Abortion
AIDS
Cancer
Alzheimer's Disease
Medi-Cal
Mental Health
Developmentally Disabled
Tobacco Products
Health Facilities
Health Professionals
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
Abortion
SB 370 (Burton-D) Abortion
Repeals three obsolete Penal Code sections relative to abortion. Also clarifies that any person who performs or assists in performing an abortion without a valid license to practice medicine is subject to criminal penalties pursuant to the Business and Professions Code.
Chapter 692, Statutes of 2000
SB 1827 (Haynes-R) Partial-birth abortion: ban
Defines "partial-birth" abortion, prohibits "partial-birth" abortions, and imposes civil penalties and suspension of a licensee's right to practice for violation of that prohibition, except to save the life of a mother.
(Failed passage in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1945 (Ortiz-D) Crimes: support for abortion rights
Provides that the Attorney General should direct local law enforcement agencies to report to the attorney general information relative to anti-abortion crimes. Requires that the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training develop guidelines and a course of instruction and training for law enforcement officers addressing anti-abortion crimes. Includes volunteers in those entitled to protection from the court in a civil action.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 507 (Runner-R) Abortion: informed consent: Medi-Cal
Prohibits the Medi-Cal program from paying for an abortion for a woman who has previously had an abortion, unless it is performed with the voluntary and informed consent of the woman, as specified, following a 24-hour waiting period.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1424 (House-R) Partial-birth abortion: ban
Enacts the Partial-Birth Abortion Prohibition Act, which prohibits partial-birth abortion, except in specified cases.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2192 (Baldwin-R) Abortion: reporting of complications
Requires any physician and surgeon who diagnoses a woman as having complications resulting from an abortion to report, within 72 hours, the diagnosis and symptoms summary to the local health officer.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2202 (Baldwin-R) Aborted fetal tissue and body parts
Enacts the Prevention of the Sale, Purchase, Donation, or Use of Aborted Human Fetal Body Parts Act of 2000 to make it unlawful to buy, sell, donate, or use an aborted human embryo or fetus, as defined, for any purposes, except as provided under this bill. Makes a violation of this prohibition punishable as felony mayhem.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AIDS
SB 1029 (Haynes-R) HIV test results: public health reporting
Requires the reporting of HIV test results to public health departments and requires the State Department of Health Services to develop and implement a uniform statewide reporting system, partner notification and contact tracing system employing name-based identifiers for persons testing positive for HIV.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1258 (Polanco-D) HIV infected persons: plan enrollment eligibility
Directs the State Department of Health Services to make Medi-Cal beneficiaries with a share-of-cost (that is, Medi-Cal beneficiaries that must pay a portion of the cost of their care each month due based on income) eligible to enroll in Medi-Cal managed care plans. States that its managed care enrollment provisions shall not create a General Fund cost. Directs the department to pursue a demonstration project that allows individuals who test positive for HIV but do not meet federal criteria that define a person as disabled to be eligible for the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 518 (Mazzoni-D) AIDS: clean needle and syringe exchange projects
Authorizes clean needle and syringe exchange projects, and authorizes pharmacists, physicians and other persons, as specified, to furnish hypodermic needles and syringes without a prescription or permit when operating needle and syringe exchange projects.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 2037 (Corbett-D) Children: alcohol or drug exposed or HIV positive
Extends eligibility for specialized services to foster children who are drug or alcohol exposed, or HIV positive, from age three to age five provided certain criteria is met.
Chapter 799, Statutes of 2000
AB 2168 (Gallegos-D) Health care coverage
Clarifies existing law to ensure that health care service plan enrollees with HIV or AIDS have access to a specialist. Sunsets on January 1, 2004, or as specified.
Chapter 426, Statutes of 2000
AB 2787 (Leonard-R) Prisons
Authorizes the State Department of Corrections to build a separate prison designed to incarcerate prisoners with special needs due to age or HIV status.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2809 (Robert Pacheco-R) Communicable diseases: maternal and newborn health
Requires the State Department of Health Services to adopt a form which would be required to be used by health care providers providing HIV testing and counseling services, for a pregnant patient, that documents that the patient received an offer of counseling and testing and documents the patient's informed voluntary written consent to testing, if consent was given.
Vetoed by the Governor
AJR 47 (Cedillo-D) Ryan White CARE Act
Urges the Congress and the President to reauthorize the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act.
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2000
Cancer
SB 193 (Polanco-D) Vehicles: special breast cancer treatment license plates
Establishes, until January 1, 2003, the process for State Department of Motor Vehicles' issuance of a new special license plate for breast cancer treatment for uninsured or underinsured persons.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2000
SB 1154 (Speier-D) Breast and gynecological cancer: treatment services
Enacts the California Breast and Gynecological Cancer Treatment Program. Describes treatment services to be provided and establishes eligibility criteria. Authorizes each program participant to receive up to 24 months of comprehensive medical care coverage and allows for extension in certain circumstances. Also requires the State Department of Health Services to provide the treatment under the Medi-Cal program subject to federal financial participation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1507 (Rainey-R) Cancer research funding
Appropriates $1.5 million from the General Fund to the State Department of Health Services for the California Tumor Registry which collects information on the incidence of cancer in California and authorizes the encumbrance of the funds for three years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1820 (Burton-D) Workers' compensation: cancer
Extends the cancer presumption for workers' compensation claims to specified safety officers.
Chapter 887, Statutes of 2000
SCR 80 (Speier-D) Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Designates the month of June 2000 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2000
AB 48 (Cedillo-D) Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry
Renames the "California Cancer Registry" the "Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry" and makes revisions to the Registry.
Chapter 368, Statutes of 2000
AB 251 (Davis-D) Tobacco settlement: heart disease and cancer
Allocates $20 million received by the state from the national tobacco settlement. Directs $10 million for women's heart disease research and prevention programs and $10 million for genetics-related cancer research.
(Died In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 610 (Jackson-D) Health care coverage: children's cancer
Requires health care service plans, insurers and fraternal benefit societies to cover routine patient costs incurred during Phase II and Phase III clinical trials of children's cancer-related studies sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, the Pediatric Oncology Group, the Children's Cancer Group or any successor group. Allows restriction of coverage to participating California physicians and hospitals, unless the protocols are not provided in California. Requires that the enrollee's physician or pediatric oncologist, who is under contract or employed by the plan, has recommended participation in the trial and has certified that the clinical trial therapy is likely to be more beneficial than standard therapy.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1227 (Runner-R) Cancer research
Requires the transfer, to the Cancer Research Fund, of five percent of the money received by the state pursuant to the Master Settlement Agreement reached by the tobacco companies and the states' attorneys general.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2599 (Cardenas-D) Cervical Cancer Community Awareness Campaign
Requires the State Department of Health Services to (1) conduct and adopt regulations for a Cervical Cancer Community Awareness Campaign, as specified, and (2) study and research, among other things, statistical information on cervical cancer to target the campaign.
Chapter 792, Statutes of 2000
AB 2872* (Shelley-D) Cancer risk assessment guidelines
Directs the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to evaluate and update cancer risk assessment guidelines in order to ensure that they adequately address children's carcinogenic exposures.
Chapter 144, Statutes of 2000
AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Public health programs: Budget Act implementation
The omnibus trailer bill for health and human services implementing the policy in the 2000-2001 Budget Act. Establishes, among other provisions, the Breast Cancer Treatment program for uninsured and underinsured high-risk women with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level and the Prostate Cancer Treatment program for high-risk men with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000
Similar legislation was AB 40 (Wayne-D), which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 2878 (Wayne-D) Breast cancer: treatment
Establishes the Breast Cancer Treatment Program within the State Department of Health Services for high-risk women with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Provides that breast cancer treatment shall include, but not be limited to, lumpectomy, mastectomy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiotherapy, and reconstructive surgery.
Chapter 94, Statutes of 2000
Alzheimer's Disease
SB 53* (Hughes-D) Alzheimer's disease diagnostic and treatment centers
Appropriates $500,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Health Services for the maintenance of services provided by Alzheimer's disease diagnostic and treatment centers that were in existence on June 30, 1998.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCR 40 (Hughes-D) Alzheimer's disease treatment
Urges the State Department of Health Services to expediently add one or more cholinesterase inhibitors to its Medi-Cal formulary.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 257 (Vincent-D) Alzheimer's Day Care-Resource Center Program
Requires an applicant for funds under the Alzheimer's Day Care-Resource Center Program to provide staff to care for persons of nonnative English-speaking ethnic groups, where a large concentration of those groups is served by the center.
(Died in Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee)
AB 1753 (Romero-D) Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
Requires a residential care facility for the elderly, which advertises as specializing in Alzheimer's disease and dementia care, to meet (a) minimum training requirements on how to care for these residents, and (b) specified disclosure requirements.
Chapter 434, Statutes of 2000
AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Public health programs: Budget Act implementation
The omnibus trailer bill for health and human services implementing the policy in the 2000-01 Budget Act. Among others, permits the State Department of Health Services to provide public and professional education on Alzheimer's disease, and provides that the balance of funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2000 for Alzheimer's disease would be available for expenditure until June 30, 2003.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000
Medi-Cal
SB 8 (Leslie-R) Medi-Cal: drugs
Revises procedures relating to the availability of drugs under the Medi-Cal program. Provides that if a manufacturer agrees to extend its "best price," as defined, the drug would be placed on the Medi-Cal drug formulary.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 82 (Vasconcellos-D) Medi-Cal
Extends medically necessary pre-natal care to Medi-Cal income-eligible undocumented and other aliens not covered under federal laws.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 87 (Escutia-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Sets forward requirements and procedures for providing uninterrupted health coverage through the Medi-Cal program and for reviewing Medi-Cal eligibility for specified beneficiaries when California Work Opportunity and Responsibilities to Kids benefits have been terminated.
Chapter 1088, Statutes of 2000
SB 106 (Polanco-D) Medi-Cal
Establishes extensive health objectives for individuals enrolled in the Medi-Cal program, and requires the State Department of Health Services to collect data regarding these objectives, and to "manage" the program to meet them.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 111 (Figueroa-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Makes all children under 19 years-of-age in families earning less than 133 percent of poverty eligible for Medi-Cal.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SB 112 (Figueroa-D) Children: Healthy Families Program: Medi-Cal Program
Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to arrange for payment of providers who participate in the Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) program for services that would cover for up to 90 days following initial services to CHDP-eligible children. Under current law, providers must submit separate bills to the CHDP program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 124 (Figueroa-D) Medi-Cal eligibility
Makes the following changes in Medi-Cal eligibility rules: (1) allows all applicants to submit an application by mail; and (2) establishes "continuous presumptive eligibility" for children under 19.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 147 (Alpert-D) Foster care: Medi-Cal eligibility
Specifies that for the purpose of establishing eligibility for benefits under the Medi-Cal program for independent foster care adolescents, there shall be no income or asset test applied.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 353* (Johannessen-R) Medi-Cal: residential care facility services
Requires the State Department of Health Services to test the efficiency of providing an assisted living benefit to low-income Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 362 (Alpert-D) Disproportionate share hospitals
Specifies that a disproportionate share hospital that has submitted plans for an eligible capital project in accordance with defined requirements may submit alternative final plans for a revised capital project and shall qualify for supplemental reimbursement if certain conditions are met; substitute final plans may provide for a capital project with specified variations; and for the purposes of determining the supplemental reimbursement for a revised capital project complying with this bill, eligible capital expenditure for the revised capital project is $5 million, as specified.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 454 (Karnette-D) Children's hospitals: disproportionate share eligibility
Allows Miller Children's Hospital at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center to qualify for the Medi-Cal Disproportionate Share Hospital Program and receive up to $4 million.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 470 (Escutia-D) Pilot project and study: chronic condition management
Proposes a study to determine the potential benefits of integrated/self-monitoring disease management for Medi-Cal fee-for-service patients.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 479 (Solis-D) Medi-Cal: county organized health systems
Delays incorporation of Medi-Cal children's services into managed care programs until the year 2005.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 642 (Haynes-R) Medi-Cal: reimbursement: probationary licensee
Prohibits licensed medical professionals who are on probation from being reimbursed for services performed by the licensee while under the supervision of another physician during the probationary period.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 789 (Johannessen-R) Personal care service providers: reimbursement
Allows a county welfare department to determine that a residential or community care facility for the elderly is the appropriate level of care for an In-Home Supportive Services recipient, who is unable to remain in his/her home, but does not need the services provided in a nursing home.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 817 (Escutia-D) Medical services contracting
Prescribes conditions under which hospitals may contract for physician services.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 866 (Escutia-D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates: anesthesia
Requires the Director of the State Department of Health Services, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to calculate reimbursement for all anesthesia services based on the highest Medicare conversion factor applicable to California for the base year of 1998 and the proportionate Medi-Cal conversion factors used respectively for physicians and nurse anesthetists.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 880 (Speier-D) Health care: screening tests: reimbursement
Requires health care service plans and disability insurers to reimburse health care providers for mammography and cervical cancer screening tests at a rate equal to or greater than the reimbursement paid by the Medi-Cal program for those services. Requires Medi-Cal to reimburse at a rate no less than the Medicare rate of payment for screening mammography and to reimburse providers at cost for cervical cancer screening.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1032 (Hughes-D) Medi-Cal: claims
Restricts and defines the authority of the state to recover Medi-Cal costs from heirs, dependents and surviving families.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Similar legislation was SB 1448 (Hughes-D), which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
SB 1192 (Polanco-D) Disproportionate share hospitals: Contra Costa County
Permits the Contra Costa County Regional Medical Center to submit alternative final plans and to receive supplemental reimbursement for capital projects at the Los Medanos site.
Chapter 846, Statutes of 2000
SB 1258 (Polanco-D) HIV infected persons: plan enrollment eligibility
Directs the State Department of Health Services to make Medi-Cal beneficiaries with a share-of-cost (that is, Medi-Cal beneficiaries that must pay a portion of the cost of their care each month due based on income) eligible to enroll in Medi-Cal managed care plans. States that its managed care enrollment provisions shall not create a General Fund cost. Directs the department to pursue a demonstration project that allows individuals who test positive for HIV but do not meet federal criteria that define a person as disabled to be eligible for the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1416* (Rainey-R) Taxes: credits: Medi-Cal services
Authorizes a credit against personal income and bank and corporation taxes for each taxable and income year beginning on or after January 1, 2000, in an amount equal to 100 percent of the reimbursable services provided during the taxable or income year for Medi-Cal services that would otherwise qualify for reimbursement by the state.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1461 (Escutia-D) Multipurpose Senior Services Program
Requires the State Department of Health Services to seek expansion of the federal waiver in order to obtain federal financial participation under the Medi-Cal program for 36,000 Multipurpose Senior Services Program (MSSP) slots. Also requires the State Department of Aging, in consultation with specified entities, to produce a strategic plan for MSSP expansion, and authorizes the State Department of Health Services to implement any recommendations made pursuant to the plan that are consistent with the MSSP.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1601 (Perata-D) Medicare: prescription drugs Medi-Cal eligibility
Creates a Medicare Supplemental Assistance program, which would provide financial assistance to Medicare eligibles for purchasing Medicare supplemental insurance for prescription drug coverage. Also expands Medi-Cal eligibility to include aged and disabled persons with incomes up to 100 percent of the federal poverty level, and for purposes of determining share of cost, allows persons with higher incomes to have an income disregard from 100 percent to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1623 (Perata-D) Medi-Cal: substance abuse
Expands the definition of drug Medi-Cal services to include case management services; outpatient drug-free services; and day care rehabilitative services.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1755 (Kelley-R) Medi-Cal: prescription drugs: mental health
Requires the State Department of Health Services to seek and consider advice from providers and the State Department of Mental Health when determining the therapeutic comparability of medications for the treatment of mental illness.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1821 (Escutia-D) Medi-Cal: disease management
Authorizes the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to undertake a pilot project commencing July 1, 2001, to study patient outcomes, for patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, associated with the use of disease management programs and services for chronic condition management. Also authorizes the Director of DHS to establish a pilot study, commencing July 1, 2001, designed to investigate the effects of the integrated treatment regimen for chronic condition management on the use of emergency room visits and other health care services in the fee-for-service Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1880 (Sher-D) Pharmaceutical assistance program study
Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System, in consultation with the State Department of Health Services, to contract for a study to determine the feasibility of aggregating the purchase of prescription drugs, and to ensure access to all programs by licensed pharmacies, for various groups, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1968 (McPherson-R) Medi-Cal: drugs
Revises the conditions that must be met by a drug manufacturer of a new single-source drug in order to request that the drug be placed on the list of contract drugs.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1969 (Solis-D) Medi-Cal: share of cost: end-stage renal disease patients
Increases the maintenance of need level by $400 per month for Medi-Cal eligible patients suffering from end-stage renal disease.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2050 (Speier-D) Children's health care programs
Requires the State Department of Health Services to establish procedures for applying for Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Program over the Internet and to convene a workgroup and report to the Legislature regarding unifying Medi-Cal and Healthy Families.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2083 (Speier-D) Medi-Cal
Permits the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County to expand the authority of a special commission to provide health care delivery systems for any person:
- Eligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families through a federal waiver or pilot project.
- Eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal (known as Medi-Medi), or only Medicare.
- Eligible for publicly funded health benefits, if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2000
SB 2103 (Morrow-R) Medi-Cal: fiscal and accounting procedures
Requires the State Department of Health Services to convene a workgroup to review Medi-Cal cost reporting and auditing provisions and make recommendations to the Legislature by January 1, 2002.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2193 (Soto-D) Medi-Cal
Creates a Medi-Cal public inquiry unit to respond to eligibility inquiries, and correct eligibility interpretations, determinations and beneficiary files.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2194 (Soto-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Makes changes to state Medi-Cal eligibility law governing the transfer of assets to make state law consistent with federal law and state regulations.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2000
AB 93 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal program: eligibility determinations
Eliminates the authority of the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to require additional reaffirmations of Medi-Cal eligibility and, beginning January 1, 2001, requires DHS to eliminate quarterly reports.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 127 (Granlund-R) Medi-Cal: orthotics and prosthetics
Establishes a trial program in the Medi-Cal program under which prior authorization requests for orthotic and prosthetic services that have been prescribed by a physician would be reviewed on a preservice, prepayment sampling basis.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 368 (Kuehl-D) Individuals with low vision: prosthetic devices
Requires health care service plans that provide prosthetic aids or visual aids, disability insurers, and the Medi-Cal program to provide coverage for prosthetic aids or visual aids for individuals with low vision, as those terms are defined in the bill.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 499 (Aroner-D) Medi-Cal: assisted living demonstration project
Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to develop a Medi-Cal assisted living benefit federal waiver program to test the effectiveness of providing assisted living services as an alternative to receiving services in a nursing facility. Requires the assisted living services to be provided to individuals who are eligible for placement in a nursing facility, but currently reside in residential care facilities or publicly funded senior and disabled housing projects. In addition, requires DHS evaluate the program by January 1, 2003, and seek any federal waivers that may be necessary for the program.
