Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Cancer
Other Diseases/Disorders
Medi-Cal
Mental Health
Developmentally Disabled
Tobacco Products
Health Facilities
Health Professionals
Foster Care
Public Social Services
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
Autism
Stem Cell
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
SB 853* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) AIDS/HIV: Health Budget Trailer Bill
Among other provisions, makes various provisions in the law relating to AIDS/HIV programs in this Omnibus Health Budget Trailer Bill of 2010.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 1613 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on the Senate Floor.
AB 367* (Galgiani-D) HIV treatment: Medi-Cal
Requires the State Controller to transfer from the General Fund and the Federal Trust Fund to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund a loan amount sufficient to, in the event of a state budget delay, make continued payments to Medi-Cal providers, providers of drug treatment services for persons infected with the HIV, and providers of services to the developmentally disabled, rather than requiring up to $2 billion to be transferred in existing law. Repeals the authority of the Department of Health Care Services to have a one-month payment hold in Medi-Cal.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1487* (Hill-D) HIV virus: tissue donation
Extends, to 1/1/14, the date by which the Department of Public Health is required to adopt regulations prescribing sperm processing facilities' handling and storage of sperm from donors who are carriers of HIV and human T lymphotrophic virus (HTLV), and requires a physician providing insemination and advanced reproductive technologies to make specified disclosures to a recipient of sperm from a HIV or HTLV reactive spouse, partner, or designated donor.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2010
AB 1725 (Swanson-D) HIV testing: inmates
Requires the chief medical officer in every state prison, and the medical director of each state hospital housing patients sentenced pursuant to the Penal Code, for each inmate or patient to be incarcerated in or committed to that facility for more than one year, to offer testing for HIV at admission to the prison or facility and at least annually while the inmate or patient is incarcerated or committed, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1858 (Blumenfield-D) Needles and syringes: exchange services
Permits the Department of Public Health (DPH) to authorize certain entities to provide hypodermic needle and syringe exchange services consistent with state and federal standards, including those of the United States Public Health Service, in any location where DPH determines that the conditions exist for the rapid spread of HIV, viral hepatitis, or any other potentially deadly or disabling infections that are spread through the sharing of used hypodermic needles and syringes.
Vetoed
AB 1864 (Audra Strickland-R) HIV drug treatment: Medi-Cal
Increases the cap on a continuous appropriation of the Medi-Cal Providers Interim Payment Fund from $1 billion General Fund (GF) to $2.5 billion GF. The Fund was established by AB 561 (Scott-D), Chapter 993, Statutes of 1998, to provide continued payments to Medi-Cal providers in the absence of an enacted state budget.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2541 (Portantino-D) HIV reporting
Deletes the HIV exemption from authorized electronic reporting in order to increase federal funding provided to California for HIV and AIDS services.
Chapter 470, Statutes of 2010
AB 2590 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) AIDS testing: disclosure of results
Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services to share information under specified circumstances with a contractor providing disease management services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are HIV-positive or who have been diagnosed with AIDS.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1X8 (Assembly Budget Committee) Office of AIDS: Budget Act of 2009
Authorizes the Department of Public Health to permanently shift $3.5 million in current year federal funds from state support to local assistance, within the Office of AIDS.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, Eighth Extraordinary Session
Cancer
SB 836 (Oropeza-D) Breast cancer screening: expanded coverage.
Appropriates an unspecified amount of money from the General Fund to the Every Woman Counts program to provide breast cancer screening and diagnosis to eligible individuals, as specified, and expands the scope of individuals eligible for the program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCR 66 (Steinberg-D) Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Designates March 2010 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2010
SCR 86 (Aanestad-R) Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Designates the month of September 2010 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2010
AB 113 (Portantino-D) Mammographies: health care coverage
Requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies that are issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after 7/1/11, to provide coverage for mammography for screening or diagnostic purposes upon referral of certain health care professionals, regardless of age.
Vetoed
AB 128 (Coto-D) Cancer presumption: workers' compensation
Establishes a lifetime workers' compensation cancer presumption for public safety professionals (e.g., firefighters, police officers, highway patrol) with substantial years of service credit. Eliminates a five-year cap imposed following termination of employment, on a workers' compensation cancer presumption for tens of thousands of public safety personnel statewide.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 366 (Ruskin-D) Cancer of the bone: orthopedic implantation
Requires the California Medical Assistance Commission to consider, when negotiating contracts for inpatient care or developing specifications for competitive bidding, specialization in orthopedic implantation relating to cancers of the bone, in addition to the factors already required.
(Died on Senate Third Reading)
AB 1640 (Evans-D) Breast and cervical cancer screening
Requires the Department of Public Health, 90 days prior to making policy changes to the Every Woman Counts program, to send written notice outlining the proposed changes to contractors providing services, and to notify the Legislature if these changes would restrict access or reduce services offered.
Vetoed
AB 2648 (De Leon-D) Cancer screening: Medi-Cal
Makes technical changes to the Medi-Cal program, under which qualified low-income persons are provided with health care services, including breast and cervical cancer services.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
Other Diseases/Disorders
SB 513 (Steinberg-D) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Requests that the Regents of the University of California establish and administer the California Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Disease Team with the goal of promoting and conducting scientific research on ALS and developing effective treatments and diagnostics.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 971 (Pavley-D) Bleeding disorders: blood clotting products
Establishes requirements governing entities that provide blood clotting products for home use in the treatment of hemophilia and other bleeding disorders and designates the Board of Pharmacy to administer and enforce these provisions.
Vetoed
SB 1104 (Cedillo-D) Diabetes-related complications: health care coverage
Requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies that are issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after 1/1/11, and that cover hospital, medical, or surgical expenses, to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes-related complications.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCR 64 (Romero-D) American Heart Month and Wear Red Day
Recognizes the month of February 2010 as American Heart Month in California. Recognizes 2/4/10, as Wear Red Day in California, and urges public support for Go Red for Women events.
Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2010
SCR 80 (Wolk-D) Lyme Disease
Proclaims the month of May 2010 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 2010
SCR 82 (Wolk-D) Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of May 2010 as Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month to increase public awareness of neurofibromatosis and bring hope to patients and their families.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2010
SCR 98 (Strickland-R) Spinal muscular atrophy
Declares August 2010 as Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 83, Statutes of 2010
SCR 99 (Strickland-R) Lupus Awareness Month
Proclaims October 2010 as Lupus Awareness Month and wishes Lupus International every success in the future.
Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2010
SCR 111 (Wright-D) California Chronic Kidney Disease Education Week
Proclaims 11/7/10 through 11/13/10, as California Chronic Kidney Disease Education Week, and urges all Californians to familiarize themselves with the causes of chronic kidney disease and the importance of intervention to promote sustained health and a better quality of life.
Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2010
SCR 121 (Alquist-D) Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
Designates November 2010 as Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and 11/16/10 as National Memory Screening Day.
Resolution Chapter 131, Statutes of 2010
SJR 23 (Simitian-D) Mitochondrial disease: federal support for research
Urges the President and Congress of the United States to take action necessary to support research for mitochondrial disease.
Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2010
SR 26 (Runner-R) Relative to pulmonary hypertension disorder
Proclaims support for continued medical research related to pulmonary hypertension and educational outreach programs designed to increase awareness of this disorder among the general public.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SR 28 (Wyland-R) Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Promotes greater awareness of Rett Syndrome, a childhood neurodevelopmental disorder that almost exclusively affects females.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 37 (Liu-D) Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week
Proclaims 3/8/10 through 3/14/1010, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness (MS) Week, recognizes the importance of a world free of MS, encourages the citizens of the state to help move us closer to a world free of MS, and expresses its appreciation and admiration for the major work done by the Southern California Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to heighten MS awareness.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 159 (Nava-D) Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: task force
Authorizes the Department of Public Health to establish a statewide perinatal mood and anxiety disorders task force.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 163 (Emmerson-R) Amino acid-based elemental formulas
Requires health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for amino acid-based elemental formulas for the diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic disorders.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 354 (Arambula-IN) Health: immunizations
Permits the Department of Public Health (DPH) to update vaccination requirements for children entering schools and child care facilities and adds the American Academy of Family Physicians to the list of entities whose recommendations DPH must consider when updating the list of required vaccinations.
Chapter 434, Statutes of 2010
AB 420 (Salas-D) Perinatal disorders: maternal health
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a statewide Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Community Awareness Campaign.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1225 (De La Torre-D) Infectious diseases: emergency/disaster response exercises
Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) and local public health departments, when conducting emergency or disaster preparedness exercises relating to the outbreak of an infectious disease, to establish a process to identify deficiencies in the preparedness plans and procedures and track implementation of corrective measures, and requires DPH to make an after-action report available on its Web site and/or upon request.
Vetoed
AB 1418 (Smyth-R) Communicable diseases reporting: local health officers
Includes electronic mail or electronic facsimile as permitted methods of reporting by a local health officer.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1606 (Coto-D) Chronic disease: programs
Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to allow services provided through DHCS-approved Chronic Disease Self-Management Program to be reimbursable under Medi-Cal.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802 (Hall-D) Diabetes: insulin injections
Permits a parent or guardian to designate a school employee to administer insulin during school, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 2541 (Portantino-D) Communicable diseases: reporting
Deletes the HIV exemption from authorized electronic reporting, explicitly provides disclosure authority to state and local public health personnel for the purpose of providing complete information regarding sexually transmitted disease surveillance to the federal government, and double-jointed with AB 2786 (Assembly Health Committee) which was vetoed.
Chapter 470, Statutes of 2010
AB 2635 (Portantino-D) Communicable disease: involuntary testing
Adds nonsworn employees of a law enforcement agency whose job description includes the collection of fingerprints to the list of persons who, when exposed to an arrestee's bodily fluids, can have the arrestee's blood tested for communicable diseases.
Chapter 688, Statutes of 2010
AB 2786 (Assembly Health Committee) Reportable diseases and conditions
Allows the Department of Public Health (DPH) to modify the list of communicable diseases and conditions for which clinical labs must submit specimens to the local public health laboratory to undergo further testing and allows DPH to modify the list at any time in consultation with the California Conference of Local Health Officers and the California Association of Public Health Laboratory Directors.
Vetoed
ACR 105 (Nava-D) Perinatal Depression Awareness Month
Establishes May, each year, as Perinatal Depression Awareness Month in California, and requests that stakeholders work together to increase awareness and improve women's access to culturally competent mental health care services.
Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2010
ACR 117 (Hill-D) Rare Disease Day
Proclaims 2/28/10, as Rare Disease Day.
Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2010
ACR 135 (Smyth-R) West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness
Declares 4/26/10 through 4/30/10, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2010
ACR 141 (Blakeslee-R) Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day
Proclaims 5/19/10, as Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day in California.
Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2010
ACR 167 (Ma-D) Students with Epilepsy Month
Recognizes September 2010, and each September thereafter, as Students with Epilepsy Month.
Resolution Chapter 154, Statutes of 2010
ACR 168 (Galgiani-D) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness
Encourages the Department of Health Care Services to partner with private entities to improve education regarding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Designates November 2010 as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 155, Statutes of 2010
HR 31 (Eng-D) Chronic kidney disease: task force
Recommends the establishment of the Legislative Task Force on Chronic Kidney Disease to study the social, medical, and fiscal issues surrounding chronic kidney disease and report back to the Legislature on recommendations for policy changes.
Adopted by the Assembly
Medi-Cal
SB 114 (Liu-D) Medi-Cal: independent foster care
Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to deem eligible for benefits and ensure that there is no interruption in Medi-Cal coverage for an independent foster care adolescent that was in foster care on his/her 18th birthday. Requires DHCS to develop and implement a simplified form for the purposes of annually redetermining independent foster care adolescent eligibility, which the individual will return only if his/her information has changed. Provides that failure to return the annual redetermination form could not be the only reason to terminate Medi-Cal benefits to the individual.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 152 (Cox-R) Medi-Cal funding: mental health services
Directs, beginning on 3/1/10, the Department of Mental Health to send a reimbursement claim to the State Controller within 90 days after receipt of mental health services claims submitted by counties, and requires interest to accrue starting on the 91st day of an unpaid claim.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 208* (Steinberg-D) Medi-Cal: demonstration project waiver
Enacts statutory changes necessary for the Department of Health Care Services and counties to implement a proposed Section 1115 Comprehensive Demonstration Project Waiver in the Medi-Cal Program.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2010
SB 732* (Alquist-D) Medi-Cal: long-term care communities
Allows the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to continue use provider bulletins related to exemptions from the quality assurance fee for continuing care retirement communities or multilevel retirement facilities issued prior to 7/31/10. Permits DHCS, after 7/31/10, to issue new provider bulletins or similar instructions related to exemptions from the quality assurance fee for continuing care retirement communities or multilevel retirement facilities.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 771 (Alquist-D) Medi-Cal: foster children: eligibility
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to extend Medi-Cal, including Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment, eligibility to emancipated former foster youth who are under 26 years of age to the extent federal financial participation is available, and per requirements of federal health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 817 (Hancock-D) Medi-Cal: juvenile detention facilities: Alameda County
Requires Medi-Cal benefits to be provided to juveniles awaiting adjudication in the Alameda County jail, to the extent federal financial participation is available.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 853* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Medi-Cal: 2010 Health Budget Trailer Bill
Among other provisions, enacts various changes to the Medi-Cal programs in the Omnibus Health Budget Trailer Bill of 2010.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 1613 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on the Senate Third Reading File.
SB 966 (Alquist-D) Medi-Cal: medical homes
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop a definition of "medical home" and to establish a timetable for Medi-Cal managed care plans to provide beneficiaries with a medical home.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1091 (Hancock-D) Medi-Cal: individuals in county juvenile facilities
Authorizes counties to receive Medi-Cal reimbursement for medical and mental health services they provide to eligible individuals less than 21 years of age entering county juvenile detention facilities until adjudication.
Vetoed
SB 1184 (Maldonado-R) Medi-Cal managed care plans: administrative costs
Prohibits prepaid health plans and Medi-Cal managed care plans contracting to provide services to Medi-Cal beneficiary enrollees from including the cost of greeting cards or gifts given to providers as administrative costs.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1236 (Alquist-D) Medi-Cal: utilization controls
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish an alternative to the use of designated public hospital inpatient Treatment Authorization Requests (TARs). TARs are the route by which providers receive authorization for specified treatments and services provided on behalf of Medi-Cal patients.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1378 (Strickland-R) Medi-Cal: expansion limitation
Prohibits expansion of eligibility in the Medi-Cal program pursuant to federal health care reform, unless the federal government fully funds the expansion.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1409 (Price-D) Medi-Cal: hospital project funding: County of Los Angeles
Requires the County of Los Angeles and the State of California to continue to pay funds to the private hospitals that currently serve the population formerly served by Los Angeles County Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital through fiscal year 2012-13.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 75* (Huffman-D) Medi-Cal: hospital payments
Revises, for purposes of Medi-Cal hospital payments, the methodology for determining which non-contract hospitals in an open health facility planning area are subject to a specified reduction in payments by excluding state-owned or operated hospitals from the calculations used to determine if other hospitals are subject to the reduction.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 334 (Fuentes-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility: inmates
Expands the duties of county welfare departments regarding benefits provided to an individual 21 years of age or older who is an inmate of a public institution.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 342* (Bass-D) Medi-Cal: demonstration project waiver
Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to require that seniors and persons with disabilities in Medi-Cal be assigned as mandatory enrollees to new or existing managed care plans, as specified. Requires DHCS to establish organized health care delivery models for children eligible for California Children's Services. Establishes pilot projects for managing the care of those with dual eligibility in Medi-Cal and Medicare. Creates coverage expansion and enrollment demonstration projects for coverage of low-income individuals who are not otherwise eligible for Medi-Cal.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2010
AB 367* (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services
Deletes a current law cap on a $2 billion (50% General Fund) continuous appropriation of the Medi-Cal Providers Interim Payment (MPIP) Fund established by AB 561 (Scott-D), Chapter 993, Statutes of 1998. The MPIP funds are available to Medi-Cal providers in the absence of an enacted state budget. Deletes the current law authority of the Department of Health Care Services to impose a one-month cash delay on Medi-Cal provider payments.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 417 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal Drug Treatment Program: buprenorphine
Requires buprenorphine services to be included within the scope of Drug Medi-Cal when administered by a licensed narcotic treatment program to treat opioid addiction until 1/1/15.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 438 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: treatment authorization requests
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would implement reforms to the Medi-Cal treatment authorization request process, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 511 (De La Torre-D) Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services providers
Imposes a 5.5% quality assurance fee on ambulance transportation services providers through 6/30/16, for purposes of increasing reimbursement rates paid by Medi-Cal for services rendered to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
AB 613 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: treatment authorization requests
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to improve and streamline the treatment authorization request process in Medi-Cal. Treatment authorization requests are the route by which providers receive prior authorization for specified treatments and services provided on behalf of Medi-Cal patients.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 728* (Nielsen-R) Medi-Cal: hospitals: reimbursements
Exempts certain non-contract hospitals from a Medi-Cal inpatient rate reduction by requiring a Medi-Cal inpatient rate reduction to apply in open health facility planning areas with a minimum number of full-service hospitals with licensed general acute care beds, instead of hospitals with licensed general acute care beds under existing law.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 754 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: mental health plans
Requires the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to allocate and distribute the full contracted amount of General Fund payment for the managed mental health care program, exclusive of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program specialty mental health services provided under the Medi-Cal specialty mental health services waiver, at the beginning of the contract period. The allocated funds shall be considered to be funds of the plan that may be held by DMH. DMH shall develop a methodology to ensure that these funds are held as the property of the plan and shall not be reallocated by DMH or any other entity of state government for other purposes.
(Died in Senate Inactive File)
AB 998 (John Perez-D) Medi-Cal: organ transplants: anti-rejection medication
Establishes a state-only program to ensure dialysis-only Medi-Cal beneficiaries remain eligible for anti-rejection medication following a kidney transplant for up to three years, unless the beneficiary becomes eligible for Medicare or private health insurance that covers the medication.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1037 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Medi-Cal: managed care
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop a pilot project in San Bernardino and Riverside counties for the mandatory enrollment of Medi-Cal seniors and persons with disabilities into managed care by 1/1/11.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1174 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services
Requires Medi-Cal to cover ambulance services when a patient reasonably believes that without an ambulance a serious health condition, as specified, might result. Increases and establishes, in statute, maximum Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for ambulance transportation services, and requires the rates be adjusted per changes in the California Consumer Price Index.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1314 (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: health care coverage
Requires the Health and Human Services Agency, in consultation with consumers, health care providers, and other health care stakeholders, to develop a plan to enact comprehensive reforms to the California health care system and to provide the plan and statutory recommendations to the Legislature no later than 4/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1445 (Chesbro-D) Medi-Cal: health centers and rural health clinics
Allows federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics to be reimbursed by Medi-Cal for multiple visits by a patient with a single or different health care professional on the same day at a single location, when a patient has an appointment with a mental health professional or has contracted an illness or been injured and requires additional treatment.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1472 (Torrico-D) Medi-Cal: long-term care reimbursement
Requires, under the Medi-Cal Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act rate setting methodology, and labor costs to be determined by facility payroll data, submitted electronically to the department on a quarterly basis, as prescribed.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1595 (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to expand Medi-Cal eligibility to individuals with family income up to 133% of the federal poverty level (FPL) without regard to family status. Under current law, most non-disabled, non-elderly adults are eligible for Medi-Cal only if their family income is less than 100% of FPL and they have children living with them. In 2010, 133% of FPL is an annual income of $14,000 for an individual and $30,000 for a family of four and 100% of FPL is an income of $11,000 for an individual and $22,000 for a family of four.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1599 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: alcohol and drug screening and brief intervention
Establishes the Medi-Cal Alcohol and Drug Screening and Brief Intervention Services Matching Fund to draw down federal funds to match voluntary county spending on screening services for pregnant women and women of child bearing age. Provides an avenue by which local drug treatment programs may document certify public expenditures to leverage federal Medi-Cal funding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1606 (Coto-D) Medi-Cal: department-approved chronic disease management
Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to allow services provided through DHCS-approved Chronic Disease Self-Management Program to be reimbursable under Medi-Cal.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1653* (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: hospitals: mental health plans: fees
Revises the Medi-Cal hospital provider fee and supplemental payments enacted by AB 1383 (Jones), Chapter 627, Statutes of 2009.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2010
AB 1783 (Hayashi-D) Medi-Cal: licensed dentist: change of location form
Permits a Medi-Cal dental provider to change locations within the same county by filing a change of location form in lieu of submitting a complete application package.
Chapter 192, Statutes of 2010
AB 1808 (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal: mental health services: foster children
Shifts the responsibility for the provision of medically necessary mental health services from the county-of-origin to the host county in order to increase access to mental heath services for youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1864 (Audra Strickland-R) Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services
Increases the cap on a continuous appropriation of the Medi-Cal Providers Interim Payment (MPIP) Fund from $1 billion General Fund to $2.5 billion General Fund. The MPIP Fund was established by AB 561 (Scott-D), Chapter 993, Statutes of 1998, to provide continued payments to Medi-Cal providers in the absence of an enacted state budget.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1872 (Galgiani-D) Medi-Cal: health care programs: provider reimbursement rates
Extends the 1/1/11 sunset to 1/2/14, on the existing provisions that recently made the reimbursement rate to hospitals that provide inpatient care to enrollees in the California Children's Services program and the Genetically Handicapped Person's Program 90% of the interim, cost-based Medi-Cal rate rather than the lower California Medical Assistance Commission negotiated rate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1932 (Hernandez-D) Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services: reimbursement
Revises ambulance transportation services categories for Medi-Cal reimbursement rates to be consistent with Medicare categories.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1966 (Fletcher-R) Medi-Cal: federally qualified health center services
Authorizes federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics to be reimbursed for Medi-Cal inpatient obstetrical and gynecological services at a fee-for-service rate. Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish a separate fee-for-service billing number and to apply for federal approval by 3/1/11.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2025* (De La Torre-D) Medi-Cal: demonstration project
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to submit a waiver application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to continue and expand the state's Section 1115 Medi-Cal waiver.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2073 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Medi-Cal: adult day health care services
Revises the Medi-Cal eligibility criteria in the adult day health care program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2127 (Nestande-R) Medi-Cal: nonemergency transportation services
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish a two-year pilot program to evaluate the provision of non-emergency medical transportation services in the Medi-Cal Program using a broker model.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2173 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: emergency medical air transportation providers
Establishes a $4 fee on every Vehicle Code violation to be collected by the county and transferred to the Department of Health Care Services for deposit in the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act Fund to be used in the Medi-Cal Program to obtain federal funds and to fund supplemental payments for emergency medical air transportation services.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2010
AB 2174 (Beall-D) Medi-Cal: pediatric subacute care units: respiratory therapy
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to waive specified regulatory requirements related to pediatric subacute care and allow a pediatric care unit to reduce its respiratory therapy hours by one hour per-patient-day, thereby reducing the required minimum numbers of hours to 2.0 hours per-patient-day to each ventilator dependent patient, and 1.0 hour per-patient-day to each nonventilator dependent patient, if certain conditions are satisfied.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2352 (John Perez-D) Medi-Cal: organ transplants: antirejection medication
Requires Medi-Cal beneficiaries to remain eligible to receive Medi-Cal coverage for anti-rejection medication for up to two years following an organ transplant unless during that time the beneficiary becomes eligible for Medicare or private health insurance that would cover the medication.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2010
AB 2477 (Jones-D) Medi-Cal: continuous eligibility
Eliminates mid-year status reporting for children on Medi-Cal to conform to requirements of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PL 111-148). The federal health reform law requires California to maintain current specified eligibility standards for children until 9/30/19. Failure to comply with maintenance-of-effort requirements will likely result in the loss of major Medi-Cal funding.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
AB 2590 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Medi-Cal: disease management programs
Authorizes the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to share information under specified circumstances with a contractor providing disease management services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are HIV-positive or who have been diagnosed with AIDS.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2599 (Bass-D) Medi-Cal: South Los Angeles
Requires the new nonprofit Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital that will serve the population that was served at the former Los Angeles County Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital receive a minimum amount of Medi-Cal funding, as specified.
