing of professional and technical classifications, as specified, requires the Department of Health Services to review the plan or procedure during licensing surveys, and deems failure to maintain, review annually, or comply with the plan or procedure to constitute staffing that has the potential for harm to patients.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2757 (Evans-D) Primary care clinics
Authorizes a primary care clinic to submit to Department of Health Services an application for a clinical laboratory license prior to or concurrent with an application for clinic licensure, permits a clinic operating within a network of primary care clinics to be issued a clinical lab license for services in the network of clinics, under specified conditions, and specifies conditions under which clinical labs affiliated with primary care clinics bill Medi-Cal for lab services.
Chapter 795, Statutes of 2006
AB 2836 (Karnette-D) Fire protection: residential care facility for the elderly
Requires residential care facilities for the elderly that house or care for four or more clients or residents, to have an approved, operable automatic fire sprinkler system on and after January 1, 2014, if they are licensed as of January 1, 2010. Requires every facility for which a license is newly issued on or after January 1, 2010, to have an approved, operable automatic fire sprinkler system on and after the date of issuance.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3005 (Emmerson-R) Residential care facilities
Permits a city or county to submit to the Director of the Department of Social Services documentation regarding the proposed location of residential care facilities with six or fewer residents. Allows the director to suggest that the applicant find an alternate location for the facility if he finds the submitted information compelling.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3006 (Emmerson-R) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to maintain on its Internet web site a searchable database of the location of each alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility that is licensed by the department, and requires the database to be open to the public and to be searchable by ZIP Code.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 3007 (Emmerson-R) Alcohol and drug treatment facilities: location
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, commencing on March 1, 2007, to deny an application for a new adult treatment facility or recovery program if the department determines that its location is within 300 feet of an existing facility and would result in over-concentration in the neighborhood.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Health Professionals
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.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 169* (Migden-D) Certified phlebotomy technicians
Extends from April 2006 to January 1, 2007, the date by which an unlicensed person employed by a clinical laboratory to perform venipuncture (puncture of a vein) or skin puncture to draw blood must become certified as a certified phlebotomy technician.
Chapter 14, Statutes of 2006
SB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Lapses of consciousness: reports to the DMV
Seeks to modify the state's existing driver safety law relating to a physician's duty to report any patient the physician has diagnosed as having a disorder characterized by lapses of consciousness that might result in traffic accidents.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 233 (Figueroa-D) Acupuncture
Provides for the sunset of the Acupuncture Board and modifies the definition of acupuncture.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 299* (Chesbro-D) Dentistry
Allows dentists who are licensed in other states to be licensed in California, without regard to clinical experience, provided that a dentist with less than five years clinical experience agrees to practice in a safety-net setting, or dental school, for at least two years.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2006
Similar bills were SB 683 (Aanestad-R), Chapter 805, Statutes of 2006, and AB 1143 (Emmerson-R), Chapter 534, Statutes of 2005.
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.
Chapter 909, Statutes of 2006
SB 579 (Aanestad-R) Optometry: licenses: advertisement
Authorizes the Board of Optometry to issue a license to practice optometry in California to applicants that have passed the licensing examination for an optometric license in another state if the applicant meets specified criteria, and allows for the advertisement of free optometric services under specified conditions.
Chapter 302, Statutes of 2006
SB 583 (Figueroa-D) Cancer treatment
Exempts physicians who provide treatment or advice to cancer patients regarding alternative or complementary medicine from being disciplined solely because that treatment or advice is alternative or complementary medicine if certain conditions are met.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 683 (Aanestad-R) Dentistry: licensure
Authorizes the Dental Board to grant a license to an applicant who completes a one year clinically advanced education program in general practice, and who passes an examination in California law and ethics.
Chapter 805, Statutes of 2006
Similar bills were SB 299 (Chesbro-D), Chapter 4, Statutes of 2006, and AB 1143 (Emmerson-R), Chapter 534, Statutes of 2005.
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.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 736 (Speier-D) Healing arts: diagnostic imaging services
Prohibits, with exceptions, a physician from charging, billing, or otherwise soliciting payment from, any patient, client, customer, or third-party payer for performance of the technical component of computerized tomography, positron emission tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging diagnostic imaging services if those services were not actually rendered by the physician or a member of his/her group practice, under his/her direct supervision, or by an employee of the physician.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1232 (Runner-R) Division of Licensing: out-of-state physicians and surgeons
Requires that an applicant for physician licensure who is from another state be licensed by the other state for a period of at least four years. Requires out-of-state physician licensure applicants to meet additional requirements, including requiring the applicant's medical school to have a residency program, requiring the applicant to have graduated from a recognized medical school, and requiring the applicant to have not been the subject of a disciplinary action, or an adverse judgment or settlement determined by the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California to constitute a pattern of negligence or incompetence.
Chapter 133, Statutes of 2006
SB 1285 (Aanestad-R) Speech-language pathology
Expands the scope of practice of speech-language pathologists (SLP) to include performing suctioning in connection with an SLP's existing scope of practice after compliance with a medical facility's training protocols on suctioning procedures.
Chapter 153, Statutes of 2006
SB 1307 (Poochigian-R) Medical information: confidentiality
Conforms California law to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act by allowing a physician to disclose medical information to a health care agent, as specified.
Chapter 249, Statutes of 2006
SB 1309 (Scott-D) Nursing education
Enacts an array of initiatives to address the nursing shortage in California.
Chapter 837, Statutes of 2006
SB 1361 (Vincent-D) Psychologists: applicants for licensure
Includes in the list of approved degrees for licensure in psychology an earned doctorate degree in an interdisciplinary or specialized area in psychology.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 1423 (Figueroa-D) Laser procedures
Requires the Medical Board of California and the Board of Registered Nursing to review issues related to the use of laser or intense light pulse devices for elective cosmetic procedures.
Chapter 873, Statutes of 2006
SB 1438 (Figueroa-D) Healing arts: reporting requirements
Recasts and clarifies existing law as it relates to the disclosure and reporting of information concerning settlements, arbitration awards, and judgments in medical malpractice actions for physicians, osteopaths and podiatrists.
Chapter 223, Statutes of 2006
SB 1472 (Figueroa-D) Dentistry: dental hygienists
Creates the California Dental Hygiene Bureau and extends the sunset dates for the Dental Board of California.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1475 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Healing arts
Makes several non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive or technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions pertaining to regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 659, Statutes of 2006
SB 1476 (Figueroa-D) Professions and vocations
Requires the Physical Therapy Board to deny licensure to applicants who are required to register as sex offenders, revises a provision of law permitting unlicensed persons to practice occupational therapy by limiting this provision to out-of-state licensees who have applied for licensure in California, delays the implementation of electronic pedigree requirements for prescription drugs to January 1, 2009, and extends the sunset dates for numerous licensing programs under the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2006
SB 1541 (Ducheny-D) Registered dental assistants: licensure
Creates work experience pathway for licensure as a specialty registered dental assistant. Requires the Dental Board of California to license as a Registered Restorative Assistant, Registered Orthodontic Assistant, or Registered Surgery Assistant any person who completes a work experience pathway to licensure that meets specified requirements.
Chapter 908, Statutes of 2006
SB 1596 (Runner-R) Nurse-Family Partnership program
Establishes the Nurse-Family Partnership program to be administered by the Department of Health Services.
Chapter 878, Statutes of 2006
SB 1638 (Figueroa-D) Midwives: advisory council: annual reports
Requires the Medical Board of California to create and appoint a Midwifery Advisory Council, and requires licensed midwives to make annual reports to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development containing specified information regarding the births the midwife assisted in delivering during the prior year.
Chapter 536, Statutes of 2006
SB 1670 (Aanestad-R) Radiologic technology
Allows a certified radiologic technologist and a limited permit X-ray technician to devote continuing education credit hours to digital radiologic technology.
Chapter 537, Statutes of 2006
SB 1808 (Aanestad-R) Physicians and surgeons: death penalty executions
Specifies that a physician and surgeon who carries out or participates in a death penalty execution is not practicing medicine, is not violating the Medical Practice Act, and shall not be subject to any disciplinary action by the Medical Board of California.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1811 (Romero-D) Emergency medical services: training
Provides, as of July 1, 2008, that an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)-I may be authorized by a local emergency medical services agency (EMSA) to administer naloxone hydrochloride by means other than intravenous injection only if the EMT-I has completed training and passed an examination administered or approved by the local EMSA that has jurisdiction in the area where the EMT-I is performing duties within his/her scope of practice.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
AB 120 (Cohn-D) Physical therapy: continuing education
Requires compliance with a continuing education or competency requirement for physical therapists and physical therapists assistants prior to the renewal of a license or approval by the Physical Therapy Board of California.
Chapter 540, Statutes of 2006
AB 180 (Leno-D) Collective bargaining: direct care registered nurses
Authorizes "direct care registered nurses" to organize for purposes of collective bargaining, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 218* (Maze-R) Income tax credit: qualified medical care professionals
Allows a nonrefundable tax credit to certain medical care professionals.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 225 (Negrete McLeod-D) Electronic prescription information
Allows the provision of non-monetary 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.
Chapter 698, Statutes of 2006
AB 242 (Vargas-D) Sex offenses: medical providers: minor victims
Provide a term of three times the usual penalty for specified sex offenses where the victims are minors, the offender is a primary health care provider, and the victim is a resident in a health care facility.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
A similar bill was AB 657 (Karnette-D) which died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.
AB 293* (Maze-R) Income tax credit: qualified medical care professionals
Allows, for 2006 through 2010, a tax credit equal to 6.5 percent of a doctor's receipts from Medi-Cal beneficiaries residing in certain rural counties.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill was AB 218 (Maze-R) which died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.
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.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 433 (Nava-D) Physician office laboratories
Exempts physician office laboratories from specified licensure and regulatory requirements by the State Department of Health Services.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee)
A similar bill was AB 288 (Mountjoy-R) which died in Assembly Health Committee.
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.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 733 (Nation-D) Psychotherapists: duty to warn
Clarifies that a psychotherapist may fulfill the duty to "warn" by taking reasonable actions, other than notifying a potential victim and law enforcement, of a patient's threatened violent behavior. Restates that reasonable efforts to communicate the threat to the victim and a law enforcement agency discharges a psychotherapist's duty to warn and protect.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2006
AB 757 (Chan-D) Health care providers: contracts
Requires, in provisions regulating health care practitioners, health plans, health insurers, and workers' compensation, a contracting agent's contract with a health care provider to contain specified provisions and make specified disclosures. Additionally, prohibits a contracting agent from transferring, selling, assigning, leasing, or conveying a list, contracted discount rates, or other contractual obligations to a nonpayor.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 859 (Bass-D) Medical assistants: authorized activities
Authorizes specified treatment activities to be performed by a medical assistant under certain circumstances in specified clinics exempt from licensure.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 894 (La Suer-R) Licensed professional counselors
Requires professional counselors be licensed and regulated by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, and prohibits a person from practicing or advertising the performance of professional counseling services without a license issued by the board.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development 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.
(Died 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.
Chapter 850, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions 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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1549 (Koretz-D) Acupuncture: Asian massage
Defines "Asian Massage" as the use of pressure techniques through massage, manipulation, and mobilization of surface tissue and muscle for the therapeutic objective of stimulation of proper body function, clarifies that "manual therapy" and "myofascial release," as used in western terms and treatment procedures, also constitute "Asian Massage," and makes a technical correction.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1796 (Bermudez-D) Physicians and surgeons
Authorizes the Medical Board of California to establish advisory committees consisting of licensees in good standing and members of the public with an interest in and knowledge of the subject matter assigned to the committee, regardless of whether or not the licensee or member of the public is a member of the board, and makes other substantive and nonsubstantive changes to the Medical Practice Act.
Chapter 843, Statutes of 2006
AB 1907 (Lieu-D) Child abuse prevention: multidisciplinary personnel
Adds marriage and family therapists to the list of eligible therapists who may comprise the multidisciplinary personnel forming a team of three or more persons trained to provide child abuse prevention services under existing law.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2006
AB 1954 (Lieu-D) Physicians: participation in executions
Prohibits state and local government entities from using a licensed physician to participate in an execution.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1964 (Nakanishi-R) Health care: blood glucose monitoring
Allows direct care staff at specified facilities, who are not licensed health care professionals, but who are trained to assist a licensed health care professional, to administer blood glucose testing and emergency glucagon injections for severe diabetic hypoglycemia, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1994 (Leslie-R) Health records: minors: access
Provides that the decision of a health care provider as to whether to make a minor's records available for copying, in addition to inspection, by the minor's representative where the health care provider determines that access to the records would have a detrimental effect on the provider's professional relationship with the minor or the minor's physical safety or psychological well-being, would not expose the provider to liability, unless the decision was found to be in bad faith.