Chapter 557, Statutes of 2000
AB 520 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal: diabetes treatment
Requires the Medi-Cal program to cover equipment and supplies related to the management and treatment of diabetes. Also requires Medi-Cal to cover 24 hours of diabetes outpatient self-management training and education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 525 (Kuehl-D) Health benefits: reproductive health care
Requires a health care service plan, a disability insurer, and a Medi-Cal managed care plan to provide a specified written statement to potential enrollees informing them that: (1) some hospitals and other providers do not provide reproductive health services and, (2) specified contacts can assist in ensuring needed health care services.
Chapter 347, Statutes of 2000
AB 754 (Aroner-D) Medi-Cal: managed care services
Prevents the State Department of Health Services from establishing preliminary capitation payment rates to health plans and then later changing the payment rates. Specifically, requires the department to determine final instead of preliminary rates.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 927 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal: prescribed drugs
Requires the State Department of Health Services to develop a process for approving prescriptions for Medi-Cal patients with chronic conditions without prior authorization.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1061 (McClintock-R) Health coverage
Repeals various health care programs (including Medi-Cal) that provide health care and preventive services to low-income persons, and enacts the "Access to Affordable Choice Act" to provide personal income tax credits for qualified medical costs.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1065 (Ducheny-D) Medi-Cal benefits: dental care
Specifies that two dental cleanings, two dental examinations, and one fluoride varnish are a covered Medi-Cal benefit.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 1070* (Ducheny-D) Medi-Cal: medical education
Extends the sunset date of the Medi-Cal Medical Education Supplemental Payment Fund, and the Large Teaching Emphasis Hospital and Children's Hospital Medi-Cal Medical Education Supplemental Fund, from June 30, 1999, to June 30, 2000.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 1072 (Ducheny-D) Medi-Cal: disproportionate share hospital funding
Requires the Legislative Analyst to submit a report to the Legislature identifying any additional source of funds that would satisfy the disproportionate share hospital funding requirement.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1098 (Romero-D) Health
Increases the penalties for Medi-Cal fraud, expands the use of grand juries to investigate Medi-Cal fraud, and creates new regulations and crimes for clinical laboratory practices.
Chapter 322, Statutes of 2000
AB 1145 (Ashburn-R) Health care coverage: emergency services
Deems emergency services and care to be medically necessary and covered under the Medi-Cal program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1250 (Ashburn-R) Medi-Cal: hospital reimbursement
Authorizes the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to negotiate a settlement with Good Samaritan Hospital of Bakersfield for Medi-Cal's overpayment for psychiatric treatment services provided during the period of 1992 to 1994, and authorizes DHS to waive all or part of the overpayments.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1298 (Firebaugh-D) Medi-Cal: benefits: hearing tests
Requires Medi-Cal coverage for hearing aids to include coverage for any necessary hearing tests, whether performed by a physician, a licensed audiologist, or a licensed hearing aid dispenser, when acting within his/her scope of practice.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1418 (Strom-Martin-D) Medi-Cal: critical access hospitals
Requires each hospital designated by the State Department of Health Services as a critical access hospital, and certified as such by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services under the federal Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, to be reimbursed for each service rendered as basic Medi-Cal health services at a rate no less than the rate paid to that hospital for that service under the federal Medicare program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1561 (Aanestad-R) Medi-Cal services: rural health
Requires small and rural hospitals to be reimbursed for all reasonable costs of providing Medi-Cal services, as specified; requires various changes in the procedures used in determining reimbursement rates for small and rural hospitals; modifies audit requirements; and imposes penalties on the State Department of Health Services for failure to meet certain timelines, as specified.
Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1621 (Thomson-D) Medi-Cal: disproportionate share hospitals
Requires managed care contractors to report inpatient and outpatient revenues received by hospitals for the provision of services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries, so that this information could be used in future disproportionate share hospital allocation calculations.
(Died on Assembly Unfinished Business File)
AB 1722 (Gallegos-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Requires the State Department of Health Services, commencing January 1, 2001, to the extent that federal financial participation is available, to exercise its option under federal law as necessary to expand eligibility for Medi-Cal by exempting all resources.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1735 (Thomson-D) Pupil services
Requires school districts and county offices of education to provide information to parents regarding the Medi-Cal and the Healthy Families programs.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1824 (Strom-Martin-D) Medi-Cal: critical access hospitals
Increases the Medi-Cal reimbursement for critical access hospitals (CAHs). Specifically, requires Medi-Cal to reimburse any hospital designated as a CAH by the State Department of Health Services at a rate at least equal to that paid by the federal Medicare program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1863 (Gallegos-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Expands eligibility in the Medi-Cal program without a share of cost requirement for aged, blind and disabled people and reduces the Medi-Cal share of cost requirements for medically needy people and families.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1915 (Corbett-D) Medi-Cal reimbursement rates
Requires the Director of the State Department of Health Services to review Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for durable medical equipment and medical supplies every two years, report the results to the Legislature and Governor, and use the reviews as the basis for establishing rates for these services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2080 (Granlund-R) Medi-Cal: long-term care services
Requires a resident or an agent, who manages the resident's assets, to pay a facility the share of cost for which the resident is responsible under the Medi-Cal program.
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2000
AB 2102 (Strom-Martin-D) Medi-Cal: critical access hospitals
Appropriates $500,000 for supplemental reimbursement to rural critical access hospitals.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2152 (Aroner-D) Medi-Cal: durable medical equipment
Provides adaptive parenting equipment under the Medi-Cal program to help low-income parents with physical disabilities care for their children.
Chapter 453, Statutes of 2000
AB 2245 (Corbett-D) Medi-Cal: utilization controls
Revises Medi-Cal utilization controls to specify that limitations restricting the number of services a beneficiary can receive in a specified timeframe may not be less than six visits in a three-month period and may not be limited by timeframes within that three-month period.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2326 (Mazzoni-D) Survivors of brain injury: care
Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to adopt procedures and make payment for the provision of specified supportive and rehabilitative services as Medi-Cal benefits to functionally impaired adults to the extent permitted by federal law. Initially limits the number of people who can receive services to 200 but authorizes expansion in the future as specified. Requires DHS to seek necessary federal waivers for the provision of these services and makes implementation subject to approval of the waivers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2411 (Firebaugh-D) Medi-Cal
Requires that the State Department of Health Services forgive any Medi-Cal overpayments made as a result of the errors of the department or its contractors to psychologists for services rendered during the period March 1, 1994, to July 31, 1999, inclusive, to persons qualifying both for the Medi-Cal and Medicare programs.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2415 (Migden-D) Health care
Finds that existing Medi-Cal eligibility requirements and procedures deter applicants, and that 1996 federal welfare reform changes have made Medi-Cal an important program for addressing the health care needs of the working poor. Makes legal immigrant children eligible for the Healthy Families program without regard to the availability of federal financial participation and, instead, subject to the availability of funds for that purpose in the annual Budget Act.
Chapter 944, Statutes of 2000
AB 2500 (Ashburn-R) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Reduces the Medi-Cal share of cost requirements for medically needy aged, blind, and disabled people and low-income families by increasing the Medi-Cal maintenance need level by up to 20 percent.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2617 (Aanestad-R) Medi-Cal reimbursement: small and rural hospitals
Modifies the definition of small and rural "minimum floor" and "non-minimum floor" hospital to mean hospitals whose total gross patient revenue is less than $10 million or $10 million or more, respectively. The effect of the change is to increase eligibility of small hospitals for supplemental reimbursement.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2000
AB 2668* (Battin-R) Long-term care services: developmental disabilities
Authorizes payment for Medi-Cal intermediate care facility/developmental disability services for 13 individuals, whose services have been denied payment under Medi-Cal, beginning June 15, 1998.
Chapter 804, Statutes of 2000
AB 2876* (Aroner-D) Health and welfare programs
The omnibus social services Budget trailer bill which, among others, expands the definitions of drug Medi-Cal services to include day care habilitative services, case management, and aftercare, subject to the receipt of federal approval for a state plan amendment and the appropriation of funds for this purpose.
Chapter 108, Statutes of 2000
AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Public health programs: Budget Act implementation
The omnibus trailer bill for health and human services implementing the policy in the 2000-2001 Budget Act. Among others, provides no cost Medi-Cal to aged, blind and disabled persons with incomes up to 100 percent of poverty, and applies income deductions of $230 for individuals and $310 for couples, implements a new federal option to automatically extend Medi-Cal eligibility for foster care children up to 21 years of age, eliminates the requirement that Medi-Cal beneficiaries submit quarterly income reports as a condition of eligibility, allows Medi-Cal beneficiaries to receive up to two dental exams and two dental cleanings per year, reduces the state administrative fee in the disproportionate share hospital program by $55 million, implements a 7.5 percent wage pass through for direct and non-direct care staff of nursing homes, eliminates the sunset on the Medi-Cal telemedicine program and extends for two years the sunset on the Medi-Cal drug program.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000
AB 2899 (Assembly Health Committee) Medi-Cal
Authorizes the attending physician to sign medication orders by another practitioner, as specified, and makes technical, non-substantive changes to existing law related to Medi-Cal.
Chapter 858, Statutes of 2000
AB 2900 (Gallegos-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Provides continuous eligibility for children receiving health care benefits through the Medi-Cal program.
Chapter 945, Statutes of 2000
AB 2901* (Assembly Health Committee) Disproportionate share hospitals
Establishes a permanent mechanism for distributing federal and local disproportionate share hospital funds to qualified hospitals that serve a large volume of Medi-Cal and uninsured patients.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2000
Mental Health
SB 405 (Ortiz-D) Suicide treatment and prevention
Enacts the California Suicide Prevention Act of 1999, to require the State Department of Mental Health to establish and implement, or contract with an outside agency for development of, a multi-county, 24-hour, centralized, seamless suicide crisis line integrated network.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 468 (Polanco-D) Health care coverage: mental illness
Requires health insurers to cover most forms of mental illness under the same rates, terms and conditions as applied to other medical conditions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 470 (Escutia-D) Mental health: respite care: pilot projects
Amends recently enacted provisions establishing mental health respite pilot projects to aid caregivers of seriously emotionally disturbed children and adults.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 487 (Wright-R) Children's Mental Health Services Act
Appropriates $19.4 million from the General Fund to the State Department of Mental Health for purposes of expansion of children's mental health services under the Children's Mental Health Services Act.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 745 (Escutia-D) Mental health: contracts: disputes
Requires the State Department of Mental Health to require mental health plans to enter into a memorandum of understanding containing specified requirements with Medi-Cal managed care plans; requires the establishment of a procedure to ensure access to outpatient mental health services for foster children; and requires the State Department of Health Services to ensure that coverage is provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries for necessary prescription medications and related medically necessary medical services, as specified.
Chapter 811, Statutes of 2000
SB 936 (Ortiz-D) Mental health: older adults
Requires the State Department of Mental Health to establish at least three interagency systems of care for older adult demonstration projects and allows local mental health account funds to be used for such purposes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1452 (Wright-R) Child welfare: mental health
Requires counties participating in Children's System of Care (CSOC) to coordinate services with other programs intended to help the same population; requires such counties to develop plans for 15-21 year-olds as they transition out of the program; and requires separate county performance contracts for CSOC.
Chapter 520, Statutes of 2000
SB 1456 (Kelley-R) Mental health coverage: social anxiety disorder
Requires every health care service plan contract that provides mental health benefit coverage to include coverage, on and after January 1, 2001, for medically necessary treatment of social anxiety disorder.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1464 (Johnson-R) Mental health services: funding
Appropriates $20 million from the General Fund to the State Department of Mental Health to fund existing county demonstration projects, to serve homeless and recently released mentally ill adults, and expand this demonstration project to serve an additional three counties.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1498 (Perata-D) Dual Diagnosis Competitive Grant Program
States legislative intent to establish a competitive grant program available to counties through the State Department of Mental Health for the purpose of funding new and existing dual diagnosis treatment programs. Specifies that the program be implemented only to the extent funding is provided in the annual Budget Act.
(Died at Assembly desk)
SB 1534 (Perata-D) Mental health: patient advocacy: special programs
Specifies the duties and responsibilities of patients' rights advocates and clarifies the rights of mental health clients.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 1748 (Perata-D) Mental health services programs
Specifies the representatives and duties of the mental health task force funded by the Budget Act of 2000.
Chapter 814, Statutes of 2000
SB 1755 (Kelley-R) Mental health
Requires the State Department of Mental Health Services to seek and consider advice from providers and the State Department of Mental Health when determining the therapeutic comparability of medications for the treatment of mental health.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1769 (Chesbro-D) Mental health courts
Provides for the development and implementation of a mental health court through an existing mentally ill offender crime reduction grant program, and establishes basic requirements for a mental health court in order for it to be eligible for such a grant.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1770 (Chesbro-D) Mental health: client/family member empowerment programs
Requires the State Department of Mental Health to issue a request for proposals in order to establish and expand empowerment programs for mental health clients and their family members, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1858 (Escutia-D) Health: services
Requires mental health patients discharged from specified health facilities to be informed of their right to use an advance directive.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 2062* (Perata-D) Mentally ill juvenile offenders
Authorizes the Board of Corrections to administer and award competitive grants to counties for programs aimed at reducing crime rates associated with juvenile offenders with mental illness.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2092 (Schiff-D) Conservatorship: minors
Establishes notice and other requirements for coordinating cases involving minors subject to mental health conservatorship proceedings when the minor is also a ward or dependent of the juvenile court.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2098 (Hayden-D) Department of the Youth Authority: mental health
Requires psychologists employed by or who contract with the California Youth Authority to be licensed to practice in California.
Chapter 659, Statutes of 2000
SCR 59 (Burton-D) Mental health reform
Establishes, until November 30, 2000, the Joint Committee on Mental Health Reform, for the purpose of identifying promising strategies and policy recommendations relating to mental health treatment. Provides membership and funding specifications for the committee. Requires the committee to submit a report to the Legislature by May 1, 2000, on the committee's activities and recommendations.
Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2000
AB 1053* (Thomson-D) Traumatic brain injury services funding
Corrects provisions of law enacted in 1999, pertaining to an existing traumatic brain injury rehabilitation demonstration program, administered by the State Department of Mental Health.
Chapter 248, Statutes of 2000
AB 1654* (Steinberg-D) Mentally disordered offenders
Requires the State Department of Corrections to implement the Transitional Case Management Program for severely mentally disordered parolees and provide enhanced services for at least one year, and report to the Legislature by March 1, 2001.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1762 (Villaraigosa-D) Peace officer training: persons with mental illness
Directs the Office of Criminal Justice Planning to establish three-year pilot programs in Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley based on the San Jose Police Department's Crisis Intervention Teams approach to situations involving persons with mental health issues.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1800 (Thomson-D) Mental health
Expands the conditions and the length of time for which a person may be involuntarily detained and treated for mental illness.
(Died in Senate Joint Committee on Mental Health Reform)
AB 1969 (Steinberg-D) Mental health: housing
Establishes a long-term care mental health working group to develop long-term care facilities for persons with mental illness and also establishes an internet-accessible information source with specified data on mental health facilities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1980 (Aroner-D) Mental health: school intervention and prevention services
Revises the Primary Intervention Program to provide consistency with the Early Mental Health Initiative.
(Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments)
AB 2034* (Steinberg-D) Mental health funding: local grants
Continues and expands a demonstration program initiated in fiscal year 1999-2000, in AB 34 (Steinberg), that provides mental health outreach, case management, and other services to persons with mental illness who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. Funding is contingent on funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2000
AB 2068 (Steinberg-D) Child mental health
Encourages a panel of experts to be convened to recommend screening instruments for childhood mental health disorders.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2105* (Scott-D) School-based mental health services
Requires the Director of the State Department of Mental Health, in consultation with the Secretary of Child Development and Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to establish a program to award planning grants to counties for the provision of school-based mental health services to children to the extent funding is made available for that purpose. Requires the director to provide a preliminary report on the program to the Governor, appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, and the Legislative Analyst on or before January 1, 2003, and to provide a final report to these entities on or before January 1, 2007.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2161 (Vincent-D) Mental health
Adds to those mental health professionals who may render mental health treatment or counseling services to a minor 12 years of age or older, a marriage and family therapist registered intern working under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional. Prohibits inspection or copying of mental health records of a patient by a marriage and family therapist registered intern, except pursuant to the direction or supervision of a licensed mental health professional.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2000
AB 2228 (Aroner-D) Juvenile offenders: mental health screening
Establishes the Juvenile Probation Assessment Pilot Project to be administered by the State Department of Mental Health in three counties, for two years. Requires, in order to be eligible for the program, a county probation department to develop a local plan for assessing the service needs of a statistically significant sample of the minors in the county who have been arrested or cited on charges based on criminal conduct. Appropriates $2 million from the General Fund to the State Department of Mental Health for these purposes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2278* (Aroner-D) Mental health: community treatment facilities
Appropriates $540,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Mental Health to augment the existing system of supplemental reimbursement to community treatment facilities and makes funding requirements inoperative on July 1, 2003. Also, requires counties, until July 1, 2003, to be responsible for paying a county share-of-cost equal to 60 percent of the community treatment facility supplemental rate for children placed by counties in community treatment facilities; and the state to be responsible for 40 percent of the community treatment facility supplemental rate.
(Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments)
AB 2524 (Washington-D) Emotionally disturbed minors: services
Adds licensed marriage and family therapists to the list of providers that must be available, if needed, to provide treatment in regional facilities for seriously emotionally disturbed wards of the juvenile court.
