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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

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SB 41 (Yee-D) Hypodermic needles and syringes

Suspends certain provisions of the Disease Prevention Demonstration Project, including the ability for a city or county to authorize pharmacists to provide up to 10 hypodermic needles and syringes without a prescription, until 1/1/15, and until then permits pharmacists and physicians to furnish up to 30 hypodermic needles and syringes for human use, without a prescription or city/county authorization, to a person 18 years or older, as specified.
Chapter 738, Statutes of 2011

SB 422 (Wright-D) AIDS/HIV: reporting

Authorizes physicians to disclose nonidentifying HIV patient information to the designated staff of the local public health agency for HIV partner services, or identifying information with the written consent of the individual. Clarifies that a local health officer and the designated local public health agency staff for HIV partner services are exempted from civil and criminal liability for alerting the specified partners of an HIV positive person, without disclosing any identifying information about the person believed to be infected with HIV. Authorizes a local health officer or designated local public health agency staff to expunge any identifying information of a potentially exposed partner only after efforts have been made to contact, alert, and refer the partners for testing and treatment.
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2011

SB 531 (Rubio-D) HIV testing: search warrants

Requires a defendant to be tested for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) within 48 hours of a search warrant being issued authorizing the administration of the test if the victim of a forcible sex offense requests the testing. Requires the local health officer to disclose the HIV test results as soon as practicable to the victim and defendant.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 946 (Steinberg-D) HIV reporting

Among other provisions, authorizes the Department of Public Health to develop a form to be used to report cases of HIV infection to the local health department and permits the form to be implemented without promulgating new regulations.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2011

AB 289* (Cedillo-D) AIDS/HIV nonprofit organizations: sales tax exemption

Repeals the current 1/1/12 sunset date for the current sales and use tax exemption for retail items sold by thrift stores operated by nonprofit organizations to assist individuals with HIV or AIDS and extends it to 1/1/19.
Chapter 289, Statutes of 2011

AB 491 (Portantino-D) HIV testing

Revises existing law that sets forth requirements for medical providers in clinical settings, at the time a test for HIV is administered, to include HIV counselors in nonclinical settings, to require informed consent, as specified, and to specify information that must be shared.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 604 (Skinner-D) AIDS/HIV needle exchange programs

Allows the Department of Public Health (DPH) to authorize entities meeting specified criteria to provide clean hypodermic needle and syringe exchange programs in any location where DPH determines conditions exist for the rapid spread of deadly or disabling disease spread through the sharing of unclean hypodermic needles and syringes. Sunsets on 1/1/19.
Chapter 744, Statutes of 2011

AB 1327 (Portantino-D) Medi-Cal services

Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to conduct a three-year pilot project to determine the feasibility of developing a blended per-capita payment rate for services provided to enrollees with HIV or AIDS in Medi-Cal primary care case management. Requires DHCS to pay these rates to a Medi-Cal primary care case management plan or successor Knox-Keene plan for beneficiaries with HIV or AIDS.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1348 (Mansoor-R) AIDS/HIV: pupils: parental consent

Among other provisions, prohibits a pupil to receive comprehensive sexual health education, HIV/AIDS prevention education, or assessments related to that education without the prior written consent of his/her parent or legal guardian; requires each school district to advise the parent or guardian that his/her child will not receive comprehensive sexual health education or HIV/AIDS prevention education without the prior written consent of a parent or legal guardian; and, requires an alternative educational activity be made available to pupils whose parents have not given prior written consent to receive such instruction or assessments.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1382 (Roger Hernández-D) HIV counselors

Permits HIV counselors to perform skin punctures for hepatitis C virus (HCV) tests, or combination HIV/HCV test, under specified conditions.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2011

Cancer

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SB 255 (Pavley-D) Breast cancer: health care coverage

Revises the definition of mastectomy to specify that the partial removal of a breast includes lumpectomy, which includes surgical removal of a tumor with clear margins. Allows the length of a hospital stay associated with mastectomy procedures to be determined postsurgery, consistent with sound clinical principles and processes.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 791 (Simitian-D) Health care: mammograms

Requires health facilities at which mammography examinations are performed to provide a specified notice to patients who have dense breast tissue.
Vetoed

A similar bill was SB 173 (Simitian-D) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SCR 17 (La Malfa-R) Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Designates the month of September 2011 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in the State of California.
Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2011

AB 137 (Portantino-D) Health care coverage: mammographies

Requires health insurance plans to cover mammography upon a provider's referral. Requires both health care service plans and health insurance plans to notify subscribers and policyholders regarding recommended timelines for an individual to undergo tests for the screening or diagnosis of breast cancer.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 585 (Fong-D) Cancer presumption: workers' compensation

Extends the disputable presumption of cancer as an occupational injury to active firefighting members of a fire department that serve a National Aeronautics and Space Administration installation and who adhere to training standards, as specified.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2011

AB 1000 (Perea-D) Cancer treatment: health care coverage

Requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that provides coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment to establish limits on enrollee out-of- pocket costs for prescribed, orally administered, nongeneric cancer medication.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1329* (Davis-D) Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry

Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a process to receive applications for, and award a grant to, an agency to operate the statewide Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry. Exempts these grants from being subject to specified provisions of the Public Contract Code.
Chapter 642, Statutes of 2011

ACR 23 (Ma-D) Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Designates March 2011 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 13, Statutes of 2011

ACR 81 (Skinner-D) Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

Designates September of every year as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and encourages and promotes the efforts of the people and the healthcare practitioners of the state to increase their awareness of this disease and to educate themselves about early detection and prevention.
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2011

Other Diseases/Disorders

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SB 161 (Huff-R) Emergency assistance: schools: epilepsy medication

Allows school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools to participate in a program to train nonmedical school employees who volunteer to administer emergency anti-seizure medication to students with epilepsy.
Chapter 560, Statutes of 2011

SB 583 (Vargas-D) ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease: income tax checkoff

Reauthorizes the addition of the ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Research Fund check-off to the personal income tax form upon the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the form.
Chapter 711, Statutes of 2011

SB 614* (Kehoe-D) Child immunization

Allows a pupil in grades 7 through 12, to conditionally attend school for up to 30 calendar days beyond the pupils first day of attendance for the 2011-12 school year, if that pupil has not been fully immunized with all pertussis boosters appropriate for the pupil's age if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 123, Statutes of 2011

SB 616 (DeSaulnier-D) Prevention of chronic diseases: Medi-Cal: grants

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to pursue a federal Medicaid Incentives for Prevention of Chronic Diseases Program grant to offer incentives to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who adopt healthy behaviors and habits.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCR 7 (Huff-R) Celiac Disease Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of May 2011 as Celiac Disease Awareness Month to promote statewide awareness of celiac disease.
Resolution Chapter 19, Statutes of 2011

SCR 23 (Wolk-D) Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of May 2011 as Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month to increase public awareness of neurofibromatosis and bring hope to patients and their families.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 36 (Blakeslee-R) Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day

Declares 5/19/11 to be Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day in California.
Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 2011

SCR 39 (Runner-R) Scleroderma Awareness Month

Declares June 2011 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 46, Statutes of 2011

SCR 43 (Strickland-R) Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month

Declares August 2011, and each August thereafter, as Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2011

AB 186 (Williams-D) Reportable diseases and conditions

Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to establish a list of communicable diseases and conditions for which clinical laboratories must submit a culture or a specimen to the local public health laboratory to undergo further study. Permits DPH to modify the list of communicable diseases and conditions in consultation with appropriate local public health stakeholders, including, but not limited to, local health officers and public health laboratory directors.
Chapter 540, Statutes of 2011

AB 389 (Mitchell-D) Bleeding disorders

Establishes requirements for providers of blood clotting products for home use to treat hemophilia and other bleeding disorders.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 395 (Pan-D) Genetic diseases: newborn screening program

Requires the Department of Public Health to expand statewide screening of newborns to include screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and other T-cell lymphopenias detectable as a result of SCID.
Chapter 461, Statutes of 2011

AB 861 (Hill-D) California Stroke Registry

Establishes the California Stroke Registry (CSR) within the Department of Public Health to serve as a centralized repository for stroke data to promote quality improvement for acute stroke treatment. Requires that CSR only be implemented to the extent funds from federal or private sources are made available for this purpose.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1192 (Garrick-R) Immunization information: pertussis

Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to make available on its Internet Web site the following information for use by hospitals: the signs of pertussis; the availability of a vaccine to protect against pertussis; and the recommendation of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that those with close contact with newborns receive vaccination against pertussis. Permits hospitals to distribute this information to the parents of newborn children. Prohibits anything in this bill from requiring a hospital to provide or pay for vaccination against pertussis.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

ACR 8 (Butler-D) American Heart Month and Wear Red Day

Recognizes the month of February 2011 as American Heart Month in California, recognizes 2/4/11 as Wear Red Day in California, and urges public support for Go Red for Women events.
Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2011

ACR 13 (Huffman-D) Rare Disease Day

Proclaims 2/28/11 as Rare Disease Day.
Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2011

ACR 18 (Dickinson-D) Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week

Declares the week of 3/14/11 through 3/18/11 as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 8, Statutes of 2011

ACR 26 (Galgiani-D) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness

Encourages the Department of Health Care Services to, whenever possible, partner with private entities to improve education regarding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Declares November 2011 as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month in California. Encourages public officials and the citizens of California to increase awareness about the symptoms of, and the methods of, preventing COPD.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2011

ACR 48 (Grove-R) Valley Fever Awareness Week

Declares 4/10/11 through 4/16/11 as Valley Fever Awareness Week.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 51 (Perea-D) Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of May 2011 as Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2011

ACR 53 (Roger Hernández-D) Perinatal depression: Kelly Abraham Martinez Act

Enacts the Kelly Abraham Martinez Act which urges hospital providers, mental health care providers, health plans, and insurers to invest resources to educate women about perinatal depression risk factors and triggers.
Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 2011

ACR 54 (Mitchell-D) American Stroke Month 2011

Declares May 2011 to be American Stroke Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2011

AJR 18 (Carter-D) Sickle Cell Awareness Month

Recognizes September 2011 as Sickle Cell Awareness Month in California, and urges the President and the Congress of the United States to restore funding for sickle cell anemia centers and research and to make sickle cell anemia and other genetic hemoglobinopathies a public health priority.
Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2011

HR 12 (Campos-D) Lupus Awareness Month

Proclaims May 2011 to be Lupus Awareness Month and wishes Lupus International every success in the future.
Adopted by the Assembly

Medi-Cal

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SB 42 (Alquist-D) Medi-Cal: contracts

Requires any health care service plan that coordinates services for patients eligible for both Medi-Cal and Medicare to report to the Department of Health Care Services and the Legislature if the actual use of services differs substantially from the anticipated use of services in the plan's agreement with the Department.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 73 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill

Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of Health and Human Services in order to make mid-year revisions to the Budget Act of 2011. Among other provisions, implements payment reductions as specified in the Medi-Cal Program pertaining to Physician soft caps, provider reimbursement, and Medi-Cal enrollee copayments for services and contracts provided under the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, the Senior Care Action Network, and the AIDS HealthCare Foundation.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 2011

SB 90* (Steinberg-D) Medi-Cal: hospitals

SB 91 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Medi-Cal: adult day health care

Delinks licensure from Medi-Cal certification for adult day health care centers (AB 97 [Assembly Budget Committee], Chapter 3, Statutes of 2011, eliminated adult day care as a Medi-Cal optional benefit.)
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2011

SB 213 (Hancock-D) Medi-Cal: local educational agencies: billing

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop, jointly with the California Department of Education, a plan for identifying and providing assistance to districts that are underutilizing the Medi-Cal administrative activities (MAA) billing option, and requires the plan to address ways to collect information about how districts are reinvesting dollars generated through MAA billing and to promote promising strategies.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 256 (Strickland-R) Medi-Cal: California Medical Assistance Commission

Eliminates the California Medical Assistance Commission (CMAC) and transfers the powers and duties of CMAC to the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), and the powers and duties of the Executive Director of CMAC to the Director of DHCS.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 289 (Hernandez-D) Inpatient hospital reimbursement methodology: Medi-Cal

Requires the Department of Health Care Services, when developing the new diagnosis-related groups hospital inpatient reimbursement model, to take into consideration whether outlier payments, policy adjusters, or other special provisions are required to adequately reimburse specified nationally-designated free-standing cancer centers.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 335* (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: hospitals: quality assurance fee

Imposes a Quality Assurance Fee (QAF) on specified hospitals for 30 months (from 6/30/11 until 12/31/13), and uses the resulting revenue to draw down federal funds to provide supplemental payments to private hospitals in fee-for-service Medi-Cal, Medi-Cal managed care, and for acute psychiatric days, and to provide specified funding amounts from the QAF per quarter for children's health coverage until 12/31/13. Requires county and University of California hospitals to be paid direct grants (not Medi-Cal payments), funded from the QAF. Establishes the Low-Income Health Program Medicaid Coverage Expansion Out-of-Network Emergency Care Services Fund (LIHP Fund), and requires monies in the LIHP Fund to be used for medically necessary hospital emergency services for emergency medical conditions and post-stabilization care furnished by private hospitals and nondesignated public hospitals outside of the LIHP coverage network. Reduces disproportionate share hospital replacement payments and supplemental payments from the Private Hospital Supplemental Fund to hospitals by specified amounts in 2012-13 and 2013-14. Appropriates $13.6 billion to the Department of Health Care Services for purposes of this bill.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2011

SB 347 (Rubio-D) Postsecondary education: graduate medical education payments

Requires the Department of Health Care Services, to the extent permitted by federal law, to include in its capitation rates paid to managed health care plans, as defined, an amount sufficient for the plans to make defined graduate medical education payments to providers contracting with the managed health care plans. Requires the Department to seek all necessary federal approvals to implement these provisions.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 359 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: ground ambulance rates

Requires the Department of Health Care Services, by 7/1/12, to adopt regulations establishing the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate for ground ambulance services using one of two specified rate methodologies.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 485 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: health facilities: emergency units

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish a pilot program to facilitate collaboration between an available and accessible provider of nonemergency medical care and a hospital to provide a Medi-Cal beneficiary or patient who lacks health insurance with an alternative to the use of the emergency department.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 616 (DeSaulnier-D) Medi-Cal: grants: prevention of chronic diseases

SB 677 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility

Prohibits the Department of Health Care Services from applying an assets or resources test when determining eligibility for Medi-Cal or any Medi-Cal waiver, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 695 (Hancock-D) Medi-Cal: county juvenile detention facilities

Authorizes, until 1/1/14, Medi-Cal benefits to be provided to a Medi-Cal eligible individual awaiting adjudication in a county juvenile detention facility if the county agrees to pay the state's share of Medi-Cal expenditures and administrative costs.
Chapter 647, Statutes of 2011

SB 804* (Corbett-D) Medi-Cal: subacute care program: living facilities

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to allow congregate living health facilities, as defined, that solely provide pediatric subacute care services and do not provide Medicare services to participate in the subacute care program. Provides that these type of facilities shall not be required to be Medicare certified to participate in the subacute care program. Requires the Department to seek all necessary federal approvals for the implementation of these provisions.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 945* (Senate Health Committee) Medi-Cal: electronic records

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish and administer the Medi-Cal Electronic Health Records Incentive Program to provide federally funded incentive payments to Medi-Cal providers to implement and use electronic health records systems.
Chapter 433, Statutes of 2011

SB 946 (Steinberg-D) Medi-Cal: mental illness

Among other provisions, conforms state law to existing federal regulations and current practice of the Department of Mental Health with regard to negotiated rates and incentive payments for the provision of Medi-Cal reimbursable community mental health services.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2011

SB 9X1* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Public health: managed care plan taxes

Contains necessary statutory changes to achieve savings assumed in the 2011 Budget Act for the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

SB 12X1 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Act of 2011

Appropriates $103.3 million in Special Funds (Children's Health and Human Services Special Fund) to the Healthy Families Program. Declares this act to be operative only if revenues derived from the imposition of a tax, between 7/1/11 and 7/1/12, on Medi-Cal managed care plans are deposited into the Children's Health and Human Services Special Fund.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

AB 43 (Monning-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility

Expands Medi-Cal coverage to persons with income that does not exceed 133% of the federal poverty level, effective 1/1/14.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 62 (Monning-D) Medi-Cal: dual eligibles: pilot projects

Permits the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to establish pilot projects for individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal (dual eligibles) pursuant to a request for proposal from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and requires DHCS to consult with specified stakeholders on a regular basis throughout the development and implementation of the dual eligible pilot projects.
(Held at Senate Desk)

AB 97* (Assembly Budget Committee) Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts provisions of law relating to Medi-Cal and the Healthy Families Program to implement the State Budget. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Web site for details of provisions.)
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2011

AB 102 (Assembly Budget Committee) Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts provisions of law relating to Medi-Cal to implement the State Budget. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Web site for details of provisions.)
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2011

AB 113* (Monning-D) Medi-Cal: health: hospitals

AB 151 (Monning-D) Medicare supplement coverage

Requires health care service plans (health plans) and health insurers offering Medicare supplement coverage (Medigap policies) to issue coverage for a Medigap policy on a guaranteed issue basis to an individual enrolled in a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan issued by the same issuer if there is an increase in the enrollee's premium, requires all health plans and insurers offering Medigap policies to issue such coverage on a guaranteed issue basis to an individual enrolled in a MA plan offered by a different health plan or insurer under specified circumstances, and makes technical changes to the requirements and standards that apply to Medigap policies, for the purpose of complying with recent changes in federal law. Establishes a threshold for a change in the premium or cost sharing levels to be met before MA plan enrollees may switch to another carrier for Medigap coverage on a guaranteed issue basis.
Chapter 270, Statutes of 2011