Chapter 100, Statutes of 2006
AB 2152 (Chan-D) Acupuncture: practice by health care professionals
Provides that a health care professional may not practice acupuncture unless he/she is licensed by, or registered with, the California Acupuncture Board.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2198 (Houston-R) Health care: controlled substances and dangerous drugs
Updates the laws governing the use of drugs to treat pain for purposes of clarifying that health care professionals that have a medical basis, including the treatment of pain, for prescribing, furnishing, dispensing, or administering dangerous drugs or prescription controlled substances, may do so without being subject to disciplinary action or prosecution.
Chapter 350, Statutes of 2006
AB 2256 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Professions and vocations
Eliminates a duplicative requirement that optometric corporations register their corporations with both the Secretary of State and the Board of Optometry, and revises provisions related to the reporting of malpractice settlements and judgments by licensed landscape architects, architects, and their insurers to the California Architects Board.
Chapter 564, Statutes of 2006
AB 2257 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Psychologists: records retention
Requires psychologists to maintain a patients records for seven years from the patients discharge date, or in the case of a minor, seven years after the minor reaches 18 years of age.
Chapter 89, Statutes of 2006
AB 2260 (Negrete McLeod-D) Approvals and certificates of registration: special faculty
Clarifies the requirements for unlicensed foreign doctors to practice medicine in fellowship, faculty, or department head or division chief capacity in a California medical school, and prohibits in a civil settlement agreement any "gag clause" provision that prohibits another party to the dispute from contacting or filing a complaint with the Medical Board of California.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2006
AB 2283 (Oropeza-D) Physicians and surgeons: cultural background
Requires the Medical Board of California to annually aggregate existing data reported to it by physicians on their cultural background and foreign language proficiency, by the ZIP code of the primary practice location and on a statewide basis, and report such information on the board's web site.
Chapter 612, Statutes of 2006
AB 2313 (Arambula-D) Student financial aid: nursing education
Creates the "Nurses in Underserved Rural Service: Assumption Program of Loans," administered by the California Student Aid Commission, to provide up to $25,000 in education loan assumption to registered nursing students who agree to work for three years in a medically underserved rural area, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1309 (Scott-D), Chapter 837, Statutes of 2006.
AB 2342 (Nakanishi-R) Voluntary services: malpractice insurance
Requires the Medical Board of California, in conjunction with the Health Professions Education Foundation, to conduct a study on the issue of board-sponsored medical malpractice insurance for physicians and surgeons who provide voluntary, unpaid services, as described, contingent on an appropriation of funds for that purpose.
Chapter 276, Statutes of 2006
AB 2359 (Oropeza-D) Radiation technology
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop an ionizing radiation awareness section on its web site that includes a downloadable x-ray record card.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2364 (De La Torre-D) Personal information
Repeals a section of the Health and Safety Code which established an advisory committee to obtain information on statewide Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act implementation activities.
(Died on Senate Floor)
AB 2408 (Negrete McLeod-D) Pharmacies
Recasts various provisions of the Pharmacy Law for purposes of clarifying and updating the duties a pharmacist can perform, and makes other technical changes.
Chapter 777, Statutes of 2006
AB 2583 (Nation-D) Dispensing prescription drugs and devices: refusal
Requires the Board of Pharmacy to include, within an existing consumer notice, a statement that describes a patients right to timely access to prescribed drugs and devices, even if a pharmacist refuses to dispense based on ethical, moral, or religious grounds.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2006
AB 2667 (Baca-D) Health care providers and insurers: considerations
Permits the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Department of Health Services, and requires the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance, when contracting with certain entities for the provision of health care benefits or services, to consider various specified factors, including the entities' history of providing, or arranging to provide, health care services or benefits including services or benefits under the Medicare or Medicaid program.
Chapter 758, Statutes of 2006
AB 2720 (Spitzer-R) Radiologic technology
Makes changes to existing law relating to nuclear medicine technologists and diagnostic radiologic technologists when operating a positron emission tomography scan.
Chapter 220, Statutes of 2006
AB 2743 (Matthews-D) Pharmacists: ancillary personnel
Prohibits a pharmacy from employing more than eight ancillary personnel, as defined, per pharmacist. Gives a pharmacist discretion as to how many personnel he/she supervises, subject to the limits of existing law.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2760 (Torrico-D) Veterinary medicine: licensure
Provides that the Veterinary Medical Board is required to waive the examination requirements and issue a temporary license to an applicant to practice veterinary medicine under the supervision of another licensed California veterinarian in good standing if, among other things, the applicant holds a current valid license in good standing in another state, Canadian province, or United States territory and has practiced clinical veterinary medicine for an unspecified minimum number of years full time within the five years immediately preceding filing an application for licensure in this state.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2821 (Huff-R) California Asian Medicine Board
Changes the name of the California Acupuncture Board to the California Asian Medicine Board and makes technical and conforming changes.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 2856 (Hancock-D) Informed consent: prescription medication off-label use
Requires a physician and surgeon to obtain informed consent from a patient before prescribing, administering, or furnishing a prescription medication for an off-label use. Specifies information that a physician and surgeon is required to provide in order to obtain the patient's informed consent.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2868 (Bogh-R) Physical therapists
Permits physical therapists to use the title "doctor" in written or verbal communications if the physical therapist has received a doctoral degree in physical therapy.
Chapter 222, Statutes of 2006
AB 2915 (Saldana-D) Veterinary medicine: licensure
Exempts from state veterinary licensure requirements veterinarians employed by local government that meet specified conditions, and provides that the exemption will sunset January 1, 2011.
Chapter 823, Statutes of 2006
AB 2984 (Maze-R) Vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians
Prohibits any state agency other than the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, or any private entity, from defining or interpreting the practice of, or developing procedures or protocols for, vocational nursing or psychiatric technicians.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 3013 (Koretz-D) Medical information: disclosures
Amends the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to better conform to confidentiality provisions of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Preserves the ability of general acute care hospitals to make specified disclosures.
Chapter 833, Statutes of 2006
AB 3014 (Koretz-D) Acupuncture: Asian massage
Defines "Asian massage" as the use of pressure techniques, including myofascial release and manual therapy, through massage and mobilization of skin and muscle for the therapeutic objective of stimulation of proper body function, so long as these techniques are consistent with an acupuncturist's training.
Vetoed by the Governor
A similar bill was AB 1549 (Koretz-D) which died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee.
AB 3071 (Chan-D) Dental disease prevention programs
Makes changes to existing provisions affecting the community dental disease prevention programs.
(Died at the Senate Desk)
Foster Care
SB 380 (Alquist-D) Foster care: residentially based services: group homes
Requires the State Interagency Team for Children and Youth, within the Health and Human Services Agency, to develop a plan for transforming the current system of group care for foster children or youth and for children with serious emotional disorders into a system of residentially based services. Requires that the plan contain specified elements, including elements relating to the services required to be offered by residentially based programs, administrative oversight of programs, the placement and assessment of children and youth in those programs, the use of available funding, agreements to test alternative program design and funding models, and the issuance by the Department of Social Services of waivers with respect to regulatory provisions to implement those agreements. Requires that the plan be submitted to the Legislature by July 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 1289 (Cedillo-D) Foster children: continuing aid and transitional services
Allows foster children receiving AFDC-FC to continue to receive aid after age 18 until age 21 if they are attending high school, university or community college or vocational or technical training.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1570 (Alquist-D) Foster care: residentially based services: group homes
Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to develop a plan by 2008, to transition the current system of independent group care for foster children into a system of residentially based services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1576 (Murray-D) Foster care: transitional housing
Eliminates the county share of the cost for transitional housing services for former foster youth between the ages of 18 and 24 subject to funding in the Budget.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1641 (Soto-D) Foster care providers
Requires the Director of the Department of Social Services (DSS) to report to the Legislature, during the 2007-08 budget hearings, on the progress of DSS' residential regulation review group.
Chapter 388, Statutes of 2006
SB 1667 (Kuehl-D) Dependent children
Facilitates foster parent involvement in dependency review hearings by requiring social workers to serve a copy of the Judicial Council Caregiver Information Form and instructions on how to file the form, along with a summary of recommendations regarding the foster child.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2006
SB 1688 (Bowen-D) Foster care: instruction and education pilot project
Requires the Department of Social Services to create an educational pilot project for foster parents and foster children.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SCR 116 (Cedillo-D) Foster care
Proclaims May as Foster Care Month and May 2, 2006, as a special day of recognition to honor the teams that work to change a lifetime for children and youth in foster care.
Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2006
AB 628 (Strickland-R) Foster care givers
Specifies that a foster youth's religious or moral objection to the initial or continued placement in a foster home shall not render the provider ineligible to provide care to any other foster youth and states the intent of the Legislature to prohibit discrimination by a foster care provider to a foster youth based on the religious faith or denomination of the foster youth.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1402 (McCarthy-R) Community care facilities
Authorizes persons licensed to provide residential foster care to a ward of the court to petition the juvenile court to order a placement agency to develop a plan on how to provide the child with greater supervision. Requires the placement agency, if so ordered by the court, to submit the plan to the court for approval, and permits the court, upon approving the plan, to require the placement agency to place the child in accordance with the plan.
(Died in Senate Rules 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1808* (Assembly Budget Committee) Human services trailer bill
Enacts the human services budget trailer bill, which among other provisions, expands the foster youth services program allowing for funding to provide higher education scholarships, creating a pilot program for the adoption of other foster youth and creates the Kin-GAP Plus program.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006
AB 1955 (Leslie-R) Community care facilities: foster homes: investigations
Outlines specific procedures that must be followed in the process of investigating a complaint by a foster child against a foster family.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1983 (Bass-D) Foster care
Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a workgroup of stakeholders, including county welfare directors, mental health and health organizations, local housing agencies, and employer and employee unions to identify services that are most useful to former foster youth and to make recommendations to improve outreach efforts to those youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2031 (Cohn-D) Dependent children
Requires the Department of Social Services to work with stakeholders to draft best practices guidelines for using advanced technology to assist counties in identifying all relatives and non-relative extended family members for foster children.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2194 (Bass-D) Independent Living Program
Expands eligibility for the Independent Living Program services to foster care youth with non-relative guardians and foster youth over 14 years of age.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2195 (Bass-D) Foster caregivers: placement options
Establishes procedures for emergency assessment and approval of relatives or non-relative extended family members as caregivers when the primary foster caregiver becomes unable to provide care.
Chapter 383, Statutes of 2006
AB 2216 (Bass-D) Child Welfare Leadership and Performance Accountability Act
Creates the California Child Welfare Council to improve outcomes for foster youth.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2006
AB 2284 (Jones-D) Public health: foster children
Requires foster children to receive specified health and dental assessments and requires the Department of Health Services to extend Medi-Cal benefits to certain foster care adolescents to age 21.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2481 (Evans-D) Foster care
Increases grant payments for foster family home providers and provides funding for the recruitment and retention of foster parents and adoptive parents.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2489 (Leno-D) Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act
Enacts the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2006.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2985 (Maze-R) Foster youth: identity theft
Requires a county welfare department to request a consumer credit disclosure on a foster youth turning 16, and to refer that foster youth to a credit counseling organization upon any indication of a disclosure revealing negative items or evidence of identity theft.
Chapter 387, Statutes of 2006
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.
Resolution Chapter 150, Statutes of 2006
Public Social Services
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
Chapter 838, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 1130* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Human services
Corrects technical, grammatical, and drafting errors in the health and human services statutory provisions adopted as part of the 2006 Budget package.
Chapter 528, Statutes of 2006
SB 1212 (Torlakson-D) Continuing care retirement communities: requirements
Makes changes to rules governing Continuing Care Retirement Communities involving disclosure of reserves, transfer procedures, and escrow deposits for new construction.
Chapter 529, Statutes of 2006
SB 1214 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Community services programs
Permits the policy committees of either house of the Legislature to hold hearings on the state community action plan proposing use and distribution of funds provided under the California Community Services Block Grant Program.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2006
SB 1267 (Cedillo-D) Office of Immigrant Affairs
Establishes the Office of Immigrant Affairs within the Department of Community Services and Development to facilitate the integration and civic participation of new citizens in the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1287 (Ducheny-D) Local Revenue Fund: Social Services and Caseload Subaccounts
Requires the Welfare Policy Research Project of the University of California to work with the Legislative Analyst, the Department of Finance, and the Department of Social Services to convene a symposium for legislators, legislative staff and interested stakeholders to explore a series of issues surrounding the 1991 program realignment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1335 (Soto-D) Licensed community care facilities: licensing inspections
Requires the Department of Social Services to conduct annual unannounced licensing inspections of all residential facilities for children, including group homes and foster family homes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1376 (Chesbro-D) Community Services Block Grant Program: funding
Amends the funding formula for community service block grants, establishing a base funding and allocation procedures for achieving that base.
Chapter 807, Statutes of 2006
SB 1421 (Margett-R) Child care: CalWORKs recipients: fraud
Requires the Department of Education to establish a two-year pilot project in Los Angeles County to identify, investigate, and seek the prosecution fraud by recipients of Stage 2 and 3 child care services under CalWORKs. Requires the department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney and Department of Public Social Services to develop a project plan no later than August 1, 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1435 (Ortiz-D) IHSS pilot project: eligibility: purchase of service
Requires the Department of Social Service to conduct a pilot project to study the expansion of In-Home Supportive Services to consumers not currently financially eligible for these services.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1534 (Ortiz-D) Public benefits
Permits a city, county, city and county, or hospital district to, at its discretion, provide aid, including health care, to persons who, but for Section 411 of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, would meet eligibility requirements for any program of that entity.
