AB 5: Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco)
Homelessness
Summary (as Amended 4/30/2013): This bill would enact the Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act, which would provide that no person's rights, privileges or access to public services may be denied or abridged because he or she is homeless. The bill would provide that every homeless person has the right, among others to move freely, rest, eat, share, accept or give food or water, and solicit donations in the public spaces, as defined, and the right to lawful self-employment, as specified, confidentiality of specified records, assistance of legal counsel in specified proceedings, and restitution, under specified circumstances.
Last Action Date: 5/1/2013
Action Taken: Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 27: Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside)
University of California: UC Riverside Medical School: Funding
Summary (as Amended 3/21/2013): This bill appropriates $15 million annually from the General Fund (GF) to the Regents of the University of California for allocation to the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside.
Last Action Date: 5/1/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 35: Assemblymember Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina)
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Summary (as Amended 4/15/2013): This bill provides statutory clarifications to ensure conformity with the Federal Deferred Action for Early Childhood Arrivals Program (deferred action). Specifically, this bill: 1) clarifies that the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is allowed to issue identification cards to a person who has received notice of decision granting deferred action, 2) contains several non-transportation related provisions pertaining to the Federal Deferred Action Program (which were considered in the Assembly Judiciary Committee), 3) provides that provisions included in this bill are declarative of existing law.
Last Action Date: 4/30/2013
Action Taken: From committee: do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 49: Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley)
License plates: breast cancer awareness
Summary (as Amended 4/18/2013): This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to sponsor a breast cancer awareness license plate program, and would require the DMV to issue the license plates if the State Department of Health Care Services meets certain requirements. The bill would require the plates issued under the program to bear a full-plate graphic design that includes the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon on a pink background, as specified, and would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund.
Last Action Date: 5/1/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 176: Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose)
Family Law: Protective and Restraining Orders
Summary (as Amended 4/8/2013): This bill, effective July 1, 2014, seeks to better protect victims of domestic violence by giving enforcement priority to orders that prohibit the restrained party from having any contact with the protected party. These are generally the most protective orders possible and thus provide the greatest amount of protection to victims of domestic violence. Moreover, given the clarity of the standard, it will be easy for law enforcement officers in the field to know which order to enforce and will not require them to try and determine, on the spot, which of multiple orders might protect the victim and his or her family the most.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: In Senate. Read first time. To Committee on Rules for assignment.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 191: Assemblymember Raul Bocanegra (D-Arleta)
CalFresh: Categorical Eligibility
Summary (as Introduced 1/28/2013): This bill requires the California Department of Social Services (DSS) to the extent permitted by federal law, to waive the CalFresh gross income test for any individual who is categorically eligible for CalFresh and who is a member of a household that receives, or is eligible to receive, medical benefits under the Medi-Cal program.
Last Action Date: 4/17/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 196: Assemblymember Allan Mansoor (R-Costa Mesa)
Parent Evaluations
Summary (as Amended 5/7/2013): This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association, foster parents, caregivers, and current and former foster youth, to develop and implement a foster parent evaluation process. The bill would require that evaluation process to include a process to allow foster youth over 10 years of age and nonminor dependents to provide feedback on the quality of care received in licensed county or certified foster homes and group homes at least every 6 months and upon any exit from those homes. The bill would also require the evaluation process to include the development of an evaluation tool in partnership with current and former foster youth and caregivers that allows youth to provide feedback on the quality of care received, as specified, including feedback on the caregivers' honoring of the rights of foster youth. The bill would require the department to implement the foster parent evaluation process and promulgate all necessary regulations pursuant to this provision on or before January 1, 2015.
Last Action Date: 5/8/2013
Action Taken: Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 197: Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Santa Cruz)
CalWORKs Eligibility: Asset Limits: Vehicles
Summary (as Introduced 1/28/2013): This bill eliminates the vehicle asset test for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program.
Last Action Date: 4/17/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 264: Assemblymember Brian Mainschein (R-San Diego)
Homelessness: housing
Summary (as Introduced 2/7/2013): This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide housing for homeless persons in this state.