AB 164 (Hayashi-D) Medi-Cal: cards

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to implement a system whereby health care personnel with access to a person's Medi-Cal card are made aware if the person has previously accessed mental health services through the Medi-Cal system.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 301 (Pan-D) Medi-Cal: managed care

Extends the sunset date, from 1/1/12 to 1/1/16, on the prohibition on incorporating California Children's Services covered services in a Medi-Cal managed care contract. The existing prohibition and the extension exempts the county organized health systems plans in the counties of San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Solano, Yolo, Marin, and Napa.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2011

AB 396 (Mitchell-D) Medi-Cal: juvenile inmates

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop a process to allow counties and the Division of Juvenile Facilities within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to receive any available federal financial participation for health care services provided to juvenile detainees who are admitted as inpatients in a medical institution and who are eligible for Medi-Cal.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2011

AB 399 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Medi-Cal: pharmacy providers: drug reimbursement

Requires, rather than authorizes, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to incorporate specified components into its pharmacy services program. Requires, rather than authorizes, CDCR to license its pharmacies and centralized pharmacy distribution center and meet all applicable regulations.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 415 (Logue-R) Medi-Cal: telehealth

Enacts the Telehealth Advancement Act of 2011. Repeals and recasts existing laws related to the delivery of health care services via telemedicine and replaces the term telemedicine with telehealth. Facilitates the advancement of telehealth as a service delivery mode in managed care and the Medi-Cal Program.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2011

AB 540 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: alcohol and drug screening and intervention

Requires the Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, to provide reimbursement under the Medi-Cal program for alcohol and drug screening and brief intervention services for pregnant women or women of childbearing age.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 667 (Mitchell-D) Medi-Cal: subacute care program

Establishes medical necessity standards for the Medi-Cal subacute care program.
Chapter 294, Statutes of 2011

AB 678* (Pan-D) Medi-Cal: supplemental provider reimbursement

Allows ground emergency medical transportation service providers owned by public entities (public ground emergency medical transportation providers) to receive supplemental Medi-Cal reimbursement, in addition to the rate of payment that these providers would otherwise receive for Medi-Cal ground emergency medical transportation services, up to actual costs. The nonfederal share of the supplemental reimbursement would be paid with funds from specified governmental entities through certified public expenditures.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2011

AB 784* (Yamada-D) Medi-Cal: adult day health care

Requires an adult day health care center to have a prescribed program plan, as defined. Provides the minimum staffing requirements for an adult day health care center.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 969 (Atkins-D) Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services

Prohibits discounts or donations of laboratory services provided to federal qualified health centers by commercial clinical laboratories from being included in the calculation of the usual and customary charges for purposes of applying Medi-Cal best pricing regulations.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1066* (John A. Pérez-D) Medi-Cal: demonstration project waivers

Makes statutory changes in order to implement the Section 1115 Medi-Cal Demonstration Project Waiver approved on 11/2/10, which provides for the funding of designated public hospitals (DPHs). Continues under the new waiver the Medi-Cal fee-for-service cost-based reimbursement for DPHs through certified public expenditures. Establishes a new distribution methodology for disproportionate share hospital and safety net care Pool funds to DPHs.
Chapter 86, Statutes of 2011

AB 1223 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Medi-Cal: Public Assistance Reporting Information System

Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to utilize the federal Public Assistance and Reporting Information System (PARIS) to identify veterans and their dependents or survivors who are enrolled in the Medi-Cal Program and assist them in obtaining federal veterans' health care benefits statewide and repeals language making PARIS a two-year pilot program where DHCS selects three consenting counties that have in operation a United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical center to participate in the pilot.
(In Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)

AB 1297 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: mental health

Expedites, beginning on 7/1/12, federal reimbursement to counties for their Medi-Cal specialty mental health claims by conforming the procedures and timeframes required by the Department of Mental Health to federal Medicaid requirements and the approved Medicaid state plan and waivers.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2011

AB 19X1* (Blumenfield-D) Medi-Cal: nursing homes

Makes changes to Medi-Cal Program reimbursement for nursing homes for implementation of the Budget Bill for 2011-12.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session

AB 21X1* (Blumenfield-D) Medi-Cal: managed care plan taxes

Renews the gross premiums tax on health plans participating in the Medi-Cal Managed Care Program.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session

Mental Health

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SB 60 (Evans-D) Health facilities: mental health: state hospitals

Requires the Department of Mental Health to conduct a security and violence risk assessment, as specified, of each patient upon admission to a state hospital.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 166 (Steinberg-D) Health care coverage: mental illness: autism

Requires health care service plans licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care and health insurers licensed by the Department of Insurance to provide coverage for behavioral intervention therapy for autism.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 795 (Blakeslee-R) State hospitals: commitments

Requires a security and violence risk assessment to be performed, as specified, on every patient who has been committed to a state hospital pursuant to the Penal Code. Requires a patient who is determined by a security and violence risk assessment to have a high risk for aggression to be placed in a specified treatment unit within a state hospital, correctional facility, state prison psychiatric facility, or other secure facility.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 946 (Steinberg-D) Health care coverage: mental illness

Among other provisions, conforms state law to federal regulations and current practice of the Department of Mental Health with regard to negotiated rates and incentive payments for the provision of Medi-Cal reimbursable community mental health services.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2011

AB 39* (Beall-D) Department of Mental Health: special education

Requires the Department of Mental Health to allocate $57,000,000 to county mental health departments for purposes of providing special education services. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and county mental health directors to jointly convene a technical working group to develop a transitional program to transfer the responsibilities associated with providing special education services from county mental health departments to the California Department of Education.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 100* (Assembly Budget Committee) Mental health services

Makes necessary changes to enact the Budget Bill for 2011-12 related to the Mental Health Services Act.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2011

AB 154 (Beall-D) Mental health services: health care coverage

Requires health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment at parity with other medical conditions. Exempts the California Public Employees' Retirement System and Medi-Cal from requirements established by the bill. Specifies that it shall not be deemed to require that a health plan participating in the California Health Benefits Exchange provide any greater coverage than is required pursuant to the minimum essential benefits package as defined by the federal government.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 181 (Portantino-D) Foster youth: mental health bill of rights

Establishes the Foster Youth Mental Health Bill of Rights.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 366 (Allen-D) State hospitals: involuntary antipsychotic medication

Revises the procedures governing the involuntary administration of antipsychotic medication to state hospital patients. Commencing 7/1/12, (1) provides that where a court finds a defendant incompetent to stand trial, the court shall determine if the defendant has the capacity to make decisions concerning medication, (2) provides that where the defendant consents to take medication and then withdraws consent during treatment, the Department of Mental Health (DMH) may conduct a certification process to determine if there are grounds to involuntarily medicate the defendant until a court hearing is held within 21 days, (3) provides that where an incompetent to stand trial defendant does not consent to take medication and the court does not authorize involuntary medication, DMH may also conduct an involuntary medication certification process pending a court hearing within 21 days, and (4) grants the defendant a right to hearing before an administrative law judge as part of the certification process.
Chapter 654, Statutes of 2011

AB 421 (Smyth-R) Mental health: sexually violent predators: proceedings

Allows each side in a jury trial to use 10 peremptory challenges in selecting the jury. Gives the county’s designated attorney in related proceedings access to all records concerning the person that is the subject of the proceeding, without the necessity of a court order. Makes findings regarding the necessity for indeterminate terms for sexually violent predator civil commitment.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 739 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Mental illness: pupil instruction: suicide prevention

Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to include suicide prevention and mental illness awareness instruction in the health education curriculum framework for grades 7 and 8.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 826 (Atkins-D) Mentally ill: services: parolees

Enacts detailed statutory authority for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to create an Integrated Services for Mentally Ill Parolees Program, as specified.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 881 (Cook-R) Mental health: involuntary commitment: transportation

Authorizes a provider of ambulance services, as defined, and the employees of those providers to further detain a person in custody for the purpose of transporting him/her to a county-designated facility, whether or not accompanied by a person otherwise authorized. Exempts from criminal and civil liability individuals transporting a person for 72-hour treatment and evaluation pursuant to this provision.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 989 (Mitchell-D) Mental health: children's services

Requires programs contained in county Mental Health Services Act plans, which are required to include services to address the needs of transition-age youth, to also consider the needs of transition-age foster youth.
Chapter 640, Statutes of 2011

AB 1114 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Mentally ill inmates

Defines a new procedure under which the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may obtain an order from an administrative law judge to authorize involuntary administration of psychotropic medication to a mentally ill inmate.
Chapter 665, Statutes of 2011

AB 1297 (Chesbro-D) Mental health: Medi-Cal

AB 1348 (Mansoor-R) Pupils: parental consent: mental screening

Prohibits any mental or psychological screening of a pupil without parental consent.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

ACR 77 (Torres-D) Suicide Prevention Week

Proclaims 9/4/11 through 9/10/11 as Suicide Prevention Week.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2011

Autism/Developmentally Disabled

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SB 73 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Department of Developmental Disabled Services

Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of Health and Human Services in order to make mid-year revisions to the Budget Act of 2011. Among other provisions, directs that if Section 3.94(b) of the 2011 Budget Act is operative, the DDS may utilize input from workgroups as specified to develop General Fund savings proposals as necessary.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 2011

SB 74* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Developmental services

Makes various changes to statutes related to Developmental Services which are necessary to enact provisions contained in the Budget Bill for 2011-12.
Chapter 9, Statutes of 2011

SB 309 (Liu-D) Child day care facilities: schoolage child care centers

Allows schoolage child care centers to serve persons with developmental disabilities who are age 18 to 22 years and are enrolled in a special education program under specified conditions.
Chapter 470, Statutes of 2011

SB 368 (Liu-D) Developmental services: decisionmaking

Gives juvenile courts the authority to limit a parent or guardian's right to make decisions about the regional center and other developmental services for a child with developmental disabilities, and to appoint a developmental services decisionmaker.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2011

This bill previously passed both houses of the Legislature this session, but prior action was rescinded in order to add clean-up language to clarify Department of Developmental Services Trailer Bill language related to the ability of the court to determine eligibility for regional center and developmental center services.

SB 382 (Liu-D) Developmental services: regional centers: complaints

Permits the performance objective part of the Department of Developmental Services' (DDS) contract with a regional center to include specified criteria related to complaints and individual program plan services, requires DDS to develop processes and procedures to address retaliation against regional center employees and vendors, requires regional centers to post a list of vendors and their rates on their Internet Web sites, and clarifies the selection of least costly providers.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 472 (Correa-D) Early intervention services: assessments

Requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop an integrated assessment or a process to coordinate multiple assessments to assess the needs of children receiving special education and related services.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 764 (Steinberg-D) Developmental services: Autism TeleHealth Program

Requires the Department of Developmental Services to implement the Autism TeleHealth Program by requesting proposals from, and executing memorandums of understanding with, one or more regional centers that promote the use of or utilize telehealth systems.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 783* (Dutton-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 946 (Steinberg-D) Health care coverage: autism

Requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment for pervasive developmental disorder and autism from 7/1/12 through 7/1/14, or earlier, as specified.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2011

A similar legislation is SB 166 (Steinberg-D) which is in Senate Health Committee and SB 770 (Steinberg-D) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SCR 29 (Pavley-D) California Autism Awareness Month

Designates April 2011 as California Autism Awareness Month; affirms the Legislature's commitment to the important issues related to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs); emphasizes that each and every individual with an ASD is a valued and important member of our society; recognizes and commends the parents and relatives of individuals with ASDs for their sacrifice and dedication in providing for the special needs of individuals with ASDs; recognizes and commends the work of all nonprofit organizations that are contributing to the well-being of individuals with autism and their families; stresses the need to identify children with ASD and begin early intervention services immediately after a childhood diagnosis; and stresses the need for these intervention services, as well as supports, for individuals with ASDs and their families in an integrated, seamless, comprehensive, and competent manner that is delivered across the child's lifespan.
Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2011

AB 62 (Monning-D) Medi-Cal: dual eligibles: pilot projects

AB 104 (Assembly Budget Committee) Developmental Services Budget Trailer Bill

Contains necessary changes in the area of Developmental Services to enact the Budget Bill for 2011-12.
Chapter 37, Statutes of 2011

AB 171 (Beall-D) Autism spectrum disorder

Requires health insurance plans and health care service plans to provide coverage for screening, diagnosis, and treatment services associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), and defines certain types of health care services that must be covered to treat ASDs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 254 (Beall-D) Developmental services: Employment First Policy

Requires a regional center, when developing an individual program plan for a transition age youth or working age adult, to be guided by the Employment First Policy. Beginning when a consumer is 14 years of age, requires the planning team to discuss school-to-work opportunities during individual program plan meetings and to inform the consumer, parent, legal guardian, or conservator that the regional center is available, upon request, to participate in the consumer’s individualized education plan meetings to discuss transition planning. Requires the planning team, as part of the individual program plan process for working age adults, to address integrated employment opportunities, while respecting the consumer’s right to choose.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 410 (Swanson-D) Visual disabilities regulations

Requires specified state agencies to provide a narrative description of proposed regulations to persons with visual disabilities upon request, and to provide the requester with an extended public comment period, as specified.
Chapter 495, Statutes of 2011

AB 443 (Bonilla-D) Children with disabilities: insurance coverage

Requires a county, upon referral and during the individualized education program planning process, to ask the parent or legal guardian of the child or youth whether the child or youth is covered by a private health insurance provider and, if the child or youth has private health insurance, authorizes the county or other provider to seek reimbursement from that insurance company for medically necessary services provided to the child or youth.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 862 (Silva-R) Developmental services: regional centers

Adds specified items to the information each regional center is required to post on the regional center's Internet Web site.
Vetoed

AB 1244 (Chesbro-D) Developmental services: self-determination program

Creates a self-determination program within the existing developmental services system to provide individuals with a single, capitated funding allocation they may use to purchase services that support goals identified in their individual program plan. Replaces the current self-directed services program, which required a federal waiver for implementation, and remains stalled in that waiver application process.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 1375 (Huber-D) Developmental services: autism spectrum disorders

Requires the Department of Developmental Services to develop guidance for regional centers in regard to the treatment of autism spectrum disorders and to direct the regional centers to fund therapies prescribed by the consumer’s clinical practitioner, so long as those therapies can be shown to meet the definition of an evidence-based practice.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

Tobacco Products

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SB 330* (Padilla-D) Cigarette and tobacco products taxes: tobacco tax

Commencing on or after the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 90 days on or after the effective date of the bill, imposes an additional tax on the distribution of cigarettes at the rate of ($0.075) or 75 mills for each cigarette distributed which would be reset by the State Board of Equalization each fiscal year to reflect any increase in the California Consumer Price Index, and requires a dealer or wholesaler to file a return with the board showing the number of cigarettes in his/her possession or under his/her control on that date, as specified.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 331 (Padilla-D) Retail tobacco licenses

Requires the Board of Equalization to deny a new tobacco retailer permit, if the retailer is located within 600 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school.
(In Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 332 (Padilla-D) Rental dwellings: smoking

Codifies the ability of a residential landlord to prohibit smoking on the property or in any building or portion of the building, including any dwelling unit. Requires every lease entered into on or after 1/1/12 for residential real property where the landlord has prohibited smoking to include a provision specifying the areas where smoking is prohibited. States that a landlord who exercises the above authority shall be subject to state and local notice requirements governing changes to the terms of rental agreements that are in existence at the time the policy is adopted.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2011

SB 417 (Dutton-R) Tobacco products: CalWORKS recipients

Requires the electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system used in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program and CalFresh program to be designed to prevent recipients from using the EBT card to purchase alcohol or tobacco products.
(Failed passage in Senate Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 575 (DeSaulnier-D) Tobacco products: smoking in the workplace

Expands the prohibition on smoking in a place of employment to include an owner-operated business, and also eliminates most of the specified exemptions that permit smoking in certain work environments, such as hotel lobbies, bars and taverns, banquet rooms, warehouse facilities, private residences used as family day care homes, and employee break rooms.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 23X1 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Local taxation: counties: school districts

Authorizes counties, cities, any school district, county offices of education and community college districts to impose a local personal income tax, vehicle license fee, transactions and use tax, extractive business activities tax, oil severance tax, and excise tax, with voter approval.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 217 (Carter-D) Workplace smoking prohibition: long-term care facilities

Restricts smoking in long-term health care facilities by only allowing smoking in a designated patient smoking area that is outdoors, in an area that reasonably prevents smoke from entering the facility or patient rooms, and that is not located in a patient's room.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 795 (Block-D) Smoke-free higher education campuses

Grants authority to the governing bodies of the California State University, the University of California, and each community college district to set smoking and tobacco enforcement standards, impose fines, and post signs stating the tobacco use policy on campus.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2011

AB 1030 (Achadjian-R) Cigarette and tobacco taxes: violation: penalties

Subjects any person who fails to pay a tax liability in violation of the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law to suspension of their distributor's license and to seizure of any assets "related to distribution of cigarettes or tobacco products."
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1218* (Pan-D) Tobacco advertising: tax disallowances

Provides, under both the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, that a deduction shall not be allowed for specified expenses paid or incurred to advertise, as defined, the sale, use, or consumption of cigarettes or other tobacco products.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1301 (Hill-D) Retail tobacco sales: STAKE Act

Imposes stronger penalties on retailers engaged in the sale of tobacco products when they or their employees sell to an underage individual.
(In Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

Abortion

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AB 1306 (Donnelly-R) Abortion

Requires a person authorized to perform an abortion to provide information to any woman seeking an abortion in order to obtain her informed consent, and requires any facility where an abortion is authorized to be performed and any emergency room of a general acute care hospital, to post in common areas, the telephone number of a nonprofit organization that provides services in support of the elimination of human trafficking, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

Health Facilities

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SB 21 (Liu-D) Long-term care: assessment and planning

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to work with stakeholders to develop or identify a long-term care assessment tool by 7/1/13, that identifies eligible individuals' long-term care needs. Requires counties to establish a long-term care case management program commencing 1/1/12, for persons who are Medi-Cal recipients or enrolled in both Medi-Cal and Medicare and residing in, applying for admission to, or at imminent risk of being placed in a long-term health care facility.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 38* (Padilla-D) Radiation control: health facilities and clinics: records

Clarifies the effective dates hospitals, imaging centers and the Department of Public Health must comply with reporting requirements for inappropriate or excessive radiation occurring during computed tomography examinations or radiation therapy, and clarifies the reporting date to be effective on 7/1/12, rather than 1/1/11.
Chapter 139, Statutes of 2011

SB 60 (Evans-D) Mental health: state hospitals

SB 90* (Steinberg-D) Hospitals: Medi-Cal

Repeals specified Medi-Cal hospital rate freezes and rate reductions enacted in health budget trailer bills in 2008, 2010 and 2011. Imposes a Quality Assurance Fee on specified hospitals for six months (1/1/11 until 6/30/11), and uses the resulting revenue to draw down federal funds to provide supplemental payments to private hospitals in fee-for-service Medi-Cal, Medi-Cal managed care, and for acute psychiatric days; to provide $210 million for children's health coverage in the current year; and to pay for Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) administrative costs in administering the hospital fee and supplemental payment provisions of this bill. Reduces disproportionate share General Fund (GF) payments to private hospitals by $30 million GF in the current year and $75 million GF in the budget year. Requires DHCS to design and implement an intergovernmental transfer program for Medi-Cal managed care services provided by designated public hospitals and nondesignated public hospitals for the purpose of increasing reimbursement to nondesignated public hospitals and designated public hospitals.
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2011

SB 91 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Adult day health care centers

Contains necessary technical changes as a result of provisions adopted in budget trailer bill, AB 97 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 3, Statutes of 2011, related to adult day health care. Delinks licensure from Medi-Cal certification for adult day health care centers (ADHCs). Makes changes to requirements for ADHCs that choose to also operate adult day programs.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2011

SB 119 (Lowenthal-D) Emergency youth shelter facilities

Creates a licensing category for emergency youth shelter facilities and directs the Department of Social Services to adopt regulations for them by 1/1/13.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 135 (Hernandez-D) Hospice facilities

Establishes hospice facilities as a facility type and establishes a hospice facility licensing category that would be administered by the Department of Public Health.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 177 (Strickland-R) Congregate living health facilities

Raises the bed limit from 12 to 25 for congregate living health facilities that serve terminally ill patients in Santa Barbara County.
Chapter 331, Statutes of 2011

SB 276* (Corbett-D) General acute care hospitals: special services

Requires the Department of Public Health to promulgate regulations regarding the type of medical procedures which can be performed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory of a hospital that also has on-site cardiac surgery services, and allows hospitals to perform certain specified procedures until such regulations are adopted.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 289 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: inpatient hospital reimbursement methodology

SB 335* (Hernandez-D) Health facilities: hospitals: quality assurance fee

SB 336 (Lieu-D) Health facilities: emergency room crowding

Requires, until 1/1/16, every licensed general acute care hospital to assess the condition of its emergency department, using a crowding score, every four or eight hours, and to develop and implement capacity protocols for overcrowding, and requires every licensed general acute care hospital that operates an emergency department to develop and implement full capacity protocols, and requires these protocols to be filed with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 393 (Hernandez-D) Medical homes

Establishes the Patient-Centered Medical Home Act of 2011 to encourage licensed health care providers and patients to partner in a patient-centered medical home, as defined, promoting access to high-quality, comprehensive care, in accordance with prescribed requirements, and conforming with federal law.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 408 (Hernandez-D) Health facilities: licensure

Requires a new health facility license application to be filed for a health facility, as defined, when there is a change of ownership, as defined, or a major change in ownership interest, as defined, and requires a prescribed notice to be filed with the Department of Public Health prior to a change of ownership, major change in ownership interest, or a change in control interest, as defined, of certain health facilities.
Vetoed

SB 442 (Calderon-D) Hospitals: interpreters

Requires general acute care hospital policies for the provision of language assistance to patients with language or communication barriers to include procedures for discussing with the patient any cultural, religious, or spiritual beliefs or practices that may influence care, and to increase the ability of hospital staff to understand and respond to the cultural needs of patients. Requires hospitals' policies on language assistance services to include criteria on proficiency similar to those that apply to health plans.
Vetoed

SB 485 (Hernandez-D) Health facilities: emergency units

SB 502 (Pavley-D) Hospital Infant Feeding Act

Establishes, effective 1/1/14, the Hospital Infant Feeding Act which will require all general acute care and special hospitals that have a perinatal unit to have an infant feeding policy, as specified, to clearly post the policy and routinely communicate the policy to perinatal unit staff.
Chapter 511, Statutes of 2011

SB 554 (Yee-D) Health facilities: nurse-to-patient ratios

Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to inspect for compliance with nurse-to-patient staffing ratios during periodic inspections of hospitals. Requires DPH to inspect hospitals that have been cited for deficiencies related to nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for their compliance with the plan of correction related to the deficiency, and requires notices of deficiency and hospitals' plans of correction to be posted in specified areas of the hospital. Requires DPH to assess hospitals administrative penalties for violations of nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements and for the failure to comply with an approved plan of correction related to nurse-to-patient staffing.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 594 (Wolk-D) Local public health laboratories

Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to promulgate regulations by 1/1/14, that establishes minimum requirements for laboratories that train public health microbiologist-trainees, approve of and monitor a program of continuing education for public health microbiologists, and to require continuing education for public health microbiologists as a condition for renewal of a certificate issued by DPH. Requires DPH to develop an examination in consultation with California Association of Public Health Laboratory Directors, make minor changes to laws related to the relationship between local health departments and public health laboratories, and codifies various definitions existing in regulation related to public health laboratory staff.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 630 (Alquist-D) Hospitals: seismic safety

Revises the conditions that a hospital owner would be required to meet in order for the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to grant an additional extension. Authorizes the Department of Public Health to revoke the extension if the construction is abandoned or suspended for at least six months, except as specified.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 644* (Hancock-D) West Contra Costa Healthcare District: certificates

Requires all certificates of participation executed and delivered by the West Contra Costa Healthcare District between 6/8/04 and 12/31/12, to be secured by a statutory lien on all the revenues generated from a parcel tax passed by District voters in 2004.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2011

SB 791 (Simitian-D) Health facilities: mammography

Requires, under specified circumstances, a health facility at which a mammography examination is performed to include in the summary of the written report sent to the patient a specified notice on breast density.
Vetoed

SB 795 (Blakeslee-R) State hospitals: commitments

SB 796 (Blakeslee-R) State hospitals: prohibited items: misdemeanor penalty

Provides, (1) except as specified, a person who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to a patient in a state hospital a wireless communication device, tobacco products or currency, except as authorized, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 for each item, (2) notwithstanding the above provisions, if a person visiting a patient in a state hospital, upon being searched or subjected to a metal detector, is found to be in possession of any of these items, the item shall be subject to confiscation but shall be returned on the same day the person visits the patient, unless the item is held as evidence in a case where the person is cited for smuggling contraband, as specified, and (3) notice of this provision shall be posted in all areas where visitors are searched prior to visitation with a patient.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2011

SB 799 (Negrete McLeod-D) Long-term care

Requires the Department of Public Health to complete long-term care facility complaint investigations within a 90-working day period. Extends the time period from five business days to 15-working days in which a complainant could notify the Department of his/her request for an informal conference to discuss the investigation's determination and requires additional mini-exit interview requirements.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 804* (Corbett-D) Medi-Cal: subacute care program: congregate living

SB 840 (Evans-D) Health facilities: carbon monoxide detectors

Requires an owner of a health facility, including skilled nursing facilities, all types of intermediate care facilities, and all types of congregate living health facilities, to install carbon monoxide devices in the facility in or around areas that contain a fossil fuel burning appliance within 180 days after the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development adopts regulations pursuant to this bill.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 844 (Price-D) Health facilities: general acute care hospitals

Allows, for the purposes of hospital licensing requirements, dietary services to be provided either at the hospital, or in another hospital immediately adjacent to the hospital, as long as dedicated facilities are in place to accommodate the delivery of these services, and the Department of Public Health determines that all applicable statutory and regulatory standards pertaining to dieting services have been met.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 895 (Alquist-D) Health facilities: inspections

Attempts to streamline the inspection process regarding long-term healthcare facilities by requiring the Department of Public Health Licensing and Certification Division to inspect long-term health care facilities for compliance with state law every two years, or at the same time as every other yearly federal survey.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 897 (Leno-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Requires licensees of residential care facilities for the elderly to notify the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, residents and potential residents, and the Department of Social Services of specified events indicating financial distress.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2011

AB 30 (Hayashi-D) Health facilities: security plans

Expands existing hospital safety and security standards with respect to prevention of violence against health care personnel.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 96 (Assembly Budget Committee) Adult care: institutional freedom

Establishes the Keeping Adults Free from Institutions program, and requires the Department of Health Care Services to submit an application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the program.
Vetoed

AB 113* (Monning-D) Hospitals: Medi-Cal

Establishes the Non-Designated Public Hospital Inter-governmental Transfer Program, administered by the Department of Health Care Services, for non-designated public hospitals (hospitals owned by health care districts), under which public entities would voluntarily elect to transfer funds to the state for the purpose of drawing down federal Medicaid funds to make supplemental payments to these hospitals, and establishes an allocation formula for the provision of the supplemental payments made available by this bill to these hospitals. Becomes operative only if SB 90 (Steinberg-D), Chapter 19, Statutes of 2011, is enacted, which enacts standards for an extension of hospital seismic safety requirements, enacts a Medi-Cal six-month hospital provider fee, an intergovernmental transfer program for public hospitals related to Medi-Cal managed care, and makes other changes necessary to implement savings related to the 2010-11 Budget and the 2011-12 Budget Act.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2011

AB 159 (Beall-D) Foster family agencies

Changes the sunset provision on the requirement for certain foster family agencies to employ one full-time social work supervisor for every eight social workers, as specified.
Chapter 94, Statutes of 2011

AB 217 (Carter-D) Smoking in workplaces prohibition: long-term care facilities

AB 272 (Monning-D) Health care facilities: financing

Repeals several obsolete reporting requirements for departments that administer or regulate health care programs. Deletes requirements that the following departments submit reports on various topics relating to state health programs: the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, Department of Managed Health Care, and the Department of Insurance.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 313 (Monning-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Requires each residential care facility for the elderly to provide residents, their responsible party, and the local long-term care ombudsman with a written notice when the Department of Social Services commences proceedings to suspend or revoke its license, or a criminal action relating to health or safety of the residents is brought against the facility, defines maximum penalties, and makes other changes related to these actions.
Chapter 365, Statutes of 2011

AB 419 (Mitchell-D) Care facilities

Increases the frequency of inspections at facilities licensed by the Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 510 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Hospitals: seismic safety

Prohibits a hospital that receives a specified notice regarding retrofitting mandates from providing general acute care inpatient services in the noncompliant building. Requires the Department of Public Health to suspend or refuse to renew the license of a hospital that does not provide basic general acute care services because of this bill's requirements.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 533* (Yamada-D) Area agencies on aging: independent living centers: funding

Establishes a continuous appropriation from the Federal Trust Fund for two programs serving the elderly and disabled when the state budget has not been enacted by July 1.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 641 (Feuer-D) Long-term care

Eliminates the citation review conference process from the citation appeals process for long-term care facilities, and allows fines to be levied from both state and federal agencies when an incident violates both state and federal laws.
Chapter 729, Statutes of 2011

AB 715 (Galgiani-D) Hospital inpatient rates

Prevents a decrease in hospital inpatient rates for patients enrolled in certain state-funded health programs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 774 (Campos-D) Health facilities: licensure

Expands authority, already provided to the Department of Public Health and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under existing law, to all other state departments to grant a request for an extension of a professional waiver of licensure based on extenuating circumstances to marriage and family therapists and clinical social workers who are gaining qualifying experience in those professions in this state.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 824 (Chesbro-D) Rural hospitals: physician services

Establishes a pilot project to permit certain rural hospitals to directly employ physicians and surgeons.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 847 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Pharmacy: clinics

Expands provisions regarding pharmacy to authorize an outpatient setting or an ambulatory surgical center, as specified, to purchase drugs at wholesale for administration or dispensing, subject to the requirements applicable to surgical clinics. Deletes the requirement that a clinic operating under these provisions be licensed by the California State Board of Pharmacy and makes that licensure optional. Specifies that the Board is authorized to inspect only a clinic that is licensed by the Board.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 927 (Huffman-D) Health facilities: seismic safety

Authorizes a health care district that is eligible to receive an extension of up to two years to request an additional two-year extension, if it submits a plan to submit a ballot measure to issue bonds to the voters regarding seismic safety building standards.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 969 (Atkins-D) Clinical laboratory and laboratory services: Medi-Cal

Prohibits discounts or donations of laboratory services provided to federally qualified health centers by commercial clinical laboratories from being included in the calculation of the usual and customary charges for purposes of applying Medi-Cal best pricing regulations.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 972 (Butler-D) Substance abuse: treatment facilities

Permits 24-hour residential treatment facilities that provide services to adults recovering from alcohol and drug abuse that are licensed by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to provide medical services and provides that such a facility would not require a health facility license.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1016 (Achadjian-R) State hospitals: inmates: reimbursement of costs

Clarifies that, commencing 1/1/12, a county is to be reimbursed for specified nontreatment costs incurred that are associated with a trial of a mentally disordered offender. Requires the specified costs to be paid by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2011

AB 1136 (Swanson-D) health facilities: employment safety

Requires all general acute care hospitals to maintain a safe patient handling policy and provide trained lift teams or other support staff trained in safe lifting techniques. Requires employers to adopt a patient protection and health care worker back and musculoskeletal injury prevention plan as part of the injury and illness prevention programs required by existing state regulations.
Chapter 554, Statutes of 2011

AB 1142 (Chesbro-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly

Prohibits residential care facilities for the elderly from charging specific fees for people who are deceased.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 1192 (Garrick-R) Immunization information: pertussis

Requires the Department of Public Health to make available on its Internet Web site the following information for use by hospitals: the signs of pertussis; the availability of a vaccine to protect against pertussis; and the recommendation of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that those with close contact with newborns receive vaccination against pertussis. Permits hospitals to distribute this information to the parents of newborn children. Prohibits anything in this bill from requiring a hospital to provide or pay for vaccination against pertussis.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1328 (Pan-D) Health facilities: clinical laboratories

Authorizes the Department of Public Health to issue a clinical laboratory scientist’s license to an applicant who completes at least two years of full-time employment as a clinical laboratory scientist at a CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) certified laboratory, who possesses a baccalaureate or an equivalent or higher degree from an accredited institution, and who passes a national examination approved by the Department, subject to the payment of the requisite licensing fee.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1394 (Assembly Health Committee) Health care facilities: financing

Makes a variety of clarifying changes to the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA) Act, including expanding the definition of health facilities, projects, and not-for-profit entities that are eligible for financing and expanding CHFFA's authority to participate in bond exchange agreements.
Chapter 330, Statutes of 2011

AB 19X1* (Blumenfield-D) Long-term care

Makes changes to Medi-Cal Program reimbursement for nursing homes for implementation of the Budget Bill for 2011-12.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session

AJR 10 (Brownley-D) School-based health centers

Memorializes the Legislature's support of the school-based health center program authorized by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, supports an appropriation by the United States Congress to fund the school-based health center program, and supports the inclusion of school-based health centers in the reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act as an important strategy for ensuring that pupils are physically and mentally healthy.
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2011

Health Professionals

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SB 41 (Yee-D) Hypodermic needles and syringes

SB 100 (Price-D) Healing arts

Requires the Medical Board of California (MBC) to adopt regulations, on or before 1/1/13, on the appropriate level of physician availability necessary within clinics using laser or intense pulse light devices for elective cosmetic surgery; makes a number of changes regarding the approval, oversight and inspection of "outpatient settings", as defined, by MBC and accreditation agencies approved by the MBC, and in developing a plan of corrective action for any deficiencies found by the accreditation agencies or the MBC during inspections, or otherwise; and revises the existing definition of "outpatient settings" to include fertility clinics that offer in vitro fertilization.
Chapter 645, Statutes of 2011

SB 127 (Emmerson-R) Official medical fee schedule: physician services

Requires the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to annually adopt the Current Procedural Terminology codes, descriptors, and modifiers published by the American Medical Association.
Vetoed

SB 146 (Wyland-R) Healing arts: professional clinical counselors

Revises various provisions relating to the practice of mental health professionals to also include the practice of licensed professional clinical counselors, clinical counselor trainees, and clinical counselor interns.
Chapter 381, Statutes of 2011

SB 173 (Simitian-D) Healing arts: mammograms

Requires, until 1/1/18, a health care provider who performs a mammography, if a patient has certain levels of breast density, as specified, to include the following notice in the written report sent to the patient: "Because your mammogram demonstrates that you have dense breast tissue, which could hide small abnormalities, you might benefit from supplementary screening tests, depending on your individual risk factors. A report of your mammography results, which contains information about your breast density, has been sent to your physician's office and you should contact your physician if you have any questions or concerns about this report."
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 233 (Pavley-D) Emergency services and care

Revises the existing definition of "emergency services and care" to mean medical screening, examination, and evaluation by a physician or surgeon, or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, other appropriate licensed personnel under the supervision of a physician and surgeon, to determine if an emergency medical condition or active labor exists.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2011

SB 274* (Wyland-R) Healing arts

Provides that a person is engaged in the practice of marriage and family therapy, educational psychology, clinical social work, or professional clinical counseling when performing these services for remuneration in any form, as specified.
Chapter 148, Statutes of 2011

SB 285 (Correa-D) Massage therapy instruction: fraud: criminal prosecutions

Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in county jail and/or a fine of up to $2,500, to provide a certificate, diploma or other document, or otherwise affirm a person has received instruction in massage therapy, knowing the person has not received training "consistent with that document or affirmation." Provides that when a person is prosecuted for a crime in connection with massage therapy, including crimes relating to prostitution, the arresting law enforcement agency may provide to the California Massage Therapy Council information concerning the person's massage therapy training, including the name of any school attended by the person.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2011

SB 363 (Emmerson-R) Marriage and family therapists

Authorizes licensed professional clinical counselors to supervise marriage and family therapist (MFT) interns, provided certain additional training and education requirements are met, and authorizes MFT trainees to counsel clients while not enrolled in a practicum if the period of lapsed enrollment is less than 90 calendar days, as specified.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2011

SB 380 (Wright-D) Continuing medical education

Authorizes the Medical Board of California (MBC) to set content standards for an educational activity concerning chronic disease, and requires the MBC to periodically disseminate information and educational materials to physicians and surgeons and general acute hospitals on prevention and treatment of chronic disease by the application of nutrition and lifestyle behavior.
Chapter 236, Statutes of 2011

SB 393 (Hernandez-D) Medical homes

SB 431 (Emmerson-R) Pharmacies: regulation

Expands existing reporting requirements to the Board of Pharmacy when a pharmacy discovers that an employee has been stealing drugs, and prohibits a pharmacist whose California license has been revoked from dispensing medication to Californians via mail.
Chapter 646, Statutes of 2011

SB 538 (Price-D) Nursing

Makes a number of changes to the Nursing Practice Act including (1) granting the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) the authority to hire investigators and to have such investigators designated as peace officers, (2) granting the BRN authority to be the only agency responsible for approving schools of nursing and to receive an appropriate fee from applicants, and for renewal of the school of nursing's authorization, (3) authorizing the BRN to issue a cease and desist order to a school of nursing that has not been approved by the BRN and to inform the Attorney General of a school which continues to operate illegally, and (4) extending the BRN's sunset date for four years to 1/1/16.
Vetoed

SB 539 (Price-D) Nursing

Extends the sunset date of the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, expands requirements for employers of licensed vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians to report specified information to the Board, and makes other changes.
Chapter 338, Statutes of 2011

SB 540 (Price-D) Dentistry

Adds one additional public member to the Dental Board of California (DBC) and extends DBC's sunset date to 1/1/16. Deletes existing requirements related to advertising by a dentist of specialization or accreditation in a specialty area of practice unless certain requirements are met. Requires DBC, by 1/1/13, to comply with existing statute that requires boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including DBC, to adopt regulations requiring licensees to provide notice to clients or customers that they are licensed by the state, and includes certain specified notice requirements. Creates a Dental Assisting Council of DBC, to consider all matters relating to registered dental assistants.
Chapter 385, Statutes of 2011

SB 541* (Price-D) Health professional boards: consultants

Authorizes the boards and bureaus within the Department of Consumer Affairs, as well as the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, and the Osteopathic Medical Board to continue to utilize expert consultants, as done in the past, without having to go through the formal contracting process.
Chapter 339, Statutes of 2011

SB 544 (Price-D) Professions and vocations: regulatory boards

Enacts the Consumer Health Protection Enforcement Act that includes various provisions affecting the investigation and enforcement of disciplinary actions against licensees of healing arts boards.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 628 (Yee-D) Acupuncture: regulation

Creates a Traumatology Committee within the Acupuncture Board and authorizes the Committee to determine certification standards for, and certify traumatologists from 3/31/12 to 12/1/12. Specifies that on and after 12/15/12, the Board cannot issue an initial certificate and may only issue a certificate renewal. Prohibits an individual unqualified to receive a certificate or who fails to apply for certification by 12/15/12 from holding himself/herself out as a certified traumatologist. Requires a certified Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) traumatologist, when engaging in manipulation techniques to realign the musculoskeletal and ligamentous relationship, to be supervised by a physician and surgeon who has completed an orthopedic residency program. Requires the extent of the relationship between a TCM traumatologist and orthopedic surgeon regarding manipulation techniques to be determined by the Committee after the certification standards are defined by the Committee and adopted by the Board.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 632 (Emmerson-R) Pharmacy

Prohibits a pharmacist from substituting "tamper resistant" opioid analgesics, as defined, for other drug products, including generic drugs, if the prescription orders one of the "tamper resistant" types opioid analgesics. Requires the Board of Pharmacy to establish a list of "tamper resistant" opioid analgesics according to certain qualifications. Authorizes a pharmacist to substitute a prescribed opioid analgesic for one that is on the list created by the Board. Requires a pharmacist to obtain consent from a physician or surgeon via phone or other electronic communication prior to a substitution, if the opioid analgesic is not on the Board's list.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 635 (Hernandez-D) Health care: workforce training

Requires funds deposited into the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund in excess of $1,000,000 be transferred each year to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for the purpose of the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act of 1973.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 667 (Runner-R) Naturopathic physicians

Provides that nothing in the Naturopathic Doctors Act prohibits a naturopathic doctor from ordering, prescribing, or administering a nonprescription substance that becomes a substance requiring a prescription based solely on its route of administration.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 694 (Padilla-D) Dental care

Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs, in collaboration with the Dental Board of California, to convene a working group to conduct an analysis of the dental care needs of California residents, subject to specified criteria and standards.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 697 (Emmerson-R) Veterinary medicine

Provides that a person practices veterinary medicine when he/she advertises himself/herself as engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine. Provides that, if upon completion of an inspection or investigation, the Veterinary Medical Board's executive officer has probable cause to believe that an unlicensed person acting as a veterinarian or registered veterinarian technician has violated the Veterinary Medicine Practices Act, he/she may issue a civil citation, as specified, and provide for the person cited to contest the citation.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 704 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts: licensees: Board of Behavioral Sciences

Revises and recasts examination requirements for persons seeking licensure as a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor, effective 1/1/13.
Chapter 387, Statutes of 2011

SB 743 (Emmerson-R) Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund

Increases the General Fund loan amount and the corresponding Federal Trust Funds (FTF) appropriation the State Controller must transfer to the continuously appropriated Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund if there is a late state budget from $1 billion General Fund and $1 billion FTF to $2 billion General Fund and $2 billion FTF. These funds would reimburse health care providers for services provided on or after July 1 in a year where there is a late state budget.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 747 (Kehoe-D) Physicians requirements: continuing education

Requires physicians and surgeons, registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, psychologists, psychiatric technicians, marriage and family therapists, and clinical social workers, to take at least one continuing education course that provides instruction on cultural competency, sensitivity, and best practices for providing adequate care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons on and after 1/1/13, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 824 (Negrete McLeod-D) Opticians: regulation

Requires a registered dispensing optician that acquires ownership of a business to file a notice with the Medical Board of California within 10 days of the completion of the transfer of ownership.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2011

SB 850 (Leno-D) Medical records: confidential information

Requires electronic health record systems or electronic medical record systems to automatically record and preserve any change or deletion of any electronically stored medical information and enacts related requirements. Clarifies that existing law relating to the destruction of medical records applies to medical information, thus including information kept in both physical and electronic form.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2011

SB 924 (Walters-R) Physical therapists: direct access to services

Allows patients to initiate physical therapy treatment directly from a licensed physical therapist, provided the treatment is within the scope of practice of a physical therapist.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 933 (Runner-R) Speech-language pathology and audiology

Repeals the Hearing Aid Dispensers Licensing Law, and recasts these provisions into the Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers Licensure Act.
Chapter 449, Statutes of 2011

SB 943 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Healing arts

Makes several non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive or technical changes to various provisions pertaining to health-related regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs and professions regulated primarily under the Business and Professions Code.
Chapter 350, Statutes of 2011

SR 20 (Hernandez-D) California Case Management Week

Recognizes the second week of October, on an annual basis, as California Case Management Week, and urges all Californians to recognize the important contributions of case managers, and the contributions of all chapters of the Case Management Society of America in California, to increase the quality of health care in California.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 248* (Perea-D) Physicians: personal income tax: qualified medical services

Authorizes a credit against personal income taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/12, and before 1/1/17, in an amount equal to 25% of the value of qualified medical services, as defined, personally provided by a qualified taxpayer during the taxable year.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 352 (Eng-D) Radiologist assistants

Enacts the Radiologist Assistant Practice Act, which requires licensure and regulation of radiologist assistants by the Medical Board of California and prescribes the services that may be performed by a radiologist assistant under the supervision of a qualified physician and surgeon.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 375 (Skinner-D) Hospital employees: workers' compensation

Provides, with respect to hospital employees who provide direct patient care in an acute care hospital, that the term "injury" include a blood borne infectious disease or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus that develops or manifests itself during the period of the person's employment with the hospital. Creates a disputable presumption that the above injury arises out of and in the course of the person's employment if it develops or manifests, as specified.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 377 (Solorio-D) Pharmacy

Provides that a hospital pharmacy license can include a hospital pharmacy physically located outside of the hospital within a 100-mile radius of the hospital (centralized pharmacy). Authorizes the centralized pharmacy to deliver non-patient specific unit dose medications to hospitals and to prepare both pill/capsule, as well as injectable and intravenous medications for hospital patients.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 378 (Solorio-D) Pharmacy products: workers' compensation

Prohibits physicians from referring a patient for pharmacy goods if that physician has a financial interest in the entity that receives the referral. Prohibits the maximum reasonable fees paid for pharmacy services and drugs from including specified reductions in the relevant Medi-Cal payment system.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2011

AB 412 (Williams-D) Emergency medical services

Reenacts, until 1/1/14, provisions that sunset on 1/1/11, authorizing Santa Barbara County to collect a penalty of $5 for every $10 in base fines imposed on criminal offenses and specified Vehicle Code offenses to be deposited in a Maddy Emergency Services Fund, for the purpose of supporting emergency medical services.
Chapter 268, Statutes of 2011

AB 415 (Logue-R) Healing arts: telehealth

Establishes the Telehealth Advancement Act of 2011 to revise and update existing law to facilitate the advancement of telehealth as a service delivery mode in managed care and the Medi-Cal Program.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2011

AB 437 (Pan-D) Department of Public Health: dental program

Deletes the requirement that the licensed dentist appointed to administer the Department of Public Health's dentist program be licensed in California.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 536 (Ma-D) Physicians and surgeons

Requires the Medical Board of California (MBC), upon receipt of a certified copy of an expungement order from a licensee, to post notification of the expungement order and the date of the expungement on MBC's Internet Web site within six months.
Chapter 379, Statutes of 2011

AB 575 (Hayashi-D) Dietetics

Establishes the Dietitians Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate dietitians.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 589 (Perea-D) Medical school scholarships

Establishes the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program. The program will award up to $105,000 per awardee to eligible medical or osteopathic school students over the course of their medical school curricula. Requires the awardee practice for three years in either a clinic or a medical practice located in a medically underserved area.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 655 (Hayashi-D) Healing arts: peer review

Revises the medical peer review process by requiring a peer review body to respond to the request of another peer review body and produce specified information concerning a licentiate under review.
Chapter 380, Statutes of 2011

AB 678* (Pan-D) Medi-Cal: supplemental provider reimbursement

AB 761 (Roger Hernández-D) Optometrists

Allows a licensed optometrist to perform clinical laboratory tests or examinations that are classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988, if the results of the tests can be lawfully utilized within his/her practice. Includes licensed optometrists in the definition of "laboratory director" for purposes of clinical laboratory tests or examinations classified as waived under CLIA.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 783 (Hayashi-D) Licensed physical therapists: professional corporations

Adds licensed physical therapists and licensed occupational therapists to the list of licensed health care professionals who under existing law could be shareholders, officers, directors, or professional employees of a medical corporation, podiatric medical corporation or chiropractic corporation, so long as the sum of all shares owned by the licensed persons does not exceed 49% of the total number of shares of the professional corporation, as specified.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 824 (Chesbro-D) Physician services: rural hospitals

Establishes the Rural Hospital Physician and Surgeon Services Demonstration Project (demonstration project), which permits a rural hospital, whose service area includes a medically underserved area, a medically underserved population, or that has been federally designated as a health professional shortage area, to employ one or more physicians, not to exceed 10 physicians at one time, as specified, to provide medical services.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 847 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Pharmacy: clinics

Authorizes an outpatient setting or an ambulatory surgical center, as specified, to purchase drugs at wholesale for administration or dispensing, subject to the requirements applicable to surgical clinics, and deletes the requirement that a clinic operating under these provisions be licensed by the Board of Pharmacy and makes that licensure optional. Specifies that the Board is authorized to inspect only a clinic that is licensed by the Board.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 895* (Halderman-R) Physicians: personal income tax: credit

Allows a personal income tax credit equal to 25% of the value of emergency medical services personally provided by a physician who is eligible, but who has not received reimbursement for those emergency medical services pursuant to the Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 926* (Hayashi-D) Physicians and surgeons: direct employment

Reenacts, until 1/1/22, the pilot project, which allowed qualified district hospitals to employ a physician and surgeon, if the hospital did not interfere with, control, or otherwise direct the professional judgment of the physician and surgeon. Allows all qualified district hospitals to employ not more than 50 physicians and surgeons. Requires the Medical Board of California to report to the Legislature by 10/1/20, on the effectiveness of the pilot project.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 956 (Roger Hernández-D) Marriage and family therapy: interns and trainees

Requires a marriage and family therapist intern and a marriage and family therapist trainee, prior to performing professional services, to provide each client or patient with the name of his/her employer and indicate that he/she is under the supervision of a licensed person, as specified, and requires any advertisement by or on behalf of an intern or trainee to include specified information. Requires an intern's registration number to be disclosed to clients and patients and in advertisements.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2011

AB 1059 (Huffman-D) Health professionals: emergency medical care

Adds new data elements to the annual report to the Legislature required of each county establishing a Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund regarding the monies collected and disbursed.
Chapter 403, Statutes of 2011

AB 1127 (Brownley-D) Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct

Makes it unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to repeatedly fail, in the absence of good cause, to attend and participate in an interview scheduled by the mutual agreement of the physician and surgeon and the Medical Board of California (MBC). States that this provision applies only to a physician and surgeon who is the subject of an investigation by the MBC.
Chapter 115, Statutes of 2011

AB 1205 (Bill Berryhill-R) Licensed behavior analysts

Requires the Board of Behavioral Sciences to license behavioral analysts and assistant behavioral analysts, on and after 1/1/15. Standards for licensure include specified higher education and training, fieldwork, passage of relevant examinations, and national board accreditation. Requires the licensure program to be supported through fees on licensees.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1245 (Williams-D) Emergency medical services

Authorizes the Emergency Medical Services Authority to adopt regulations for state approval of standards for an emergency medical responder training course that meets or exceeds national guidelines, as specified.
(Held at Senate Desk)

AB 1267 (Halderman-R) Physicians and surgeons: certificate

Requires a physician and surgeon's certificate to be automatically placed on inactive status during any period of time that the certificate holder is incarcerated after conviction of a misdemeanor, and requires the reason for this inactive status to be disclosed on the Internet Web site of the Medical Board of California (MBC). Also requires a certificate placed on inactive status, pursuant to this bill, to be returned by the MBC to its prior or appropriate status within five business days of receiving notice, as specified by the MBC via regulations, that the physician and surgeon is no longer incarcerated.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2011

AB 1360 (Swanson-D) Physicians and surgeons: employment

Permits, until 12/31/22, a health care district to employ physicians and surgeons and charge for their professional services.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1387 (Solorio-D) Health Professionals: emergency medical services

Revises existing statute pertaining to the role of city, county, and fire districts in the provision of prehospital emergency medical services.
(On Senate Inactive File)

Contains the provisions of the 8/11/11 version of AB 210 (R. Hernandez-D), which was subsequently amended to address a different subject matter.

ACR 35 (Roger Hernández-D) National Surgical Technologist Week

Recognizes and declares the week of 9/18/11 through 9/24/11 as National Surgical Technologist Week in California.
Resolution Chapter 103, Statutes of 2011

ACR 61 (Hayashi-D) California Nurses Week

Proclaims May 6 through 12, annually, as California Nurses Week in recognition of the contributions that all nurses have made to the health and safety of all Californians and to express appreciation to all of the state's nurses; and asks Californians to honor all nurses who provide the highest quality health care services to the public.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 13 (Lara-D) Graduate medical education

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to continue to provide resources to increase the supply of physicians in California, in order to improve access to care, particularly for Californians in rural areas and members of underrepresented ethnic groups, and to consider solutions that increase the number of graduate medical education residency positions to keep pace with the growing numbers of medical school graduates, and the growing need for physicians in California.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2011

Foster Care

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SB 121 (Liu-D) Foster children: pupils: special education

Specifies the process that must be followed before a foster youth may be placed in a nonpublic school, and places new requirements on those institutions, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and education rights holders.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 578 (Negrete McLeod-D) Schools: pupils in foster care: course credit

Requires a school district or county office of education to accept coursework satisfactorily completed by a pupil in foster care while attending another school and to award full or partial credit for such coursework, as specified.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2011

SB 699 (Runner-R) Foster care: pupil instruction: graduation requirements

Makes the exemption, in existing law, from local graduation requirements applicable only to a pupil who transfers between schools during or after the pupil's third year of high school and who is currently in foster care or, at the time of transfer, was in foster care, as specified. Requires the school district to notify a pupil who may qualify for the exemption and the person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil and inform them of whether or not the pupil qualifies for the exemption, within 30 days of the pupil's transfer. Prohibits the school district from exempting the pupil from local graduation requirements if the pupil or the adult holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil decide it is not in the best interests of the pupil to be exempted.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCR 44 (Liu-D) Foster Care Month 2011

Designates the month of May 2011 as Foster Care Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 43, Statutes of 2011

AB 159 (Beall-D) Foster family agencies: community care facilities

AB 181 (Portantino-D) Foster youth: mental health bill of rights

Establishes the Foster Youth Mental Health Bill of Rights.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 194 (Beall-D) Foster youth: higher education

Requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California to grant priority enrollment for registration to a foster youth or former foster youth. Sunsets on 1/1/17.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2011

AB 198 (Beall-D) Adoption: fingerprinting of adoptive parents

Requires the Department of Social Services, the county social services department, or a licensed adoption agency or foster family agency to require each foster-to-adoption applicant, as defined, to submit fingerprint images and related information to the Department of Justice for purposes of conducting a criminal records check that shall apply to both an approval for adoption and licensure as a foster family home or certified family home of a licensed foster family agency, as provided.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 212* (Beall-D) California Fostering Connections to Success Act

Makes various clarifying and substantive changes to the California Fostering Connections to Success Act of 2010 in order to ensure proper implementation on 1/1/12, and also makes changes to existing state law in order to comply with various provisions of federal law.
Chapter 459, Statutes of 2011

AB 709 (Brownley-D) Foster children: school placement: immunization records

Clarifies that foster youth must be immediately enrolled in a school even if the pupil is unable to produce his/her immunization records prior to enrollment.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2011

AB 735 (Mitchell-D) Foster youth: interns and student assistants

Requires state agencies, when hiring for internships and student assistant positions, to give preference to qualified applicants who are, or have been, dependent children in foster care, requires the preference to be granted to applicants up to 26 years of age, requires the county welfare department to provide dependent children with information notifying them that they may be eligible for this preference, and defines "preference" to mean priority over similarly qualified applicants for placement in the position.
Chapter 464, Statutes of 2011

AB 846 (Bonilla-D) Foster youth: identity theft

Adds the Department of Social Services (DSS) to the list of entities authorized to request credit reports on behalf of specified foster youth and clarifies the procedures for DSS and the county welfare departments to use when handling suspected identity theft that may be discovered during this process. Requires the Office of Privacy Protection to, in consultation with the DSS and other stakeholders, to develop a list of nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies that assist consumers with identity theft issues.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 863 (Bonilla-D) Foster care: insurance

Expands the Foster Family Home and Small Family Home Insurance Fund liability insurance coverage for foster parents to include all criminal or intentional acts committed against a foster child, unless committed by the foster parents themselves.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1110 (Lara-D) Foster youth

Requires additional reporting and court oversight concerning the receipt of Supplemental Security Income for foster youth
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Public Social Services

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SB 12 (Corbett-D) CalWORKs stage 3 child care

Appropriates $250 million from the General Fund, for transfer to the State Controller to Section A of the State School Fund, for restoration of funding for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) stage 3 child care.
(In Senate Education Committee)

A similar bill is AB 1 (John A. Perez-D) which is on the Assembly Inactive File.

SB 43 (Liu-D) CalFresh Employment and Training program

Seeks to make the state's CalFresh Employment and Training program more effective and equitable.
Chapter 507, Statutes of 2011

SB 72* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Human services

Makes statutory changes necessary to implement Human Services-related portions of the 2011-12 Budget. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Web site for details.)
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2011

SB 73 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)

Directs that if Section 3.94 (b) of the 2011 Budget Act is operative, the Department of Social Services shall implement an across-the-board reduction in IHSS of 20 percent, beginning 1/1/12, with specified notice requirements and exceptions.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 2011

SB 89 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Social and Health services realignment

Shifts the portion of the 0.65 rate of the Vehicle License Fund that is allocated for general local government purposes, to the specific purpose of 2011 public-safety realignment.
Chapter 35, Statutes of 2011

SB 91 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Adult day health care centers

SB 93 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Health and human services

Makes a technical correction to correctly identify the component, subdivision (b), of Control Section 3.94 of the Budget Act of 2011 that would cause the reduction in In-Home Supportive Services to be implemented under the triggers included in the budget package, and (2) adds an appropriation allowing this bill to take effect immediately upon enactment.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2011

SB 97 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Adult day health care

Contains a technical change to the date of implementation of a Medi-Cal provision contained in AB 97 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 3, Statutes of 2011 (budget trailer bill, March 2011).
(On Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 123 (Liu-D) California Runaway, Homeless, and Exploited Youth Act

Requires the California Emergency Management Agency, subject to the availability of adequate resources, to develop a statewide plan for runaway, homeless, and exploited youth in collaboration with the Senate Office of Research and various stakeholders.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 180 (Corbett-D) Public social services: veterans services

Adds to the definition of "public social services" those activities and functions administered or supervised by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the California Department of Veterans Affairs.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2011

SB 320 (Wright-D) Public social services: hearings

Allows the Department of Social Services (DSS) to develop policies for hearing settlements, including the timely issuance of aid paid pending, and for the expedited adjudication of cases where the county fails to meet its burden of proof, provided the policies are cost neutral or result in cost savings. DSS will be allowed to set up a workgroup to meet with stakeholders to develop these policies.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 345 (Wolk-D) Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

Requires the Department of Aging to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization selected by a panel established by the Department, as specified, to operate as the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and requires the contracting nonprofit organization to hire a qualified person to serve as the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman after consulting with the Department’s Director and other stakeholders on the selection. Provides that the Office shall carry out all the duties prescribed by the federal Older Americans Act, and makes other conforming changes.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 411 (Price-D) Home Care Services Act of 2011

Establishes the Home Care Services Act of 2011 requiring the Department of Social Services to license private agencies that provide non-medical home care services, and to certify home care aides.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 417 (Dutton-R) Electronic benefits transfer cards

Requires the electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system used in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids and CalFresh programs to be designed to prevent recipients from using the EBT card to purchase alcohol or tobacco products.
(Failed passage in Senate Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 471 (Rubio-D) CalFresh

Requires the Department of Social Services to modify the list of allowable food items purchasable under CalFresh to prohibit recipients of CalFresh from purchasing with CalFresh benefits sweetened beverages containing more than 10 calories per cup, except that CalFresh benefits will be authorized to be used to purchase juice without added sugar, milk products, and milk substitutes, even if sweetened. Requires the Department to seek all necessary federal approvals to implement these provisions.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 472 (Correa-D) Early intervention services: assessments

Requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop an integrated assessment or a process to coordinate multiple assessments to assess the needs of children receiving special education and related services.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 480 (Vargas-D) Public social services: domestic violence

Does the following with respect to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program: (1) requires counties to proactively seek information at the time of application or redetermination for aid to determine whether or not the applicant or recipient is or has been a victim of domestic violence, (2) requires counties to waive for the purposes of CalWORKs, conditions of eligibility, program requirements, or the time limit for good cause for an applicant or recipient who is a victim of abuse, under specified conditions, (3) requires any month in which good cause exists for excusing participants from welfare to work activities from being counted as a month of aid towards the CalWORKs 48-month time limit, (4) requires counties to disregard specified income and resources for the purposes of determining eligibility of aid for a victim of abuse, and (5) requires certain cases to be excluded in determining whether a county has met work participation requirements under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 486* (Dutton-R) California Children and Families Program: funding

Eliminates existing allocations of Proposition 10 tobacco tax revenues to both state and county commissions, and instead uses those funds to backfill the General Fund for the Healthy Families and Medi-Cal programs.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 529 (Correa-D) Seniors: community-based services: long-term care

Requires the Department of Aging, in consultation with the California Commission on Aging, the area agencies on aging, and the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, to develop a long-term care strategic plan, as specified, to provide guidance and temporary funding for community-based programs that serve seniors. Requires the Department to submit the plan to the Legislature by 7/1/12.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 558 (Simitian-D) Elder and dependent adults: abuse or neglect

Changes the evidentiary standard of proof for elder and dependent abuse or neglect cases from clear and convincing to preponderance of the evidence. Clarifies that punitive damages may not be imposed against an employer unless the requirements for other civil case exemplary damages against employers are satisfied; this requirement will not apply to the recovery of compensatory damages or attorney's fees and costs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 718 (Vargas-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting

Allows mandated reporters to report known or suspected elder abuse over the Internet, and requires an Internet report to contain the same information elements as a telephone report. Allows a written abuse report that is currently required as a follow-up to the telephone report to be submitted through a confidential Internet reporting tool, if the county or long-term care ombudsman program chooses to implement such a system. Requires that county ombudsmen who implement the Internet reporting option report to the relevant legislative policy committees on the effectiveness of this reporting tool.
Chapter 373, Statutes of 2011

SB 743 (Emmerson-R) Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund

Increases the General Fund loan amount and the corresponding Federal Funds (FFP) appropriation the State Controller must transfer to the continuously appropriated Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund if there is a late state budget from $1 billion General Fund and $1 billion FFP to $2 billion General Fund and $2 billion FFP. These funds will reimburse health care providers for services provided on or after July 1 in a year where there is a late state budget.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 803 (DeSaulnier-D) California Youth Leadership Project

Establishes the California Youth Leadership Project under the California Department of Education and creates a new scholarship program to support youth who participate in civic engagement programs that meet specified criteria. Establishes the California Youth Leadership Project Fund tax check-off program, for up to five years, to allow taxpayers to designate contributions to the Fund on their income tax returns to support the scholarship program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 842 (Rubio-D) California residency

Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop and maintain a program for the issuance of identification cards to members of the military and family as specified, and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to process the application forms and issue the identification cards. Upon the receipt of an identification card, the spouses, domestic partners and dependents of all non-citizen military personnel will be eligible for benefits from California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids, In-Home Supportive Services, Medi-Cal, the general assistance program, and the California Food Assistance Program. Urges the Regents of the University of California to provide an exemption from non-resident tuitions for qualified undocumented families of noncitizens members of the military.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 930 (Evans-D) In-home supportive services: enrollment and fingerprinting

Repeals requirements that In-Home Supportive Services recipients provide fingerprint images and that provider timesheets include spaces for provider and recipient fingerprints, repeals the prohibition against providers using a post office box address to receive their paychecks, and corrects problems with the provider appeals process.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2011

SCA 1X1 (Steinberg-D) Public social services: realignment

Enacts the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2011 which transfers responsibility for various public social services and health programs to counties.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

A similar bill is ACA 2X1 (Blumenfield-D) which died in Assembly Budget Committee.

SCR 55 (Liu-D) California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month

Designates November 2011 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month, and recognizes the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
(Held at Assembly Desk)

AB 1 (John A. Pérez-D) CalWORKs Stage 3: education finance

Restores $60 million in funding for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Stage 3 child care development services for fiscal year 2010-11, retroactive to 11/1/10.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

A similar bill is SB 12 (Corbett-D) which is in Senate Education Committee.

AB 6 (Fuentes-D) CalWORKs and CalFresh

Streamlines a number of issues related to the administration of CalFresh (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program and improves nutritional outcomes.
Chapter 501, Statutes of 2011

AB 69 (Beall-D) Senior nutrition benefits

Allows counties to identify, through the Social Security Administration benefits database, seniors who may be eligible for CalFresh benefits in order to enroll them in the program and improve their nutrition.
Chapter 502, Statutes of 2011

AB 96 (Assembly Budget Committee) Keeping Adults Free from Institutions program

AB 99* (Assembly Budget Committee) California Children and Families Act of 1998: use of funds

Provides for $1 billion to be deposited into The Children and Families Health and Human Services Fund from funds established under the California Children and Families Act for fiscal year 2011-12 only, and is necessary to enact provisions contained in the Budget Bill for 2011-12.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2011

AB 106 (Assembly Budget Committee) Human Services Budget Trailer Bill

Makes statutory changes necessary to implement Human Services-related portions of the 2011-12 budget.
Chapter 32, Statutes of 2011

AB 118 (Assembly Budget Committee) Public social services

Provides the statutory framework, allocation methodology, and the majority of the dedicated revenue to implement the Governors Public Safety Realignment.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2011

AB 138 (Beall-D) Elder Economic Planning Act of 2011

Establishes the Elder Economic Security Act of 2011 and requires the Department of Aging to report the Elder Economic Security Standard Index (Index) for each service area in its state plan and use it as a reference when making decisions about allocating its existing resources. Each area agency on aging will be required to use the Index as a reference when making decisions about allocating existing resources to specify the costs in the private market of meeting the basic needs of elders in each planning and service area.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2011

AB 152 (Fuentes-D) Food banks: grants: voluntary contributions: income tax

Provides a tax credit to California growers for the costs of fresh fruits or vegetables donated to California food banks. Establishes the State Emergency Food Assistance Program within the Department of Social Services and allows for contributions to the Program for the purchase of California grown fresh fruits or vegetables. Requires the Department of Public Health to apply for federal funds available for promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2011

AB 373 (Garrick-R) CalWORKs: time limits for aid

Reduces the number of months, from 48 to 24, that a California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program recipient can remain on aid, and makes related conforming changes.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 493 (Perea-D) Public Social Services: electronic benefits transfer cards

Codifies parts of an executive order by banning the use of electronic benefit transfer cards at automated teller machines located in gambling establishments and adult entertainment establishments
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 574 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly

Increases the maximum number of allowable contracts between the Department of Health Care Services and the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) from 10 programs to 15 programs, and updates statute to reflect PACE's status change from a demonstration project to a state optional benefit.
Chapter 367, Statutes of 2011

AB 594 (Yamada-D) Department of Aging and Adult Services

Enacts the Community Care Modernization Act of 2011. Establishes the Department of Adult and Aging Services in the California Health and Human Services Agency, for the purpose of maintaining individuals in their own homes, or the least restrictive homelike environments for as long as possible, by integrating services under a single agency, to establish stronger, more focused leadership for home- and community-based services for all older adults and persons with disabilities. Provides for the appointment of the Director of the Department by the Governor, and specifies the Director’s duties. Requires the Department to convene a stakeholder committee to assist the Department in coordinating with other state agencies to transfer programs to the Department, as specified.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 596 (Carter-D) CalWORKs: recipients: child care

Requires the California Department of Education to collaborate with welfare rights and legal services advocates to develop and adopt regulations and other policy statements to provide California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program recipients of child care the same level of due process protections and procedural protections that are afforded to public assistance recipients pursuant to specified sections in the Welfare and Institutions Code and their corresponding regulations.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 671 (Portantino-D) Child welfare services: education and training requirements

Requires all county social work personnel newly hired after 1/1/12, and all county social work supervisors to meet specified education and experience criteria, including the requirement for a master's degree from a graduate school of social work or specified master's degree from an accredited or state-approved graduate school in addition to field practice and coursework.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 730 (Grove-R) CalWORKs eligibility: periodic drug testing

Requires a recipient of California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) aid to undergo drug testing on a periodic basis, as a condition of continued eligibility. Specifies those substances for which drug testing will be conducted. Requires a recipient who fails a periodic drug test to successfully complete a one-year drug treatment program. Discontinues the individual’s aid under the CalWORKS program upon failure of the individual to participate in testing or to successfully complete the required drug treatment program. Requires the Department of Social Services to seek any federal approvals necessary for the implementation of the bill.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 748 (Yamada-D) Continuing care retirement communities: contracts

Transfers specified duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Department of Social Services to the Department of Insurance, as prescribed.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 756 (Mitchell-D) Electronic public social services benefits

Makes Automated Teller Machine withdrawals or Point-of-Sale transactions free of surcharges for welfare recipients in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program when they use their state-issued electronic benefits transfer card.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 784* (Yamada-D) Adult day health care

AB 808 (Skinner-D) CalFresh: transitional benefits and recertification

Requires county welfare departments to provide households that are receiving transitional CalFresh benefits with a recertification notice that specifies an appointment date and time to assess the recipient's eligibility for regular CalFresh benefits.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 823 (Dickinson-D) Children's Cabinet of California

Establishes the Children's Cabinet of California to serve, until 1/1/19, as an advisory body responsible for improving the collaboration among agencies that provide services to the children and youth of the state, as specified. Provides that the Cabinet shall be comprised of, among others, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, the Chief Justice of California, or his/her designee, and the heads of various specified state agencies. Requires the Cabinet to provide recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature every odd-numbered year. Becomes operative upon a determination by the Department of Finance that sufficient federal or private funds are available. Makes various legislative findings and declarations.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 828 (Swanson-D) Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies

Provides that a conviction for a drug felony does not make an individual ineligible to receive CalFresh benefits, if otherwise eligible.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 833 (Yamada-D) CalWORKs: maximum aid payments

Revises, commencing 1/1/12, the exceptions to the maximum aid payment for families under the CalWORKs program, also referred to as the Maximum Family Grant rule, to include an exception for a child who is disabled, pursuant to specified federal law.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 876 (Valadao-R) In-Home Supportive Services program

Narrows the circumstances that allow a provider of in-home supportive services to sign, on the client's behalf, the form that allows the client to hire a provider with a criminal record that includes various felonies.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2011

AB 899 (Yamada-D) Home Care Services Act of 2011

Establishes the Home Care Services Act to license and regulate home care services for the elderly, frail, and persons with disabilities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 924 (Logue-R) CalWORKs eligibility and administration

Terminates aid, in child-only households, if the parent or caretaker relative is not meeting the federal work participation requirements.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 949 (Gorell-R) CalWORKs eligibility: fraudulent representations: fines

Doubles the fines on individuals convicted of fraud committed to obtain or retain aid under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 959 (Jones-R) CalWORKs and CalFresh: reporting

Provides a one-month extension to participants in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids and CalFresh programs for filing required reports in order to avoid re-application. Provides that its provisions will not be implemented until the Department of Social Services obtains all necessary federal approvals.
Chapter 506, Statutes of 2011

AB 1015 (Charles Calderon-D) California Child and Family Service Review System

Requires each county to consult with specified stakeholders when developing county self-assessments, county improvement plans, or similar reports, as specified. Requires counties to include in their child and family services review a discussion of operational improvements that could be implemented at a cost savings or within existing resources.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1140 (Donnelly-R) CalWORKs: eligibility: time limit

Reduces the number of months that aid from the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program is provided to low-income families.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1182 (Roger Hernández-D) CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits: vehicles

Excludes the value of a motor vehicle from consideration when determining or redetermining California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) eligibility, and deletes existing requirements on county welfare departments for assessing the value of a motor vehicle for the purposes of CalWORKs eligibility.
Vetoed

AB 1400 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Public social services

Brings code references to CalFresh up to date, and makes technical changes to bring other code sections up to date.
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2011

AB 1415* (Blumenfield-D) Adult day health care.

Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for an orderly conversion of adult day health care (ADHC) from a Medi-Cal benefit to a program operating under a specified waiver. Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish the Keeping Adults Free from Institutions program for the purposes of transitioning individuals from the ADHC program to a program under a waiver or to any other supportive services, if appropriate. Requires the Department to take all appropriate action to obtain expedited approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to convert the ADHC program to a federal waiver.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 19X1* (Blumenfield-D) Long-term care

Makes changes to Medi-Cal Program reimbursement for nursing homes for implementation of the Budget Bill for 2011-12.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session

ACA 2X1 (Blumenfield-D) Public social services: realignment

A similar bill is SCA 1X1 (Steinberg-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

Other Public Health and Safety Legislation

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SB 20 (Padilla-D) Food facilities: menu labeling

Repeals current law governing menu labeling requirements for food facilities and, instead, conforms state law to federal law.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2011

SB 65 (Strickland-R) Pupil health: prescription pancreatic enzymes

Provides that any pupil who has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and is required to take, during the regular schoolday, medication prescribed for him/her by a physician or surgeon may be assisted by the school nurse or other designated school personnel or may carry and self-administer prescription pancreatic enzymes if the school district receives the appropriate written statements, as prescribed, from the physician or surgeon and the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 105 (Yee-D) Public safety: snow sport helmets

Requires persons under 18 years of age to wear properly fitted and fastened snow sport helmets while downhill skiing or snowboarding, and establishes a penalty for skiers, snowboarders, and/or their parent or legal guardian for noncompliance.
Vetoed

SB 129 (Leno-D) Medical marijuana: qualified patients and primary caregivers

Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of a person's status as a qualified patient (medical marijuana user) or on the basis of the person's positive drug test for marijuana, provided the person is a qualified patient and the medical use of marijuana does not occur at the place of employment or during hours of employment. Contains an exception to the prohibition when an employer hires a person in a safety-sensitive position, as specified. Creates, for a person who has suffered discrimination as described above, a civil action for damages, injunctive relief, attorney's fees and costs, and any other appropriate equitable relief to protect the peaceable exercise of the right(s) secured. Contains a savings clause that states nothing in the section shall prohibit the employer from terminating the employment, or taking other corrective action against a person who is impaired on the property or premises of the place of employment or during hours of employment because of the medical use of marijuana.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 264 (Correa-D) Recreational activities: skateboard parks: liability

Removes the sunset date on existing law relative to skateboarding at a local public facility. Requires copies of the records of claims and law suits be filed annually by local public agencies with the Legislature, as specified.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2011

SB 272 (DeSaulnier-D) Organ donation: employment

Clarifies the Michelle Maykin Memorial Donation Protection Act to assist employer compliance with a leave of absence for an organ donation.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 2011

SB 278 (Gaines-R) Public safety: ski resorts

Requires ski resorts to prepare an annual safety plan and make it available to the public the same day a request is received at the resort. Requires a monthly report with specified details about any fatal incidents at the resort which resulted from a recreational activity to be available within 30 days at the resort, and requires a ski resort to establish a signage policy and a safety padding policy.
Vetoed

SB 303* (Padilla-D) Food safety: food handlers

Clarifies that existing law requiring a food handler to obtain a food handler card only applies to food handlers employed at a food facility that sells food for human consumption to the general public, requires that after 1/1/12, a food handler must obtain a food handler card exclusively from a nationally accredited training provider, and clarifies that snack bars, prisons and county jails, and elderly nutrition programs are exempt from the food handler certification requirements.
Chapter 233, Statutes of 2011

SB 394 (DeSaulnier-D) Healthy Schools Act of 2011

Mandates that schools send at least one person, at least once every three years, to integrated pest management training conducted by the Department of Pesticide Regulation.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 413 (La Malfa-R) Disposition of human remains

Allows for the disposal of human remains when a permit for disposition has been requested and obtained from the local registrar, among other requirements. Provides that a permit for disposal shall be deemed issued if no action is taken by a local registrar within three weeks after a request for a permit is made.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 416 (Kehoe-D) Health: survey

Requires, not later than 1/1/15, the Department of Public Health and the Department of Health Care Services to collaborate with the University of California, to include specified information related to gender into the California Health Interview Survey. Requires, no later than 1/1/15, the above departments to collaborate with the California state coordinator for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to include specified information related to gender into the system.
Vetoed

SB 482 (Kehoe-D) Public beach contamination: standards: testing: closing

Transfers primary jurisdiction for the beach water quality monitoring program from the Department of Public Health to the State Water Resources Control Board.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2011

SB 484 (Rubio-D) Public records: health care services contract records

Provides the Legislative Analyst's Office with the same level of access to confidential California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation health care services contracts, including rates, as the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and the Bureau of State Audits, as specified.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2011

SB 514 (Simitian-D) Dextromethorphan: sale to minors prohibited

Enacts a new crime, punishable as an infraction, for any person, retailer, corporation or retailer to willfully and knowingly provide dimenhydrinate or dextromethorphan (DXM) to a minor in an over-the-counter sale without a prescription, as specified; presumes that any transaction in which the defendant failed to check the identification of a person who did not appear to be at least 25 years of age violates this new crime; allows an affirmative defense where the seller demanded and reasonably relied on apparently valid proof of the purchaser's age, as specified; provides that a retail clerk is not criminally or civilly liable unless the clerk was a willful participant in an ongoing criminal conspiracy to violate this new crime; and requires a seller of over-the-counter DXM to use, if feasible, a cash register equipped with an age verification feature, as specified.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 2011

SB 623 (Kehoe-D) Vessels: marine antifouling paint

Restricts the use of copper antifouling paint on recreational vessels.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 676 (Leno-D) Industrial hemp

Creates an eight-year, four-county pilot project with respect to the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp. Defines "industrial hemp", as specified; redefines marijuana to exclude industrial hemp; allows the closely-regulated cultivation and processing of industrial hemp during the pilot period to conclude on 1/1/20; imposes a testing regimen to ensure program hemp has no psychoactive properties; implements the pilot project in Imperial, Kern, Kings, and San Joaquin Counties, except as specified; and requires the Attorney General and the Hemp Industries Association to submit reports to the Legislature by 1/1/18, regarding the economic and law enforcement impacts of industrial hemp cultivation.
Vetoed

SB 702 (Lieu-D) Dog licensing: microchip implants

Requires owners of an animal that is claimed or adopted from a shelter to implant a microchip in their animal upon release.
Vetoed

SB 709 (De León-D) Pupil health: comprehensive eye examinations

Creates the Voluntary Children's Vision Educational Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding projects that help educate parents and guardians about the need for children to receive comprehensive eye examinations prior to entering school. Requires the Fund to consist of specified money received by the state on a voluntary basis and provides that all money in the Fund is continuously appropriated to the California Department of Education without regard to fiscal years for expenditure by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 726 (Berryhill-R) Fire suppression: fire sprinkler systems

Authorizes, until 1/1/14, a county, by ordinance or resolution, to opt not to be subject to a regulation published in the California Building Standards Code requiring the installation of a fire sprinkler system in a single-family residential dwelling.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 737 (Walters-R) Organized camps

Clarifies statutes related to the licensing and regulation of license-exempt "organized camps" and expands the operating hours of the Afterschool Education and Safety Program.
Vetoed

SB 746 (Lieu-D) Tanning facilities

Prohibits the use of ultraviolet tanning devices by persons under the age of 18.
Chapter 664, Statutes of 2011

SB 818 (Wolk-D) Food labeling: olive oil

Redefines California's olive oil labeling requirements, making technical yet substantive changes, to conform to United States labeling standards as outlined in the United States Standards for Grades of Olive Oil and Olive-Pomace Oil published in the Federal Register that took effect on 10/25/10 (federal regulations).
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2011

SB 847 (Correa-D) Medical Marijuana Program: zoning restrictions

Prohibits a medical marijuana cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment or provider that operates through a storefront or mobile retail outlet from being located within a 600-feet radius of a school unless the local governing entity (city council or board of supervisors) enacts an ordinance regulating the residential location of such medical marijuana entities.
Vetoed

SB 877 (Anderson-R) Public water systems: point-of-use treatment

Limits regulations to public water systems with less than 2,500 service connections and permits the emergency regulations to remain in effect until the earlier of 1/1/16, or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations.
(In Senate Environmental Quality)

SB 886 (Corbett-D) Sprinkler fitters: licensing

Prohibits any person from installing or modifying a fire sprinkler system, a wet standpipe system, or an automatic fire extinguishing system without a certificate of registration issued by the State Fire Marshal.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

SB 893* (Wolk-D) Health Improvement Act of 2011

Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to ensure that the design of the review system recognizes and is coordinated with existing performance review and accountability systems. Requires the Agency to establish mechanisms for the identification and promotion of best practices in the delivery of health and human services. Directs the Agency to draft an information sharing plan to enable the exchange of information and data necessary to evaluate health and human programs and promote the adoption of best practices.
(In Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 932 (Leno-D) Cellular telephones: notice requirement

Requires cellular telephone retailers to prominently display a notice (1) adjacent to the purchase price at the retail location, (2) on the retailers' Internet Web site, and (3) on the exterior packaging of the phone. Requires the following notice: "This device emits radiofrequency (RF) energy. Do not hold or carry it directly against the body when connected to a network or you may be exposed to levels greater than the safety limit established by the Federal Communications Commission. Consult the user's manual for additional information on safe use."
(On Senate Inactive File)

SCR 40 (Corbett-D) Emergency services: earthquake preparedness

Declares the month of April as California Earthquake Preparedness Month.
Resolution Chapter 27, Statutes of 2011

SCR 47 (DeSaulnier-D) Health in All Policies

Requests that the Strategic Growth Council and the member agencies, departments, and offices of the Health in All Policies Task Force, as established by Executive Order S-04-10, provide leadership on implementing the recommendations put forth in the Health in All Policies Task Force Report and encourages interdepartmental collaboration with an emphasis on the complex environmental factors that contribute to poor health and inequities when developing policies.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SCR 51 (Lieu-D) Microchip Your Animal Day 2011

Declares 7/7/11 to be Microchip Your Animal Day 2011 in California, and requests that Californians observe this day by having their dogs and cats microchipped and by supporting organizations that provide no cost and affordable microchipping services.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 54 (Alquist-D) Pain Awareness Month and Women In Pain Awareness Day

Recognizes September 2011 as Pain Awareness Month and calls upon all Californians to observe that month by learning how to improve the quality of life of Californians suffering from pain. Recognizes 9/16/11 as "Women in Pain Awareness Day" to draw public attention to the gender disparity in pain assessment and treatment in the United States.
Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2011

SJR 5 (Cannella-R) Cooking With Kids Day

Designates every Sunday as Cooking With Kids Day, and memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to act likewise and adopt a resolution to encourage families across the country to pledge to cook healthy meals with their kids at least once a week and to adopt policies to help improve access to affordable and healthy food and beverages.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2011

SJR 8 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) TRICARE cost increases

Urges the United States Congress to make itself the sole authority on determining future TRICARE cost increases and to base those increases on United States Department of Labor statistics.
(In Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)

SJR 9 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Veterans' health care

Urges the Congress of the United States to require the United States Department of Veterans Affairs not abrogate the desires of President Lincoln to care for those most needy and to remember the promises made to World War II veterans.
(In Senate Veterans Affair Committee)

AB 4 (Miller-R) Human remains: hydrolysis

Authorizes the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to license and regulate hydrolysis facilities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 25 (Hayashi-D) Concussions and head injuries: school districts

Requires a school district that elects to offer athletics, to implement a concussion and head injury identification process, and requires a concussion and head injury information sheet to be signed and returned by an athlete and an athlete's parent or guardian prior to the start of the athlete's season of practice or competition.
Chapter 456, Statutes of 2011

AB 70 (Monning-D) California Health and Human Services Agency: public health

Requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to direct the appropriate departments within the agency to apply for federal community transformation grants under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA), as specified. Requires the Agency to direct the appropriate departments within the Agency to make information regarding federal grant opportunities under the PPACA and, if applicable, the HHFKA available to local government agencies, local public health departments, school districts, state and local nonprofit organizations, and Indian tribes through existing channels, and by placing a link on each relevant department’s existing Internet Web site.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 88 (Huffman-D) Food labeling: genetically engineered food

Requires that genetically engineered (GE) salmon or other finfish products prepared from those fish or the progeny of GE fish be conspicuously disclosed on the label. GE fish without this label will be considered misbranded.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 99* (Assembly Budget Committee) California Children and Families Act of 1998: use of funds

AB 106 (Assembly Budget Committee) Human Services Budget Trailer Bill

Makes statutory changes necessary to implement Human Services-related portions of the 2011-12 Budget.
Chapter 32, Statutes of 2011

AB 174 (Monning-D) Health information exchange

Requires health information exchange demonstration projects permitted under existing law by the California Office of Health Information Integrity to be implemented with the full participation of health consumers and organizations concerned with protecting the privacy and security of patient information in the development of policies.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 190 (Wieckowski-D) Spinal cord injuries: Vehicle Code violations

Authorizes, pending an affirmative decision by the board of supervisors, each county to assess an additional penalty assessment of $3 on all Vehicle Code violations, other than parking fines, to provide additional support to the spinal cord injury research program at the University of California.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 192* (Logue-R) Health and safety: appropriation

Provides for an annual transfer of $500 million from the General Fund to the Local Safety and Protection Account.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 215 (Beall-D) Emergency services: Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act

Requires a county or court that has imposed a vehicle code fine, as specified, to transfer earmarked penalty assessment monies to the State Treasurer for deposit into the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act Fund on a monthly basis.
Chapter 392, Statutes of 2011

AB 223 (Ammiano-D) Compassionate Use Act of 1996: marijuana

Makes findings and declarations regarding medical marijuana, and provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to improve the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and the state’s medical marijuana program by establishing a comprehensive and multidisciplinary commission that is empowered to address issues regarding the legality and implementation of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and the state’s medical marijuana law. Provides that nothing in the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 authorizes a qualified patient or person with an identification card to engage in the smoking of medical marijuana under any of those specified circumstances, including within 600 feet of the grounds of a school, recreation center, or youth center, unless the medical use occurs within a residence or within a medical marijuana cooperative, collective, or dispensary.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 237 (Galgiani-D) Cosmetics: safety

Requires certain manufacturers of cosmetics sold in California to disclose their ingredients.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 258 (Hagman-R) Rabies: vaccinations

Exempts from the rabies vaccination requirement a dog that a licensed veterinarian determines, on an annual basis, will be endangered from the vaccine due to disease or other conditions that the veterinarian can verify and document.
Chapter 542, Statutes of 2011

AB 300 (Ma-D) Safe Body Art Act

Enacts the Safe Body Art Act providing for minimum statewide standards for the regulation of individuals in the business of tattooing, body piercing, and the application of permanent cosmetics. The provisions will take effect on 7/1/12.
Chapter 638, Statutes of 2011

AB 398 (Morrell-R) State Fire Marshal: certification

Authorizes the State Fire Marshal (SFM) to accept certification by the United States Department of Defense as a firefighter, as specified, as an alternative for the fire protection personnel training and certification standards for the position of Firefighter I established by the SFM.
Chapter 215, Statutes of 2011

AB 402 (Skinner-D) CalFresh program: School Lunch Program: information

Authorizes school districts and county offices of education to share information provided on the School Lunch Program application with the local agency that determines CalFresh program eligibility, or to an agency that determines eligibility for nutrition assistance programs. Requires each county to determine eligibility for CalFresh based on the information shared by a school district or county office of education and to enroll determined eligible pupils.
Chapter 504, Statutes of 2011

AB 433 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Birth certificates: issuance

Provides that an individual who has undergone a clinically appropriate treatment for the purpose of gender transition may file a petition with the superior court in any county in California to seek a judgment recognizing the change of gender, and if requested, the judgment must include an order for a new birth certificate.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2011

AB 441 (Monning-D) Health Planning

Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to develop guidelines for local and regional agencies to incorporate health issues into local or regional general plans and requires the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to include health issues in guidelines promulgated by CTC for the preparation of regional transportation plans.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 507 (Hayashi-D) Controlled substances: pain management

Makes technical and conforming changes to existing law related to severe chronic intractable pain and to the California Intractable Pain Treatment Act. Repeals provisions in existing law which permits the Department of Justice to employ a physician to interview and examine any patient in connection with the prescription possession or use of a controlled substance, requires the patient to submit to the interview and examination, and permits the physician to testify in prescribed administrative proceedings.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2011

AB 564 (Smyth-R) Municipal shelters: income taxes: voluntary contributions

Reestablishes the Municipal Shelter Spay-Neuter Fund. The Fund will be added to the income tax form when another voluntary contribution fund is removed or as soon as space is available and shall remain on the form for five years unless it is repealed earlier for failing to meet the minimum contribution amount.
Chapter 549, Statutes of 2011

AB 581 (John A. Pérez-D) Public health: food access

Creates the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative (CHFFI), the CHFFI Fund and the CHFFI Council, for the purpose of expanding access to healthy foods in underserved communities. Requires the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), by 7/1/12, to prepare recommended actions to be taken to promote food access within California. Authorizes DFA to create an advisory group, as specified. This authority remains in effect until 1/1/17.
Chapter 505, Statutes of 2011

AB 652 (Mitchell-D) Child health

Requires health insurers and health plans to cover initial health assessments of children in out-of-home placements and forensic medical evaluations when requested by child welfare agencies.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 659 (Silva-R) Vital records: certified copies

Requires, if a request for a certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record is made in person, that the requester produce government-issued photo identification, in addition to the existing requirement of a statement sworn under penalty of perjury. Specifies that a child, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, or domestic partner of a registrant, who requests a certified copy of a registrant’s birth, death, or marriage record, must be an adult or emancipated minor in order to satisfy the definition of an authorized person for that purpose.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 669 (Monning-D) Children's health : taxation: sweetened beverage tax

Enacts the Sweetened Beverage Tax Law, which imposes a tax of $0.01 per fluid ounce on "bottled sweetened beverages."
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 673 (John A. Pérez-D) Office of Multicultural Health: LGBT communities

Adds consideration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities to the duties of the Office of Multicultural Health.
Chapter 639, Statutes of 2011

AB 688 (Pan-D) Food and drugs: sale

Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of over-the-counter drugs past the expiration date or baby food and infant formula past the use by date. Non-compliance would result in a $10 per item, per day fine.
Chapter 681, Statutes of 2011

AB 693 (Huffman-D) Organ and tissue donation: vehicle registration

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide an online option for drivers to connect to the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 695 (Norby-R) Safety helmets: vehicles: motorcycles: exceptions

Exempts from the requirement to wear a helmet, motorcycle drivers who are 18 years or older and have either completed a motorcyclist safety training program meeting the standards established by the Department of the California Highway Patrol or been issued a class M1 license or endorsement, or comparable license from another jurisdiction, for two years or more.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 715 (Galgiani-D) Health care programs: provider reimbursement rates

Prevents a decrease in hospital inpatient rates for patients enrolled in certain state-funded health programs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 727 (Mitchell-D) Healthy and sustainable food: public contracts

Requires, beginning 1/1/14, at least 50% of food and beverages offered by a vendor in a vending machine on state property to meet accepted nutritional guidelines. Revises the definition of acceptable nutritional guidelines for this purpose, increasing from 35% to 50% of food, and 50% of beverages, that must meet these guidelines. Requires, beginning 1/1/14, or upon expiration of an existing contract, whichever occurs later, any food sold in a state-owned or state-leased building to meet the standard criteria for food and nutritional guidelines for concessions as determined by federal guidelines.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 731 (Jeffries-R) Firefighting

Annually appropriates $1,030,000 of revenue currently received by the state from specified tax and fee revenue sources for firefighting and emergency response purposes, including, but not limited to, the purchase of firefighting and rescue vehicles and equipment.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 762 (Smyth-R) Public health: medical waste

Deletes a provision in existing law that requires a specified extremely high heat technology (plasma arc technology) to be used on medical waste, biohazardous waste, and sharps waste in order for it to be consolidated into a common container, in effect permitting that waste to be incinerated in a common container. Permits that common container to be reusable.
Chapter 222, Statutes of 2011

AB 768* (Gatto-D) Male circumcision

Bars any city, county, or city and county from prohibiting or restricting the practice of male circumcision, or the exercise of parental authority to have a child circumcised.
Chapter 398, Statues of 2011

AB 839 (Brownley-D) Pupil nutrition: federal School Breakfast Program

Requires school districts that elect to apply for funding through the consolidated application process to, while in the process of approving the consolidated application, assess and discuss and consider specified issues concerning School Breakfast Program participation. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the importance of breakfast to the achievement of pupils.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 905 (Pan-D) Disposition of remains: authorized agent

Adds to the list of persons authorized to take control of a decedent's remains the person authorized to direct disposition (PADD) indicated on a United States Department of Defense Record of Emergency Data, DD Form 93 (DD Form 93). Operative only if the DD Form 93 and corresponding federal law are amended to allow the PADD to be any person, regardless of the relationship of the PADD to the decedent.
Chapter 321, Statutes of 2011

AB 916 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Health: underserved communities

Requires the Department of Public Health to assess the grants available pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for funding opportunities related to the use of promotores.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 983 (Perea-D) Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

Makes several changes to the laws governing the state's program for providing grants and loans for safe drinking water projects, including allowing certain disadvantaged communities to be eligible for grants up to 100% of project costs.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2011

AB 1014 (Fletcher-R) Food facilities: definition

Exempts premises set aside by a beer manufacturer, as defined, for beer tasting, from the definition of a food facility, thereby, exempting beer tasting premises from the provisions of the California Retail Food Code. Specifies that drinking receptacles provided for "common use" must be cleansed and sterilized thoroughly between uses.
Chapter 159, Statutes of 2011

AB 1118 (John A. Pérez-D) Organ donations: pupil instruction: health education

As it relates to promoting organ procurement and tissue donation in California schools, (1) requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission and the State Board of Education to ensure the health framework, adopted in the course of the next submission cycle, includes the subject of organ procurement and tissue donation in the instruction provided to pupils in grades 9-10, and (2) requires a school district, commencing with the 2012-13 school year, to provide pupils who are enrolled in health classes in grades 9 and 10 at least 15 minutes of instruction in organ procurement and tissue donation, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1194 (Block-D) Drinking water

Makes a number of changes to the Calderon-Sher Safe Drinking Water Act to conform it to federal law.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2011

AB 1202 (Jeffries-R) Organ donation: vehicles: driver's license applicant

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to provide a discount of an unspecified amount to a person who, when applying for or renewing his/her driver's license or identification card, enrolls in the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry, a registry of organ and tissue donors. Directs DMV to seek funding from the federal government to pay for the discount and makes the bill's other provisions operative only if the state receive such federal funding.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1217 (Fuentes-D) Assisted reproduction

Clarifies parentage rights of parties using assisted reproduction technology.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1277 (Hill-D) Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law

Reduces state oversight of drug and device manufacturers in California.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1279 (Fletcher-R) Animal shelters

Changes and deletes obsolete terminology in provisions of the Business and Professions Code, the Civil Code, the Food and Agriculture Code, the Health and Safety Code and the Penal Code dealing with the seizure, impounding, rescue, adoption, and euthanasia of abandoned and surrendered animals by animal shelters and rescue organizations.
(Held at Senate Desk)

AB 1300 (Blumenfield-D) Medical marijuana

Provides that a local government entity may enact an ordinance regulating the location, operation or establishment of a medical marijuana cooperative or collective. Authorizes a local government entity to enforce such ordinances through civil or criminal remedies and actions. Authorizes a local government entity to enact any ordinance that is consistent with the Medical Marijuana Program, which is intended to implement the Compassionate Use Act (medical marijuana initiative).
Chapter 196, Statutes of 2011

AB 1319 (Butler-D) Product safety: bisphenol A

Enacts the Toxin-Free Infants and Toddlers Act, which, except as specified, prohibits, on and after 7/1/13, the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of any bottle or cup that contains bisphenol A, at a detectable level above 0.1 parts per billion, if the bottle or cup is designed or intended to be filled with any liquid, food, or beverage intended primarily for consumption by infants or children three years of age or younger. This prohibition will cease to be implemented for an item, on the date that a prescribed notice is posted regarding the Department of Toxic Substances Control's adoption of related regulations.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2011

AB 1371 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Fireworks

Authorizes, until 1/2/17, the sale of certified safe and sane fireworks from 9 a.m. on December 26 to midnight of January 1 of the following year pursuant to a license issued by the State Fire Marshal, if authorized by a charter city, city, county, or city and county ordinance or resolution that may also restrict the hours of use of those fireworks.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1378 (Portantino-D) Fireworks: sale: training

Authorizes, until 1/2/18, the sale of certified safe and sane fireworks from 9 a.m. 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. Requires, until 1/1/18, the State Fire Marshal to establish and collect an additional fee on permits issued to licensees in an amount necessary to enforce applicable laws with respect to training and education regarding dangerous fireworks. The fees will be deposited in the State Fire Marshal Dangerous Fireworks Training and Education Fund, which the bill establishes. Monies in this Fund will be continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years to the State Fire Marshal for the purpose of training local fire and law enforcement agencies, as specified.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1387 (Solorio-D) Emergency medical services

Revises existing statute pertaining to the role of city, county, and fire districts in the provision of prehospital emergency medical services.
(On Senate Inactive File)

ACR 2 (Smyth-R) Spay Day USA 2011

Declares 2/22/11 to be Spay Day USA 2011 in California, and requests that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by contributing to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 71 (Fletcher-R) Plasma Protein Therapies Month

Designates September 2011 as Plasma Protein Therapies Month, and encourages Californians to observe the month with appropriate programs and activities.
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2011

ACR 84 (Butler-D) Red Ribbon Week

Proclaims 10/22/11 to 10/30/11 as Red Ribbon Week and encourages all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

HR 6 (Hall-D) Problem Gambling Awareness Week

Recognizes the week of 3/6/11 to 3/12/11 as Problem Gambling Awareness Week and commends various state agencies and private organizations for their concerted effort to raise public awareness of problem gambling.
(Adopted by the Assembly)

HR 19 (John A. Pérez-D) National Minority Donor Awareness Month

Proclaims August 2011 as National Minority Donor Awareness Month in California and encourages all California educators to provide an opportunity for students to be educated about the decision to be an organ donor when applying for a driver license or identification card and about signing up at specific organ donation Internet Web sites.
(Adopted by the Assembly)

Index (in Bill Order)

Bill	Author and Bill Title	Reference Links
SB 12	Corbett-D CalWORKs stage 3 child care	Public Social Services
SB 20	Padilla-D Food facilities: menu labeling	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 21	Liu-D Long-term care: assessment and planning	Health Facilities
SB 38*	Padilla-D Radiation control: health facilities and clinics: records	Health Facilities
SB 41	Yee-D Hypodermic needles and syringes	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Health Professionals
SB 42	Alquist-D Medi-Cal: contracts	Medi-Cal
SB 43	Liu-D CalFresh Employment and Training program	Public Social Services
SB 60	Evans-D Health facilities: mental health: state hospitals	Mental Health Health Facilities
SB 65	Strickland-R Pupil health: prescription pancreatic enzymes	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 72*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Human services	Public Social Services
SB 73	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill	Medi-Cal Autism/Developmentally Disabled Public Social Services
SB 74*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Developmental services	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
SB 89	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Social and Health services realignment	Public Social Services
SB 90*	Steinberg-D Medi-Cal: hospitals	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
SB 91	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Medi-Cal: adult day health care	Medi-Cal Health Facilities Public Social Services
SB 93	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Health and human services	Public Social Services
SB 97	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Adult day health care	Public Social Services
SB 100	Price-D Healing arts	Health Professionals
SB 105	Yee-D Public safety: snow sport helmets	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 119	Lowenthal-D Emergency youth shelter facilities	Health Facilities
SB 121	Liu-D Foster children: pupils: special education	Foster Care
SB 123	Liu-D California Runaway, Homeless, and Exploited Youth Act	Public Social Services
SB 127	Emmerson-R Official medical fee schedule: physician services	Health Professionals
SB 129	Leno-D Medical marijuana: qualified patients and primary caregivers	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 135	Hernandez-D Hospice facilities	Health Facilities
SB 146	Wyland-R Healing arts: professional clinical counselors	Health Professionals
SB 161	Huff-R Emergency assistance: schools: epilepsy medication	Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 166	Steinberg-D Health care coverage: mental illness: autism	Mental Health
SB 173	Simitian-D Healing arts: mammograms	Health Professionals
SB 177	Strickland-R Congregate living health facilities	Health Facilities
SB 180	Corbett-D Public social services: veterans services	Public Social Services
SB 213	Hancock-D Medi-Cal: local educational agencies: billing	Medi-Cal
SB 233	Pavley-D Emergency services and care	Health Professionals
SB 255	Pavley-D Breast cancer: health care coverage	Cancer
SB 256	Strickland-R Medi-Cal: California Medical Assistance Commission	Medi-Cal
SB 264	Correa-D Recreational activities: skateboard parks: liability	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 272	DeSaulnier-D Organ donation: employment	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 274*	Wyland-R Healing arts	Health Professionals
SB 276*	Corbett-D General acute care hospitals: special services	Health Facilities
SB 278	Gaines-R Public safety: ski resorts	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 285	Correa-D Massage therapy instruction: fraud: criminal prosecutions	Health Professionals
SB 289	Hernandez-D Inpatient hospital reimbursement methodology: Medi-Cal	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
SB 303*	Padilla-D Food safety: food handlers	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 309	Liu-D Child day care facilities: schoolage child care centers	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
SB 320	Wright-D Public social services: hearings	Public Social Services
SB 330*	Padilla-D Cigarette and tobacco products taxes: tobacco tax	Tobacco Products
SB 331	Padilla-D Retail tobacco licenses	Tobacco Products
SB 332	Padilla-D Rental dwellings: smoking	Tobacco Products
SB 335*	Hernandez-D Medi-Cal: hospitals: quality assurance fee	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
SB 336	Lieu-D Health facilities: emergency room crowding	Health Facilities
SB 345	Wolk-D Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program	Public Social Services
SB 347	Rubio-D Postsecondary education: graduate medical education payments	Medi-Cal
SB 359	Hernandez-D Medi-Cal: ground ambulance rates	Medi-Cal
SB 363	Emmerson-R Marriage and family therapists	Health Professionals
SB 368	Liu-D Developmental services: decisionmaking	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
SB 380	Wright-D Continuing medical education	Health Professionals
SB 382	Liu-D Developmental services: regional centers: complaints	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
SB 393	Hernandez-D Medical homes	Health Facilities Health Professionals
SB 394	DeSaulnier-D Healthy Schools Act of 2011	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 408	Hernandez-D Health facilities: licensure	Health Facilities
SB 411	Price-D Home Care Services Act of 2011	Public Social Services
SB 413	La Malfa-R Disposition of human remains	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 416	Kehoe-D Health: survey	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 417	Dutton-R Tobacco products: CalWORKS recipients	Tobacco Products Public Social Services
SB 422	Wright-D AIDS/HIV: reporting	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
SB 431	Emmerson-R Pharmacies: regulation	Health Professionals
SB 442	Calderon-D Hospitals: interpreters	Health Facilities
SB 471	Rubio-D CalFresh	Public Social Services
SB 472	Correa-D Early intervention services: assessments	Autism/Developmentally Disabled Public Social Services
SB 480	Vargas-D Public social services: domestic violence	Public Social Services
SB 482	Kehoe-D Public beach contamination: standards: testing: closing	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 484	Rubio-D Public records: health care services contract records	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 485	Hernandez-D Medi-Cal: health facilities: emergency units	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
SB 486*	Dutton-R California Children and Families Program: funding	Public Social Services
SB 502	Pavley-D Hospital Infant Feeding Act	Health Facilities
SB 514	Simitian-D Dextromethorphan: sale to minors prohibited	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 529	Correa-D Seniors: community-based services: long-term care	Public Social Services
SB 531	Rubio-D HIV testing: search warrants	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
SB 538	Price-D Nursing	Health Professionals
SB 539	Price-D Nursing	Health Professionals
SB 540	Price-D Dentistry	Health Professionals
SB 541*	Price-D Health professional boards: consultants	Health Professionals
SB 544	Price-D Professions and vocations: regulatory boards	Health Professionals
SB 554	Yee-D Health facilities: nurse-to-patient ratios	Health Facilities
SB 558	Simitian-D Elder and dependent adults: abuse or neglect	Public Social Services
SB 575	DeSaulnier-D Tobacco products: smoking in the workplace	Tobacco Products
SB 578	Negrete McLeod-D Schools: pupils in foster care: course credit	Foster Care
SB 583	Vargas-D ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease: income tax checkoff	Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 594	Wolk-D Local public health laboratories	Health Facilities
SB 614*	Kehoe-D Child immunization	Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 616	DeSaulnier-D Prevention of chronic diseases: Medi-Cal: grants	Other Diseases/Disorders Medi-Cal
SB 623	Kehoe-D Vessels: marine antifouling paint	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 628	Yee-D Acupuncture: regulation	Health Professionals
SB 630	Alquist-D Hospitals: seismic safety	Health Facilities
SB 632	Emmerson-R Pharmacy	Health Professionals
SB 635	Hernandez-D Health care: workforce training	Health Professionals
SB 644*	Hancock-D West Contra Costa Healthcare District: certificates	Health Facilities
SB 667	Runner-R Naturopathic physicians	Health Professionals
SB 676	Leno-D Industrial hemp	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 677	Hernandez-D Medi-Cal: eligibility	Medi-Cal
SB 694	Padilla-D Dental care	Health Professionals
SB 695	Hancock-D Medi-Cal: county juvenile detention facilities	Medi-Cal
SB 697	Emmerson-R Veterinary medicine	Health Professionals
SB 699	Runner-R Foster care: pupil instruction: graduation requirements	Foster Care
SB 702	Lieu-D Dog licensing: microchip implants	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 704	Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts: licensees: Board of Behavioral Sciences	Health Professionals
SB 709	De León-D Pupil health: comprehensive eye examinations	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 718	Vargas-D Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting	Public Social Services
SB 726	Berryhill-R Fire suppression: fire sprinkler systems	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 737	Walters-R Organized camps	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 743	Emmerson-R Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund	Health Professionals Public Social Services
SB 746	Lieu-D Tanning facilities	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 747	Kehoe-D Physicians requirements: continuing education	Health Professionals
SB 764	Steinberg-D Developmental services: Autism TeleHealth Program	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
SB 783*	Dutton-R Special access: liability	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
SB 791	Simitian-D Health care: mammograms	Cancer Health Facilities
SB 795	Blakeslee-R State hospitals: commitments	Mental Health Health Facilities
SB 796	Blakeslee-R State hospitals: prohibited items: misdemeanor penalty	Health Facilities
SB 799	Negrete McLeod-D Long-term care	Health Facilities
SB 803	DeSaulnier-D California Youth Leadership Project	Public Social Services
SB 804*	Corbett-D Medi-Cal: subacute care program: living facilities	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
SB 818	Wolk-D Food labeling: olive oil	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 824	Negrete McLeod-D Opticians: regulation	Health Professionals
SB 840	Evans-D Health facilities: carbon monoxide detectors	Health Facilities
SB 842	Rubio-D California residency	Public Social Services
SB 844	Price-D Health facilities: general acute care hospitals	Health Facilities
SB 847	Correa-D Medical Marijuana Program: zoning restrictions	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 850	Leno-D Medical records: confidential information	Health Professionals
SB 877	Anderson-R Public water systems: point-of-use treatment	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 886	Corbett-D Sprinkler fitters: licensing	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 893*	Wolk-D Health Improvement Act of 2011	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 895	Alquist-D Health facilities: inspections	Health Facilities
SB 897	Leno-D Residential care facilities for the elderly	Health Facilities
SB 924	Walters-R Physical therapists: direct access to services	Health Professionals
SB 930	Evans-D In-home supportive services: enrollment and fingerprinting	Public Social Services
SB 932	Leno-D Cellular telephones: notice requirement	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 933	Runner-R Speech-language pathology and audiology	Health Professionals
SB 943	Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee Healing arts	Health Professionals
SB 945*	Senate Health Committee Medi-Cal: electronic records	Medi-Cal
SB 946	Steinberg-D HIV reporting	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Medi-Cal Mental Health Autism/Developmentally Disabled
SCR 7	Huff-R Celiac Disease Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 17	La Malfa-R Prostate Cancer Awareness Month	Cancer
SCR 23	Wolk-D Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 29	Pavley-D California Autism Awareness Month	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
SCR 36	Blakeslee-R Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 39	Runner-R Scleroderma Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 40	Corbett-D Emergency services: earthquake preparedness	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 43	Strickland-R Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
SCR 44	Liu-D Foster Care Month 2011	Foster Care
SCR 47	DeSaulnier-D Health in All Policies	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 51	Lieu-D Microchip Your Animal Day 2011	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 54	Alquist-D Pain Awareness Month and Women In Pain Awareness Day	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SCR 55	Liu-D California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month	Public Social Services
SJR 5	Cannella-R Cooking With Kids Day	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SJR 8	Senate Veterans Affairs Committee TRICARE cost increases	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SJR 9	Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Veterans' health care	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SR 20	Hernandez-D California Case Management Week	Health Professionals
SB 9X1*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Public health: managed care plan taxes	Medi-Cal
SB 12X1	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget Act of 2011	Medi-Cal
SB 23X1	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Local taxation: counties: school districts	Tobacco Products
SCA 1X1	Steinberg-D Public social services: realignment	Public Social Services
AB 1	John A. Pérez-D CalWORKs Stage 3: education finance	Public Social Services
AB 4	Miller-R Human remains: hydrolysis	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 6	Fuentes-D CalWORKs and CalFresh	Public Social Services
AB 25	Hayashi-D Concussions and head injuries: school districts	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 30	Hayashi-D Health facilities: security plans	Health Facilities
AB 39*	Beall-D Department of Mental Health: special education	Mental Health
AB 43	Monning-D Medi-Cal: eligibility	Medi-Cal
AB 62	Monning-D Medi-Cal: dual eligibles: pilot projects	Medi-Cal Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 69	Beall-D Senior nutrition benefits	Public Social Services
AB 70	Monning-D California Health and Human Services Agency: public health	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 88	Huffman-D Food labeling: genetically engineered food	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 96	Assembly Budget Committee Adult care: institutional freedom	Health Facilities Public Social Services
AB 97*	Assembly Budget Committee Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill	Medi-Cal
AB 99*	Assembly Budget Committee California Children and Families Act of 1998: use of funds	Public Social Services Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 100*	Assembly Budget Committee Mental health services	Mental Health
AB 102	Assembly Budget Committee Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill	Medi-Cal
AB 104	Assembly Budget Committee Developmental Services Budget Trailer Bill	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 106	Assembly Budget Committee Human Services Budget Trailer Bill	Public Social Services Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 113*	Monning-D Medi-Cal: health: hospitals	Medi-Cal
AB 118	Assembly Budget Committee Public social services	Public Social Services
AB 137	Portantino-D Health care coverage: mammographies	Cancer
AB 138	Beall-D Elder Economic Planning Act of 2011	Public Social Services
AB 151	Monning-D Medicare supplement coverage	Medi-Cal
AB 152	Fuentes-D Food banks: grants: voluntary contributions: income tax	Public Social Services
AB 154	Beall-D Mental health services: health care coverage	Mental Health
AB 159	Beall-D Foster family agencies	Health Facilities Foster Care
AB 164	Hayashi-D Medi-Cal: cards	Medi-Cal
AB 171	Beall-D Autism spectrum disorder	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 174	Monning-D Health information exchange	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 181	Portantino-D Foster youth: mental health bill of rights	Mental Health Foster Care
AB 186	Williams-D Reportable diseases and conditions	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 190	Wieckowski-D Spinal cord injuries: Vehicle Code violations	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 192*	Logue-R Health and safety: appropriation	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 194	Beall-D Foster youth: higher education	Foster Care
AB 198	Beall-D Adoption: fingerprinting of adoptive parents	Foster Care
AB 212*	Beall-D California Fostering Connections to Success Act	Foster Care
AB 215	Beall-D Emergency services: Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 217	Carter-D Workplace smoking prohibition: long-term care facilities	Tobacco Products Health Facilities
AB 223	Ammiano-D Compassionate Use Act of 1996: marijuana	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 237	Galgiani-D Cosmetics: safety	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 248*	Perea-D Physicians: personal income tax: qualified medical services	Health Professionals
AB 254	Beall-D Developmental services: Employment First Policy	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 258	Hagman-R Rabies: vaccinations	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 272	Monning-D Health care facilities: financing	Health Facilities
AB 289*	Cedillo-D AIDS/HIV nonprofit organizations: sales tax exemption	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 300	Ma-D Safe Body Art Act	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 301	Pan-D Medi-Cal: managed care	Medi-Cal
AB 313	Monning-D Residential care facilities for the elderly	Health Facilities
AB 352	Eng-D Radiologist assistants	Health Professionals
AB 366	Allen-D State hospitals: involuntary antipsychotic medication	Mental Health
AB 373	Garrick-R CalWORKs: time limits for aid	Public Social Services
AB 375	Skinner-D Hospital employees: workers' compensation	Health Professionals
AB 377	Solorio-D Pharmacy	Health Professionals
AB 378	Solorio-D Pharmacy products: workers' compensation	Health Professionals
AB 389	Mitchell-D Bleeding disorders	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 395	Pan-D Genetic diseases: newborn screening program	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 396	Mitchell-D Medi-Cal: juvenile inmates	Medi-Cal
AB 398	Morrell-R State Fire Marshal: certification	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 399	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Medi-Cal: pharmacy providers: drug reimbursement	Medi-Cal
AB 402	Skinner-D CalFresh program: School Lunch Program: information	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 410	Swanson-D Visual disabilities regulations	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 412	Williams-D Emergency medical services	Health Professionals
AB 415	Logue-R Medi-Cal: telehealth	Medi-Cal Health Professionals
AB 419	Mitchell-D Care facilities	Health Facilities
AB 421	Smyth-R Mental health: sexually violent predators: proceedings	Mental Health
AB 433	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Birth certificates: issuance	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 437	Pan-D Department of Public Health: dental program	Health Professionals
AB 441	Monning-D Health Planning	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 443	Bonilla-D Children with disabilities: insurance coverage	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 491	Portantino-D HIV testing	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 493	Perea-D Public Social Services: electronic benefits transfer cards	Public Social Services
AB 507	Hayashi-D Controlled substances: pain management	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 510	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Hospitals: seismic safety	Health Facilities
AB 533*	Yamada-D Area agencies on aging: independent living centers: funding	Health Facilities
AB 536	Ma-D Physicians and surgeons	Health Professionals
AB 540	Beall-D Medi-Cal: alcohol and drug screening and intervention	Medi-Cal
AB 564	Smyth-R Municipal shelters: income taxes: voluntary contributions	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 574	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly	Public Social Services
AB 575	Hayashi-D Dietetics	Health Professionals
AB 581	John A. Pérez-D Public health: food access	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 585	Fong-D Cancer presumption: workers' compensation	Cancer
AB 589	Perea-D Medical school scholarships	Health Professionals
AB 594	Yamada-D Department of Aging and Adult Services	Public Social Services
AB 596	Carter-D CalWORKs: recipients: child care	Public Social Services
AB 604	Skinner-D AIDS/HIV needle exchange programs	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 641	Feuer-D Long-term care	Health Facilities
AB 652	Mitchell-D Child health	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 655	Hayashi-D Healing arts: peer review	Health Professionals
AB 659	Silva-R Vital records: certified copies	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 667	Mitchell-D Medi-Cal: subacute care program	Medi-Cal
AB 669	Monning-D Children's health : taxation: sweetened beverage tax	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 671	Portantino-D Child welfare services: education and training requirements	Public Social Services
AB 673	John A. Pérez-D Office of Multicultural Health: LGBT communities	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 678*	Pan-D Medi-Cal: supplemental provider reimbursement	Medi-Cal Health Professionals
AB 688	Pan-D Food and drugs: sale	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 693	Huffman-D Organ and tissue donation: vehicle registration	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 695	Norby-R Safety helmets: vehicles: motorcycles: exceptions	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 709	Brownley-D Foster children: school placement: immunization records	Foster Care
AB 715	Galgiani-D Hospital inpatient rates	Health Facilities Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 727	Mitchell-D Healthy and sustainable food: public contracts	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 730	Grove-R CalWORKs eligibility: periodic drug testing	Public Social Services
AB 731	Jeffries-R Firefighting	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 735	Mitchell-D Foster youth: interns and student assistants	Foster Care
AB 739	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Mental illness: pupil instruction: suicide prevention	Mental Health
AB 748	Yamada-D Continuing care retirement communities: contracts	Public Social Services
AB 756	Mitchell-D Electronic public social services benefits	Public Social Services
AB 761	Roger Hernández-D Optometrists	Health Professionals
AB 762	Smyth-R Public health: medical waste	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 768*	Gatto-D Male circumcision	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 774	Campos-D Health facilities: licensure	Health Facilities
AB 783	Hayashi-D Licensed physical therapists: professional corporations	Health Professionals
AB 784*	Yamada-D Medi-Cal: adult day health care	Medi-Cal Public Social Services
AB 795	Block-D Smoke-free higher education campuses	Tobacco Products
AB 808	Skinner-D CalFresh: transitional benefits and recertification	Public Social Services
AB 823	Dickinson-D Children's Cabinet of California	Public Social Services
AB 824	Chesbro-D Rural hospitals: physician services	Health Facilities Health Professionals
AB 826	Atkins-D Mentally ill: services: parolees	Mental Health
AB 828	Swanson-D Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies	Public Social Services
AB 833	Yamada-D CalWORKs: maximum aid payments	Public Social Services
AB 839	Brownley-D Pupil nutrition: federal School Breakfast Program	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 846	Bonilla-D Foster youth: identity theft	Foster Care
AB 847	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Pharmacy: clinics	Health Facilities Health Professionals
AB 861	Hill-D California Stroke Registry	Other Diseases/Disorders
AB 862	Silva-R Developmental services: regional centers	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 863	Bonilla-D Foster care: insurance	Foster Care
AB 876	Valadao-R In-Home Supportive Services program	Public Social Services
AB 881	Cook-R Mental health: involuntary commitment: transportation	Mental Health
AB 895*	Halderman-R Physicians: personal income tax: credit	Health Professionals
AB 899	Yamada-D Home Care Services Act of 2011	Public Social Services
AB 905	Pan-D Disposition of remains: authorized agent	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 916	V. Manuel Pérez-D Health: underserved communities	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 924	Logue-R CalWORKs eligibility and administration	Public Social Services
AB 926*	Hayashi-D Physicians and surgeons: direct employment	Health Professionals
AB 927	Huffman-D Health facilities: seismic safety	Health Facilities
AB 949	Gorell-R CalWORKs eligibility: fraudulent representations: fines	Public Social Services
AB 956	Roger Hernández-D Marriage and family therapy: interns and trainees	Health Professionals
AB 959	Jones-R CalWORKs and CalFresh: reporting	Public Social Services
AB 969	Atkins-D Medi-Cal: clinical laboratory and laboratory services	Medi-Cal Health Facilities
AB 972	Butler-D Substance abuse: treatment facilities	Health Facilities
AB 983	Perea-D Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 989	Mitchell-D Mental health: children's services	Mental Health
AB 1000	Perea-D Cancer treatment: health care coverage	Cancer
AB 1014	Fletcher-R Food facilities: definition	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1015	Charles Calderon-D California Child and Family Service Review System	Public Social Services
AB 1016	Achadjian-R State hospitals: inmates: reimbursement of costs	Health Facilities
AB 1030	Achadjian-R Cigarette and tobacco taxes: violation: penalties	Tobacco Products
AB 1059	Huffman-D Health professionals: emergency medical care	Health Professionals
AB 1066*	John A. Pérez-D Medi-Cal: demonstration project waivers	Medi-Cal
AB 1110	Lara-D Foster youth	Foster Care
AB 1114	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Mentally ill inmates	Mental Health
AB 1118	John A. Pérez-D Organ donations: pupil instruction: health education	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1127	Brownley-D Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct	Health Professionals
AB 1136	Swanson-D health facilities: employment safety	Health Facilities
AB 1140	Donnelly-R CalWORKs: eligibility: time limit	Public Social Services
AB 1142	Chesbro-D Residential care facilities for the elderly	Health Facilities
AB 1182	Roger Hernández-D CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits: vehicles	Public Social Services
AB 1192	Garrick-R Immunization information: pertussis	Other Diseases/Disorders Health Facilities
AB 1194	Block-D Drinking water	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1202	Jeffries-R Organ donation: vehicles: driver's license applicant	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1205	Bill Berryhill-R Licensed behavior analysts	Health Professionals
AB 1217	Fuentes-D Assisted reproduction	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1218*	Pan-D Tobacco advertising: tax disallowances	Tobacco Products
AB 1223	Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee Medi-Cal: Public Assistance Reporting Information System	Medi-Cal
AB 1244	Chesbro-D Developmental services: self-determination program	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 1245	Williams-D Emergency medical services	Health Professionals
AB 1267	Halderman-R Physicians and surgeons: certificate	Health Professionals
AB 1277	Hill-D Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1279	Fletcher-R Animal shelters	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1297	Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: mental health	Medi-Cal Mental Health
AB 1300	Blumenfield-D Medical marijuana	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1301	Hill-D Retail tobacco sales: STAKE Act	Tobacco Products
AB 1306	Donnelly-R Abortion	Abortion
AB 1319	Butler-D Product safety: bisphenol A	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1327	Portantino-D Medi-Cal services	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 1328	Pan-D Health facilities: clinical laboratories	Health Facilities
AB 1329*	Davis-D Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry	Cancer
AB 1348	Mansoor-R AIDS/HIV: pupils: parental consent	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Mental Health
AB 1360	Swanson-D Physicians and surgeons: employment	Health Professionals
AB 1371	V. Manuel Pérez-D Fireworks	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1375	Huber-D Developmental services: autism spectrum disorders	Autism/Developmentally Disabled
AB 1378	Portantino-D Fireworks: sale: training	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1382	Roger Hernández-D HIV counselors	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AB 1387	Solorio-D Health Professionals: emergency medical services	Health Professionals Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 1394	Assembly Health Committee Health care facilities: financing	Health Facilities
AB 1400	Assembly Human Services Committee Public social services	Public Social Services
AB 1415*	Blumenfield-D Adult day health care.	Public Social Services
ACR 2	Smyth-R Spay Day USA 2011	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 8	Butler-D American Heart Month and Wear Red Day	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 13	Huffman-D Rare Disease Day	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 18	Dickinson-D Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 23	Ma-D Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month	Cancer
ACR 26	Galgiani-D Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 35	Roger Hernández-D National Surgical Technologist Week	Health Professionals
ACR 48	Grove-R Valley Fever Awareness Week	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 51	Perea-D Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 53	Roger Hernández-D Perinatal depression: Kelly Abraham Martinez Act	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 54	Mitchell-D American Stroke Month 2011	Other Diseases/Disorders
ACR 61	Hayashi-D California Nurses Week	Health Professionals
ACR 71	Fletcher-R Plasma Protein Therapies Month	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
ACR 77	Torres-D Suicide Prevention Week	Mental Health
ACR 81	Skinner-D Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month	Cancer
ACR 84	Butler-D Red Ribbon Week	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AJR 10	Brownley-D School-based health centers	Health Facilities
AJR 13	Lara-D Graduate medical education	Health Professionals
AJR 18	Carter-D Sickle Cell Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
HR 6	Hall-D Problem Gambling Awareness Week	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
HR 12	Campos-D Lupus Awareness Month	Other Diseases/Disorders
HR 19	John A. Pérez-D National Minority Donor Awareness Month	Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
AB 19X1*	Blumenfield-D Medi-Cal: nursing homes	Medi-Cal Health Facilities Public Social Services
AB 21X1*	Blumenfield-D Medi-Cal: managed care plan taxes	Medi-Cal
ACA 2X1	Blumenfield-D Public social services: realignment	Public Social Services