Chapter 801, Statutes of 2006
SB 1569 (Kuehl-D) Human services: immigrants
Extends eligibility for state and local public benefits, Medi-Cal health care and refugee cash assistance and employment services, to noncitizen victims of trafficking, domestic violence and other serious crimes, to the same extent as available to individuals admitted to the United States as refugees.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2006
SB 1616 (Kuehl-D) Juveniles: incarceration: Medi-Cal: SSI: SSDI
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to work with the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health Services to ensure that disabled wards are enrolled in Medi-Cal and that their disability benefits are available to them when they are released from incarceration at a state institution.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1660 (Romero-D) In-Home Supportive Services: provider wage and benefit
Establishes state participation in wages and benefits for In-Home Supportive Services at $12.10 per hour.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1667 (Kuehl-D) Dependent children
Seeks to facilitate foster parent involvement in dependency review hearings by requiring social workers to serve a copy of the Judicial Council Caregiver Information Form and instructions on how to file the form along with a summary of recommendations regarding the foster child. Authorizes foster parents and other individuals to attend and provide written evidence in post permanency planning hearings.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2006
SB 1825 (Migden-D) CalWORKs
Broadens the definition of "enrolled" for the purpose of "self-initiated programs" under California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids to include persons who have submitted a timely application to a qualifying program and are awaiting acceptance.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 503 (Lieber-D) CalWORKs: bill of rights
Enacts the omnibus California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program reform bill.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 930 (De La Torre-D) Naturalization services program
Seeks to establish a comprehensive, coordinated, accessible and accountable naturalization and civic participation program.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1258* (Daucher-R) Adult day health care
Makes various changes to the Adult Day Health Center Program.
(Died 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 and food stamps.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
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 1774* (Assembly Human Services Committee) Child welfare services: criminal record checks
Makes technical changes relating to background checks for child placement purposes, including securing a California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System check through an appropriate governmental criminal justice agency to assess the appropriateness and safety of placing a child in the approved home of a relative.
Chapter 726, Statutes of 2006
AB 1808* (Assembly Budget Committee) Human services: budget trailer bill
Establishes a $98 million Child Welfare Improvement Fund, implements major changes to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility for Kids program (CalWORKS), allows the federal Supplemental Security Income cost-of-living adjustment to be passed through three months earlier on January 1, 2007, codifies the Naturalization Service program and requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to present to the Legislature a plan for the prevention of methamphetamine use in 2007 and 2008, and creates the Substance Abuse Offender Treatment Program.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006
AB 1812* (Assembly Budget Committee) Child registries: budget trailer bill
Makes necessary technical changes to the Budget Act of 2006 which were inadvertently omitted in the Budget, which among other provisions, provides clarifying language that expenditures related to substitute child registries shall not exceed the amount of revenue collection from an administration fee charged for them.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 2006
AB 1859 (Leslie-R) Placer County integrated health and human services
Provides a sunset extension to the Placer County pilot program created to integrate the funding and delivery of services and benefits for the county health and human services system.
Chapter 268, Statutes of 2006
AB 1861 (Shirley Horton-R) Aging programs
Allows area agencies on Aging to continue contracts in the Linkages Program and the Alzheimer's Day Care-Resource Center Program without competitive bidding under specified circumstances.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1876 (Leslie-R) Placer County Foster Youth Welfare Act of 2006
Creates a pilot program to promote the use of faith-based institutions to increase permanency solutions for at-risk foster youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1928* (Berg-D) Area agencies on aging and independent living centers
Continuously appropriates federal funds necessary to pay Area Agencies on Aging and independent living centers in the event of a late state budget.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1982 (Coto-D) Public benefits
Permits a city, county, city and county, or hospital district to, at its discretion, provide aid, including health care, to persons who, but for Section 411 of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2014 (Berg-D) Programs for the seniors and independent adults
Establishes a new, single department whose mission it is to coordinate and promote programs that enable older adults and adults with disabilities to remain in their own homes and communities for as long as practicably possible.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
AB 2060 (De La Torre-D) Naturalization services
Establishes the Naturalization Services Program that is to be administered within the Department of Community Services and Development.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2006
AB 2192 (Bass-D) CalWORKs
Permits persons convicted of felony crimes involving use or possession of drugs to qualify for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids under specified circumstances.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2193 (Hancock-D) Developmental services: direct-care workers
Creates the Bay Area Regional Center Workforce Enhancement Pilot Program.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2205 (Evans-D) Food Stamp Program: categorical eligibility
Requires the Department of Social Services to establish categorical eligibility for food stamp benefits for Medi-Cal recipients who are eligible for services funded by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2466 (Daucher-R) CalWORKs eligibility: welfare-to-work activities
Excludes specified retirement and college savings accounts as countable resources for purposes of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids eligibility and includes financial counseling as a job readiness welfare-to-work activity.
Chapter 781, Statutes of 2006
AB 2469 (Evans-D) In-home supportive services and personal care option
Allows eligible counties to request advanced payments from the Sales Tax Growth Account to fund in-home supportive services program expansion.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2471 (Wyland-R) Aliens: costs of providing public benefits
Requires the Legislative Analyst to conduct a study to determine the cost to the state of providing education, health care, unemployment benefits, social services, and incarceration for undocumented immigrants, and makes legislative findings about the fiscal effects of illegal immigration.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2474 (Villines-R) National Guard
Continuously appropriates $100,000 from the General Fund to the Military Department for the purpose of funding the youth program under the Operation Ready Families Program.
(Died in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)
AB 2486 (Ridley-Thomas-D) In-home supportive services: criminal background checks
Authorizes criminal background checks of newly-hired In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) employees and prohibits assessment of the costs of those checks to IHSS workers or consumers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2494 (Ridley-Thomas-D) In-home supportive services: provider training
Provides for the paid training of In-Home Supportive Services workers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2508 (Haynes-R) Illegal immigration: emergencies
Adds "illegal immigration" to the listed events defined in the California Emergency Services Act.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2556 (Jones-D) Social services: childhood poverty
Declares a legislative goal of halving child poverty by January 1, 2016, and eliminating it by January 1, 2026.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2611 (Spitzer-R) Day care homes
Expresses intent to implement recommendations of the State Auditor regarding oversight of licensed child care facilities.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 2649 (Bass-D) Kinship support services
Expands the Kinship Supportive Services Program by deleting the current requirement that a county have 40 percent of its dependent children placed with relatives prior to participating in the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2663 (Arambula-D) Public social services and health programs: funding
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study of state allocations to counties for health and social services programs.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2697* (Garcia-R) In-home supportive services
Requires the Department of Social Services to absorb the costs of developing and implementing an In-home supportive services provider direct deposit system.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2920 (Leno-D) Seniors
Requires the Department of Aging to ensure equal access to programs and services funded through the Older Americans Act, and that all programs administered by the department and the Area Agencies on Aging account for the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender elders.
Chapter 829, Statutes of 2006
AB 2932 (Chan-D) California Children and Families Program
Lists three existing statutes that must be covered by the policies adopted by a county children and families commission regarding the commission members' conflicts of interest, including the Political Reform Act. Lists four existing statutes that must be covered by a commission's policies for contracting and procurement.
Chapter 111, Statutes of 2006
AB 2961 (Nunez-D) CalWORKs: nonrecurring special needs: homeless assistance
Expands shelter and rental assistance to homeless California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) families and creates a work support program for families needing housing stability to find or retain employment.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 3029 (Laird-D) Public social services: CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program
Requires semiannual redeterminations of eligibility and benefit amounts for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids and food stamp programs based upon semi-annual reports of recipient households.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
AB 3040 (La Malfa-R) IHSS providers: fingerprint and criminal background check
Provides that a person shall not be eligible to provide supportive services unless he/she has first secured a criminal record check from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine if he/she has been convicted of any of the above crimes in the previous 10 years, and has submitted that information to the Department of Social Services. Requires the applicant to submit a set of fingerprints to the DOJ for these purposes, and requires DOJ to charge a fee to the applicant to cover the costs of administering these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 3048 (Dymally-D) Public social services: assistance during appointments
Authorizes In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers to be compensated for providing assistance to IHSS consumers while at medical appointments.
Vetoed by the Governor
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 144 (Runner-R) Retail food
Repeals and reenacts the existing California Uniform Retail Food Facilities Law as the California Retail Food Code, including substantive changes, effective July 1, 2007.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2006
SB 156 (Soto-D) Public safety: firefighting
Requires the State Fire Marshal to contract with the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to develop curriculum criteria based on the recommendations made by the Emergency Response Training Advisory Committee, including training firefighters in their responsibilities as first responders to terrorism incidents.
Chapter 803, Statutes of 2006
SB 162 (Ortiz-D) Department of Public Health
Enacts the California Public Health Act of 2006 and requires the act to become operative on July 1, 2007.
Chapter 241, Statutes of 2006
SB 163 (Scott-D) Pharmaceutical information: clinical trial data
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to make information about clinical trials publicly available on the federal clinical trials database for every drug they sell in California.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 187 (Soto-D) Drinking water: contaminants
Authorizes the Department of Health Services to consider, to the extent information is available, in determining economic feasibility, the potential affects on human health that may result from the adoption of a primary drinking water standard that is less stringent than the public health goal. Requires the department's analysis of technological and economic feasibility to be made available to the public along with the draft regulation for review and comment. Requires the department and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to make available to the public any documentation used to adopt primary drinking water standards or public health goals. Authorizes the department or office to review and consider the primary drinking water standards and public health goals adopted by other states, provided those standards and levels are not less stringent than existing state law.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 246 (Figueroa-D) Human milk
Requires a hospital that collects, processes, stores, or distributes human milk collected from a mother exclusively for her own child to comply with the most current standards established for the collection, processing, storage, or distribution of human milk by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America until or unless the Department of Health Services approves alternative standards.
Chapter 480, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 409* (Kehoe-D) Emergency health care services: appropriations
Appropriates $5,451,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Health Services and $1,622,000 to the Emergency Medical Services Authority for the 2005-06 fiscal year, for specified public health purposes.
Chapter 26, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 458 (Speier-D) Health care: county organized health systems
Permits county operated health systems (COHSs) to offer coverage to public agencies, private businesses, and others in the COHS' county of origin, another county, or both.
Chapter 906, Statutes of 2006
SB 475 (Runner-R) Drinking water: residential self-regenerating water softener
Establishes a process by which the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District, upon voter approval of an ordinance adopted by the district board to do so, may require the removal of all residential water softening or conditioning appliances that discharge to the public sewer system, in an effort to reduce the volume of chloride discharged to the Santa Clara River.
Chapter 393, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 603 (Ortiz-D) Law enforcement: anti-reproductive rights crimes
Requires the Commission on the Status of Women to convene an advisory committee that would be responsible for reporting, as specified, to the Legislature and specified agencies on the implementation of the Reproductive Rights Law Enforcement Act and the effectiveness of the plan developed by the Attorney General.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2006
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 Class I or Class II recall by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 849 (Escutia-D) Environmental health data tracking
Requires the Department of Health Services and the California Environmental Protection Agency to establish the Interagency Office of Environmental Health Tracking.
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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 955 (Soto-D) Public safety: firefighting
Requires the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to purchase 150 additional multiple discipline response engines to be used to respond to terrorist acts, fires, floods, earthquakes, or other disasters, and assign them to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and local agencies, as specified. Appropriates $25 million to OES from the Federal Trust Fund from previously unallocated funds, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1137* (Ducheny-D) Drug treatment
Makes several changes to the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, also known by its ballot initiative designation, Proposition 36.
Chapter 63, Statutes of 2006
SB 1168 (Chesbro-D) Rural Health Care Equity Program
Extends the Rural Health Care Equity Trust Fund to fund increased health care benefits to subsidize and provide reimbursements for premium costs, deductibles, co-payments, and other out-of-pocket health care costs incurred by state employees and annuitants living in rural areas.
Chapter 642, Statutes of 2006
SB 1246 (Cox-R) Vehicles: authorized emergency vehicles
Allows the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol to issue an emergency vehicle permit for a vehicle operated by specified county emergency medical services personnel of a county with a population of 15,000 or fewer.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1272 (Bowen-D) Advanced health care directives
Changes the state's Advanced Health Care Directive Registry from a paper-based to an electronic, web-based system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1277 (Alquist-D) Emergency services and care: reimbursement
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop, contract for development, or adopt a single fee schedule to establish a uniform, reasonable, level of reimbursement programs operated by the department pursuant to the Emergency Medical Services Appropriation Contract Back Program.