Last Action Date: 2/08/2013
Action Taken: From printer. May be heard in committee March 10th.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 271: Assemblymember Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles)
CalWORKs: eligibility
Summary (as Amended 4/10/2013): This bill repeals the exclusion of any children born into a family more than 10 months after the family begins receiving CalWORKs benefits when calculating the family's grant amount and expressly prohibits the denial of aid, or denial of an increase in the maximum aid payment, as a result of the birth of a child. In addition, this bill prohibits a county from requiring any of the following information as a condition of CalWORKs eligibility: 1) status as a victim of rape or incest, 2) confidential medical records related to any member's rape or incest, 3) the use of contraception or the particular method of contraception.
Last Action Date: 4/17/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 299: Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena)
CalWORKs: eligibility
Summary (as Amended 5/7/2013): This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer that provides prescription drug benefits to authorize an enrollee or insured to receive those benefits, which may include a 90 day supply of covered drugs, at any of its in-network pharmacies that are retail pharmacies, and would prohibit the plan or insurer from requiring any additional authorizations by the plan or insurer or the prescriber that are not required for the enrollee or insured to receive those benefits at a mail order pharmacy. The bill would specify that these requirements would not apply to drugs that are not available in retail pharmacies because of limited distribution by the manufacturer.
Last Action Date: 5/8/2013
Action Taken: Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 309: Assemblymember Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles)
CalFresh: homeless youth
Summary (as Amended 3/19/2013): This bill would clarify that eligibility for CalFresh benefits, including expedited services, is not dependent on the age of an applicant and would require county welfare departments, upon receipt of a signed CalFresh application from an unaccompanied child or youth under 18 years of age, to determine without delay his or her eligibility for benefits, as specified, and entitlement to expedited services, as specified. If the application is denied, the county welfare department would be required to notify the child or youth in writing of the reason for the denial.
This bill would also require that county welfare departments make information about CalFresh expedited services targeted to the homeless population available to local educational agency liaisons, as defined, and include information regarding CalFresh eligibility for unaccompanied homeless children and youths in the training provided to homeless shelter operators.
By expanding the number of people a county welfare department must make information available to, and requiring county welfare departments to augment the training they provide to homeless shelter operators and provide notice, as specified, to an unaccompanied child or youth, this bill would impose a state mandated local program.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: Referred to Committee on Human Services.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 355: Assemblymember Ken Cooley (D-Rancho Cordova)
Emergency medical services: mobile field hospitals
Summary (as Amended 4/18/2013): This bill would appropriate $1,700,000 from the General Fund to the Emergency Medical Services Authority to continue the Mobile Field Hospital program. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations.
Last Action Date: 5/8/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 357: Assemblymember Richard Pan (D-Sacramento)
California Healthy Child Advisory Task Force
Summary (as Introduced 2/14/2013): Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to implement and administer various child health and disease prevention programs. This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to establish the California Healthy Child Advisory Task Force, an independent, statewide advisory body charged with developing a vision for children's health in the state, among other tasks. The bill would also provide related legislative findings and declarations.
Last Action Date: 2/28/2013
Action Taken: Referred to Committee on Health.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 362: Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco)
Personal income taxes: exclusion: health insurance
Summary (as Amended 4/2/2013): The Personal Income Tax Law imposes taxes on gross income, and defines gross income as all income from whatever source derived, unless specifically excluded. The bill would also exclude from gross income any amount received by an employee from an employer to reimburse specified federal income taxes paid by the employee.
Last Action Date: 4/22/2013
Action Taken: In committee: hearing postponed by committee.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 396: Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale)
Prescriptions
Summary (as Introduced 2/15/2013): Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy and provides that a knowing violation of the law is a crime. Existing law requires every prescription, as defined, to include a legible, clear notice of the condition or purpose for which the drug is prescribed, if requested by the patient. Existing law prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing any prescription unless it is in a specified container that is correctly labeled to include, among other information, the condition or purpose for which the drug was prescribed if the condition or purpose is indicated on the prescription.
This bill would instead require that every prescription include a legible, clear notice of the condition or purpose for which the drug is prescribed, unless the patient or prescriber requests that this information be omitted. The bill would also require that every prescription container be correctly labeled to include that information, if so indicated on the prescription, unless the patient or prescriber requests that this information be omitted.