Chapter 267, Statutes of 2010
AB 2648 (De Leon-D) Medi-Cal: cancer screening
Makes technical changes to the Medi-Cal program, under which qualified low-income persons are provided with health care services, including breast and cervical cancer services.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 2780* (Solorio-D) Medi-Cal costs: workers' compensation: individually
Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services to use individually identifiable information from the Department of Industrial Relations for the purpose of seeking recovery of Medi-Cal costs incurred by the state for treatment provided to injured workers that should have been incurred by employers and insurance carriers.
Chapter 611, Statutes of 2010
Mental Health
SB 152 (Cox-R) Mental health services: Medi-Cal funding
Directs, beginning 3/1/10, the Department of Mental Health to send a reimbursement claim to the State Controller within 90 days after receipt of mental health services claims submitted by counties, and requires interest to accrue starting on the 91st day of an unpaid claim.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 543 (Leno-D) Mental health treatment: minors
Authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis or to residential shelter services, if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2010
SB 853* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Mental health service: budget trailer bill
Among other provisions, makes various changes to mental health service programs in this Omnibus Health Budget Trailer Bill of 2010.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 1613 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on the Senate Floor.
SB 1392 (Steinberg-D) Mental health: community mental health services
Expedites the disbursement of various sources of mental health funds from the Department of Mental Health to counties.
Chapter 706, Statutes of 2010
SCR 97 (Yee-D) Asian Pacific American Mental Health Day
Recognizes 5/10/10, and each May 10 thereafter, as Asian Pacific American Mental Health Day, and acknowledges the importance of raising awareness about mental health in the Asian Pacific American community.
Resolution Chapter 52, Statutes of 2010
AB 421* (Beall-D) Seriously emotionally disturbed children
Authorizes payments for 24-hour care of a child classified as seriously emotionally disturbed and placed out-of-home in an out-of-state, for-profit residential facility.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 710 (Yamada-D) Mental health services: veterans
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to consult with the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP), to identify federal funds available for funding community-based organizations that provide substance abuse and mental health services to veterans, as specified. If identified, the DVA will apply for federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funds through DMH or DADP. Requires DVA to establish a certification process to certify the eligibility of community-based organizations and to establish criteria for determining renewal of funding for recipient organizations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 754 (Chesbro-D) Mental health plans: Medi-Cal
Requires the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to allocate and distribute the full contracted amount of General Fund payment for the managed mental health care program, exclusive of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program specialty mental health services provided under the Medi-Cal specialty mental health services waiver, at the beginning of the contract period. The allocated funds shall be considered to be funds of the plan that may be held by DMH. Requires DMH to develop a methodology to ensure that these funds are held as the property of the plan and shall not be reallocated by DMH or any other entity of state government for other purposes.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1600 (Beall-D) Mental health services: health care coverage
Requires health plans and health insurers to cover the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of a "mental illness", as defined, of a person of any age, including a child, and not limited to coverage for severe mental illness as in existing law.
Vetoed
AB 1653* (Jones-D) Mental health
Among other provisions, provides the Department of Health Care Services with flexibility to make the inpatient supplemental payments for mental health directly to private hospitals, instead of routing the payments through county mental health plans. The county mental health plans will still make the payments to designated public hospitals.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2010
AB 1808 (Galgiani-D) Mental health services: Medi-Cal: foster children
Shifts responsibility for the provision of mental health services for foster youth placed out-of-county. Specifically, shifts the responsibility for the provision of medically necessary mental health services from the county-of-origin to the host county in order to increase access to mental heath services for youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2199 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Mental health: sexual deviation: research
Repeals a provision of law requiring the Department of Mental Health, to plan, conduct, and cause to be conducted scientific research into the causes and cures of sexual deviation, including the causes and cures of homosexuality.
Chapter 379, Statutes of 2010
AB 2234 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Mental health: target populations: older adults
Revises the existing list of priority target populations eligible for mental health services provided by counties and under the Mental Health Services Act to establish a separate target category for older adults.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2506 (Carter-D) Mental health: medical transportation services
Requires each mental health board or commission to facilitate the development and implementation of a written memorandum of understanding between emergency and nonemergency medical transportation entities, local law enforcement, Medi-Cal managed care mental health plans, general acute care hospitals, and acute psychiatric hospitals, to provide for the delivery of emergency and nonemergency medical transportation services for individuals with mental illness.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2645* (Chesbro-D) Mental health: skilled nursing facilities: reimbursement
Expands, from 7/1/10 to 6/30/12, current law which imposes a reimbursement rate freeze on specified skilled nursing facilities to include institutions for mental disease licensed as skilled nursing facilities.
Chapter 554, Statutes of 2010
AB 2661 (Salas-D) Mental health assessments: California National Guard
Requires the California National Guard to develop and implement a mental health assessment program for every National Guard soldier who has been deployed to a combat zone.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 150 (Carter-D) African American Mental Health Awareness Week
Recognizes each second week of February, hereafter, as African American Mental Health Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 74, Statutes of 2010
HR 36 (Torres-D) Suicide Prevention Week
Proclaims 9/5/10 through 9/11/10, as Suicide Prevention Week. Acknowledges suicide as the 11th leading cause of death in the United States and that statewide suicide prevention efforts should be developed and encouraged to the maximum extent possible.
Adopted by the Assembly
Developmentally Disabled
SB 110 (Liu-D) People with disabilities: victims of crime
Enacts the Crime Victims with Disabilities Act of 2010 which (1) requires domestic violence death review teams to add information about whether or not a victim had a disability, (2) allows counties to add dependent adult cases to any elder death review teams and protocols they may already have, (3) requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and the Department of Justice to create a two-hour "Crime Victims with Disabilities" telecourse for law enforcement officers and permits that every law enforcement agency that complies with POST training, provide this telecourse training for its officers, and (4) creates new reporting requirements for the Department of Developmental Services.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2010
SB 755 (Negrete McLeod-D) State contracts: participation goals
Establishes a statewide participation goal of not less than 1% for persons with developmental disabilities business enterprises to participate in contracts awarded by state agencies for goods and services. Requires, until 6/30/14, that each state agency awarding contracts take specified actions to encourage that participation. Requires the Department of General Services to adopt regulations and consult with the Department of Developmental Disabilities with respect to implementation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 812 (Ashburn-R) Developmental services: housing
Requires cites and counties to include an analysis of the housing needs of the developmentally disabled in the analysis of special housing needs in their housing elements.
Chapter 507, Statutes of 2010
SB 853* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Developmental disabilities: budget trailer bill
Among other provisions, makes various changes in programs relating to developmental disabilities in the Omnibus Health Budget Trailer Bill of 2010.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 1613 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on the Senate Third Reading File.
SB 1129 (Wiggins-D) Sonoma Developmental Center
Provides that a person with a developmental disability served by any regional center may access intensive behavioral intervention services at the Sonoma Developmental Center when it is determined that he/she is a danger to himself/herself or others, and when he/she has a pending hearing related to a such a situation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1188 (Wright-D) Disabled parent: child custody
States the intent of the Legislature to codify the decision of the California Supreme Court in In re Marriage of Carney (1979) 24 Cal.3d 725, with respect to custody and visitation determinations by the court involving a disabled parent.
Chapter 179, Statutes of 2010
SB 1256 (Hancock-D) Ed Roberts Day
Designates January 23 each year as Ed Roberts Day, a disabled rights activist, and calls for the day to be observed by the public schools as a day of special significance. Requires the Governor to annually proclaim January 23 as Ed Roberts Day.
Chapter 115, Statutes of 2010
SB 4X8 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Social services
Continues the 3% reduction providing reimbursement for regional center purchases of services and operations.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, 8th Extraordinary Session
SJR 31 (Pavley-D) Individuals with disabilities: tax exempt accounts
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to immediately enact the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2009.
Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2010
SJR 35 (Corbett-D) Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Commemorates the 20th anniversary of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, encourages all Californians to recognize and celebrate the important historical significance of the act, and reaffirms the Legislature's commitment to, and urges the Congress of the Untied States to reaffirm its commitment to, the civil and constitutional rights of Americans with disabilities.
Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2010
AB 152 (Carter-D) Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act: disability
Defines "disability" for purposes of the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act as either a "mental" or "physical disability", as those terms are defined.
(Died in Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee)
AB 393 (Yamada-D) Disabled rights: vehicle warranties
Extends the vehicle warranty requirement to any vehicle manufacturer who modifies new vehicles into vehicles usable by persons with disabilities.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 416 (Block-D) Developmental services: consumer abuse registry
Requires providers of services to consumers with developmental disabilities (DD consumers) to report evidence of DD consumer abuse to investigating agencies, requires investigating agencies to report substantiated cases of DD consumer abuse to the Department of Developmental Services (DDS), and requires DDS to develop a registry of direct service workers with histories of substantiated reports of abuse.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 435* (Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee) Regional centers: whistleblower protection
Requires each state contract with a regional center to include steps the regional center will take to ensure that a regional center's staff, board members, consumers and their representatives, and providers are notified of their right to make confidential reports of improper regional center activity to the Department of Developmental Services. Provides for penalties, civil liability, and imprisonment for specified acts against a regional center employee for having made a protected disclosure, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1171 (Ammiano-D) Disabled: rental property
Specifies that the rent control system of a public entity may require that the one-year extension applies to all tenancies in the applicable accommodations if a tenant or lessee who is at least 62 years of age or disabled and has lived in the accommodations for at least one year prior to the delivery of notice to a public entity and gives the required 60-day notice to the owner.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1213 (Skinner-D) Employment of persons with disabilities
Adds the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a member of the California Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. Also makes several findings and declaration pertaining to programs for the disabled community.
Vetoed
AB 1589 (Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee) Regional centers: whistleblower protection
Requires California's 21 regional centers to disclose information on "related-persons transactions", and establishes whistleblower protections for regional center employees who report improper activities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1629* (Assembly Budget Committee) Agnews/Bay Area Housing Plan
Provides for alternative financing of the Agnews/Bay Area Housing Plan.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 869 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee) which died on the Assembly Third Reading File.
AB 1855 (Yamada-D) Disabled person or disabled vehicle veteran placard
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to advise an applicant for a disabled parking placard of the procedures to apply for a disabled or disabled veteran license plate and for the registration fee and vehicle license fee exemptions available to disabled veterans.
Chapter 196, Statutes of 2010
AB 1864 (Audra Strickland-R) Developmental services: Medi-Cal
Increases the cap on a continuous appropriation of the Medi-Cal Providers Interim Payment (MPIP) Fund from $1 billion from the General Fund to $2.5 billion General Fund. The MPIP Fund was established by AB 561(Scott-D), Chapter 993, Statutes of 1998, to provide continued payments to Medi-Cal providers in the absence of an enacted state budget.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2051 (Tran-R) Disabled: emergency services: preparedness
Allows the California Emergency Management Agency to prepare, in voluntary cooperation with specific local governmental and nongovernmental entities, a specialized plan to mobilize senior citizens and disabled persons during an emergency or natural disaster.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2204 (Beall-D) Developmental services: stakeholder groups
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to take into account the state's ethnic, sexual orientation, gender identity, geographic, socioeconomic orientation diversity when convening or consulting with stakeholder groups under the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2220 (Silva-R) Regional centers: public records
Adds Department of Developmental Services regional centers to requirements of disclosure related to the California Public Records Act. Specifically adds regional centers, which are private nonprofit entities, to the definition of "local agency." Under current law, the "local agency" definition includes city and county agencies, school districts, public boards and commissions, and local legislative bodies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2430 (Chesbro-D) Department of Rehabilitation: blindness
Requires that at least 20% of the board members of organizations and agencies whose sole mission is to provide services to persons who are blind or visually impaired and that receive grants or contracts from the Department of Rehabilitation consist of persons who are blind or visually impaired.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2702 (Chesbro-D) Developmental services: planning teams
Requires regional centers, in developing, reviewing, or modifying a consumer's individual program plan or individualized family service plan to follow all procedures established in the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act or the California Early Intervention Services Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
ACR 162 (Beall-D) Disability History Week
Designates the second week of October 2010, and annually thereafter, as Disability History Week, and encourages public and private institutions of higher education, state and local agencies, nonprofit and community-based organizations, and private businesses and corporations to observe Disability History Week by dedicating appropriate classroom instructional time or by coordinating all-inclusive activities to be conducted during that week to afford opportunities for students and the general public to learn more about the disability community and to celebrate and honor its role in contemporary American society.
Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2010
ACR 177 (Yamada-D) 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Recognizes 7/26/10, as the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Resolution Chapter 158, Statutes of 2010
Tobacco Products
SB 4 (Oropeza-D) Smoking ban: state beaches and parks
Makes it a crime for an individual to smoke on a state beach or a state park, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 220 (Yee-D) Tobacco cessation services: health care coverage
Requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, renewed or delivered after 1/1/11, to cover specified tobacco cessation treatments, requests the California Health Benefits Review Program to prepare an analysis of the cost savings as a result of the provisions of this bill and states that this bill shall become inoperative on the date the "American Health Benefit Exchange", as defined, determines that the requirements of this bill will result in additional costs to the state.
Vetoed
SB 600* (Padilla-D) Cigarette and tobacco products taxes
Imposes an additional excise tax of $1.50 per package of 20 cigarettes, adjusted annually by the Consumer Price Index, and indirectly increases the tax on other tobacco products. Imposes a one-time "floor stock tax" on the cigarettes held or stored by dealers and wholesalers.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Similar bills were AB 89 (Torlakson-D) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee and ACA 22 (Torlakson-D) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.
SB 601 (Padilla-D) Retail tobacco licenses
Prohibits the Board of Equalization from issuing a new cigarette and tobacco products license for a retail location within 600 feet of a school, unless public convenience or necessity would be served by the issuance, as specified. Restricts the issuance of a new retail license to "traditional retail locations."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 603 (Padilla-D) Retail cigarette and tobacco sales: licenses: violations
Establishes a $100 annual fee on each license issued by the Board of Equalization for the retail sale of cigarette and tobacco products. Establishes a statewide standard relative to the traditional retailers definition and proximity limitations.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 882* (Corbett-D) Electronic cigarettes
Makes it unlawful, to the extent it is not preempted by a federal law, to sell or otherwise furnish electronic cigarettes to a person under the age of 18, punishable as an infraction, as specified.
Chapter 312, Statutes of 2010
SJR 8 (Corbett-D) Electronic cigarettes
Requests that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibit all sales of electronic cigarettes until they have been found, by the FDA, to be safe.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
AB 89* (Torlakson-D) Cigarettes and other tobacco products: taxation
Imposes an additional excise tax on the distribution of cigarettes at the rate of $0.105 for each cigarette distributed, and requires a dealer or wholesaler to file a return with the Board of Equalization showing the number of cigarettes in his/her possession or under his/her control on that date, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
Similar bills were SB 600 (Padilla-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee and ACA 22 (Torlakson-D) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.
AB 689 (Charles Calderon-D) Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law: tobacco products
Expands the definition of "tobacco products" contained in both the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act of 1988 (Proposition 99) and the California Children and Families First Act of 1998 (Proposition 10) to include any articles or products made of or containing tobacco.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2496 (Nava-D) Cigarette and tobacco products
Amends the California Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003 in governing the financial and other obligations of non-participating tobacco manufacturers as part of its diligence obligation.
Chapter 265, Statutes of 2010
AB 2733 (Ruskin-D) Cigarettes and tobacco products
Amends the California Cigarette and Tobacco Licensing Act to prohibit a licensee whose license has been suspended or revoked from giving cigarette and tobacco products away or displaying those products during the period of license suspension or revocation, as specified.
Chapter 607, Statutes of 2010
AB 2757 (Bradford-D) Tobacco products: blunt wraps
Makes it a misdemeanor to sell, offer for sale, distribute or import blunt wraps unless the wraps will be sold in a business establishment that prohibits the presence of persons under 18 on the premises.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACA 22 (Torlakson-D) Taxation: cigarettes and other tobacco products
Imposes an additional tax on the distribution of cigarettes at the rate of $0.074 for each cigarette distributed, and upon the distribution of tobacco products at an equivalent tax rate. Provides that the revenues collected from the additional tax will be deposited in the Tobacco Excise Tax Fund, which is created by the bill, and will be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for certain education-, health-, and child-related purposes. Imposes a floor stock tax on every distributor and wholesaler for each cigarette or tobacco product in his/her possession on the day the excise tax is first imposed. Prohibits the Legislature, between 1/1/11 and 1/1/16, from imposing any additional tax upon the distribution of cigarettes or tobacco products.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
Similar bills were SB 600 (Padilla-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee and AB 89 (Torlakson-D) which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.
Health Facilities
SB 180* (Florez-D) California Health Alert Network participation
Requires every primary care clinic and general acute care hospital to enroll and participate in the California Health Alert Network administered by the Emergency Preparedness Office in the Department of Public Health.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 214 (Benoit-R) Sober living homes
Provides that a sober living home, as defined, is exempt from licensure by the Department of Social Services and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 289 (Ducheny-D) Hospitals: seismic safety
Makes various changes to the hospital seismic mandate for general acute care hospitals.
Vetoed
SB 360 (Yee-D) Health facilities: direct care nurses
Requires hospitals to ensure that all direct care registered nurses receive and complete an orientation of a minimum of five standard shifts where the orientee would be observed by an experienced direct care nurse, as specified, prior to being counted toward the hospital's established nurse-to-patient ratio.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 364 (Florez-D) Health facilities: patient care
Requires the Legislature to create the Joint Task Force on Hospital Conversion and Patient Care, that would include certain members of the Legislature or their designees. Requires the Task Force to, among other things, study the governance structure of medical foundations in light of the forthcoming federal health care reform and resulting changes in the corporate status of health care entities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 442 (Ducheny-D) Clinic corporation: licensing
Streamlines the administrative requirements for a clinic corporation to apply for licensure for an affiliate primary care clinic or a mobile health care unit operated as a primary care clinic (collectively known as affiliate clinics).
Chapter 502, Statutes of 2010
SB 482 (Padilla-D) Biological data analysis services: regulation
Establishes requirements for entities providing post-Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) "bioinformatics," as defined. Requires entities providing post-CLIA bioinformatics, that provides customers with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or FDA-exempt biological specimen kits to have a contractual relationship with a clinical laboratory for the receipt and processing of a customer's biological specimens.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 608 (Alquist-D) Hospitals: seismic safety
Permits the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to grant two separate extensions to a general acute care hospital for a total of five years, under specified circumstances related to local planning delays, for compliance with existing state seismic safety requirements.
Chapter 623, Statutes of 2010
SB 661 (Wolk-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly
Requires that if an admission agreement includes an arbitration agreement, that arbitration agreement comply with prescribed requirements.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 687 (Alquist-D) Long-term health care facilities
Prohibits an individual from being refused placement in a long-term health care facility based on the diagnosis of a health-care-associated infection or a positive test for the presence of an organism; requires long-term health care facilities to implement appropriate infection control measures and to maintain a record of infections, as specified; and requires facility staff to receive appropriate education and training with regards to the control of health-care-associated infections.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 724 (Cogdill-R) Hospital services: prisoners
Requires the State Controller to transfer a third of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) annual payments to hospitals into a newly-created "Hospital Interim Payment Fund" created in the State Treasury, from which hospitals that have provided services to CDCR will be paid when the annual state budget is late, with payments thereafter required where (1) an invoice has been submitted for the services, and (2) payment for the services is due and payable and CDCR, including the Division of Juvenile Facilities, determines that payment would be valid.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 726 (Ashburn-R) Health care districts: rural hospitals
Revises an existing pilot project allowing qualified health care districts and qualified rural hospitals, as specified, to directly employ physicians, and extends the sunset date for the pilot project from 1/1/11, to 1/1/18.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 732* (Alquist-D) Long-term care communities: Medi-Cal
Allows the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to continue use provider bulletins related to exemptions from the quality assurance fee for continuing care retirement communities or multilevel retirement facilities issued prior to 7/31/10. Permits DHCS, after 7/31/10, to issue new provider bulletins or similar instructions related to exemptions from the quality assurance fee for continuing care retirement communities or multilevel retirement facilities.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 837 (Florez-D) Corcoran District Hospital: design-build
Authorizes the Corcoran District Hospital, upon approval of the board of directors of the hospital, to use a design-build procedure when assigning contracts to the construction of a building or improvements directly related to the construction of an outpatient facility building at the hospital.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 892 (Alquist-D) Care facilities
Adds a series crimes, such as murder, kidnapping, mayhem, pandering, and exhibiting a deadly weapon, to the list of criminal activities that prohibit a person from being granted an exemption to the current prohibition against becoming licensed by the Department of Social Services as an operator, staff or employee of a residential care facility for the elderly.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 975 (Price-D) Tissue bank licensing
Requires the collection, processing, storage, or distribution of human tissue for use in California to comply with the edition of Standards for Tissue Banking in effect on 1/1/11, as published by the American Association of Tissue Banks, and requires the Department of Public Health to evaluate future amendments of these standards to determine which changes to adopt as regulations.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1005 (Cox-R) Health care districts: design-build
Authorizes the Tahoe Forest Health Care District and a health care district authorized by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to use a design-build procedure when assigning contracts for the construction of a hospital or health facility building. Sunsets on 1/1/16.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1083 (Correa-D) Health facilities: licensure
Permits children's hospitals to maintain and operate facilities under a single, consolidated license that are not more than 35 miles apart.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1092 (Cogdill-R) Hospital districts
Recasts provisions regarding hospital districts entering secured lines of credit with commercial lenders to apply the $2 million maximum only to the consolidated line of credit incurred after 1/1/10.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 1119 (Wright-D) Health care staffing
Requires temporary licensed nursing employment agencies to verify a nurse's fitness to work. Requires certain reporting of unfit nurses, and specifies penalties for failure to do so.