Chapter 398, Statutes of 2006
SB 1329 (Alquist-D) Community development: healthy food choices
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, until January 1, 2010, in partnership with the Department of Health Services, and to the extent funds are appropriated, to establish the "Healthy Food Retailing Initiative" to provide residents of underserved communities with retail food markets that offer high quality fruit and vegetables.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1338 (Alquist-D) California Health Care Infrastructure Authority
Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to establish and operate the California Health Care Infrastructure Program to improve the quality of health care in California and to reduce the cost of health care through the advancement of health information technology.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1339 (Romero-D) Emergency medical services
Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to create a working group to design a study to assess the adequacy of the state's emergency and trauma care system. Contingent upon Emergency Medical Services Authority receiving private funds.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1350 (Romero-D) Trauma care funding: regional funding allocations
Requires there be a statewide inclusive trauma system with the Emergency Medical Services Authority as the lead agency responsible for the statewide trauma care system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1379 (Perata-D) Biomonitoring
Establishes the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2006
SB 1394 (Florez-D) Health care: Kern Health Systems
Requires the Department of Managed Health Care to evaluate, by June 1, 2007, Kern Health Systems based on specified factors.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1430 (Alquist-D) The Local Pandemic and Emergency Health Preparedness Act
Permits the Director of the Department of Health Services to declare a health emergency and the local health officer to declare a local health emergency in the jurisdiction in specified instances and permits a local health officer to issue an order to first responders for the purpose of immediately isolating exposed individuals in specified instances and with specified limitations.
Chapter 874, Statutes of 2006
SB 1500 (Speier-D) Drug programs
Establishes the Methamphetamine Deterrence Program which requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to develop and implement a statewide prevention campaign to deter the abuse of methamphetamine in California.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 2006
SB 1522* (Aanestad-R) Diesel Fuel Tax Law: emergency services providers
Exempts local emergency services providers from payment of diesel fuel excise taxes, makes related conforming changes, and takes effect immediately as a tax levy.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1532 (Bowen-D) Household substances: packaging
Adds empty packages used for household products to the definition of "package" under the California Poison Prevention Packaging Act.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1534 (Ortiz-D) Public benefits
Permits a city, county, city and county, or hospital district to, at its discretion, provide aid, including health care, to persons who, but for Section 411 of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, would meet eligibility requirements for any program of that entity.
Chapter 801, Statutes of 2006
SB 1555 (Speier-D) Umbilical cord blood banking: education: prenatal screening
Requires the Department of Health Services to expand prenatal screening, and increases prenatal screening fees by $50, $10 of which to support pregnancy blood activities of the Birth Defects Monitoring Program and $40 of which to expand prenatal screening to include all tests that meet or exceed the current standard of care as recommended by national recognized medical or genetic organizations, including but not limited to, inhibin (Inhibin-A is elevated in the blood serum of women carrying fetuses with Down syndrome).
Chapter 484, Statutes of 2006
SB 1578 (Lowenthal-D) Dogs: tethering prohibition
Establishes the tethering of a dog to a stationary object, except as specified, as an infraction or misdemeanor, depending on the offense, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 per dog and/or up to six months in a county jail.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2006
SB 1668 (Bowen-D) Child death: review teams
Provides that records exempt from disclosure to third parties pursuant to state or federal law remain exempt, with specified guidelines, from disclosure when they are in the possession of a child death review team (CDRT). Requires that CDRTs make available to the public, no less than once each year, findings, conclusions and recommendations of the CDRT, including specified data.
Chapter 813, Statutes of 2006
SB 1672 (Maldonado-R) Public health: health care technology systems: loans
Requires the California Health Facilities Financing Agency to establish a low-interest loan program to provide financing for the costs of health care information technology systems for health institutions, facilities and providers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1683 (Scott-D) Pharmaceutical information: clinical trial data
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to register all advanced clinical trials and to publish the results of advanced trials for every medicine the company sells in California.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1691* (Runner-R) California State Pharmacy Assistance Program
Establishes the California State Pharmacy Assistance Program within the Department of Health Services to provide discount prescription drugs for low-income uninsured Californians.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1720 (Chesbro-D) Armed Forces: uranium screening
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or their designees, to assist any veterans returning to California in obtaining a best practice health screening for exposure to depleted uranium, and to develop a plan for outreach to eligible members and veterans, regarding depleted uranium.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2006
SB 1746 (Runner-R) Health care reporting: public access
Requires the Department of Health Services to convene a commission to conduct a study regarding specified aspects of reporting information to the department and various aspects of making the information available to the public. Requires the commission, on or before January 1, 2009, to submit a report of the findings in the study and recommendations to the chair and vice chair of the Senate and Assembly Health Committees.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1759 (Ashburn-R) Health: background checks: fees: inspections
Makes a number of revisions to criminal clearance provisions for departments under the jurisdiction of the California Health and Human Services Agency including the Department of Health Services and the Department of Social Services with regard to clearance requirements before work.
Chapter 902, Statutes of 2006
SB 1763 (Figueroa-D) Pharmaceuticals: compulsory licensing
Gives the Governor explicit authorization, when a state of emergency is declared, to issue a compulsory license of pharmaceuticals, directs the Department of Health Services to establish a process by which any person affected by the compulsory license may appeal, authorizes the department to issue a license for the manufacture of the pharmaceutical drug, and provides that just compensation would be given to the property owner.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1772 (Ashburn-R) Public health: vended water
Makes changes to the regulation of water vending machines.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
SB 1785* (Figueroa-D) Human milk
Establishes hospital standards for the processing of human milk and exempts hospitals which process milk from a mother for the exclusive use of her own child from the licensure requirements of a tissue bank.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1822 (Bowen-D) Organ, tissue, and bone marrow donor programs: task force
Requires the Governor to appoint a task force to analyze the state's current efforts to educate and recruit individuals to become organ, tissue, or bone marrow donors. Includes in the membership of the task force representatives from the Department of Health Services, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Social Services, Donate Life California, and other experts in organ and marrow transplant services. Requires the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on July 1, 2008, and include a recommendation on how to overcome cultural, linguistic, religious, social, and economic barriers to increase participation in organ donation.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1850 (Assembly Health Committee) Health care: training: reporting
Makes numerous technical and clarifying changes to health facility data reporting laws administered by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and renames the Song-Brown Family Physician Training program.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2006
SCR 73 (Torlakson-D) California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness
Continues the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness, sets forth its membership and duties, provides that it shall conduct business on a volunteer basis, permits it to accept private funds and in-kind donations, requires it to submit a report to the Legislature by June 30, 2008, and provides that it will expire on July 1, 2010.
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2006
SCR 86 (Alquist-D) Assisted Living Week
Proclaims the week of September 10 to September 16, 2006 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 120, Statutes of 2006
SCR 87 (Alquist-D) Health Care Decisions Week
Recognizes October 30 through November 5, 2006 as Health Care Decisions Week in California, and encourages Californians to think about and talk with loved ones about their wishes for medical care.
Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2006
SCR 90 (Torlakson-D) 10 Steps to a Healthy California
Expresses the California Legislature's support for the 10 Steps to a Healthy California and recognizes the ability of the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness to help the state serve as a role model for increased physical activity and improved nutrition and wellness. Makes legislative findings and declarations on the importance of physical activity and healthy eating among children.
Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2006
SCR 105 (Torlakson-D) California Fitness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2006 as California Fitness Month, and encourages all Californians to enrich their lives through proper diet and exercise.
Resolution Chapter 46, Statutes of 2006
SCR 131 (Denham-R) Children's Vision and Learning Month
Encourages parents, educators, school nurses, and concerned adults to celebrate Children's Vision and Learning Month, August 2006, by recognizing the role good vision plays in learning.
Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died on Senate Inactive 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.
(Died in Senate Agriculture Committee)
SJR 25 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements and pharmaceutical drugs
Urges the United States Trade Representative to clarify in a legally binding manner that provisions relative to pharmaceuticals and health care in the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement and other pending free trade agreements do not constrain state administration of federal health care programs.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SJR 28 (Figueroa-D) International trade agreements: public health services
Memorializes Congress and the President of the United States to ensure that international trade agreements preserve the traditional powers of state and local governments to regulate and protect public health.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SJR 29 (Kehoe-D) Homeland Security: California
Calls upon the United States Department of Homeland Security to revisit its calculation of risk for the San Diego and Sacramento areas to ensure their inclusion in future Urban Area Security Initiative grant programs.
Resolution Chapter 78, Statutes of 2006
SR 18 (Romero-D) Baby Bill of Rights
Finds that babies' brains grow most rapidly and are the most vulnerable during the first months and years of life, and that babies are fully dependent on their caregivers for all aspects of nourishment and security, and that a baby's rights are the responsibility of parents, family, community, business, and elected representatives.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SR 26 (Perata-D) National Biological Foundry
Extends its appreciation and commendations to the national laboratory partnership of Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for their outstanding and exemplary plan for bringing the National Biological Foundry to California, and for their diligent and devoted service to, and continued concern for, the people of the State of California and the nation.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 34 (Figueroa-D) Pain Awareness Month
Recognizes the month of September 2006 as Pain Awareness Month, and calls upon all Californians to observe this month by participating in appropriate ceremonies and activities and by learning how to improve the quality of life for people in California suffering from pain.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 71 (Chan-D) Drug Safety and Effectiveness Program
Asks the University of California to establish a program for the evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs in this state and to make its findings available to the public and medical community.
(Died on Senate Floor)
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.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 74 (Frommer-D) Butte County Healthy Communities Fund
Establishes the Butte County Healthy Communities Fund, into which would be deposited specified state and federal money that would otherwise be payable to the county for various public service purposes. Requires the State Controller to appoint a temporary administrator to disburse the money in the fund in accordance with existing law and regulation. Becomes inoperative and is repealed when the Attorney General executes a declaration stating that sufficient evidence exists to indicate that the first and foremost goal of the board of supervisors and the chief administrative officer of Butte County is to build and sustain healthy communities.
(Died in Senate Rules 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
AB 245* (Walters-R) Trinity County Health Care District: election
Requires the first board of directors of a health care district formed in Trinity County to be elected to staggered terms.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 298* (Berg-D) Personal income tax: credit: caregivers
Extends the sunset date for the existing credit for caregivers.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 319 (Chan-D) Phthalates and bisphenol-A in children's products
Prohibits, starting January 1, 2007, the manufacture, sale, or distribution of products containing specified compounds and restricts manufacturers options when replacing those compounds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 389 (Arambula-D) Swimming pool safety
Authorizes and encourages the Department of Health Services to produce and place on its web site a document explaining the child drowning hazards of home swimming pools and spas, safety measures and drowning hazard prevention measures if such a document has not been donated to the department, or if the department has not approved a donated document.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 569* (Garcia-R) Pupil nutrition: school meals
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study on or before March 31, 2007, regarding the feasibility of providing breakfasts at schools that meet the requirements for the federal severe need reimbursement and to report the results of the study to the Legislature on or before April 30, 2007.
Chapter 702, Statutes of 2006
AB 576 (Wolk-D) Immunizations
Makes changes to the statute authorizing the California State Immunization Information System.
Chapter 329, Statutes of 2006
AB 586 (Negrete McLeod-D) Medical disaster mobilization
Authorizes the designation of a Medical/Health Operational Area Coordinator in each operational area for regional disaster medical/health coordinators and others in the event of a local, state, or federal emergency. Identifies functions that should be included in a medical and health disaster plan and requires by June 30, 2008, the Department of Health Services, the Office of Emergency Services, and the Emergency Medical Services Authority to adopt regulations and guidelines to evaluate and carry out activities relating to disaster medical and health preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation.
Chapter 703, Statutes of 2006
AB 615 (Vargas-D) Hearing aids: over-the-counter sales
Authorizes the over-the-counter sale of hearing aid devices.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 631 (Leno-D) Narcotic treatment programs: mobile service units
Creates a licensing category for mobile narcotic treatment programs.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2006
AB 651 (Berg-D) California Compassionate Choices Act
Establishes a procedure for a competent adult person who is terminally ill and expected to die within six months to obtain from his/her physician a prescription for medication that he/she may self-administer in order to end his/her life.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 699 (Chan-D) Vaccines: influenza
Requires manufacturers or distributors of the influenza vaccine, or a nonprofit health care service plan that exclusively contracts with a single medical group in a specified geographic area to provide or arrange for the provision of medical services to its enrollees, to report specified information to the Department of Health Services upon request.
Chapter 589, Statutes of 2006
AB 811 (Matthews-D) California Health and Human Services Agency
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 864 (Levine-D) Type 2 diabetes mellitus: pupil screening
Extends the sunset of a Type 2 diabetes mellitus pilot program from January 1, 2008 until 2010.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
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.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 914 (Cogdill-R) Authorized emergency vehicles
Modifies provisions concerning vehicles used by privately owned ambulance operators.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 1062 (Saldana-D) Medical experimentation: biomonitoring research consent
Expands disclosures to, and rights of, subjects of biomonitoring experimentation.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1105 (Mullin-D) Food establishments: toilet facilities
Requires any food establishment required to provide toilet facilities, with three or more locations, to provide a baby changing table within or adjacent to all restroom facilities intended for public use. Excludes locations where, if determined by the local health inspector, the addition of a baby changing station would place the food establishment out of compliance with local, state or federal disability laws.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1112 (Cohn-D) Pupil nutrition: California Fresh Start Pilot Program
Allows persons with disabled parking placards to park in state or local parking facilities not otherwise open to the general public under certain conditions.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1144 (Harman-R) Playground safety standards
Sunsets state standards on playground safety by January 1, 2008.