Chapter 140, Statutes of 2000
AB 2798* (Thomson-D) Mental health: patients' rights: judicial commitments
Authorizes the State Department of Mental Health to adopt regulations concerning patients' rights and related procedures applicable to sexually violent predators. Authorizes a judicially committed forensic patient in a state hospital to be medicated involuntarily with antipsychotic mediation in accordance with specified procedures. Requires the State Department of Mental Health to adopt regulations to ensure that the involuntary medication procedures are uniformly and consistently applied.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Public health programs: Budget Act implementation
The omnibus trailer bill for health and human services implementing the policy in the 2000-2001 Budget Act. Among others: (1) states legislative intent that the State Department of Mental Health (DMH), working collaboratively with the State Department of Health Services, include in the services offered to the mentally ill under Medi-Cal, care and treatment of persons with mental disorders who are eligible for Medi-Cal in facilities with a bed capacity of sixteen beds or less; (2) requires DMH to conduct a three-year pilot project under which funds would be allocated to serve persons from cultural diverse, underserved populations who are dually diagnosed with both a mental illness and substance abuse problem; (3) allows DMH to establish a system for the imposition of prompt and effective civil sanctions for long-term care facilities licensed or certified by DMH; (4) requires local mental health departments to provide information to potential clients, clients' family members and caregivers regarding specialty mental health services offered by the department upon request of the individual; (5) authorizes DMH to establish and administer pilot projects providing respite for caregivers of seriously emotionally disturbed children and seriously mentally ill adults who reside in a caregiver's home; (6) extends the Mental Health Rehabilitation Center Pilot Project to July 2001 and increases the number of allowable pilot projects; (7) establishes the Early Intervention Mental Health program to provide services to children from birth to three years of age, and their families; (8) requires DMH to establish a protocol for ensuring that local mental health departments meet statutory and regulatory requirements for the provision of publicly funded community mental health services; and (9) requires DMH to establish and measure indicators of access and quality to provide the information needed to continuously improve the care provided in California's public mental health system.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000
Developmentally Disabled
SB 846 (Escutia-D) Human services: individuals with disabilities
Establishes the Californians with Disabilities Act that requires the Health and Human Services Agency to work with the State Department of Fair Employment and Housing and State Department of Justice in implementing the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Requires the State Department of Rehabilitation to evaluate its order of selection process to ensure continuity of services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1143* (Chesbro-D) State property: Agnews State Hospital
Requires that the State Department of Development Services (DDS) expend funds in the Developmental Disabilities Services Account for the purposes of expanding affordable housing for persons with developmental disabilities. Funds in the account are to be expended by DDS, through a request for proposal process.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1792 (Chesbro-D) Developmental disabilities: area boards
Requires the Organization of Area Boards to establish a Partners in Policymaking Program to provide education on the policymaking process to persons with developmental disabilities and their families.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1800 (Ortiz-D) Regional centers services: eligibility
Makes it mandatory, instead of permissive, for the State Department of Developmental Services' regional centers to consider evaluations and tests performed by a physician, psychiatric tests, and other tests and evaluations available from other sources, when determining if an individual meets the definition of disability under existing law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1890 (Alarcon-D) Rehabilitation programs: grants: residence modifications
Appropriates $500,000 from the General Fund to fund grants to persons with disabilities for the purchase of adaptive equipment to modify their residences to increase accessibility. Requires the State Department of Rehabilitation to contract with two nonprofit organizations to administer the new pilot grant program in a large urban area. Requires each of the contractors to provide peer counseling, information and referral, skills training, transportation assistance, attendant referral, and housing assistance services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 2025 (Burton-D) Persons with disabilities: civil service
Amends the State Civil Service Act, as it applies to the employment of disabled persons, to provide the same definitions of specified terms as are set forth in the Fair Employment and Housing Act and clarifies who bears responsibility for costs and/or attorney's fees in writ of mandate proceedings inquiring into the validity of any final administrative order or decision by the State Personnel Board.
Chapter 1048, Statutes of 2000
SB 2201 (Senate Health And Human Services Committee) Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Guarantee Fund
Makes a revolving loan fund available to disabled persons who are eligible for State Department of Rehabilitation services, but who are not currently receiving those services, due to a waiting list.
Chapter 182, Statutes of 2000
SCR 100 (Chesbro-D) Americans with Disabilities Act
Recognizes the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Resolution Chapter 161, Statutes of 2000
AB 210 (Wildman-D) Developmental services: employees
Requires the State Department of Personnel Administration to conduct a compensation study of direct care adult day program personnel. Requires the study to compare the wages and benefits given to direct care adult program personnel, who are employed by for-profit and nonprofit community-based agencies funded by the regional centers, to employees performing similar duties in other programs funded by the State Department of Rehabilitation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 373* (Robert Pacheco-R) State developmental centers
Prohibits the State Department of Developmental Services (DDS) from expending funds previously appropriated for the construction of security improvements at Lanterman Developmental Center. Prohibits, until July 1, 2000, the placement of any developmentally disabled forensic or severe behavior patients at Lanterman Developmental Center, the hiring of additional staff related to the transfer of these patients, or the construction of security improvements. Requires DDS, by February 1, 2000, to report to the Legislature on the planned transfer of forensic and severe behavior patients to Lanterman Developmental Center and the impact of these transfers on the surrounding communities, the patients being transferred, and the patients currently at the developmental center.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 523 (Wildman-D) Developmental services: employees
Requires establishment of a job classification and wage scale structure for employees in community-based programs serving developmentally disabled adults.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 644* (Ducheny-D) Habilitation services
Appropriates $4.8 million ($3.2 million General Fund and $1.6 million federal funds) to fund the current year deficiency in the Supported Employment Program (SEP), which is administered by the State Department of Rehabilitation. Also extends the sunset provision on the trigger mechanism that requires automatic reductions in the payment rate for SEP services to prevent a deficiency, from July 1, 2000, to September 1, 2003. In addition, revises the trigger mechanism to prevent rate reductions if the projected deficiency is due to unanticipated caseload increases or increases in the average client workday.
Chapter 95, Statutes of 2000
AB 1146 (Soto-D) Developmentally disabled adults
Requires the State Department of Developmental Services to establish a pilot project in the Inland Regional Center to allow adult consumers living in their family homes to receive supportive living services and the parent of an adult consumer to be eligible for vendorization as a provider of supportive living services whether or not the consumer is living in the place of residence of the parent. Limits the reimbursement rate that may be paid to a parent. Requires the State Department of Developmental Services to report to the Legislature on whether the pilot project is successful.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1257 (Strom-Martin-D) Developmental disabilities: admissions to facilities
States legislative intent to enact uniform judicial review procedures for involuntary commitments of people with developmental disabilities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1307* (Granlund-R) Schoolbus certificates
Consolidates and expands provisions of the Vehicle Code that relate to denial, revocation, or suspension of a certificate to drive a schoolbus, pupil activity bus, a public paratransit vehicle, or a vehicle transporting developmentally disabled persons.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1445 (Wright-D) Care facilities: staff
Changes the type of training required by every direct care staff person employed in a community care facility serving developmentally disabled persons.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2222 (Kuehl-D) Civil rights: disability
Enacts the Prudence Kay Poppink Act. Clarifies the definitions of "mental disability," "physical disability" and "medical condition" for the purposes of California's civil rights laws, limits an employer's ability to require medical or psychological examinations, or make certain medical or disability-related inquires, and requires an employer to engage in a good faith, interactive process to determine reasonable accommodations for a disabled employee or applicant.
Chapter 1049, Statutes of 2000
AB 2377 (Longville-D) Regional centers: employee liability
Until January 1, 2006, limits the liability of regional center employees that provide services to persons with developmental disabilities.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2000
AB 2531 (Scott-D) Health care facilities
Establishes a certification program, to be administered by the State Department of Health Services, for "certified developmental assistants" employed in long-term care facilities for the developmentally disabled.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2668* (Battin-R) Medi-Cal: long-term care services
Authorizes payment for Medi-Cal intermediate care facility/developmental disability services for 13 individuals, whose services have been denied payment under Medi-Cal beginning June 15, 1998.
Chapter 804, Statutes of 2000
AB 2876* (Aroner-D) Health and welfare programs
The omnibus social services Budget Trailer Bill which, among others, increases rates for the Supported Employment Program administered by the State Department of Rehabilitation by three percent.
Chapter 108, Statutes of 2000
AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Public health programs: Budget implementation
The omnibus trailer bill for health and human services implementing the policy in the 2000-2001 Budget Act. Among others, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to develop alternative living options for clients living in developmental centers.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000
AB 2918 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Developmental disabilities
Until January 1, 2004, establishes procedures for the resolution of disputes between a regional center and any publicly funded agency, as defined, over provision of, or payment for, services that are contained in an individualized family service plan or individualized program plan for any child under six years of age.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2919 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Fair hearings and mediation procedures
Revises the fair hearing process for developmentally disabled consumers seeking services from regional centers or developmental centers.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2000
Tobacco Products
SB 673 (Escutia-D) Tobacco settlement fund allocations
Allocates Master Settlement Agreement (tobacco) funds for health care and tobacco cessation programs, as specified, commencing January 1, 2002.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 748 (Dunn-D) Tobacco settlement
Requires all moneys received by the state from the master tobacco settlement to be used for health-related services and insurance for low-income people and for prevention of tobacco consumption.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 824 (Sher-D) Tobacco-related illness: evidence
Allows the use of statistical evidence, upon establishing a proper foundation to show the correlation between tobacco use and resulting illness in any aggregate or class action brought by any party to show or disprove the correlation between tobacco use and resulting illnesses, and to show proof of, or disprove, causation and damages.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
SB 1510 (Escutia-D) Tobacco products: tobacco sales
Prohibits self-service displays of tobacco products, prohibits the free distribution of cigarettes on private property open to the public, and requires minimum package size, no less than 20 per package, for cigarettes.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 2132* (Dunn-D) County health services: tobacco tax
Appropriates $24.803 million of the Cigarette and Tobacco Tax Fund (Proposition 99) for uncompensated hospital emergency services.
Chapter 826, Statutes of 2000
AB 112 (Florez-D) Local government: tobacco settlement
Requires the State Treasurer to establish a special fund for deposit of local tobacco settlement revenues and authorizes local governments to assign or sell such revenues.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 251 (Davis-D) Tobacco settlement: heart disease and cancer
Allocates $10 million annually in tobacco settlement funding to establish and administer three women's heart disease programs focused on research, awareness and education and prevention, and appropriates another $10 million annually in tobacco settlement funding for clinical cancer genetic risk assessment programs and cancer research centers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 255 (Torlakson-D) Tobacco litigation settlement funds
Dedicates an unspecified annual appropriation from tobacco settlement funds to the State Department of Health Services to fund the California Smokers Helpline and award grants on a competitive basis to provide smoking cessation programs for teenagers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 708 (Vincent-D) Youth Prevention and Enrichment Opportunity Act
Establishes a program and fund to provide grant funding to public agencies and nonprofit organizations for youth prevention and enrichment programs and facilities. Provides that funding shall be provided from tobacco settlement funds.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 887 (Jackson-D) Tobacco Settlement Fund
Creates the Tobacco Settlement Fund in the State Treasury as a repository, commencing July 1, 2001, for the state share of all funds received from the tobacco litigation Master Settlement Agreement of 1998. Provides that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the Tobacco Settlement Fund shall be used for health-related purposes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1071 (Soto-D) Health programs: tobacco settlement funds
Expresses legislative intent to spend five percent of the state's share of tobacco settlement funds on direct health care services to uninsured children and prenatal care through pilot projects. States legislative intent that the development of the Pomona Valley Direct Health Care Service Delivery Partnership Project by Pomona United School District serve as a model for statewide replication.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2171 (Florez-D) School nurses: tobacco settlement funds
Creates the Tobacco Settlement Fund into which the state share of all funds received from the tobacco litigation Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 will be deposited, to be reappropriated for specific educational programs and services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2426 (Wesson-D) Tobacco products: bidis
Establishes a minimum pack size for the sale or distribution of cigarettes and a minimum quantity for the sale or distribution of loose tobacco.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2751 (Knox-D) Tobacco Settlement Fund
Creates the Tobacco Settlement Fund in the State Treasury, as a repository, commencing July 1, 2001, for the state share of all funds received from the tobacco litigation Master Settlement Agreement of 1998. Provides that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the Tobacco Settlement Fund shall be used to expand health and health care services.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Public health programs: Budget Act implementation
The omnibus trailer bill for health and human services implementing the policy in the 2000-2001 Budget Act. Among others, provides two-year expenditure authority for tobacco programs.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000
Health Facilities
SB 595 (Speier-D) Outpatient settings
Directs the Medical Board of California to adopt a new standard that subjects outpatient surgery settings to accreditation requirements, repeals the standard in current law, and establishes a more stringent standard in the event the board does not act by November 1, 2000. Also prohibits the administration of anesthesia in outpatient settings except as authorized by regulations the board adopts to implement the standard. In addition, establishes staffing requirements for such outpatient settings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 784 (Baca-D) Surplus state property: state hospitals: Indian tribes
Requires the director of the State Department of General Services, in the event that a state hospital is permanently closed or taken out of service, to give the same priority provided to local governmental agencies to acquire surplus state land, to any federally recognized Indian tribe located within seven miles of the facility, under terms that would be no less favorable, if any, than those available to any city or county government under state law.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 837 (Figueroa-D) Cosmetic surgery: facilities
Requires cosmetic surgery procedures to be performed in a licensed general acute care hospital or in a licensed or accredited outpatient surgery setting.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1021 (Figueroa-D) Health facilities
Allows Children's Hospital, Oakland, to operate pediatric beds at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1054 (Haynes-R) Hospitals: medical staff
Prohibits hospitals from denying staff privileges to a physician on the basis of anything but the physician's individual qualifications.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1113 (Haynes-R) Residential care facilities for the elderly
Permits the State Department of Social Services to impose special requirements on residential care facilities for the elderly that accept or retain residents who require protective supervision.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1192 (Polanco-D) Medi-Cal disproportionate share hospitals
Permits the Contra Costa County Regional Medical Center to submit alternative final plans and to receive supplemental reimbursement for capital projects at its Los Medanos site.
Chapter 846, Statutes of 2000
SB 1193 (Knight-R) Clinics: grants-in-aid
Specifies that any community clinic which has been in operation for one year shall be eligible to receive grants under the grant-in-aid program for community and free clinics.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1766 (Chesbro-D) Primary care clinics
Extends to the 2001-2002 fiscal year, and subsequent years, a methodology for allocating funds through a clinic reimbursement program known as Expanded Access to Primary Care.
Chapter 456, Statutes of 2000
SB 1801 (Speier-D) Health facilities: seismic building standards
Permits a five year extension of interim (2008) seismic standards for hospitals which retrofit or replace structures to meet final (2030) seismic standards.
Chapter 850, Statutes of 2000
SB 1808 (Speier-D) Terminally ill persons
Exempts specified licensed persons from civil and criminal liability, disciplinary action, and criminal or other sanctions in connection with the good faith provision to a health facility patient of a controlled substance for pain management, including in cases involving terminally ill patients, where the treatment may hasten the patient's death.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1835 (Leslie-R) Health facilities: nursing staff
Requires, rather than permits, exemptions for pending nurse-to-patient ratios within rural hospitals.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1847 (Alarcon-D) Clinics
Establishes the Community Clinic Investment Act of 2000, a one-time $50 million fund to provide grants for capital outlay projects for primary care clinics. Requires the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to develop, in consultation with interested parties, a grants-making process and award grants to primary care clinics.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1862 (Vasconcellos-D) Health facilities
Establishes goals for direct care staffing in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), revises the calculation for determining nursing hours in SNFs and intermediate care facilities, requires specified disclosure of licensee information, increases penalties for violation of laws and regulations, and makes several other changes to existing law impacting nursing homes.
(Died in Conference Committee)
SB 1875 (Speier-D) Health facilities and clinics: medication-related errors
Requires general acute care hospitals, special hospitals, and surgical clinics, as a condition of licensure, to adopt a formal plan to eliminate or substantially reduce medication-related errors. Requires each facility's plan to be provided to the State Department of Health Services by January 1, 2002, and to be implemented by January 1, 2005.
Chapter 816, Statutes of 2000
SB 1886* (Escutia-D) Health facilities: seismic safety
Requires hospitals to submit data to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development regarding the cost of compliance with seismic safety requirements. Prohibits such data from being subject to discovery and exempts such data from disclosure under the California Public Records Act.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2006 (Leslie-R) Health facilities: seismic building standards
Extends deadlines for seismic safety compliance for hospitals in a low seismic risk zone.
Chapter 851, Statutes of 2000
SB 2129 (Karnette-D) Health facilities: Miller Children's Hospital: study
Requires a study of the circumstances and financing options for Miller Children's Hospital of Long Beach.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 82 (Cunneen-R) Hospitals: medical staff contracts
Requires any general acute, or psychiatric hospital to present justification for, and to receive medical staff comments regarding, the appropriateness of engaging in exclusive contracting for medical services.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 421 (Aroner-D) Health facilities: license suspension and revocation
Establishes a system, which permits local prioritization of how essential acute care hospitals and their emergency departments are to the community. Also creates the Emergency Department Supplemental Fund, from which supplemental payments are made to hospitals that are "essential community facilities" and facing financial hardships causing potential closure of their emergency departments.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 675 (Thomson-D) Health facilities: registered nurses
Requires hospitals to provide sufficient staff to ensure patient safety, to implement a patient classification system, and adapt that system to changing circumstances. Makes specified changes regarding registered nurses and health facilities to ensure safe patient care.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 835 (Villaraigosa-D) County medical facilities
Requires the county board of supervisors to establish procedures, by regulation, to be followed when a county medical facility level of service is to be reduced as a result of a process of reconstruction.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 894 (Alquist-D) Skilled nursing facilities
Requires a reasonable attempt to be made to notify the interested family when a physician and surgeon prescribes for a resident in a skilled nursing facility a medical intervention that requires consent of the resident, such as a psychotherapeutic medication.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2000
AB 945* (Maldonado-R) Health facilities construction and licensing requirements
Authorizes the Marian Medical Center in the City of Santa Maria and County of Santa Barbara to apply for, and receive from the State Department of Health Services, a license for the operation of a general acute care hospital in a specified building, under circumstances set forth in the bill.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1513 (Florez-D) Health facilities: general acute care hospitals
Prohibits the State Department of Health Services from interpreting existing law and regulations pertaining to the licensure of general acute care hospitals to prohibit two or more hospitals that maintain separate hospital licenses and that are operated under common ownership or management from having a single governing body, administration, or medical staff.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1621 (Thomson-D) Medi-Cal: disproportionate share hospitals
Requires managed care contractors to report inpatient and outpatient revenues received by hospitals for the provision of services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries, so that this information could be used in future disproportionate share hospital allocation calculations.
(Died on Assembly Unfinished Business File)
AB 1731 (Shelley-D) Long-term health care facilities
Consists of a major reform package for skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, including provisions relating to the following items:
- Creates provisional licenses, and authorizes temporary managers and court-appointed receivers.
- Expands citations and penalties.
- Increases information relating to the State Ombudsman, complaints and resident appeals.
- Requires federal compliance and creates a Financial Solvency Board.