Last Action Date: 2/19/2013
Action Taken: From printer. May be heard in committee March 21st.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 399: Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale)
Clinical laboratories
Summary (as Introduced 2/15/2013): Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prescribes various fees applicable to clinical laboratories and laboratory personnel, and requires the deposit of those fees in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Fund. Existing law authorizes the department to collect application fees, annual renewal fees, and fees associated with enforcements, and to establish the fees for licensing examinations and for medical laboratory technician licenses. This bill would authorize the department to charge appropriate license fees whenever it determines that a new category of licensure is necessary. This bill would also make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Last Action Date: 3/7/2013
Action Taken: Referred to Committees on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 419: Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal (D-Long Beach)
CalWORKs: eligibility
Summary (as Introduced 2/15/2013): Redefines "temporarily absent" for purposes of determining CalWORKs eligibility for children who are patients in public hospitals.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: Referred to Committee on Human Services.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 446: Assemblymember Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles)
HIV Testing
Summary (as Amended 4/30/2013): This bill would delete the requirement that the medical care provider provide a patient with information about the HIV test, the treatment options, and the advisability of continued testing. The bill would also delete the requirement for a written statement of informed consent. The bill would require an HIV test to be performed for each draw of blood that is ordered for a patient in the emergency department of a general acute care hospital, a public health clinic, or an urgent care center, provided that the patient has consented and would require the results of the HIV test to be given to the patient before he or she leave the facility unless he or she leaves before being released.
This bill would authorize disclosure of HIV test results by Internet posting or other electronic means if the result is posted on a secure Internet web site and can only be viewed with the use of a secure personal identification number provided to the patient at the time of testing.
Last Action Date: 5/1/2013
Action Taken: Re-referred to Committee on Health.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 506: Assemblymember Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles)
HIV Testing: Infants
Summary (as Amended 5/1/2013): This bill would authorize a social worker or the treating health care provider, as specified, to provide consent for an HIV test to be performed on an infant who is less than one year of age when the infant has been taken into temporary custody or has been, or has a petition filed with the court to be, adjudged a dependent child of the court and the infant is receiving medical care.
Last Action Date: 5/6/2013
Action Taken: From committee: do pass and re-refer to Committee on Judiciary.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 518: Assemblymember Mariko Yamada (D-Davis) and Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield (D-Van Nuys)
Community Based Adult Services
Summary (as Amended 4/11/2013): This bill codifies various terms of "Darling vs. Douglas" settlement agreement, specifically, this bill: 1) makes legislative findings and declarations regarding California's support of the right to live in the most integrated and community-based setting appropriate, and to be free from unnecessary institutionalization, 2) establishes legislative intent that provides for the development of Medi-Cal policies and programs that a) continue to assure that elderly, and younger people living with disabilities are not institutionalized appropriately or prematurely, b) provide for viable alternatives to institutionalization by assuring the availability of appropriate services, c) promotes adult day health options, such as CBAS, accessible to economically disadvantaged elders and younger adults living with disabilities, d) ensures that programmatic standards offer certainty to providers, regulators and beneficiaries, and e) complies with California's Bridge to Reform Section 1115(a) Medicaid Demonstration Waiver.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: From committee: do pass. To consent calendar.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 578: Assemblymember Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento)
Health Care
Summary (as Amended 4/8/2013): This bill establishes a public disclosure and hearing process for first time applicants seeking licensure as a health care service plan (health plan) from the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) or a certificate of authority to transact health insurance (health insurer) from the Department of Insurer (CDI).
Last Action Date: 4/17/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 591: Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale)
Hospital Emergency Room: Geriatric Physician
Summary (as Introduced 2/20/2013): This bill would require each general acute care hospital with an emergency department to have, at all times, a geriatric physician serving an "on call" basis to that department.
Last Action Date: 4/16/2013
Action Taken: In committee: hearing postponed by committee.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 633: Assemblymember Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield)
Public Health: Veterans Access to Health Care Services
Summary (as Amended 4/17/2013): This bill prohibits an employer from adopting a policy that prohibits an employee from voluntarily providing emergency medical services in response to a medical emergency.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: From committee: do pass as amended.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 635: Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco)
Drug Overdose Treatment: Liability
Summary (as Amended 4/11/2013): This bill revises provisions from the current pilot program authorizing prescription of opioid antagonists for treatment of drug overdose and limiting civil and criminal liability, expands these provisions statewide, and removes the 2016 sunset date.