Chapter 470, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1382 (Nakanishi-R) Prescription lenses
States legislative findings and intent regarding the inappropriate sale and use of plano (cosmetic) contact lenses, recasts the definition of prescription ophthalmic devices, establishes as a deceptive practice the representation by any means that a plano contact lens, as defined, may be lawfully obtained without an eye examination or confirmed valid prescription, and, makes technical, clarifying and conforming changes.
Chapter 148, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 1405 (Evans-D) State Fire Marshal
Requires, commencing July 1, 2007, a report of the State Fire Marshal (SFM) to include a comparison of response time and staffing performance objectives specified in Standard 1710 of the National Fire Protection Association (2001 Edition), as well as other specified information, states legislative intent that the SFM continue to accept the reported data as required by these amendments in a format that is compatible with the National Fire Incident Reporting System established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and grants the SFM the option to make the report available on the SFM's web site.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1433 (Emmerson-R) Pupil health: oral health assessment
Requires a pupil attending a public school while in kindergarten or first grade to present proof by May 31st of each year of having received an oral health assessment by a licensed dentist or other licensed or registered dental health professional no earlier than 12 months prior to the date of the initial enrollment. Requires public schools to send a notification of the assessment requirement to the parent or guardian of the pupil, as specified, and to send a report, as specified, to the public health department of the county in which the school is located.
Chapter 413, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1664* (De La Torre-D) Fireworks
Increases fines for illegal fireworks violations.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1667 (Saldana-D) Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs
Permits specified individuals who require specialized physical health care services during the regular school day at the school site to be assisted by specified persons.
Chapter 414, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1689 (Lieber-D) EPSDT services
Establishes a statewide protocol for foster children who receive mental health services through Medi-Cal and requires the Department of Mental Health to establish a provider certification process and adopt a dispute resolution process.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1807* (Assembly Budget Committee) Health programs
Omnibus health trailer bill for the Budget Act of 2006, which among other provisions, provides for the Department of Health Services to expand the existing newborn screening program to include screening for cystic fibrosis and biotinidase; provides for fee adjustments as directed by the Governor concerning medical device manufacturing, radiological material, and medical waste; makes statutory changes to continue for 2006-07 a deferral of $20.2 million in General Fund support for the County Medical Services Program; codifies the existing practice used by the Department of Health Services to reimburse for hearing aids and related equipment prices, and hearing aid repair; makes change in podiatric services; provides that local registrars and county recorders cannot provide informational copies of birth certificates and death certificates unless the source of the issuance is the statewide database prepared by the State Registrar; and requires the Health and Human Services Agency to report to the Legislature, on a quarterly basis, on progress made regarding public health, emergency preparedness, including the expenditure of funds on preparation for any pandemic influenza outbreak.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2006
AB 1873 (Torrico-D) Child protection: safe surrender
Allows the safe surrender of a baby up to 30 days old, rather than 72 hours, under the Safely Surrendered Baby program, permits a fire agency to designate a safe surrender site, upon approval of the local governing body, and specifies that a safe surrender site and its personnel have no liability for a surrendered child prior to taking actual physical custody of the child.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1888 (Dymally-D) University of California: obesity and diabetes
Requests the Regents of the University of California to establish and administer an Institute for the Phenomenon of Obesity and Diabetes Experimental Research at the University of California, Irvine, in coordination with the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, to promote and conduct basic science research on obesity and diabetes, and to develop effective education and treatments.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1948 (Montanez-D) Child Health and Disability Prevention program
Requires the Department of Health Services to conduct, or contract for the conducting of, a feasibility study report of technological requirements for modifying the Child Health and Disability Prevention Gateway to allow a person applying on behalf of a child the option to simultaneously pre-enroll and apply for enrollment in Medi-Cal or Healthy Families over the Internet without submitting a follow-up application. Requires the results of the feasibility study to be provided to the fiscal and health policy committees of the Legislature on or before March 1, 2008.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2006
AB 1964 (Nakanishi-R) Health care: blood glucose monitoring
Allows direct care staff at specified facilities, who are not licensed health care professionals, but who are trained to assist a licensed health care professional, to administer blood glucose testing and emergency glucagon injections for severe diabetic hypoglycemia, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2022 (Ruskin-D) Product safety: portable gasoline containers
Requires the State Fire Marshal to approve and list portable gasoline containers that are designed and constructed to child-resistant standards and bans the sale of gasoline containers that are not on the list.
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2006
AB 2039 (Tran-R) Fireworks
Provides that any person who violates provisions regarding dangerous fireworks having the total new weight of explosive material of 7,500 grains or more is guilty of a felony.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2041 (Nava-D) Public safety: communications
Makes various changes to the membership of the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee.
Chapter 855, Statutes of 2006
AB 2044 (Cogdill-R) Student biological specimen testing
Allows a court, where probable cause exists to believe that a transfer of bodily fluids has occurred between a student and teacher, to require that student be tested for HIV/AIDS.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2059 (Berg-D) County Medical Services Program
Eliminates the January 1, 2008 sunset of the County Medical Services Program (CMSP) Governing Board (CMSP Board), which means that statutory responsibility for CMSP will not be returned to the Department of Health Services in 2008 as scheduled, and enacts changes to the duties and authority of the CMSP Board.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2006
AB 2083 (Vargas-D) Emergency medical services: automatic external defibrillator
Extends the sunset date for another five years on the operative provisions of existing law which provide immunity from civil damages for persons or entities that acquire automatic external defibrillators and comply with maintenance, testing, and training requirements.
Chapter 85, Statutes of 2006
AB 2105 (Emmerson-R) Human remains: permits: transportation
Allows human remains to be transported to an adjacent state without a death certificate or permit for disposition under specified circumstances.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2006
AB 2121 (Nava-D) Farm Fresh Schools Program
Establishes the Farm Fresh Schools program, administered jointly by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Health Services, in consultation with the Department of Education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2141 (Jones-D) Parent-Child Communication Assistance Program
Establishes a Parent-Child Communication Assistance Program as a continuing program within the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Branch of the Department of Health Services with the goal of decreasing teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) by supporting programs that equip parents, guardians, and parenting adults with the knowledge, understanding, and communication skills necessary to talk to their children about their sexual health, the prevention of STDs and unintended pregnancies, and making responsible decisions regarding at-risk sexual behavior.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2177* (Aghazarian-R) Fire alarm systems: standards
Requires the State Fire Marshal to convene a "working group," as specified, to develop a proposal for reforming the building materials listing process. Requires the working group be appointed no later than October 1, 2006, and that the working group convene for their first meeting no later than November 1, 2006.
Chapter 745, Statutes of 2006
AB 2214 (Tran-R) Asian food: study
Establishes the Asian Traditional Food Act which requires the Department of Health Services to conduct a study of the sale and consumption of traditional Asian food, as a means of finding methods that may permit the sale and consumption of these foods while providing adequate health and sanitation standards that protect public health. Requires the department to submit this study to the Legislature on January 1, 2008. Makes legislative findings and declarations on the importance of considering a process to allow foods tied to traditional Asian ceremonies to be sold and consumed according to such traditions.
Chapter 610, Statutes of 2006
AB 2251 (Evans-D) Reproductive health care services: personal information
Seeks to protect the personal safety of reproductive health care providers, employees, volunteers, and patients by prohibiting the posting of such people's personal information on the Internet under specified circumstances.
Chapter 486, Statutes of 2006
AB 2265 (Nava-D) Emergency medical services
Extends the sunset date for the Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund in Santa Barbara County from January 1, 2007, to January 1, 2009, and makes legislative findings that the county requires additional time to develop an appropriate local funding measure and that the Legislature expects the county to place a proposed county tax ordinance on or before the November 2008 ballot.
Chapter 768, Statutes of 2006
AB 2284 (Jones-D) Public health: foster children
Requires foster children to receive specified health and dental assessments and requires the Department of Health Services to extend Medi-Cal benefits to certain foster care adolescents to age 21.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2335 (Saldana-D) Medical waste
Makes various technical updates and clarifications to provisions regulating the management of medical waste.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2006
AB 2340 (Harman-R) Health care decisions
Requires a health care provider to use reasonable efforts to locate a patient's advance health care directive or to contact a hierarchy of specified individuals, beginning with a spouse or domestic partner, to act as surrogate to make needed health care decisions when the patient is incapacitated.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2360 (Lieu-D) Medical devices: ultrasound
Restricts the sale, lease, and distribution of ultrasound diagnostic imaging machines to licensed medical providers or an entity that provides services to those providers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2384 (Leno-D) Nutrition: Healthy Food Purchase Pilot Program
Establishes a "Healthy Food Purchase" pilot program (pilot program) to increase the sale and purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables in low-income communities.
Chapter 236, Statutes of 2006
AB 2402 (Ruskin-D) Public water systems: treatment
Requires the Department of Health Services to identify potentially dangerous drinking water disinfection byproducts and to identify and evaluate treatment methods, technologies, and other management options that reduce or eliminate the need to add disinfectants to drinking water.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2451 (Richman-R) Public Health Preparedness Act
Enacts the Public Health Preparedness Act, which requires the Health and Human Services Agency to prepare and deliver to the Governor and the Legislature, and to annually review, the Public Health Emergency Plan for responding to a public health emergency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2470 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Health care master plan: Los Angeles County
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, by ordinance, to develop a master plan for health care in the county, assemble a task force to develop a long-range planning and policy analysis, and report the plan to the board, as specified.
Chapter 514, Statutes of 2006
AB 2496 (Laird-D) Water conservation: low-flush water closets
Phases in requirements that water closets and urinals have lower flush volumes, generally reducing toilets from 1.6 gallons per flush to 1.3, and urinals from 1.0 gallons per flush to 0.5 gallons per flush.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2554 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Emergency medical technicians: certificates: discipline
Revises the disciplinary authority of local emergency medical services agencies with regard to emergency medical technicians.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2560 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public School Health Center Support Program
Requires the Department of Health Services, in cooperation with the Department of Education, to establish a Public School Health Center Support Program.
Chapter 334, Statutes of 2006
AB 2644 (Montanez-D) Vended water
Increases the frequency and scope of inspections of water vending machines done by the Department of Health Services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2651 (Jones-D) Newborns: hearing screening
Requires every general acute care hospital that has not been approved by the California Children Services and with licensed perinatal services, on or after January 1, 2008, to administer a hearing screening test to every newborn, as specified.
Chapter 335, Statutes of 2006
AB 2663 (Arambula-D) Public social services and health programs: funding
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study of state allocations to counties for health and social services programs.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2696 (Huff-R) Recreational safety: skateboard parks: scooters
Seeks to expand the current statute which grants local governments qualified immunity regarding skateboarding and other "hazardous recreational activities" (HRAs) by adding scooters to the list of HRAs for which public entities and their employees enjoy a qualified immunity from liability.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2703 (Aghazarian-R) Health and human services
Makes numerous changes in existing law to implement licensing reform of various health and human service programs.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2742 (Nava-D) Family planning: Medi-Cal: Family PACT program
Requires family planning services provided under Medi-Cal to be identical to those required pursuant to the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program. Requires all family planning benefits, including services, drugs, and supplies, available to beneficiaries under Medi-Cal and Family PACT to be uniform and conform to the provisions of current statute that establishes Family PACT.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2805* (Blakeslee-R) Advanced health care directives
Allows an individual to create a legally valid electronic advanced health care directive (AHCD) and allows the individual and notary to sign the AHCD using a "digital signature" that meets specified security requirements.
Chapter 579, Statutes of 2006
AB 2818 (Maze-R) Maternal use of narcotics: testing
Requires the Department of Health Services, on or before January 15, 2008, to develop a plan to establish a statewide surveillance program to ascertain changes in the rates of, and patterns of, legal and illegal drug use in California.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2841 (De La Torre-D) Fireworks: transportation
Provides that fireworks exceeding the weight of 100 pounds are subject to immediate seizure, except the transportation of which is authorized by law, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2856 (Hancock-D) Informed consent: prescription medication off-label use
Requires a physician and surgeon to obtain informed consent from a patient before prescribing, administering, or furnishing a prescription medication for an off-label use, as defined. Specifies information that a physician and surgeon is required to provide in order to obtain the patient's informed consent.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2877 (Frommer-D) Prescription drugs: importation: procurement
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish a web site to facilitate purchasing prescription drugs at reduced prices. Requires the web site to include price comparisons of at least 150 commonly prescribed prescription drugs, including typical prices charged by pharmacies in the state. Requires the Department of General Services to report to the Legislature on specified activities related to the procurement of prescription drugs.
Chapter 720, Statutes of 2006
AB 2911 (Nunez-D) California Discount Prescription Drug Program
Establishes the California Discount Prescription Drug Program in the Department of Health Services to use manufacturer rebates and pharmacy discounts in order to reduce prescription drug prices and improve the quality of health care for eligible Californians.