- Initiates a Quality Awards Program.
- Expands disclosure requirements and increases inspections.
Chapter 451, Statutes of 2000
AB 1760* (Kuehl-D) Health facilities: regulations
Provides a one year extension to the State Department of Health Services (DHS) for the adoption of regulations establishing specified nurse-to-patient staff ratios in health facilities. Also deletes a provision that authorizes Los Angeles County to be subject to a phase-in process developed in conjunction with DHS and that requires that process to be completed within one year of the adoption of the regulations by DHS.
Chapter 148, Statutes of 2000
AB 1941* (Strom-Martin-D) Palm Drive Health Care District
Allows the Palm Drive Health Care District, until January 1, 2004, to issue revenue bonds based on the finances of the Palm Drive Hospital instead of the district. Requires any health care district that leases or transfers its assets to a corporation to act as an advocate for the community to the corporation and to annually report to the community on progress made in meeting the community's health needs.
Chapter 798, Statutes of 2000
AB 2102 (Strom-Martin-D) Medi-Cal: critical access hospitals
Appropriates $500,000 for supplemental reimbursement to rural critical access hospitals.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2194 (Gallegos-D) Temporary health facility licensing
Authorizes and regulates use of temporary hospital structures during a hospital's seismic related construction.
Chapter 841, Statutes of 2000
AB 2257 (Aroner-D) Health facility financing
Expands facilities eligible for financial assistance from the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to include community mental health centers, permits the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to pledge money to secure health facility loans, and makes technical corrections.
Chapter 517, Statutes of 2000
AB 2276 (Cedillo-D) Health facilities
Requires the State Attorney General to prepare a plan for an evaluation of whether or not additional standards for charitable care and community benefits are appropriate for not-for-profit corporations that operate certain hospitals.
Chapter 801, Statutes of 2000
AB 2386 (Leach-R) Immunizations: care facilities
Requires long-term care facilities, residential facilities for the elderly, and adult day health centers to require persons receiving services at the facility and facility employees to be immunized on an annual basis for influenza and pneumococcal disease and provide appropriate documentation of these immunizations.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2393 (Hertzberg-D) Clinics
Clarifies state law that community and free clinics, as defined in law, may be reimbursed for services by third-party payers and may enter into contracts to provide services to public or private health plan subscribers.
Chapter 27, Statutes of 2000
AB 2399 (Longville-D) Long-term health care facilities: inspections
Revises the criteria for the inspection of long-term health care facilities, to reduce the predictability of annual inspections, by varying (1) the order of inspection within a geographical area, and (2) the time of day, day of week, and time of month in which the facilities are inspected each year. Requires that inspection hours be extended to include inspection times before 8 a.m., after 6 p.m., and weekend days.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2531 (Scott-D) Health care facilities
Establishes a certification program, to be administered by the State Department of Health Services, for "certified developmental assistants" employed in long-term care facilities for the developmentally disabled.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2547 (Hertzberg-D) Health facilities
Authorizes the State Department of Health Services to expand public access requirements for certain health facilities or special services by posting licensing and certification information on an Internet site.
Chapter 842, Statutes of 2000
AB 2611 (Gallegos-D) Health facilities: emergency services
Requires the Senate Office of Research to conduct a comprehensive study of the hospital emergency room department on-call coverage issue in California, as specified, and report to the Legislature by January 1, 2000.
Chapter 828, Statutes of 2000
AB 2617 (Aanestad-R) Medi-Cal reimbursement: small and rural hospitals
Modifies the definition of small and rural "minimum floor" and "non-minimum floor" hospital to mean hospitals whose total gross patient revenue is less than $10 million or $10 million or more, respectively. The effect of the change is to increase eligibility of small hospitals for supplemental reimbursement.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2000
AB 2641 (Calderon-D) Residential care facilities
Requires the State Department of Social Services to review and consider information submitted by a city or county prior to licensing a residential care facility.
(Failed passage in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 2717 (House-R) Tuolumne County
Permits a nonprofit hospital in Tuolumne County to enter into a joint powers authority and authorizes the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors to appoint a public administrator, veteran service officer and public guardian.
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2000
AB 2789 (Villaraigosa-D) County medical facilities
Provides that prior to accepting plans for replacement of a county hospital by construction or reconstruction of the first class, the Office of Statewide Health Planning shall review the record of the public hearing to determine if the action of the governing board is consistent or inconsistent with testimony and recommendations offered at the hearing.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2875 (Cedillo-D) Primary care clinics: grants
Authorizes the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA) to administer the Cedillo- Alarcon Community Clinic Investment Act that would authorize CHFFA to award grants to any eligible participating primary care clinic for purposes of financing capital outlay projects.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2000
AB 2902 (Assembly Health Committee) Hospital facilities: seismic safety
Makes a technical change to existing law to continue the provisions of the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Act by replacing a reference to an "article" with a reference to a "section," thereby removing the sunset date.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2000
ACR 131 (Villaraigosa-D) Mattel Children's Hospital
Declares that Mattel Children's Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is one of the preeminent children's hospitals in the United States.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2000
Health Professionals
SB 7 (Figueroa-D) Healing arts: physicians
Provides that any person who makes a decision regarding medical necessity or appropriateness that denies, significantly delays, terminates or otherwise limits, in whole or in part, any diagnosis, treatment, operation or prescription made by a physician or surgeon without a license to practice medicine is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 18 (Figueroa-D) Health care
Makes it a misdemeanor to make specified health care decisions without a license to practice healing arts, and requires health plans and health insurers to take specified actions and make specified disclosures.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 125 (Haynes-R) Healing arts: social workers
Eliminates the oral examinations administered by the State Board of Behavioral Sciences in the State Department of Consumer Affairs for licensed clinical social workers and marriage, family, and child counselors.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 137 (Knight-R) Board of Behavioral Sciences: substance abuse testing
Requires the State Board of Behavioral Sciences to perform substance abuse testing on social worker and family counselor licensees and applicants.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 224 (Baca-D) Seniors, veterans and disabled health care
Establishes the Seniors', Veterans', and Disabled Health Care Protection Act of 1999, which requires the State Department of Health Services to license and regulate nurses' registries, other than those providing private duty nursing employment services. Requires the department to adopt regulations to carry out the requirements of this bill, as emergency regulations, and authorizes the department to assess nurses' registries a fee for licensure and renewal, not to exceed the actual cost of drafting and amending the regulations adopted by the department. Further requires the department to suspend or revoke the license of any nurses' registry that fails to comply with the adopted regulations.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 404 (Alpert-D) Pharmacy
Authorizes a pharmacist to initiate emergency contraception drug therapy in accordance with written guidelines or protocols previously established and approved for his/her practice by a practitioner authorized to prescribe drugs.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 466 (Perata-D) Acupuncture
Revises the licensed acupuncturist's scope of practice and makes a clarifying technical change.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 595 (Speier-D) Outpatient settings
Directs the State Medical Board of California to adopt a new standard that subjects outpatient surgery settings to accreditation requirements, repeals the standard in current law, and establishes a more stringent standard in the event the board does not act by November 1, 2000. Also prohibits the administration of anesthesia in outpatient settings except as authorized by regulations the board adopts to implement the standard. In addition, establishes staffing requirements for such.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 837 (Figueroa-D) Cosmetic surgery: facilities
Requires cosmetic surgery procedures to be performed in a licensed acute care hospital or in a licensed or accredited outpatient surgery setting.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 888 (Ortiz-D) EMT personnel: licensure
Expands the membership of the Commission on Emergency Medical Services from 16 to 19 members.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 929 (Polanco-D) Optometry
Expands the scope of lawful practice for optometrists by specifying additional diseases and conditions that optometrists may treat with specified medications and by specifying the extent of physician involvement that is required under various circumstances.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2000
SB 1045 (Murray-D) Healing arts
Increases the maximum amount of the biennial licensing fee for physicians by $100, and revises the disciplinary process for physicians by defining repeated negligent acts as those acts that are the result of separate diagnoses or treatment decisions, by placing a $12,500 cap on cost recovery, and by requiring the State Medical Board of California to adopt guidelines for prioritizing cases according to the risk to patient safety.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1046 (Murray-D) Occupational therapy: licensure
Enacts the Occupational Therapy Practice Act, which establishes licensure for occupational therapists and certification for occupational therapy assistants.
Chapter 697, Statutes of 2000
SB 1215 (Perata-D) Dental professionals
Creates a State Board of Allied Dental Health Professionals, and provides for the licensure and regulation of dental assistants and other auxiliary dental professionals by this new board. Also revises the definition of the practice that may be undertaken by dental hygienists.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
SB 1339 (Figueroa-D) Pharmacy: quality assurance program
Requires pharmacies to establish quality assurance programs and requires the Board of Pharmacy to adopt regulations specifying the requirements and implementation of the quality assurance programs.
Chapter 677, Statutes of 2000
SB 1419 (Haynes-R) Medical profiling
Generally prohibits any activity that may be characterized as "medical profiling" if that activity employs the use of medical records or other patient information to help determine whether an individual has a likelihood of engaging in violence or other crimes.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 1462 (Perata-D) Rodeos: humane care of rodeo animals
Requires a state licensed veterinarian be present or on call at all rodeos, and authorizes fines for any violations of this bill.
Chapter 992, Statutes of 2000
SB 1479 (Figueroa-D) Midwives: authorized practices: birth certificates
Requires licensed midwives to have specific arrangements regarding medical care, and make additional disclosures to potential clients.
Chapter 303, Statutes of 2000
SB 1554 (Senate Business And Professions Committee) Healing arts
The omnibus bill revising licensing provisions involving health care professions regulated by the State Medical Board of California and the Boards of Pharmacy, Behavioral Sciences, and Psychology.
Chapter 836, Statutes of 2000
SB 1600 (Burton-D) Physical therapy
Deletes a sunset clause on the provision of law that authorizes physical therapists to perform electromyography testing.
Chapter 427, Statutes of 2000
SB 1620 (Kelley-R) Veterinary medicine: continuing education
Modifies the conditions for continuing education for veterinarians, required for license renewals sought after January 1, 2002, under the jurisdiction of the State Veterinary Medical Board.
Chapter 995, Statutes of 2000
SB 1630 (Hayden-D) Assisted reproductive technology
Prohibits, on and after January 1, 2002, a licensed tissue bank from providing assisted reproductive technology procedures and services related to oocyte donation unless its medical director is certified in a specialty or subspecialty, as specified. Specifies that a violation constitutes unprofessional conduct.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1636 (Poochigian-R) Osteopathic physicians and surgeons
Authorizes the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to adopt a cite and fine regulation and repeals unnecessary testing and filing requirements.
Chapter 197, Statutes of 2000
SB 1807 (Vasconcellos-D) Addiction: treatment
Requires the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to establish an office-based opiate treatment program, as specified; and authorizes a person participating in a deferred entry of judgment program or a preguilty plea program, as specified, to also participate in a licensed methadone or levoalphacetylmethadol program.
Chapter 815, Statutes of 2000
SB 1828 (Speier-D) Dangerous drugs and devices
Prohibits prescribing or dispensing of dangerous drugs over the Internet unless a "good faith examination" is conducted, and establishes civil penalties or fines for violations.
Chapter 681, Statutes of 2000
SB 1835 (Leslie-R) Health facilities: nursing staff
Requires, rather than permits, exemptions for pending nurse-to-patient ratios within rural hospitals.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1852 (Alpert-D) Medical assistants
Permits nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives and physician assistants to supervise medical assistants in certain licensed clinics.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1861 (Hayden-D) Physician assistants
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to contract with a primary care physician assistant program for the purpose of developing and implementing a training curriculum for international medical graduates. Also provides 10 scholarships to students enrolled in primary care physician assistant programs, five of whom shall be international medical graduates, who agree to serve as primary care physician assistants in medically underserved areas for a minimum of four years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1903 (Speier-D) Medical information: requests for disclosure
Amends existing law restricting disclosure of medical information to include corporations and their subsidiaries and affiliates; requires corporations and other organizations maintaining medical information to provide copies to patients at no charge; requires a valid authorization for release of information, as specified; and allows adult patients to insert written addendums into their medical records believed incorrect or incomplete.
Chapter 1066, Statutes of 2000
SB 1940 (Bowen-D) Medical information: authorization: pharmacists
Prohibits a person or entity that is licensed, regulated, or certified by the Board of Pharmacy from intentionally sharing, selling, or otherwise using any medical information regarding a consumer for marketing or promotional purposes without obtaining a valid prior written consent from the consumer.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1977 (Peace-D) Physician assistants and nurse practitioners
Allows physician assistants and nurse practitioners to determine and report on an injured worker's entitlement to benefits, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
SB 2031 (Figueroa-D) Professions and vocations
Places the Osteopathic Medical Board of California (OMBC) within the State Department of Consumer Affairs and adds two public members to OMBC, and continues the ability of podiatric medical school graduates to obtain a limited license while in postgraduate training.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2034 (Figueroa-D) Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Extends review dates for the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to September 1, 2001, and September 1, 2003, respectively. Current law requires the Joint Legislative Sunset Review Committee to have reviewed both boards during the 1998 interim recess.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 2000
SB 2100 (Vasconcellos-D) Healing arts: nonconventional treatment
Requires the State Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to establish specified policies related to the practice of alternative medicine, and requests the University of California to review specified issues related to alternative medicine.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2000
SB 2172* (O'Connell-D) Acupuncturists: sales tax
Provides a partial sales tax exemption for acupuncturists on the herbs and other medicinal substances furnished in the performance of professional services.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File due to a 29.10 question)
Similar legislation was AB 2764 (Knox-D), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 210 (Wildman-D) Developmental services: employees
Requires the State Department of Personnel Administration to conduct a compensation study of direct care adult day program personnel. Requires the study to compare the wages and benefits given to direct care adult program personnel, who are employed by for-profit and nonprofit community-based agencies funded by the regional centers, to employees performing similar duties in other programs funded by the State Department of Rehabilitation. Requires the results of the study to be reported to the Legislature no later than October 1, 2001.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 231 (Battin-R) Acupuncture
Establishes the Acupuncture Detox Specialists Pilot Program to allow specified unlicensed persons to perform, under licensed supervision, a specific acupuncture procedure on the ear for the treatment of a chemical dependence.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 256 (Zettel-R) Waived laboratory directors
Permits the laboratory director of a registered laboratory performing only tests classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 to delegate the responsibility for technical and scientific oversight of the laboratory to a technical consultant meeting specified criteria.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 400 (Lempert-D) Psychology
Generally requires applicants for licensure in the area of psychology to have attended an accredited institution, except as specified. Requires an institution offering a doctoral degree in psychology to provide prospective students a California Unaccredited Psychology School Disclosure Form and provides penalties for failure to do so.
Chapter 625, Statutes of 2000
AB 440 (Corbett-D) Health care providers: withheld funds
Prohibits medical groups, independent practice associations and health insurers from withholding money from a provider for services without outlining specific information and criteria for withholding in the contract. Outlines specific time periods for repayment of withholds to providers. Requires that withhold should in no way induce the denial, reduction, limitation or delay of specific medically necessary and appropriate services and requires disclosure of the withholding criteria to any enrollee who requests the information.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 497 (Gallegos-D) Dentists
Repeals the current requirement that a dentist be at each practice location at least 50 percent of the time it is open for the practice of dentistry and, instead, provides that the Dental Practice Act does not prohibit a dentist from maintaining more than one practice location if specified requirements are met.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2000
AB 660* (Cardenas-D) Pharmacy
Authorizes a pharmacist to refill prescriptions, upon the request of the patient taking the medication, for a period of up to 90 days from the date of the request and deems prescribers unable to authorize prescription refills if they encounter failures as a result of the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 675 (Thomson-D) Health facilities: registered nurses
Requires hospitals to provide sufficient staff to ensure patient safety, to implement a patient classification system, and adapt that system to changing circumstances. Makes specified changes regarding registered nurses and health facilities to ensure safe patient care.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 751* (Gallegos-D) Controlled substances: dispensing without a license
Specifies that an existing misdemeanor provision prohibiting any person from dispensing or furnishing prescription drugs or devices without a license also applies to any item represented as, or presented in lieu of, a prescription drug or device. Eliminates the January 1, 2001 sunset date of a provision of law permitting local health officers to take certain actions against persons selling prescription drugs or devices without a license, including closing a business upon the second offense.
Chapter 350, Statutes of 2000
AB 827 (Baldwin-R) Healing arts: nonconventional treatment
Among other provisions, requires various licensed healing arts practitioners to inform their patients if they elect to provide treatment that is nonconventional to their practice as well as the possible benefits and risks, provides that existing law shall not be construed to prevent the use of any system, methods, or mode of treatment, whether conventional or nonconventional and provides that provisions in current law that regulate the treatment of cancer and other specific serious diseases shall be construed to apply to the use of any health care remedy, procedure or treatment not generally accepted by the majority of the health care practice community including the use of dietary supplements and homeopathy.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 869* (Keeley-D) Oral conscious sedation
Delays the implementation of specified requirements that must be met before a dentist may administer oral conscious sedation to a minor patient.
Chapter 9, Statutes of 2000
AB 894 (Alquist-D) Skilled nursing facilities: antipsychotic medication
Specifies that a physician and surgeon of a resident in a skilled nursing facility must notify an interested family member, as designated, if antipsychotic medication is prescribed.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2000
AB 949 (Wiggins-D) Speech pathologists
Defines "teacher" to include holders of service credentials for purposes of eligibility for specified programs.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1075 (Davis-D) Substance abuse: health practitioner reports
Expands the authority of authorized persons within county health departments to receive copies of reports of known or suspected child abuse made by health practitioners.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1144 (Aanestad-R) Psychology
Creates a new category of psychologists called a "certified psychologist," who would be allowed to prescribe drugs to persons from 18 to 65 years of age. Also defines a "certified psychologist" as a California licensed clinical psychologist who is a graduate of the United States Department of Defense Psychopharmacology training program. Authorizes the Board of Psychology to collect fees to offset the costs of administering the certification process.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1297 (Firebaugh-D) Medical school student loan repayment assistance
Proposes a program within the University of California medical schools to provide loans to students in exchange for practice in underserved communities. Proposes to expand the number of family practice residency positions in teaching hospitals for foreign medical school graduates willing to work in underserved areas.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1308 (Granlund-R) Orthotic and prosthetic devices and services
Establishes the Prosthetic and Orthotic Board in the State Department of Consumer Affairs for the purposes of administering licensing requirements of prosthetic and orthotic providers.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1380 (Villaraigosa-D) Liability: health care providers
Requires the State Treasurer to adjust the current $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in a medical malpractice action, each February 1, to reflect the cumulative percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for all items published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics for the preceding calendar year. Also makes legislative findings with respect to the need to revise the cap on noneconomic damages.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1496 (Olberg-R) Home medical device retail facilities
Replaces "medical device retailer" with "home medical device retail facility" as a license category. Transfers the administration of licensing of businesses that sell, install, maintain, replace or instruct in the use of home medical equipment, from the Board of Pharmacy in the State Department of Consumer Affairs to the State Department of Health Services, and makes conforming changes.
Chapter 837, Statutes of 2000
AB 1565 (Papan-D) Damages: health care providers
Provides that in any action for injury based on the professional negligence of a health care provider, the injured plaintiff is entitled to recover noneconomic losses to compensate for pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement and other nonpecuniary damage, up to a maximum of $250,000.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1975* (Romero-D) Professional personnel: psychologists: waiver of licensure
Extends the maximum duration of a waiver from licensure requirements for a psychologist in state and other governmental health facilities from two to three years, limits the time-period for an out-of-state psychologist and clinical social worker to retake a failed exam and conforms waiver of licensure requirements to a psychologist and clinical social worker employed in the state correctional system.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2000
AB 2042 (Briggs-R) Veterinary medicine: equine massage
Authorizes the practice of equine massage without a veterinary license and for the State Veterinary Medical Board to establish minimum standards of education, training, and registration with the board.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2171 (Florez-D) School nurses: tobacco settlement funds
Creates the Tobacco Settlement Fund into which the state share of all funds received from the tobacco litigation Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 will be deposited, to be reappropriated for specific educational programs and services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2240 (Bates-R) Prescriptions: electronic transmission
Eliminates the requirement that electronically transmitted prescriptions be reduced to a written or hard copy under specified conditions, and authorizes prescribers to electronically enter prescriptions and hospital drug orders into a pharmacy's or hospital's computer from any location, with the permission of the pharmacy or hospital.
Chapter 293, Statutes of 2000
AB 2332 (Mazzoni-D) Dental management service organizations
Prohibits any person from engaging in business in California as a dental management services organization, as defined, unless that person obtains a license to operate a health care service plan.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2355 (Granlund-R) Orthotic and prosthetic devices: practitioners
Creates the California Prosthetic and Orthotic Board in the State Department of Consumer Affairs to administer a new licensing and regulatory program for orthotists and prosthetists.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2374 (Lempert-D) Discovery: marriage and family therapists
Adds marriage and family therapists and licensed clinical social workers to the list of medical committees and review bodies whose records and proceedings are currently exempt from discovery in civil litigation.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2000
AB 2394 (Firebaugh-D) Healing arts: cultural and linguistic competency
Creates a Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists (Task Force) and requires the Task Force to, among other things, develop recommendations for a continuing education program; creates a subcommittee within the Task Force to determine the feasibility of establishing a pilot program to allow Mexican licensed health care providers to practice in nonprofit community health centers.
Chapter 802, Statutes of 2000
AB 2423 (Firebaugh-D) Clinical laboratory fees
Exempts specified subsidiary and parent companies of a licensed clinical laboratory, health facility or health care professional from certain billing prohibitions.
Chapter 251, Statutes of 2000
AB 2424 (Migden-D) Health care providers: private duty nursing agencies
Establishes a new licensure category for private duty nursing agencies, specifies requirements for licensure, and imposes an annual licensing fee.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2516 (Thomson-D) Registered Nurse Education Program
Expands participation in the Registered Nurse Education Program to students who agree in writing, prior to graduation, to serve in a state-operated health facility, which meets specific criteria as determined by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2000
AB 2571 (Campbell-R) Healing arts: disciplinary actions
Provides an exemption from the disciplinary statute of limitations when a physician intentionally conceals his/her incompetence, gross negligence or repeated negligent acts.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2000
AB 2648 (Calderon-D) Psychiatric technicians
Allows psychiatric technicians employed by the state to negotiate through the collective bargaining process terms of employment that require the state to pay for continuing education requirements, provided funds are subsequently appropriated through the budget process.
Chapter 208, Statutes of 2000
AB 2660 (House-R) Heath care practitioners
Prohibits a person or entity that employs or contracts with health care practitioners from terminating or refusing to employ or contract with a practitioner who refuses to engage in a healing practice involving contraceptives, or other treatment methods, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2670 (Bock-I) School nurses
Establishes a committee to study specified issues relative to school nurses and pupil health.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2697 (Cardoza-D) Hearing aid dispensers
Creates the Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau in the State Department of Consumer Affairs and reconstitutes the Hearing Aid Dispensers Advisory Commission as a Hearing Aid Dispensers Advisory Committee.
Chapter 277, Statutes of 2000
AB 2834 (Alquist-D) Geriatric specialist training
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to (1) administer grants to California postsecondary educational institutions that establish fee-waiver programs for students who enroll in a program leading to bachelor of science or masters degrees in gerontology, and (2) provide $60,000, as specified, to medical residents who complete a fellowship in geriatrics and practice as geriatricians.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2842 (Calderon-D) Veterinary licenses
Establishes an alternative mechanism for accrediting foreign veterinary medical schools to establish eligibility for their graduates to sit for the California licensing examination.
(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2876* (Aroner-D) Budget Trailer Bill: caregiver training
Establishes the Caregiver Training Initiative, to be administered by the State Employment Development Department and the State Department of Social Services, to develop and implement proposals designed to recruit, train, and retain health care providers such as certified nurse assistants, certified nurses, registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and other types of nursing and direct-care staff. Specifies that contracts are to be awarded to regional collaborative programs selected through a competitive process.
Chapter 108, Statutes of 2000
AB 2888 (Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, And Economic Development Committee) Professions and vocations
Makes various non-substantive, technical, clarifying and minor changes in the laws that regulate specified professions and vocations regulated by the State Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 568, Statutes of 2000
AB 2889* (Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, And Economic Development Committee) Trade and Commerce Agency and professions and vocations
Makes technical and name changes to reflect current organizational structure primarily for the State Trade and Commerce Agency and various boards and commissions within the State Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 1055, Statutes of 2000
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 173 (Alpert-D) Consumer discount health care programs
Establishes a process for state oversight of "consumer discount health care programs," including registration of such programs by the State Department of Managed Care (DMC). Requires DMC to establish an office to handle consumer questions and complaints about the programs, audit the programs and enforce compliance, report to the Legislature by January 1, 2006, on the level of compliance, and collect unspecified fees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 180 (Sher-D) Retail food facilities inspection information
Requires the State Department of Health Services and local health agencies to establish and utilize standardized formats and procedures for inspecting and reporting on food facilities. Revises existing law exempting certain outdoor facilities from enclosure, as specified, to include outdoor bars.
Chapter 691, Statutes of 2000
SB 269 (Ortiz-D) Local public health funding
Enacts the "Public Health Improvement Act of 1999," which allocates specified funds subject to availability in the annual Budget Act or some other act for purposes of the act.
Chapter 794, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed
SB 276* (Polanco-D) Healthy Californians Act of 1999
Establishes the policy that the state develop a universal health care delivery system by the year 2010, a set of health goals, a Governor's Council on Health consisting of designated department heads, representatives of the State Public Employees' Retirement System, legislators, a University of California representative, and private citizens appointed by the Governor, Speaker, and Senate Rules Committee to represent large employers, small employers, and labor to oversee the planning, implementation, and continuing improvement of the universal health care system, the California Continuing Improvement and Accountability System for health care, and creates the Universal Health Care Fund to hold the proceeds of the tobacco litigation Master Settlement Agreement to support the goals of the bill.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 530 (Costa-D) Safe Drinking Water
Enacts the Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Act which, if adopted, would authorize, for purposes of financing a safe drinking water, water quality, flood protection, and water reliability program, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $1,921,000,000.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 566 (Escutia-D) School health centers
Creates the School Health Center Grant Program under which grants shall be made to qualifying school health centers to assist them in delivering health services to students. Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to administer the grant program; however, it would not become operative unless funds for its purposes are appropriated in the Budget Act. Requires DHS to establish a study group to explore long-term strategies for the support of school health centers.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
SB 643 (Alpert-D) County children and families first commissions
Provides state match ($1 state for $3 county funds) for counties that use their local Proposition 10 (the California Children and Families First Program) funds to either:
- Support early childhood programs that have been shown to be cost-effective and demonstration programs that are potentially cost effective based on evaluations conducted by a recognized research institution. Places the determination in the hands of the Office of Child Abuse Prevention.
- Establish new and innovative programs based on projected cost-effective evaluation acceptable to the office.
Provides that matching funds be limited to support low-income children and those more likely to have adverse health, social, and economic outcomes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 648 (Ortiz-D) Venereal disease
Expands the definition of "venereal disease" to include chlamydia, as specified.
Chapter 835, Statutes of 2000
SB 672 (Escutia-D) Health: migrant and seasonal worker families
Requires the State Department of Health Services, in cooperation with the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, to establish a grant program to provide outreach and health services to children of migrant and seasonal workers and their families. Provides grants to community health centers and community-based primary care providers that can demonstrate a track record providing primary and preventive services to seasonal and migrant workers and their dependents, regardless of their ability to pay. Requires funds under the program to supplement and not supplant funds for any existing programs targeted at rural or farm worker communities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 753 (Hayden-D) Sport and commercial fish: study and risk assessment
Establishes a program to assess and publicize the public health risk associated with the human consumption of various sport and commercial fish.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 771 (Speier-D) Organ and tissue donor registry
Establishes the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry in the State Health and Human Services Agency to provide hospitals and other medical establishments with readily available information about potential donors in California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 825 (Escutia-D) Health education programs
Establishes the Medical Education Innovations Program in the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to enhance educational opportunities for individuals likely to provide primary health care services to medically under-served populations in California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 848 (Vasconcellos-D) Medicinal marijuana
Establishes a voluntary statewide medical marijuana registry identification card program administered by the State Department of Health Services.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)
SB 885 (Costa-D) Safe Drinking Water Fund
Authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue taxable or tax-exempt revenue bonds and deposit the proceeds into the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund or use the proceeds to refund bonds issued. Sets forth additional purposes for which monies in the fund, including proceeds from revenue bonds, may be used. Authorizes a public agency to enter into a contract or loan with the State Department of Health Services pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997 and authorizes the public agency to pledge a dedicated source of revenue to secure any obligations under the contract or loan.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Committee)
SB 987 (Karnette-D) Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
Requires the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to administer the licensure and regulation of adult recovery maintenance facilities, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1033 (Hughes-D) Child health and disability prevention
Requires school districts to exclude from school attendance any child new to California who has not provided a certificate documenting a health screening and evaluation within the prior 18 months. Requires children, upon entering the seventh grade or the year they reach 13, to provide evidence of a complete health assessment and screening in the prior 12 months. In both cases, authorizes parents to sign a waiver indicating that they do not want or are unable to obtain the evaluation and the reasons why. Directs schools to provide parents with the availability of screening at public expense.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1059 (Johannessen-R) Naturopathic medicine
Requires the State Department of Consumer Affairs to study and report to the Legislature regarding the appropriateness of state recognition, validation, or regulation of naturopathy.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1111 (Sher-D) Asthma
Requires the State Department of Health Services to establish a comprehensive state assessment, intervention, and evaluation program for the control of asthma.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1182* (Alarcon-D) Taxes: food establishment employees: immunizations
Provides a 50 percent tax credit for food establishment employers who provide hepatitis A immunizations for their employees.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1189 (Kelley-R) Food safety certification examinations: exemption
Exempts, from the requirement in current law that food facilities have an owner or employee who has passed an approved and accredited food safety certification examination, a private home, church, private club, or other nonprofit association that gives or sells food to its members and guests at occasional events.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1198 (Solis-D) Domestic violence
Appropriates $25 million to expand the Battered Women's Shelter Program.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 1256 (Polanco-D) Hepatitis C: screening
Requires the State Department of Corrections to establish a testing program of inmates for the presence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and provides the budget subcommittees of the Legislature with an annual statistical report, as specified. Requires the State Department of Health Services to develop and implement a public education and outreach program to raise awareness of HCV aimed at high-risk groups, as specified.
Chapter 754, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed
SB 1272 (Ortiz-D) Community health care workers: violence reports
Requires any employer who employs a community health care worker to keep a record of any violence committed against that worker and to file a copy of the record with the Division of Labor Statistics and Research within the State Department of Industrial Relations.
Chapter 493, Statutes of 2000
SB 1291 (Polanco-D) Immunizations: Healthy Families Program
Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to allocate to the State Department of Health Services sufficient funds to purchase specified children's vaccines and distribute them free of charge to qualified health care practitioners. Includes as a covered vaccine, all vaccines recommended for children 21 years or younger by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1320 (Escutia-D) Pupil health
Sets forth guidelines and requirements for schools relating to pupils with diabetes.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1338 (Figueroa-D) Health: youth pregnancies
Directs the State Department of Health Services to establish outcomes for the Community Challenge Grant Program and requires the department to conduct and submit a statewide evaluation of the program within six months of the completion of a grant cycle.
Chapter 847, Statutes of 2000
SB 1364 (Johnston-D) Genetics: test disclosure
Requires the State Department of Health Services to establish standards for licensing of genetic counselors, as specified.
Chapter 941, Statutes of 2000
SB 1368 (Brulte-R) Child abandonment: newborns
Provides immunity from criminal prosecution to a parent or person with custody of a child, 72 hours old or younger, who delivers the child to an employee of a public or private hospital emergency room, as specified, or to another location designated by a county.
Chapter 824, Statutes of 2000
SB 1462 (Perata-D) Rodeos: humane care of rodeo animals
Requires a state licensed veterinarian be present or on call at all rodeos, and authorizes fines for any violations of this bill.
Chapter 992, Statutes of 2000
SB 1508 (Figueroa-D) Local health care districts
Extends the January 1, 2001 repeal date in statute that permits local health care districts to transfer their assets to for-profit corporations to January 1, 2006 and requires the Legislative Analyst to review and report all transactions to the Legislature by January 1, 2005.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2000
SB 1576 (Murray-D) National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in administering the California State Loan Repayment Program, to operate in conjunction with the federal National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program to include primary medical care professionals in the loan repayment program, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1592 (O'Connell-D) State Board of Fire Services: composition
Reduces the voting membership of the State Board of Fire Services from 18 to 16 and a quorum to nine members, revises the selection process for the volunteer firefighter, and the fire service labor representative on the State Board of Fire Services, and provides that the State Board of Fire Services may not meet more often than quarterly.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1596 (Ortiz-D) Health reporting: confidentiality of information
Expands privacy protections of confidential medical information contained in the California Cancer Registry, the birth defects monitoring program, and morbidity and mortality studies.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 1619 (Alpert-D) Playground safety
Requires the State Department of Social Services (DSS) to convene a working group to develop recommendations for minimum safety requirements for playgrounds at child care centers. Requires the working group to provide recommendations to DSS by September 2001, and to the Legislature by November 1, 2001.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2000
SB 1699 (Hayden-D) Health: cellular telephones
Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to review existing research on the health effects of cellular telephones and make a finding on their safety. Also requires DHS to report its findings and recommendations for any legislative action necessary to protect public health and promote consumer awareness.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1736 (Rainey-R) Unidentified bodies and human remains: coroners
Establishes a standardized protocol for the collection of evidence from an unidentified body, requires that specific evidence be maintained and stored, and requires that standardized forms be completed for future reference.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2000
SB 1780 (Chesbro-D) Medicare Payment Area Task Force
Creates a Medicare Payment Area Task Force to make recommendations on Medicare payment boundaries capable of sustaining services to the elderly.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1783 (Morrow-R) Child and adolescent behavior disorders
Creates a pilot project to study the efficacy of treating children between the ages of eight and 14 years who have behavior disorders in three counties selected by the University of California. Appropriates $750,000 from the General Fund to the Office of Criminal Justice Planning to contract with the University of California to implement the pilot project.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1807 (Vasconcellos-D) Addiction: treatment
Requires the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to establish an office-based opiate treatment program, as specified, and authorizes a person participating in a deferred entry of judgment program or a preguilty plea program, as specified, to also participate in a licensed methadone or levoalphacetylmethadol program.
Chapter 815, Statutes of 2000
SB 1849 (Johnson-R) Laboratories: licensing and accreditation
Exempts specified accredited laboratories performing blood alcohol tests on blood, urine or tissue samples from specified State Department of Health Services' (DHS) regulations, and requires DHS to convene a review committee to revise those regulations governing the blood alcohol testing of blood, urine, tissue or breath samples. Requires the director to determine whether the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board's (ASCLD/LAB's) published standards meet those of DHS and permits laboratories accredited by the ASCLD/LAB to appeal the director's determinations in accordance with a specified procedure.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1866 (Vasconcellos-D) Controlled substances: asset forfeiture
Makes changes in asset forfeiture transfers, shifts distribution of money from forfeited property and requires the State Attorney General to publish electronic reports. Provides, among other provisions, that 15 percent of the funds distributed shall be deposited in a special fund maintained by the county, city or both to be used for programs designed to prevent and treat drug abuse and abate gang activity. Requires the funds to be distributed by a panel of sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and chief probation officers.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1891 (Leslie-R) Alcohol and drug treatment: community-based programs
Affirmatively states that faith-based adult and adolescent chemical dependence programs are eligible for state funding and appropriates $20 million from the General Fund to fund adult and adolescent chemical dependence programs provided by community based organizations, including faith-based organizations. Prohibits the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs from requiring a religious organization to alter its form of internal governance or remove religious symbols in order to receive funds.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 1932 (Solis-D) Taxpayer contributions: lung disease and asthma
Establishes the California Lung Disease and Asthma Research Fund and allows taxpayers to designate their own funds on their personal income tax returns to that fund. This check-off becomes operative following the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the tax form.
