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AIDS/HIV

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

Requires a defendant to be tested for the 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1327 (Portantino-D) HIV/AIDS: 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1467 (Assembly Budget Committee) AIDS: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the 2012 Budget Health Omnibus Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, requires, by 8/1/12, the Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Department of Health Care Services, to provide guidance on the transfer of clients living with HIV/AIDS from Ryan White funded programs to the Low Income Health Program.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012

AB 2253 (Pan-D) HIV: clinical laboratory test results: electronic conveyance

Authorizes the electronic conveyance of clinical laboratory test results related to HIV antibodies, hepatitis, drug abuse, and specified test results that reveal a malignancy, if requested by the patient, and the health care professional deems electronic conveyance the most appropriate method of disclosure, and the professional has already discussed the results with the patient.
Chapter 698, Statutes of 2012

AB 2472 (Butler-D) AIDS: managed health care

Specifies a new health care plan rate development process that would apply to a single Medi-Cal plan administered by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Requires the Department of Health Care Services to use fee-for-service data to set rates for this plan in the same way as this data is used for setting rates for all Medi-Cal managed care plans.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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 post-surgery, consistent with sound clinical principles and processes.
Chapter 449, Statutes of 2012

SB 1359 (Simitian-D) Breast Cancer: personal income taxes: contributions

Extends the date of repeal, from 1/1/13 to 1/1/18, for the income tax return check-offs for the California Breast Cancer Research Fund and the California Cancer Research Fund.
Chapter 456, Statutes of 2012

SB 1538 (Simitian-D) Mammograms: health care

Requires health facilities at which mammography examinations are performed to include a specified notice in the summary of the written report that is sent to the patient in order to notify patients who have dense breast tissue that they may benefit from supplementary screening tests.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2012

SCR 61 (Evans-D) Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

Recognizes January 2012 as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and encourages prompt access to preventive services and medical care in order to overcome barriers to care and treatment for cervical cancer.
Resolution Chapter 4, Statutes of 2012

SCR 63 (Gaines-R) Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Designates the month of September 2012 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in the State of California.
Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2012

SJR 27 (Simitian-D) Are You Dense Day

Recognizes 8/8/12 as "Are You Dense?" Day 2012, to raise awareness of the risks associated with breast density and the potential benefits of other screening tools to supplement mammography.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2012

AB 137 (Portantino-D) Mammographies: health care coverage

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.
Chapter 436, Statutes of 2012

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

Prohibits health plans and health insurers that cover prescription drugs and chemotherapy treatment from imposing higher copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for oral anticancer drugs than would be imposed for intravenous anticancer drugs, starting on 7/1/13.
Vetoed

AB 1621 (Halderman-R) Prostate cancer: physicians and surgeons

Exempts physicians and surgeons working on a trauma case from having to provide patients with specified information regarding examination of a patient's prostate gland when treating a patient who needs trauma care.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2012

ACR 121 (Logue-R) Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Designates the month of March 2012 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 142 (Alejo-D) National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week

Designates the week of 4/15/12 to 4/21/12, inclusive, as "National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week," and encourages the promotion of policies and programs that seek to reduce cancer disparities and improve cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care for all Californians.
Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 2012

Other Diseases/Disorders

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SB 659 (Negrete McLeod-D) Tuberculosis screening: disclosure of information

Adds tuberculosis (TB) screening results to the information that may be disclosed from a patient's medical record to the Department of Public Health and local health department operating countywide or regional immunization information and reminder systems, and defines TB screening as an approved intradermal tuberculin test or any other test for TB infection that is recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and licensed by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
Chapter 267, Statutes of 2012

SB 1318 (Wolk-D) Influenza vaccinations: health facilities

Requires clinics and licensed health care facilities to institute measures designed to maximize influenza vaccination rates and to prevent persons with privileges on the medical staff and onsite health care workers affiliated with the clinics or health care facilities from contracting, and transmitting to patients, the influenza virus.
Vetoed

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.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 65 (Liu-D) Pain Awareness Month and Women In Pain Awareness Day

Recognizes September 2012 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, and also recognizes 9/14/12, as Women In Pain Awareness Day to draw public attention to gender disparity in pain assessment and treatment in the United States.
Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2012

SCR 67 (Huff-R) Food Allergy Awareness Week

Designates the week of 5/13/12 through 5/19/12, as Food Allergy Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2012

SCR 75 (Blakeslee-R) Viral Hepatitis Awareness Month

Declares the month of May 2012 to be Viral Hepatitis Awareness Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2012

SCR 83 (Steinberg-D) National Aphasia Awareness Month

Declares that the Legislature recognize June of each year as National Aphasia Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 116, Statutes of 2012

SCR 88 (Alquist-D) Arthritis Awareness Month

Recognizes the month of May 2012 as Arthritis Awareness Month in California and proclaims that the Legislature understands the extent of, and sympathizes with, the severity of the impact of arthritis on California; and appreciates the efforts of the California Arthritis Foundation Council to seek access to care for all Californians.
Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2012
A similar resolution was ACR 153 (Beall-D) which died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee.

SCR 91 (Runner-R) Scleroderma Awareness Month

Proclaims June 2012 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2012

AB 389 (Mitchell-D) Bleeding disorders

Establishes requirements for providers of blood clotting products for home use to treat hemophilia and other bleeding disorders.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2009 (Galgiani-D) Communicable disease: vaccinations

Removes references to specific groups of people who have priority for the state-administered influenza vaccines and updates it with the recommendations from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Chapter 443, Statutes of 2012

AB 2109 (Pan-D) Communicable disease: immunization exemption

Requires on and after 1/1/14, a separate form prescribed by the Department of Public Health to accompany a letter or affidavit to exempt a child from immunization requirements under existing law on the basis that an immunization is contrary to beliefs of the child's parent or guardian.
Chapter 821, Statutes of 2012

ACR 48 (Grove-R) Valley Fever Awareness Week

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

ACR 91 (Buchanan-D) American Heart Month and Wear Red Day

Recognizes February 2012 as American Heart Month and 2/3/12 as Wear Red Day in California in order to raise awareness of the importance of the ongoing fight against heart disease and stroke, and urges all Californians to show support for women and the fight against heart disease by wearing the color red.
Resolution Chapter 3, Statutes of 2012

ACR 102 (Campos-D) Lupus Awareness Month

Designates May 2012 as Lupus Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 32, Statutes of 2012

ACR 107 (Eng-D) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Recognizes 6/27/12, as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 34, Statutes of 2012

ACR 109 (Pan-D) Rare Disease Day

Proclaims 2/29/12, as Rare Disease Day in California.
Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 2012

ACR 113 (Dickinson-D) Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week

Declares the week of 3/12/12, through 3/16/12, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 7, Statutes of 2012

ACR 131 (Galgiani-D) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness

Designates November 2012 as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Awareness Month in California; and encourages public officials and the citizens of California to increase awareness of the symptoms of, and the methods of preventing, COPD.
Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2012

ACR 137 (Atkins-D) West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness

Declares 4/22/12 through 4/28/12, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2012

ACR 153 (Beall-D) Arthritis Awareness Month

Designates the month of May 2012 as Arthritis Awareness Month in California.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
A similar resolution was SCR 88 (Alquist-D) which became Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2012.

ACR 154 (Bradford-D) American Stroke Month 2012

Declares May 2012 to be American Stroke Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 61, Statutes of 2012

ACR 166 (Beall-D) Substance use disorder

Recognizes September 2012 as Recovery Month in California, in order to raise awareness of the importance of substance use disorders treatment and to help people living with substance use disorders and their families to receive treatment.
Resolution Chapter 135, Statutes of 2012

Medi-Cal

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SB 7 (Steinberg-D) Medi-Cal: dual eligibles

Increases from 4 to 10 counties in which the Department of Health Services can establish pilot projects to develop effective health care models to provide service to persons who are dually eligible under both the Medi-Cal and Medicare programs.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 301 (DeSaulnier-D) Medi-Cal: Healthy Families Program

Re-enacts for a Medi-Cal managed care organization (MCO) gross premium tax on health plans that expired on 7/1/12, the proceeds of which are to be used to partially fund the Healthy Families Program (HFP); sunsets the MCO tax on 7/1/13; repeals the provisions of AB 1494 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 28, Statutes of 2012, a budget trailer bill that enacted a transition of children in HFP to Medi-Cal, extending the sunset on the Medi-Cal Quality Assurance Fee on Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) from 8/1/13, until 8/1/15; and makes revisions to the methodology by which SNFs are reimbursed in the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SB 347 (Rubio-D) Medi-Cal postsecondary education

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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

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

Requires, the Department of Health Care Services to implement the provisions of the patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 as amended by the federal Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, relating to eligibility and benefits in the Medi-Cal Program.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 728 (Negrete McLeod-D) Medi-Cal: durable medical equipment

Revises a provision related to determining the maximum allowable reimbursement rate for durable medical equipment in the Medi-Cal program to use the manufacturer's suggested retail price as documented by a catalogue showing the price on or prior to the date of service (further reduced by a specified percentage) instead of the current requirement that it be determined by using a catalogue showing the price on 6/1/06 as the base.
Chapter 451, Statutes of 2012

SB 920* (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: hospitals

Revises provisions of the Medi-Cal Hospital Provider Rate Payment Act of 2011 and the Private Hospital Quality Assurance Fee Act of 2011.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2012

SB 1008 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts a 2012-13 health budget trailer bill which, among other provisions, requires that Medi-Cal beneficiaries who have dual eligibility in Medi-Cal and the Medicare Program to be assigned as mandatory enrollees into new or existing Medi-Cal managed care health plans for their Medi-Cal benefits in counties participating in the dual demonstration projects only, as specified.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2012

SB 1081* (Fuller-R) Medi-Cal: demonstration projects

Authorizes nondesignated public hospitals, which are hospitals owned by a local health care district, to operate a Low Income Health Program (LIHP) in a county that does not have a designated public hospital if the county has previously filed an application to operate an LIHP but has formally withdrawn the application.
Chapter 453, Statutes of 2012

SB 1487 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: foster care

Extends Medi-Cal eligibility to former foster youth, until their 26th birthday.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1529 (Alquist-D) Medi-Cal: providers: fraud

Revises various provisions related to the screening, enrollment, disenrollment, suspensions, and other sanctions against fee-for service providers and suppliers participating in the Medi-Cal Program to conform to requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively known as the Affordable Care Act or ACA).
Chapter 797, Statutes of 2012

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

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish Medi-Cal eligibility for any person under 65 years of age who meets specified criteria and whose income does not exceed 133% of the federal poverty level. Makes changes to state Medi-Cal law resulting from the enactment of federal health care reform known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), to implement state policy changes where the ACA provides a state option, makes other changes related to Medi-Cal and to the Access for Infants and Mothers Program.
(Died on the Senate 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.
(Died at Senate Desk)

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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 351 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: county organized health system

Requires the Partnership Health Plan to serve the Medi-Cal beneficiaries in the counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou and Trinity.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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

Makes a variety of changes to the policies and procedures used by the Department of Health Care Services when determining the reimbursement rates to be paid to pharmacies for drugs purchased through fee-for-service Medi-Cal.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

Establishes the Medi-Cal Alcohol and Drug Screening and Brief Intervention Services Program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are pregnant or women of childbearing age, with county or local government entities paying the nonfederal share of expenditures through certified public expenditures.
Vetoed

AB 826 (Swanson-D) Medi-Cal

Extends the imposition of the tax on the total operating revenue of Medi-Cal managed care plans until 7/1/14, and makes other conforming changes. Authorizes the State Controller to loan funds in the Children's Health and Human Services Special Fund to the General Fund, as provided until 7/1/13. Repeals the provisions requiring the transfer of Healthy Families Program enrollees into the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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

Prohibits the Department of Health Care Services from considering the cost of donated or discounted services provided to federally qualified health centers for care of the uninsured as a basis for reducing the rates paid for laboratory services in the Medi-Cal Program.
Chapter 738, Statutes of 2012

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

Repeals language creating a 2-year pilot program to use the federal Public Assistance and Reporting Information System to identify veterans and their dependents or survivors who are enrolled in the Medi-Cal program and assists them in obtaining federal veterans' health care benefits. Makes the pilot program permanent and statewide.
Vetoed

AB 1467 (Assembly Budget Committee) Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the 2012 Omnibus Health Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, makes statutory changes to a number of Medi-Cal programs. Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services to contract with managed care plans for the delivery of Medi-Cal services in 28 counties that are currently fee-for-services only in Medi-Cal. Provides for improved access to oral health and dental care services provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries in dental health managed care plans in Sacramento and Los Angeles counties. Extends the Rogers Amendment sunset date from 1/1/13 to 7/1/13 for capitation rates (known as Rogers Rates) paid to non-contract hospitals for emergency inpatient and post-stabilization services provided to Medi-Cal managed care plan enrollees.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012

AB 1468 (Assembly Budget Committee) Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts various changes to the Health Budget Trailer Bills - SB 1008 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 33, Statutes of 2012, and AB 1467 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012. Makes clarifying changes in the duals demonstration project adopted through SB 1008. Requires persons enrolled in a Medi-Cal home and community-based waiver program to be mandatorily enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care (for medical services and long-term supports and services). Eliminates the requirement that the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) monitor health plans participating in the duals demonstration project on a quarterly basis to determine whether the beneficiaries are able to receive timely access to primary and specialty care services as federal law (42 Code of Federal Regulations Section 422.402) preempts DMHC from performing this activity on Medicare plans. Makes various technical corrections to the statute that transfers the Healthy Families Program to Medi-Cal, contained in AB 1494 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 28, Statutes of 2012. Exempts the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) from competitive bidding rules for the purposes of contracting with the Healthy Families Program administrative vendor for implementing and maintaining the necessary systems and activities for providing health care coverage to optional targeted low-income children in the Medi-Cal Program for purposes of Accelerated Enrollment application processing by Single Point of Entry, non-eligibility-related case maintenance and premium collection, maintenance of the Health-E-App web portal, call center staffing and operations, Certified Application Assistant services, and reporting capabilities. Restores sections of AB 1467, which were inadvertently chaptered out by subsequent bills. The chaptered out sections relate to the rural expansion of Medi-Cal managed care and the consideration of safety net providers when factoring managed care plan costs in the default managed care assignment algorithm.
Chapter 438, Statutes of 2012

AB 1469* (Assembly Budget Committee) Public health: Medi-Cal: skilled nursing facility and manage

Reauthorizes the gross premiums tax on Health Plans participating in the Medi-Cal Managed Care Program and creates a performance-based incentive program for children-only Medi-Cal cases.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1489* (Assembly Budget Committee) Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill

Reauthorizes the nursing home quality assurance fee. Implements nursing home rate adjustments. Increases oversight of referrals to community-based services by nursing facilities.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2012

AB 1494 (Assembly Budget Committee) Medi-Cal: Budget Trailer Bill

Implements the transition of all children in the Healthy Families Program to Medi-Cal. Increases eligibility for the Medi-Cal program, for children ages 6 through 18, to family incomes up to and including 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL), and exempts all resources and disregards income at or above 200% and up to and including 250% FPL. Exempts Access for Infants and Mothers-linked infants, with incomes above 250% FPL, from this transition. Eliminates premiums for children with incomes at or below 150% FPL and requires premiums of all children above 150% FPL at the Healthy Families category B level. Requires that the Healthy Families Program cease to enroll new subscribers no sooner than the date that this transition begins. Provides the Department of Health Care Services the authority to establish a reimbursement rate methodology for setting Medi-Cal rates of reimbursement for clinical lab services provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
Chapter 28, Statutes of 2012