Chapter 619, Statutes of 2006
AB 2977 (Mullin-D) Swimming Pool and Spa Safety Act of 2006
Requires new and remodeled pools and spas to provide at least one safety feature from a list of eligible features, adds mesh fences and swimming pool alarms to the list of enumerated drowning prevention safety features, and requires remodeled pools and spas to cover drains with an anti-entrapment grate.
Chapter 478, Statutes of 2006
ACR 113 (Levine-D) Spay Day USA 2006
Declares February 28, 2006 as Spay Day USA 2006, and requests that Californians observe that day by having their dogs or cats spayed or neutered and by contributing to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
Resolution Chapter 13, Statutes of 2006
ACR 141 (Benoit-R) National Donate Life Month
Proclaims April 2006 as National Donate Life Month, urges all Californians to consider becoming a donor, and encourages all organ and tissue recipients to tell others how their lives and health have changed because of the generosity of a donor.
Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2006
ACR 145 (Nakanishi-R) Minors: health care: vision screening
Establishes a panel, comprised of specified members, to study the state's existing vision screening and appraisal requirements for children upon enrollment or upon entering the first grade.
Resolution Chapter 108, Statutes of 2006
AJR 40 (Chan-D) Medicare prescription drugs
Urges Congress and the President of the United States to enact H.R. 3861, "The Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005."
Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2006
AJR 49 (Nation-D) Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements
Requests that the United States Food and Drug Administration aggressively monitor and regulate direct-to-consumer television advertising of prescription drugs by pharmaceutical companies and memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to ban television advertising of prescription drugs.
Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2006
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 19 | Ortiz-D California Rx Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 24 | Ortiz-D Hospital charity care | Health Facilities |
| SB 26* | Hollingsworth-R Personal income taxes | Mental Health |
| 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 156 | Soto-D Public safety: firefighting | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 162 | Ortiz-D Department of Public Health | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 163 | Scott-D Pharmaceutical information: clinical trial data | 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 169* | Migden-D Certified phlebotomy technicians | Health Professionals |
| SB 187 | Soto-D Drinking water: contaminants | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| 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 233 | Figueroa-D Acupuncture | Health Professionals |
| SB 235 | Denham-R HIV exposure: penalties | AIDS |
| SB 246 | Figueroa-D Human milk | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 258 | Chesbro-D State hospitals: deaths: memorials | Mental Health |
| SB 267* | Romero-D California High School Exit Examination: disabilities | Developmentally Disabled |
| 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 Hospitals: emergency medical services reduction/elimination | Health Facilities |
| SB 325 | Ducheny-D County reimbursement | Mental Health |
| SB 329 | Cedillo-D Calif. Prescription Drug Safety and Effectiveness Commission | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 340 | Battin-R Stem cell research: revenues | Stem Cell Research |
| SB 374 | Alquist-D Residential care facilities for the elderly: evaluations | Health Facilities |
| SB 380 | Alquist-D Foster care: residentially based services: group homes | Foster Care |
| SB 392* | Cedillo-D Sales and use taxes: public safety and emergency services | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 400 | Kuehl-D Tobacco licensing | Tobacco Products |
| SB 401 | Ortiz-D Stem cell research: ICOC procedures | Stem Cell Research |
| SB 409* | Kehoe-D Emergency health care services: appropriations | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 415* | Alquist-D Advance health care directive | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 438 | Migden-D Oral and maxillofacial surgery | Health Professionals |
| SB 442 | Machado-D Maintenance: income levels | Medi-Cal |
| 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 Health care: county organized health systems | Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 475 | Runner-R Drinking water: residential self-regenerating water softener | 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 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 516 | Ortiz-D Fire protection: residential care facility for the elderly | Health Facilities |
| 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 Healthy Families Program and Medi-Cal | Medi-Cal |
| SB 559 | Torlakson-D Health facilities: general acute care hospitals: permits | Health Facilities |
| SB 564* | Torlakson-D California Healthy Children Trust Fund | Tobacco Products |
| SB 571 | Perata-D Adult day health care services: certification | Medi-Cal |
| SB 572 | Perata-D Benefits: mental health | Mental Health |
| SB 579 | Aanestad-R Optometry: licenses: 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 603 | Ortiz-D Law enforcement: anti-reproductive rights crimes | Abortion Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 611 | Speier-D Meat and poultry recalls | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 642* | Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: adult day health care services | Medi-Cal |
| SB 676 | Ashburn-R Medi-Cal: pharmacy reimbursement | Medi-Cal |
| SB 678 | Ducheny-D Indian children | Public Social Services |
| SB 683 | Aanestad-R Dentistry: licensure | Health Professionals |
| SB 699* | Soto-D AIDS: HIV reporting | AIDS |
| SB 700 | Aanestad-R Radiologic technology: radiologist assistants | Health Professionals |
| SB 704 | Speier-D State employees: protective clothing | Cancer |
| SB 736 | Speier-D Healing arts: diagnostic imaging services | Health Professionals |
| SB 739 | Speier-D Hospitals: infection control | Health Facilities |
| SB 749 | Speier-D Health care coverage: pervasive developmental disorders | Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 770 | Romero-D Medi-Cal: provider enrollment | Medi-Cal |
| 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 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 864 | Poochigian-R Sexually violent predators: term of commitment | Mental Health |
| SB 905 | Machado-D Bovine spongiform encephalopathy | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 912* | Ducheny-D Medi-Cal: provider reimbursement | Medi-Cal |
| SB 913 | Simitian-D Medication therapies: rheumatic diseases | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| 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 942 | Chesbro-D Cigarettes: pollution: litter | Tobacco Products |
| SB 945 | Soto-D HIV testing | AIDS |
| SB 955 | Soto-D Public safety: firefighting | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 985 | Dunn-D Adulterated candy: lead poisoning prevention | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1034 | Hollingsworth-R Community care facilities: business licenses | 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 1114 | Assembly Human Services Committee Department of Rehabilitation: blindness | Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 1130* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Human services | Public Social Services |
| SB 1137* | Ducheny-D Drug treatment | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1141 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Tobacco assets: sales | Tobacco Products |
| SB 1168 | Chesbro-D Rural Health Care Equity Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1204 | Perata-D Hospitals: lift teams | Health Facilities |
| SB 1205 | Escutia-D Air pollution: Children's Breathing Rights Act: penalties | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 1208 | Ortiz-D Tobacco products | Tobacco Products |
| SB 1212 | Torlakson-D Continuing care retirement communities: requirements | Public Social Services |
| SB 1214 | Assembly Human Services Committee Community services programs | Public Social Services |
| SB 1220 | Migden-D Vaccines: influenza | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 1232 | Runner-R Division of Licensing: out-of-state physicians and surgeons | Health Professionals |
| SB 1233* | Perata-D Medi-Cal: prescription drug benefit | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1245 | Figueroa-D Health care coverage: cervical cancer screening test | Cancer |
| SB 1246 | Cox-R Vehicles: authorized emergency vehicles | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1248 | Alquist-D Long-term health care facilities: resident rights | Health Facilities |
| SB 1260 | Ortiz-D Reproductive health and research | Stem Cell Research |
| SB 1267 | Cedillo-D Office of Immigrant Affairs | Public Social Services |
| SB 1270 | Chesbro-D Developmental services: service methods | Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 1272 | Bowen-D Advanced health care directives | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1277 | Alquist-D Emergency services and care: reimbursement | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1283 | Chesbro-D Area Boards on Developmental Disabilities | Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 1285 | Aanestad-R Speech-language pathology | Health Professionals |
| SB 1287 | Ducheny-D Local Revenue Fund: Social Services and Caseload Subaccounts | Public Social Services |
| SB 1288 | Cedillo-D Medi-Cal: minors: drug and alcohol treatment | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1289 | Cedillo-D Foster children: continuing aid and transitional services | Foster Care |
| SB 1301 | Alquist-D Health facilities: reporting and inspection requirements. | Health Facilities |
| SB 1307 | Poochigian-R Medical information: confidentiality | Health Professionals |
| SB 1309 | Scott-D Nursing education | Health Professionals |
| SB 1312 | Alquist-D Health care facilities | Health Facilities |
| SB 1323 | Cedillo-D Los Angeles County mental health: treatment pilot program | Mental Health |
| SB 1329 | Alquist-D Community development: healthy food choices | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1335 | Soto-D Licensed community care facilities: licensing inspections | Public Social Services |
| SB 1337 | Alquist-D Developmental services: rental assistance | Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 1338 | Alquist-D California Health Care Infrastructure Authority | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1339 | Romero-D Emergency medical services | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1350 | Romero-D Trauma care funding: regional funding allocations | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1353 | Romero-D Medi-Cal: provider enrollment | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1356 | Lowenthal-D Suicide prevention | Mental Health |
| SB 1361 | Vincent-D Psychologists: applicants for licensure | Health Professionals |
| SB 1369 | Maldonado-R Clinical laboratories: anatomic pathology services | Health Facilities |
| SB 1371 | Maldonado-R Medi-Cal: smart cards | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1372 | Maldonado-R Mentally disordered offenders: reimbursement of county costs | Mental Health |
| SB 1376 | Chesbro-D Community Services Block Grant Program: funding | Public Social Services |
| SB 1379 | Perata-D Biomonitoring | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1394 | Florez-D Health care: Kern Health Systems | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1398 | Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: managed care: reimbursement | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1403 | Scott-D Medi-Cal: dental restoration documentation requirements | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1405 | Soto-D Medi-Cal: interpreter services | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1421 | Margett-R Child care: CalWORKs recipients: fraud | Public Social Services |
| SB 1423 | Figueroa-D Laser procedures | Health Professionals |
| SB 1427 | Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: federally qualified health centers | Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| SB 1430 | Alquist-D The Local Pandemic and Emergency Health Preparedness Act | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1435 | Ortiz-D IHSS pilot project: eligibility: purchase of service | Public Social Services |
| SB 1438 | Figueroa-D Healing arts: reporting requirements | Health Professionals |
| SB 1439 | Cedillo-D Medi-Cal: adult day health care: meals | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1448* | Kuehl-D Health care: Medi-Cal: uninsured persons | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1451 | Kehoe-D Emergency preparedness: disabled community | Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 1461 | Florez-D Health care: primary care: grants in aid | Health Facilities |
| SB 1469 | Cedillo-D Medi-Cal: eligibility: juvenile offenders | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1470 | Cedillo-D Health facility patient charges: health record copy | Health Facilities |
| SB 1472 | Figueroa-D Dentistry: dental hygienists | Health Professionals |
| SB 1475 | Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee Healing arts | Health Professionals |
| SB 1476 | Figueroa-D Professions and vocations | Health Professionals |
| SB 1487 | Hollingsworth-R Coerced abortion | Abortion |
| SB 1500 | Speier-D Drug programs | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1508 | Bowen-D Health care coverage: colonoscopies | Cancer |
| SB 1520* | Ducheny-D Medi-Cal: hospital funding demonstration project | Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| SB 1522* | Aanestad-R Diesel Fuel Tax Law: emergency services providers | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1528 | Bowen-D Medi-Cal: covered services: pregnancy | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1532 | Bowen-D Household substances: packaging | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1534 | Ortiz-D Public benefits | Public Social Services Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1541 | Ducheny-D Registered dental assistants: licensure | Health Professionals |
| SB 1555 | Speier-D Umbilical cord blood banking: education: prenatal screening | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1562 | Maldonado-R Inmates: state hospitals: reimbursement of costs | Health Facilities |
| SB 1569 | Kuehl-D Human services: immigrants | Public Social Services |
| SB 1570 | Alquist-D Foster care: residentially based services: group homes | Foster Care |
| SB 1576 | Murray-D Foster care: transitional housing | Foster Care |
| SB 1578 | Lowenthal-D Dogs: tethering prohibition | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1596 | Runner-R Nurse-Family Partnership program | Health Professionals |
| SB 1616 | Kuehl-D Juveniles: incarceration: Medi-Cal: SSI: SSDI | Medi-Cal Public Social Services |
| SB 1622 | Escutia-D Healthy Families Program and Medi-Cal: employee eligibility | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1638 | Figueroa-D Midwives: advisory council: annual reports | Health Professionals |
| SB 1641 | Soto-D Foster care providers | Foster Care |
| SB 1659 | Cox-R Hospital seismic retrofit | Health Facilities |
| SB 1660 | Romero-D In-Home Supportive Services: provider wage and benefit | Public Social Services |
| SB 1661 | Cox-R Health facilities: seismic safety: construction | Health Facilities |
| SB 1667 | Kuehl-D Dependent children | Foster Care Public Social Services |
| SB 1668 | Bowen-D Child death: review teams | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1670 | Aanestad-R Radiologic technology | Health Professionals |
| SB 1672 | Maldonado-R Public health: health care technology systems: loans | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1683 | Scott-D Pharmaceutical information: clinical trial data | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1688 | Bowen-D Foster care: instruction and education pilot project | Foster Care |