Vetoed
SB 1164 (Corbett-D) Health facilities: congregate living health facilities
Specifies definition of "congregate living health facility" to include facilities that provide services to children who have a diagnosis of terminal illness or a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1237 (Padilla-D) Health facilities and clinics: radiation control: records
Requires health facilities and clinics that use imaging procedures that involve computed tomography X-ray systems (CT) for human use to record the dose of radiation on every CT study produced during a CT examination, and requires, commencing 7/1/13, facilities that furnish CT to be accredited and to report to the Department of Public Health an event in which the administration of radiation results in an overdose, as specified.
Chapter 521, Statutes of 2010
SB 1240 (Corbett-D) Local health care districts: operation of facilities
Requires, when a health care district is under contract with another public or private entity to operate one or more of its health facilities, the district and the public or private entity operating the district facility to comply with specified conditions.
Vetoed
SB 1329 (Leno-D) Residential care facilities for the elderly
Requires licensees of residential care facilities for the elderly to notify the Department of Social Services (DSS) and, in some instances, residents and applicants for potential residence, of specified events, in specified instances, and requires DSS to initiate compliance plans, noncompliance conferences, or other appropriate actions upon receipt of the notification.
Vetoed
SB 1458* (Cogdill-R) Hospital districts
Clarifies provisions of existing law that authorize a health care district to enter into a line of credit with a commercial lender for the sole purpose of consolidating debt incurred before 1/1/10.
Chapter 70, Statutes of 2010
SJR 13 (Oropeza-D) New dialysis clinic licensure and certification
Urges the President of the United States and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to enact legislation to expedite the process for dialysis clinic licensure.
Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2010
SJR 15 (Alquist-D) Public health laboratories
Encourages the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to amend regulations, and the Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation, allowing qualified non-doctoral, non-board certified persons to serve as laboratory directors of local public health laboratories.
Resolution Chapter 46, Statutes of 2010
AB 411 (Garrick-R) Health facilities: seismic safety
Requires a health care district that has been denied an extension of the seismic retrofit and replacement deadlines to make a specified report to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, on or before 3/1/10.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 535 (Ammiano-D) Nursing facilities: elder death review teams
Requires 1,100 skilled nursing facilities statewide to increase reporting specificity of patient death data to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and increases the availability of death data to county Elder Death Review Teams statewide.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 542 (Feuer-D) Hospital acquired conditions
Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to convene a technical working group to evaluate options for implementing non-payment policies and procedures for hospital acquired conditions (HACs) for the fee-for-service Medi-Cal program consistent with federal laws and regulations. Requires DHCS to implement non-payment policies and procedures for HACs for the fee-for-service Medi-Cal program by 7/1/11 that are consistent with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to consider the recommendations of the technical working group.
Vetoed
AB 564 (Portantino-D) Substance abuse treatment facilities
Restricts the amount of compensation that a director, officer, or employee of a substance abuse treatment facility may receive from public sources and requires these compensation restrictions to be included in the terms of any public contract that uses public funds to provide drug treatment, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 639 (Torlakson-D) Poison control centers
Appropriates $3 million from the General Fund to the Emergency Medical Services Authority for the support of poison control centers.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
AB 648 (Chesbro-D) Rural hospitals: physician services
Establishes a demonstration project to permit "rural hospitals," as defined, whose service area includes a medically underserved or federally designated shortage area and which meet certain specified requirements, to directly employ physicians and surgeons. Provides that the total number of licensees employed shall not exceed 10, unless the Medical Board of California makes a determination that additional physicians and surgeons is deemed appropriate.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 664 (Skinner-D) Hospital employees: workers' compensation: presumption
Establishes several workers' compensation presumptions for more than 500,000 employees at hospitals statewide, including workers at private and non-profit hospitals. Establishes a presumption that back or neck injuries and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections are job-related during and after a period of employment at a hospital, and requires specified workers' compensation benefits to be provided.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 728* (Nielsen-R) Hospitals: Medi-Cal
Exempts certain non-contract hospitals from a Medi-Cal inpatient rate reduction by requiring a Medi-Cal inpatient rate reduction to apply in open health facility planning areas with a minimum number of full-service hospitals with licensed general acute care beds, instead of hospitals with licensed general acute care beds under existing law.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 822 (Fletcher-R) Health facilities: program flexibility
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish the Acuity-Adaptable Care Delivery Pilot Program to allow at least two, but not more than 10, general acute care hospitals to use licensed intensive care beds as step-down and medical surgical beds interchangeably based on the acuity of the patient.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 935 (Feuer-D) Long-term health care facilities
Requires at least half of the funds in the Department of Public Health State Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account (state account) and the Federal Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account (federal account) be used to support local long-term care ombudsman programs administered by the Department of Aging, and requires any remaining funds to be used to protect the health and safety of nursing home residents.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 950 (Hernandez-D) Licensed hospice facilities
Establishes hospice facility as a new health facility licensing category under the authority of the Department of Public Health and permits licensed and certified hospice services providers to provide inpatient hospice services through the operation of a hospice facility.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1038 (Furutani-D) Health facilities: nursing hours
Increases the minimum number of actual nursing hours per patient required in a skilled nursing facility to 3.5 nursing hours per patient.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1044 (Jones-D) Continuing care retirement communities: contracts
Transfers the oversight and regulation of the finances and contracts of continuing care retirement communities from the Department of Social Services (DSS) to the Department of Insurance, and leaves DSS with the oversight and regulation of programs and services provided directly to residents.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
AB 1055 (Chesbro-D) Substance abuse treatment facilities
Expands the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs licensure authority for alcohol and drug treatment facilities to include 24-hour facilities that do not require a health facility license.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1272 (Hill-D) Trauma centers
Permits an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agency to submit a request of notification to a city, county, or city and county for notice of any zoning variance, permit, amendment, or entitlement for use that would permit the construction or operation of a heliport or helipad on the property of a general acute care hospital. Permits the local EMS agency, or an EMS agency from a county adjacent to the proposed heliport or helipad, after receiving the notice, to prepare a report, as specified, to consult with representatives of the city, county, or city and county regarding that report, and to provide written comments and appear at a hearing regarding the proposed construction or operation of a heliport or helipad.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1284 (Huffman-D) Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to notify the appropriate city or county planning agency of a proposed facility's application for licensure as a residential alcohol or drug abuse treatment facility if the treatment facility operates as an integral component of an existing licensed treatment facility managed by the same licensee and is located within 300 feet of the existing facility.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1303 (Hall-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital: reopening plan
Directs the Department of Public Health to convene a working group of stakeholders to assist in the reopening of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital in Los Angeles.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1427 (Hayashi-D) Hospital districts
Provides that a hospital district may transfer, at fair market value, any part of its assets to a county hospital, and requires, before any transfer of an emergency or urgent care department of a general acute care hospital, a measure proposing the transfer to be submitted to the voters.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1433 (Eng-D) Continuing care contracts: residential temporary relocation
Defines "residential temporary relocation" in the context of continuing care contracts of residents who live in continuing care retirement communities, and establishes related rights, requirements, and procedures.
Chapter 443, Statutes of 2010
AB 1445 (Chesbro-D) Health centers and clinics: Medi-Cal
Allows federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics to be reimbursed by Medi-Cal for multiple visits by a patient with a single or different health care professional on the same day at a single location, when a patient has an appointment with a mental health professional or has contracted an illness or been injured and requires additional treatment.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1542* (Assembly Health Committee) Medical homes
Enacts the Patient-Centered Medical Home Act of 2010. Defines "medical home" to mean, in part, a health care delivery model in which a patient establishes an ongoing relationship with a physician or other licensed health care provider acting within his/her scope of practice, working in a physician-directed practice team to provide comprehensive, accessible and continuous evidence-based primary and preventative care and to coordinate the patient health care needs across the health care system.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 1593 (Yamada-D) Adult day health care centers
Creates an exemption to the existing Medi-Cal certification moratorium which will allow the opening of two new, publicly-financed adult day health centers at the William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home and the Veterans Home of California, Ventura, contingent on the availability of funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act.
Vetoed
AB 1653* (Jones-D) Hospitals: Medi-Cal and managed health care plans
Revises the Medi-Cal hospital provider fee and supplemental payments enacted by AB 1383 (Jones-D), Chapter 627, Statutes of 2009.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2010
AB 1853 (De La Torre-D) Corcoran District Hospital: design-build
Authorizes the Corcoran District Hospital, upon approval of the board of directors of the hospital, to use a design-build procedure when assigning contracts to the construction of a building or improvements directly related to the construction of an outpatient facility building at the hospital.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 1863 (Gaines-R) Health facilities: diesel generators
Extends, until 1/1/16, provisions of law related to testing diesel back-up generators in hospitals, and extends provisions according to national testing standards.
Chapter 164, Statutes of 2010
AB 1882 (Portantino-D) Health facilities: chilling or therapeutic hypothermia
Requires acute care hospitals with an emergency department to implement a policy or protocol to assess if an emergency department patient who is or becomes comatose following cardiac arrest is an eligible candidate for chilling or hypothermia therapy.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1963 (Nava-D) Clinical laboratories: pesticide poisoning.
Requires clinical laboratories that perform cholinesterase testing for the purpose of determining workers' pesticide exposure to electronically report test results to the Department of Pesticide Regulation.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2010
AB 2077 (Solorio-D) Hospital pharmacies
Permits a hospital pharmacy to compound or repackage drugs for other hospitals and pharmacies under common ownership.
Vetoed
AB 2153 (Lieu-D) Emergency room crowding
Requires every licensed general acute care hospital with an emergency department to assess emergency department overcrowding every four or eight hours, as well as develop and implement full-capacity protocols that address staffing, procedures, and operations when an emergency department is overcrowded.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2165* (Knight-R) Health care facility: California Environmental Quality Act
Establishes a new California Environmental Quality Act exemption for construction of a proposed health care facility in Lancaster, California.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2174 (Beall-D) Pediatric subacute care units
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to waive specified regulatory requirements related to pediatric subacute care and allows a pediatric care unit to reduce its respiratory therapy hours by one hour per-patient-day, thereby reducing the required minimum numbers of hours to 2.0 hours per-patient-day to each ventilator dependent patient, and 1.0 hour per-patient-day to each nonventilator dependent patient, if certain conditions are satisfied.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2194 (Fletcher-R) Health facilities: program flexibility
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish the Acuity-Adaptable Care Delivery Pilot Program to provide not less than one, but not more than five, "general acute care hospitals," as defined, with the ability to use licensed intensive care beds as stepdown and medical surgical beds interchangeably, based on the acuity of the patient, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2221 (Beall-D) Substance abuse: treatment facilities
Permits 24-hour residential treatment facilities that provide services to adults recovering from alcohol and drug abuse that are licensed by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to provide medical services and provides that such a facility would not require a health facility license.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2292 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Pharmacy: clinics
Prohibits ambulatory surgical clinics same day surgery centers from prescribing medications unless they have been licensed by the California Board of Pharmacy.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2386 (Gilmore-R) Hospitals: Armed Forces: medical personnel
Allows a hospital to enter into an agreement with the Armed Forces of the United States to authorize a physician, surgeon, physician assistant, or registered nurse to provide medical care in the hospital under specified circumstances.
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2010
AB 2389 (Gaines-R) Health facilities: health care coverage
Prohibits a contract between a health facility and a health care service plan or health insurer from containing a provision that restricts the ability of the carrier to furnish information on the cost of procedures or health care quality information to carrier enrollees.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2474 (Beall-D) Community care facilities: foster family agencies
Extends by one year, to 1/1/12, the sunset provision on the requirement for certain foster family agencies to employ one full-time social work supervisor for every eight social workers.
Chapter 43, Statutes of 2010
AB 2512 (Blumenfield-D) Health facilities: seismic safety
Authorizes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to enter into agreements and contracts that are necessary to carry out various duties regarding seismic safety building standards program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2523 (Nava-D) Health facilities: congregate living health facilities
Provides that a congregate living health facility not operated by a city and county that serves persons who are catastrophically and severely disabled, that is located in a county of 400,000 persons may have not more than 12 beds.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2555* (Feuer-D) Ombudsman programs: appropriation
Makes a one-time appropriation of $1.6 million from the State Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account to the Department of Aging to fund local ombudsman programs where 35 local ombudsman coordinators and volunteers monitor long-term care facilities and respond to local complaints.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2599 (Bass-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital: Medi-Cal
Requires the new nonprofit Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital that will serve the population that was served at the former the Los Angeles County Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital receive a minimum amount of Medi-Cal funding, as specified.
Chapter 267, Statutes of 2010
AB 2629 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Residential facilities
Clarifies admission and retention requirements for temporarily bedridden individuals in residential care facilities.
Chapter 211, Statutes of 2010
AB 2667 (Hill-D) Medical facilities: child passenger restraint systems
Requires medical facilities to provide contact information to parents or other responsible parties on the no-cost or low-cost assistance that is available for the inspection and installation of child passenger restraint systems.
Vetoed
AB 2675 (Chesbro-D) Health facilities: licensee orientation
Requires an applicant, or an applicant's designee, for initial licensure of an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled - habilitative or an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled - nursing to attend a 16-hour orientation program related to business management.
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2010
AB 2731 (Arambula-IN) Health care districts: federal loans or grants
Revises current law to allow a health care district to secure federal mortgage insurance, federal loans, grants, or federally insured loans issued by the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant to the federal Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act through specified financing mechanisms.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2010
ACR 123 (Chesbro-D) California Memorial Project Remembrance Day
Proclaims the third Monday of each September as California Memorial Project Remembrance Day in California, to honor and restore dignity to individuals who lived and died in California institutions.
Resolution Chapter 58, Statutes of 2010
ACR 125 (Villines-R) Health facilities: youth athlete heart screenings
Encourages all local hospitals, health facilities, and health care providers with the ability to perform electrocardiogram and echocardiogram screenings to partner with high schools in their geographic area to provide free screenings for young athletes.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2010
Health Professionals
SB 58 (Aanestad-R) Physicians and surgeons: peer review
Requires peer review bodies to annually report to the Medical Board of California (MBC) on their peer review activities involving licensees of the MBC and to comply with MBC information requests. Requires peer review bodies to administer an early detection and resolution program in which a peer review body would, where it deems appropriate, allow a physician or surgeon to complete certain training, observation, or consultation requirements instead of being subject to disciplinary action and an "805 report."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 238 (Calderon-D) Pharmacies: prescription drugs
Allows a pharmacy to mail specified written communications to a patient, without the patient's authorization, under specified conditions.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 270* (Alquist-D) Health care providers: medical information
Clarifies existing law related to delays in reporting unauthorized access to, and use or disclosure of, a patient's medical information to the Department of Public Health, makes other specified clarifications, and extends the sunset for the California Office of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Implementation.
Chapter 501, Statutes of 2010
SB 294 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts
Changes the sunset review dates on various boards, bureaus, and programs within the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 695, Statutes of 2010
SB 360 (Yee-D) Direct care nurses
Requires hospitals to ensure that all direct care registered nurses receive and complete an orientation of a minimum of five standard shifts where the orientee will be observed by an experienced direct care nurse prior to being counted toward the hospital's established nurse-to-patient ratio.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 368 (Maldonado-R) Confidential medical information
Requires the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to establish a low-interest loan program to provide any participating health institution, "eligible health provider organization", as defined, or "eligible licensed physician and surgeon", as defined, with financing for the costs of purchasing a "health care information technology system", as defined. Requires the Authority, by 1/1/12, and on an annual basis thereafter, to provide a report on the status and utilization of this loan program to the Assembly Health Committee and the Senate Health Committee.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 374 (Calderon-D) Personal trainers
Establishes educational and training requirements for personal trainers and after 1/1/12, prohibits a person from calling themselves a personal trainer unless they meet the requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1043 (Calderon-D) which died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.
SB 686 (DeSaulnier-D) Alcohol and other drug counselor licensing and certification
Establishes registration, certification, and licensure provisions relating to alcohol and other drug counselors to be administered by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP). Authorizes the DADP to commence issuing these licenses, registrations, and certificates on 1/1/12, and makes conforming changes related to child, elder, and dependent adult abuse reporting provisions.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 700 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts: peer review
Makes various changes relating to the peer review process in which a final proposed action may be imposed on a licentiate, if certain conditions are met, for which a report (commonly referred to as 805 report pursuant to Section 805 of the Business and Professions Code) is required to be filed to the appropriate health care regulatory body. Requires specified licensing agencies include in a licensee's central file a final judgment by a court that a peer review resulting in an 805 report was conducted in bad faith and any explanatory or exculpatory information submitted by a licensee.
Chapter 505, Statutes of 2010
SB 707 (DeSaulnier-D) Alcohol and other drug counselor licensing and certification
Institutes a system of certification and licensing for alcohol and other drug counselors by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 726 (Ashburn-R) Physicians: health care districts: rural hospitals
Revises an existing pilot project allowing qualified health care districts and qualified rural hospitals, as specified, to directly employ physicians and extends the sunset date for the pilot project from 1/1/11, to 1/1/18.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 761 (Aanestad-R) Health manpower pilot projects
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, no later than 6/30/10, to submit an annual report to the Legislature on all approved or renewed health workforce pilot projects.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 774 (Ashburn-R) Social workers: criminal history
Requires county welfare departments to obtain background clearances for employment applicants or transferees within the county welfare department who have frequent contact with children, and requires the county welfare director to determine whether or not there is convincing evidence that the person is of good character and should be allowed frequent and direct contact with children.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 953 (Walters-R) Podiatrists: liability for emergency services
Deletes a reference to an obsolete provision of law and states legislative intent that nothing in the bill is intended to enlarge, reduce, or otherwise modify the scope of practice of podiatrists.
Chapter 105, Statutes of 2010
SB 999 (Walters-R) Occupational therapy
Prohibits the public members of the California Board of Occupational Therapy from being licensees of any other healing arts board.
Chapter 173, Statutes of 2010
SB 1029 (Yee-D) Physicians and pharmacists: hypodermic needles and syringes
Repeals the Disease Prevention Demonstration Project in existing law. Permits pharmacists and physicians to distribute to individuals, and individuals to receive, up to 30 needles without a prescription solely for personal use, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 1031 (Corbett-D) Medical malpractice insurance
Creates the Volunteer Insured Physicians Program within the Medical Board of California to provide specified medical malpractice insurance coverage to physicians providing voluntary, uncompensated care to patients pursuant to a contract with a "qualified health care entity", as defined.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 1043 (Calderon-D) Personal trainers
Establishes and training requirements for personal trainers.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
A similar bill was SB 374 (Calderon-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
SB 1050 (Yee-D) Naturopathic Medicine Committee
Revises the membership of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California and the Naturopathic Medicine Committee (Committee), and clarifies the duties and responsibilities of the Committee.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2010
SB 1069 (Pavley-D) Physician assistants
Authorizes physician assistants to perform and certify physical examinations and other specified medical services, as specified, and authorizes state and local government agencies to rely on certificates executed by physician assistants, as specified.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 2010
SB 1094 (Aanestad-R) Healing arts: peer review
Prohibits a member of a medical or professional staff from being required to alter or surrender staff privileges, status, or membership solely due to the termination of a contract between that member and a health care facility.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 1106 (Yee-D) Prescribers: dispensing of samples
Prohibits a prescriber from dispensing a drug sample or a starter kit unless the appropriate manufacturers warning pamphlet is physically attached to the package containing the drug sample or starter kit, or the patient is provided a copy of the Food and Drug Administration approved package insert for the drug sample or starter kit.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 1111 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts: regulatory boards
Enacts the Consumer Health Protection Enforcement Act that includes various provisions affecting the investigation and enforcement of disciplinary actions against licensees of healing arts boards.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 1119 (Wright-D) Health care staffing
Requires temporary licensed nursing employment agencies to verify a nurse's fitness to work, requires certain reporting of unfit nurses, and specifies penalties for failures to do so.
Vetoed
SB 1150 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts
Requires health care provider advertisements to show license designations, requires the Medical Board of California (MBC) to adopt regulations regarding the appropriate level of physician availability needed within clinics or other settings using laser or intense pulse light devices, requires MBC to post a fact sheet on cosmetic surgery, requires MBC to adopt standards for out patient settings that offer in vitro fertilization, and makes changes to MBC oversight of accreditation agencies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1171 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts: regulatory boards: operations
Abolishes the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and authorizes the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to carry out its duties. Terminates the terms of office of each board member or bureau chief within the Department of Consumer Affairs on unspecified dates and authorizes successor board members and bureau chiefs to be appointed, as specified. Subjects interior design organizations, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the Tax Education Council, and the Naturopathic Medical Committee, and the certification of common interest development managers and massage therapists to review on unspecified dates.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1172 (Negrete McLeod-D) Healing arts: regulatory boards: diversion programs
Limits the retention requirements on records for the treatment and rehabilitation of substance-abusing licentiates, authorizes specified healing arts boards to order a licensee to cease practice due to a major violation or if the licensee has been ordered to undergo a clinical diagnostic evaluation, and orders specified healing arts boards to order a licensee to cease practice if the licensee tests positive for any substance that is prohibited under the terms of the licensee's probation or diversion program.
Chapter 517, Statutes of 2010
SB 1203 (DeSaulnier-D) Alcohol and other drug counselor licensing and certification
Establishes registration, certification, and licensure provisions relating to alcohol and other drug counselors to be administered by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP), authorizes DADP to commence issuing these licenses, registrations, and certificates on 1/1/13, and makes conforming changes related to child, elder, and dependent adult abuse reporting provisions. Makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor, and specifies various unlawful acts related to its provisions.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 1233 (Oropeza-D) Confidential address programs
Removes the sunset for the Secretary of State's Safe at Home Program, and requires that the name change records for program participants be permanently retained.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2010
SB 1246 (Negrete McLeod-D) Naturopathic medicine
Includes naturopathic doctors on the list of health care practitioners who can perform a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived, defines a "naturopathic assistant" for purposes of the Naturopathic Doctors Act, and specifies certain functions for naturopathic assistants.