AB 1497 (Assembly Budget Committee) Healthy Families Program: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the "Budget Bill Junior" which, among other provisions, allows for a slower phase-in for the transition to Medi-Cal in 2013 of the Healthy Families Program and requires the Governor's Administration and health plans to demonstrate readiness prior to this transition.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

AB 1553 (Monning-D) Medi-Cal

Establishes requirements and a process for medical exemptions from mandatory enrollment in Medi-Cal Managed Care by codifying and revising existing regulations.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 1580 (Bonilla-D) Medi-Cal: health care reform

Makes technical and clarifying changes to AB 1296 (Bonilla), Chapter 641, Statutes of 2011, the Health Care Reform Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention Planning Act relating to applications for state health subsidy programs.
Chapter 856, Statutes of 2012

AB 1629 (Halderman-R) Medi-Cal: provisional provider status

Establishes an expedited process for a physician who is practicing in a medically underserved area to become eligible to be a provider in the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1728* (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal rates

Requires that the Department of Health Care Services revert to a prior, higher rate of payment for hospital inpatient services in two non-Medi-Cal state health programs (California Children's Services and Genetically Handicapped Persons Program).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1733 (Logue-R) Medi-Cal: telehealth

Expands current law requirements allowing for the use of telehealth in Medi-Cal Managed Care plans to all health plans that contract with the Department of Health Care Services updates the term "telemedicine" to "telehealth" in a variety of code sections to reflect current practice usage.
Chapter 782, Statutes of 2012

AB 1785 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Medi-Cal: health professionals

Adds marriage and family therapists to the list of health care professionals whose services are reimbursed through Medi-Cal on a per-visit basis to federally qualified health centers or rural health clinics.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1803 (Mitchell-D) Medi-Cal: emergency medical conditions

Provides that emergency services and care that are necessary for the treatment of an emergency medical condition are a covered benefit in the fee-for-services Medi-Cal program. Defines "emergency services and care," "emergency medical conditions," and other related definitions. Specifies that this bill shall not be construed to change the obligation of a Medi-Cal Managed Care plan to provide emergency services and care.
Chapter 442, Statutes of 2012

AB 2002 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal: safety net provider

Defines "safety net provider" for the purpose of determining which Medi-Cal managed care plan a beneficiary will be assigned to if they do not choose a plan.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2096 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Medi-Cal: district hospitals

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to implement by 7/1/13, with respect to district hospitals, an existing Intergovernmental Transfer Program relating to increased funding for Medi-Cal managed care services provided by designated and nondesignated public hospitals and makes various findings and declarations with regard to district hospitals.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2206 (Atkins-D) Medi-Cal: dual eligibles

Authorizes disenrollment, regardless of any lock-in, of a person who in any demonstration project established by the Department of Health Care Services for persons who are dually eligible for Medi-Cal and Medicare, becomes eligible for the Program for the All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) while enrolled in a managed care plan participating in the demonstration project and allows the person to enroll in a PACE plan. Requires managed care plans to identify, through required assessments, enrollees who are 55 years of age and older who are at risk of being placed in a nursing home and further requires the plan to notify the person of their potential eligibility for PACE.
Vetoed

AB 2266 (Mitchell-D) Medi-Cal: health home

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish a program to provide enhanced health home services, as defined, to person at high risk of avoidable and frequent hospital use of hospital services due to chronic health and behavioral; health conditions.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2392 (John A. Pérez-D) Medi-Cal: interpretation services

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish the Medi-Cal Patient-Centered Communication program, to be administered by a third-party administrator, to, commencing 7/1/13, provides and reimburses for medical interpretation services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are limited English proficient. Establishes collective bargaining for Patient-Centered Communication program certified medical interpreters.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2472 (Butler-D) Medi-Cal: managed care

Specifies a new health care plan rate development process that applies to a single Medi-Cal plan administered by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Requires the Department of Health Care Services to use fee-for-service data to set rates for this plan in the same way as this data is used for setting rates for all Medi-Cal managed care plans.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2545 (Logue-R) Medi-Cal: nonemergency medical transportation

Requires nonemergency medical transportation services (NEMT) provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries by managed care organizations directly or under contractual arrangements to be subject to the same personnel, equipment, and inspection requirements as NEMT services provided by fee-for-service enrolled providers.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2608 (Bonilla-D) Medi-Cal: local educational agencies

Eliminates the 1/1/13, sunset clause and revises existing provisions implementing the Medicaid local billing option that allows local educational agencies to obtain federal matching funds for health care services provided by schools to Medi-Cal eligible students.
Chapter 755, Statutes of 2012

Mental Health

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SB 60 (Evans-D) 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 760* (Alquist-D) State hospitals: sexually violent predators: evaluations

Authorizes an attorney petitioning for the commitment of a sexually violent predator to request the Department of State Hospitals to perform a replacement evaluation if the evaluator "is no longer able to testify for the petitioner in court proceedings" as a result of the retirement or resignation of the evaluator and the evaluator has not entered into a new contract to continue as an evaluator on the case except in the instance the evaluator has opined that the individual named in the petition has not met the criteria for commitment, as specified.
Chapter 790, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1009 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Mental health: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Omnibus Mental Health Trailer Bill for 2012-13 which provides for a comprehensive restructuring of community-based mental health services at both the state and local levels which is necessary to effectuate the 2011 realignment legislation.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 2012

SB 1051* (Liu-D) State hospitals: abuse of patients

Requires the Department of State Hospitals to report suspected abuse to the designated protection and advocacy agency.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2012

SB 1136 (Steinberg-D) Mental health: Mental Health Services Act

Makes many changes to the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63 of 2004) to clarify existing law, codify existing practice, or reorganize state activities.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SB 1172 (Lieu-D) Mental health: sexual orientation change efforts

Prohibits a mental health provider from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age, regardless of the willingness of a patient, patient's parent, guardian, conservator, or other person to authorize such efforts.
Chapter 835, Statutes of 2012

SB 1217 (Dutton-R) Patton State Hospital

Reauthorizes the Director of the Department of General Services, with the consent of the Department of State Hospitals, to lease a building at Patton State Hospital to a nonprofit corporation or local government, for up to 20 years, in order to provide services to elderly persons.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2012

SB 1282 (Blakeslee-R) Mental health treatment: inmates

Provides that a mentally disordered offender who is required to undergo treatment in a state hospital as a condition of parole shall be deemed to be confined in prison and thus subject to special assault and battery statutes applicable to prisoners.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1319 (Liu-D) Department of Mental Health

Preserves the provisional rate setting methodology for "severely emotionally disturbed" children placed in group home settings until the Department of Mental Health can establish a permanent rate methodology.
Chapter 663, Statutes of 2012

SB 1377 (Corbett-D) Mental health

Clarifies a protection and advocacy agency's right to review reports of abuse and neglect of individuals with mental health disabilities without having to make a separate assertion of probable cause in each case.
Chapter 664, Statutes of 2012

SB 1381 (Pavley-D) Mental retardation: intellectual disability

Deletes in state law references to "mental retardation" or a "mentally retarded person" and instead replaces them with "intellectual disability" or "a person with an intellectual disability."
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2012
An identical bill is AB 2370 (Mansoor-R), Chapter 448, Statutes of 2012.

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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 181 (Portantino-D) Mental health bill of rights: foster youth

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

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1348 (Mansoor-R) Mental screening: pupils: parental consent:

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

AB 1467 (Assembly Budget Committee) Mental health: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the 2012 Budget Health Omnibus Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, (1) creates a Deputy Director position at the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to oversee mental health and substance use disorder services, programs, and functions; (2) moves the Caregiver Resource Centers program from the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to the DHCS; (3) provides clarification and detail on county mental health innovative programs; (4) transitions the oversight of mental health prevention and early intervention services from DMH to the DHCS, and requires DHCS to oversee these services in coordination with counties; (5) transitions various functions related to the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) from DMH to the DHCS; (6) requires, related to currently-required three-year plans, county mental health programs to submit annual updates adopted by the county board of supervisors to MHSOAC. Specifies that the three-year program and expenditure plan shall be based on available unspent funds and estimated revenue provided by the state and with stakeholder engagement; (7) requires DHCS to annually inform the California Mental Health Directors Association (CMHDA) and MHSOAC of the methodology used for revenue allocation to counties; and (8) requires DHCS, in consultation with the MHSOAC and the CMHDA, to develop and administer instructions for the Annual Mental Health Services Act Revenue and Expenditure Reports, and specifies the purpose of the reports.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012

AB 1468 (Assembly Budget Committee) Mental health: budget trailer bill

Among other provisions, changes reference to the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to the appropriate state departments, as DMH was eliminated in the Budget Act of 2012.
Chapter 438, Statutes of 2012

AB 1470 (Assembly Budget Committee) Mental health: Budget Trailer Bill

Eliminates the Department of Mental Health and establishes the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) which is to have the singular focus of providing oversight, safety, and accountability at the state's five mental health hospitals and other psychiatric facilities. Expands the authority to treat Incompetent to Stand Trial Program patients in county jails rather than in state hospitals. Establishes, in order to ensure counties cover the full cost of civil commitments to the state hospitals, in the absence, or delay, of a signed contract between the state and county, that if a county has not contracted with DSH by July 1 of any given fiscal year, each monthly reimbursement shall be equal to one-twelfth of the number of beds provided to the county the previous fiscal year multiplied by the current state rate as determined by DSH, thereby enabling the state to recoup the full cost of Lanterman-Petris-Short Act civil commitments.
Chapter 24, Statutes of 2012

AB 1488 (Assembly Budget Committee) Mental health: Budget Trailer Bill

Contains changes necessary to implement the elimination of the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the creation of the Department of State Hospitals (DSH), both of which were approved through 2012 Budget Trailer Bills. Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to various provisions of law, primarily to delete obsolete references to DMH and change those references to DSH.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2012

AB 1569 (Allen-D) Community mental health services: outpatient treatment

Extends the sunset date on Laura's Law to 1/1/17, and requires the Department of Health Care Services to submit a report and evaluation, including data as specified, of all counties implementing any component of Laura's Law to the Governor and to the Legislature by 7/1/15.
Chapter 441, Statutes of 2012

AB 1693 (Hagman-R) Mental health: persons incompetent to stand trial

Authorizes the Department of State Hospitals to expand a specified pilot program to establish competency restoration programs in prescribed counties, to provide treatment in county jails to individuals found incompetent to stand trial, and who have not been committed to a state hospital.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2134 (Chesbro-D) Community mental health services: outpatient treatment

Requires a county that elects to implement a court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment program for mentally ill persons, pursuant to current law, to develop best practices and provide services for mental health crisis response, including, but not limited to, utilization of crisis intervention teams, mobile crisis teams, or psychiatric emergency response teams.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 2228 (Hayashi-D) Mental Health Services Act: family justice centers

Requires the county mental health programs for children and for adults and seniors to include services that address the needs of crime victims who seek services at a family justice center and declare that it is consistent with and furthers the intent of the Mental Health Services Act.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2370 (Mansoor-R) Mental retardation: intellectual disability

Deletes in state law references to "mental retardation" or a "mentally retarded person" and instead replaces them with "intellectual disability" or "a person with an intellectual disability."
Chapter 448, Statutes of 2012
An identical bill is SB 1381 (Pavley-D), Chapter 457, Statutes of 2012.

AB 2371 (Butler-D) Mental health issues and restorative relief: veterans

Provides restorative relief to a veteran defendant who acquires a criminal record due to a mental disorder stemming from military service.
Chapter 403, Statutes of 2012

AB 2397 (Allen-D) Mental health: state hospitals: staff-to-patient ratios

Requires the Department of State Hospitals to reimburse an independent entity to conduct a review and analysis of staffing ratios to determine the appropriate levels for effective patient treatment. Requires a report to the Legislature by 8/1/13, regarding the entity's findings, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2399 (Allen-D) Mental health: state hospitals: injury & illness prevention

Requires each of the five state hospitals under the jurisdiction of the Department of State Hospitals to update its injury and illness prevention plan (IIPP) at least once a year, establish an IIPP committee to provide recommendations for updates to the plan, and develop an incident reporting procedure for assaults on employees, as specified.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2012

AB 2531 (Allen-D) Mental health: state hospitals: contraband

Requires the Department of State Hospitals to develop a list of items deemed contraband at every state hospital, authorizes each hospital to develop its own list, and requires each hospital to establish a contraband committee, comprised of hospital management and designated employees, to develop the list.
Chapter 385, Statutes of 2012

AB 2623 (Allen-D) State hospitals: peace officers

Requires the Department of State Hospitals and the Department of Developmental Services, by 6/30/13, to develop a policy for arming state hospital peace officers under their jurisdiction while those officers are performing hospital security functions outside the secure area of the hospital. This policy is to be implemented by 1/1/14.
Vetoed

ACR 110 (Fletcher-I) California Mental Health No Stigma Week

Declares the week of 5/20/12 through 5/26/12 as California Mental Health No Stigma Week.
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2012

HR 39 (Hueso-D) Suicide Prevention Month

Designates September 2012 as Suicide Prevention Month in the State of California.
Adopted by the Assembly

Autism/Developmental Disabilities

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SB 166 (Steinberg-D) Autism spectrum disorders: Health care coverage

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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

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

Requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services and the State 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 683 (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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

Establishes a pilot program for the provision of treatment and intervention services through the use of telehealth.
Voted

SB 770 (Steinberg-D) Autism and developmental disorder

Requires health insurance plans and health care service plans to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment for pervasive developmental disorder or autism.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1050 (Alquist-D) Autism: telehealth task force

Requires the Department of Developmental Services to establish an autism telehealth taskforce to be administered and led by a public or nonprofit entity responsible for the activities and work of the taskforce, provides that the lead administrator shall appoint members of the taskforce who shall have knowledge or experience, as specified, and provides that the taskforce shall provide technical assistance and recommendations in the area of telehealth services for individuals with autism spectrum disorder, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 1051* (Liu-D) Developmental centers: abuse of patients

Requires the developmental centers within the Department of Developmental Services to report suspected abuse to the designated protection and advocacy agency.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2012

SB 1123 (De León-D) Disabled parking placards

Suspends for 30 days the driver's license of a person who misuses a disabled parking placard and allows cities and counties to charge disabled persons for parking at 10-hour meters, as specified.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 1163* (Walters-R) Disabled access: liability

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

SB 1186* (Steinberg-D) Disability access

Specifies that the functions and responsibilities of the California Commission on Disability Access includes the concurrent and prospective review of legislative measures, including this bill, and recommendations on any additional ideas or options to promote disability access and reduce unnecessary litigation.
Chapter 383, Statutes of 2012

SB 1259 (Emmerson-R) Developmental disabilities: regional centers

Authorizes regional centers to allow one or two year exemptions from existing auditing requirements on vendors, providing significant issues were not found in a previous audit.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1377 (Corbett-D) Developmental disabilities: protection and advocacy agencies

Clarifies a protection and advocacy agency's right to review reports of abuse and neglect of individuals with development and mental health disabilities without having to make a separate assertion of probable cause in each case.
Chapter 664, Statutes of 2012

SB 1392 (Pavley-D) Autism: developmental services

Authorizes the lease of real property on the grounds of a state developmental center determined to no longer meet the needs of the state for directly serving persons with developmental disabilities from the General Fund into the newly created Californians with Developmental Disabilities Fund.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1522* (Leno-D) Developmental centers: reporting requirements

Requires a state developmental center to report to local law enforcement all deaths, sexual assaults, assaults with a deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury, and other specified incidents.
Chapter 666, Statutes of 2012

SCR 69 (Pavley-D) California Autism Awareness Month

Designates April 2012 as California Autism Awareness Month, and affirms the Legislature's commitment to the important issues related to autism spectrum disorders, and emphasizes that each and every individual with an ASD is a valued and important member of our society.
Resolution Chapter 16, Statutes of 2012

SJR 18 (Pavley-D) Individuals with disabilities: tax exempt accounts

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2011.
Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2012

AB 40 (Yamada-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: reporting

Requires mandated reporters of elder or dependent adult abuse to report suspected crimes of physical abuse which are believed to have occurred in a long-term care facility to local law enforcement within two hours, with follow up written reports to both the law enforcement entity and the Long Term Care Ombudsman (LTCO), as well as to the appropriate licensing agency. In cases of suspected abuse where the perpetrator has a diagnosis of dementia and the injury is not significant, permits the mandated reporter to determine, based upon his/her training experience, whether to report to local law enforcement or the LTCO.
Chapter 659, Statutes of 2012

AB 171 (Beall-D) Autism spectrum disorder

Requires health plans and insurers to provide coverage for the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of pervasive developmental disorder or autism (PDD/A). Defines "treatment for pervasive developmental disorder or autism" to mean psychiatric care, psychological care, therapeutic care, and prescription drugs (if covered by the plan/insurer), including necessary equipment, that develops, maintains, or restores to the maximum extent practicable the functioning or quality of life of an individual with PDD/A and is prescribed or ordered by a physician or a psychologist who determines the care to be medically necessary.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

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

Revises the definition of integrated employment to include supported employment, microenterprises, and self-employment, as defined. Requires regional centers to ensure that consumers, beginning at 14 years of age, and, where appropriate, other specified persons, are provided with information about the Employment First Policy, about options for integrated competitive employment, and about services and supports, including postsecondary education, available to enable the consumer to transition from school to work, and to achieve the outcomes of obtaining and maintaining integrated competitive employment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 533* (Yamada-D) Independent living centers

Establishes a continuous appropriations for the Department of Rehabilitation for the independent living centers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 899 (Yamada-D) Persons with disabilities

Establishes the Home Care Services Act to license and regulate home care services for persons with disabilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 1375 (Huber-D) Autism spectrum disorders: developmental services

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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1472 (Assembly Budget Committee) Developmental services: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Developmental Services 2012 Budget Trailer Bill. AB 1471 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 439, Statutes of 2012, made clarifying changes to this bill.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2012

AB 1554 (Jeffries-R) Developmental services: regional centers

Requires regional centers under contract with the Department of Developmental Services to make specific information available on their websites.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1878 (Beth Gaines-R) Disability access: liability

Establishes unprecedented new obstacles to and prohibitions against recovery for violation of existing disability discrimination laws by certain businesses, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1879 (Beth Gaines-R) Disability access: State Architect

Requires the State Architect to submit a report to the governor and Legislature by 1/1/14, that evaluates all state and federal regulations and laws concerning disability access and noting any state regulations that conflict with federal regulations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1994 (Huber-D) Disability access: causes of action

Requires every county to establish a program that requires an alleged aggrieved party under the state access laws to file a complaint with the county planning department in which an alleged violation occurred. Requires the adoption of a compliance schedule and requires issuance of building permits to the owner, agent, or responsible party of the alleged violation and authorizes the county to charge a fee to the owner, agent, or responsible party of the alleged violation for the costs of the program and the compliance schedule.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2041 (Swanson-D) Disability access: regulations: adoption

Requires a state agency that proposes promulgating regulations to include within the notice of proposed action a specified statement regarding the availability of narrative descriptions for persons with visual or other specified disabilities.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2012

AB 2122 (Lara-D) Disabled: Law School Admission Test accommodation

Requires the test sponsor of the Law School Admission Test to provide testing accommodations to a disabled test subject, as specified.
Chapter 583, Statutes of 2012

AB 2282 (Bill Berryhill-R) Disability access: standing: injunctive relief

Requires the California Commission on Disability Access to analyze and make recommendations to the Legislature regarding whether compliance with state and federal construction related disability accessibility laws would be improved or potentially deterred by changes to state rules regarding legal standing for actions seeking injunctive relief to correct alleged violations of disability access laws or the manner by which these claims are pleaded.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2297 (Hayashi-D) Developmentally disabled: food facilities

Excludes intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled from regulation as food facilities under the California Retail Food Code (CRFC), and clarifies that the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development has primary jurisdiction over licensed skilled nursing facilities when enforcing structural modification requirements in the CRFC.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2012

AB 2325* (Norby-R) Disability access: liability

Establishes notice requirements for an alleged aggrieved party to follow before bringing an action against a business for an alleged violation of access rights of a disabled individual, as specified. Requires that the owner, agent, or other responsible party to respond within 30 days with a description of the improvements to be made or with a rebuttal to the allegations, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2338 (Chesbro-D) Developmental services: Employment First Policy

Requires regional center planning teams under the jurisdiction of the Department of Developmental Services to consider an Employment First Policy, as specified, when developing an individual program plan for consumers 16 years of age and older.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2623 (Allen-D) State hospitals: peace officers

Requires the Department of State Hospitals and the Department of Developmental Services, by 6/30/13, to develop a policy for arming state hospital peace officers under their jurisdiction while those officers are performing hospital security functions outside the secure area of the hospital. This policy is to be implemented by 1/1/14.
Vetoed

Tobacco Products

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SB 330 (Padilla-D) Cigarette and tobacco products

Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and maintain the Tobacco License Query System that consists of a public, electronic database containing information regarding retailer violations of the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act and other specified laws intended to prevent illegal sales of tobacco to minors. Requires the Department to make the Tobacco License Query System available to the public on the Department's Internet Web site by July 2014, and to update the system on a quarterly basis.
(Died 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.
(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

Requires the electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system used in the CalWORKs 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)

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.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization 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.
Vetoed

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1278 (Hill-D) Smoking: health facilities

Expands the prohibition on smoking in general acute care hospitals to include the entire hospital campus, including plazas, sidewalks and parking areas.
Vetoed

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

Repeals and recasts the Board of Equalization's existing penalty structure for violations of the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, a statewide enforcement program related to the illegal sales of tobacco products to persons under the age of 18.
Chapter 335, Statutes of 2012

AB 1738 (Huffman-D) Tobacco cessation: health care coverage

Requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after 1/1/13, to provide coverage for two courses of treatment in a 12-month period for tobacco cessation preventive services rated "A" or "B" by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, and prohibits plans and insurers from charging a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible for those services.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

Abortion

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SB 623 (Kehoe-D) Aspiration abortions

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to extend until 1/1/14, the Health Workforce Pilot Project No. 171 to evaluate the safety, effectiveness, and acceptability of nurse practitioners, and certified nurse-midwives, and physicians assistants to providing aspiration abortions.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was SB 1338 (Kehoe-D) which died in the Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee.

SB 1338 (Kehoe-D) Aspiration: abortion: health training

Authorizes a nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife and physician assistant who has completed training in a specified Health Workforce Pilot Project through the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and received such training on or before 1/1/13, to continue to perform abortions by aspiration techniques.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
A similar bill was SB 623 (Kehoe-D), Chapter 450, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1306 (Donnelly-R) Abortion: human trafficking

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 60 (Evans-D) State hospitals: mental health

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 135 (Hernandez-D) Hospice facilities

Establishes a new health facility licensing category of hospice facility, and permits a licensed and certified hospice services provider to provide inpatient hospice services through the operation of a hospice facility, either as a free-standing health facility, or adjacent to, physically connected to, or on the building grounds of another health facility or a residential care facility.
Chapter 673, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 289 (Hernandez-D) Clinical laboratories

Allows the Department of Public Health to approve providers of clinical laboratory scientist programs for instruction in clinical laboratory technique, and allows these programs to use multiple clinical laboratories for training.
Chapter 352, Statutes of 2012

SB 301 (DeSaulnier-D) Skilled nursing facilities

Extends the sunset on the Medi-Cal Quality Assurance Fee on skilled nursing facilities from 8/1/13, until 8/1/15, and makes revisions to the methodology by which skilled nursing facilities are reimbursed in the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

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.
Vetoed

SB 359 (Hernandez-D) Hospitals: health care service plans

Authorizes health care service plans to adjust payment to specified hospitals for prestabilization emergency services and care when a hospital exceeds an out-of-network emergency utilization rate of 50% or greater.
Vetoed

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.
Vetoed

SB 554 (Yee-D) Health facilities: direct care nurses

Requires each direct care registered nurse to receive and complete an orientation to the hospital and patient care unit in which he/she will be working and to have demonstrated competency. Precludes a nurse who has not completed this orientation and had validation of competency from being assigned direct patient care or from being counted as staff for the purposes of meeting minimum nurse-to-patient ratios.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 630* (Alquist-D) Health facilities: expectant mothers

Permits Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC) and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, for the purposes of providing emergency services and care to patients with conditions related to active labor presenting in the emergency department of SHC, to be treated as a single licensed facility if the two hospitals have entered into a specified agreement.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

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

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 804 (Corbett-D) Health care districts

Requires health care districts to include, in an agreement transferring more than 50% of the health care district's assets, the appraised fair market value of any asset transferred to a nonprofit corporation, as defined. Further requires the appraisal of the fair market value to be performed within the six months preceding the date on which the district approves the transfer agreement.
Chapter 684, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 920* (Hernandez-D) Hospitals: Medi-Cal

Revises provisions of the Medi-Cal Hospital Provider Rate Payment Act of 2011 and the Private Hospital Quality Assurance Fee Act of 2011. Increases direct grants to district owned or operated hospitals known as nondesignated public hospitals (NDPHs) from the funds generated by the fee and provides that NDPHs would no longer be eligible for payments from the Low Income Health Plan out-of-network supplemental fund.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2012

SB 1089 (Liu-D) Care facilities

Requires the licensing of private nontraditional alternative treatment facilities for youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1095 (Rubio-D) Health centers: pharmacy

Authorizes outpatient settings and ambulatory surgical centers to purchase drugs at wholesale for administering and dispensing to their patients.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2012

SB 1217 (Dutton-R) Patton State Hospital

Reauthorizes the Director of the Department of General Services, with the consent of the Department of State Hospitals, to lease a building at Patton State Hospital to a nonprofit corporation or local government, for up to 20 years, in order to provide services to elderly persons.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2012

SB 1228 (Alquist-D) Small house skilled nursing facilities

Establishes, until 1/1/20, within the Department of Public Health (DPH), the Small House Skilled Nursing Facilities to allow DPH to authorize the development and operation of up to 10 Small House Skilled Nursing Facilities.
Chapter 671, Statutes of 2012

SB 1246 (Hernandez-D) Health facilities

Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH), during its periodic inspections of hospitals, to review compliance with existing nurse staffing ratios and patient classifications systems. Eliminates the requirement that DPH promulgate regulations further defining criteria for assessing administrative penalties for non-immediate jeopardy violations.
Vetoed

SB 1274 (Wolk-D) Hospitals: employment

Provides an exemption from the prohibition against the Corporate Practice of Medicine to allow a hospital that is owned and operated by a charitable organization and offers only pediatric subspecialty care to charge for physician services.
Chapter 793, Statutes of 2012

SB 1285 (Hernandez-D) Hospital billing: emergency services

Establishes an emergency services billing rate of 150% of Medicare for prestabilization emergency services and care when a hospital exceeds an out-of-network emergency utilization rate of 50%.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1318 (Wolk-D) Health facilities: influenza vaccinations

Requires clinics and licensed health care facilities to institute measures designed to maximize influenza vaccination rates and to prevent persons with privileges on the medical staff and onsite health care workers affiliated with the clinics or health care facilities from contracting, and transmitting to patients, the influenza virus.
Vetoed

SB 1319 (Liu-D) Licensed community treatment facilities

Deletes the statutory sunset for licensed community treatment facilities serving seriously emotionally disturbed children or wards and dependents of the court to have nursing staff on-call rather than onsite if the facility meets specified conditions.
Chapter 663, Statutes of 2012

SB 1400 (Harman-R) Residential care facilities: video surveillance

Authorizes a residential care facility for the elderly to use video surveillance in a resident's bedroom if the facility and the resident or the resident's authorized representative consent to the use of the video surveillance for purposes of ensuring the safety of residents.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 1481 (Negrete McLeod-D) Clinical laboratories

Allows pharmacists to perform specific Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments waived tests without the supervision of a laboratory director.
Chapter 874, Statutes of 2012

SB 1538 (Simitian-D) Health facilities: mammography tests

Requires health facilities at which mammography examinations are performed to include a specified notice in the summary of the written report that is sent to the patient in order to notify patients who have dense breast tissue that they may benefit from supplementary screening tests.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 217 (Carter-D) Long-term care facilities: smoking

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.
Vetoed

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

Permits the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to award one or more grants, as specified, to one or more projects designed to demonstrate specified new or cost-effective methods of delivering health care services to improve access to quality health care for vulnerable populations or communities that are effective at enhancing health outcomes, and improving access to quality health care.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 276 (Alejo-D) Central Coast Hospital Authority

Authorizes the Monterey County Board of Supervisors to establish the Central Coast Hospital Authority as specified, and prohibits the Board of Supervisors from establishing the Authority until an agreement to affiliate or consolidate the Natividad Medical Center with at least one other health care facility is reached.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2012

AB 419 (Mitchell-D) Care facilities

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

AB 491* (Ma-D) General acute care hospitals: cardiac catheterization

Authorizes two general acute care hospitals to provide cardiac catheterization services in a connected outpatient facility.
Chapter 772, Statutes of 2012

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

Makes technical and clarifying changes to existing reporting requirements for facilities using computed tomography x-ray systems when a patient receives excessive or unnecessary doses of radiation.
Chapter 106, Statutes of 2012

AB 715 (Galgiani-D) Hospital inpatient rates

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

AB 784 (Yamada-D) Long-term health care facilities

Enacts the Nursing Facility Bed Hold Protection Act of 2012 to engage the licensed nursing staff at the Department of Public Health in a clinical review of a preliminary decision of the Department of Health Care Services to order the readmission of a resident to determine if readmission is appropriate.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 808 (Skinner-D) Hospital employers: workers' compensation

Provides, with respect to hospital employees who provide direct patient care in an acute care hospital, that the term "injury" includes MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) that develops or manifests itself during the period of the person's employment with the hospital.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

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

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

AB 847 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Clinics: pharmacy

Expands provisions regarding the practice of 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

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

Prohibits the Department of Health Care Services from reducing rates paid for laboratory services, based on donations or discounts provided to federally qualified health centers for care of the insured.
Chapter 738, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1278 (Hill-D) Health facilities: smoking

Expands the prohibition on smoking in general acute care hospitals to include the entire hospital campus, including plazas, sidewalks and parking areas.
Vetoed

AB 1303 (Wieckowski-D) Health care facilities

Authorizes St. Rose Hospital, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Alameda, to enter into a joint powers agreement with the Washington Township Healthcare District.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1306 (Donnelly-R) Health facilities: human trafficking

Requires any facility where an abortion is authorized to be performed and the 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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1309* (Miller-R) University of California Medical School