Last Action Date: 4/25/2013
Action Taken: Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 705: Assemblymember Richard Blumenfield (D-San Fernando Valley)
Combat to Care Act
Summary (as Amended 4/23/2013): This bill would provide that this act should be known, and may be cited as, the Combat to Care Act, and would make various legislative findings and declarations, including that California recognizes that military service members gain skill and experience while serving the country that, upon discharge, can be translated to the civilian world. The bill would require the Board of Registered Nursing by regulation and in conjunction with the Military Department, to identify the Armed Forces education, training or experience that is equivalent or transferrable to the curriculum required for licensure by the board. The bill would require the board, after evaluating a military applicant's education, training, or experience to provide the applicant with a list of the coursework, if any, he or she must still complete
Last Action Date: 5/1/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 809: Assemblymember Dan Logue (R-Yuba City)
Healing Arts: Telehealth
Summary (as Amended 4/29/2013): This bill requires prior to the delivery of health care via telehealth, the health care provider initiating the use of telehealth at the originating site to verbally inform the patient about the use of telehealth and request the patient's verbal consent, which may apply in the present instance and for any subsequent use of telehealth. Provides that nothing in this bill precludes a patient from receiving in-person health care delivery services during a course of treatment after agreeing to receive services via telehealth.
Last Action Date: 5/8/2013
Action Taken: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 832: Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego)
CalFresh
Summary (as Amended 4/21/2013): This bill would require all convenience stores and bookstores on any campus of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges to accept the use of electronic benefits transfer cards. The bill would also make related legislative findings and declarations.
Last Action Date: 4/16/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 880: Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles)
Medi-Cal Program Costs: Large Employer Responsibility
Summary (as Amended 4/24/2013): This bill creates the Employer Responsibility for Medi-Cal Cost of Employees Act of 2013 (Act). Requires large employers, employing 500 or more employees, to pay a penalty, as specified if their employees, who work more than eight hours per week, are enrolled in Medi-Cal based on the Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) eligibility standard. Specifies a formula for calculating the penalty based on the average cost of health care coverage provided to employees of large employers. Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to determine the penalty, base don the calculation. Requires the Employment Development Department (EDD) to provide notice of the amount and to collect the penalty. Creates the Employer Responsibility for Medi-Cal Trust Fund (Fund) and requires monies collected from the penalties to be deposited in the Fund and used in the Medi-Cal program.
Last Action Date: 5/1/2013
Action Taken: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 939: Assemblymember Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore)
Pupil and Personnel Health: Automatic External Defibrillators
Summary (as Amended 5/9/2013): This bill would state the intent of the legislature to encourage all public schools to acquire and maintain at least one AED. The bill would authorize a public school to solicit and receive nonstate funds to acquire and maintain an AED. The bill would authorize a public school to solicit and receive nonstate funds to acquire and maintain an AED, or continue to use and encourage the school to comply with specified requirements. The bill would provide that the school district and employees of the school district are not liable for civil damages resulting from certain uses, attempted uses, or nonuses of an AED, except as provided. The bill would recast the requirements on a public or private K-12 school principle relating to AEDs in the Education Code but instead require that a principle designate only school employees who volunteer to be designated as AED volunteers to respond to an emergency that may involve the use of an AED.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: From committee chair with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Committee on Appropriation. Read second time and amended.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 974: Assemblymember Isadore Hall (D-Los Angeles)
Patient Transfer: Nonmedical Reasons: Notice to Contact Person or Next of Kin
Summary (as Amended 4/16/2013): This bill would, in addition, require that prior to a transfer of a patient for a nonmedical reason, the hospital ask the patient if there is a perferred contact person who should be notified, and make a reasonable attempt to contact him or her and alert him or her about the proposed transfer.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: In Senate. Read first time. To Committee on Rules for assignment.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 1094: Assemblymember Cheryl Brown (D-San Bernardino)
CalWORKs: Eligibility
Summary (as Introduced 2/22/2013): This bill would expand the definition of a disability-based unearned income to include veteran's disability compensation. To the extend that this bill would expand CalWORKs eligibility, and by increasing county administrative duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Last Action Date: 5/1/2013
Action Taken: In committee: set, first hearing. Referred to Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 1129: Assemblymember Beth Gaines (R-Roseville)
Income Tax: Health Savings Accounts
Summary (as Introduced 2/22/2013): This bill would, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2013, allow a deduction in connection with health savings accounts in conformity with federal law. In general, the deduction would be an amount equal to the aggregate amount paid in cash during the taxable year by, or on behalf of, an eligible individual, as defined, to a health savings account of that individual, as provided. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013, also provide related conformity to that federal law with respect to the allowance of rollovers from Archer Medical Savings Accounts, health flexible spending arrangements, or health reimbursement accounts to a health savings account, and penalties in connection therewith.
Last Action Date: 3/7/2013
Action Taken: Referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 1283: Assemblymember Susan Bonilla (D-Concord)
Homeless Youth: Service Providers
Summary (as Introduced 2/22/2013): This bill would require the state advisory group to study the feasibility of the establishment of an Internet Web site for runaway and homeless youth that would include a directory of service providers and the rights of homeless and runaway youth.
Last Action Date: 4/30/2013
Action Taken: In committee: hearing postponed by committee.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AB 1297: Assemblymember John Perez (D-Los Angeles)
Coroners: Organ Donation
Summary (as Amended 4/10/2013): This bill facilitates the sharing of information between coroners and organ procurement organizations (OPOs) regarding cases in which an anatomical gift may be available from a person whose demise is imminent, as specified.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: In Senate. Read first time. To Committee on Rules for assignment.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
ACR 22: Assemblymember Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento)
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week
Summary (as Amended 3/11/2013): This bill declares the week of March 11, 2013, through March 15, 2013, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week and encourages California residents to join together in raising awareness and heightening public knowledge of this debilitating disease.
Last Action Date: 3/28/2013
Action Taken: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2013.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
AJR 7: Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland)
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
Summary (as Amended 3/11/2013): This bill memorializes the President and the United States (US) Congress to exclude social security, Medicare and Medicaid from being a part of any legislation to reduce the federal deficit.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 21: Senator Richard Roth (D-Riverside)
University of California: UC Riverside Medical School: Funding
Summary (as Amended 4/23/2013): This bill would annually appropriate $15 million from the general fund to the Regents of the University of California for allocation to the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside.
Last Action Date: 5/6/2013
Action Taken: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 134: Senator Michael Rubio (D-Shafter)
CalFresh
Summary (as Amended 4/8/2013): This bill requires the state Department of Social Services (DSS) to submit a waiver to exclude military housing benefits when calculating income to determine CalFresh eligibility. Requires counties that participate in the CalFresh Employment Training program to exempt veterans from the program and instead refer them to a local veteran's job assistance and training program.
Last Action Date: 5/6/2013
Action Taken: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 138: Senator Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina)
Confidentiality of Medical Information
Summary (as Amended 4/8/2013): This bill would also require a health care service plan or insurer to comply with any and all communication requests related to sensitive services and to comply with nondisclosure or confidential communication requests for individuals who claim that the disclosure of health information will endanger them; authorize health care providers to make alternative payment arrangements with insured individuals; and prohibit a health care service plan or health insurer from conditioning enrollment or continuing coverage on the provision of an authorization for insurance communications.
Last Action Date: 4/29/2013
Action Taken: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 146: Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens)
Workers' Compensation: Medical Treatment: Billing
Summary (as Amended 3/6/2013): This bill provides that a copy of a prescription for pharmaceutical services is not necessary unless required under a written agreement between an employer, insurer, or third-party claims administrator and a pharmacy; allows an employer insurer, or third-party claims administrator to request a copy of the prescription during a review of any records of prescription drugs dispensed by a pharmacy; and provides that any entity submitting a pharmacy bill for payment, on or after January 1, 2013, and denied payment for not including a copy of the prescription from the treating physician, shall have 90 days after January 1, 2014, to resubmit those bills for payment.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: Referred to Committee on Insurance.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 204: Senator Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro)
Prescription Drugs: Labeling
Summary (as Amended 4/24/2013): This bill would, commencing January 1, 2016, require a pharmacist to use translations of the directions for use in non-English languages published on the board's Internet web site, as applicable, when labeling a prescription container. The bill would authorize a pharmacist to translate the directions for use into additional non-English languages if certified translation services are utilized to complete the additional translations.
Last Action Date: 5/7/2013
Action Taken: Set for hearing May 13th.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 218: Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco)
Healing Arts
Summary (as Amended 4/25/2013): This bill establishes the California Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatology Committee under the California Acupuncture Board and requires the California Acupuncture Board to issue a certificate to practice as a Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatologist to applicants who meet certain education, training and clinical experience requirements and pay a specified fee.
Last Action Date: 5/6/2013
Action Taken: Hearing postponed by committee.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 222: Senator Alex Padilla (D-Van Nuys)
Genetic Information: Privacy
Summary (as Amended 4/22/2013): This bill would enact the Genetic Information Privacy Act, which would declare that an individual's genetic information is protected by the right of privacy. The bill would prohibit any person from collecting, storing, analyzing, or disclosing genetic information without the written authorization of the individual to whom the information pertains, and would include related findings and declarations. It also would prescribe specific circumstances under which genetic information may be collected, stored, analyzed, or disclosed without the authorization. The bill would establish civil and criminal penalties for a violation of its provisions.
Last Action Date: 5/7/2013
Action Taken: Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 224: Senator Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel)
Newborn Screening Program
Summary (as Introduced 2/11/2013): This bill would require the State Department of Public Health until January 1, 2019, to expand statewide screening of newborns to include screening for 2 types of lysosomal storage diseases, Hurler syndrome and Krabbe disease, and would exempt that amendment of contracts, require the Department of General Services to approve contracts, and give the California Technology Agency authority over information technology projects, as described.
Last Action Date: 4/15/2013
Action Taken: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 282: Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco)
Confidential medical information: required authorization to disclose
Summary (as Introduced 2/14/2013): The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act requires, among other things, that a demand for settlement or offer to compromise issued on a patient's behalf prior to the service of a complaint in any action arising out of the professional negligence of a specifically certified physician and surgeon be accompanied by an authorization to disclose medical information to the persons or organizations insuring, responsible for, or defending the professional liability of the physician and surgeon in order to allow an evaluation of the merits of the demand for settlement or offer of compromise. This bill would extend these provisions to require that the authorization to disclose medical information also accompany a demand for settlement or offer to compromise issued on a patient's behalf prior to the service of a complaint in any action arising out of the professional negligence of a person holding a valid license as a marriage and family therapist, as specified.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 283: Senator Loni Hancock (D-Oakland)
CalWORKs and CalFresh Eligibility
Summary (as Introduced 2/14/2013): This bill would authorize CalWORKs benefits to be paid to an individual who is convicted in state or federal court after December 31, 1997, of any offense classified as a felony that has an element the possession, use or distribution of a controlled substance. If the person is on supervised release, he or she would be ineligible for CalWORKs benefits during any period of revocation of that supervised release.
This bill would authorize CalFresh benefits to be paid to an individual who is convicted in state or federal court after December 31, 1997, of any offense classified as a felony that has an element the possession, use or distribution of a controlled substance. If the person is on supervised release, he or she would be ineligible for CalFresh benefits during any period of revocation of that supervised release. The bill would also require the department to request a waiver from the federal government for the pre-enrollment of otherwise eligible applicants to the CalFresh program within one month of the applicant's reentry into the community from county jail or state prison, and would require the counties to implement the pre-enrollment program within 6 months of the waiver being granted. By requiring a new level of service from local government, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Last Action Date: 4/29/2013
Action Taken: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 410: Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco)
Health Care: Controlled Substances and Dangerous Drugs
Summary (as Amended 4/30/2013): This bill would enact the Anesthesiologist Assistant Practice Act, which would require the licensure and regulation of anesthesiologist assistants by the Medical Board of California and would prescribe the services that may be performed by a radiologist assistant under the supervision of a qualified physician and surgeon. The bill would make it a crime for a person to practice as an anesthesiologist assistant without a license or for an anesthesiologist assistant to practice outside the scope of his or her practice, as specified, thereby imposing a state mandated local program.
Last Action Date: 5/2/2013
Action Taken: Re-referred to Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development and Public Service.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 480: Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco)
CalWORKs, Medi-Cal and CalFresh: Suspension of Benefits
Summary (as Introduced 2/21/2013): This bill, commencing the later of January 1, 2015 or the data that any necessary federal approvals are obtained, would require that a person who is an inmate of a public institution be suspended as a member of the CalWORKs assistance unit for the duration of his or her incarceration, but would return the person to the assistance unit without reapplying, if he or she is still eligible for CalWORKs benefits upon release. To the extent that this bill would expand eligibility for CalWORKs benefits, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.
This bill, commencing the later of January 1, 2015, or the data that any necessary federal approvals are obtained, would make the suspension of benefits provisions applicable to individuals who are 21 years of age or older. By expanding the duties of county welfare departments, this bill would impose a state mandated local program.
Last Action Date: 3/19/2013
Action Taken: Hearing postponed by committee.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 506: Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo)
Ephedrine: Retail Sale
Summary (as Introduced 4/9/2013): This bill would conform state law to federal law relative to sales limits on pseudophedrine products and would require retailers to participate in a national database that will provide a real-time alert if a person attempts to purchase such products in violation of sales limit.
Last Action Date: 5/3/2013
Action Taken: Set for hearing May 13th.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 580: Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)
Crime Victims: Trauma Center Grants
Summary (as Amended 4/17/2013): This bill would 1) authorize the California Victims Compensation and Government Claims Board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to evaluate applications and award grants totaling up to $2 million to multi-disciplinary trauma recovery centers (TRC); 2) provide that a TRC receiving a grant shall meet specified criteria and provide services that include mental health, clinical case management, community-based outreach and coordination of care by psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers; 3) allow grants for a maximum of three years and require unused grant money to revert to the Restitution Fund, 4) allow a grant only if the fund's reserves are at least 25% of expenditures, 5) set a preference for centers that treat underserved victims, as specified, 6) require a TRC to comply with laws concerning federal matching funds and 7) state legislative declarations and findings regarding the importance of providing comprehensive and coordinated treatment and services to victims of crime, as specified.
Last Action Date: 5/3/2013
Action Taken: Set for hearing May 13th.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 622: Senator Bill Monning (D-San Luis Obispo)
Taxation: Sweetened Beverage Tax: Children's Health Promotion Fund
Summary (as Amended 5/8/2013): This bill establishes the Sweetened Beverage Tax Law, which imposes an excise tax, until July 1, 2024 at a rate of one cent per fluid ounce of added caloric sweetener in a bottled sweetened beverage or concentrate, on every distributor for distributing bottled sweetened beverages and concentrates in the state. The Board of Equalization administers and collects the fee and deposits all taxes, penalties, and interest collected under the law in the Children's Health Promotion Fund.
Last Action Date: 5/8/2013
Action Taken: Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 631: Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose)
Health Care
Summary (as Introduced 2/22/2013): This bill make findings and declarations regarding the PPACA and would declare the intent of the Legislature to evaluate the current use of observational and outpatient settings for the delivery of inpatient-level care, assess the volume of inpatient services delivered in these settings, and determine policy changes necessary to create safe care environments for patients receiving care in these settings.
Last Action Date: 4/29/2013
Action Taken: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 645: Senator Jim Nielsen (D-Rocklin)
Diagnosis-Related Group Methodology
Summary (as Introduced 2/22/2013): This bill would require the department, before the diagnosis-related group methodology can be implemented, to develop a methodology, in consultation with the hospital community, for hospitals to review base payment rates proposed by the department. The bill would require the department, commencing July 1, 2013, to begin collecting diagnosis codes and procedure codes to establish a database from which to develop base payment rates and would require the department to develop an education and training program for hospital Medi-Cal billing staff, in consultation with the hospital community, to be conducted between April 1, 2014, and May 13, 2014.
Last Action Date: 5/6/2013
Action Taken: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 663: Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach)
Sexual Assault: Victims with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Summary (as Amended 4/2/2013): This bill would revise the definition of certain sex offenses, including rape, sodomy, and oral copulation, to apply if the victim is developmentally disabled, as defined, and either a) the person lacks the legal mental capacity, as defined, to give consent when compared to a reasonable person who does not have a developmental disability and this fact is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act, or b) the defendant is a caretaker, as defined, or a care provider, as defined. By revising the definitions of existing crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Last Action Date: 4/3/2013
Action Taken: Re-referred to Senate Committee on Human Services and Public Safety.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 670: Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento)
Medical Quality Hearing Panel: Limitation on Licensee Authority: Controlled Substances
Summary (as Amended 4/8/2013): This bill would make several statutory changes to expand the authority of the Medical Board of California to investigate and sanction physicians and surgeons.
Last Action Date: 4/30/2013
Action Taken: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 672: Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)
CalFresh: Eligibility: Guidelines
Summary (as Amended 4/22/2013): This bill would require the Department of Social Services (DSS) to issue guidance specifying the process of verification of earned income and dependent care expenses to be used to determine eligibility and benefit level for CalFresh, as specified. This bill would also require counties utilizing an electronic database for verification purposes to follow specific procedures and notification requirements for applicants and recipients.
Last Action Date: 4/22/2013
Action Taken: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 701: Senator Bill Emmerson (R-Redlands)
Hospital-Affiliated Outpatient Settings
Summary (as Introduced 2/22/2013): This bill would create entities known as hospital-affiliated outpatient settings, as defined, and would align the accreditation and reporting processes with those of the general acute care hospital with which the hospital-affiliated outpatient settings is affiliated.
Last Action Date: 4/16/2013
Action Taken: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 724: Senator Bill Emmerson (R-Redlands)
Liability: Charitable Vision Screenings
Summary (as Amended 4/29/2013): This bill would limit the liability of a nonprofit charitable organization, or participating licensed optometrist, opthamologist, or volunteer working with a nonprofit charitable organization for any damage or injury resulting from the provision of vision screening and, if applicable, the provision of donate or recycled eyeglasses, if specified conditions are inapplicable if an action is brought by an officer of a state or local government pursuant to state or local law or if the conduct of the nonprofit charitable organization, optometrist, opthamologist, or volunteer includes specified types of misconduct.
Last Action Date: 5/9/2013
Action Taken: Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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SB 747: Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek)
Public Health Impact Report
Summary (as Amended 4/23/2013): This bill, known as the Public Health Epidemic Protection Act of 2013, would require the department to require the manufacturer, or a group of manufacturers of a contributing product, as defined, to create, for approval of the department, a public health impact report (PHIR) containing specified information, including a list of adverse public health impacts and a mitigation plan for those impacts. The bill would require the manufacturer to mitigate the fiscal impacts on the state public health system over a reasonable period of time. The bill would require the manufacturer to mitigate the fiscal impacts on the state public health system over a reasonable period of time. The bill would authorize the department to enforce the PHIR and would authorize the department to restrict sales of the product in the state if the PHIR is insufficient or if the manufacturer is not complying with the terms of the PHIR. The bill would authorize the department to charge the manufacturer of the product for the reasonable costs of reviewing, approving and enforcing the PHIR requirements.
Last Action Date: 4/25/2013
Action Taken: Hearing postponed by committee.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SB 809: Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek) and Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento)
Controlled Substances: Reporting
Summary (as Amended 5/1/2013): This bill imposes an annual tax on Schedule II, III and IV manufacturers and increases licensure fees on practitioners and providers, and allows grant and gift moneys for the purposes of upgrading, maintain and enforcing the CURES program.
Last Action Date: 5/1/2013
Action Taken: From committee with author's amendments: Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on Government and Finance.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
SCA 5: Senator Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina)
Public Postsecondary Education: Student Recruitment and Selection
Summary (as Introduced 12/3/2012): This bill would modify the California Constitution, as amended by Proposition 209, to permit UC, CSU and community colleges to use factors such as race, color, ethnicity and national origin in student recruitment and selection to assure diversity in the healthcare and general workforce.
Last Action Date: 4/25/2013
Action Taken: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
For more information on this bill please check the Official California Legislative Information site here