Chapter 523, Statutes of 2010
SB 1332* (Dutton-R) Radiologic technology
Requires a diagnostic or therapeutic radiologic technology school that has been recognized by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) for an Accredited Educational Program in Radiography to be approved as a diagnostic or therapeutic radiologic technology school, upon meeting specified requirements. Allows a school that is in the process of obtaining recognition by JRCERT to be provisionally approved and provided a conditional permit.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2010
SB 1390 (Corbett-D) Pharmacy: prescription drug labels
Repeals the requirement that the Board of Pharmacy promulgate regulations requiring a standardized, patient-centered, prescription drug label on all prescription medications dispensed to patients in California on or before 1/1/11, and establishes requirements for standardized, patient-centered prescription drug labels.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 1410 (Cedillo-D) Medicine: licensure examinations
Deletes the four-attempt limit to obtain a passing score on Step III of the United States Medical Licensing Examination in order to be eligible for a physician's and surgeon's certificate, and requires the Medical Board of California to adopt a passing score by resolution.
Vetoed
SB 1489 (Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee) Healing arts: regulatory boards
Makes technical changes to various provisions of the health-related regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2010
SR 21 (Alquist-D) Electronic health records
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to amend or clarify the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act to allow medical groups and independent practice associations to receive federal health information technology stimulus funding to deploy electronic medical record systems on behalf of their physicians, as specified.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 160 (Hayashi-D) Registered nurses: education program
Expands the Registered Nurse Education Program to include registered nursing students who agree to serve in a kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, school.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 378* (Hagman-R) Nursing: continuing education
Requires that nursing continuing education courses contain only content relevant to the practice of nursing, as specified. Provides that continuing education courses that advance or promote labor organizing on behalf of a union, or that advance or promote statutory or regulatory changes, political candidates, political advocacy, or political strategy shall not be considered content relevant to the practice of nursing and not acceptable for meeting requirements for licensure renewal.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 418 (Emmerson-R) Pharmacy technicians: licensure requirements
Eliminates the option for a pharmacy technician to obtain licensure by certification by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board. Requires an applicant to pass a pharmacy technician examination recognized by the National Organization for Competency Assurance and approved by the Board of Pharmacy.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 445 (Salas-D) Use of x-ray equipment: prohibition: exemptions
Allows the use of a mini C-arm digital radiography device in connection with the diagnosis of bone fractures in the foot, in a licensed trauma center or an emergency department of a licensed hospital, by an orthopedic resident, an orthopedic nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant, when under the direct or indirect supervision of a certified radiological technologist.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 456 (Emmerson-R) Dentistry: diversion program
Makes changes to the Dental Board of California's diversion program for licensees who are impaired by alcohol and/or drugs.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 492 (Conway-R) Nursing faculty
Expands existing law to allow temporary clinical nursing faculty at California Community Colleges (CCC) to teach an unlimited number of semesters or quarters within any period of three consecutive years until 6/30/14, authorizes a CCC district to employ temporary clinical nursing faculty even if the hiring of such faculty results in an increase in the ratio of part-time to full-time nursing faculty in that CCC district, and makes various related findings and declarations.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 497 (Block-D) Physicians: high-occupancy vehicle lane usage
Permits a physician traveling in response to an emergency to use high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, regardless of occupancy level, if the vehicle displays an approved insignia, and doubles the fine for a physician using an HOV lane unlawfully or for a person that is not a licensed physician but who operates a car displaying a physician insignia in an HOV lane.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 526 (Fuentes-D) Public Protection and Physician Health Program Act of 2009
Enacts the Public Protection and Physician Health Program Act of 2009, which, until 1/1/21, establishes the 12-14 member Physician Health Oversight Committee. Requires the Committee to hold its first meeting by 3/1/10 and to adopt rules and regulations by 6/30/10. Authorizes the Committee to contract with any qualified physician health program for purposes of care and rehabilitation of physicians with alcohol or drug abuse or dependency problems or mental disorders, imposes requirements on the program including monitoring the status and compliance of physicians who enter treatment for a qualifying illness pursuant to written voluntary agreements, and requires the Committee to monitor compliance with these requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 549 (Furutani-D) Clinical laboratory personnel: licensure
Includes clinical biochemical geneticist on the list of clinical laboratory personnel that are eligible for licensure by the Department of Public Health (DPH). Requires DPH to issue a temporary license to a histocompatibility laboratory director, and other specified clinical laboratory personnel within 30 days of receiving a completed application, and requires DPH to adopt emergency regulations creating a trainee license category, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 564 (Portantino-D) Substance abuse treatment programs: employee salaries
Restricts the amount of compensation that a director, officer, or employee of a substance abuse treatment facility may receive from public sources and requires these compensation restrictions to be included in the terms of any public contract that uses public funds to provide drug treatment, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 583 (Hayashi-D) Health care practitioners
Requires health care practitioners to provide their name, license type, and highest level of academic degree, and board certification in a written disclosure or in their offices, as specified.
Chapter 436, Statutes of 2010
AB 646 (Swanson-D) Physicians and surgeons: employment
Revises and expands an existing pilot project which authorized "qualified health care district hospitals", as defined, to directly employ a limited number of physicians and surgeons, and instead allows for health care districts, which meet certain requirements, to employ up to five physicians and surgeons within each district and to provide employment contracts of up to 10 years, and to allow employment contracts to be renewed or extended to 12/31/20. Requires a study to be completed regarding the program and submitted to the Legislature by 6/1/18.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 648 (Chesbro-D) Physician services: rural hospitals
Establishes a demonstration project to permit "rural hospitals", as defined, whose service area includes a medically underserved or federally designated shortage area and which meet certain specified requirements, to directly employ physicians and surgeons. Provides that the total number of licensees employed shall not exceed 10, unless the Medical Board of California makes a determination that additional physicians and surgeons is deemed appropriate.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 664 (Skinner-D) Hospital employees: workers' compensation: presumption
Establishes several workers' compensation presumptions for more than 500,000 employees at hospitals statewide, including workers at private and nonprofit hospitals. Establishes a presumption that back or neck injuries and methicillin-resistant Staphylococus aureus infections are job-related during and after a period of employment at a hospital, and requires specified workers' compensation benefits to be provided.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 721 (Nava-D) Physical therapists: direct access to services
Allows an individual to initiate physical therapy treatment directly from a licensed physical therapist without a referral, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 834 (Solorio-D) Health care practitioners
Authorizes the peer review body to limit the practitioner's staff privileges, and prohibit a practitioner from seeking new staff privileges, during the pendency of the voluntary remediation. Requires the "reporting person", as defined, to file a report, as specified, with the applicable agency within 15 days following the commencement date of a voluntary remediation, to immediately file a supplementary report if the practitioner fails to fulfill the terms of the remediation, and to file another report within 30 days following completion of a remediation.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 867 (Nava-D) Doctor of Nursing Practice degree
Authorizes the California State University to establish a three-campus pilot program to independently award a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, as specified.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2010
AB 877 (Emmerson-R) Healing arts: scope of practice
Restricts legislative authority over the scope of a healing arts practice to actions and conclusions of the Executive Branch of government.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 923 (Swanson-D) Veterinarians: Department of Motor Vehicles: public records
Adds certain veterinarians and officers to the list of occupations whose records are granted enhanced confidentiality by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 933 (Fong-D) Physicians: workers' compensation: utilization review
Requires physicians in the workers' compensation system who conduct utilization review to be licensed in the state of California.
Vetoed
AB 977 (Skinner-D) Pharmacists: immunization protocols with physicians
Authorizes pharmacists to administer influenza immunizations, pursuant to standardized protocols developed and approved by the Medical Board of California, to any person 18 years or older, until 1/1/15.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 1201 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Physicians: reimbursement of physicians
Expands provisions established by SB 168 (Speier-D), Chapter 845, Statutes of 2000, and requires health plans and insurers to reimburse physicians for childhood vaccinations according to specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1235 (Hayashi-D) Healing arts: peer review
Amends the medical peer review process by recommending external peer review in limited circumstances, requires peer review bodies to share information, establishes the duties of a hearing officer, and sets parameters for attorney representation.
Vetoed
AB 1310 (Hernandez-D) Healing arts: database
Requires specified healing arts boards, bureaus and committees to collect specified information from their licensees and requires those entities and the Department of Consumer Affairs to, as much as practicable, work with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) to transfer that data to the Health Care Workforce Clearinghouse. Requires OSHPD to select a database and to also add the collected data to the database. Requires the Clearinghouse to report to the Legislature on an annual basis.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1391 (Eng-D) Acupuncture Board
Extends the sunset date of the Acupuncture Board and its authorization to appoint an executive officer from 1/1/11 to 1/1/17.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 1430 (Swanson-D) Health care professionals: pupil health
Requires any necessary medication to be administered to a student by a licensed health care professional operating within the scope of his/her practice.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1458 (Davis-D) Medical professionals: drugs: adverse effects
Requires hundreds of thousands of medical professionals statewide and in all health care settings to report adverse drug events to MedWatch, the Federal Drug Administration confidential, voluntary reporting system established in 1993 to detect safety problems with medications and medical devices.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1478 (Ammiano-D) Medical nutrition therapy: written acknowledgment
Requires that a physician and surgeon obtain a patient's written acknowledgment confirming the receipt of information regarding treatment through medical nutrition therapy prior to delivering nonemergency treatment for diabetes or heart disease.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1503 (Lieu-D) Physicians: emergency medical care: billing
Requires emergency physicians who provide emergency medical services in a hospital to provide discounts to uninsured patients, establishes limits on the expected payment for emergency medical services, as specified, limits debt collection activities, and requires hospitals to include a written description of the discount policy with the hospital discount policy.
Chapter 445, Statutes of 2010
AB 1524 (Hayashi-D) Dentistry: examination requirements
Establishes a new dental clinical exam for licensure in which dental students may complete the clinical portion of the licensure exam throughout dental school, instead of during a single examination.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2010
AB 1570 (Salas-D) Malpractice insurance: volunteer dentists
Requires the Dental Board of California, in conjunction with the Health Professions Education Foundation, to study the issue of the Board providing malpractice insurance to dentists who provide voluntary, unpaid services, and report its findings to the Legislature by 1/1/12.
Vetoed
AB 1730 (Emmerson-R) Psychotherapy/marriage and family therapists
Clarifies that the peer review liability exemption applies to review of psychotherapy services and marriage and family therapists.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2010
AB 1767 (Hill-D) Healing arts
Requires the Office of the Attorney General to represent to any licensed physician and surgeon who provided expertise to the Medical Board of California (MBC) in the evaluation of the conduct of an applicant or a licensee when, as a result of providing that expertise, the physician and surgeon is the subject of a disciplinary proceeding undertaken by a specialty board of which the physician and surgeon is a member. Extends the term of appointments of two members of the Health Professions Education Foundation appointed by the MBC to 1/1/16.
Chapter 451, Statutes of 2010
AB 1783 (Hayashi-D) Licensed dentist: change of location form
Permits a Medi-Cal dental provider to change locations within the same county by filing a change of location form in lieu of submitting a complete application package.
Chapter 192, Statutes of 2010
AB 1822 (Swanson-D) Massage therapy
Adds two additional members to the Massage Therapy Organization's board of directors, each one selected by the California Police Chiefs Association and the California State Sheriffs' Association, respectively, unless those entities choose not to do so.
Vetoed
AB 1916 (Davis-D) Pharmacies: prescriptions: reports
Requires a pharmacy to report to the Board of Pharmacy any known occurrence of a prescription being furnished to a person other than the patient named on the prescription or that patient's representative. Requires the report to include any adverse reaction that may have occurred as a result of the person to whom the prescription was furnished using the prescribed drug.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1937* (Fletcher-R) Immunizations: pupil health
Expands the health care practitioners who are authorized to administer immunizations to students with a written parental consent to include physician assistances, nurse practitioners, licensed vocational nurses, and nursing students acting under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, and applies existing requirements that apply to nurses in the administration of immunizations to these health care practitioners.
Chapter 203, Statutes of 2010
AB 1938 (Fletcher-R) Dentistry
Deletes the requirement of the Department of Consumer Affairs, in conjunction with the Dental Board of California and the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection, to review the scope of practice of dental auxiliaries and to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature by 9/1/02.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1940 (Fletcher-R) Physician assistants
Requires the Medical Board of California, within five days after the beginning of each month, to report to the State Controller the amount of all collections made under the Physician Assistant Practice Act and to pay those sums into the Physician Assistant Fund in the State Treasury.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1980 (Hayashi-D) Veterinary medicine
Changes the composition of the Veterinary Medical Board (VMB); makes permanent the multidisciplinary committee of the VMB and provides for additional duties of the committee; eliminates the Registered Veterinary Technician Committee; prohibits the use of the title "registered veterinary technician" unless registered with the VMB; requires training for an "unregistered assistant" in the use of radiation safety and techniques before they may operate radiographic equipment; clarifies the reporting requirement for veterinarians who must report any animal injuries which occurred at a rodeo event; allows students in their final year of study in a veterinary technology program to perform tasks of a registered veterinary technician; and exempts from liability veterinarians or registered veterinarians who provide services during any state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or local emergency.
Chapter 538, Statutes of 2010
AB 1994 (Skinner-D) Hospital employees: workers' compensation
Provides that back or neck injuries, MRSA, H1N1, and other blood-borne infectious diseases are presumed to be job related if suffered or contracted by a hospital employee.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1996 (Hill-D) Chiropractors: license renewal fee
Amends the Chiropractic Initiative Act of California by increasing the license renewal fees of chiropractors from $150 to $250.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2010
AB 2028 (Hernandez-D) Confidentiality of medical information: disclosure
Amends the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to expressly authorize mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect and elder and dependent adult abuse to subsequently disclose requested information to the agency investigating the report of abuse or neglect. Exempts information disclosed by a psychotherapist who is making a report from existing law's requirement that the entity requesting the information meet certain request and notification requirements. Makes a technical correction to AB 681 (Hernandez-D), Chapter 464, Statutes of 2009.
Chapter 540, Statutes of 2010
AB 2077 (Solorio-D) Pharmacy
Provides for centralized pharmacy packaging in a hospital, allowing the pharmacy to be located outside of the hospital on either the same premises or separate premises that is regulated under a hospital's license, and modifies the definition of "manufacturer" so that the compounding that is done at a pharmacy serving multiple hospitals does not inappropriately transform the same compounding activities that are now lawful at a hospital pharmacy into manufacturing activities.
Vetoed
AB 2100* (Coto-D) Taxation: sweetened beverages: Pediatric Obesity Fund
Requires monies from the Pediatric Obesity Fund, created by the bill, which is funded by sweetener tax, to be allocated to the California Department of Education for distribution of grants to eligible school districts for the purpose of employing a school nurse or health educator and creating a healthy diet and life style plan for the school.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2104 (Hayashi-D) California State Board of Pharmacy
Requires the Board of Pharmacy to receive approval from the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs to appoint its executive officer.
Chapter 374, Statutes of 2010
AB 2112 (Monning-D) Prescription Record Privacy Act
Prohibits a person or entity from selling or releasing to a third party any physician prescribing data for "marketing" purposes, as defined, makes specified exceptions, and requires a person or entity that knowingly fails to comply with these provisions be subject to a specified administrative fine.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2130 (Huber-D) Professions and vocations: sunset review
Abolishes the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and instead makes "eligible agencies", as defined, subject to review by the Joint Sunset Review Committee. Initially specifies five agencies which would be subject to review and have a sunset date of December 2012. Requires the Joint Sunset Review Committee to report to the public and the Legislature on whether an agency should be terminated, or continued, or whether its functions should be revised or consolidated with those of another agency, and include any other recommendations as necessary to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the agency and any proposed legislation to carry out its recommendations.
Chapter 670, Statutes of 2010
AB 2145 (Ammiano-D) Drug overdose treatment: liability
Seeks to expand parameters of the current pilot program authorizing opioid antagonist (Naloxone) treatment of drug overdose with limited immunity from liability.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2010
AB 2167 (Nava-D) Clinical social workers: examination requirements
Establishes new examination requirements for applicants seeking licensure as clinical social workers.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 2010
AB 2173 (Beall-D) Emergency medical air transportation providers: penalty levy
Establishes a $4 fee on every Vehicle Code violation to be collected by the county and transferred to the Department of Health Care Services for deposit in the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act Fund to be used in the Medi-Cal program to obtain federal funds and to fund supplemental payments for emergency medical air transportation services.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2010
AB 2191 (Emmerson-R) Healing arts: behavioral sciences: licensure
Requires the Board for Behavioral Sciences to issue a retired license to a marriage and family therapist, educational psychologist, clinical social worker and professional clinical counselor, as specified.
Chapter 548, Statutes of 2010
AB 2268 (Chesbro-D) Physicians: alcohol and drug abuse: treatment
Authorizes physicians and surgeons in California who are registered with the United States Attorney General, pursuant to specified federal law, to provide addiction treatments that are allowed under federal law.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2010
AB 2300 (Emmerson-R) Genetic counselors
Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to license genetic counselors who are credentialed by, and in good standing with, the American Board of Genetic Counseling, and requires DPH to issue a temporary genetic counselor license to a person who meets the requirements for licensure except for passing the certification examination, but who has applied to take the exam, or intends to take the exam, in the year of the first available examination.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2010
AB 2334 (Salas-D) Volunteer dentists: malpractice insurance
Creates the Volunteer Insured Dentists Program, administered by the Dental Board of California, to provide specified malpractice insurance coverage to volunteer dentists providing uncompensated care to low-income patients pursuant to a contract with a "qualified health care entity", as defined. Provides unspecified funding for the program from the State Dentistry Fund for a limited period of time, and requires annual reports to the Legislature until 1/1/15.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2344 (Nielsen-R) Nursing: approved schools
Clarifies that institution of higher education, for the purposes of the Board of Registered Nursing approval of nursing schools, includes community colleges and private postsecondary institutions offering an Associate of Arts (AA) or an Associate of Science (AS) degree. Clarifies that a nursing school that is not an "institution of higher education" may affiliate with an institution of higher education offering either an AA or an AS degree to individuals who graduate from the nursing school.
Chapter 208, Statutes of 2010
AB 2345 (De La Torre-D) Health professionals: elder and dependent adult abuse
Requires psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors to have instruction and training in the recognition and reporting of suspected elder and dependent adult abuse as requirements for licensure.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2010
AB 2354 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Promotores: medically underserved communities: federal grant
Requires the Department of Public Health, in consultation with the University of California, to assess the grants to promote positive health behaviors and outcomes available in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for funding opportunities related to the use of promotores by 4/1/11. Defines "promotores" as promotores de salud, also know as community health workers, peer leaders, or health advocates, who serve as a bridge between the community and the public health care system by providing health education, health promotion, prevention, informational counseling and referral information, as well as resources, in a manner that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2382 (Blumenfield-D) Doctor of Physical Therapy degree: CSU
Authorizes the California State University (CSU) to award a Doctor of Physical Therapy, establishes constraints on the funding and fees for these degree programs, requires their joint evaluation by the CSU, Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst's Office by 1/1/15, and sunsets on 1/1/19.
Chapter 425, Statutes of 2010
AB 2385 (John Perez-D) Innovative Nursing and Allied Health Care: pilot project
Establishes the Pilot Program for Innovative Nursing and Allied Health Care Profession Education at the California Community Colleges within the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to facilitate innovation in allied health and nursing educational program delivery.
Chapter 679, Statutes of 2010
AB 2386 (Gilmore-R) Medical personnel: Armed Forces
Authorizes a hospital to enter into an agreement with the Armed Forces of the United States to authorize a physician and surgeon, physician assistant, or a registered nurse to provide medical care in the hospital under specified conditions.
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2010
AB 2454 (Torlakson-D) Nurses: pupil health
Requires, commencing 7/1/20, the governing board of a school district to employ at least one school nurse, registered nurse, or licensed vocational nurse for every 750 pupils.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2456 (Torrico-D) Emergency medical technician: regulation
Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA), no later than 7/1/12, to develop regulations establishing standards for policies and procedures applicable to the functions of emergency medical technicians, authorizes EMSA to review policies and procedures adopted or approved by a local emergency medical services agency, to impose sanctions for non compliance, and to adopt a fee schedule to support the additional costs of promulgating the regulations, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2484 (Carter-D) Vocational nurses: psychiatric technicians: fees
Increase the maximum amount of the biennial licensure renewal fee and the delinquency fee set by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 2491 (Adams-R) Medical liens
Provides that the provider of any medical care or services to an injured party shall have an implied lien upon any damages recovered by that person by judgment, settlement, or compromise in the amount of the reasonable charges of the provider for that care or services, if the attorney for the injured party submits a claim for settlement purposes to an insurance company for that medical care or services on behalf of the injured party. The implied lien would be limited in application to only the attorney, and would not apply as to the insurance company.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2500 (Hagman-R) Professions and vocations: licenses: military service
Authorizes a licensee or registrant whose license expired, while on active duty as a member of the California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces, to reinstate his/her license without examination or penalty, as specified.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2010
AB 2551* (Hernandez-D) Health workforce planning
Establishes the Health Workforce Development Fund (Fund) consisting of moneys received from federal and private sources, as specified. Authorizes the Fund to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for prescribed purposes relating to health workforce development. Requires the California Workforce Investment Board and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to report specified information to the Legislature annually from 4/1/12 to 4/1/16, inclusive.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2557 (Salas-D) Dentists: government tort claims
Provides that a "licensed dentist", as defined, is entitled to all of the immunities from liability provided a public employee when treating or diagnosing a patient at no cost to the patient, as specified, and provides instead that the state may be held liable for any injury or damages resulting from that treatment or diagnosis.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2566 (Carter-D) Practice of medicine: cosmetic surgery
Provides that a business entity that offers cosmetic procedures in violation of the corporate practice of medicine prohibition and contracts with a physician and surgeon for the provision of those services is guilty of knowingly making or causing to be made a false or fraudulent claim for payment of a health care benefit.
Vetoed
AB 2683 (Hernandez-D) Optometry
Authorizes optometrists to practice in long-term care settings such as skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes), psychiatric hospitals, and intermediate care facilities.
Chapter 604, Statutes of 2010
AB 2699 (Bass-D) Healing arts: licensure exemption
Creates a state license exemption for out-of state licensed health care practitioners who provide free services on a short-term, voluntary basis to uninsured persons.
Chapter 270, Statutes of 2010
AB 2723 (Blumenfield-D) Medical information: integrity
Specifies that the term "medical information" includes personal health records and individually identifiable information.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
ACR 161 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) California Nurses Week 2010.
Proclaims 5/9/10 through 5/15/10, as California Nurses Week 2010, in recognition of the contributions that nurses have made to improve the health and safety of all Californians and to express deep appreciation to all of the state's nurses during that week and throughout the years to come.
Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2010
HR 35 (Harkey-R) National Surgical Technologist Week
Declares the week of 9/19/10 through 9/25/10, as National Surgical Technologist Week in California.
Adopted by the Assembly
Foster Care
SB 114 (Liu-D) Independent foster care adolescents: Medi-Cal
Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), commencing 4/1/10, to deem eligible for and ensure that there is no interruption in Medi-Cal coverage for an independent foster care adolescent that was in foster care on his/her 18th birthday. Requires DHCS to develop and implement a simplified form for the purposes of annually re-determining independent foster care adolescent eligibility, which the individual will return only if his/her information has changed. Provides that failure to return the annual re-determination form could not be the only reason to terminate Medi-Cal benefits to the individual. Specifies that benefits may be discontinued only after DHCS established ineligibility.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 244 (Wright-D) Foster care: children's services
Creates additional supports for foster youth and families with at-risk children.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 309 (Ducheny-D) Foster youth: public resources: conservation corps
Gives preference for membership to the California Conservation Corps to emancipated foster and at-risk youth.
Vetoed
SB 654 (Leno-D) Foster youth: Independent Living Program
Extends eligibility for independent living skills education services to former foster youth placed with non-related legal guardians.
Chapter 555, Statutes of 2010
SB 771 (Alquist-D) Foster children: Medi-Cal
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to extend Medi-Cal, including Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment, eligibility to emancipated former foster youth who are under 26 years of age to the extent federal financial participation is available, and per requirements of federal health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 945 (Liu-D) Juvenile court jurisdiction: services and benefits
Requires probation and parole officers to provide wards of the court formerly in foster care with notification regarding their eligibility for services and benefits available for former foster youth when the court terminates jurisdiction, or upon release of a ward from a non-foster care facility.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2010
SB 1099 (Correa-D) Foster care funds: subsidized child care for foster parents
Allows state child care funds to be counted as a match for federal funds for subsidized child care for foster children.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1353 (Wright-D) Foster youth: education
Requires consideration to be given to specified factors in making educational and school placement decisions for children and youth in foster care.
Chapter 557, Statutes of 2010
SB 4X8 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Foster care funding
Expands the eligibility for federal foster care funding.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, 8th Extraordinary Session
SCR 104 (Steinberg-D) Foster Care Month
Designates May 2010 as Foster Care Month.
Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SCR 35 (Steinberg-D) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.
AB 12 (Beall-D) California Fostering Connections to Success Act
Requires California to conform to federal law in order to maximize federal financial participation by opting in to kinship guardianship assistance payments provisions and extends transitional foster care services for eligible youth between 18 and 21 years of age pursuant to the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.
Chapter 559, Statutes of 2010
AB 345 (Torlakson-D) Regional occupational centers or programs
Exempts former dependents or wards of the juvenile court who reached the age of majority while in foster care (i.e., emancipated foster youth) from the regional occupational center or program adult participation cap of 10%, which is operative in the 2011-12 fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 743 (Portantino-D) Foster care: sibling placement
Requires California to place siblings together when they have been removed from their parents or guardians unless that placement is contrary to their safety or well-being pursuant to the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, and for notification to be provided to a child's attorney when there is a change in placement resulting in the separation of siblings.
Chapter 560, Statutes of 2010
AB 997 (Krekorian-D) Foster care: licensed residential facilities: sex offenders
Requires the Department of Justice, the Department of Social Services, and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to coordinate with one another to develop an approach that allows these departments to generate information identifying all sex offenders living in licensed residential, child care, or foster care facilities.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1067 (Brownley-D) Children in foster care: school proximity and travel costs
Intends to increase educational stability for children in foster care, including requiring local education agencies to provide the transportation necessary to allow foster children to remain in the school in which they were enrolled at the time of foster care placement.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1148 (Davis-D) Foster youth: Virtual Assistant Living and Education program
Requires the Office of the State Foster Care Ombudsperson to take all necessary steps to establish and implement the Virtual Assistant Living and Education (VALE) program, an interactive, secured Internet Web site that will maintain personal information relating to foster youth, as well as other specified contents, to provide the youth and their care providers with centralized access to this information. Requires the Office to ensure the confidentiality of information on the VALE Internet Web site, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1258 (Arambula-IN) Foster youth services
Deletes the statute that limits the Foster Youth Services Program to foster children who reside in a licensed foster care home or county operated juvenile detention facility.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1402 (Bass-D) Foster children: family connection grants
Requires the Department of Social Services to support California-based applications for the federal matching Family Connection Grant in order to connect foster children with family members.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1655 (Evans-D) Foster care: psychotropic medications
Establishes a pilot in three counties to add requirements to the court approval process for the administration of psychotropic medications to foster children and increase oversight following approval.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1808 (Galgiani-D) Foster children: Medi-Cal: mental health
Shifts responsibility for the provision of mental health services for foster youth placed out-of-county. Specifically, shifts the responsibility for the provision of medically necessary mental health services from the county-of-origin to the host county in order to increase access to mental heath services for youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1852 (Portantino-D) Dependent children: locating extended family members
Increases the courts' oversight efforts in the area of connecting foster children with appropriate relatives in order to form permanent family connections.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1905 (Cook-R) Foster care: funding: placement approvals
Ensures continued approval and payments for foster youth relative caregiver homes pending the annual visit to ensure the quality of care provided. Specifies the timeframe under which counties can complete late annual visits for approved relative or nonrelative extended family member foster care providers.
Chapter 562, Statutes of 2010
AB 1920 (Davis-D) Foster youth: personal information: pilot program
Requires the Department of Social Services to establish a Web-based foster care document storage pilot program and authorizes Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Bernardino counties to participate.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1933 (Brownley-D) Foster children: education
Requires a local educational agency to allow a child in foster care to remain in his/her school of origin for the duration of the court's jurisdiction.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2010
AB 1943 (Fletcher-R) Foster children: access to information
Requires the Department of Social Services to provide all county welfare departments within the state access to information relating to all foster youth in the Child Welfare Services Case Management System.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 2129 (Bass-D) Foster care: residentially based services
Extends to 7/1/14, the deadline for the Department of Social Services to develop a plan to transform the current statewide system of group homes into a system of residentially based services, and provides that voluntary agreements between counties and private nonprofit agencies to test alternative program design and funding models for transforming individual group home programs into residentially-based services programs must terminate on or before 1/1/15.
Chapter 594, Statutes of 2010
AB 2206 (Hill-D) Foster care: insurance
Expands the Foster Family Home and Small Family Home Insurance Fund liability insurance coverage for foster parents, to include all criminal or intentional acts committed against a foster child, unless committed by the foster parents themselves.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2342 (Evans-D) Foster youth: outreach programs
Requires the Office of the State Foster Care Ombudsperson to develop a resource guide for emancipating foster youth outlining statewide programs and services related to education, housing, health, independent living programs, personal finance and employment opportunities. Directs the Office to consult with relevant state departments and stakeholders to develop the resource guide, and to incorporate the guide into its existing Web site and print publications.
Vetoed
AB 2474 (Beall-D) Foster family agencies: community care facilities
Extends by one year, to 1/1/12, the sunset provision on the requirement for certain foster family agencies to employ one full-time social work supervisor for every eight social workers.
Chapter 43, Statutes of 2010
AB 2698 (Block-D) Foster youth: identity theft
Adds clarifying and technical changes to existing requirements for county welfare departments to request consumer credit disclosures (credit reports) on behalf of youth in foster care at 16 years of age in order to detect and correct potential identity theft.
Vetoed
ACR 63 (Bass-D) Foster Care Month
Declares the month of May 2009 as Foster Care Month.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Public Social Services
SB 69* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) In-home supportive services
Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a stakeholder group process and delays implementation of various provisions that were intended to take effect 11/1/09 pursuant to AB 4 X4 (Evans-D), Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, 4th Extraordinary Session, and AB 19 X4 (Evans-D), Chapter 17, Statutes of 2009-10, 4th Extraordinary Session, until 60 days after the completion of the stakeholder group process.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 141 (Maldonado-R) In-home supportive services: provider timesheets
Requires that timesheets for in-home supportive services, which are signed by the recipient and the provider of services, contain a legal certification. Provides that a person who knowingly provides false information shall be subject to a civil penalty, the minimum of which is $500 and the maximum is $1,000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 142 (Maldonado-R) In-home supportive services: provider timesheets
Requires the Department of Social Services, on or before 12/31/11, to devise a method to ensure that an in-home supportive services (IHSS) provider receives a list of approved tasks before working for an IHSS consumer.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 246 (Benoit-R) In-home supportive services: registries
Requires persons to obtain a criminal background check in order to be employed as a provider of in-home supportive services.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 384 (Benoit-R) CalWORKs eligibility: drug testing
Establishes random drug testing for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program (CalWORKs) recipients and requires recipients who fail the test to complete a one-year drug treatment program to avoid loss of CalWORKs aid.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 452 (Dutton-R) At-risk children: registration of birth
Requires the state registrar of vital statistics to notify the appropriate child protective services agency of the birth of a child to a parent who has had his/her parental rights terminated due to abuse or neglect of a child, and requires that agency to conduct an immediate investigation to ensure the infant's safety and well-being.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 654 (Leno-D) Independent Living Program
Extends eligibility for independent living skills education services to former foster youth placed with non-related legal guardians.
Chapter 555, Statutes of 2010
SB 662 (Yee-D) Domestic violence: shelter
Permits a county board of supervisors to increase the marriage license fees used to fund domestic violence shelters by $10 and clarifies when such shelters may receive these funds.
Vetoed
SB 718 (Leno-D) Public social services: CalWORKs and the Food Stamp Program
Repeals the current requirement that all adult members of a household applying for or receiving food stamps be fingerprinted as a condition of eligibility. Maintains the fingerprinting requirement for adults applying for any type of cash aid, such as California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program or general relief, and requires the Department of Social Services and the Office of Systems Integration to maintain the finger imaging system.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 886 (Florez-D) In-home supportive services providers: timekeeping
Authorizes county human services departments responsible for administering the in-home supportive services (IHSS) program to permit IHSS providers to use electronic timekeeping.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 891 (Liu-D) In-home supportive services program: needs assessment
Requires the Department of Social Services and the Department of Health Care Services to convene a stakeholder review process on specified aspects of the in-home supportive services program, and to create an implementation plan for its recommendations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 945 (Liu-D) Juvenile court jurisdiction: services and benefits
Requires probation and parole officers to provide wards of the court formerly in foster care with notification regarding their eligibility for services and benefits available for former foster youth when the court terminates jurisdiction, or upon release of a ward from a non-foster care facility.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2010
SB 1084 (Liu-D) Poverty: California Economic Security Task Force
Creates an Economic Security Task Force and requires it to develop recommendations for reducing poverty and increasing economic security among Californians.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1109* (Cox-R) California Children and Families Program: funding
Eliminates existing allocations of tobacco tax revenue under Proposition 10 to state and local county children and family's commission accounts and, instead, requires those funds to be used for the Healthy Families and Medi-Cal programs.
(Failed passage in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1196 (DeSaulnier-D) Child Care
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to comply with certain Internet Web site posting provisions for documents related to the proposed closure of the Lanterman Developmental Center.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 1214 (Wolk-D) Crisis nurseries
Extends the sunset of the Department of Social Services licensing provisions for crisis nurseries for voluntary placements until 1/1/14, and allows county child welfare services departments to continue to use crisis nurseries as an emergency placement for children in the foster care system until 7/1/12.
Chapter 519, Statues of 2010
SB 1322 (Liu-D) Food Stamp Employment and Training program
Allows participants in the Food Stamp Employment and Training program to fulfill their work requirement through a public service placement in a public or private nonprofit agency.
Vetoed
SB 1359 (Price-D) Public social services
Requires the California Research Bureau of the California State Library, no later than 7/1/11, to compile all existing information and recommendations from interested stakeholders relating to, among other things, increasing participation in federal human services programs, including the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 114 (Liu-D) California Youth Crisis Line Awareness Month
Designates July 2010 as California Youth Crisis Line Awareness Month, supports the California Youth Crisis Line and its outreach efforts to youth throughout the state, and encourage schools and organizations to share information with young people in their local communities about the California Youth Crisis Line.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 222* (Adams-R) Child care
Fixes two problems facing ancillary day care centers due to the passage of new legislation requiring a criminal records clearance for each employee by 1/1/11.
Chapter 431, Statutes of 2010
AB 325 (Beall-D) Community outreach: tax credits
Designates the Department of Community Services Development as the lead agency responsible for administering the federal Earned Income Tax Credit programs in the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 422 (Torres-D) State Youth and Family Master Plan
Requires the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency to develop the State Youth and Family Master Plan to achieve specified goals that include setting the general guiding principles the state should follow when developing policies affecting the state's youth and families and identifying all state governmental entities responsible for delivering services to youth and families and bridging the communication gaps between those entities. Requires the Secretary to schedule meetings that seek input from certain government, nonprofit, and private sector stakeholders. Requires the Secretary to annually report on the progress of the development of the plan to the Legislature and the Governor.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 452 (Yamada-D) In-home supportive services: CA Independence Act of 2009
Establishes the California Independence Program, a voluntary program for the provision of in-home supportive services (IHSS) to certain aged, blind, and disabled individuals who are otherwise ineligible for IHSS services. Makes recipients and providers of services under the California Independence Program subject to specified requirements.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 537 (Arambula-IN) Farmers' markets: electronic benefit transfers
Authorizes a group or association of active produce sellers in a flea market farmer's market or Certified Farmers' Market to act as a Food and Nutrition Service agent to initiate a system for acceptance of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) for sellers of produce; requires market operators to accommodate the Food and Nutrition Service group or association while limiting activities to only EBT activities; exempts current or subsequent EBT operating systems; and specifies that this does not mandate a market itself to create, operate, or maintain an EBT system.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2010
AB 631 (Tran-R) Public assistance: home visits
Requires an inspection of all homes for applicants to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 643 (Skinner-D) Public aid programs: eligibility: change of residence
Specifies that "aid", for purposes of the provisions relating to a recipient's change of residence, includes benefits under the food stamp program, thereby requiring county welfare offices to transfer a food stamp recipient's benefits from one county to another without requiring the recipient to reapply in the new county.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 682 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) In-home supportive services program: fraud
Requires that the criminal background checks be conducted at the provider's expense, unless the nonprofit consortium or public authority agrees to pay for the criminal background check, in which case the Department of Social Services shall seek federal financial participation, to the extent possible, to cover costs associated with conducting the criminal background check. Contingent upon enactment of AB 19 X4 (Evans-D), Chapter 17, Statutes of 2009-10, 4th Extraordinary Session.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 885* (Nestande-R) Area agencies on aging and independent living centers
Establishes a continuous appropriation from the Federal Trust Fund to the Department of Aging for the area agencies on aging and to the Department of Rehabilitation for the independent living centers in any year in which the state budget is not enacted by July 1. Authorizes the Department of Finance to reduce the applicable Budget Act allocations by the amount paid pursuant to this bill.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 963 (Ammiano-D) Public social services: eligibility
Requires the Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with counties, the Department of Social Services, and other stakeholders, to conduct a stakeholder planning workgroup to develop a single renewal and recertification form for the Medi-Cal, Food Stamp, and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1057 (Beall-D) CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program: reporting
Eliminates the Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System requirement for Food Stamp-only applicants, and instead, uses Department of Motor Vehicles or other state agency information to verify an applicant's identification and prevent duplicate aid fraud. Moves the Food Stamp and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS) programs recipient income reporting periods from quarterly to semi-annually.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1058 (Beall-D) CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits: vehicles
Excludes the value of a motor vehicle from consideration when determining or redetermining California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program eligibility. Deletes existing requirements on counties for assessing the value of a motor vehicle for the purposes of CalWORKs eligibility.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1193 (Audra Strickland-R) Public assistance: home visits
Requires the district attorney's office in the county of residence of an applicant for aid, within 10 days of the applicant's preliminary approval, to arrange for an authorized investigator to conduct a home call, consisting of a brief interview with the applicant and walk-through of the applicant's residence. Requires the district attorney's office to report its findings to the appropriate county officials prior to final approval of aid for the applicant.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1198 (Swanson-D) Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies
Eliminates California's lifetime disqualification from federal food stamps benefits for individuals who have been convicted of drug-related felonies. Allows individuals who have been convicted of drug-related felonies to receive federal food stamps benefits if certain requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1756 (Swanson-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1259 (Arambula-IN) Area agencies on aging: federal funding allocations
Allows an area agency on aging to carry over, without regard to fiscal year, up to 5% of its annual total baseline allocation under Titles III (nutrition) and VII (elder abuse prevention), of the federal Older Americans Act. Prohibits an area agency on aging from using the carried over funds to expand baseline services and specifies that carryover funds may only be used to fund the purchase of equipment, home and community-based projects approved by the Department of Aging (CDA), or pilot projects approved by CDA.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1479 (Duvall-R) Public assistance: home visits
Requires the district attorney's office in the county of residence of an applicant for aid, within 10 days of the applicant's preliminary approval, to arrange for an authorized investigator to conduct a home call, consisting of a brief interview with the applicant and walk-through of the applicant's residence. Requires the district attorney's office to report its findings to the appropriate county officials prior to final approval of aid for the applicant.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1193 (Strickland-R) which died in Assembly Human Services Committee.
AB 1612* (Assembly Budget Committee) Human services: 2010 Budget Trailer Bill
Enacts the Public Social Services 2010 Budget Trailer Bill. Makes various changes in the law relating to community care licensing, child support revenues, child welfare and foster care, CalWORKs, food stamps, and in-home supportive services.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 852 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee) which died on the Assembly Third Reading File.
AB 1642 (Beall-D) CalWORKs and Food Stamp programs: reporting
Converts the Food Stamp Program and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program recipient income reporting periods from quarterly to semi-annual, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1756 (Swanson-D) Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies
Provides that a conviction for a drug felony does not make an individual ineligible to receive food stamp benefits, if otherwise eligible.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1198 (Swanson-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1758 (Ammiano-D) County wraparound services program
Deletes the pilot program designation for county wraparound services programs designed to keep children in their homes with family-based support services as an alternative to group home placement.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2010
AB 1763* (Lieu-D) In-home supportive services
Revises and recasts provisions related to background checks and in-home supportive services.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1766 (Gaines-R) Health and human services: Placer County
Changes the date upon which the Placer County pilot program to integrate the funding and delivery of services and benefits for the county health and human services system becomes inoperative from 7/1/11 to 7/1/16, and extends the sunset date of the program from 1/1/12 to 1/1/17.
Chapter 364, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 2039 (Logue-R) which was vetoed.
AB 1801 (Yamada-D) In-home supportive services: quality assurance
Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to identify stable ongoing funding sources for in-home support services (IHSS), solicit recommendations for improving the delivery of long-term care services, as described, and solicit recommendations regarding the role the IHSS program would have in accomplishing those improvements. Requires DSS to report these findings and recommendations gathered as a result of these efforts to the Legislature on or before 5/1/11.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1852 (Portantino-D) Dependent children: locating extended family members
Increases the courts' oversight efforts in the area of connecting foster children with appropriate relatives in order to form permanent family connections.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1866 (Audra Strickland-R) Public assistance: home visits
Requires an inspection of all homes for applicants to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program.
(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1875 (Fong-D) Homelessness: Interagency Council on Homelessness
Creates the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, composed of specified members and performing duties as prescribed, to construct cross-agency and community cooperation in responding to homelessness, and to identify and apply for increased federal funding to respond to homelessness.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1914 (Davis-D) Public social services: food stamp benefits
Clarifies existing regulations for persons that are applying to the Food Stamp Program and awaiting unemployment insurance benefits.
Vetoed
AB 1924 (Audra Strickland-R) In-home supportive services: fraud
Deletes the limitation on a county's authority to investigate suspected fraud in connection with the provision or receipt of supportive services to overpayments of $500 or less.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1970 (Fong-D) In-home supportive services providers
Requires counties to assess the needs of the elderly and disabled in emergency shelters during a declared state of emergency and to provide and pay in-home supportive services providers to work with those individuals needing services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1979 (Adams-R) Child day care centers: inspections
Requires the Department of Social Services to make annual unannounced visits of all licensed child day care centers.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 2004 (Beall-D) Social services: works employment
Requires the Department of Social Services to create a civic works employment program that would be funded with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Emergency Contingency Funds).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2018 (Skinner-D) Food stamps: intercounty transfer of benefits
Establishes an inter-county transfer process for food stamp recipients who move from one county to another, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2039 (Logue-R) Public social services: Placer County
Deletes the date upon which the Placer County pilot program to integrate the funding and delivery of services and benefits for the county health and human services system becomes inoperative and deletes the sunset date.
Vetoed
A similar bill was AB 1766 (Gaines-R), Chapter 364, Statutes of 2010.
AB 2084 (Brownley-D) Child day care facilities: nutrition
Creates minimum standards for beverages that are served in licensed child day care facilities.
Chapter 593, Statutes of 2010
AB 2131 (Bass-D) Child welfare services: Budget Act of 2009: revisions
Makes revisions in appropriations for the 2009-10 fiscal year for specified child welfare services purposes.
(Died in Senate Budget Committee)
AB 2274 (Beall-D) In-home supportive services program
Allows an in-home supportive services recipient who receives services from an entity authorized by a federal Section 1115 Medicaid waiver, subject to program requirements, to select any qualified person to provide the services, and defines "qualified person" to include an employee of such an entity who is available and eligible to provide the services.
Vetoed
AB 2374 (Nestande-R) In-home supportive services: pilot project
Extends the commencement date from 1/1/09 to 1/1/11 for an in-home supportive services (IHSS) pilot project that allows severely impaired IHSS recipients the choice of receiving services through a public authority or a contracting nonprofit or proprietary agency. Allows the project to be established with fewer than five consenting counties.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2417 (Cook-R) Tribal customary adoption
Clarifies how a tribal customary adoption background check must be completed.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2010
AB 2418 (Cook-R) Indian children
Revises the definition of "Indian child" for purposes of an Indian child custody proceeding.
Chapter 468, Statutes of 2010
AB 2463 (Brownley-D) Child care resource and referral programs
Codifies and updates the activities and responsibilities of child care resource and referral programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2504 (Audra Strickland-R) CalWORKs eligibility: fraudulent representations: fines
Doubles fines for families of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Program that are found to have made fraudulent claims and diverts the funds to county district attorneys offices and special investigative units for the benefit of county general funds, the district attorneys, and the hiring of more welfare fraud investigators, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee)
ACR 110 (Conway-R) Step Up California Month and Step Up California Day
Designates February 2010 and February 2011 as Step Up California Month and 2/3/10 and 2/3/11, as Step Up California Day, and encourages and supports activities related to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity, and makes legislative findings and declarations.
Resolution Chapter 108, Statutes of 2010
ACR 151 (Ma-D) In-home supportive services
Declares the intent of the Legislature to ensure the preservation of home care and personal services to seniors and people with disabilities through the in-home supportive services program.
Resolution Chapter 143, Statutes of 2010
ACR 163 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Domestic worker rights
Encourages greater protections in federal and state law for domestic workers.
Resolution Chapter 119, Statutes of 2010
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation
SB 35 (Oropeza-D) Food donations
Requires the Governor to direct a state agency to establish and maintain a clearinghouse database that would allow a food bank or a nonprofit charitable organization that would like to receive food to contact a food facility that has an interest in donating food.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 127 (Calderon-D) Automatic external defibrillators: health studios
Removes the 7/1/12 sunset date for existing requirements that every health studio acquires and maintains an automatic external defibrillator, and train personnel in its use, thereby extending these requirements indefinitely.
Chapter 500, Statutes of 2010
SB 181 (Wright-D) Code enforcement: definitions
Defines the terms "code enforcement" and "code enforcement officers" as used in the Health and Safety Code.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 183 (Lowenthal-D) Residential building safety
Enacts the Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act of 2010, requiring all existing dwellings intended for human occupancy that have a fossil fuel burning appliance, a fireplace, or an attached garage to install a carbon monoxide device.
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2010
SB 250 (Florez-D) Dogs and cats: sterilization
Restricts the ownership of unsterilized dogs and cats and requires surgical sterilization of the animal in specified circumstances.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 371* (Cogdill-R) Clean drinking water
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2009 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.98 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills were SB 456 (Wolk-D) and SB 734 (Steinberg-D), both died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
SB 416 (Florez-D) Antibiotics: poultry and meat products
Allows a school district to make every effort to purchase poultry and meat products that have not been treated with nontherapeutic antibiotics.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 443 (Pavley-D) Public health: supermarkets
Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to conduct reviews of cleaning products used in supermarkets to determine whether there is any potential harm to consumers, employees, or the environment.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 453 (Padilla-D) Food safety
Requires an individual involved in the preparation, storage, or service of food to obtain a food handler card within 30 days after his/her hire date commencing 1/1/11.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is SB 602 (Padilla-D), Chapter 309, Statutes of 2010
SB 456* (Wolk-D) Clean drinking water
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.805 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills were SB 371 (Cogdill-R) and SB 735 (Steinberg-D), both died in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.
SB 558 (DeSaulnier-D) Alcohol Abuse: Treatment Program Fund
Establishes the Alcohol Abuse Treatment Program Fund and authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to assess and collect a fee in an amount not to exceed $0.05 per drink from every person who is engaged in business in this state and sells alcoholic beverages for resale, as prescribed to be used for alcohol abuse treatment programs.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 602* (Padilla-D) Food safety
Requires a food handler, as defined, to obtain a food handler card within 30 days after his/her hire date at a food facility, with specified exceptions, beginning 6/1/11, and mandates at least one of the accredited food safety certification examinations required under current law to be offered online.
Chapter 309, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 453 (Padilla-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
SB 735* (Steinberg-D) Clean drinking water
Enacts the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.785 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a water supply reliability and water source protection program.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills were SB 371 (Cogdill-R) and SB 456 (Wolk-D), both died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.
SB 769* (Alquist-D) Pandemic flu: federal funding
Provides that federal funding received pursuant to the federal 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act for pandemic flu preparedness and response is subject to appropriation by the Legislature for allocation by the Department of Public Health (DPH), pursuant to the 2008-09 federally approved collaborative state-local plan. Authorizes DPH to establish a minimum allocation of $100,000 to a local health jurisdiction, as specified. Requires DPH to expand its electronic communications capacity to accommodate every hospital and primary care clinic during a public health emergency.
Chapter 506, Statutes of 2010
SB 797 (Pavley-D) Product safety: bisphenol A
Prohibits, beginning in 2012, the sale, manufacture or distribution of a bottle or cup or a liquid, food or beverage in a can, jar or plastic bottle that contains bisphenol A if the item is primarily intended for children three years of age or younger, and repeals this prohibition if the Department of Toxic Substances Control adopts a regulatory response, pursuant to current "Green Chemistry" law, regarding the use of bisphenol A.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 853* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Cal eConnect: Health Budget Trailer Bill
Among other provisions, makes various changes to the Cal eConnect program which the California Health and Human Services Agency oversees in this Omnibus Health Budget Trailer Bill of 2010.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 1613 (Assembly Budget Committee) which failed passage on the Senate Floor.
SB 880 (Yee-D) Public safety: snow sport helmets
Requires any person under 18 years of age to wear a properly fitted and fastened snow sport helmet, that meets specified standards, while downhill skiing or snowboarding, or while riding upon a seat or other device that is attached, and imposes a fine of $25 for a violation of this requirement.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2010
SB 888 (Yee-D) Food safety: Asian rice-based noodles
Requires manufacturers of Asian rice-based noodles to include a label on the product packaging that includes the date of manufacture and appropriate time for consumption, and permits food facilities to sell Asian rice noodles that have been kept at room temperature for no more than four hours.
Chapter 508, Statutes of 2010
SB 902 (Ashburn-R) Fire protection: county regulation
Reduces the population threshold requirement from a county of one million or more to a county of 400,000 or more in order for that county to have the authority to regulate, by ordinance, the formation and continued existence of fire companies.
Chapter 67, Statutes of 2010
SB 918 (Pavley-D) Water recycling
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish standards for various types of water recycling.
Chapter 700, Statutes of 2010
SB 929 (Pavley-D) Children's jewelry: heavy metals
Prohibits, commencing on 1/1/12, a person from manufacturing, shipping, or selling children's jewelry that contains cadmium at any level above 300 parts per million.
Chapter 313, Statutes of 2010
SB 998 (Liu-D) Long-term care: assessment and planning
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to work with stakeholders to develop or identify a long-term care assessment tool that would identify an individual's long-term care needs. Requires counties to establish a long-term care case management program for persons who are Medi-Cal recipients or enrolled in both Medi-Cal and Medicare and residing in, applying for admission to, or at imminent risk of being placed in a long-term health care facility.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1029 (Yee-D) Hypodermic needles and syringes
Allows individuals to obtain up to 30 syringes or needles for personal use without a prescription from a pharmacy, and authorizes pharmacists and physicians to distribute up to 30 needles to an individual without a prescription solely for personal use.
Vetoed
SB 1051 (Huff-R) Emergency medical assistance
Authorizes a school district, until 1/1/16, to provide nonlicensed school employees with voluntary training for the provision of emergency medical assistance to a pupil suffering from an epileptic seizure, in the absence of licensed personnel.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1131 (Calderon-D) Cannabis and cannabis products: certificate: taxation
Creates a statewide program to license sellers and transporters of cannabis and cannabis products, administered by the Board of Equalization.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 1187 (Strickland-R) Human experimentation
Extends, to 1/1/14, the sunset in existing law that waives informed consent requirements for medical experimental treatment provided to patients in life-threatening emergencies under specified conditions.
Chapter 108, Statutes of 2010
SB 1281 (Padilla-D) Emergency medical services: defibrillators
Repeals specified maintenance, training, and notice requirements for persons or entities as it relates to civil damages resulting from acts or omissions when an automatic external defibrillator is applied.
(Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1291 (Leno-D) Chemicals of concern: flame retardants
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to include, as a chemical under consideration, any chemical that is used, or is proposed to be used, as a flame retardant, in accordance with the review process under the current chemical of concern regulations.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1365 (Corbett-D) Toy safety: consumer products
Updates California's toy safety statutes to reference the most current versions of federal law and regulations.
Chapter 331, Statutes of 2010
SB 1368 (Assembly Health Committee) Health care
Authorizes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) to charge a portion of loan insurance premium in advance, not to exceed $6 per year for each $1,000 of loan principal. Authorizes OSHPD to insure the refinancing of a loan if the amount to be insured is not more than 90 percent of the original construction costs, and makes technical changes in the Health and Safety and Insurance Codes.
Chapter 526, Statutes of 2010
SB 1395 (Alquist-D) Organ donation
Requires, on and after 7/1/11, that a person applying for or renewing a California driver's license or identification card indicate whether or not he/she will be an organ donor, and also authorizes creation of a living donor registry to sign up kidney donors.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2010
SB 1399 (Leno-D) Medical parole: medically incapacitated inmates
Provides that, except as specified, any prisoner who the head physician for the institution where the prisoner is located determines, as provided, is permanently medically incapacitated with a medical condition that renders the prisoner permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living, and results in the prisoner requiring 24-hour care, and that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing, shall be granted medical parole, if the Board of Parole Hearings determines that the conditions under which the prisoner would be released would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety.
Chapter 405, Statutes of 2010
SCA 23 (Florez-D) Food safety: antibiotics
Provides that, as of 1/1/15, no person shall, for a nontherapeutic purpose, cause any animal raised for the production of any human food product to ingest, or administer to any such animal, any antibiotic. Makes the violation of that provision a misdemeanor.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 46 (Harman-R) Aquatics Safety Month
Declares May as Aquatics Safety Month.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SCR 73 (DeSaulnier-D) California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness
Continues the existence and sets forth the membership of the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness, to perform duties to promote fitness and health in schools and workplaces. Permits the Task Force to accept private funds and in-kind donations. Requires the Task Force to submit a report on its work to the Legislature on or before 6/30/12, and provides that the Task Force cease to exist on 7/1/14, unless its existence is extended by a later enacted resolution.
Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 2010
SCR 77 (Correa-D) Childhood Obesity Prevention and Fitness Week
Proclaims the last full week in September in each year as Childhood Obesity Prevention and Fitness Week, and expresses the Legislature's support of various programs that work to reduce obesity and increase exercise among children.
Resolution Chapter 82, Statues of 2010
SCR 87 (Price-D) American Stroke Month
Declares May 2010 to be American Stroke Month in California and urges all Californians to familiarize themselves with the risk factors, and to recognize the warning signs and symptoms associated with stroke, to help reduce the devastating effects of stroke on the population.
Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2010
SCR 110 (Romero-D) Pain Awareness Month and Women In Pain Awareness Day
Recognizes September 2010 as Pain Awareness Month and call upon all Californians to observe that month by learning how to improve the quality of life of Californians suffering from pain. Recognizes 9/17/10, as Women in Pain Awareness Day to draw public attention to the gender disparity in pain assessment and treatment in the United States.
Resolution Chapter 126, Statutes of 2010
SCR 115 (DeSaulnier-D) Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month
Designates the month of October 2010 as Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 127, Statutes of 2010
SCR 119 (Wolk-D) Plasma Protein Therapies Month
Designates September 2010 as Plasma Protein Therapies Month and encourages the people of the State of California to observe the month with appropriate programs and activities.
Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2010
SJR 14 (Leno-D) Medical marijuana
Calls on the President and the Congress of the United States to take specified actions relating to the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
SR 30 (Florez-D) Horse slaughtering
Urges the Congress of the United States to support federal legislation to protect American horses from slaughter for human consumption.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SR 43 (DeSaulnier-D) Food allergy awareness week
Designates the week of 5/9/10 through 5/15/10, as Food Allergy Awareness Week, to help educate schools, restaurants, and the citizens of California as to the serious and potentially life-threatening nature of food allergies.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 52 (Portantino-D) Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program
Requests the University of California (UC) to develop a plan to establish and administer the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program (UCBCP) for the purpose of collecting units of umbilical cord blood for public use, as specified, increases the fee for birth certificate copies by $2 to provide funds to implement the UCBCP, and requires the UC to implement the plan, contingent on an unspecified amount of funds being available in the UCBCP Fund.
Chapter 529, Statutes of 2010
AB 153* (Ma-D) Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012
Amends the proposed Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, to expand the eligible uses of the $100 for groundwater cleanup projects (Water Code Section 79770 (d)) so that funds are available for "costs associated with projects, programs, or activities" rather than being limited to project costs.
Chapter 226, Statutes of 2010
AB 223 (Ma-D) Safe Body Art Act
Establishes the Safe Body Art Act to provide minimum statewide standards for the regulation of practitioners engaged in the business of tattooing, body piercing, and the application of permanent cosmetics in California.
Vetoed
AB 278 (Charles Calderon-D) Health information exchange: demonstration projects
Permits the California Office of Health Information Integrity to establish and administer up to four demonstration projects annually to evaluate potential solutions to facilitate health information exchange that promote quality of care, respect the privacy of personal health information, and enhance the trust of stakeholders.
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2010
AB 301 (Fuentes-D) Vended water
Requires applicants for a license as a water-bottling plant or as a private water source to provide information on the volume and source of the water to the Department of Public Health (DPH) and requires DPH to annually make this information available to the public.
Vetoed
AB 354 (Arambula-IN) Health: immunizations
Permits the Department of Public Health (DPH) to update vaccination requirements for children entering schools and child care facilities and adds the American Academy of Family Physicians to the list of entities whose recommendations DPH must consider when updating the list of required vaccinations.
Chapter 434, Statutes of 2010
AB 372 (Ma-D) Vital records: adoptees and birth certificates
Allows an adoptee, under certain conditions, to have access to his/her original and unredacted birth certificate.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 390 (Ammiano-D) Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act
Legalizes the possession, sale, cultivation and other conduct relating to marijuana by persons over the age of 21.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 426 (Hall-D) Pupil health
Requires the California Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, the California Diabetes Program, and the Department of Health Care Services, to recommend to the Legislature ways to address specific health-related needs of pupils on a school campus.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 471 (Nava-D) Legal services
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions in state law regarding legal services provided to state agencies and duties required by the Attorney General.
Vetoed
AB 598 (De La Torre-D) California Health Information Network
Establishes the California Health Information Network, with a specified advisory board within the Health and Human Services Agency. Requires the Network to adopt health information exchange standards by July 2010 and address a dozen goals including standardization of health transactions, gathering health data statewide, reducing administrative burdens on government, increasing uniformity of information exchanged between providers and health care settings, and providing health consumers access to health information.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 660 (Torrico-D) Sprinkler fitters: licensing
Requires any person installing or modifying a fire sprinkler system or related equipment to be licensed by the State Fire Marshal.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 710 (Yamada-D) Substance abuse and mental health services
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to consult with the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (DADP) to identify federal funds available for funding community-based organizations that provide substance abuse and mental health services to veterans, as specified. If identified, the DVA will apply for federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funds through DMH or DADP. DVA will be required to establish a certification process to certify the eligibility of community-based organizations and to establish criteria for determining renewal of funding for recipient organizations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 752* (Caballero-D) Safe Drinking Water and Water Supply Reliability Act of 2010
Defines a severely disadvantaged community as a community with a median household income of less than 60% of the statewide median household income for purposes of the provisions governing expenditure of monies in the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Small Community Grant Fund.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 874 (Saldana-D) Skateboarding: injuries
Removes the requirement that local public agencies maintain and file records regarding skateboard injuries and deletes the requirement that the Judicial Council submit a report to the Legislature on these incidents.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1021 (Emmerson-R) Food processing establishments: suspension
Permits authorized agents of the Department of Public Health (DPH) who identify conditions likely to result in illness or injury at a food processing establishment to immediately suspend the license or registration of the food processing establishment and order the food processing establishment to close immediately pending an administrative hearing. Requires the DPH to provide a licensee or registrant with a written notice that contains prescribed information about the suspension and administrative hearing.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1041 (Audra Strickland-R) Drinking water: private wells: county regulation
Prohibits a city, county, or city and county from regulating a private water system with four or fewer service connections.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1100 (Duvall-R) Potable reuse demonstration water
Defines "potable reuse demonstration water" and allows it to be bottled for consumption, subject to distribution limits and labeling requirements, for educational purposes only.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1147 (Arambula-IN) Medical waste: treatment, containment, and storage
Allows the Department of Public Health to approve alternatives to existing medical waste requirements for storage of medical waste.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1153 (Beall-D) Emergency air medical transportation providers: penalty levy
Establishes the Emergency Air Medical Transportation Act, which creates a $3 penalty assessment on all Vehicle Code violations (except parking offenses) to provide a funding source to augment Medi-Cal reimbursement for air ambulance services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1307 (Buchanan-D) Newborn genetic screening
Requires the Department of Public Health to consider including in the Newborn Screening Program screening for all conditions recommended by the American College of Medical Genetics, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1372 (Feuer-D) Food processing establishments
Requires certain food processing facilities to adopt and implement a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points plan, conduct regular testing of ingredient and product samples or specimens, and report any test result that is positive for poisonous or deleterious substances to the Department of Public Health within 24 hours.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1437 (Huffman-D) Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption
Prohibits selling shelled eggs for human consumption in California produced by egg-laying hens on farms not in compliance with California animal care standards.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2010
AB 1487* (Hill-D) Tissue donation
Extends, to 1/1/14, the date by which the Department of Public Health is required to adopt regulations prescribing sperm processing facilities' handling and storage of sperm from donors who are carriers of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human T lymphotrophic virus (HTLV), and requires a physician providing insemination and advanced reproductive technologies to make specified disclosures to a recipient of sperm from a HIV or HTLV reactive spouse, partner, or designated donor.
Chapter 444, Statues of 2010
AB 1488 (Hall-D) Public health: food justice
Requires, by 7/1/10, the Department of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Public Health and the Department of Social Services, to provide recommendations to the Legislature regarding actions that need to be taken to promote food justice in the state.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 1652 (Jones-D) Public safety: ski resorts
Imposes specified requirements on ski resorts that operate in California.
Vetoed
AB 1694 (Beall-D) Alcohol-Related Services Program
Establishes the Alcohol-Related Services (ARS) Program within the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to mitigate the harm of alcohol use and imposes a five cent mitigation fee on beer, wine, and liquor to fund the ARS Program.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1701 (Chesbro-D) Hypodermic needles and syringes
Extends the sunset date, from 12/31/10, to 12/31/18, of the Disease Prevention Demonstration Project, which permits cities or counties to authorize licensed pharmacists to sell or furnish 10 or fewer hypodermic needles or syringes to a person for use without a prescription, as specified.
Chapter 667, Statutes of 2010
AB 1733 (Hill-D) Director of CA Biotechnology Retention & Recruitment: duties
Requires the Governor to establish the position of Director of California Biotechnology Retention and Recruitment within the Governor's Office. Requires the Director to serve as a regulatory and informational resource to companies within California and to provide support to companies outside the state that are interested in relocating to California. Requires the position to be funded within existing resources.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1745 (Ammiano-D) Vital records: fees: disposition of human remains
Authorizes counties to increase fees for every burial permit (i.e., permit for disposition of human remains) it issues in order to help pay costs incurred by counties in disposing of the remains of indigent residents.
Vetoed
AB 1770 (Galgiani-D) Vital records: fees: Stanislaus County
Authorizes, as a pilot program, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors to increase specified fees to fund domestic violence prevention programs and direct services.
Chapter 578, Statutes of 2010
AB 1773 (Mendoza-D) State Fire Marshal: inspections and licensing
Authorizes the State Fire Marshal to issue civil penalties wholly or partially in lieu of suspending the license of an individual or business that violates fireworks and portable fire extinguisher and automatic extinguisher laws.
Chapter 161, Statutes of 2010
AB 1802 (Hall-D) Pupil health: diabetes: insulin injections
Permits a parent or guardian to designate a school employee to administer insulin during school, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 1858 (Blumenfield-D) Hypodermic needles and syringes: exchange services
Permits the Department of Public Health (DPH) to authorize certain entities to provide hypodermic needle and syringe exchange services consistent with state and federal standards, including those of the United States Public Health Service, in any location where DPH determines that the conditions exist for the rapid spread of HIV, viral hepatitis, or any other potentially deadly or disabling infections that are spread through the sharing of used hypodermic needles and syringes.
Vetoed
AB 1872 (Galgiani-D) Health care programs: provider reimbursement rates
Extends the 1/1/11 sunset to 1/1/14 on the existing provisions that recently made the reimbursement rate to hospitals that provide inpatient care to enrollees in the California Children's Services program and the Genetically Handicapped Person's Program 90% of the interim, cost-based Medi-Cal rate rather than the lower California Medical Assistance Commission negotiated rate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1883 (Evans-D) Certified copies of vital records: fees: domestic violence
Authorizes a county board of supervisors, upon making findings and declarations of the need for governmental oversight and coordination of domestic violence agencies and the need for funding community based domestic violence programs, to increase fees for certified copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records by up to $4, with exceptions.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 1930 (De La Torre-D) Glass beads: lead levels
Prohibits the manufacture, sale, offering for sale or offering for promotional purposes of glass beads containing arsenic or lead above a specified level if those beads will be used with blasting equipment.
Chapter 368, Statutes of 2010
AB 1931 (Torrico-D) Injury prevention
Eliminates the repeal date for the Spinal Cord Research Program. Eliminates, in statute, the Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund within the State Treasury and instead codifies current practice to permit the University of California to establish a fund to accept public and private funds.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2010
AB 1983 (Torrico-D) Safely Surrendered Baby Fund tax checkoff
Authorizes the addition of the Safely Surrendered Baby Fund checkoff to the personal income tax form upon the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the form.
Chapter 587, Statutes of 2010
AB 2000 (Hagman-R) Rabies: vaccinations
Exempts a dog from the rabies vaccination requirement if a licensed veterinarian determines, on an annual basis, that a rabies vaccination would endanger the dog's life.
(Died on Senate Floor)
AB 2001 (Harkey-R) Department of Public Health: building standards
Transfers the responsibilities of the Department of Public Health to adopt regulations related to building standards to the California Building Standards Commission.
Chapter 246, Statutes of 2010
AB 2021 (Fletcher-R) Fire protection: Designated Campus Fire Marshal
Grants the State Fire Marshal the authority to allow campus fire marshals to inspect and enforce fire and life safety standards on all University of California campuses and properties.
Chapter 370, Statutes of 2010
AB 2072 (Mendoza-D) Hearing screening: resources and services
Requires the California Department of Education, with the assistance of an advisory stakeholder panel, to develop an informational pamphlet about visual and auditory communication and language options for newborns and infants identified as deaf or hard of hearing to allow a parent to make an informed decision on which options to choose for his/her child.
Vetoed
AB 2145 (Ammiano-D) Drug overdose treatment: liability
Seeks to expand parameters of the current pilot program authorizing opioid antagonist (Naloxone) treatment of drug overdose with limited immunity from liability.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2010
AB 2190 (Block-D) Disposition of remains: authorized agent
Recognizes, in state law, the United States Department of Defense Form 93 (Record of Emergency Data) as an acceptable written instrument of a military service member's designation of a person to direct the disposition of the service member's remains in the event of their death while on active duty with the United States Armed Forces.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2197 (Coto-D) Problem and pathological gambling
Requires the Office of Problem Gambling to develop education and awareness programs that specifically target geographically diverse multi-cultural populations. Authorizes the Office to develop a grant program for education and awareness which would give preference to diverse populations and youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2248 (Hernandez-D) Emergency medical care
Requires each county establishing a Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund to include, in its annual report to the Legislature, a description of each disbursement for "other emergency medical services," if funds were disbursed for this service and other additional information regarding the monies collected and disbursed. Requires the annual report to include the reasons if no moneys were deposited into the Maddy Fund.