Appropriates $15 million to the medical school at the University of California (UC) for the support of the medical school at the UC. The source of the $15 million will be settlement monies from an ongoing investigation into fraud in the state's Medi-Cal program (General Fund revenues).
(Died in Senate Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1467 (Assembly Budget Committee) Health facilities: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Health Omnibus 2012 Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, creates a California health Facilities Financing Authority Competitive Grant Program, changes hospital quality assurance fee revenue allocation, provides for a six-month extension (from March 2012 to September 2012) by which hospitals need to notify the state on seismic retrofitting to reflect agreements associated with the hospital quality assurance fee, and creates the Long-Term Care Quality Assurance Fund to collect revenue from the skilled nursing facilities quality assurance fee, which may be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes established in statute associated with the quality assurance fee.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012

AB 1468 (Assembly Budget Committee) Hospital supplemental payments: Budget Trailer Bill

Makes technical corrections to the eligibility language for various hospital supplemental funds. AB 1467 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012, a Budget Trailer Bill, amended Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 14166.12 and 14166.17 to include the eligibility requirements for various hospital supplemental funds. These sections reference the Selective Provider Contract program's statute.
Chapter 438, Statutes of 2012

AB 1469* (Assembly Budget Committee) Nursing home facilities

Reauthorizes the quality assurance fee on skilled nursing facilities until 7/31/15. Implements nursing home rate adjustments. Increases oversight of referral to community-based services by nursing home staff and requires stakeholder participation in development of the nursing facility quality improvement program.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1470 (Assembly Budget Committee) State hospitals: Budget Trailer Bill

Eliminates the Department of Mental Health and establishes the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) which is to have the singular focus of providing oversight, safety, and accountability at the state's five mental health hospitals and other psychiatric facilities. Expands the authority to treat Incompetent to Stand Trial Program patients in county jails rather than in state hospitals. Establishes, in order to ensure counties cover the full cost of civil commitments to the state hospitals, in the absence, or delay, of a signed contract between the state and county, that if a county has not contracted with DSH by July 1 of any given fiscal year, each monthly reimbursement shall be equal to one-twelfth of the number of beds provided to the county the previous fiscal year multiplied by the current state rate as determined by DSH, thereby enabling the state to recoup the full cost of Lanterman-Petris Short Act civil commitments.
Chapter 24, Statutes of 2012

AB 1488 (Assembly Budget Committee) State hospitals: Budget Trailer Bill

Contains changes necessary to implement the elimination of the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the creation of the State Department of State Hospitals (DSH), both of which were approved through 2012 Budget Trailer Bills. Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to various provisions of law, primarily to delete obsolete references to DMH and change those references to DSH.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2012

AB 1489* (Assembly Budget Committee) Skilled nursing facilities: Budget Trailer Bill

Reauthorizes the nursing home quality assurance fee, implements nursing home rate adjustments, and increases oversight of referrals to community-based services by nursing facilities.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2012

AB 1710 (Yamada-D) Nursing Home Administrator Program

Revises how nursing home administrator licensing fees are to be adjusted so that fee revenue is sufficient to cover the regulatory costs to the Department of Public Health (DPH), and revises and increases DPH reporting requirements regarding the Nursing Home Administrator Program.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2012

AB 1728* (Galgiani-D) Hospital inpatient services

Requires that the Department of Health Care Services revert to a prior, higher rate of payment for hospital inpatient services in two non-Medi-Cal state health programs - the California Children's Services and the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1752 (Yamada-D) Long-term health care facilities

Enacts the Nursing Facility Bed Hold Protection Act of 2012 which finalizes nursing facilities that do not honor state and federally required resident bed holds.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1862 (Logue-R) Health facilities: licensure

Requires the Department of Public Health to issue a single consolidated license to certain general acute care hospitals that include more than one physical plants is used as a freestanding emergency department, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1867 (Pan-D) Health facilities

Delays the implementation of a prohibition on hospitals' use of certain connector devices for intravenous, epidural, and enteral feeding systems until 1/1/16.
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2012

AB 1983 (Mansoor-R) Recovery and treatment facilities

Defines integral alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities (integral facilities) for purposes of licensure by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs and excludes integral facilities from being considered a residential use of property.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2066 (Monning-D) Residential care facilities

Establishes procedures to be followed in the event of revocation of a license to operate a residential care facility for the elderly (RCFE) and authorizes the Department of Social Services (DSS) to require the licensee to prepare and submit a written plan for relocation and compliance with the terms and conditions of the approved plans. Additionally, requires DSS to provide other information as necessary related to the revocation requirements, and requires the licensee to provide adequate notice to each RCFE resident and their responsible person, as specified.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2012

AB 2096 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) District hospitals: Medi-Cal

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to implement by 7/1/13, with respect to district hospitals, an existing Intergovernmental Transfer Program relating to increased funding for Medi-Cal managed care services provided by designated and nondesignated public hospitals, and makes various findings and declarations with regard to district hospitals.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2115 (Alejo-D) Local health care districts

Requires a written employment agreement if a local health care district employs or contracts with a hospital administrator or chief executive officer.
Vetoed

AB 2180 (Alejo-D) Local health care districts

Requires, if a health care district and hospital administrator enter into a written employment agreement, that the written agreement include specified information regarding compensation, severance, and other benefits, as specified.
Chapter 322, Statutes of 2012

AB 2253 (Pan-D) Clinical laboratories: test results

Authorizes the electronic conveyance of clinical laboratory test results related to HIV antibodies, hepatitis, drug abuse, and specified test results that reveal a malignancy, if requested by the patient, and the health care professional deems electronic conveyance the most appropriate method of disclosure, and the professional has already discussed the results with the patient.
Chapter 698, Statutes of 2012

AB 2276 (Campos-D) Nursing homes: ombudsman program

Appropriates $1.6 million for the 2012-13 fiscal year, and $1.6 million for the 2013-14 fiscal year, from the State Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account to the Department of Aging to fund local ombudsman programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2297 (Hayashi-D) Intermediate care facilities

Excludes intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled from regulation as food facilities under the California Retail Food Code (CRFC), and clarifies that the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development has primary jurisdiction over licensed skilled nursing facilities when enforcing structural modification requirements in the CRFC.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2012

AB 2397 (Allen-D) State hospitals

Requires the Department of Mental Health to reimburse an independent entity for the purposes of conducting a review and analysis of staffing ratios to determine the appropriate levels for effective patient treatment in state hospitals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2399 (Allen-D) State hospitals

Requires each of the five state hospitals under the jurisdiction of the Department of State Hospitals to update its injury and illness prevention plan (IIPP) at least once a year, establish an IIPP committee to provide recommendations for updates to the plan, and develop and incident reporting procedure for assaults on employees, as specified.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2012

AB 2400 (Butler-D) Social rehabilitation facilities

Prohibits a licensed social rehabilitation facility from employing more than one licensed physician or surgeon or registered nurse for every six patients. Provides that medical services provided by a social rehabilitation facility that employs more than one licensed physician or surgeon or registered nurse for every six patients shall not be considered incidental medical services. Presumes excessive a rate charged by a social rehabilitation facility that is more than 150% of the rate the state pays for similar services, and requires the Department of Social Services to investigate complaints of excessive rates.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 2407 (Chesbro-D) Health care facilities: Mendocino County

Authorizes various district hospitals and private, nonprofit hospitals in Mendocino County, to enter into a joint powers agreement with the Northern California Health Care Authority, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2418 (Gordon-D) Health care districts

Requires health care districts to spend 95% of tax revenue on current community health care benefit, as defined, and limits to 30% the amount of annual revenue that can be allocated to reserves.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2531 (Allen-D) State hospitals: prohibited items

Requires the Department of State Hospitals to develop a list of items deemed contraband at every state hospital, authorizes each hospital to develop its own list, and requires each hospital to establish a contraband committee, comprised of hospital management and designated employees, to develop the list.
Chapter 385, Statutes of 2012

AB 2623 (Allen-D) State hospitals: peace officers

Requires the Department of State Hospitals and the Department of Developmental Services, by 6/30/13, to develop a policy for arming state hospital peace officers under their jurisdiction while those officers are performing hospital security functions outside the secure area of the hospital. This policy is to be implemented by 1/1/14.
Vetoed

HR 37 (Hill-D) Hospitals: umbilical cord blood banking

Encourages hospitals to participate in free umbilical cord blood and cord tissue collection programs.
Adopted by the Assembly

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SB 71 (Leno-D) Naturopathic Doctors Act

Among other provisions, repeals the obsolete Naturopathic Childbirth Attendance Advisory Committee.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2012

SB 98 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Nursing

Establishes, until 1/1/16, a new Board of Registered Nursing and vests the new board with the same powers as the previous board of the same name which was repealed on 1/1/12.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2012

SB 122 (Price-D) Healing Arts

Authorizes the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) to receive a fee from applicants and for renewal of a school of nursing's authorization, requires BRN to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to delineate the powers of the Bureau related to consumer protection, as specified, and authorizes the California Medical Board to determine that an applicant is eligible for a physician and surgeon's certificate if they attended a foreign medical school that is not recognized or has been previously disapproved by the Board if the applicant meets specified requirements.
Chapter 789, Statutes of 2012

SB 289 (Hernandez-D) Clinical laboratory scientists

Allows the Department of Public Health to approve providers of clinical laboratory scientist programs for instruction in clinical laboratory technique, and allows these programs to use multiple clinical laboratories for training.
Chapter 352, Statutes of 2012

SB 352 (Huff-R) Chiropractors

Prohibits the treatment of hypersensitivity to foods, medications, environmental allergens, or venoms by a chiropractor, and prohibits a chiropractor from advertising that he/she provides or is able to provide those services, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 393 (Hernandez-D) Medical homes

Establishes the Patient-Centered Medical Home Act of 2012 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.
Vetoed

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

SB 554 (Yee-D) Direct care nurses: health facilities

Requires each direct care registered nurse to receive and complete an orientation to the hospital and patient care unit in which he/she will be working and to have demonstrated competency. Precludes a nurse who has not completed this orientation and had validation of competency from being assigned direct patient care or from being counted as staff for the purposes of meeting minimum nurse-to-patient ratios.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 623 (Kehoe-D) Health professionals: aspiration abortions

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to extend until 1/1/14, the Health Workforce Pilot Project No. 171 to evaluate the safety, effectiveness, and acceptability of nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and physician assistants in providing aspiration abortions.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was SB 1338 (Kehoe-D) which died in Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee.

SB 628 (Yee-D) Acupuncture: regulation

Makes it unprofessional conduct for an acupuncturist to use the title of Doctor or use the abbreviation Dr. in connection with the practice of acupuncture unless he/she holds a license authorizing that use or a specified degree.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2012

SB 632* (Emmerson-R) Marriage and family therapists

Clarifies which marriage and family therapist trainees are allowed to counsel clients outside of a practicum course, and clarifies a limited exemption for trainees who are not allowed to counsel clients outside of a practicum course.
Chapter 50, Statutes of 2012

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

SB 694 (Padilla-D) Dental care

Creates, contingent on a declaration by the Department of Finance that sufficient funds are available, a Statewide Office of Oral Health (Office) within the Department of Public Health, defines the Office's duties, and authorizes the Office to oversee a large study assessing the ability of midlevel dental practitioners to perform specified additional procedures.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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. Provides for the person cited to contest the citation.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 924 (Price-D) Physical therapists: direct access to services

Allows physical therapists to treat patients without a diagnosis from a physician for 30 business days, and thereafter under specified conditions, and specifies who may be shareholders, officers, directors, or professional employees of medical corporations, podiatry corporations, chiropractic corporations, and physical therapy corporations.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 1095 (Rubio-D) Pharmacy: clinics

Authorizes outpatient settings and ambulatory surgical centers to purchase drugs at wholesale for administering and dispensing to their patients. Deletes a provision stating that no clinic shall operate without a license issued by the Board of Pharmacy, but retains provisions requiring a clinic to be licensed by the Board in order to be entitled to purchase drugs at wholesale, and allowing the Board to inspect those clinics at any time in order to determine whether a clinic is operating in compliance with the law.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2012

SB 1134 (Yee-D) Psychotherapist duty to protect: persons of unsound mind

Deletes from the immunity from monetary liability statute concerning a psychotherapist's "duty to warn and protect" of threatened violent behavior of a patient the phrase "duty to warn" thus keeping the term "duty to protect", as specified.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2012

SB 1164 (Emmerson-R) Health care providers: insurance

Extends the sunset date, from 1/1/13 to 1/1/16, of limited liability immunity for professional liability insurers issuing non-renewal notice statements, which specify the reason for the nonrenewal, sent to a healthcare provider policyholder.
Chapter 131, Statutes of 2012

SB 1172 (Lieu-D) Mental health providers

Prohibits a mental health provider from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age, regardless of the willingness of a patient, patient's parent, guardian, conservator, or other person to authorize such efforts.
Chapter 835, Statutes of 2012

SB 1183 (Lieu-D) Board of Behavioral Sciences: continuing education

Requires continuing education providers, with the exception of accredited educational institutions and certain other institutions, to be approved by an accrediting organization, and deletes the requirement for the Board of Behavioral Sciences to approve or revoke those continuing education providers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1195 (Price-D) Audits of pharmacy benefits

Requires a contract that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after 1/1/13, between a pharmacy and a carrier or a pharmacy benefit manager to provide pharmacy services to beneficiaries of a health benefit plan to comply with standards and audit requirements as specified. Includes provisions relating to the following: commissions or financial incentives, recoupment of funds for clerical errors, confidentiality of information, scheduling of audits, permissible documents for purposes of audits, timeframes of audits, standards for submission of preliminary and final reports, validation of claims and orders, and, requirements for audit appeals.
Chapter 706, Statutes of 2012

SB 1199 (Dutton-R) Radiologic technologists

Authorizes a radiologic technologist (RT) who is permitted to perform venipuncture in an upper extremity in administering contrast materials, to use a saline-based solution if certain requirements are met. Requires an RT, prior to performing venipuncture in in upper extremity to administer contrast materials, to have performed at least 10 venipunctures on live humans, under the personal supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon, a registered nurse, or a person the physician or nurse has previously deemed qualified to provide personal supervision to the RT for purposes of performing venipuncture, as specified. Indicates that only after completion of a minimum of 10 venipunctures may the supervising individual evaluate whether the RT is competent to perform venipuncture under direct supervision. States that the number of venipunctures required is in addition to those performed as part of certification, as specified.
Chapter 358, Statutes of 2012

SB 1202 (Leno-D) Dental hygienists

Authorizes the Dental Hygiene Committee of California (DHCC) to issue a special permit to a registered dental hygienists (RDH) licensed in another state authorizing him/her to teach in a dental hygiene program in California without holding a California license upon meeting certain requirements, including the completion of an examination requirements and the payment of an application fee, subject to biennial renewal fee, for the special permit. Recasts the provision requiring the DHCC to approve an educational program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation to instead make it permissive, that the DHCC may approve such an educational program. Requires an applicant for a RDH license to complete a Committee-approved instruction in gingival soft tissue curettage, nitrous oxide-oxygen analgesia, and local anesthesia.
Chapter 331, Statutes of 2012

SB 1215 (Emmerson-R) Optometry

Requires the Board of Optometry to issue a retired license to an optometrist with a current and active license. The optometrist is required to apply for the retired license and pay a fee no more than $25. Prohibits the holder of a retired license from engaging in the practice of optometry. Authorizes the holder of a retired license to use only certain titles and to reactivate the license upon repayment of a reactivation fee which is determined by the Board. Requires the Board to issue a volunteer service designation to an optometrist with a retired or current and active license. Requires an optometrist with a retired license with a volunteer service designation to be subject to renewal fee requirements and completion of continuing education units.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2012

SB 1236 (Price-D) Professions and vocations

Extends the sunset dates of numerous boards, committees and programs under the Department of Consumer Affairs and makes related conforming and technical changes.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2012

SB 1237 (Price-D) Professions and vocations: regulatory boards

Extends the sunset date for investigation provisions under the Medical Practice Act, as well as the vertical enforcement and prosecution model of medical misconduct, from 1/1/13 to 1/1/14. Extends the sunset date for the Naturopathic Medicine Committee under the Osteopathic Medical Board of California from 1/1/13 to 1/1/14. Extends the sunset date for the Physical Therapy Board and the term of its executive officer (EO) from 1/1/13 to 1/1/14. Extends the sunset date for the Board of Pharmacy (BOP), the BOP appointment authority, and the term of its EO from 1/1/13 to 1/1/17.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1238 (Price-D) Massage therapy

Defines an operator of a massage business to mean a person, whether owner or nonowner, who manages or operates a massage business. Allows the use of credit unit equivalents (in addition to hours) in determining completion of required education for massage practitioners and massage therapists. Revises the dual path to licensure for massage therapists by adding the following educational requirements to the option that currently requires only the passage of a competency assessment examination: successful completion, at an approved school, of curricula in massage and related subjects totaling a minimum of 250 hours that incorporates appropriate school assessment of student knowledge and skills. Included in the hours shall be instruction addressing anatomy and physiology, contraindications, health and hygiene, and business and ethics, with at least 100 hours of the required minimum 250 hours devoted to these curriculum areas.
Chapter 655, Statutes of 2012

SB 1250 (Alquist-D) Medical records: confidentiality

Amends the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to require a health care provider, health care service plan, or contractor, if there is a breach in the security of a patient's personal or financial information, as specified, and that provider, plan, or contractor is required to issue a breach notification, to offer in the breach notification one year of free credit monitoring services to the patient.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1274 (Wolk-D) Healing arts: hospitals: employment

Provides an exemption from the prohibition against the Corporate Practice of Medicine to allow a hospital that is owned and operated by a charitable organization and offers only pediatric subspecialty care to charge for physician services.
Chapter 793, Statutes of 2012

SB 1301 (Hernandez-D) Pharmacists: prescription drugs: 90-day supply

Authorizes a pharmacist to dispense not more than a 90-day supply of medication pursuant to a valid prescription that specifies the initial dispensing of a lesser amount followed by periodic refills of that amount if the patient has completed an initial 30-day supply of the medication, as specified.
Chapter 455, Statutes of 2012

SB 1329 (Simitian-D) Pharmacies: prescription drugs

Allows the establishment of a voluntary drug repository and distribution program for the purpose of distributing surplus medications to persons in need of financial assistance to ensure access to necessary pharmaceutical therapies.
Chapter 709, Statutes of 2012

SB 1338 (Kehoe-D) Aspiration: abortion: health training

Authorizes a nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife and physician assistant who has completed training in a specified Health Workforce Pilot Project through the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and received such training on or before 1/1/13, to continue to perform abortions by aspiration techniques.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
A similar bill was SB 623 (Kehoe-D), Chapter 450, Statutes of 2012.

SB 1365 (Negrete McLeod-D) Emergency medical services: immunity

Extends the civil liability immunity law to registered nurses trained in emergency services. Provides immunity to all listed professionals rendering medical services during emergency ground or air transport.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2012

SB 1378 (Hancock-D) Emergency medical services: personnel

Requires the medical director of a local emergency services agency to evaluate the good character and rehabilitation of an applicant for a certificate who has a prior criminal conviction before determining whether to issue the certificate. Specifies several criteria to be evaluated by the medical director, and requires the medical director to only consider convictions for which the applicant was prosecuted as an adult when considering whether to deny a certificate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1407 (Leno-D) Medical information: disclosure

Prohibits a psychotherapist from disclosing mental health records or information based solely on an authorization signed by a parent or guardian of that minor if the minor has been removed from physical custody of that parent or guardian in dependency proceedings for severe abuse or neglect or risk of abuse, unless the court has issued an order authorizing the parent or guardian to be the minor's representative for the release of such information, upon finding that it would not be detrimental to the minor patient.
Chapter 657, Statutes of 2012

SB 1416 (Rubio-D) Medical residency training program grants: grants

Creates the Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund for the purpose of funding grants to graduate medical education residency programs in California, and requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to develop criteria for distribution of available monies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1444 (Anderson-R) Hearing aid dispensers: assistive devices: warranty

Provides authorization for the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board to adopt regulations to specify warranty provisions for assistive devices.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1446 (Negrete McLeod-D) Naturopathic doctors

Allows naturopathic doctors (NDs) to independently prescribe and administer vitamins, minerals, amino acids, glutathione, botanicals and their extracts, homeopathic medicines, electrolytes, sugars, and diluents that may be administered utilizing routes of administration allowed under current law for NDs, only when such substances are chemically identical to those for sale without a prescription. Requires an ND, in order to qualify to administer intravenous (IV) therapy in his/her practice pursuant to existing law, to demonstrate that he/she has a current California ND license and has completed a qualifying course on IV therapy from a course provider approved by the Naturopathic Medicine Committee.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2012

SB 1481 (Negrete McLeod-D) Pharmacists

Allows pharmacists to perform over-the-counter blood glucose, hemoglobin A1c (blood sugar), or cholesterol tests classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988.
Chapter 874, Statutes of 2012

SB 1483 (Steinberg-D) Physicians and surgeons

Creates the Physician Health, Awareness, and Monitoring Quality Act and establishes the Physician Health Program, which is a referral and monitoring program for physicians, medical students, and medical residents seeking treatment for alcohol or substance abuse, a mental disorder, or other health conditions.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1488 (Yee-D) California Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatologist

Establishes the California Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatology Council to administer a "California certified traditional Chinese Medicine traumatologist" certificate program, until 1/1/17. Requires the Council to issue a two-year California traditional Chinese medicine traumatology certificate to applicants who satisfy the specified requirements.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 1524 (Hernandez-D) Nursing

Deletes the requirement that a certified nurse-midwife and nurse practitioner must complete six months of physician and surgeon experience in the furnishing or ordering of drugs or devices, and provides that a physician and surgeon may determine the extent of supervision necessary in the furnishing or ordering of drugs and devices.
Chapter 796, Statutes of 2012

SB 1527 (Negrete McLeod-D) Board of Behavioral Sciences: licensing

Revises requirements for individuals applying for licensure or registration as a marriage and family therapist (MFT), a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), an associate clinical social worker, or a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC). Requires the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to accept a passing score on the MFT, LCSW, or LPCC clinical examination for a period of seven years from the date the examination was taken. Requires an MFT applicant who is licensed out-of-state, and who applies after 1/1/14, to pass the California law and ethics examination and a BBS-designated clinical examination. Allows an MFT, LCSW, and LPCC applicant who is licensed or registered out-of-state to apply for licensure without taking the clinical examination if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2012

SB 1528 (Steinberg-D) Medical services

Provides that an injured person whose health care is provided through a public or private capitated health care service plan, if the health care provider is paid a set periodic amount regardless of the number of, or nature of services provided, and the health provider does not present the injured person with a bill for payment identifying the costs of the particular services included, shall be entitled to recover as damages the reasonable and necessary value of medical services.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 1543 (Emmerson-R) Patient records: inspection and copies

Prescribes the fees for a health care provider or medical records management company to charge when providing copies of medical records to an attorney. Provides that an electronic copy of a medical record is required only if the entire request can be reproduced from an electronic health record system and can be delivered electronically. Requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to make annual determinations concerning any increase or decrease in the fees in accordance with the Consumer Price Index prepared by the United States Department of Labor.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1575 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Medical professions and vocations

Requires approved dental hygiene educational programs to register extramural dental facilities with the Dental Hygiene Committee of California (DHCC). Requires the DHCC to impose the same application denial and license revocation procedures that currently exist for the Dental Board of California, on applicants or licensees who are registered sex offenders. Requires certain licensee information be collected and posted to the DHCC Web site. Includes other minor, technical, or non-substantive changes to law governing the Medical Board of California, nurse midwives, the Board of Podiatric Medicine, the State Board of Optometry, respiratory care practitioners, the Board of Pharmacy, and the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Chapter 799, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 367 (Smyth-R) Board of Behavioral Sciences: reporting

Adds the Board of Behavioral Sciences to the list of healing arts boards who are required to report to the Department of Health Care Services information regarding a licensee who a board determines is no longer eligible to practice his/her profession.
Chapter 154, Statutes of 2012

AB 377 (Solorio-D) Pharmacy

Authorizes a centralized hospital packaging pharmacy to prepare medications, by performing specified functions for administration only to inpatients within its own general acute care hospital, or one or more general acute care hospitals under the same ownership and located within 75 miles of each other.
Chapter 687, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 575 (Hayashi-D) Dietetics

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

AB 589 (Perea-D) Medical school scholarships

Establishes the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program, and provides that the Program is open to persons who agree in writing, prior to completing an accredited medical or osteopathic school, based in the United States, to serve in an eligible practice setting, as defined, for at least three years, and clarifies that funds for the loan repayment program will not be used for purposes of the scholarship program.
Chapter 339, Statutes of 2012

AB 671 (Portantino-D) Social work supervisors

Specifies education and training requirements for social work supervisors who are hired on or after 1/1/16.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 761 (Roger Hernández-D) Optometrists

Adds licensed optometrists to the list of persons who are authorized under current law to perform a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988. Includes, in the definition of "laboratory director" for purposes of a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived, a duly licensed optometrist serving as the director of a laboratory, which only performs clinical laboratory testing as authorized. Clarifies that an optometrist who is certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents (TPAs) may also perform tear fluid analysis. Allows optometrists who are certified to use TPAs to perform a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived under CLIA and as designated under current law, as specified, necessary for the diagnosis of conditions and diseases of the eye or adnexa, or if otherwise specifically authorized by the Optometry Practice Act.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2012

AB 783 (Hayashi-D) Licensed physical therapists and occupational therapists

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.
(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 808 (Skinner-D) Hospital employers: presumption

Provides, with respect to hospital employees who provide direct patient care in an acute care hospital, that the term "injury" includes methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA skin infection) that develops or manifests itself during the period of the person's employment with the hospital. Creates a presumption that MRSA skin infection arises out of and in the course of the person's employment if MRSA skin infection develops or manifests as specified. Prohibits attributing MRSA skin infection that develops or manifests in those cases to any disease or skin infection existing prior to that development or manifestation.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

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

Establishes the Rural Hospital Physician and Surgeon Services 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

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.
(Died 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.
(Died at Senate Desk)

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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1533 (Mitchell-D) International medical graduates: trainees

Authorizes, until 1/1/19, a clinical instruction pilot program for certain bilingual international medical graduates (IMGs) at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as part of an existing pre-residency training program, at the option of UCLA. Allows IMGs to engage in hands-on clinical training during their participation in the IMG pilot program if they meet specified requirements.
Chapter 109, Statutes of 2012

AB 1548 (Carter-D) Practice of medicine: cosmetic surgery

Provides that when a business organization that provides outpatient elective cosmetic medical procedure or treatment employs a physician to serve as a medical director of a health care practice in which the physician does not own, and the business provides medical care that can only be provided by the holder of a valid California medical license, the business would be guilty of specified violations of law.
Chapter 140, Statutes of 2012

AB 1588 (Atkins-D) Professions and vocations: reservist licensees

Authorizes all boards, commissions, bureaus, committees, departments, divisions, examining committees, programs and agencies within the Department of Consumer Affairs to provide waivers from professional license renewal fees and continuing education requirements for active duty members of the United States Armed Forces.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2012

AB 1621 (Halderman-R) Physicians and surgeons: prostate cancer

Exempts a physician or surgeon working on a trauma case from providing a written summary about the risk and treatment options for prostate cancer to a trauma patient.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2012

AB 1629 (Halderman-R) Physicians: Medi-Cal

Establishes an expedited process for a physician who is practicing in a medically underserved area to become eligible to be a provider in the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1710 (Yamada-D) Nursing home administrators

Revises how nursing home administrator licensing fees are to be adjusted so that fee revenue is sufficient to cover the regulatory costs to the Department of Public Health (DPH), and revises and increases DPH reporting requirements regarding the Nursing Home Administrator Program.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2012

AB 1728* (Galgiani-D) Health care programs: provider reimbursement rates

Requires that the Department of Health Care Services revert to a prior, higher rate of payment for hospital inpatient services in two non-Medi-Cal state health programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1785 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Marriage and family therapists

Adds marriage and family therapists to the list of health care professionals whose services are reimbursed through Medi-Cal on a per-visit basis to federally qualified health centers or rural health clinics.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1839 (Ma-D) Veterinary assistants

Authorizes, until 1/1/15, registered veterinary technicians and unregistered veterinary assistants to administer a controlled substance pursuant to "direct" or "indirect" supervision if specified requirements are satisfied, including undergoing a background check. Authorizes the Veterinary Medical Board to restrict access to a dangerous drug by an unregistered veterinary assistant if the drug is identified as having a pattern of being diverted.
Chapter 239, Statutes of 2012

AB 1848 (Atkins-D) Physicians and surgeons: expert witness testimony

Requires a physician and surgeon who holds an active and valid license to practice medicine in another state to file a written request for authorization with the Medical Board of California (MBC), using a form that the MBC shall create, and receive the approval of the MBC prior to providing expert witness testimony, under oath, relating to the practice of medicine in any legal proceeding in the state.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1889 (Fong-D) Acupuncture: license requirements

Requires applicants for an acupuncture license to pass a practical examination administered by the Acupuncture Board and developed by the Office of Professional Examination Services of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1896 (Chesbro-D) Health care practitioners: tribal health programs

Specifies that a person who is licensed as a health care practitioner in any other state and is employed by a tribal health program is exempt from any state licensing requirement with respect to acts authorized under the person's license where the tribal health program performs specified services.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2012

AB 1904 (Block-D) Professions and vocations: military spouses

Requires a board within the Department of Consumer Affairs to expedite the licensure process for an applicant who holds a license in the same profession or vocation in another jurisdiction and is married to, in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the U.S. who is assigned to a duty station in California under official active duty military orders. Specifies that the licensee must meet specific requirements in order to have their licensure process expedited.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2012

AB 1932 (Gorell-R) Health arts boards: United States armed services

Requires healing arts boards to issue a written report to the Department of Veterans Affairs and to the Legislature detailing the methods of evaluating the education, training, and experience obtained in military service and whether that education, training, and experience is applicable to the board's requirements for licensure, by 1/1/14.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1944 (Gatto-D) Emergency medical services: EMT-P discipline

Changes the process for performing disciplinary investigations of emergency medical technician paramedics (EMT-P), by giving the employer the initial responsibility for conducting investigations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1976 (Logue-R) Professions and vocations: licensure and certification

Establishes the Veterans Health Care Workforce Act of 2012 and imposes specified requirements on healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs and on the Department of Public Health to facilitate the licensing or certification of veterans with appropriate health-care related education, training, or practical experience.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2002 (Cedillo-D) Safety health net providers: Medi-Cal

Defines "safety net provider" for the purpose of determining which Medi-Cal managed care plan a beneficiary will be assigned to if they do not choose a plan.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2007 (Williams-D) Alcohol and drug abuse counselors

Establishes a licensing and certification system for alcohol and drug abuse counselors to be administered by the Department of Public Health. Prohibits the provisions of this bill from being construed to constrict, limit, or withdraw the Medical Practice Act, Nursing Practice Act, Psychology Licensing Act, Marriage and Family Therapist Act, Clinical Social Work Practice Act, or substance abuse professionals defined by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Exempts the requirements of this bill from applying to employees or volunteers of the U.S. Armed Forces, volunteers of peer or self-help groups, clerics or other religious leaders, employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and specified healing arts practitioners who provide alcohol and other drug abuse counseling services in the course of their profession.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2064 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Reimbursement of physicians: immunizations for children

Requires health plans and insurers that cover child and adolescent vaccines to reimburse physicians/physician groups in an amount not less than the actual cost of acquiring the vaccine plus the cost of administering the vaccine. Defines the vaccine acquisition cost as those standardized costs detailed on the most current Pediatric Vaccine Price List published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, plus shipping and handling costs. Defines the vaccine administration cost as not less than the cost specified in the most current Medicare physician fee schedule.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2072 (Eng-D) Acupuncturists: workers' compensation

Requires the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation to report to the Legislature by 12/31/13, on whether acupuncturists, whether or not they have obtained qualified medical evaluator status, possess the knowledge, skills and abilities to conduct disability evaluations in the workers' compensation system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2214 (Monning-D) Health workforce development

Requires certain licensed professionals in the healthcare industry to report to the Department of Public Health on the their practice status, ethnic background, and language skills. Establishes the Health Workforce Development Council in statute and requires the Council to undertake specified activities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2253 (Pan-D) Medical records

Authorizes the conveyance of clinical laboratory test results relating to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody test, presence of antigens indicating a hepatitis infection, abusing the use of drugs, or test results related to routinely processed tissues that reveal malignancy, as specified, by Internet posting or other electronic means to a patient where the patient requests the disclosure, the health care professional deems the disclosure as appropriate, and the health care professional has first discussed the results with the patient.
Chapter 698, Statutes of 2012

AB 2304 (Garrick-R) Pets: cosmetic teeth cleaning

Provides that the definition of "dental operation" does not include a service whereby a person utilized nonmotorized instruments, including, but not limited to, a scaler, to remove calculus, soft deposits, plaque, or stains from an exposed area of a household pet's tooth above the gum line, provided that the service is performed exclusively for cosmetic purposes and the person performing the service first obtains written permission from the person requesting the service.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 2348 (Mitchell-D) Registered nurses: dispensation of drugs

Allows registered nurses to dispense drugs or devices, except controlled substances, within a primary care clinic and other clinics, as defined, upon an order issued pursuant to standardized procedures, as defined, developed by physicians and surgeons with certified nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, or physician assistants. Allows for a registered nurse to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives and to administer injections of hormonal contraceptives in strict adherence to standardized procedures, as specified.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2012

AB 2561 (Roger Hernández-D) Certified surgical technologists

Establishes the Certified Surgical Technologist Act. Makes it unlawful for a person to use the title "certified surgical technologist" unless the person meets certain educational requirements and holds a certification by a specified entity. Specifies that healthcare practitioners, as defined, licensees are not prohibited from performing a task or function within their licensure scope, and that this bill does not apply to licensed registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, or persons responsible for cleaning or sterilization of supplies, instruments, equipment, or operating rooms.
Vetoed

AB 2570 (Hill-D) Health licensees: settlement agreements

Prohibits licensees of any board, bureau or program under the Department of Consumer Affairs from including any regulatory gag clause in civil settlement agreements.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2012

AB 2579 (Skinner-D) Marriage and family therapists: licensing

Delays the implementation date, until 1/1/14, on provisions of existing law that requires that a marriage and family therapist license be issued to qualified applicants upon the passage of a clinical examination and a California law and ethics examination, subject to specified fees, and requires applicants for licensure to retake the law and ethics examination under certain circumstances, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

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 expresses 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.
Resolution Chapter 59, Statutes of 2012

Foster Care

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

Requires a written statement be provided to a local educational agency (LEA) by a parent, guardian, or educational rights holder if he/she makes a determination that it is in the best interest of a foster pupil to be placed in an educational program other than a program operated by the LEA, as specified.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1135* (Runner-R) Foster care: pupil instruction: requirements

Provides clarification and reconciles inconsistencies between existing statutes relative to exempting foster youth from local graduation requirements and extending eligibility for foster care beyond age 18.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1319 (Liu-D) Child Foster Care

Provides that licensed foster family homes, as well as certified family homes of foster family agencies, are not subject to civil penalties under the California Community Care Facilities Act, except that the certified family homes and foster family homes both are subject to certain penalties relating to fingerprinting requirements and operating without a valid license. Allows the Director of the Department of Social Services (DSS) to extend a waiver of regulations to counties in increments of three years to continue to participate in performance agreements with the DSS to provide foster youth with alternatives to group home care through the expansion of family-based services programs.
Chapter 663, Statutes of 2012

SB 1425* (Negrete McLeod-D) Foster care: juvenile court order

Prohibits a court from modifying a denial of reunification services, or changing a custody or visitation order, for parents whose children were placed in foster care as the result of extreme physical abuse, sexual abuse, or because the parent caused the death of another child, as specified, unless the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that the proposed change is in the best interest of the child.
Chapter 179, Statutes of 2012

SB 1432 (Steinberg-D) Child and family welfare

Requires the California Child and Family Services Review System workgroup to reconvene to ensure the state can adequately review and assess the impact of the realignment of child welfare services programs to the counties.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1487 (Hernandez-D) Foster care: Medi-Cal

Extends Medi-Cal eligibility to youths who were formerly in foster care and who are under 26 years of age, pursuant to prescribed provisions of federal law.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1502 (Runner-R) Foster care facilities: sex offenders

Prohibits a foster family home, foster family agency, or certified family home from knowingly accepting or permitting placement of any foster child if a person for whom registration is required for specified sex offenses resides at the location where the child is to be placed.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 1521 (Liu-D) Foster youth services

Makes a number of amendments and federal conformity changes to Welfare and Institutions Code relating to the provision of services for foster youth.
Chapter 847, Statutes of 2012

SB 1568 (DeSaulnier-D) Foster children: pupils: educational placement

Requires a local educational agency to allow a former foster youth to remain enrolled in their school of origin through graduation if the jurisdiction of the court is terminated while the youth is in high school; and exempts a school district from having to provide transportation to a former foster youth with an individual education program (IEP), unless the former foster youth's IEP team specifies that transportation is a necessary related service.
Chapter 578, Statutes of 2012

AB 181 (Portantino-D) Foster Youth Mental Health Bill of Rights

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

AB 198 (Beall-D) Foster-to-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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

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, 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1573 (Brownley-D) Foster children: school attendance: residency requirements

Makes a conforming change to clarify that a student who is a foster child who remains in his/her school of origin, as determined and defined pursuant to existing law, has met the residency requirements for attendance purposes.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2012

AB 1697 (Perea-D) Foster youth: placement

Requires the Department of Social Services to designate a separate data entry field in the Child Welfare Services Case Management System for a county welfare agency to record information on the reasons for placement of a child with a foster family agency or group home, and requires county welfare agencies to file this information with the system when the placement is made.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1712 (Beall-D) Foster care: placement

Enacts numerous technical, clarifying, and federal conformity changes to the California Fostering Connections to Success Act of 2010.
Chapter 846, Statutes of 2012

AB 1856 (Ammiano-D) Foster care services: cultural competency

Requires certification programs for foster care providers to include instruction on cultural competency and sensitivity related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in out-of-home care.
Chapter 639, Statutes of 2012

AB 1909 (Ammiano-D) Foster children: placement: suspension and expulsion

Requires notification of a foster child's attorney and social worker, in addition to parental or guardian notification, in specified situations where the foster child faces possible suspension or expulsion from school.
Chapter 849, Statutes of 2012

AB 1928 (Cook-R) Foster homes: residential capacity

Clarifies existing law regarding the conditions under which the number of foster children residing in a specialized foster care home may be increased from two to three, and clarifies existing residential capacity requirements for small family homes operating as specialized foster homes.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2012

AB 2019 (Hill-D) Foster care

Makes technical, non-substantive changes to the administration of the Foster Family Home and Small Family Home Insurance Fund and expands the current prohibition against discriminating denial or termination of insurance to those who are foster parents in certified foster homes.
Chapter 642, Statutes of 2012

AB 2023 (Jones-R) Foster care placement: rights of children

Provides that the right of children in foster care to not be locked in a room, building, or facility premises, unless placed in a community treatment facility, does not apply to privately funded residential facilities that treat individuals under 18 years of age for substance or alcohol abuse.
(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 2093 (Skinner-D) Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act

Requires the California State University, and requests that California Community Colleges and University of California, to establish foster youth campus support programs to provide comprehensive support and outreach to current and former foster youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2513 (Bonilla-D) Foster children: licensees: identity theft

Requires that a license for the operation of a residential community care facility for the care of foster children be forfeited by operation of law if the licensee is convicted of identity theft.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 139 (Beall-D) Foster Care Month

Designates May 2012 as Foster Care Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 29, Statutes of 2012

Public Social Services

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SB 119 (Lowenthal-D) Emergency youth shelter services

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

Specifies procedures pertaining to state administrative hearings requested by applicants for, or recipients of, public social services. Primarily, changes the process for conditional withdrawals, codifies the current policies on establishing the burden of proof, and clarifies and streamlines the scheduling and location of hearings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

Conforms various provisions of the Welfare and Institutions Code with the Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to federal statutes.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2012

SB 411 (Price-D) Home Care Services Act of 2012

Establishes the Home Care Services Act of 2012 requiring the Department of Social Services to license private agencies that provide non-medical home care services, and to certify home care aides.
Vetoed

SB 417 (Dutton-R) Social services: electronic benefits transfer cards

Requires the electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system used in the CalWORKs and CalFresh programs to be designed to prevent recipients from using the EBT card to purchase alcohol or tobacco products.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

Does the following with respect to the 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 529 (Correa-D) Seniors: strategic planning

Requires the California Health and Human Services Agency in cooperation with the University of California to update the "Strategic Plan for an Aging California Population."
(Died in Senate Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 662 (DeSaulnier-D) Public social services

Authorizes the Department of Finance to enter into contracts with counties to operate and integrate the health and safety programs included in the Governor's realignment proposal. Requires contracts between the state and the counties to be cost-neutral to both parties and to last 10 years unless they are extended in the ninth year.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 842 (Rubio-D) Public social services: 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 CalWORKs, 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 936 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Public social services

Makes technical changes in the Welfare and Institutions Code sections to bring them up to date.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 970 (De León-D) Public social services: applications

Authorizes, upon consent of the applicant, information provided for the single state application for health subsidy programs to be used to initiate a simultaneous application for the CalWORKs or the CalFresh programs.
Vetoed

SB 1013 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Child welfare services

Contains the necessary statutory changes to implement provisions of the Budget Act of 2012 related to 2011 Realignment and Child Welfare Services.
Chapter 35, Statutes of 2012

SB 1036 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Public social services: Budget Trailer Bill

Makes the following changes to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS): (1) no sooner than 3/1/13, establishes IHSS as a Medi-Cal Managed Care plan benefit in counties participating in the Duals Demonstration Project (as specified in another Budget Trailer Bill contained in AB 1468 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 438, Statutes of 2012/SB 1008 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 33, Statutes of 2012) with a goal of maximizing access to, and coordination of, long-term services and supports, including IHSS; (2) protects the rights of IHSS recipients to hire, fire, direct, schedule and supervise their own IHSS provider(s) and control their own care in accordance with existing law; (3) authorizes the creation of care coordination teams, with a recipient's consent, to coordinate individual care plan development; (4) makes the Individual Provider mode of delivering IHSS accessible to consumers in all managed care health plans in each participating county; (5) requires the Department of Social Services and the Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with IHSS recipients and other stakeholders, to develop a voluntary training curriculum for IHSS providers, while maintaining the recipients' rights to train their own providers; and (6) establishes a required county Maintenance of Effort level of funding for IHSS, with specified adjustments in future years, in order to stabilize the county share of cost for the program.
Chapter 45, Statutes of 2012

SB 1041 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Public social services: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts statutory changes in the public social services provisions of the 2012 Budget relating to CalWORKs, child support, and child welfare services. Changes the welfare-to-work requirements applicable to CalWORKs recipients, on or after 1/1/13, creating a new 24-month limit. Makes other various changes in Department of Social Services programs.
Chapter 47, Statutes of 2012

SB 1060 (Hancock-D) CalWORKs benefits: lifetime ban

Deletes the existing lifetime prohibition from receipt of CalWORKs benefits for an individual convicted in state or federal court of a drug-related felony, and instead provides that a person convicted of a drug-related felony shall be eligible to receive CalWORKs benefits subject to certain conditions related to drug treatment, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1074 (Dutton-R) CalFresh eligibility

Extends the fingerprint imaging requirement under the CalWORKs program to CalFresh.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 1087 (Walters-R) Family day care: organized camps

Exempts from licensure, under the California Child Day Care Facility Act and the California Community Care Facilities Act, any local afterschool program administered by a city, county or non-profit that operates for no more than 60 hours a week..
Chapter 652, Statutes of 2012

SB 1089 (Liu-D) Youth Services

Requires the licensing of private nontraditional alternative treatment facilities for youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1190 (Hancock-D) Women, Infants, and Children Program

Requires the Department of Public Health to provide the Legislature with briefings twice a year on the development of an electronic benefits transfer system for the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children, beginning 1/1/13, and until the system is fully operational.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1279 (Wolk-D) Child welfare services

Requires the Department of Social Services to consult with state and local agencies and other appropriate entities to identify key outcomes for youth, including, but not limited to, outcomes associated with education, criminal justice, employment, suicide, and racial, ethnic, and other disparities within those outcomes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1293* (Emmerson-R) CalWORKs program

Restructures, revises, and recasts various aspects of the law relating to the CalWORKs program. Creates three separate categories of aid under the program. The CalWORKs Basic Program would provide up to 24 months of welfare-to-work and supportive services to eligible families. The CalWORKs Plus Program would provide for a higher grant level for recipients meeting federal work participation requirements. The Child Maintenance Program would apply to an assistance unit that does not include an eligible adult, and would provide specified aid, including cash aid, and an annual well-child medical exam, to the assistance unit.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1319 (Liu-D) At risk children's services

Makes various changes to the Health and Safety Code and Welfare and Institutions Code relating to services for at-risk children and foster youth. Deletes the statutory sunset for "crisis nurseries," thus allowing "crisis nurseries" to operate as a temporary placement option for at risk youth under the age of six.
Chapter 663, Statutes of 2012

SB 1391 (Liu-D) CalFresh benefits: overissuance

Establishes procedures for recovering CalFresh overissuances for both current and former recipient households. Defines minimum thresholds for overissuance establishment and collection caused by administrative error, inadvertent household error, intentional program violation or fraud. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to establish a minimum cost-effective threshold for collecting overissuances, as specified.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2012

SB 1432 (Steinberg-D) Child and family welfare

Requires the California Child and Family Services Review System workgroup to reconvene to ensure the state can adequately review and assess the impact of the realignment of child welfare services to the counties.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1503 (Steinberg-D) In-Home Supportive Services program

Requires the Director of the Department of Social Services and the Director of the Department of Health Care Services to convene a stakeholder group to design a plan for the integration of long-term services and supports programs, and requires the plan to include specified components.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SB 1521 (Liu-D) Child welfare services

Makes a number of amendments and federal conformity changes to Welfare and Institutions Code relating to the provision of services for foster youth.
Chapter 847, Statutes of 2012

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

Designates November 2012 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.
Resolution Chapter 12, Statutes of 2012

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

Restores $60 million in funding for the CalWORKs Stage 3 child care development services for fiscal year 2010-11, retroactive to 11/1/10.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

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

Reduces the number of months, from 48 to 24, that a CalWORKs program recipient can remain on aid, and makes related conforming changes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 419 (Mitchell-D) Care facilities

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

AB 479 (Nestande-R) CalWORKs

Eliminates children from receiving CalWORKs program benefits once a parent reaches the 48-month time limit on aid.
(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee)

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.
(Died 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 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 671 (Portantino-D) Social work supervisors

Requires all county social work supervisors newly hired after 1/1/16 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

Requires a recipient of 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 this bill.
(Died 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.
(Died 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 CalWORKs program when they use their state-issued electronic benefits transfer card.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 784 (Yamada-D) 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 823 (Dickinson-D) California Children's Coordinating Council

Establishes the California Children's Coordinating Council 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.
Vetoed

AB 828 (Swanson-D) CalFresh: eligibility: drug felonies

Provides that a conviction for a drug felony does not make an individual ineligible to receive CalFresh benefits, if otherwise eligible.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1062 (Dickinson-D) Public social services

Changes the evidentiary standard of proof for elder and dependent abuse or neglect cases from clear and convincing to preponderance of the evidence.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

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

Reduces the number of months that aid from the CalWORKs program is provided to low-income families.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1359 (Skinner-D) Public social services: CalFresh

Amends the Welfare and Institutions Code to require county human services agencies to provide CalFresh benefits, in accordance with federal law, on an expedited basis to families deemed to be in need of immediate of food assistance.
Chapter 465, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1471 (Assembly Budget Committee) Public social services: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts cleanup language to the following Public Social Services Budget Trailer Bill provisions enacted in June 2012: SB 1036 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 45, Statutes of 2012, SB 1009 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 34, Statutes of 2012, SB 1041 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 47, Statutes of 2012, and AB 472 (Ammiano-D), Chapter 338, Statutes of 2012. Clarification to provisions in those bills included CalWORKs, the Duals Demonstration Project and Long-Term Services and Supports Integration, and licensing of certain adult residential facilities, psychiatric health facilities, and mental health rehabilitation centers.
Chapter 439, Statutes of 2012

AB 1477 (Assembly Budget Committee) CalWORKs: Budget Trailer Bill

Amends the 2012-13 Budget Act, adopted on 6/15/12 in AB 1464 (Blumenfield-D), Chapter 21, Statutes of 2012, which, among other provisions, makes technical, no-cost corrections to the CalWORKs Single Allocation. The Single Allocation provides funding for counties' welfare-to-work services. The corrections shift unexpended funding from 2011-12 to the 2012-13 Budget items, allowing counties to fully serve and re-engage cases.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

AB 1494 (Assembly Budget Committee) California Children's Services: Budget Trailer Bill

Among other provisions, rescinds the changes in AB 1467 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012, (omnibus health budget trailer bill) which would have required that all services assessed and determined as educationally necessary by the Individualized Education Program (IEP) team and contained in the child's IEP shall be provided in accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, rather than the California Children's Services program.
Chapter 28, Statutes of 2012

AB 1496 (Assembly Budget Committee) CalWORKs

Among other provisions, makes nonsubstantive clarifying amendments related to the State Controller's allocation of funds deposited into the CalWORKs Program Maintenance of Effort Subaccount.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2012

AB 1497 (Assembly Budget Committee) CalWORKs: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the "Budget Junior Bill" which, among other provisions, makes additional savings associated with the policy changes associated with CalWORKs that were made in the main Budget Bill.
Chapter 29, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

AB 1560 (Fuentes-D) CalFresh: categorical eligibility

Waives the gross income test for CalFresh for any individual who is categorically eligible for CalFresh and who is a member of a household that receives, or is eligible to receive, assistance under the Medi-Cal program, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1611 (Beall-D) Child welfare

Requires counties to develop and implement plans to address racial and ethnic disparities in the child welfare system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1640 (Mitchell-D) CalWORKs benefits: pregnant mothers

Requires payment of CalWORKs Act aid and CalFresh benefits to otherwise eligible pregnant mothers.
Chapter 778, Statutes of 2012

AB 1691 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) CalWORKs

Includes English as a second language education as a core welfare-to-work activity in the CalWORKs program, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1698 (Portantino-D) Continuing care home

Exempts care at-home programs operated by a continuing care provider from licensing provisions applicable to residential care facilities for the elderly under specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Aging and Long Term Care Committee)

AB 1714 (Halderman-R) In-Home Supportive Services

Adds specified felony offenses to the list of Tier 2 criminal convictions that preclude an applicant from providing services through the In-Home Supportive Services program for 10 years unless the exclusion is waived, as specified.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 1751 (Pan-D) County welfare agencies

Requires that county child welfare agencies and county probation departments be given access to specified child support information related to the noncustodial parents of children who are subject to juvenile court proceedings.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2012

AB 1764 (Roger Hernández-D) Private adoption agencies: licensing

Specifies that provisions of existing law dealing with adoption agencies do not require an executive director of supervisor of a private adoption agency to be licensed as a clinical social worker, provided the individual meets the requisite years of experience in social work employment and adoption social work services.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1841 (Silva-R) In-Home Supportive Services

Deletes the authority of an In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) recipient to submit a waiver enabling a provider applicant who has been convicted of specified offenses to be employed as that individual's IHSS provider.
(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1872 (Alejo-D) Family day care

Requires, except as provided, a family day care home to provide meals and snacks that meet certain federal nutrition standards and requires family day care homes to keep daily menus of all meals and snacks served; requires the Department of Social Services to inform prospective and current providers about the nutrition requirements by posting information on its Web site, through outreach materials, and during orientation and inspections of providers; and requires the Department to take specified actions with respect to noncompliance, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 1970 (Skinner-D) Public social services

Enacts the Social Services Modernization Act of 2012, which provides that all applicants and recipients of public social services, including CalFresh and any state health subsidy program, as defined, may choose to receive communications and notices related to benefits and eligibility electronically, as specified. Includes various provisions seeking to streamline the application and recertification process for public benefits, including restricting verification of information required of applicants and recipients to what is federally required and establishing alternatives to in-person interviews for applications and redeterminations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1991 (Smyth-R) Child care licensing

Expands the current child care licensure exemption for K-12 public recreation programs to include programs operating 20 hours per week or less, and 14 weeks or less during a 12-month period.
Chapter 122, Statutes of 2012

AB 1998 (Achadjian-R) Public social service receipts

Allows counties to directly donate surplus computer equipment to social service recipients.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 2012

AB 2035 (Bradford-D) Public social services: benefits

Protects public social services recipients of benefits through the electronic benefits transfer system from a loss of benefits through the practice of skimming, as defined.
Chapter 319, Statutes of 2012

AB 2074 (Bradford-D) In-Home Supportive Services

Requires the Department of Social Services to develop a training program for In-Home Supportive Services providers on the utilization of telehealth.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 2186 (Grove-R) Youth emergency services

Recasts and codifies the Youth Emergency Telephone Referral (YETR) Project and requires the California Emergency Management Agency to either administer the YETR Project directly or as a grant program issued through a competitive bidding process.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2248 (Cook-R) Veterans' social services: state contracts

Requires the Department of General Services to establish criteria identifying state contracts for social services provided to veterans or their families, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2268 (Eng-D) Services for underserved populations: funding models

Requires state and local agencies to create mechanism to supplement place-based and regional funding strategies for health and human services, and educational services.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 2280 (Lara-D) Women, infants, and children program

Requires the Department of Public Health, in its role as administrator of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children, to provide written notice, with specified information, to a vendor if the Department determines the vendor has committed an initial violation.
Chapter 822, Statutes of 2012

AB 2322* (Gatto-D) Women, infants, and children: nutrition

Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt regulations to specify the criteria to be used and actions to be taken when initiating a moratorium on new retail food vendor location applications for the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Allows the Department certain exemptions to the Administrative Procedures Act to timely respond to any changes to federal law and guidelines.
Chapter 787, Statutes of 2012

AB 2352 (Roger Hernández-D) CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits: vehicles

Excludes the value of a motor vehicle from consideration as property when determining or redetermining CalWORKs eligibility. Deletes existing requirements on county welfare departments for assessing the value of a motor vehicle for the purposes of CalWORKs eligibility.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2469 (Grove-R) CalWORKs eligibility: periodic drug testing

Requires applicants for and recipients of cash aid under the CalWORKs program to undergo periodic drug testing as a condition of eligibility.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 2508 (Bonilla-D) Public social services: state contracts

Prohibits, with specified exceptions, a state agency authorized to enter into contracts relating to public benefit programs from contracting for services provided by a call center that directly serves applicants for, recipients of, or enrollees in, those public benefit programs with a contractor or subcontractor unless that contractor or subcontractor certifies in its bid for the contract that the contract, and any subcontract performed under that contract, will be performed solely with workers employed in California. Imposes a civil penalty, as provided, for knowingly providing false information in that certification.
Chapter 824, Statutes of 2012

AB 2538* (John A. Pérez-D) In-Home supportive services

Clarifies that an In-Home Supportive Services local public authority shall share results of a Department of Justice background check with the Department of Social Service in order to complete the background check process for provider applications.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2547 (Blumenfield-D) Homeless youth advocates

Establishes the Statewide Office of the Homeless Youth Advocate within the California Health and Human Services Agency to coordinate services, facilitate interagency collaboration to remove barriers and improve access to, and share, information related to homeless youth.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2550 (Carter-D) State Long-Term Care Ombudsman

Requires the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to perform enumerated duties to provide for the health, safety, welfare, and rights of residents of long-term care facilities as described in the federal Older Americans Act, including, among other things, the duty to respond to complaints, as specified, to provide services and information to residents to help protect their health, safety, welfare, and rights, and to ensure timely access to the services provided by the office.
(Died in Assembly Aging and Long Term Care Committee)

HR 24 (Yamada-D) Social Work Month

Proclaims March 2012 to be "Social Work Month" in California, commends the California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers for its role in advancing professional social work and promoting the well-being of the people of California, and urges all Californians to take part in March "Social Work Matters" events throughout California.
Adopted by the Assembly

Other Public Health and Safety Legislation

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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.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 71 (Leno-D) Health interagency collaborative

Among other provisions, repeals the provisions establishing an interagency collaborative which served as an oversight committee concerning the Department of Health's regulation of candy.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2012

SB 75* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review 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.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

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.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 394 (DeSaulnier-D) Healthy Schools Act of 2012

Enacts the Healthy Schools Act of 2012. Prohibits the indoor and outdoor use of pesticides on a schoolsite, except as specified, unless a local public health officer determines that a public health emergency exists requiring emergency application of a pesticide.
(Died in Senate Rules 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.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

SB 662 (DeSaulnier-D) Health services

Authorizes the Department of Finance to enter into contracts with counties to operate and integrate the health and safety programs included in the Governor's realignment proposal. Requires contracts between the state and the counties to be cost-neutral to both parties and to last 10 years unless they are extended in the ninth year.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
A similar bill was SB 962 (Anderson-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 912 (Lieu-D) Fire safety

Authorizes a fire protection contractor, a plumbing contractor, or a general contractor to install a residential fire protection system for new single- and two-family homes.
(Died in Assembly Rules 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."
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 962 (Anderson-R) Public water systems: treatment

Expands the authorization, from 200 connections to 500 connections for small public water systems to use point-of-entry water treatment in place of centralized water treatment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 877 (Anderson-R) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

SB 970 (De León-D) Health subsidy programs

Establishes requirements for data sharing in order to facilitate enrollment in CalWORKs, CalFresh, and other programs among applicants for state health subsidy programs.
Vetoed

SB 977 (Yee-D) Nail polish misbranding

Increases the fine for a manufacturer of nail polish that violates provisions of the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law related to misbranding cosmetics or any regulation adopted pursuant to those provisions from $1,000 to $5,000.
Vetoed

SB 1014 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs

Contains the necessary changes to enact the Budget Act of 2012-13 related to the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs Programmatic Realignment.
Chapter 36, Statutes of 2012

SB 1020 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Public Safety Realignment: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Public Safety Realignment Budget Trailer Bill which provides an overall financing structure for the 2011 Public Safety Realignment. The funding structure includes the creation of accounts and rules that govern the flexibility of counties to transfer monies between accounts. Directs the allocation of funding among accounts, including the allocation of growth funding.
Chapter 36, Statutes of 2012

SB 1047 (Alquist-D) "Silver Alert" notification

Establishes a "Silver Alert" notification system designed to issue and coordinate alerts to inform the public when a person who is 65 years or older is missing, as specified. This program will remain in effect until 1/1/16.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2012

SB 1072 (Strickland-R) Newborn screening program

Adds two specific conditions, MPS1 (Hurler Syndrome) and Krabbe, to the newborn screening test provided by the Department of Public Health.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1079 (Rubio-D) Medical treatment: inmates

Codifies existing regulations limiting medical services for inmates of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to only those services which are medically necessary, and excludes treatment for sexual dysfunction or infertility, gender reassignment surgery, and weight reduction surgery.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1162* (Runner-R) Animal tranquilizers

Allows an animal control or humane officer to administer a tranquilizer when under the direct or indirect supervision of, and trained by, a veterinarian.
Chapter 594, Statutes of 2012

SB 1182 (Leno-D) Medical marijuana

Exempts from criminal acts and abatement of nuisance laws collectives and cooperatives organized and operated to cultivate and distribute marijuana for medical purposes.
(Stricken from Senate Third Reading File)

SB 1267 (Padilla-D) Genetic information

Enacts the Genetic Information Privacy Act, which prohibits any person, as defined, from obtaining, analyzing, retaining, or disclosing genetic information without the written authorization of the individual to whom the information pertains.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1329 (Simitian-D) Prescription drugs

Allows the establishment of a voluntary drug repository and distribution program for the purpose of distributing surplus medications to persons in need of financial assistance to ensure access to necessary pharmaceutical therapies.
Chapter 709, Statutes of 2012

SB 1436 (Lowenthal-D) Automated external defibrillators

Makes permanent the existing practitioners that provide general immunity from civil damages in connections with the used of automated external defibrillators.
Chapter 71, Statutes of 2012

SB 1465 (Yee-D) Asian rice-based noodles

Requires manufacturers of Asian rice-based noodles to place a date and time stamp on the packaging of the noodles indicating when the noodles first came out of hot holding, as specified, and the noodles are perishable.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2012

SB 1468 (Calderon-D) Fireworks

Allows the sales of safe and sane fireworks before New Year's Eve of 2014 and 2015.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1486 (Lieu-D) Food facilities: menu labeling

Requires retail food facilities that sell seafood and operate 19 or more locations to provide the common name, country of origin, and whether the seafood was wild-caught or raised to consumers on a menu insert, brochure, or display.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1528 (Steinberg-D) Medical services: damages