Chapter 818, Statutes of 2000
SB 1983 (Alarcon-D) Emergency services: rescue air operations
Requires the State Office of Emergency Services, on or before January 1, 2002, in consultation with the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, to prepare and submit to the Governor and the Legislature a report containing recommendations regarding the minimum standards that will ensure the proper maintenance and safe operation of helicopters involved in emergency air rescue operations.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2040 (Chesbro-D) California Building Standards Commission: marinas
Requires the California Building Standards Commission to conduct a study on the hazards marinas present to the public and report to the Legislature with recommendations on the frequency of marina inspections needed.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 2044 (Alpert-D) Cigarette lighters
Upon the adoption of standards by the State Fire Marshal, makes it an infraction punishable by a fine of up to $100 per multipurpose lighter, as defined, to sell, offer for sale, or distribute a multipurpose lighter that does not comply with the State Fire Marshal standards, unless or until federal standards for the special design of cigarette lighters are adopted.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 2051* (McPherson-R) Bank and corporation taxes: credit: seismic safety
Authorizes a credit against bank and corporation taxes in an amount equal to an unspecified percent of the amount paid or incurred during the income year for the certified final cost of expenditures necessary to comply with Chapter 740 of the Statutes of 1994, relating to seismic safety requirements.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 2070 (Schiff-D) Fire safety: cigarettes
Requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt fire safety standards for cigarettes and prohibits the sale of cigarettes which do not meet these criteria.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 2075 (Speier-D) Pharmaceuticals: price regulation
Requires the State Department of Health Services, in consultation with a task force that would be created under this bill, to evaluate and report to the Legislature, by December 31, 2001, on a method to establish a system of price regulation, requiring manufacturers and wholesalers to sell dangerous drugs at a price no greater than the price at which they sell those drugs in Canada.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 2077 (Ortiz-D) Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: elderly
Revises and recasts provisions related to continuing care contracts and continuing care community rights.
Chapter 820, Statutes of 2000
SB 2082 (O'Connell-D) Animals: safety testing
Prohibits manufacturers and contract testing facilities from using animal test methods within this state for which an appropriate alternative test method has been scientifically validated and recommended by the Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2000
SB 2089 (Johannessen-R) Medicinal marijuana
Amends the medical marijuana statutes by requiring extensive physician documentation, limits medical approval of marijuana use, and makes violation of such documentation a licensure offense. Specifically limits the amount of marijuana a medical patient may possess and makes violation of the standard a crime.
(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
SB 2127 (Schiff-D) Drinking water: hexavalent chromium: study
Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to determine the levels of hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in the drinking water systems in the San Fernando Basin aquifer and, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, assess the exposures and risks to the public due to the levels of hexavalent chromium determined. Requires DHS to report its findings to the Governor and the Legislature, no later than January 1, 2002.
Chapter 868, Statutes of 2000
SB 2136 (Dunn-D) Health care providers: multiple audits
Requires the State Department of Managed Care Advisory Committee on Managed Care to recommend to the director of the State Department of Managed Care standards for a uniform medical quality audit system, as specified.
Chapter 856, Statutes of 2000
SB 2164 (Bowen-D) Health: nutritional standards: milk
Establishes a calcium, vitamin D and vitamin A standard for fluid milk to allow federal Food and Drug Administration approved milk to be sold in California.
(Failed passage in Senate Agriculture and Water Committee)
SB 2182 (Senate Health And Human Services Committee) Environmental health: food
Establishes a definition of "food," "infant formula" and "medical food."
Chapter 870, Statutes of 2000
SB 2184 (Soto-D) Special events: emergency medical services
Requires the Director of the State Office of Emergency Services to publish a technical services bulletin for preparation and adoption of multifunctional emergency service contingency plans for special event facilities. Requires the director to publish a model ordinance, based on the bulletin, suitable for adoption by cities and counties for the creation of a system of permits for the operation of special event facilities. Requires the director to report to the Legislature and Governor with recommendations for any changes in the law relating to emergency medical services, emergency law enforcement services, and emergency rescue and fire suppression services at special event facilities. Requires the above provisions to be complied with by January 1, 2002.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 2203 (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Environmental laboratories
Revises certain requirements concerning the certification of environmental laboratories to conform to a national accreditation program.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 2000
SCR 50 (Monteith-R) Eat Dinner with Your Family Day
Proclaims October 4, 1999, as Eat Dinner with Your Family Day.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 68 (Monteith-R) Lupus Alert Day
Designates April 1, 2000, as Lupus Alert Day, and urges all citizens to become involved in the search for a cure for this chronic and debilitating disease by supporting the Lupus Foundation of America.
Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2000
SCR 72 (Escutia-D) National Arthritis Awareness Day
Recognizes Thursday, May 18, 2000, as National Arthritis Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2000
SCR 75 (Lewis-R) Friedreich's Ataxia Awareness Day
Declares May 20, 2000, as Friedreich's Ataxia Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 64, Statutes of 2000
SCR 79 (Escutia-D) Stroke Awareness Month
Recognizes May 2000 as Stroke Awareness Month in California and encourages all Californians to make themselves and their families aware of the risk of a stroke and appropriate preventative measures.
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 2000
SCR 90 (Chesbro-D) Local Health Center Week
Proclaims the week of August 20 to August 26, 2000, as Local Health Center Week in Mendocino and Lake Counties.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2000
SJR 30 (Speier-D) Federal Pain Relief Promotion Act
Urges the defeat of the proposed federal Pain Relief Promotion Act.
Resolution Chapter 162, Statutes of 2000
SJR 31 (Figueroa-D) Blood centers: reimbursement
Finds that California's blood centers are increasingly unable to meet the state's demand for blood due to insufficient reimbursements and calls upon the Governor to urge the federal government to adequately reimburse California's blood centers for all mandated safety initiatives.
Resolution Chapter 163, Statutes of 2000
AB 5* (Battin-R) Taxes: exemptions: baby diapers and nonprescription drugs
Exempts baby diapers and over-the-counter nonprescription drugs from sales and use taxes.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 13* (Dickerson-R) Taxes: exemptions: over-the-counter medicines
Provides a sales and use tax exemption for over-the-counter, nonprescription, nonherbal medicines for internal use and for both disposable and reusable diapers.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 498 (Longville-D) Study: heterotrophic bacteria
Requires the State Department of Health Services to study the risk associated with heterotrophic bacteria in a variety of liquid dispensing devices to determine at what level the bacteria presents a threat to public health, and to report its results to the Legislature by 2002.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 536 (Reyes-D) Health care: bone marrow transplantation
Establishes the Human Leukocyte Antigen Testing Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of paying the costs of human leukocyte antigen typing, also referred to as histocompatibility locus antigen testing, for A, B, and DR antigens for utilization in bone marrow transplantation by specified California blood centers. Appropriates $1.5 million from the General Fund to the State Department of Health Services for the purpose of implementing these provisions.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 556 (Davis-D) Drugs and devices: conformity to federal law
Conforms state law to reflect newly enacted provisions of the federal Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act with regard to the regulation of drugs and drug-related devices.
Chapter 796, Statutes of 2000
AB 561 (Romero-D) California Child Care Health Linkages Program
Establishes the California Child Care Health Linkages Program to link health care services and specified information through state subsidized child care and development programs in eight counties.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 564 (Machado-D) Safe Drinking Water
Places before the voters, on the March 7, 2000 ballot, a $1.8 billion State General Obligation Bond measure to finance a variety of projects and programs for safe drinking water, clean water, water conservation, and flood protection. Declares that the provisions of this bill are for display purposes only.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Committee)
AB 678 (Dutra-D) Emergency medical services: immunization and screening
Permits emergency medical technicians in Alameda County to provide children's immunizations. Establishes, through the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, a pilot program for local emergency medical service agencies to conduct immunization programs utilizing paramedics.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 710 (Calderon-D) Drinking water: perchlorate removal
Requires the State Department of Health Services to establish a demonstration project regarding the removal of perchlorate from drinking water, and appropriates $500,000 for that purpose from the General Fund to the department.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 750* (Dutra-D) Spinal cord injury
Enacts the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999. The research fund the bill creates, to conduct research into the care for spinal cord injuries, is to receive money only to the extent funds are appropriated.
Chapter 777, Statutes of 2000
AB 757* (Gallegos-D) High-risk infants: follow-up program
Appropriates $100,000 to the State Department of Health Services for an in-home, high-risk infant follow-up program that serves the San Gabriel Valley and surrounding communities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 854 (Cunneen-R) Wild animals: domestic ferrets
Provides amnesty to domestic ferrets, living in California as of April 20, 1999, if the animal is vaccinated against rabies and spayed or neutered. Mandates the State Department of Fish and Game to study the issue of ferret impacts on California wildlife before the California Fish and Game Commission votes on ferret legalization.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 878 (Cardenas-D) Youth pregnancies: Community Challenge Grant Program
Provides that the Community Challenge Grant Program, which sunsets July 1, 2000, shall be implemented only to the extent funds are appropriated in the Budget Act.
Chapter 839, Statutes of 2000
AB 885 (Jackson-D) Coastal onsite sewage treatment systems
Enacts the Onsite Sewage Treatment Systems Law under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act in order to establish statewide performance standards for septic systems.
Chapter 781, Statutes of 2000
AB 891 (Alquist-D) Health care decisions
Streamlines and updates the provisions governing health care decisions for adults without decisionmaking capacity. Specifically, repeals the provisions governing durable powers of attorney for health care and the Natural Death Act, and revises and recasts these provisions as part of a new Health Care Decisions Law.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2000
AB 920 (Cardenas-D) Comprehensive school health centers: funding
Appropriates $35 million over five years, beginning in the 1999-2000 fiscal year, to be used to provide direct primary care medical services, mental health services and preventive health education in no fewer than 200 comprehensive school health centers statewide.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1043 (Shelley-D) Environmental health: portable classrooms
Requires the State Department of Health Services and the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with other state agencies, to investigate environmental health conditions in portable classrooms and report the findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2002.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1061 (McClintock-R) Health coverage
Repeals various health care programs that provide health care and preventive services to low-income persons, and enacts the "Access to Affordable Choice Act" to provide personal income tax credits for qualified medical costs.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1098 (Romero-D) Health
Increases the penalties for Medi-Cal fraud, expands the use of grand juries to investigate Medi-Cal fraud, and creates new regulations and crimes for clinical laboratory practices.
Chapter 322, Statutes of 2000
AB 1159 (Granlund-R) Smoking: bars, taverns, clubs
Mandates that the State Board of Equalization report on the economic impact of Labor Code Section 6404.5 (the law that bans smoking in enclosed places of employment).
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 1172* (Frusetta-R) Taxes: preventive health care credit: agricultural workers
Authorizes a credit equal to 25 percent of certain preventive health care costs provided to the taxpayer's employees who are farmworkers and who meet specified criteria.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1297 (Firebaugh-D) Medical school student loan repayment assistance
Proposes a program within the University of California medical schools to provide loans to students in exchange for practice in underserved communities. Proposes to expand the number of family practice residency positions in teaching hospitals for foreign medical school graduates willing to work in underserved areas.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1359* (Calderon-D) Medical devices
Prohibits any person from reusing a medical device that has been identified as a single-use device in labeling cleared or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with certain exceptions.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1400 (Honda-D) Childhood lead poisoning prevention
Requires the State Department of Health Services to establish a two-year pilot program in up to ten counties, at the discretion of the counties, to perform blood lead screening and provide case management services to lead-poisoned children.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1592 (Aroner-D) The Death with Dignity Act
Enacts the Death with Dignity Act, to authorize competent adults, determined by two physicians to be suffering from a terminal disease, to request medication to end their lives.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1594 (Florez-D) Hepatitis A vaccinations
Adds, effective July 1, 2003, hepatitis A to the list of diseases that require documentation of immunization prior to admission to an elementary school, child care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1708 (Cunneen-R) Health: youth pregnancies
Makes the Community Challenge Grant Program permanent by eliminating the program sunset date. Finds and declares that the program should be extended indefinitely to demonstrate the state's commitment to assist local communities in their efforts to reduce teen pregnancy.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1709 (Romero-D) Firefighters: health risks
Enacts the Firefighter Health and Safety Act of 2000 in order to help minimize firefighter health risks, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1725 (Reyes-D) Child health screening programs
Requires the State Department of Health Services to issue regulations requiring the Child Health and Disability Prevention Program to screen for acanthosis nigricans, which is a skin condition highly associated with Type 2 diabetes. Authorizes the use of certain fasting blood glucose tests for a child who has acanthosis nigricans or is suspected of having Type 2 diabetes.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1729 (Bock-I) Drinking water: fluoridation
Requires a public water system to comply with various requirements in conducting programs of fluoridation of public water supplies, including that the program be limited to the use of a specified fluorine-bearing chemical and that no fluorine-containing substance that could be classified as a pesticide or hazardous or toxic waste by state or federal agencies be added to the public water supply.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1730* (Cardenas-D) Lead poisoning prevention
Appropriates $1,514,000 from the General Fund, and $317,000 from the Federal Trust Fund, to the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to fund lead poisoning screening of children, and requires the Bureau of State Audits to conduct an assessment of DHS efforts to screen at-risk children for lead poisoning.
Chapter 540, Statutes of 2000
AB 1748 (Zettel-R) Immunizations: disclosure of information
Revises existing law regarding child immunization record sharing between the State Department of Health Services, local health agencies, and other specified entities.
Chapter 593, Statutes of 2000
AB 1786 (Maddox-R) Animal shelters: holding of impounded animals
Allows kittens or puppies relinquished to a pound or shelter by the owner to be immediately available for adoption.
Chapter 57, Statutes of 2000
AB 1797 (Bock-I) Vital records: alternative birth center
Authorizes the administrator of a state-licensed alternative birth center to sign the birth certificate certifying the fact of birth, thereby allowing the birth center to register births via the Automated Vital Statistics System.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2000
AB 1798 (Bock-I) Hepatitis services pilot program
Establishes a one-year pilot project in Alameda County to test for the hepatitis C virus and provide other related services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1820 (Wright-D) Geriatric medicine
Establishes the Geriatric Medical Training Act of 2000, which places certain licensing requirements on physicians and the Medical Board of California, and makes certain requests of the University of California Regents, in an effort to increase the geriatric competency of California's physicians.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2000
AB 1837 (Torlakson-D) Labeling
Requires cast iron plumbing pipe and fittings used for potable and wastewater piping systems to be labeled with the country of origin and the manufacturer's name, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1847 (Wayne-D) Cardiovascular disease: task force and state master plan
Creates the Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Prevention and Treatment Task Force within the State Department of Health Services to develop a master plan that contains recommendations to improve cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention treatment.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1851 (Longville-D) Vital records: change of sex
Allows certain California residents and nonresidents, who have undergone surgical treatment for the purpose of altering sexual characteristics to petition for the issuance of a new birth certificate or for a certificate of change of sex, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1946 (Wayne-D) Public beaches: survey
Requires local health officers to submit a monthly survey to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) detailing information on beach postings and closures due to failure to meet bacteriological standards. Requires SWRCB to establish a specific format for the surveys, make the information available to the public on a monthly basis, and publish an annual statewide report.
Chapter 152, Statutes of 2000
AB 1971 (Dickerson-R) Volunteer firefighters: reimbursement for firefighting
Requires that all volunteer fire departments and those fire departments consisting of a combination of volunteer, partly paid, or fully paid members receive 100 percent reimbursement from the General Fund for responding to calls on state roads and highways and for state-mandated training. Appropriates annually an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the State Department of Finance for these purposes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1998 (Dutra-D) Dangerous fireworks
Expands current law making it a misdemeanor to discharge dangerous fireworks near a person or group of persons where there is a likelihood of injury to that person or group of persons, or intent of creating chaos, fear, or panic. Exempts persons who use special effects and persons who hold a fireworks license.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2000
AB 2013 (Wayne-D) Immunization information registries
Authorizes the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to establish a Statewide Immunization Information System, and requires health care providers to participate in a DHS-certified local or regional registry.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2038 (Alquist-D) Health research: women's health
Enacts the Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Clinical Research Act to, among others, require that a grantee conducting or supporting clinical research using state funds ensure that women, including but not limited to, women over age 40, and minority groups, are included as subjects in each research project.
Chapter 250, Statutes of 2000
AB 2103 (Strom-Martin-D) Primary health care services
Establishes minimum eligibility criteria for clinics funded under the State Department of Health Services grant programs for services to rural and migrant farm workers.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2000
AB 2167 (Gallegos-D) Tissue donations
Grants the oversight and regulation of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act to the State Department of Health Services and requires the department to research and report on a variety of issues related to organ and tissue recovery.
Chapter 829, Statutes of 2000
AB 2185 (Gallegos-D) Eye pathology screening: newborns
Establishes the Newborn Eye Pathology Screening Task Force and requires the State Department of Health Services to adopt a protocol for detecting the presence of treatable causes of blindness in infants by two months of age.
Chapter 325, Statutes of 2000
AB 2216 (Battin-R) Condoms: warning labels
Requires each manufacturer of condoms offered for sale or distribution in California after January 1, 2001, to place on each package of condoms a warning of the potential danger of contracting the human papilloma virus, the leading cause of cervical cancer, despite the use of condoms, and requires the State Department of Health Services to adopt regulations for the implementation of that requirement.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2264* (Cedillo-D) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure
Requires the State Department of Health Services, by January 1, 2002, to conduct a baseline health study of the effects of possible exposure to soil contamination from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on the residents of the William Mead Homes public housing project.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2000
AB 2294 (Davis-D) Ephedrine group alkaloids: dietary supplements
Prohibits the sale or distribution of any dietary supplement containing ephedrine group alkaloids unless the product and product label meet certain requirements.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2318 (Lowenthal-D) Lindane: prohibition
Prohibits the use of Lindane-based products for the treatment of lice or scabies after January 1, 2002.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2000
AB 2326 (Mazzoni-D) Survivors of brain injury: care
Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to adopt procedures and make payment for the provision of specified supportive and rehabilitative services to functionally impaired adults to the extent permitted by federal law. Initially limits the number of people who can receive services to 200 but authorizes expansion in the future as specified. Requires DHS to seek necessary federal waivers for the provision of these services and makes implementation subject to approval of the waivers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2381 (Longville-D) Pathogenic bacteria: water
Requires the State Department of Health Services to study and make recommendations to the Legislature regarding pathogenic bacteria in fluid dispensing devices.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2397 (Maddox-R) Anatomical gifts
Revises existing law, the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, prohibiting a coroner from releasing parts of the body for scientific research and training without permission of the decedent or representative. Specifies that only certain entities may become donees of anatomical gifts, expands the lists of entities that may receive a document of anatomical gift, and requires that cremated remains of a donor be returned free of charge to donor's attorney or family.
Chapter 830, Statutes of 2000
AB 2414 (Firebaugh-D) Disease management organizations
Permits the disclosure of confidential medical patient information to disease management companies, as defined, and specifies permitted services, necessary authorizations, restrictions and regulations of disease management companies.
Chapter 1065, Statutes of 2000
AB 2427 (Kuehl-D) Genetic diseases: genetic screening
Makes various changes to existing law relating to the genetic disease testing program, as specified, and states Legislative intent that unless otherwise specified, the program carried out is to be fully supported from fees collected for services provided by the program.
Chapter 803, Statutes of 2000
AB 2469 (Reyes-D) Emergency medical services: personnel training
Authorizes the California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee to request that the Emergency Medical Services Authority develop or approve emergency medical technician training and testing standards.
Chapter 157, Statutes of 2000
AB 2483 (Kuehl-D) Pollution control: drinking water contamination
Provides for (1) strict, joint and several liability and specifies certain damages for those who are contaminating a source of drinking water with gasoline or oxygenates (other than ethanol), (2) the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit the sale of oxygenated fuels in areas where drinking water sources are threatened, and (3) the electronic filing of certain reports required by agencies.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2501 (Washington-D) Minority alcohol and drug integrated treatment services
Requires the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to implement a three-year demonstration project to encourage and develop alcohol and drug integrated treatment services networks.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2508 (Washington-D) Emergency Medical Services: advanced life support units
Sets minimum staffing standards for local emergency medical services agencies in densely populated cities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2526 (Leach-R) Lead candles
Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or importation of any candle that has a core or wick containing a wire with more than one percent lead. Specifies that any person who violates this provision will be liable for a civil penalty of $1,000 for each violation.
(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)
AB 2533* (Robert Pacheco-R) Income taxes: credit: drugs
Allows a 25 percent nonrefundable credit to low- and middle-income seniors for prescription drug costs.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2566 (House-R) Health information
Requires the local health officer, upon receiving a physician's report that a patient has a disorder characterized by lapses of consciousness, to send a copy of the report to the patient and allow 30 days for the patient or his/her primary care physician to confirm or deny that a lapse of consciousness occurred and, after the 30-day period, forward the report to the State Department of Motor Vehicles, if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2587* (Cardenas-D) Sales and use taxes: exemptions: medicines
Codifies a State Board of Equalization regulation exempting diabetic blood glucose test strips and lancets from the sales and use tax, and extends the exemption to blood glucose monitors.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2591* (Cardenas-D) Oral health services
Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to establish a grant program to fund capital outlay projects for providing oral health services at participating primary care clinics located in a dental health professional shortage area, or serving low-income patients. Requires DHS to develop the process for awarding these grants, and report to the Legislature on its progress before November 1, 2000.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2713* (Olberg-R) Sales and use taxes: exemptions: medicines
Exempts sales of non-herbal, over-the-counter medicines from sales and use tax when sold to persons age 65 or over for internal use.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2714 (Wesson-D) Blood: blood products
Extends the sunset date that allows for the use of paid donors of blood platelets in California from December 31, 2001 to January 1, 2003.
Chapter 362, Statutes of 2000
AB 2723 (Wesson-D) Bottled water
Requires, after January 1, 2002, that the labels of bottled water sold in one-way packages include specified contact information, and bottlers, water haulers, operators of water vending machines and water retailers provide information about compliance with relevant laws and specified contact information to consumers through labels or information included in billing statements. Makes a number of technical and clarifying changes.
Chapter 533, Statutes of 2000
AB 2735 (Cox-R) Birth certificates
Establishes a procedure for the State Registrar to issue a new birth certificate to a person whose original birth certificate contained an error in gender identification.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2000
AB 2754 (House-R) Stray animals
Makes various changes to holding requirements and dog and cat adoption procedures in public and private shelters.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2000
AB 2758 (Aanestad-R) Emergency medical care: trauma care system
Permits small rural hospitals to provide trauma center anesthesia services through a Certified Nurse Anesthetist rather than a physician anesthesiologist.
(Failed passage in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 2791 (Alquist-D) School and essential services facilities: stop work notice
Authorizes the State Department of General Services to issue a stop work order on a K-12 school, community college, or an essential services facility, if project construction is not conforming to structural safety design requirements.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2000
AB 2820 (Cardoza-D) Feminine hygiene products: study
Requires the State Department of Health Services to contract with the University of California for a laboratory study that determines the extent to which the presence of dioxin, synthetic fibers, and other additives in feminine hygiene products pose specified risks.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2832 (Alquist-D) Investigational devices: licensure: exemption
Exempts from drug and device manufacturer licensure requirements, manufactures that develop devices intended for investigational use and manufactured and used in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2876* (Aroner-D) Health and welfare programs
The omnibus social services Budget trailer bill which makes changes to programs administered by the State Department of Aging; the State Health and Human Services Agency Data Center, the State Department of Rehabilitation, the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, the State Department of Employment Development, the State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Child Support Services, and the State Commission on Aging.
Chapter 108, Statutes of 2000
AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Public health programs: Budget Act implementation
The omnibus trailer bill for health and human services implementing the policy in the 2000-2001 Budget Act.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000
ACR 24 (Honda-D) National Sleep Awareness Week
Proclaims March 29, 1999, to April 4, 1999, as National Sleep Awareness Week. States that the National Sleep Foundation in conjunction with other organizations urge all Americans to recognize the dangers of untreated sleep disorders and the importance of proper sleep to their health, safety and productivity.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 25 (Wildman-D) California Physical Fitness and Sports Month
Designates the month of May 1999 as California Physical Fitness and Sports Month, and encourages Californians to assess the physical activity patterns of young people and provide a range of developmentally appropriate community sports and recreation programs that are attractive to young people.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
ACR 27 (Strom-Martin-D) Red Cross Month
Recognizes the month of March 1999 as Red Cross Month.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
ACR 123 (Wayne-D) Stroke Awareness Month
Designates May 2000 as Stroke Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2000
ACR 129 (Strom-Martin-D) Spay Day 2000
Declares February 29, 2000, to be Spay Day, and requests that Californians observe that day by having their dogs or cats spayed or neutered or by contributing to organizations that provide spay or neuter services.
Resolution Chapter 29, Statutes of 2000
ACR 137 (Dutra-D) Child Internet Safety Week
Declares the first week of April 2000 as Child Internet Safety Week.
Resolution Chapter 46, Statutes of 2000
ACR 145 (Cardenas-D) Diabetes Awareness Month
Designates November 2000 as Diabetes Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2000
ACR 147 (Correa-D) Red Cross Month
Recognizes the month of March 2000 as Red Cross Month.
Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2000
ACR 156 (Frusetta-R) Television violence
Urges the entertainment industry to think seriously about the impact that violence has on the healthy development of children.
Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2000
ACR 157 (Wayne-D) California SAFE KIDS Week
Declares the week of May 6 through May 13, 2000, as California SAFE KIDS Week, in support of the activities of the National SAFE KIDS Campaign during National SAFE KIDS Week. Encourages Californians to participate in the state and local activities planned for the observance of that week around the theme "Get into the Game."
Resolution Chapter 59, Statutes of 2000
ACR 166 (Cox-R) Fibromyalgia Awareness Month
Declares June 2000 to be Fibromyalgia Awareness Month, and encourages the observance of this event in communities throughout the state.
Resolution Chapter 90, Statutes of 2000
ACR 168 (Ashburn-R) Valley Fever Awareness Month
Proclaims August 2000 as Valley Fever Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 99, Statutes of 2000
ACR 175 (Campbell-R) California Family Month
Recognizes November 2000 as California Family Month.
Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2000
AJR 42 (Alquist-D) Relative to Medicare prescription drug benefit
Memorializes Congress to enact and implement the Voluntary Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit contained in the President's Fiscal Year 2001 Budget.
Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2000
AJR 55 (Runner-R) Hemophilia relief
Urges the President and Congress to fully fund the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund, and further urges the President and Congress to withhold the appropriation of funds to programs that have not clearly disclosed to the consumer the risks of infection for a product the program manufactures or distributes.
Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2000
HR 47 (Reyes-D) National Safe Place Week
Proclaims the week of March 12 to March 18, 2000, inclusive, to be "National Safe Place Week" in California.
Adopted by the Assembly
HR 56 (Alquist-D) National Osteoporosis Prevention Month
Recognizes the month of May 2000 as "National Osteoporosis Prevention Month," and urges all Californians to become aware of and concerned about osteoporosis and its prevention, in light of the growing calcium crisis facing the majority of individuals across all ethnic age and income groups, placing them at great risk of the debilitating disease later in life.
Adopted by the Assembly
HR 59 (Pescetti-R) Child safety and protection
Recognizes the profound importance of establishing preventive measures against missing child cases, urges parents to establish a comprehensive repository of information about their children sufficient to aid law enforcement in launching a timely search for a missing child and fully supports law enforcement agencies, child welfare organizations, and private industry that seek to provide the community with preventive and precautionary training, education, and materials during Child Safety and Protection Month and throughout the year.
Adopted by the Assembly
NOTE: See Health Insurance and Public Social Services for other health related legislation.
Index (in Bill Order)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
SB 7 | Figueroa-D Healing arts: physicians | |
SB 8 | Leslie-R Medi-Cal: drugs | |
SB 18 | Figueroa-D Health care | |
SB 53* | Hughes-D Alzheimer's disease diagnostic and treatment centers | |
SB 82 | Vasconcellos-D Medi-Cal | |
SB 87 | Escutia-D Medi-Cal: eligibility | |
SB 106 | Polanco-D Medi-Cal | |
SB 111 | Figueroa-D Medi-Cal: eligibility | |
SB 112 | Figueroa-D Children: Healthy Families Program: Medi-Cal Program | |
SB 124 | Figueroa-D Medi-Cal eligibility | |
SB 125 | Haynes-R Healing arts: social workers | |
SB 137 | Knight-R Board of Behavioral Sciences: substance abuse testing | |
SB 147 | Alpert-D Foster care: Medi-Cal eligibility | |
SB 173 | Alpert-D Consumer discount health care programs | |
SB 180 | Sher-D Retail food facilities inspection information | |
SB 193 | Polanco-D Vehicles: special breast cancer treatment license plates | |
SB 224 | Baca-D Seniors, veterans and disabled health care | |
SB 269 | Ortiz-D Local public health funding | |
SB 276* | Polanco-D Healthy Californians Act of 1999 | |
SB 353* | Johannessen-R Medi-Cal: residential care facility services | |
SB 362 | Alpert-D Disproportionate share hospitals | |
SB 370 | Burton-D Abortion | |
SB 404 | Alpert-D Pharmacy | |
SB 405 | Ortiz-D Suicide treatment and prevention | |
SB 454 | Karnette-D Children's hospitals: disproportionate share eligibility | |
SB 466 | Perata-D Acupuncture | |
SB 468 | Polanco-D Health care coverage: mental illness | |
SB 470 | Escutia-D Pilot project and study: chronic condition management | |
SB 479 | Solis-D Medi-Cal: county organized health systems | |
SB 487 | Wright-R Children's Mental Health Services Act | |
SB 530 | Costa-D Safe Drinking Water | |
SB 566 | Escutia-D School health centers | |
SB 595 | Speier-D Outpatient settings | |
SB 642 | Haynes-R Medi-Cal: reimbursement: probationary licensee | |
SB 643 | Alpert-D County children and families first commissions | |
SB 648 | Ortiz-D Venereal disease | |
SB 672 | Escutia-D Health: migrant and seasonal worker families | |
SB 673 | Escutia-D Tobacco settlement fund allocations | |
SB 745 | Escutia-D Mental health: contracts: disputes | |
SB 748 | Dunn-D Tobacco settlement | |
SB 753 | Hayden-D Sport and commercial fish: study and risk assessment | |
SB 771 | Speier-D Organ and tissue donor registry | |
SB 784 | Baca-D Surplus state property: state hospitals: Indian tribes | |
SB 789 | Johannessen-R Personal care service providers: reimbursement | |
SB 817 | Escutia-D Medical services contracting | |
SB 824 | Sher-D Tobacco-related illness: evidence | |
SB 825 | Escutia-D Health education programs | |
SB 837 | Figueroa-D Cosmetic surgery: facilities | |
SB 846 | Escutia-D Human services: individuals with disabilities | |
SB 848 | Vasconcellos-D Medicinal marijuana | |
SB 866 | Escutia-D Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates: anesthesia | |
SB 880 | Speier-D Health care: screening tests: reimbursement | |
SB 885 | Costa-D Safe Drinking Water Fund | |
SB 888 | Ortiz-D EMT personnel: licensure | |
SB 929 | Polanco-D Optometry | |
SB 936 | Ortiz-D Mental health: older adults | |
SB 987 | Karnette-D Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities | |
SB 1021 | Figueroa-D Health facilities | |
SB 1029 | Haynes-R HIV test results: public health reporting | |
SB 1032 | Hughes-D Medi-Cal: claims | |
SB 1033 | Hughes-D Child health and disability prevention | |
SB 1045 | Murray-D Healing arts | |
SB 1046 | Murray-D Occupational therapy: licensure | |
SB 1054 | Haynes-R Hospitals: medical staff | |
SB 1059 | Johannessen-R Naturopathic medicine | |
SB 1111 | Sher-D Asthma | |
SB 1113 | Haynes-R Residential care facilities for the elderly | |
SB 1143* | Chesbro-D State property: Agnews State Hospital | |
SB 1154 | Speier-D Breast and gynecological cancer: treatment services | |
SB 1182* | Alarcon-D Taxes: food establishment employees: immunizations | |
SB 1189 | Kelley-R Food safety certification examinations: exemption | |
SB 1192 | Polanco-D Disproportionate share hospitals: Contra Costa County | |
SB 1193 | Knight-R Clinics: grants-in-aid | |
SB 1198 | Solis-D Domestic violence | |
SB 1215 | Perata-D Dental professionals | |
SB 1256 | Polanco-D Hepatitis C: screening | |
SB 1258 | Polanco-D HIV infected persons: plan enrollment eligibility | |
SB 1272 | Ortiz-D Community health care workers: violence reports | |
SB 1291 | Polanco-D Immunizations: Healthy Families Program | |
SB 1320 | Escutia-D Pupil health | |
SB 1338 | Figueroa-D Health: youth pregnancies | |
SB 1339 | Figueroa-D Pharmacy: quality assurance program | |
SB 1364 | Johnston-D Genetics: test disclosure | |
SB 1368 | Brulte-R Child abandonment: newborns | |
SB 1416* | Rainey-R Taxes: credits: Medi-Cal services | |
SB 1419 | Haynes-R Medical profiling | |
SB 1452 | Wright-R Child welfare: mental health | |
SB 1456 | Kelley-R Mental health coverage: social anxiety disorder | |
SB 1461 | Escutia-D Multipurpose Senior Services Program | |
SB 1462 | Perata-D Rodeos: humane care of rodeo animals | |
SB 1464 | Johnson-R Mental health services: funding | |
SB 1479 | Figueroa-D Midwives: authorized practices: birth certificates | |
SB 1498 | Perata-D Dual Diagnosis Competitive Grant Program | |
SB 1507 | Rainey-R Cancer research funding | |
SB 1508 | Figueroa-D Local health care districts | |
SB 1510 | Escutia-D Tobacco products: tobacco sales | |
SB 1534 | Perata-D Mental health: patient advocacy: special programs | |
SB 1554 | Senate Business And Professions Committee Healing arts | |
SB 1576 | Murray-D National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program | |
SB 1592 | O'Connell-D State Board of Fire Services: composition | |
SB 1596 | Ortiz-D Health reporting: confidentiality of information | |
SB 1600 | Burton-D Physical therapy | |
SB 1601 | Perata-D Medicare: prescription drugs Medi-Cal eligibility | |
SB 1619 | Alpert-D Playground safety | |
SB 1620 | Kelley-R Veterinary medicine: continuing education | |
SB 1623 | Perata-D Medi-Cal: substance abuse | |
SB 1630 | Hayden-D Assisted reproductive technology | |
SB 1636 | Poochigian-R Osteopathic physicians and surgeons | |
SB 1699 | Hayden-D Health: cellular telephones | |
SB 1736 | Rainey-R Unidentified bodies and human remains: coroners | |
SB 1748 | Perata-D Mental health services programs | |
SB 1755 | Kelley-R Medi-Cal: prescription drugs: mental health | |
SB 1766 | Chesbro-D Primary care clinics | |
SB 1769 | Chesbro-D Mental health courts | |