Vetoed
AB 2254 (Ammiano-D) Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act
Removes marijuana and its derivatives from existing statutes defining and regulating "controlled substances." Provides for regulation by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the possession, sale, cultivation, and other conduct relating to marijuana and its derivatives, not including medical marijuana, by persons 21 years of age and older, for specified purposes.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2256 (Huffman-D) Flushable products
Prohibits a person from packaging or labeling a consumer product for distribution or sale in California as flushable, sewer and septic safe, or other like term or phrase, unless the product meets certain criteria, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 2283 (Miller-R) Disposition of human remains: alkaline hydrolysis
Requires the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to adopt regulations for the safe operation of alkaline hydrolysis chambers by 7/1/11.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 2287 (Monning-D) California Health and Human Services Agency: public health
Requires the Health and Human Services Agency to direct the appropriate departments within the Agency to apply for federal grants made available by the federal Affordable Care Act to allow the state to develop a stronger evidence base of effective prevention programming and to engage in preventive care and health education activities with specified goals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2348 (Yamada-D) Vital records: fees: domestic violence
Provides, until 1/1/16, authorization to increase fees for certain vital records to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Yolo.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2432 (John Perez-D) Food facilities: prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous foods
Creates a tiered statewide standard to exempt non-grocery retailers that sell prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous food, depending on the size of their food display area, from certain requirements in the California Retail Food Code governing retail food facilities.
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2010
AB 2440 (Tom Berryhill-R) Uniform Anatomical Gift Act: prison inmates
Requires an inmate to complete an organ and tissue donor consent form upon admittance to a state prison.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2507 (Audra Strickland-R) Drinking water
Requires the local public health officer to establish standards for, and be the primary enforcement agency over, "local small water systems", as defined.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2515* (V. Manuel Perez-D) Public water systems: point-of-use treatment
Provides an expedited process for the Department of Public Health (DPH) to establish criteria for the use of point-of-use (POU) water treatment devices and authorizes the DPH to award grants for point-of-entry and POU treatment systems, provided that the water system serves a severely disadvantaged community and that the grant meets other existing requirements.
Chapter 601, Statutes of 2010
AB 2601 (Jeffries-R) Firefighting
Annually appropriates $45.6 million of revenue received by the state from the proposed Tranquillon Ridge offshore oil and gas project for firefighting purposes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2608 (Chesbro-D) Rural Health Care Equity Program
Extends, until 1/1/12, the Rural Health Care Equity Program and makes the Program available to all state employees and retired annuitants living in rural areas.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2650 (Buchanan-D) Medical marijuana
Prohibits any medical marijuana cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider who possesses, cultivates, or distributes medical marijuana, as specified, from being located within 600 feet of a public or private K-12 school.
Chapter 603, Statutes of 2010
AB 2669 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Public water systems
Adds environmental documentation to the costs of a single project that the Department of Public Health is required to determine by an assessment of affordability under the California Safe Drinking Water Act. Specifies language requirements for public water system notices.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2689* (Smyth-R) Rabies vaccinations
Authorizes the responsible city, county, or city and county in a designated rabies area to specify the means by which a dog owner is required to provide proof of his/her dog's rabies vaccination, including, but not limited to, by electronic means or facsimile.
Chapter 45, Statutes of 2010
AB 2716 (Mendoza-D) Puppies: reduced licensing fee
Provides for a reduced fee for a dog license tag, as specified above, if a certificate is presented from a licensed veterinarian stating that the dog is a puppy under the age of eight months.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2720 (John Perez-D) Public health: food access
Creates the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative Fund for the purpose of expanding access to healthy foods in underserved communities by leveraging non-state funding options. Requires, by 7/1/11, the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), in consultation with the Department of Public Health and Department of Social Services, to prepare recommended actions to be taken to promote food access within California and permits DFA to coordinate efforts to implement the federal Healthy Food Financing Initiative and maximize its funding. This authority remains in effect until 1/1/14.
Vetoed
AB 2787 (Monning-D) Office of the California Health Ombudsman
Establishes the Office of the California Health Ombudsman in state government as an independent office of health care coverage consumer assistance. The Ombudsman would be appointed by the Governor.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2791 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) California Emergency Management Agency
Makes various statutory and technical changes to reflect the merger of the former Office of Emergency Services and the former Office of Homeland Security into the California Emergency Management Agency in 1/1/09.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2010
ACR 74 (Portantino-D) Umbilical cord blood banking
States that the Legislature desires to find ways to help California gain a viable public umbilical cord blood banking system to ensure that all races and ethnicities have an equal probability of finding a match when medically necessary.
Resolution Chapter 116, Statutes of 2010
ACR 91 (Lieu-D) Adopt a Shelter Pet Month
Declares the month of September 2009 as Adopt a Shelter Pet Month, and encourages all Californians to save a life at a local shelter.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 118 (Smyth-R) Spay Day USA 2010
Declares 2/23/10 to be Spay Day USA 2010 in California, and requests that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by providing voluntary services or other support to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 145 (Brownley-D) California Healthy Schools Day
Recognizes 4/26/10 as California Healthy Schools Day.
Resolution Chapter 13, Statutes of 2010
ACR 169 (Carter-D) Hearing Aid Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of June as Hearing Aid Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 59, Statutes of 2010
ACR 171 (Gaines-R) Yellow Ribbon Week
Declares the week of 6/28/10 through 7/4/10 as Yellow Ribbon Week to show support for military families and for troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2010
ACR 180 (Beall-D) Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
Recognizes September 2010 as Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in California, in order to raise awareness of the importance of substance use disorders treatment and to help those suffering from substance use disorders and their families to receive treatment.
Resolution Chapter 169, Statutes of 2010
AJR 13 (Ammiano-D) Blood donation
Requests the President of the United States to encourage, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to adopt, policies that repeal the current donor suitability and deferral policies of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding blood donation by men who have had sex with other men and, instead, direct the FDA to develop science-based policies.
Resolution Chapter 164, Statutes of 2010
AJR 34 (Carter-D) Hearing aids
Urges the federal Food and Drug Administration to create a new over-the-counter hearing aid classification, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
Autism
SB 383 (Liu-D) Autism spectrum disorders: screening
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to partner with a regional center to create a two-year Autism Spectrum Disorders Early Screening, Intervention, and Treatment Pilot Program that would establish the best practices for early screening, diagnosis, referral, and treatment for children with autism spectrum disorders.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 682 (Padilla-D) Autism: individuals with exceptional needs
Authorizes a county office of education or consortium of county offices of education to establish and administer, to the extent federal funds are available, a pilot program to provide combined academic and occupational training to secondary school pupils with autism spectrum disorders and other exceptional needs. Sunsets 1/1/15, and requires a county office of education or consortium of county offices of education that establishes a pilot program to submit an evaluation to the California Department of Education and the Legislature by 1/1/14, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 812 (Ashburn-R) Autism: developmental services: housing
Requires cities and counties to include an analysis of the housing needs of the developmentally disabled in the analysis of special housing needs in their housing elements.
Chapter 507, Statutes of 2010
SCR 91 (Steinberg-D) Autism Awareness Month
Designates April 2010 as Autism Awareness Month, affirms the Legislatures commitment to the important issues related to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), emphasizes that each and every individual with an ASD is a valued and important member of our society, recognizes and commends the parents and relatives of individuals with ASDs for their sacrifice and dedication in providing for the special needs of individuals with ASDs, recognizes and commends the work of all nonprofit organizations that are contributing to the well-being of individuals with autism and their families, and stresses the need to identify children with ASDs and to begin early intervention services immediately after a child has been diagnosed with an ASD.
Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2010
AB 2160 (Bass-D) Autism: instruction to pupils: teacher credentialing
Extends, until 10/1/13, employment options that allow teachers who hold a credential authorizing them to teach students with mild to moderate disabilities to also serve students with autism spectrum disorders.
Chapter 134, Statutes of 2010
AJR 46 (Harkey-R) Autism: military families: Intensive Behavioral Intervention
Urges the Congress of the United States to pass legislation to fully fund Intensive Behavioral Interventions (IBI) services through TRICARE for all military families with children with autism and autism spectrum disorders, and designates IBI services as a medical necessity to make services available to children with autism of retired military personnel.
Resolution Chapter 173, Statutes of 2010
Stem Cell
SB 343 (Alquist-D) Stem cell research: intellectual property standards
Requires that intellectual property standards that the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee (ICOC) develops shall include a requirement that each grantee and the licensees of the grantee submit to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for approval of a plan that will afford uninsured Californians access to any drug that is, in whole or in part, the result of research funded by the CIRM, and requires that the grantees and licenses thereof provide drugs to California state and local government funded programs at one of the three benchmark prices in the California Discount Prescription Drug Program, except when the ICOC adopts a waiver, as specified.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1064 (Alquist-D) Stem Cell Research
Makes governance changes to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), requires triennial performance audits of CIRM and its governing board, and provides that drugs developed with CIRM grants be available at discounted prices to state and local agencies and the uninsured, and that revenues from CIRM licensing agreements be returned to the State General Fund.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2010
AJR 7 (Bass-D) Stem cell research: federal legislation
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to enact, as expeditiously as possible, legislation that embodies the policies advanced in the federal Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 4 |
Oropeza-D Smoking ban: state beaches and parks |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 35 |
Oropeza-D Food donations |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 58 |
Aanestad-R Physicians and surgeons: peer review |
Health Professionals |
| SB 69* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee In-home supportive services |
Public Social Services |
| SB 110 |
Liu-D People with disabilities: victims of crime |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 114 |
Liu-D Medi-Cal: independent foster care |
Medi-Cal Foster Care |
| SB 127 |
Calderon-D Automatic external defibrillators: health studios |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 141 |
Maldonado-R In-home supportive services: provider timesheets |
Public Social Services |
| SB 142 |
Maldonado-R In-home supportive services: provider timesheets |
Public Social Services |
| SB 152 |
Cox-R Medi-Cal funding: mental health services |
Medi-Cal Mental Health |
| SB 180* |
Florez-D California Health Alert Network participation |
Health Facilities |
| SB 181 |
Wright-D Code enforcement: definitions |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 183 |
Lowenthal-D Residential building safety |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 208* |
Steinberg-D Medi-Cal: demonstration project waiver |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 214 |
Benoit-R Sober living homes |
Health Facilities |
| SB 220 |
Yee-D Tobacco cessation services: health care coverage |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 238 |
Calderon-D Pharmacies: prescription drugs |
Health Professionals |
| SB 244 |
Wright-D Foster care: children's services |
Foster Care |
| SB 246 |
Benoit-R In-home supportive services: registries |
Public Social Services |
| SB 250 |
Florez-D Dogs and cats: sterilization |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 270* |
Alquist-D Health care providers: medical information |
Health Professionals |
| SB 289 |
Ducheny-D Hospitals: seismic safety |
Health Facilities |
| SB 294 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts |
Health Professionals |
| SB 309 |
Ducheny-D Foster youth: public resources: conservation corps |
Foster Care |
| SB 343 |
Alquist-D Stem cell research: intellectual property standards |
Stem Cell |
| SB 360 |
Yee-D Health facilities: direct care nurses |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| SB 364 |
Florez-D Health facilities: patient care |
Health Facilities |
| SB 368 |
Maldonado-R Confidential medical information |
Health Professionals |
| SB 371* |
Cogdill-R Clean drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 374 |
Calderon-D Personal trainers |
Health Professionals |
| SB 383 |
Liu-D Autism spectrum disorders: screening |
Autism |
| SB 384 |
Benoit-R CalWORKs eligibility: drug testing |
Public Social Services |
| SB 416 |
Florez-D Antibiotics: poultry and meat products |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 442 |
Ducheny-D Clinic corporation: licensing |
Health Facilities |
| SB 443 |
Pavley-D Public health: supermarkets |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 452 |
Dutton-R At-risk children: registration of birth |
Public Social Services |
| SB 453 |
Padilla-D Food safety |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 456* |
Wolk-D Clean drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 482 |
Padilla-D Biological data analysis services: regulation |
Health Facilities |
| SB 513 |
Steinberg-D Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 543 |
Leno-D Mental health treatment: minors |
Mental Health |
| SB 558 |
DeSaulnier-D Alcohol Abuse: Treatment Program Fund |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 600* |
Padilla-D Cigarette and tobacco products taxes |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 601 |
Padilla-D Retail tobacco licenses |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 602* |
Padilla-D Food safety |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 603 |
Padilla-D Retail cigarette and tobacco sales: licenses: violations |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 608 |
Alquist-D Hospitals: seismic safety |
Health Facilities |
| SB 654 |
Leno-D Foster youth: Independent Living Program |
Foster Care Public Social Services |
| SB 661 |
Wolk-D Residential care facilities for the elderly |
Health Facilities |
| SB 662 |
Yee-D Domestic violence: shelter |
Public Social Services |
| SB 682 |
Padilla-D Autism: individuals with exceptional needs |
Autism |
| SB 686 |
DeSaulnier-D Alcohol and other drug counselor licensing and certification |
Health Professionals |
| SB 687 |
Alquist-D Long-term health care facilities |
Health Facilities |
| SB 700 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts: peer review |
Health Professionals |
| SB 707 |
DeSaulnier-D Alcohol and other drug counselor licensing and certification |
Health Professionals |
| SB 718 |
Leno-D Public social services: CalWORKs and the Food Stamp Program |
Public Social Services |
| SB 724 |
Cogdill-R Hospital services: prisoners |
Health Facilities |
| SB 726 |
Ashburn-R Health care districts: rural hospitals |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| SB 732* |
Alquist-D Medi-Cal: long-term care communities |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| SB 735* |
Steinberg-D Clean drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 755 |
Negrete McLeod-D State contracts: participation goals |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 761 |
Aanestad-R Health manpower pilot projects |
Health Professionals |
| SB 769* |
Alquist-D Pandemic flu: federal funding |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 771 |
Alquist-D Medi-Cal: foster children: eligibility |
Medi-Cal Foster Care |
| SB 774 |
Ashburn-R Social workers: criminal history |
Health Professionals |
| SB 797 |
Pavley-D Product safety: bisphenol A |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 812 |
Ashburn-R Developmental services: housing |
Developmentally Disabled Autism |
| SB 817 |
Hancock-D Medi-Cal: juvenile detention facilities: Alameda County |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 836 |
Oropeza-D Breast cancer screening: expanded coverage. |
Cancer |
| SB 837 |
Florez-D Corcoran District Hospital: design-build |
Health Facilities |
| SB 853* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee AIDS/HIV: Health Budget Trailer Bill |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Medi-Cal Mental Health Developmentally Disabled Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 880 |
Yee-D Public safety: snow sport helmets |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 882* |
Corbett-D Electronic cigarettes |
Tobacco Products |
| SB 886 |
Florez-D In-home supportive services providers: timekeeping |
Public Social Services |
| SB 888 |
Yee-D Food safety: Asian rice-based noodles |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 891 |
Liu-D In-home supportive services program: needs assessment |
Public Social Services |
| SB 892 |
Alquist-D Care facilities |
Health Facilities |
| SB 902 |
Ashburn-R Fire protection: county regulation |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 918 |
Pavley-D Water recycling |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 929 |
Pavley-D Children's jewelry: heavy metals |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 945 |
Liu-D Juvenile court jurisdiction: services and benefits |
Foster Care Public Social Services |
| SB 953 |
Walters-R Podiatrists: liability for emergency services |
Health Professionals |
| SB 966 |
Alquist-D Medi-Cal: medical homes |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 971 |
Pavley-D Bleeding disorders: blood clotting products |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 975 |
Price-D Tissue bank licensing |
Health Facilities |
| SB 998 |
Liu-D Long-term care: assessment and planning |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 999 |
Walters-R Occupational therapy |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1005 |
Cox-R Health care districts: design-build |
Health Facilities |
| SB 1029 |
Yee-D Physicians and pharmacists: hypodermic needles and syringes |
Health Professionals Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1031 |
Corbett-D Medical malpractice insurance |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1043 |
Calderon-D Personal trainers |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1050 |
Yee-D Naturopathic Medicine Committee |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1051 |
Huff-R Emergency medical assistance |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1064 |
Alquist-D Stem Cell Research |
Stem Cell |
| SB 1069 |
Pavley-D Physician assistants |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1083 |
Correa-D Health facilities: licensure |
Health Facilities |
| SB 1084 |
Liu-D Poverty: California Economic Security Task Force |
Public Social Services |
| SB 1091 |
Hancock-D Medi-Cal: individuals in county juvenile facilities |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 1092 |
Cogdill-R Hospital districts |
Health Facilities |
| SB 1094 |
Aanestad-R Healing arts: peer review |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1099 |
Correa-D Foster care funds: subsidized child care for foster parents |
Foster Care |
| SB 1104 |
Cedillo-D Diabetes-related complications: health care coverage |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SB 1106 |
Yee-D Prescribers: dispensing of samples |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1109* |
Cox-R California Children and Families Program: funding |
Public Social Services |
| SB 1111 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts: regulatory boards |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1119 |
Wright-D Health care staffing |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| SB 1129 |
Wiggins-D Sonoma Developmental Center |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 1131 |
Calderon-D Cannabis and cannabis products: certificate: taxation |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1150 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1164 |
Corbett-D Health facilities: congregate living health facilities |
Health Facilities |
| SB 1171 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts: regulatory boards: operations |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1172 |
Negrete McLeod-D Healing arts: regulatory boards: diversion programs |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1184 |
Maldonado-R Medi-Cal managed care plans: administrative costs |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 1187 |
Strickland-R Human experimentation |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1188 |
Wright-D Disabled parent: child custody |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 1196 |
DeSaulnier-D Child Care |
Public Social Services |
| SB 1203 |
DeSaulnier-D Alcohol and other drug counselor licensing and certification |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1214 |
Wolk-D Crisis nurseries |
Public Social Services |
| SB 1233 |
Oropeza-D Confidential address programs |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1236 |
Alquist-D Medi-Cal: utilization controls |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 1237 |
Padilla-D Health facilities and clinics: radiation control: records |
Health Facilities |
| SB 1240 |
Corbett-D Local health care districts: operation of facilities |
Health Facilities |
| SB 1246 |
Negrete McLeod-D Naturopathic medicine |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1256 |
Hancock-D Ed Roberts Day |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SB 1281 |
Padilla-D Emergency medical services: defibrillators |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1291 |
Leno-D Chemicals of concern: flame retardants |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1322 |
Liu-D Food Stamp Employment and Training program |
Public Social Services |
| SB 1329 |
Leno-D Residential care facilities for the elderly |
Health Facilities |
| SB 1332* |
Dutton-R Radiologic technology |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1353 |
Wright-D Foster youth: education |
Foster Care |
| SB 1359 |
Price-D Public social services |
Public Social Services |
| SB 1365 |
Corbett-D Toy safety: consumer products |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1368 |
Assembly Health Committee Health care |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1378 |
Strickland-R Medi-Cal: expansion limitation |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 1390 |
Corbett-D Pharmacy: prescription drug labels |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1392 |
Steinberg-D Mental health: community mental health services |
Mental Health |
| SB 1395 |
Alquist-D Organ donation |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1399 |
Leno-D Medical parole: medically incapacitated inmates |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 1409 |
Price-D Medi-Cal: hospital project funding: County of Los Angeles |
Medi-Cal |
| SB 1410 |
Cedillo-D Medicine: licensure examinations |
Health Professionals |
| SB 1458* |
Cogdill-R Hospital districts |
Health Facilities |
| SB 1489 |
Senate Business, Professions And Economic Development Committee Healing arts: regulatory boards |
Health Professionals |
| SCA 23 |
Florez-D Food safety: antibiotics |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 46 |
Harman-R Aquatics Safety Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 64 |
Romero-D American Heart Month and Wear Red Day |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 66 |
Steinberg-D Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month |
Cancer |
| SCR 73 |
DeSaulnier-D California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 77 |
Correa-D Childhood Obesity Prevention and Fitness Week |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 80 |
Wolk-D Lyme Disease |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 82 |
Wolk-D Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 86 |
Aanestad-R Prostate Cancer Awareness Month |
Cancer |
| SCR 87 |
Price-D American Stroke Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 91 |
Steinberg-D Autism Awareness Month |
Autism |
| SCR 97 |
Yee-D Asian Pacific American Mental Health Day |
Mental Health |
| SCR 98 |
Strickland-R Spinal muscular atrophy |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 99 |
Strickland-R Lupus Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 104 |
Steinberg-D Foster Care Month |
Foster Care |
| SCR 110 |
Romero-D Pain Awareness Month and Women In Pain Awareness Day |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 111 |
Wright-D California Chronic Kidney Disease Education Week |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SCR 114 |
Liu-D California Youth Crisis Line Awareness Month |
Public Social Services |
| SCR 115 |
DeSaulnier-D Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 119 |
Wolk-D Plasma Protein Therapies Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SCR 121 |
Alquist-D Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SJR 8 |
Corbett-D Electronic cigarettes |
Tobacco Products |
| SJR 13 |
Oropeza-D New dialysis clinic licensure and certification |
Health Facilities |
| SJR 14 |
Leno-D Medical marijuana |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SJR 15 |
Alquist-D Public health laboratories |
Health Facilities |
| SJR 23 |
Simitian-D Mitochondrial disease: federal support for research |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SJR 31 |
Pavley-D Individuals with disabilities: tax exempt accounts |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SJR 35 |
Corbett-D Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 |
Developmentally Disabled |
| SR 21 |
Alquist-D Electronic health records |
Health Professionals |
| SR 26 |
Runner-R Relative to pulmonary hypertension disorder |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SR 28 |
Wyland-R Rett Syndrome Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SR 30 |
Florez-D Horse slaughtering |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SR 37 |
Liu-D Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| SR 43 |
DeSaulnier-D Food allergy awareness week |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| SB 4X8 |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Social services |
Developmentally Disabled Foster Care |
| AB 12 |
Beall-D California Fostering Connections to Success Act |
Foster Care |
| AB 52 |
Portantino-D Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 75* |
Huffman-D Medi-Cal: hospital payments |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 89* |
Torlakson-D Cigarettes and other tobacco products: taxation |
Tobacco Products |
| AB 113 |
Portantino-D Mammographies: health care coverage |
Cancer |
| AB 128 |
Coto-D Cancer presumption: workers' compensation |
Cancer |
| AB 152 |
Carter-D Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act: disability |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 153* |
Ma-D Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012 |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 159 |
Nava-D Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: task force |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 160 |
Hayashi-D Registered nurses: education program |
Health Professionals |
| AB 163 |
Emmerson-R Amino acid-based elemental formulas |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 222* |
Adams-R Child care |
Public Social Services |
| AB 223 |
Ma-D Safe Body Art Act |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 278 |
Charles Calderon-D Health information exchange: demonstration projects |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 301 |
Fuentes-D Vended water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 325 |
Beall-D Community outreach: tax credits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 334 |
Fuentes-D Medi-Cal: eligibility: inmates |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 342* |
Bass-D Medi-Cal: demonstration project waiver |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 345 |
Torlakson-D Regional occupational centers or programs |
Foster Care |
| AB 354 |
Arambula-IN Health: immunizations |
Other Diseases/Disorders Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 366 |
Ruskin-D Cancer of the bone: orthopedic implantation |
Cancer |
| AB 367* |
Galgiani-D HIV treatment: Medi-Cal |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Medi-Cal |
| AB 372 |
Ma-D Vital records: adoptees and birth certificates |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 378* |
Hagman-R Nursing: continuing education |
Health Professionals |
| AB 390 |
Ammiano-D Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 393 |
Yamada-D Disabled rights: vehicle warranties |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 411 |
Garrick-R Health facilities: seismic safety |
Health Facilities |
| AB 416 |
Block-D Developmental services: consumer abuse registry |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 417 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal Drug Treatment Program: buprenorphine |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 418 |
Emmerson-R Pharmacy technicians: licensure requirements |
Health Professionals |
| AB 420 |
Salas-D Perinatal disorders: maternal health |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 421* |
Beall-D Seriously emotionally disturbed children |
Mental Health |
| AB 422 |
Torres-D State Youth and Family Master Plan |
Public Social Services |
| AB 426 |
Hall-D Pupil health |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 435* |
Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee Regional centers: whistleblower protection |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 438 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal: treatment authorization requests |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 445 |
Salas-D Use of x-ray equipment: prohibition: exemptions |
Health Professionals |
| AB 452 |
Yamada-D In-home supportive services: CA Independence Act of 2009 |
Public Social Services |
| AB 456 |
Emmerson-R Dentistry: diversion program |
Health Professionals |
| AB 471 |
Nava-D Legal services |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 492 |
Conway-R Nursing faculty |
Health Professionals |
| AB 497 |
Block-D Physicians: high-occupancy vehicle lane usage |
Health Professionals |
| AB 511 |
De La Torre-D Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services providers |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 526 |
Fuentes-D Public Protection and Physician Health Program Act of 2009 |
Health Professionals |
| AB 535 |
Ammiano-D Nursing facilities: elder death review teams |
Health Facilities |
| AB 537 |
Arambula-IN Farmers' markets: electronic benefit transfers |
Public Social Services |
| AB 542 |
Feuer-D Hospital acquired conditions |
Health Facilities |
| AB 549 |
Furutani-D Clinical laboratory personnel: licensure |
Health Professionals |
| AB 564 |
Portantino-D Substance abuse treatment facilities |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 583 |
Hayashi-D Health care practitioners |
Health Professionals |
| AB 598 |
De La Torre-D California Health Information Network |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 613 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal: treatment authorization requests |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 631 |
Tran-R Public assistance: home visits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 639 |
Torlakson-D Poison control centers |
Health Facilities |
| AB 643 |
Skinner-D Public aid programs: eligibility: change of residence |
Public Social Services |
| AB 646 |
Swanson-D Physicians and surgeons: employment |
Health Professionals |
| AB 648 |
Chesbro-D Rural hospitals: physician services |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 660 |
Torrico-D Sprinkler fitters: licensing |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 664 |
Skinner-D Hospital employees: workers' compensation: presumption |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 682 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D In-home supportive services program: fraud |
Public Social Services |
| AB 689 |
Charles Calderon-D Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law: tobacco products |
Tobacco Products |
| AB 710 |
Yamada-D Mental health services: veterans |
Mental Health Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 721 |
Nava-D Physical therapists: direct access to services |
Health Professionals |
| AB 728* |
Nielsen-R Medi-Cal: hospitals: reimbursements |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 743 |
Portantino-D Foster care: sibling placement |
Foster Care |
| AB 752* |
Caballero-D Safe Drinking Water and Water Supply Reliability Act of 2010 |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 754 |
Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: mental health plans |
Medi-Cal Mental Health |
| AB 822 |
Fletcher-R Health facilities: program flexibility |
Health Facilities |
| AB 834 |
Solorio-D Health care practitioners |
Health Professionals |
| AB 867 |
Nava-D Doctor of Nursing Practice degree |
Health Professionals |
| AB 874 |
Saldana-D Skateboarding: injuries |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 877 |
Emmerson-R Healing arts: scope of practice |
Health Professionals |
| AB 885* |
Nestande-R Area agencies on aging and independent living centers |
Public Social Services |
| AB 923 |
Swanson-D Veterinarians: Department of Motor Vehicles: public records |
Health Professionals |
| AB 933 |
Fong-D Physicians: workers' compensation: utilization review |
Health Professionals |
| AB 935 |
Feuer-D Long-term health care facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 950 |
Hernandez-D Licensed hospice facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 963 |
Ammiano-D Public social services: eligibility |
Public Social Services |
| AB 977 |
Skinner-D Pharmacists: immunization protocols with physicians |
Health Professionals |
| AB 997 |
Krekorian-D Foster care: licensed residential facilities: sex offenders |
Foster Care |
| AB 998 |
John Perez-D Medi-Cal: organ transplants: anti-rejection medication |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1021 |
Emmerson-R Food processing establishments: suspension |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1037 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Medi-Cal: managed care |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1038 |
Furutani-D Health facilities: nursing hours |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1041 |
Audra Strickland-R Drinking water: private wells: county regulation |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1044 |
Jones-D Continuing care retirement communities: contracts |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1055 |
Chesbro-D Substance abuse treatment facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1057 |
Beall-D CalWORKs and Food Stamp Program: reporting |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1058 |
Beall-D CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits: vehicles |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1067 |
Brownley-D Children in foster care: school proximity and travel costs |
Foster Care |
| AB 1100 |
Duvall-R Potable reuse demonstration water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1147 |
Arambula-IN Medical waste: treatment, containment, and storage |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1148 |
Davis-D Foster youth: Virtual Assistant Living and Education program |
Foster Care |
| AB 1153 |
Beall-D Emergency air medical transportation providers: penalty levy |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1171 |
Ammiano-D Disabled: rental property |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1174 |
Hernandez-D Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1193 |
Audra Strickland-R Public assistance: home visits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1198 |
Swanson-D Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1201 |
V. Manuel Perez-D Physicians: reimbursement of physicians |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1213 |
Skinner-D Employment of persons with disabilities |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1225 |
De La Torre-D Infectious diseases: emergency/disaster response exercises |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 1235 |
Hayashi-D Healing arts: peer review |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1258 |
Arambula-IN Foster youth services |
Foster Care |
| AB 1259 |
Arambula-IN Area agencies on aging: federal funding allocations |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1272 |
Hill-D Trauma centers |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1284 |
Huffman-D Substance abuse: adult recovery maintenance facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1303 |
Hall-D Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital: reopening plan |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1307 |
Buchanan-D Newborn genetic screening |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1310 |
Hernandez-D Healing arts: database |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1314 |
Jones-D Medi-Cal: health care coverage |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1372 |
Feuer-D Food processing establishments |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1391 |
Eng-D Acupuncture Board |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1402 |
Bass-D Foster children: family connection grants |
Foster Care |
| AB 1418 |
Smyth-R Communicable diseases reporting: local health officers |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 1427 |
Hayashi-D Hospital districts |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1430 |
Swanson-D Health care professionals: pupil health |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1433 |
Eng-D Continuing care contracts: residential temporary relocation |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1437 |
Huffman-D Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1445 |
Chesbro-D Medi-Cal: health centers and rural health clinics |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 1458 |
Davis-D Medical professionals: drugs: adverse effects |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1472 |
Torrico-D Medi-Cal: long-term care reimbursement |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1478 |
Ammiano-D Medical nutrition therapy: written acknowledgment |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1479 |
Duvall-R Public assistance: home visits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1487* |
Hill-D HIV virus: tissue donation |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1488 |
Hall-D Public health: food justice |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1503 |
Lieu-D Physicians: emergency medical care: billing |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1524 |
Hayashi-D Dentistry: examination requirements |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1542* |
Assembly Health Committee Medical homes |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1570 |
Salas-D Malpractice insurance: volunteer dentists |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1589 |
Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee Regional centers: whistleblower protection |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1593 |
Yamada-D Adult day health care centers |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1595 |
Jones-D Medi-Cal: eligibility |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1599 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal: alcohol and drug screening and brief intervention |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1600 |
Beall-D Mental health services: health care coverage |
Mental Health |
| AB 1606 |
Coto-D Chronic disease: programs |
Other Diseases/Disorders Medi-Cal |
| AB 1612* |
Assembly Budget Committee Human services: 2010 Budget Trailer Bill |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1629* |
Assembly Budget Committee Agnews/Bay Area Housing Plan |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1640 |
Evans-D Breast and cervical cancer screening |
Cancer |
| AB 1642 |
Beall-D CalWORKs and Food Stamp programs: reporting |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1652 |
Jones-D Public safety: ski resorts |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1653* |
Jones-D Medi-Cal: hospitals: mental health plans: fees |
Medi-Cal Mental Health Health Facilities |
| AB 1655 |
Evans-D Foster care: psychotropic medications |
Foster Care |
| AB 1694 |
Beall-D Alcohol-Related Services Program |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1701 |
Chesbro-D Hypodermic needles and syringes |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1725 |
Swanson-D HIV testing: inmates |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AB 1730 |
Emmerson-R Psychotherapy/marriage and family therapists |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1733 |
Hill-D Director of CA Biotechnology Retention & Recruitment: duties |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1745 |
Ammiano-D Vital records: fees: disposition of human remains |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1756 |
Swanson-D Food stamps: eligibility: drug felonies |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1758 |
Ammiano-D County wraparound services program |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1763* |
Lieu-D In-home supportive services |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1766 |
Gaines-R Health and human services: Placer County |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1767 |
Hill-D Healing arts |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1770 |
Galgiani-D Vital records: fees: Stanislaus County |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1773 |
Mendoza-D State Fire Marshal: inspections and licensing |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1783 |
Hayashi-D Medi-Cal: licensed dentist: change of location form |
Medi-Cal Health Professionals |
| AB 1801 |
Yamada-D In-home supportive services: quality assurance |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1802 |
Hall-D Diabetes: insulin injections |
Other Diseases/Disorders Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1808 |
Galgiani-D Medi-Cal: mental health services: foster children |
Medi-Cal Mental Health Foster Care |
| AB 1822 |
Swanson-D Massage therapy |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1852 |
Portantino-D Dependent children: locating extended family members |
Foster Care Public Social Services |
| AB 1853 |
De La Torre-D Corcoran District Hospital: design-build |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1855 |
Yamada-D Disabled person or disabled vehicle veteran placard |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1858 |
Blumenfield-D Needles and syringes: exchange services |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1863 |
Gaines-R Health facilities: diesel generators |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1864 |
Audra Strickland-R HIV drug treatment: Medi-Cal |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Medi-Cal Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 1866 |
Audra Strickland-R Public assistance: home visits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1872 |
Galgiani-D Medi-Cal: health care programs: provider reimbursement rates |
Medi-Cal Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1875 |
Fong-D Homelessness: Interagency Council on Homelessness |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1882 |
Portantino-D Health facilities: chilling or therapeutic hypothermia |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1883 |
Evans-D Certified copies of vital records: fees: domestic violence |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1905 |
Cook-R Foster care: funding: placement approvals |
Foster Care |
| AB 1914 |
Davis-D Public social services: food stamp benefits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1916 |
Davis-D Pharmacies: prescriptions: reports |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1920 |
Davis-D Foster youth: personal information: pilot program |
Foster Care |
| AB 1924 |
Audra Strickland-R In-home supportive services: fraud |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1930 |
De La Torre-D Glass beads: lead levels |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1931 |
Torrico-D Injury prevention |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1932 |
Hernandez-D Medi-Cal: ambulance transportation services: reimbursement |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1933 |
Brownley-D Foster children: education |
Foster Care |
| AB 1937* |
Fletcher-R Immunizations: pupil health |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1938 |
Fletcher-R Dentistry |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1940 |
Fletcher-R Physician assistants |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1943 |
Fletcher-R Foster children: access to information |
Foster Care |
| AB 1963 |
Nava-D Clinical laboratories: pesticide poisoning. |
Health Facilities |
| AB 1966 |
Fletcher-R Medi-Cal: federally qualified health center services |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 1970 |
Fong-D In-home supportive services providers |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1979 |
Adams-R Child day care centers: inspections |
Public Social Services |
| AB 1980 |
Hayashi-D Veterinary medicine |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1983 |
Torrico-D Safely Surrendered Baby Fund tax checkoff |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 1994 |
Skinner-D Hospital employees: workers' compensation |
Health Professionals |
| AB 1996 |
Hill-D Chiropractors: license renewal fee |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2000 |
Hagman-R Rabies: vaccinations |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2001 |
Harkey-R Department of Public Health: building standards |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2004 |
Beall-D Social services: works employment |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2018 |
Skinner-D Food stamps: intercounty transfer of benefits |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2021 |
Fletcher-R Fire protection: Designated Campus Fire Marshal |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2025* |
De La Torre-D Medi-Cal: demonstration project |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 2028 |
Hernandez-D Confidentiality of medical information: disclosure |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2039 |
Logue-R Public social services: Placer County |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2051 |
Tran-R Disabled: emergency services: preparedness |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2072 |
Mendoza-D Hearing screening: resources and services |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2073 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Medi-Cal: adult day health care services |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 2077 |
Solorio-D Hospital pharmacies |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 2084 |
Brownley-D Child day care facilities: nutrition |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2100* |
Coto-D Taxation: sweetened beverages: Pediatric Obesity Fund |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2104 |
Hayashi-D California State Board of Pharmacy |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2112 |
Monning-D Prescription Record Privacy Act |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2127 |
Nestande-R Medi-Cal: nonemergency transportation services |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 2129 |
Bass-D Foster care: residentially based services |
Foster Care |
| AB 2130 |
Huber-D Professions and vocations: sunset review |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2131 |
Bass-D Child welfare services: Budget Act of 2009: revisions |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2145 |
Ammiano-D Drug overdose treatment: liability |
Health Professionals Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2153 |
Lieu-D Emergency room crowding |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2160 |
Bass-D Autism: instruction to pupils: teacher credentialing |
Autism |
| AB 2165* |
Knight-R Health care facility: California Environmental Quality Act |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2167 |
Nava-D Clinical social workers: examination requirements |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2173 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal: emergency medical air transportation providers |
Medi-Cal Health Professionals |
| AB 2174 |
Beall-D Medi-Cal: pediatric subacute care units: respiratory therapy |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 2190 |
Block-D Disposition of remains: authorized agent |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2191 |
Emmerson-R Healing arts: behavioral sciences: licensure |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2194 |
Fletcher-R Health facilities: program flexibility |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2197 |
Coto-D Problem and pathological gambling |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2199 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Mental health: sexual deviation: research |
Mental Health |
| AB 2204 |
Beall-D Developmental services: stakeholder groups |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2206 |
Hill-D Foster care: insurance |
Foster Care |
| AB 2220 |
Silva-R Regional centers: public records |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2221 |
Beall-D Substance abuse: treatment facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2234 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Mental health: target populations: older adults |
Mental Health |
| AB 2248 |
Hernandez-D Emergency medical care |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2254 |
Ammiano-D Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2256 |
Huffman-D Flushable products |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2268 |
Chesbro-D Physicians: alcohol and drug abuse: treatment |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2274 |
Beall-D In-home supportive services program |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2283 |
Miller-R Disposition of human remains: alkaline hydrolysis |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2287 |
Monning-D California Health and Human Services Agency: public health |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2292 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Pharmacy: clinics |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2300 |
Emmerson-R Genetic counselors |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2334 |
Salas-D Volunteer dentists: malpractice insurance |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2342 |
Evans-D Foster youth: outreach programs |
Foster Care |
| AB 2344 |
Nielsen-R Nursing: approved schools |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2345 |
De La Torre-D Health professionals: elder and dependent adult abuse |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2348 |
Yamada-D Vital records: fees: domestic violence |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2352 |
John Perez-D Medi-Cal: organ transplants: antirejection medication |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 2354 |
V. Manuel Perez-D Promotores: medically underserved communities: federal grant |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2374 |
Nestande-R In-home supportive services: pilot project |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2382 |
Blumenfield-D Doctor of Physical Therapy degree: CSU |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2385 |
John Perez-D Innovative Nursing and Allied Health Care: pilot project |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2386 |
Gilmore-R Hospitals: Armed Forces: medical personnel |
Health Facilities Health Professionals |
| AB 2389 |
Gaines-R Health facilities: health care coverage |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2417 |
Cook-R Tribal customary adoption |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2418 |
Cook-R Indian children |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2430 |
Chesbro-D Department of Rehabilitation: blindness |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2432 |
John Perez-D Food facilities: prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous foods |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2440 |
Tom Berryhill-R Uniform Anatomical Gift Act: prison inmates |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2454 |
Torlakson-D Nurses: pupil health |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2456 |
Torrico-D Emergency medical technician: regulation |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2463 |
Brownley-D Child care resource and referral programs |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2474 |
Beall-D Community care facilities: foster family agencies |
Health Facilities Foster Care |
| AB 2477 |
Jones-D Medi-Cal: continuous eligibility |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 2484 |
Carter-D Vocational nurses: psychiatric technicians: fees |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2491 |
Adams-R Medical liens |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2496 |
Nava-D Cigarette and tobacco products |
Tobacco Products |
| AB 2500 |
Hagman-R Professions and vocations: licenses: military service |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2504 |
Audra Strickland-R CalWORKs eligibility: fraudulent representations: fines |
Public Social Services |
| AB 2506 |
Carter-D Mental health: medical transportation services |
Mental Health |
| AB 2507 |
Audra Strickland-R Drinking water |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2512 |
Blumenfield-D Health facilities: seismic safety |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2515* |
V. Manuel Perez-D Public water systems: point-of-use treatment |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2523 |
Nava-D Health facilities: congregate living health facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2541 |
Portantino-D HIV reporting |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2551* |
Hernandez-D Health workforce planning |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2555* |
Feuer-D Ombudsman programs: appropriation |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2557 |
Salas-D Dentists: government tort claims |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2566 |
Carter-D Practice of medicine: cosmetic surgery |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2590 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D AIDS testing: disclosure of results |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Medi-Cal |
| AB 2599 |
Bass-D Medi-Cal: South Los Angeles |
Medi-Cal Health Facilities |
| AB 2601 |
Jeffries-R Firefighting |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2608 |
Chesbro-D Rural Health Care Equity Program |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2629 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D Residential facilities |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2635 |
Portantino-D Communicable disease: involuntary testing |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2645* |
Chesbro-D Mental health: skilled nursing facilities: reimbursement |
Mental Health |
| AB 2648 |
De Leon-D Cancer screening: Medi-Cal |
Cancer Medi-Cal |
| AB 2650 |
Buchanan-D Medical marijuana |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2661 |
Salas-D Mental health assessments: California National Guard |
Mental Health |
| AB 2667 |
Hill-D Medical facilities: child passenger restraint systems |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2669 |
V. Manuel Perez-D Public water systems |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2675 |
Chesbro-D Health facilities: licensee orientation |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2683 |
Hernandez-D Optometry |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2689* |
Smyth-R Rabies vaccinations |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2698 |
Block-D Foster youth: identity theft |
Foster Care |
| AB 2699 |
Bass-D Healing arts: licensure exemption |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2702 |
Chesbro-D Developmental services: planning teams |
Developmentally Disabled |
| AB 2716 |
Mendoza-D Puppies: reduced licensing fee |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2720 |
John Perez-D Public health: food access |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2723 |
Blumenfield-D Medical information: integrity |
Health Professionals |
| AB 2731 |
Arambula-IN Health care districts: federal loans or grants |
Health Facilities |
| AB 2733 |
Ruskin-D Cigarettes and tobacco products |
Tobacco Products |
| AB 2757 |
Bradford-D Tobacco products: blunt wraps |
Tobacco Products |
| AB 2780* |
Solorio-D Medi-Cal costs: workers' compensation: individually |
Medi-Cal |
| AB 2786 |
Assembly Health Committee Reportable diseases and conditions |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| AB 2787 |
Monning-D Office of the California Health Ombudsman |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AB 2791 |
Assembly Governmental Organization Committee California Emergency Management Agency |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACA 22 |
Torlakson-D Taxation: cigarettes and other tobacco products |
Tobacco Products |
| ACR 63 |
Bass-D Foster Care Month |
Foster Care |
| ACR 74 |
Portantino-D Umbilical cord blood banking |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 91 |
Lieu-D Adopt a Shelter Pet Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 105 |
Nava-D Perinatal Depression Awareness Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 110 |
Conway-R Step Up California Month and Step Up California Day |
Public Social Services |
| ACR 117 |
Hill-D Rare Disease Day |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 118 |
Smyth-R Spay Day USA 2010 |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 123 |
Chesbro-D California Memorial Project Remembrance Day |
Health Facilities |
| ACR 125 |
Villines-R Health facilities: youth athlete heart screenings |
Health Facilities |
| ACR 135 |
Smyth-R West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 141 |
Blakeslee-R Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 145 |
Brownley-D California Healthy Schools Day |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 150 |
Carter-D African American Mental Health Awareness Week |
Mental Health |
| ACR 151 |
Ma-D In-home supportive services |
Public Social Services |
| ACR 161 |
Bonnie Lowenthal-D California Nurses Week 2010. |
Health Professionals |
| ACR 162 |
Beall-D Disability History Week |
Developmentally Disabled |
| ACR 163 |
V. Manuel Perez-D Domestic worker rights |
Public Social Services |
| ACR 167 |
Ma-D Students with Epilepsy Month |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 168 |
Galgiani-D Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| ACR 169 |
Carter-D Hearing Aid Awareness Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 171 |
Gaines-R Yellow Ribbon Week |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| ACR 177 |
Yamada-D 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act |
Developmentally Disabled |
| ACR 180 |
Beall-D Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AJR 7 |
Bass-D Stem cell research: federal legislation |
Stem Cell |
| AJR 13 |
Ammiano-D Blood donation |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AJR 34 |
Carter-D Hearing aids |
Other Public Health and Safety Legislation |
| AJR 46 |
Harkey-R Autism: military families: Intensive Behavioral Intervention |
Autism |
| HR 31 |
Eng-D Chronic kidney disease: task force |
Other Diseases/Disorders |
| HR 35 |
Harkey-R National Surgical Technologist Week |
Health Professionals |
| HR 36 |
Torres-D Suicide Prevention Week |
Mental Health |
| AB 1X8 |
Assembly Budget Committee Office of AIDS: Budget Act of 2009 |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