Establishes a framework for compensating injured persons, and provides that existing lien rights and existing law regarding medical services shall be maintained, as specified.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

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.
Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 60 (DeSaulnier-D) California Teen Safe Driving Week

Declares the first week of April 2012, and every year thereafter, as California Teen Safe Driving Week.
Resolution Chapter 10, Statutes of 2012

SCR 62 (Steinberg-D) Spay/Neuter Awareness Month

Declares the month of February 2012 as Spay/Neuter Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2012

SCR 67 (Huff-R) Food Allergy Awareness Week

Designates the week of 5/13/12 to 5/19/12 as Food Allergy Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2012

SCR 74 (Gaines-R) Brain Injury Awareness Month

Designates March 2012 as Brain Injury Awareness Month
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2012

SJR 8 (Leno-D) Hazardous flame retardants

Urges the federal government's process of identifying alternatives to flame retardants to include, among other things, the design of products that do not require the use of flame retardants; urges the United States Congress to enact the Safe Chemicals Act to restrict flame retardants that pose health risks; urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to, among other things, establish health and safety standards for flame retardant chemicals; and urges the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission to adopt specified smolder prevention rules that provide improved fire safety without toxicity in furniture, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

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

Urges the Congress of the United States to require the U.S. 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.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)

SR 26 (Hancock-D) Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month

Declares March 2012 as Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 33 (Price-D) Let's Move California Day

Recognizes 6/16/12 as Let's Move California Day and urges all Californians to recognize the importance of ending childhood obesity.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 4 (Miller-R) Human remains: hydrolysis

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

AB 70 (Monning-D) Department of Public Health

Expands the Department of Public Health's authority to submit applications in partnership with other nonprofit health entities to increase the Department's responsiveness and flexibility when applying for funding opportunities related to health prevention.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)

AB 88 (Huffman-D) Genetically engineered food: labeling

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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 174 (Monning-D) Health and Human Services Automation Fund

Establishes the California Health and Human Services Automation Fund, in the State Treasury, to consist of monies appropriated to various specified health and human services information technology projects, and requires the monies in the Fund to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature for expenditure by the Office of Systems Integration. Permits the Employment Development Department and the Franchise Tax Board to share information and develop data interfaces with the California Health Benefit Exchange for purposes of enabling the Exchange to make eligibility determinations and comply with certain federal requirements.
Chapter 815, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

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 Act and the state's medical marijuana law. Provides that nothing in the Act 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.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 237 (Galgiani-D) Cosmetics: safety

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

AB 441 (Monning-D) Health transportation planning

Requires the California Transportation Commission to attach to its guidelines for preparing regional transportation plans a summary of policies, practices, or projects that promote health that metropolitan planning organizations can use in regional transportation plans.
Chapter 365, Statutes of 2012

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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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."
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

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

Exempts from the requirement to wear a helmet, motorcycle drivers who are 21 years or older and have either completed a motorcyclist safety training program meeting the standards established by the California Highway Patrol or been issued a class M1 license or endorsement, or comparable license from another jurisdiction, for two or more years.
(Failed passage 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1217 (Fuentes-D) Assisted reproduction

Clarifies parentage rights of parties using assisted reproduction technology and specifies requirements for an assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2012

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

Eliminates licensing inspections by the Department of Public Health (DPH) for drug and medical device manufacturers, as specified. Limits DPH's authority to make investigations or inspections of manufacturers to situations where DPH has determined the health and safety of the public is at risk, or when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has requested assistance for enforcement activities.
Chapter 688, Statutes of 2012

AB 1279 (Fletcher-I) 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.
(Died at Senate Desk)

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.
(Died 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 (SFM), 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 SFM 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 SFM Dangerous Fireworks Training and Education Fund, which this bill establishes. Monies in this Fund will be continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years to the SFM for the purpose of training local fire and law enforcement agencies, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1427 (Solorio-D) Food facilities: sanitization

Authorizes retail food facilities (e.g. grocery stores, restaurants) to manually sanitize food-contact surfaces with a solution of ozone generated on-site by a device that complies with federal regulations applicable to such devices.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2012

AB 1442 (Wieckowski-D) Pharmaceutical waste

Authorizes the transportation of pharmaceutical waste by a common carrier.
Chapter 689, Statutes of 2012

AB 1467 (Assembly Budget Committee) Health: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the 2012-13 Health Omnibus Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, (1) transfers the Every Woman Counts Program, the Prostate Cancer Treatment Program, and the Family Planning Access Care and Treatment Program to the Health Care Benefits and Eligibility Division at the Department of Health Care Services; (2) eliminates the defunct Genetically Handicapped Persons Program Advisory Committee; (3) establishes the Office of Health Equity within the Department of Public Health (DPH) to achieve the highest level of health and mental health for all people with a focus on socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, including vulnerable and isolated communities; (4) repeals statutory requirements that have been met by DPH that authorize counties to collect a $6 fee from owners of public swimming pools, and send most of this revenue to the state for activities related to improving public swimming pool safety. (The original legislation included a sunset of 2014 and DPH has met its obligations under this statute.); and (5) requires DPH to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee by 10/1/12, on if any of the projections or assumptions used to develop the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) estimate for the Budget Act of 2012-13 that may result in a potential funding shortfall or an inability of ADAP to provide services to eligible ADAP clients.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2012

AB 1477 (Assembly Budget Committee) Health programming: Budget Trailer Bill

Amends the 2012-13 Budget Act, adopted on 6/15/12 in AB 1464 (Blumenfield-D), Chapter 21, Statutes of 2012, which, among other provisions, (1) corrects a technical error in the 2012 Budget Act (that resulted from the transfer of the Office of Family Planning from the Department of Public Health (DPH) to the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)), within which the General Fund appropriations for the Office of Family Planning are overstated by $2.035 million; (2) corrects a technical error in the 2012 Budget Act that resulted from the transfer of the Every Woman Counts (EWC) program from the DPH to the DHCS, which inadvertently excluded amendments to budget bill language needed to transfer the EWC General Fund reappropriation language from one department to the other; and (3) reflects increased revenue from an extension to the gross premiums tax on managed care organizations, which will not take effect if such an extension does not occur, and this revenue is not realized.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2012

AB 1513 (Allen-D) Retail food facilities: playgrounds

Revises the California Retail Food Code, which governs all aspects of retail food safety and sanitation in California, to include sanitation and safety requirements for indoor and outdoor playgrounds on the premises of retail food facilities.
Vetoed

AB 1587 (Galgiani-D) Vital records: San Joaquin County

Allows the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors to authorize an increase in vital records fees up to a maximum of $12 per record.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1616 (Gatto-D) Food safety: cottage food operations

Regulates the production in home kitchens of food for sale, referred to as cottage food operations.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2012

AB 1636 (Monning-D) Health and wellness programs

Requires the Department of Managed Health Care, in collaboration with other state agencies, to convene a special committee to evaluate the use of health and wellness programs and incentives by health plans, health insurers, and employers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1666 (Olsen-R) Automated external defibrillators.

Extends the 1/1/13 termination date to comply with maintenance, testing, and training requirements of automated external defibrillators (AFD) to 1/1/18. Requires that an AED be checked for readiness at least once every 90 days if the AED has not been used in the proceeding 90 days.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1669 (Perea-D) Nitrate-contaminated groundwater

Creates the Nitrate at Risk Area Fund, administered by the State Water Resources Control Board, funds within which, upon appropriation, shall be used to pay for solutions for disadvantaged communities suffering from nitrate-contaminated groundwater. Requires the Department of Public Health, working with the Board, to designate such areas by using existing data on public water systems.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1678 (Monning-D) Mobile food facilities: school campus locations

Prohibits a mobile food facility from selling or otherwise providing food or beverages within 500 feet of the property line of a public elementary or secondary school campus, except as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1726 (Allen-D) Swimming pools: safety

Creates standards and requirements for pool operating training.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1731 (Block-D) Newborn screening program

Establishes the Newborn Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) Screening Program and requires hospitals, beginning 7/1/13, to offer a pulse oximetry test for the identification of CCHD to parents of newborns prior to discharge.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2012

AB 1777 (Ma-D) Disposition of cremated remains

Authorizes cremated remains to be transferred from a durable container into a scattering urn, as defined, no more than seven days before scattering the cremated remains at sea from a boat.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2012

AB 1793* (Yamada-D) Public health: federal funding

Eliminates the 9/1/12 sunset date on provisions of law governing how federal funding for emergency preparedness is allocated, and adds long-term health facilities to the list of entities that can be designated to receive federal funds for emergency preparedness.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2012

AB 1869 (John A. Pérez-D) Office of Patient Advocate: veterans benefits

Adds federal veterans’ health benefits to the list of public programs that the Office of Patient Advocate will be required to include, commencing 1/1/13, in its efforts to provide outreach and education about health care coverage options.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2012

AB 1897 (Campos-D) Access to healthy food: land use

Authorizes the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to prepare and amend the guidelines for the preparation of and the content of the mandatory elements required in city and county general plans to contain advice, developed in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, for improving the health of Californians by increasing access to healthy affordable food.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1967 (John A. Pérez-D) Organ and tissue donation: pupil instruction

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission and the State Board of Education to ensure that the health and science frameworks adopted in the course of the next submission cycle, include the subject of organ procurement and tissue donation, as appropriate.
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2012

AB 2011 (Gatto-D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program

Allocates $50 million from the prospective Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012 to establish CalConserve, a program by which the Department of Water Resources would provide grants to local agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs that help customers carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations)

AB 2034 (Fuentes-D) Medical care: genetically handicapping conditions

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to prepare a report on the coverage needs of the population served by the Genetically Handicapped Persons Program after implementation of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Specifies issues to be addressed in the report including the extent to which persons with genetic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis will continue to have unmet medical needs.
Vetoed

AB 2045 (Perea-D) Biotechnology: income taxes: net operating losses

Creates a program to allow certain emerging technology and biotechnology companies to transfer their net operating losses to specified other companies in exchange for private financial assistance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2056 (Chesbro-D) Water treatment

Exempts small public water systems from the three year limit on permits for point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment in lieu of centralized water treatment.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 2114 (Smyth-R) Swimming pool safety

Replaces references to "drains" with "suction outlets" in existing law, and updates references to anti-entrapment performance standards for swimming pools and spas.
Chapter 679, Statutes of 2012

AB 2197 (Mitchell-D) Seating furniture: flammability

Requires all seating furniture sold or offered for sale to meet a smolder flammability test rather than an open flame-test.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 2204 (Roger Hernández-D) Health equity index

Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and utilize a health equity tool as part of the department's process for making evidence-based decisions regarding goals and objectives in the department's strategic plan.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2218 (Williams-D) Consumer safety: table saws

Prohibits a seller, on or after 1/1/16, from selling a new table saw in this state unless that table saw is equipped with injury mitigation technology, as defined.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2238* (Perea-D) Drinking water: contamination treatment

Expands actions available for emergency funding from the Emergency Clean Water Grant Fund. For purposes of the Fund, defines "public health emergency" to include (1) a public water system that serves a severely disadvantaged community that lacks the technical or financial capacity to deliver potable water or has applied for specified funding; and (2) the disruption or contamination of drinking water due to natural disasters.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2246 (John A. Pérez-D) Public health: food access

Requires the California Health Food Financing Initiative Council to establish and maintain a Web site that provides specified information by 3/31/13 concerning access to healthy foods.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2012

AB 2253 (Pan-D) Clinical laboratory test results: electronic conveyance

Allows the electronic conveyance of clinical laboratory test results related to HIV antibodies, hepatitis, drug abuse, and specified test results that reveal a malignancy, if requested by the patient, and the health care professional deems electronic conveyance the most appropriate method of disclosure, and the professional has already discussed the results with the patient.
Chapter 698, Statutes of 2012

AB 2312 (Ammiano-D) Medical marijuana

Establishes the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Control Act which allows local taxes on medical cannabis up to 5% and creates a Board of Medical Marijuana Enforcement to regulate the medical Cannabis industry.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 2317 (Bill Berryhill-R) Food facilities: sanitization

Allows manual sanitization to be accomplished by immersion, manual swabbing, or brushing, using a solution of 0.5 ppm ozone for at least 30 seconds.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2356 (Skinner-D) Tissue donation

Allows a recipient of sperm donated by her sexually intimate partner (SIP) for reproductive use to waive a second or repeat testing of that donor for HIV, agents of viral hepatitis, syphilis, and human T lymphotropic virus, if the recipient is informed of existing donor testing requirements, as specified, and signs a written waiver. Defines SIP to include a known or designated donor to whose sperm the recipient has previously been exposed in a nonmedical setting in an attempt to conceive. Excludes physicians or tissue banks that provide insemination or assisted reproductive technology services from liability and disciplinary actions.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2012

AB 2394 (Nielsen-R) Emergency medical services

Revises the membership of the Commission on Emergency Medical Services by replacing the physician and surgeon member who is Board (American Board of Emergency Medicine) prepared or Board certified in the specialty of emergency medicine with an air ambulance representative appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2465 (Campos-D) Medical marijuana

Makes medical cannabis patient and caregiver identification cards mandatory, and requires medical cannabis collectives to keep copies of members' identification cards.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2539 (Nielsen-R) Water treatment devices

Requires, instead of allows, the Department of Public Health to adopt by reference, the testing procedures and standards of one or more independent testing organizations for purposes of certifying water treatment devices.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2586 (Hueso-D) California Healthy Choices Program

Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to establish the California Healthy Choices Program to certify grocery stores, as defined, that promote healthy food choices.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 2598 (Fuentes-D) Veteran's health

Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a statewide system for the collection of information about veterans who have or have had a presumptive illness relating to qualifying military service, as determined by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 101 (Lara-D) Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month

Proclaims the month of February 2012 as Teen Dating Violence and Awareness and Prevention Month.
Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 2012

ACR 105 (Hayashi-D) Children's Dental Health Month

Declares the month of February 2012 as Children's Dental Health Month.
Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 2012

ACR 124 (Logue-R) American Red Cross Month

Declares March 2012 as American Red Cross Month.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 130 (Torres-D) California Public Safety Telecommunicators Week

Designates the second week in April as California Public Safety Telecommunications Week to heighten awareness of the importance of 911 service and its roles in keeping the public safe.
Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2012

ACR 132 (John A. Pérez-D) Organ donation: Donate Life California Day

Proclaims 4/18/12 as DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2012 as DMV/Donate Life California Month.
Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2012

ACR 136 (Ma-D) Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week

Recognizes 4/15/12 to 4/21/12, inclusive, as "Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week."
Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2012

ACR 145 (Ma-D) Child Safety Awareness Month

Declares the month of May 2012 as Child Safety Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 43, Statutes of 2012

ACR 148 (Butler-D) Family planning funding and support

States that California should provide a family planning guarantee that would ensure the backfill of any budget shortfalls experienced by family planning services in California as a result of cuts in federal funding.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

ACR 152 (Huffman-D) Dwarfism Awareness Month

Declares the month of October 2012 as Dwarfism Awareness Month, in order to raise public awareness about people with dwarfism and their contributions to the State of California.
Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2012

ACR 161 (Dickinson-D) Food literacy awareness month

Declares the month of September of each year as food literacy awareness month.
Resolution Chapter 131, Statutes of 2012

HR 25 (Buchanan-D) Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month

Declares March 2012 as Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 37 (Hill-D) Umbilical cord blood banking

Encourages hospitals to participate in free umbilical cord blood and cord tissue collection programs.
Adopted by the Assembly

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