| SB 1691* | Runner-R California State Pharmacy Assistance Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1711 | Ortiz-D Flu vaccinations: report | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 1720 | Chesbro-D Armed Forces: uranium screening | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1746 | Runner-R Health care reporting: public access | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1748 | Figueroa-D Cystic fibrosis and biotinidase: newborn screening | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 1755 | Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: adult day health care services | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1759 | Ashburn-R Health: background checks: fees: inspections | Health Facilities Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1763 | Figueroa-D Pharmaceuticals: compulsory licensing | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1766 | Kehoe-D Medi-Cal: demonstration project | Medi-Cal |
| SB 1772 | Ashburn-R Public health: vended water | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1773 | Alarcon-D Fines and forfeitures | Health Facilities |
| SB 1780 | Alarcon-D Health facilities: nosocomial infections | Health Facilities |
| SB 1785* | Figueroa-D Human milk | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1801 | Ducheny-D Municipal hospitals: closed meetings | Health Facilities |
| SB 1808 | Aanestad-R Physicians and surgeons: death penalty executions | Health Professionals |
| SB 1811 | Romero-D Emergency medical services: training | Health Professionals |
| SB 1822 | Bowen-D Organ, tissue, and bone marrow donor programs: task force | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1825 | Migden-D CalWORKs | Public Social Services |
| SB 1838 | Perata-D Health facilities: construction plans | Health Facilities |
| SB 1850 | Assembly Health Committee Health care: training: reporting | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1851 | Assembly Health Committee Cancer: informed consent | Cancer |
| SCA 13 | Ortiz-D Biomedical research | Stem Cell Research |
| SCR 44 | Maldonado-R Community residential care | Health Facilities Public Social Services |
| SCR 65 | Hollingsworth-R Fragile X Awareness Day | Mental Health |
| SCR 67 | Speier-D Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 70 | Chesbro-D Lung Cancer Awareness Month | Cancer |
| SCR 71 | Romero-D American Heart Month | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 73 | Torlakson-D California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 76 | Alquist-D Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Month | Cancer |
| SCR 77 | Alquist-D Lymphedema Awareness Day | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 80 | Alquist-D Arthritis awareness | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 81 | Alquist-D Asthma Awareness Month | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 85 | Alquist-D American Stroke Month 2006 | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 86 | Alquist-D Assisted Living Week | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 87 | Alquist-D Health Care Decisions Week | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 90 | Torlakson-D 10 Steps to a Healthy California | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 100 | Cox-R Prostate Cancer Awareness Month | Cancer |
| SCR 103 | Scott-D Lyme Disease Awareness Month | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 105 | Torlakson-D California Fitness Month | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 106 | Alquist-D California Chronic Kidney Disease Education Week | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 111 | Machado-D California Cancer Survivors Day | Cancer |
| SCR 112 | Cedillo-D The Wall Las Memorias Project AIDS monument: highway signs | AIDS |
| SCR 115 | Chesbro-D Year of the Community and Developmental Disabilities | Developmentally Disabled |
| SCR 116 | Cedillo-D Foster care | Foster Care |
| SCR 119 | Soto-D Polio Awareness Year | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 127 | Ashburn-R Valley Fever Awareness Month | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 131 | Denham-R Children's Vision and Learning Month | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 134 | Ortiz-D Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month | Cancer |
| SJR 5 | Speier-D Food recalls | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 16 | Machado-D Mad Cow Disease | Other Diseases/Disorders Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 19 | Alquist-D Reproductive rights: Roe v. Wade | Abortion |
| SJR 21 | Machado-D Sudden child cardiac arrhythmia syndrome | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SJR 22 | Speier-D Microbicide Development Act | AIDS |
| SJR 25 | Figueroa-D International trade agreements and pharmaceutical drugs | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 28 | Figueroa-D International trade agreements: public health services | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 29 | Kehoe-D Homeland Security: California | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 32 | Machado-D Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SR 18 | Romero-D Baby Bill of Rights | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SR 26 | Perata-D National Biological Foundry | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SR 27 | Margett-R Asthma Awareness Day | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SR 34 | Figueroa-D Pain Awareness Month | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SR 36 | Ortiz-D Ovarian Cancer Awareness Week | Cancer |
| 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 36 | Strickland-R Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities | Health Facilities |
| AB 63 | Strickland-R Elderly and Disabled Home Improvement Loan Program | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 71 | Chan-D Drug Safety and Effectiveness Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 72 | Frommer-D Prescription drugs: clinical trials | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 74 | Frommer-D Butte County Healthy Communities Fund | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 75 | Frommer-D Pharmaceutical assistance program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 95 | Koretz-D Prescription drugs: Medi-Cal | AIDS Cancer Medi-Cal |
| AB 107* | Benoit-R Care facilities | Health Facilities |
| 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 Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 120 | Cohn-D Physical therapy: continuing education | Health Professionals |
| AB 126 | Dymally-D County hospitals: indigent services | Health Facilities |
| AB 132* | Nunez-D Medi-Cal: prescription drug benefit | Medi-Cal |
| AB 166 | Ridley-Thomas-D Los Angeles County hospital authority | Health Facilities |
| AB 170 | Lieber-D Medi-Cal: utilization controls | Medi-Cal |
| AB 180 | Leno-D Collective bargaining: direct care registered nurses | Health Professionals |
| AB 201 | Dymally-D Medi-Cal | Medi-Cal |
| AB 213 | Liu-D Health care coverage for lymphedema | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 218* | Maze-R Income tax credit: qualified medical care professionals | Health Professionals |
| AB 225 | Negrete McLeod-D Electronic prescription information | Health Professionals |
| AB 230 | Shirley Horton-R Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Centers | Alzheimer's Disease |
| AB 233 | Haynes-R CalWORKs: eligibility | Public Social Services |
| AB 242 | Vargas-D Sex offenses: medical providers: minor victims | Health Professionals |
| AB 245* | Walters-R Trinity County Health Care District: election | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 257 | Matthews-D Medi-Cal: providers | 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 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 |
| AB 293* | Maze-R Income tax credit: qualified medical care professionals | Health Professionals |
| AB 298* | Berg-D Personal income tax: credit: caregivers | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 319 | Chan-D Phthalates and bisphenol-A in children's products | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 366 | Maze-R Healing arts: peer review | Health Professionals |
| AB 379 | Koretz-D Smoking in vehicles with minor passengers | Tobacco Products |
| AB 389 | Arambula-D Swimming pool safety | 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 464 | Daucher-R Health Care Directives: natural death | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 468 | Yee-D Interagency responsibilities over handicapped children | Mental Health |
| AB 470 | Yee-D Medi-Cal: juveniles: incarceration | Medi-Cal |
| AB 472 | Benoit-R Elder and disabled abuse | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 503 | Lieber-D CalWORKs: bill of rights | Public Social Services |
| AB 516 | Yee-D Health care practitioners: unlawful referrals | Health Professionals |
| AB 530 | Plescia-R Medi-Cal: withholding payments or suspension | Medi-Cal |
| AB 562 | Levine-D Discount health programs | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 568 | Garcia-R HIV tests | AIDS |
| AB 569* | Garcia-R Pupil nutrition: school meals | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 576 | Wolk-D Immunizations | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 586 | Negrete McLeod-D Medical disaster mobilization | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 595 | Negrete McLeod-D Pharmacy: compounding of prescription drugs | Health Professionals |
| 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 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 657 | Karnette-D Pharmacies: prescription containers: labels | Health Professionals |
| AB 669 | La Suer-R Physician and surgeons: abortions: follow-up medical care | Abortion |
| AB 686 | Chu-D Children's services | Public Social Services |
| AB 699 | Chan-D Vaccines: influenza | Other Diseases/Disorders Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 704 | Dymally-D Geriatric health care assistants: licensing and regulation | Health Professionals |
| AB 733 | Nation-D Psychotherapists: duty to warn | Health Professionals |
| AB 757 | Chan-D Health care providers: contracts | Health Professionals |
| AB 759 | Lieber-D El Camino Hospital District | Health Facilities |
| AB 768 | Nation-D Touch-screen devices | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 774 | Chan-D Hospitals: fair pricing policies | 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 Medi-Cal: emergency drug benefits | Medi-Cal |
| AB 842 | Arambula-D Federal refugee cash assistance funds: county transfers | 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 Type 2 diabetes mellitus: pupil screening | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 894 | La Suer-R Licensed professional counselors | Health Professionals |
| AB 896 | Matthews-D Clinical laboratories | Health Professionals |
| 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 914 | Cogdill-R Authorized emergency vehicles | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 923 | Chavez-D Fireworks: sale: disposal | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 930 | De La Torre-D Naturalization services program | Public Social Services |
| AB 943 | Keene-R Aid to indigents | Public Social Services |
| AB 959* | Frommer-D Medi-Cal: health facilities: reimbursement | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1047 | Levine-D Health facilities: financing | Health Facilities |
| AB 1050 | Gordon-D Emergency receiving centers: demonstration project | Health Facilities |
| AB 1062 | Saldana-D Medical experimentation: biomonitoring research consent | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1074 | Chu-D HIV testing for foster children | AIDS Foster Care |
| 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 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 1112 | Cohn-D Pupil nutrition: California Fresh Start Pilot Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1144 | Harman-R Playground safety standards | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1145 | Huff-R Developmental disability: habilitation services | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1175 | Tran-R Pharmaceutical providers: appeals procedure | Medi-Cal Health Professionals |
| AB 1185 | Koretz-D Chiropractic services | 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 Lyme disease | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| 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 1268 | Oropeza-D Dentistry | Health Professionals |
| AB 1275 | Frommer-D Earthquake Safety and Hospital Preservation Bond Act | Health Facilities |
| 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 1316 | Salinas-D Hospital districts: hospital rules: indemnification | 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 1341* | Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee Financing authorities: grants and loans | Health Facilities |
| AB 1370 | Matthews-D Clinical laboratory director: pharmacists | Health Professionals |
| AB 1379 | Lieber-D Agnews Developmental Center: closure | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1382 | Nakanishi-R Prescription lenses | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1389 | Oropeza-D Littering: cigarette butts | Tobacco Products |
| 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 1402 | McCarthy-R Community care facilities | Health Facilities Foster Care |
| AB 1405 | Evans-D State Fire Marshal | 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 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 1433 | Emmerson-R Pupil health: oral health assessment | 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 1478 | Frommer-D Developmental services | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1481 | Richman-R Medi-Cal: managed care | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1485 | Wyland-R Medi-Cal: providers: change in ownership | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1508 | Salinas-D Natividad Medical Center | Health Facilities |
| AB 1534 | Bass-D Residential care for children: inspection | Health Facilities Foster Care |
| 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 Acupuncture: Asian massage | Health Professionals |
| AB 1579 | Aghazarian-R Long-term health care facilities: funds | Health Facilities |
| AB 1591 | Chan-D Medi-Cal: nurse practitioners | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1607 | Houston-R Developmental disability: habilitation services | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1639 | Sharon Runner-R Hospital buildings: seismic safety | Health Facilities |
| AB 1645 | Matthews-D Regional center services | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1653* | Haynes-R In-Home Supportive Services: wage and benefit increases | Public Social Services |
| AB 1664* | De La Torre-D Fireworks | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| 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 |
| AB 1675 | Nation-D Medi-Cal: contract drug list: generic drugs | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1689 | Lieber-D Early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment | Mental Health Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1701 | Bass-D Birth Defects Monitoring Program: fees | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1720 | Dymally-D State hospitals: clinical directors | Mental Health Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 1745 | Assembly Health Committee Medi-Cal: pediatric palliative care benefit | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1749 | Assembly Governmental Organization Committee Cigarettes and tobacco products | Tobacco Products |
| AB 1774* | Assembly Human Services Committee Child welfare services: criminal record checks | Public Social Services |
| AB 1795 | Bermudez-D Residential facilities: licensure applications | Health Facilities |
| AB 1796 | Bermudez-D Physicians and surgeons | Health Professionals |
| AB 1807* | Assembly Budget Committee Medi-Cal: budget trailer bill | Medi-Cal Mental Health Developmentally Disabled Health Facilities Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1808* | Assembly Budget Committee Human services trailer bill | Foster Care Public Social Services |
| AB 1810 | Assembly Budget Committee Budget deficiencies: health facilities | Health Facilities |
| AB 1811* | Laird-D Health: budget trailer bill | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 1812* | Assembly Budget Committee Child registries: budget trailer bill | Public Social Services |
| AB 1847* | Leslie-R Taxation: tax credit: access to disabled individuals | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1852 | Yee-D Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program | Mental Health |
| AB 1859 | Leslie-R Placer County integrated health and human services | Public Social Services |
| AB 1861 | Shirley Horton-R Aging programs | Public Social Services |
| AB 1873 | Torrico-D Child protection: safe surrender | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1876 | Leslie-R Placer County Foster Youth Welfare Act of 2006 | Public Social Services |