SB 1770 | Chesbro-D Mental health: client/family member empowerment programs | |
SB 1780 | Chesbro-D Medicare Payment Area Task Force | |
SB 1783 | Morrow-R Child and adolescent behavior disorders | |
SB 1792 | Chesbro-D Developmental disabilities: area boards | |
SB 1800 | Ortiz-D Regional centers services: eligibility | |
SB 1801 | Speier-D Health facilities: seismic building standards | |
SB 1807 | Vasconcellos-D Addiction: treatment | |
SB 1808 | Speier-D Terminally ill persons | |
SB 1820 | Burton-D Workers' compensation: cancer | |
SB 1821 | Escutia-D Medi-Cal: disease management | |
SB 1827 | Haynes-R Partial-birth abortion: ban | |
SB 1828 | Speier-D Dangerous drugs and devices | |
SB 1835 | Leslie-R Health facilities: nursing staff | |
SB 1847 | Alarcon-D Clinics | |
SB 1849 | Johnson-R Laboratories: licensing and accreditation | |
SB 1852 | Alpert-D Medical assistants | |
SB 1858 | Escutia-D Health: services | |
SB 1861 | Hayden-D Physician assistants | |
SB 1862 | Vasconcellos-D Health facilities | |
SB 1866 | Vasconcellos-D Controlled substances: asset forfeiture | |
SB 1875 | Speier-D Health facilities and clinics: medication-related errors | |
SB 1880 | Sher-D Pharmaceutical assistance program study | |
SB 1886* | Escutia-D Health facilities: seismic safety | |
SB 1890 | Alarcon-D Rehabilitation programs: grants: residence modifications | |
SB 1891 | Leslie-R Alcohol and drug treatment: community-based programs | |
SB 1903 | Speier-D Medical information: requests for disclosure | |
SB 1932 | Solis-D Taxpayer contributions: lung disease and asthma | |
SB 1940 | Bowen-D Medical information: authorization: pharmacists | |
SB 1945 | Ortiz-D Crimes: support for abortion rights | |
SB 1968 | McPherson-R Medi-Cal: drugs | |
SB 1969 | Solis-D Medi-Cal: share of cost: end-stage renal disease patients | |
SB 1977 | Peace-D Physician assistants and nurse practitioners | |
SB 1983 | Alarcon-D Emergency services: rescue air operations | |
SB 2006 | Leslie-R Health facilities: seismic building standards | |
SB 2025 | Burton-D Persons with disabilities: civil service | |
SB 2031 | Figueroa-D Professions and vocations | |
SB 2034 | Figueroa-D Board of Chiropractic Examiners | |
SB 2040 | Chesbro-D California Building Standards Commission: marinas | |
SB 2044 | Alpert-D Cigarette lighters | |
SB 2050 | Speier-D Children's health care programs | |
SB 2051* | McPherson-R Bank and corporation taxes: credit: seismic safety | |
SB 2062* | Perata-D Mentally ill juvenile offenders | |
SB 2070 | Schiff-D Fire safety: cigarettes | |
SB 2075 | Speier-D Pharmaceuticals: price regulation | |
SB 2077 | Ortiz-D Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: elderly | |
SB 2082 | O'Connell-D Animals: safety testing | |
SB 2083 | Speier-D Medi-Cal | |
SB 2089 | Johannessen-R Medicinal marijuana | |
SB 2092 | Schiff-D Conservatorship: minors | |
SB 2098 | Hayden-D Department of the Youth Authority: mental health | |
SB 2100 | Vasconcellos-D Healing arts: nonconventional treatment | |
SB 2103 | Morrow-R Medi-Cal: fiscal and accounting procedures | |
SB 2127 | Schiff-D Drinking water: hexavalent chromium: study | |
SB 2129 | Karnette-D Health facilities: Miller Children's Hospital: study | |
SB 2132* | Dunn-D County health services: tobacco tax | |
SB 2136 | Dunn-D Health care providers: multiple audits | |
SB 2164 | Bowen-D Health: nutritional standards: milk | |
SB 2172* | O'Connell-D Acupuncturists: sales tax | |
SB 2182 | Senate Health And Human Services Committee Environmental health: food | |
SB 2184 | Soto-D Special events: emergency medical services | |
SB 2193 | Soto-D Medi-Cal | |
SB 2194 | Soto-D Medi-Cal: eligibility | |
SB 2201 | Senate Health And Human Services Committee Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Guarantee Fund | |
SB 2203 | Senate Environmental Quality Committee Environmental laboratories | |
SCR 40 | Hughes-D Alzheimer's disease treatment | |
SCR 50 | Monteith-R Eat Dinner with Your Family Day | |
SCR 59 | Burton-D Mental health reform | |
SCR 68 | Monteith-R Lupus Alert Day | |
SCR 72 | Escutia-D National Arthritis Awareness Day | |
SCR 75 | Lewis-R Friedreich's Ataxia Awareness Day | |
SCR 79 | Escutia-D Stroke Awareness Month | |
SCR 80 | Speier-D Prostate Cancer Awareness Month | |
SCR 90 | Chesbro-D Local Health Center Week | |
SCR 100 | Chesbro-D Americans with Disabilities Act | |
SJR 30 | Speier-D Federal Pain Relief Promotion Act | |
SJR 31 | Figueroa-D Blood centers: reimbursement | |
AB 5* | Battin-R Taxes: exemptions: baby diapers and nonprescription drugs | |
AB 13* | Dickerson-R Taxes: exemptions: over-the-counter medicines | |
AB 48 | Cedillo-D Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry | |
AB 82 | Cunneen-R Hospitals: medical staff contracts | |
AB 93 | Cedillo-D Medi-Cal program: eligibility determinations | |
AB 112 | Florez-D Local government: tobacco settlement | |
AB 127 | Granlund-R Medi-Cal: orthotics and prosthetics | |
AB 210 | Wildman-D Developmental services: employees | |
AB 231 | Battin-R Acupuncture | |
AB 251 | Davis-D Tobacco settlement: heart disease and cancer | |
AB 255 | Torlakson-D Tobacco litigation settlement funds | |
AB 256 | Zettel-R Waived laboratory directors | |
AB 257 | Vincent-D Alzheimer's Day Care-Resource Center Program | |
AB 368 | Kuehl-D Individuals with low vision: prosthetic devices | |
AB 373* | Robert Pacheco-R State developmental centers | |
AB 400 | Lempert-D Psychology | |
AB 421 | Aroner-D Health facilities: license suspension and revocation | |
AB 440 | Corbett-D Health care providers: withheld funds | |
AB 497 | Gallegos-D Dentists | |
AB 498 | Longville-D Study: heterotrophic bacteria | |
AB 499 | Aroner-D Medi-Cal: assisted living demonstration project | |
AB 507 | Runner-R Abortion: informed consent: Medi-Cal | |
AB 518 | Mazzoni-D AIDS: clean needle and syringe exchange projects | |
AB 520 | Cedillo-D Medi-Cal: diabetes treatment | |
AB 523 | Wildman-D Developmental services: employees | |
AB 525 | Kuehl-D Health benefits: reproductive health care | |
AB 536 | Reyes-D Health care: bone marrow transplantation | |
AB 556 | Davis-D Drugs and devices: conformity to federal law | |
AB 561 | Romero-D California Child Care Health Linkages Program | |
AB 564 | Machado-D Safe Drinking Water | |
AB 610 | Jackson-D Health care coverage: children's cancer | |
AB 644* | Ducheny-D Habilitation services | |
AB 660* | Cardenas-D Pharmacy | |
AB 675 | Thomson-D Health facilities: registered nurses | |
AB 678 | Dutra-D Emergency medical services: immunization and screening | |
AB 708 | Vincent-D Youth Prevention and Enrichment Opportunity Act | |
AB 710 | Calderon-D Drinking water: perchlorate removal | |
AB 750* | Dutra-D Spinal cord injury | |
AB 751* | Gallegos-D Controlled substances: dispensing without a license | |
AB 754 | Aroner-D Medi-Cal: managed care services | |
AB 757* | Gallegos-D High-risk infants: follow-up program | |
AB 827 | Baldwin-R Healing arts: nonconventional treatment | |
AB 835 | Villaraigosa-D County medical facilities | |
AB 854 | Cunneen-R Wild animals: domestic ferrets | |
AB 869* | Keeley-D Oral conscious sedation | |
AB 878 | Cardenas-D Youth pregnancies: Community Challenge Grant Program | |
AB 885 | Jackson-D Coastal onsite sewage treatment systems | |
AB 887 | Jackson-D Tobacco Settlement Fund | |
AB 891 | Alquist-D Health care decisions | |
AB 894 | Alquist-D Skilled nursing facilities | |
AB 920 | Cardenas-D Comprehensive school health centers: funding | |
AB 927 | Cedillo-D Medi-Cal: prescribed drugs | |
AB 945* | Maldonado-R Health facilities construction and licensing requirements | |
AB 949 | Wiggins-D Speech pathologists | |
AB 1043 | Shelley-D Environmental health: portable classrooms | |
AB 1053* | Thomson-D Traumatic brain injury services funding | |
AB 1061 | McClintock-R Health coverage | |
AB 1065 | Ducheny-D Medi-Cal benefits: dental care | |
AB 1070* | Ducheny-D Medi-Cal: medical education | |
AB 1071 | Soto-D Health programs: tobacco settlement funds | |
AB 1072 | Ducheny-D Medi-Cal: disproportionate share hospital funding | |
AB 1075 | Davis-D Substance abuse: health practitioner reports | |
AB 1098 | Romero-D Health | |
AB 1144 | Aanestad-R Psychology | |
AB 1145 | Ashburn-R Health care coverage: emergency services | |
AB 1146 | Soto-D Developmentally disabled adults | |
AB 1159 | Granlund-R Smoking: bars, taverns, clubs | |
AB 1172* | Frusetta-R Taxes: preventive health care credit: agricultural workers | |
AB 1227 | Runner-R Cancer research | |
AB 1250 | Ashburn-R Medi-Cal: hospital reimbursement | |
AB 1257 | Strom-Martin-D Developmental disabilities: admissions to facilities | |
AB 1297 | Firebaugh-D Medical school student loan repayment assistance | |
AB 1298 | Firebaugh-D Medi-Cal: benefits: hearing tests | |
AB 1307* | Granlund-R Schoolbus certificates | |
AB 1308 | Granlund-R Orthotic and prosthetic devices and services | |
AB 1359* | Calderon-D Medical devices | |
AB 1380 | Villaraigosa-D Liability: health care providers | |
AB 1400 | Honda-D Childhood lead poisoning prevention | |
AB 1418 | Strom-Martin-D Medi-Cal: critical access hospitals | |
AB 1424 | House-R Partial-birth abortion: ban | |
AB 1445 | Wright-D Care facilities: staff | |
AB 1496 | Olberg-R Home medical device retail facilities | |
AB 1513 | Florez-D Health facilities: general acute care hospitals | |
AB 1561 | Aanestad-R Medi-Cal services: rural health | |
AB 1565 | Papan-D Damages: health care providers | |
AB 1592 | Aroner-D The Death with Dignity Act | |
AB 1594 | Florez-D Hepatitis A vaccinations | |
AB 1621 | Thomson-D Medi-Cal: disproportionate share hospitals | |
AB 1654* | Steinberg-D Mentally disordered offenders | |
AB 1708 | Cunneen-R Health: youth pregnancies | |
AB 1709 | Romero-D Firefighters: health risks | |
AB 1722 | Gallegos-D Medi-Cal: eligibility | |
AB 1725 | Reyes-D Child health screening programs | |
AB 1729 | Bock-I Drinking water: fluoridation | |
AB 1730* | Cardenas-D Lead poisoning prevention | |
AB 1731 | Shelley-D Long-term health care facilities | |
AB 1735 | Thomson-D Pupil services | |
AB 1748 | Zettel-R Immunizations: disclosure of information | |
AB 1753 | Romero-D Alzheimer's disease and related disorders | |
AB 1760* | Kuehl-D Health facilities: regulations | |
AB 1762 | Villaraigosa-D Peace officer training: persons with mental illness | |
AB 1786 | Maddox-R Animal shelters: holding of impounded animals | |
AB 1797 | Bock-I Vital records: alternative birth center | |
AB 1798 | Bock-I Hepatitis services pilot program | |
AB 1800 | Thomson-D Mental health | |
AB 1820 | Wright-D Geriatric medicine | |
AB 1824 | Strom-Martin-D Medi-Cal: critical access hospitals | |
AB 1837 | Torlakson-D Labeling | |
AB 1847 | Wayne-D Cardiovascular disease: task force and state master plan | |
AB 1851 | Longville-D Vital records: change of sex | |
AB 1863 | Gallegos-D Medi-Cal: eligibility | |
AB 1915 | Corbett-D Medi-Cal reimbursement rates | |
AB 1941* | Strom-Martin-D Palm Drive Health Care District | |
AB 1946 | Wayne-D Public beaches: survey | |
AB 1969 | Steinberg-D Mental health: housing | |
AB 1971 | Dickerson-R Volunteer firefighters: reimbursement for firefighting | |
AB 1975* | Romero-D Professional personnel: psychologists: waiver of licensure | |
AB 1980 | Aroner-D Mental health: school intervention and prevention services | |
AB 1998 | Dutra-D Dangerous fireworks | |
AB 2013 | Wayne-D Immunization information registries | |
AB 2034* | Steinberg-D Mental health funding: local grants | |
AB 2037 | Corbett-D Children: alcohol or drug exposed or HIV positive | |
AB 2038 | Alquist-D Health research: women's health | |
AB 2042 | Briggs-R Veterinary medicine: equine massage | |
AB 2068 | Steinberg-D Child mental health | |
AB 2080 | Granlund-R Medi-Cal: long-term care services | |
AB 2102 | Strom-Martin-D Medi-Cal: critical access hospitals | |
AB 2103 | Strom-Martin-D Primary health care services | |
AB 2105* | Scott-D School-based mental health services | |
AB 2152 | Aroner-D Medi-Cal: durable medical equipment | |
AB 2161 | Vincent-D Mental health | |
AB 2167 | Gallegos-D Tissue donations | |
AB 2168 | Gallegos-D Health care coverage | |
AB 2171 | Florez-D School nurses: tobacco settlement funds | |
AB 2185 | Gallegos-D Eye pathology screening: newborns | |
AB 2192 | Baldwin-R Abortion: reporting of complications | |
AB 2194 | Gallegos-D Temporary health facility licensing | |
AB 2202 | Baldwin-R Aborted fetal tissue and body parts | |
AB 2216 | Battin-R Condoms: warning labels | |
AB 2222 | Kuehl-D Civil rights: disability | |
AB 2228 | Aroner-D Juvenile offenders: mental health screening | |
AB 2240 | Bates-R Prescriptions: electronic transmission | |
AB 2245 | Corbett-D Medi-Cal: utilization controls | |
AB 2257 | Aroner-D Health facility financing | |
AB 2264* | Cedillo-D Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure | |
AB 2276 | Cedillo-D Health facilities | |
AB 2278* | Aroner-D Mental health: community treatment facilities | |
AB 2294 | Davis-D Ephedrine group alkaloids: dietary supplements | |
AB 2318 | Lowenthal-D Lindane: prohibition | |
AB 2326 | Mazzoni-D Survivors of brain injury: care | |
AB 2332 | Mazzoni-D Dental management service organizations | |
AB 2355 | Granlund-R Orthotic and prosthetic devices: practitioners | |
AB 2374 | Lempert-D Discovery: marriage and family therapists | |
AB 2377 | Longville-D Regional centers: employee liability | |
AB 2381 | Longville-D Pathogenic bacteria: water | |
AB 2386 | Leach-R Immunizations: care facilities | |
AB 2393 | Hertzberg-D Clinics | |
AB 2394 | Firebaugh-D Healing arts: cultural and linguistic competency | |
AB 2397 | Maddox-R Anatomical gifts | |
AB 2399 | Longville-D Long-term health care facilities: inspections | |
AB 2411 | Firebaugh-D Medi-Cal | |
AB 2414 | Firebaugh-D Disease management organizations | |
AB 2415 | Migden-D Health care | |
AB 2423 | Firebaugh-D Clinical laboratory fees | |
AB 2424 | Migden-D Health care providers: private duty nursing agencies | |
AB 2426 | Wesson-D Tobacco products: bidis | |
AB 2427 | Kuehl-D Genetic diseases: genetic screening | |
AB 2469 | Reyes-D Emergency medical services: personnel training | |
AB 2483 | Kuehl-D Pollution control: drinking water contamination | |
AB 2500 | Ashburn-R Medi-Cal: eligibility | |
AB 2501 | Washington-D Minority alcohol and drug integrated treatment services | |
AB 2508 | Washington-D Emergency Medical Services: advanced life support units | |
AB 2516 | Thomson-D Registered Nurse Education Program | |
AB 2524 | Washington-D Emotionally disturbed minors: services | |
AB 2526 | Leach-R Lead candles | |
AB 2531 | Scott-D Health care facilities | |
AB 2533* | Robert Pacheco-R Income taxes: credit: drugs | |
AB 2547 | Hertzberg-D Health facilities | |
AB 2566 | House-R Health information | |
AB 2571 | Campbell-R Healing arts: disciplinary actions | |
AB 2587* | Cardenas-D Sales and use taxes: exemptions: medicines | |
AB 2591* | Cardenas-D Oral health services | |
AB 2599 | Cardenas-D Cervical Cancer Community Awareness Campaign | |
AB 2611 | Gallegos-D Health facilities: emergency services | |
AB 2617 | Aanestad-R Medi-Cal reimbursement: small and rural hospitals | |
AB 2641 | Calderon-D Residential care facilities | |
AB 2648 | Calderon-D Psychiatric technicians | |
AB 2660 | House-R Heath care practitioners | |
AB 2668* | Battin-R Long-term care services: developmental disabilities | |
AB 2670 | Bock-I School nurses | |
AB 2697 | Cardoza-D Hearing aid dispensers | |
AB 2713* | Olberg-R Sales and use taxes: exemptions: medicines | |
AB 2714 | Wesson-D Blood: blood products | |
AB 2717 | House-R Tuolumne County | |
AB 2723 | Wesson-D Bottled water | |
AB 2735 | Cox-R Birth certificates | |
AB 2751 | Knox-D Tobacco Settlement Fund | |
AB 2754 | House-R Stray animals | |
AB 2758 | Aanestad-R Emergency medical care: trauma care system | |
AB 2787 | Leonard-R Prisons | |
AB 2789 | Villaraigosa-D County medical facilities | |
AB 2791 | Alquist-D School and essential services facilities: stop work notice | |
AB 2798* | Thomson-D Mental health: patients' rights: judicial commitments | |
AB 2809 | Robert Pacheco-R Communicable diseases: maternal and newborn health | |
AB 2820 | Cardoza-D Feminine hygiene products: study | |
AB 2832 | Alquist-D Investigational devices: licensure: exemption | |
AB 2834 | Alquist-D Geriatric specialist training | |
AB 2842 | Calderon-D Veterinary licenses | |
AB 2872* | Shelley-D Cancer risk assessment guidelines | |
AB 2875 | Cedillo-D Primary care clinics: grants | |
AB 2876* | Aroner-D Health and welfare programs | |
AB 2877* | Thomson-D Public health programs: Budget Act implementation | |
AB 2878 | Wayne-D Breast cancer: treatment | |
AB 2888 | Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, And Economic Development Committee Professions and vocations | |
AB 2889* | Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, And Economic Development Committee Trade and Commerce Agency and professions and vocations | |
AB 2899 | Assembly Health Committee Medi-Cal | |
AB 2900 | Gallegos-D Medi-Cal: eligibility | |
AB 2901* | Assembly Health Committee Disproportionate share hospitals | |
AB 2902 | Assembly Health Committee Hospital facilities: seismic safety | |
AB 2918 | Assembly Human Services Committee Developmental disabilities | |
AB 2919 | Assembly Human Services Committee Fair hearings and mediation procedures | |
ACR 24 | Honda-D National Sleep Awareness Week | |
ACR 25 | Wildman-D California Physical Fitness and Sports Month | |
ACR 27 | Strom-Martin-D Red Cross Month | |
ACR 123 | Wayne-D Stroke Awareness Month | |
ACR 129 | Strom-Martin-D Spay Day 2000 | |
ACR 131 | Villaraigosa-D Mattel Children's Hospital | |
ACR 137 | Dutra-D Child Internet Safety Week | |
ACR 145 | Cardenas-D Diabetes Awareness Month | |
ACR 147 | Correa-D Red Cross Month | |
ACR 156 | Frusetta-R Television violence | |
ACR 157 | Wayne-D California SAFE KIDS Week | |
ACR 166 | Cox-R Fibromyalgia Awareness Month | |
ACR 168 | Ashburn-R Valley Fever Awareness Month | |
ACR 175 | Campbell-R California Family Month | |
AJR 42 | Alquist-D Relative to Medicare prescription drug benefit | |
AJR 47 | Cedillo-D Ryan White CARE Act | |
AJR 55 | Runner-R Hemophilia relief | |
HR 47 | Reyes-D National Safe Place Week | |
HR 56 | Alquist-D National Osteoporosis Prevention Month | |
HR 59 | Pescetti-R Child safety and protection |