| AB 1880 | Blakeslee-R State hospitals: care of the mentally disordered | Mental Health Health Facilities |
| AB 1888 | Dymally-D University of California: obesity and diabetes | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1907 | Lieu-D Child abuse prevention: multidisciplinary personnel | Health Professionals |
| AB 1908 | Karnette-D Medi-Cal: pharmacy reimbursement | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1920 | Chan-D Medi-Cal: hospital funding | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1928* | Berg-D Area agencies on aging and independent living centers | Public Social Services |
| AB 1930 | Berg-D Medi-Cal: drug benefits: long-term care facilities | Medi-Cal |
| AB 1948 | Montanez-D Child Health and Disability Prevention program | Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1954 | Lieu-D Physicians: participation in executions | Health Professionals |
| AB 1955 | Leslie-R Community care facilities: foster homes: investigations | Foster Care |
| AB 1956 | Shirley Horton-R Communicable diseases: reporting | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 1964 | Nakanishi-R Health care: blood glucose monitoring | Developmentally Disabled Health Facilities Health Professionals Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1978 | Walters-R Hospital seismic retrofit | Health Facilities |
| AB 1979 | Bass-D Community care facilities: criminal record information: fees | Health Facilities |
| AB 1982 | Coto-D Public benefits | Public Social Services |
| AB 1983 | Bass-D Foster care | Foster Care |
| AB 1991 | Saldana-D Vehicles: environmental license plates: disabled persons | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1994 | Leslie-R Health records: minors: access | Health Professionals |
| AB 2001 | Cogdill-R Cigarettes and tobacco products | Tobacco Products |
| AB 2004 | Yee-D Medi-Cal: juveniles: incarceration | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2014 | Berg-D Programs for the seniors and independent adults | Public Social Services |
| AB 2022 | Ruskin-D Product safety: portable gasoline containers | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2031 | Cohn-D Dependent children | Foster Care |
| AB 2039 | Tran-R Fireworks | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2041 | Nava-D Public safety: communications | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2044 | Cogdill-R Student biological specimen testing | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2056 | Aghazarian-R Public health: exposure to communicable diseases | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2059 | Berg-D County Medical Services Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2060 | De La Torre-D Naturalization services | Public Social Services |
| AB 2067 | Oropeza-D Smoking: enclosed spaces of buildings | Tobacco Products |
| AB 2076 | Laird-D Drug paraphernalia: clean needle & syringe exchange project | AIDS |
| AB 2083 | Vargas-D Emergency medical services: automatic external defibrillator | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2105 | Emmerson-R Human remains: permits: transportation | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2120 | Liu-D Vehicles: disabled persons/veterans: parking placards | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2121 | Nava-D Farm Fresh Schools Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2141 | Jones-D Parent-Child Communication Assistance Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2152 | Chan-D Acupuncture: practice by health care professionals | Health Professionals |
| AB 2156 | Niello-R Clinical laboratories | Health Facilities |
| AB 2177* | Aghazarian-R Fire alarm systems: standards | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2184 | Bogh-R Residential facilities: land use regulations | Health Facilities |
| AB 2192 | Bass-D CalWORKs | Public Social Services |
| AB 2193 | Hancock-D Developmental services: direct-care workers | Public Social Services |
| AB 2194 | Bass-D Independent Living Program | Foster Care |
| AB 2195 | Bass-D Foster caregivers: placement options | Foster Care |
| AB 2198 | Houston-R Health care: controlled substances and dangerous drugs | Health Professionals |
| AB 2203 | Garcia-R HIV and AIDS | AIDS |
| AB 2205 | Evans-D Food Stamp Program: categorical eligibility | Public Social Services |
| AB 2212 | Torrico-D Health facilities | Health Facilities |
| AB 2214 | Tran-R Asian food: study | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2216 | Bass-D Child Welfare Leadership and Performance Accountability Act | Foster Care |
| AB 2226 | Garcia-R Diabetes screening | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2251 | Evans-D Reproductive health care services: personal information | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2256 | Assembly Business And Professions Committee Professions and vocations | Health Professionals |
| AB 2257 | Assembly Business And Professions Committee Psychologists: records retention | Health Professionals |
| AB 2260 | Negrete McLeod-D Approvals and certificates of registration: special faculty | Health Professionals |
| AB 2265 | Nava-D Emergency medical services | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2278 | Koretz-D Assistive animals | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2280 | Leno-D Sexually transmitted diseases | AIDS Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2282 | Oropeza-D Federally-qualified health centers | Health Facilities |
| AB 2283 | Oropeza-D Physicians and surgeons: cultural background | Health Professionals |
| AB 2284 | Jones-D Public health: foster children | Foster Care Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2308 | Plescia-R Ambulatory surgical centers: licensure | Health Facilities |
| AB 2313 | Arambula-D Student financial aid: nursing education | Health Professionals |
| AB 2316 | Spitzer-R Medi-Cal: county organized health systems: disclosure | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2317 | Koretz-D Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2335 | Saldana-D Medical waste | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2339 | Ridley-Thomas-D Colorectal cancer | Cancer |
| AB 2340 | Harman-R Health care decisions | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2342 | Nakanishi-R Voluntary services: malpractice insurance | Health Professionals |
| AB 2357 | Karnette-D Assisted outpatient mental health treatment | Mental Health |
| AB 2359 | Oropeza-D Radiation technology | Health Professionals |
| AB 2360 | Lieu-D Medical devices: ultrasound | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2364 | De La Torre-D Personal information | Health Professionals |
| AB 2373 | Aghazarian-R Automated drug delivery system | Health Facilities |
| AB 2379 | Chan-D Medi-Cal: managed care | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2383 | Dymally-D Inmate medical testing | AIDS |
| AB 2384 | Leno-D Nutrition: Healthy Food Purchase Pilot Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2402 | Ruskin-D Public water systems: treatment | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2408 | Negrete McLeod-D Pharmacies | Health Professionals |
| AB 2451 | Richman-R Public Health Preparedness Act | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2452 | Richman-R Physician office laboratories: fees | Health Facilities |
| AB 2466 | Daucher-R CalWORKs eligibility: welfare-to-work activities | Public Social Services |
| AB 2469 | Evans-D In-home supportive services and personal care option | Public Social Services |
| AB 2470 | Ridley-Thomas-D Health care master plan: Los Angeles County | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2471 | Wyland-R Aliens: costs of providing public benefits | Public Social Services |
| AB 2474 | Villines-R National Guard | Public Social Services |
| AB 2481 | Evans-D Foster care | Foster Care |
| AB 2486 | Ridley-Thomas-D In-home supportive services: criminal background checks | Public Social Services |
| AB 2489 | Leno-D Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act | Foster Care |
| AB 2494 | Ridley-Thomas-D In-home supportive services: provider training | Public Social Services |
| AB 2496 | Laird-D Water conservation: low-flush water closets | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2508 | Haynes-R Illegal immigration: emergencies | Public Social Services |
| AB 2509 | Daucher-R Immunizations | Health Facilities |
| AB 2512 | Sharon Runner-R Fetal pain prevention | Abortion |
| AB 2513 | Pavley-D Pupils: autism: training and information | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2554 | Ridley-Thomas-D Emergency medical technicians: certificates: discipline | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2556 | Jones-D Social services: childhood poverty | Public Social Services |
| AB 2560 | Ridley-Thomas-D Public School Health Center Support Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2564 | Matthews-D Health facilities: criminal record clearances | Health Facilities |
| AB 2583 | Nation-D Dispensing prescription drugs and devices: refusal | Health Professionals |
| AB 2584 | De La Torre-D Emergency/disaster response exercises: infectious diseases | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2607 | De La Torre-D Medi-Cal: managed care: persons with disabilities | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2609 | Evans-D Residential facilities for the elderly: employee training | Health Facilities |
| AB 2611 | Spitzer-R Day care homes | Public Social Services |
| AB 2631 | Laird-D Medi-Cal: injectable drugs: utilization | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2639 | Levine-D Medi-Cal: adult day health care | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2644 | Montanez-D Vended water | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2649 | Bass-D Kinship support services | Public Social Services |
| AB 2651 | Jones-D Newborns: hearing screening | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2663 | Arambula-D Public social services and health programs: funding | Public Social Services Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2667 | Baca-D Health care providers and insurers: considerations | Medi-Cal Health Professionals |
| AB 2675 | Strickland-R Community care facilities: continuing education: online | Health Facilities |
| AB 2696 | Huff-R Recreational safety: skateboard parks: scooters | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2697* | Garcia-R In-home supportive services | Public Social Services |
| AB 2703 | Aghazarian-R Health and human services | Health Facilities Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2720 | Spitzer-R Radiologic technology | Health Professionals |
| AB 2730 | Nation-D Medi-Cal: direct marketing of contract drugs: rebates | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2732 | Baca-D Medi-Cal: fiscal intermediary services | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2742 | Nava-D Family planning: Medi-Cal: Family PACT program | Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2743 | Matthews-D Pharmacists: ancillary personnel | Health Professionals |
| AB 2745 | Jones-D Hospitals: discharge plans: homeless patients | Health Facilities |
| AB 2749 | Strickland-R Home improvement loans for elderly and disabled persons | Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2754 | Chan-D Hospitals: staffing | Health Facilities |
| AB 2757 | Evans-D Primary care clinics | Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 2759 | Wyland-R Medi-Cal: provisional providers: termination | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2760 | Torrico-D Veterinary medicine: licensure | Health Professionals |
| AB 2775 | Daucher-R Medi-Cal: dental services: anesthesia | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2776 | Yee-D Mental health: community treatment facilities: seclusions | Mental Health |
| AB 2805* | Blakeslee-R Advanced health care directives | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2818 | Maze-R Maternal use of narcotics: testing | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2821 | Huff-R California Asian Medicine Board | Health Professionals |
| AB 2836 | Karnette-D Fire protection: residential care facility for the elderly | Health Facilities |
| AB 2837* | Baca-D Medi-Cal: local educational agency services | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2841 | De La Torre-D Fireworks: transportation | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2844 | Nation-D Mental health: veterans' eligibility for services | Mental Health |
| AB 2856 | Hancock-D Informed consent: prescription medication off-label use | Health Professionals Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2868 | Bogh-R Physical therapists | Health Professionals |
| AB 2870 | De La Torre-D Correctional institutions: communicable diseases | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2877 | Frommer-D Prescription drugs: importation: procurement | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2885* | Plescia-R Medi-Cal: benefits: prescribed drugs | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2911 | Nunez-D California Discount Prescription Drug Program | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2915 | Saldana-D Veterinary medicine: licensure | Health Professionals |
| AB 2918 | Wolk-D Medi-Cal: county organized health systems | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2920 | Leno-D Seniors | Public Social Services |
| AB 2932 | Chan-D California Children and Families Program | Public Social Services |
| AB 2950 | Daucher-R Medi-Cal billing reductions | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2961 | Nunez-D CalWORKs: nonrecurring special needs: homeless assistance | Public Social Services |
| AB 2968 | Leno-D Medi-Cal: community-living support benefit | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2977 | Mullin-D Swimming Pool and Spa Safety Act of 2006 | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2979* | Richman-R Medi-Cal: managed care | Medi-Cal |
| AB 2984 | Maze-R Vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians | Health Professionals |
| AB 2985 | Maze-R Foster youth: identity theft | Foster Care |
| AB 3000 | Frommer-D Health care: Medi-Cal: uninsured persons | Medi-Cal |
| AB 3005 | Emmerson-R Residential care facilities | Health Facilities |
| AB 3006 | Emmerson-R Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities | Health Facilities |
| AB 3007 | Emmerson-R Alcohol and drug treatment facilities: location | Health Facilities |
| AB 3013 | Koretz-D Medical information: disclosures | Health Professionals |
| AB 3014 | Koretz-D Acupuncture: Asian massage | Health Professionals |
| AB 3019* | Daucher-R Medi-Cal: Community options and assessment protocol | Medi-Cal |
| AB 3029 | Laird-D Public social services: CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program | Public Social Services |
| AB 3040 | La Malfa-R IHSS providers: fingerprint and criminal background check | Public Social Services |
| AB 3048 | Dymally-D Public social services: assistance during appointments | Public Social Services |
| AB 3070 | Assembly Health Committee Medi-Cal: demonstration project: hospital funding | Medi-Cal |
| AB 3071 | Chan-D Dental disease prevention programs | Health Professionals |
| ACR 58 | Parra-D Foster youth | Foster Care |
| ACR 82 | Wolk-D Breast cancer awareness | Cancer |
| ACR 112 | Chan-D Hepatitis B | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 113 | Levine-D Spay Day USA 2006 | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 114 | Coto-D Legislative Task Force on Diabetes and Obesity | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 122 | Koretz-D Guillain-Barre Syndrome Awareness Month | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 126 | Keene-R West Nile Virus & Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 130 | Hancock-D Kidney Cancer Awareness Month | Cancer |
| ACR 138 | Koretz-D Food Allergy Awareness Month 2006 | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 141 | Benoit-R National Donate Life Month | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 144 | Nation-D Skin Cancer Awareness Month | Cancer |
| ACR 145 | Nakanishi-R Minors: health care: vision screening | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 148 | Plescia-R Hemophilia Awareness Month | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 150 | Walters-R ALS Awareness Month | Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AJR 40 | Chan-D Medicare prescription drugs | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AJR 49 | Nation-D Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements | Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |