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AB 1 - Perez J
Medi-Cal Eligibility: Expansion
03/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Implements various provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by modifying provisions relating to determining eligibility for certain groups. Extends Medi-Cal eligibility to specified adults and requires that income eligibility be determined based on modified adjusted gross income. Prohibits the use of an asset or resources test for individuals whose financial eligibility for Medi-Cal is determined based on the application of income.

AB 100 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 1000 - Wieckowski
Physical Therapists: Direct Access to Services
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Specifies that patients may access physical therapy treatment directly. Requires a physical therapist to refer his or her patient to another specified healing arts practitioner under certain conditions, and to notify the patient of any financial interest in the referral entity. Requires patient notification of a lesser treatment regime. Specifies that such therapist may be a member of a medical corporation and be may shareholders, officers, directors, or professional employees of a therapy corporation.

AB 1005 - Alejo
Judicial Appointments: Demographic Data
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Amends existing law that requires the specified entities to annually collect demographic data relating to judicial applicants, judicial appointees or nominees, judicial candidates, and justices and judges, relative to ethnicity, race, and gender. Expands those provisions to include the collection of demographic data relative to physical disability, mental disability, and veterans status. Requires the data to be released beginning in a specified year. Provides the conditions required for such data.

AB 101 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 1018 - Conway
Income Taxes: Deduction: Medical Expenses
03/21/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION.
Amends the Personal Income Tax Law to exclude from gross income a unspecified amount of money spent for qualified expenses for specified medical expenses.

AB 1019 - Ammiano
State Prisons: Correctional Education and Training
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
Relates to prison education programs and goals for inmate literacy and testing. Requires goals for vocational education to be set by the Superintendent of Correctional Education. Provides for a review of the mental health, substance abuse, educational and employment programs for inmates. Establishes factors to be taken into account when establishing a career technical education program, including the demand for the skills being trained and the availability of employment in those fields.

AB 102 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 1028 - Patterson
Vocational Nursing: Interim Permits
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Authorizes an application for a vocational nursing permit to submit an application for an interim permit at the same time as the applicant submits his or her application for licensure by examination. Requires the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians to immediately issue the interim permit upon completing the processing of the permit application and the processing of the application for licensure by examination.

AB 103 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 104 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 1045 - Quirk-Silva
Sterile Compounding Pharmacies
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Provides that if a home state pharmacy license of a nonresident pharmacy is revoked or suspended for any reason, any license issued to a nonresident pharmacies and authorizing such pharmacy to compound injectable sterile drug products shall be immediately revoked or suspended. Requires pharmacies that issues a recall regarding a such drug to contact the recipient pharmacy, prescriber, or patient if the use or exposure may cause adverse health consequences.

AB 105 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 1054 - Chesbro
Mental Health: Skilled Nursing Facility: Reimbursement
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Requires the reimbursement rate for services at mental health institutions contracted by the State Department of Health Care Services that continue to be licensed as skilled nursing facilities, to increase by a specified percentage annually.

AB 106 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 1065 - Holden
Parole
04/30/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Failed passage.
Requires that a person released from state prison who has served a previous prison term for which he or she was required, as a condition of parole, to undergo treatment by the State Department of State Hospitals to be subject to parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the court in the county in which the parolee is released.

AB 1068 - Bloom
Pupil Records
04/17/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Relates to pupil records and pupil directory information. Permits access to a minor who is 14 years of age or older if the pupil is both a homeless child or youth and an unaccompanied youth and to an individual who has completed and signed a Caregiver's Authorization Affidavit for purposes of enrolling a minor in school. Prohibits the release of directory information of any pupil identified as a homeless child or youth unless a parent or eligible pupil has given written consent for release.

AB 107 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 108 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 1087 - Torres
Medi-Cal: Bridge to Reform Demonstration
02/22/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to provisions of the Medi-Cal program, which may include better care coordination for seniors, persons with disabilities, and children with special with special health care needs.

AB 1089 - Calderon I
Foster Care
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Specifies the transfer procedures that would apply when children who have an order for foster care, are awaiting foster care placement, or are placed in out-of-home care, and other consumers of regional center services and supports, transfer between regional centers or local education agencies, or from a local education agency to a catchment agency where there are no services. Provides that these consumers shall has the right to receive comparable early intervention services.

AB 109 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 110 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 1109 - Bonilla
Emergency Housing and Assistance
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Relates to emergency housing and assistance. Provides that when property is transitioned from an emergency shelter or transitional housing to permanent affordable housing and serves people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, an existing loan may be deferred and forgiven, as if the property had remained an emergency shelter or transitional housing.

AB 111 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2012
05/13/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Amends the Budget Act of 2012 by revising items of appropriation and making other changes in the Budget Act of 2012.

AB 1112 - Ammiano
Developmental Services: Habilitation
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Relates to services for the developmentally disabled and habilitation services. Requires that providers of individualized and group-supported employment services be paid the rates provided in existing law or rates established by the Department of Rehabilitation, whichever is greater. Requires a program provider be paid a fee of a specified amount for employment preparation services provided to a consumer prior to placement in an integrated job.

AB 1119 - Hagman
Postrelease Reentry Pilot Program
03/07/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a 3-year postrelease reentry pilot program, using an existing Sacramento area-based parole reentry program as a model, in 3 additional counties to provide comprehensive, structured reentry services for offenders released from state prison.

AB 112 - Assembly Budget Committee
In-Home Supportive Services
05/13/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Requires the State Department of Social Services to implement specified reductions in hours of service for in-home supportive services to recipients. Requires recipient notification. Relates to an assessment upon home health care and in-home supportive services. Creates a related fund for placement of the assessment revenue. Relates to fund investments. Deletes provisions regarding such services provisions regarding wages, a services assessment tool, and services eligibility determining factors.

AB 1124 - Muratsuchi
Public Assistance Reporting Information System
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Removes the pilot project status of certain provisions and requires the implementation of a specified program statewide. Appropriates unspecified sums from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide funding for county veteran service officers to identify veterans and their dependents or survivors who are enrolled in Medi-Cal program to assist them in obtaining federal veteran health care benefits.

AB 1129 - Gaines B
Income Tax: Health Savings Accounts
05/13/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION: Held in committee.
Relates to the Personal Income Tax. Allows a deduction in connection with health savings accounts. Provides related conformity 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.

AB 113 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2012
05/01/2013 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 3
Increases the appropriation in the Budget Act of 2012 to the Secretary of State for purpose of processing filings and registrations during the 2012-13 fiscal year. Requires this increase be used for costs associated with reducing the processing time for business filings. Requires the Secretary of State to report monthly to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on the progress in achieving those reductions in the backlog of such processing.

AB 1133 - Mitchell
Foster Children: Special Health Care Needs
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Relates to foster children with special health care needs. Require that, when determining the placement of a foster child who is medically fragile, preference be given to placement with a foster parent who is an individual nurse provider who provides health services under the federal Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program, but that this preference is subordinate to the preference granted to the relative of the child, in accordance with federal law.

AB 1136 - Levine
Pharmacists: Drug Disclosures
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Requires a pharmacist to include a written label on the drug container indicating that the drug may impair a person's ability to operate a vehicle or vessel if the pharmacist, in exercising his or her professional judgment, determines that the drug may impair a person's ability to operate a vehicle or vessel.

AB 1139 - Lowenthal B
Prescriptions: Biosimilar Products
04/30/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION: Not heard.
Authorizes a pharmacist filling a prescription order for a biological product subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, to select a biosimilar product, as defined by federal statute, provided that product is deemed by the federal Food and Drug Administration to be interchangeable with the prescribed product.

AB 1147 - Gomez
Massage Therapy
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. To Inactive File.
Relates to curricula in massage therapy. Increases the minimum of hours which would be required .

AB 1168 - Pan
Safe Body Art
04/18/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Adds to the definition of body art facility places where body art is demonstrated for the purpose of instruction. Prohibits the performance of body art at a place other than a permanent or temporary body art facility. Amends existing law which requires a client to read, complete, and sign a confidential questionnaire and the facility to maintain and shred the information after a specified time frame. Requires any such information covered under the HIPPA to be maintained and disposed of according to the Act.

AB 1171 - Levine
Child Welfare Services: Electronic Records
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the State Department of Social Services to implement and oversee a voluntary county pilot program to provide qualifying foster youth with access to online electronic recordkeeping repository of necessary documents including medial and health records, his or her birth certificate, and social security care to assist him or her transition to adulthood. Requires specified personnel to assist the child or nonminor independent with establishing and obtaining those documents.

AB 1174 - Bocanegra
Dental Professionals: Teledentistry Under Medi-Cal
04/30/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Not heard.
Authorizes a registered dental assistant to determine which radiographs to perform if he or she has completed a specified educational program. Authorizes such assistant to place interim therapeutic restoration pursuant to the order, control, and full professional responsibility of a licensed dentist and to operation dental radiology equipment. Provides related duties regarding the use of teledentistry under the Medi-Cal program. Relates to store and forward procedures.

AB 1176 - Bocanegra
Medical Residency Training Program Grants
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Establishes the Graduate Medical Education Fund to consist of annual assessments on insurers or health care services plans. Requires the moneys in the fund to be used to fund grants to graduate medical residency training programs. Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to develop criteria for distribution of available funds. Establishes the Graduate Medical Education Council to review and make recommendations concerning medical residency funding.

AB 1180 - Pan
Health Coverage: Conversion or Continuation of Coverage
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Makes provisions of existing law regarding the offering, marketing, and selling of certain individual contracts and policies to all federally eligible defined individuals by health care service plans or a health insurer applicable only to individual grandfathered health plan contracts or insurance policies previously issued to eligible individuals, unless and until specified provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are amended or repealed. Requires notification of nongrandfathered plans.

AB 1194 - Ammiano
Safe Routes to School Program
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the Safe Routes to School Program to be funded by budget appropriations for grants by the Department of Transportation to local government agencies for construction and noninfrastructure activities. Provides for activities to encourage walking and bicycling to school, public awareness campaigns, outreach to press and community leaders, traffic education and enforcement in the vicinity of schools, student sessions on bicycle and pedestrian safety, funding for training and volunteers.

AB 1198 - Jones-Sawyer
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
02/22/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law which authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract for provisions, clothing, medicines, forage, fuel and other staple supplies needed for the support of the prisons for any period of time and specifies bidding procedures.

AB 1202 - Skinner
Occupational Safety and Health Standards
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to adopt a standard for the handling of antineoplastic and other hazardous drugs in health care facilities regardless of the setting. Requires the standard to be consistent with and not exceed specific recommendations adopted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for preventing occupational exposures to those drugs in health care settings.

AB 1208 - Pan
Medical Homes
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Establishes the Patient Centered Medical Home Act. Relates to a health care delivery model in which a patient establishes an ongoing relationship with a licensed healthcare provider. Provides that a medical home payment structure shall reward the right care in the right setting and discourage too much or too little care. Provides a payment structure to encourage management of complex medical cases, enhanced access to care, measurement of patient outcomes and continuous improvement of care quality.

AB 1217 - Lowenthal B
Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act of 2013
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Enacts the Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act of 2013 to provide for the licensure and regulation of home care organizations and the certification of home care aides. Imposes a civil penalty for operating without a license. Requires the agency to give a client specified information prior to arranging for services. Relates to the maintenance of liability insurance. Requires background checks for home care aides. Requires such aides to show they are free of active tuberculosis.

AB 1225 - Maienschein
State and Local Fund Allocations
03/21/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committees on LOCAL GOVERNMENT and HEALTH.
Authorizes a county or city and county to reallocate up to 10% of the amount deposited each fiscal year in the local health account, or local social services account, or both, to the local mental health account.

AB 1231 - Perez V
Regional Centers: Telehealth and Teledentistry
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Requires informing all regional centers that any appropriate health service may be provided through the use of telehealth and teledentistry, and the centers to consider such use in individual plans and parent training. Provides that a provision of a service through the use of telehealth and telemedicine shall be voluntary and may be discontinued with consumer request. Requires forwarding to the Legislature information provided to the centers to access certain aspects of providing the services to consumers.

AB 1232 - Perez V
Developmental Services: Quality Assessment System
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Requires the quality assurance instrument to assess the provision of services in a linguistically and culturally competent manner and include an outcome-based measure on issues of equity and diversity.

AB 1233 - Chesbro
Medi-Cal: Administrative Claiming Process
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time and amended. To third reading.
Authorizes a Native American Indian tribe, a tribal organization, or a subgroup of a Native American Indian tribe or tribal organization to utilize facilitate Medi-Cal eligibility determinations using the State Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System as a Medi-Cal Administrative Activities-specified activity.

AB 1234 - Levine
Long Term Care Insurance
03/11/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Relates to insurers issuing policies of long-term care insurance. Requires an insurer to clearly post on it Internet Website, and including on its policy application, information about an Internet Website provided by the Department of Health Care Services, known as www.rureadyca.org.

AB 1238 - Weber
Parole Reentry Programs
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish up to 5 reentry work training programs for parolees between 18 and 24 years of age to assist in community reintegration upon discharge from prison. Provides the programs would include construction training, academic services, counseling and mentoring, and tracking of graduates after completion of the program. Requires the maintenance of related statistical information related to these programs.

AB 1246 - Nestande
Health and Human Services: Direct Service Contracts
02/22/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of service contracts of the departments within the California Health and Human Services Agency.

AB 1262 - Hagman
Insurance: Disability Insurance: Seniors
02/22/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of existing law prohibiting an insurer from knowingly recommending for sale or selling disability insurance providing health benefits directly to a Medi-Cal beneficiary who is age 65 or older.

AB 1263 - Perez J
Medi-Cal: CommuniCal
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Relates to the Medi-cal Patient Centered Communication program to provide and reimburse for medical interpretation services to Medi-cal beneficiaries who are limited English proficient. Requires the Department of Human Resources to notify the individual of the acceptance or denial of his or her inclusion on the registry within specified days of the submission of the application. Updates provisions regarding CommuniCal certified medical interpreters.

AB 1264 - Conway
Comprehensive School Safety Plans
03/21/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Requires a comprehensive school safety plan to include a tactical response plan and protocol for teachers to provide notification to pupils identified as having a potential mental health issue that is likely to result in violence or harm to the pupil or others.

AB 1265 - Conway
Mental Health: Assisted Outpatient Treatment
04/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Reconsideration granted.
Authorizes the court to order a person to obtain assisted outpatient treatment for an initial period not to exceed 12 months. Authorizes the professional staff of the agency or facility that provides intensive treatment pursuant to involuntary detention to evaluate whether the person meets the criteria for assisted outpatient treatment.

AB 1278 - Hueso
Integrative Cancer Treatment
03/11/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committees on HEALTH and BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION.
Prohibits a physician and surgeon, including an osteopathic physician and surgeon, from recommending, prescribing, or providing integrative cancer treatment to cancer patients unless certain requirements are met.

AB 1283 - Bonilla
Homeless Youth: Service Providers
03/11/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Relates to a state advisory group relating to runaway and homeless youth. Requires 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.

AB 1288 - Perez V
State Medical Board: Licensing: Application Processing
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Requires the State Medical Board to develop a process to give priority review status to the application of an applicant who can demonstrate that he or she intends to practice in a medically underserved area or serve in a medical underserved population.

AB 1296 - Skinner
Firearms: Mentally Disordered Persons
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Amends existing law prohibiting a person who has been admitted to a facility as a result of a mental disorder, from owing, possessing, controlling, receiving, or purchasing a firearm for a specified time after release from the facility. Provides for an increase in the probationary time period. Requires reports to be made available to the Department of Justice in electronic format within a specified time. Relates to threats of violence against an identifiable victim. Provides for a hearing.

AB 1308 - Bonilla
Midwifery
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Authorizes a licensed midwife to directly obtain supplies, order testing, and receive reports that are necessary to his or her practice of midwifery and consistent with his or her scope of practice. Requires a licensed midwife to disclose to prospective clients the specific arrangements for referral of complications to a physician and surgeon.

AB 1310 - Brown
Medi-Cal: Pediatric Subacute Care
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Relates to the Medi-Cal program. Expands the definition of pediatric subacute services to include health care services needed by a person between 21 and 22 years of age who uses a medical technology that compensates for the loss of a vital bodily function. Includes the health care services needed by a person under 22 years of age who requires treatment for active complex medical conditions or requires technically complex treatments.

AB 1312 - Brown
Health Facilities: Health Care Standards
04/09/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
Relates to the State Department of Public Health. Authorizes the department to update references in regulations to health care standards of practice developed by recognized state or national associations by posting on its Internet Web site public comment and hearing requirements.

AB 1340 - Achadjian
State Hospital Employees Act
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Relates to reports of patient assaults on employees and assistance to hospitals in identifying risks. Requires state hospitals to establish and maintain an enhanced treatment unit as part of its facilities. Requires any case of assault by a patient of a state hospital to be immediately referred to the local district attorney. Provides the condition in which the patient is to be placed in the enhanced treatment unit until the patient is deemed safe to return to the regular population of the hospital.

AB 1367 - Mansoor
Mental Health: Mental Health Services Fund
03/14/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Establishes the Mental Health Services Fund to fund specified county mental health programs, including prevention and early intervention programs, which include outreach, and programs implemented under the Adult and Older Adult Mental Health System of Care Act.

AB 1372 - Bonilla
Health Insurance: Developmental Disorder or Autism
03/14/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Extends the operation of existing law that provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance and requires health insurance policies to provide benefits for specified conditions, including coverage for behavioral health treatment for pervasive developmental disorder or autism.

AB 1382 - Assembly Health Committee
Reporting
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Relates to existing law that requires certain health facilities and freestanding ambulatory surgery clinics to file specified reports containing various patient and health data information. Requires reporting of the preferred language spoken rather than the principal language spoken, and the external causes of morbidity rather than the external cause of injury.

AB 1388 - Assembly Agriculture Committee
Horses: Test Verification, Horse Shows/Competitions
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Amends existing law that requires any horse or other Equidae brought into this state to be accompanied by a certificate of health. Requires verification that a horse or other Equidae has been tested, and found negative, for equine infectious anemia within the preceding 12 months. Specifies the trainer and owner are both responsible for compliance with requirements regarding the administration of medical therapy. Relates to public equine events. Relates to allowed levels of anti-inflammatory drugs.

AB 1400 - Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and The Economy Committee
Export Documents: Expiration
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Relates to the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law. Authorizes a person requesting an export document to make the request in electronic format. Requires the Department of Public Health to accept requests submitted by email or other electronic methods, including electronic copies of labels or advertising. Requires the department to develop procedures to expedite approval of requests for such document in which the labels and advertising remain unchanged from a request for that food, drug, device,or cosmetic.

AB 1428 - Conway
Health Benefit Exchange: Employees and Contractors
05/06/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Requires all employees, prospective employees, contractors, subcontractors, and vendors of the Health Benefit Exchange who facilitate enrollment of persons in a qualified health plan in the Exchange and who, in the course and scope of their employment, have access to the financial or medical information of enrollees or potential enrollees, to be fingerprinted for the purpose of obtaining criminal history information.

AB 154 - Atkins
Abortion
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Makes it an offense for a person to perform an abortion if the person does not have a valid license to practice as a physician or surgeon. Provides an exception for performance of an abortion by medication or aspiration techniques during the first trimester of pregnancy if the person holds a license. Requires a nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife, or physician assistant to complete training to perform such abortions and to comply with certain protocols. Deletes references to nonsurgical abortions.

AB 174 - Bonta
Public School Health Centers
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a grant program known as the Promoting Resilience: Offering Mental Health Interventions to Support Education. Provides the program provides resources to eligible applicants, including local education agencies, nonprofit organizations, and community health centers, to fund activities and services to directly address mental health and related needs of students who are impacted by trauma. Defines trauma for these purposes.

AB 175 - Perez V
Health Care Coverage
03/19/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
Establishes the Uncovered Health Trust Fund for the purpose of providing health care coverage to workers ineligible for health care coverage under federal and state programs, including the Patient Protection Act; authorizes voluntary contributions to be deposited into the trust. Requires trust moneys to be disbursed through the Rural Health Clinic Program. Provides a list of contributing employers to nonprofit community health centers. Requires mobile medical units to certain geographic areas.

AB 18 - Pan
Individual Health Care Coverage
04/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
Exempts qualified health plans and health insurance policies offered through the state health care insurance exchange from covering pediatric oral care benefits if the exchange offers a stand alone dental plan as described in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Requires stand-alone dental plans offered through the exchange to include coverage of specified pediatric oral care benefits.

AB 187 - Bonta
Taxation: Ammunition: School Mental Health Grants
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Imposes a tax on retailers for the privilege of selling ammunition in the state and on ammunition purchased from the retailer in the state. Requires the revenues from those taxes to be deposited in the Ammunition Tax Fund to be allocated to School-Based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services Matching Grant Program and the Public Safety Emergency Prevention Fund to be used to fund public safety programs in high crime municipalities.

AB 191 - Bocanegra
CalFresh: Categorical Eligibility
04/17/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the State Department of Social Services 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 assistance under the Medi-Cal program.

AB 209 - Pan
Medi-Cal: Managed Care: Quality/Access/Utilization
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop and implement a plan to monitor, evaluate, and improve the quality, accessibility, and utilization of health care and dental services provided through Medi-Cal managed care. Requires the department to hold quarterly public meetings to report on, among other things, performance measures and quality and access standards, and to invite public comments. Requires the department to appoint an advisory committee, with specified responsibilities.

AB 213 - Logue
Healing Arts: Certification: Military Experience
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the Department of Public Health, on the presentation of evidence by an applicant for licensure or certification, to accept education, training and practical experience completed in military service toward the qualifications and requirements of a license or certificate if it is equivalent to specified standards. Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs, Chancellor of the California State University and Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to provide technical assistance.

AB 219 - Perea
Health Care Coverage: Cancer Treatment
05/02/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Prohibits a health care service plan contract and a health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after a specified date that provides coverage for prescribed, orally administered anti-cancer medications from requiring an enrollee or insured to pay a total cost-sharing amount of more than a specified amount per filled prescription.

AB 230 - Maienschein
Mental Health
02/05/2013 - INTRODUCED.
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health.

AB 244 - Bonilla
Vehicles: License Plates: Veterans
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles to sponsor a veterans specialized license plate. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue the veterans specialized plates if the Department of Veterans' Affairs meets specified requirements. Requires these plates to be subject to additional fees, and that the fee revenues be deposited in the Veterans Service Office Fund.

AB 252 - Yamada
Social Workers
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Prohibits an individual from representing himself or herself as a social worker, unless he or she possesses certain academic qualifications from an accredited school. Prohibits an employer from representing his or her employee as a social worker, unless that employee possess certain academic qualifications. Applies these prohibitions to an individual employed by a government entity, certain academic institutions, an institution that is both nonprofit and charitable, and other individuals.

AB 259 - Logue
Health and Care Facilities: CPR
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committees on HEALTH and RULES.
Makes it a misdemeanor for long-term care health care facilities, community care facilities, adult day care health care centers, and residential care facilities to have a policy that prohibits any employee from administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Provides an exception for do not resuscitate or advance health care directive that prohibits resuscitation.

AB 261 - Chesbro
Residential Care Facilities: Elderly: Fees: Charges
05/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Prohibits a residential care facility for the elderly from requiring advance notice for terminating an admission agreement upon the death of a resident. Prohibits the facility from assessing any fees once all personal property of the deceased is removed. Prohibits the facility from impeding the removal of a deceased resident's personal belongings. Requires a residential care facility for the elderly to issue a refund of any fees paid in advance. Requires written notice of policies.

AB 264 - Maienschein
Homelessness: Housing
02/07/2013 - INTRODUCED.
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide housing for homeless persons in this state.

AB 268 - Holden
Transit: Metro Gold Line Extension
04/18/2013 - Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on RULES.
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would enable the Metro Gold Line extension to be completed at the terminus of Ontario Airport with intermediate stops in San Dimas, La Verne, Pomona, Clarement, and Montclair, and for regional cooperation to continue.

AB 27 - Medina
UC Riverside Medical School: Funding
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Appropriates funds 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.

AB 274 - Bonilla
Child Care and Development Services
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires child care providers authorized to provide services under provisions of existing law, to submit to the alternative payment program, a specified record or invoice for each child who received services documenting care provided. Requires the record or invoice to be verified by a parent or guardian of the child receiving services and the child care provider to attest the child's attendance is accurately reflected in the record. Requires electronic records. Authorizes a form of electronic fund transfer.

AB 290 - Alejo
Child Day Care: Childhood Nutrition Training
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Relates to the Child Day Care Act. Provides that for licenses, a director or teacher who receives the health and safety training shall also have at least one hour of childhood nutrition training as part of the preventive health practices course. Includes information about participation in the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program.

AB 297 - Chesbro
Primary Care Clinics
05/16/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Authorizes a primary care clinic to submit verification of certification from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care to the licensing and Certification Division.

AB 298 - Pan
Rural Health Care Equity Program
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Reestablishes the Rural Health Care Equity Program that funds the subsidization and reimbursement of premium costs, deductibles, coinsurance, and other out-of-pocket health care expenses paid by state employees of State Bargaining Unit 5 living in rural areas.

AB 299 - Holden
Pharmacy
05/14/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Prohibits a nonresident pharmacy or a pharmacy located in this state that delivers prescriptions via mail from entering into, or being a party to, an agreement with a health care service plan or disability insurer that requires a plan enrollee or insured to utilize mail order services or that requires a plan enrollee or insured to opt out of a mail order process.

AB 309 - Mitchell
CalFresh: Homeless Youth
05/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Clarifies that eligibility for CalFresh benefits, including expedited services, is not dependent on the age of an applicant and that county welfare departments must accept applications from unaccompanied homeless children and youths. Provides that if an application is denied, the county welfare department would be required to notify the child or youth in writing of the reason for the denial.

AB 314 - Pan
Health Care Coverage: Student Plans and Policies
05/16/2013 - To SENATE Committees on HEALTH and EDUCATION.
Relates to self-funded student health care service plans. Prohibits a plan directly operated by a bona fide public or private college or university that directly provides health care services only to its students, faculty, staff, administration, and their respective dependents from establishing an annual limit or a lifetime limit on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary.

AB 318 - Logue
Dental Care: Telehealth
03/19/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
Promotes the advancement of telehealth in dental care.

AB 322 - Yamada
Home Care Services Act of 2013
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Enacts the Home Care Services Act of 2013. Provides for the licensure and regulation of home care organizations. Establishes home care organizations as being recognized in the health care industry. Requires a home care organization to provide a client with specified information. Prohibits arranging for home care services by an aide without obtaining a license. Imposes a civil penalty. Requires aide background checks. Requires aides to be active tuberculosis free. Requires competency skills by aides.

AB 345 - Pan
Counties: Coroners
04/17/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Not heard.
Amends existing law that prohibits an expense charge in cases in which the coroner ascribes the death to a criminal act of another, unless the coroner has reasonable grounds to believe that the deceased was involved in any criminal activity that contributed to his or her own death. Prohibits the charge in cases in which the law enforcement agency investigating the death ascribes the death to the criminal act of another, unless the agency has grounds to believe the deceased was involved in criminal activity.

AB 346 - Stone
Emergency Youth Shelter Facilities
05/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Includes within the definition of a community care facility an emergency youth shelter facility. Requires the Department of Social Services to license emergency youth shelter facilities that have met specified requirements, including the requirement that facility staff shall offer short-term, 24-hour nonmedical care and supervision and personal services to a certain number of youths who voluntarily enter the facility.

AB 35 - Hernandez R
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Provides immigration consultants, attorneys, and notaries public, and entities approved by the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals shall be the only individuals authorized to charge clients or prospective clients a fee for providing services associated with filing an application under the deferred action program. Provides that if a person has received a certain notice granting deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and meets other criteria, is eligible for unemployment benefits.

AB 361 - Mitchell
Medi-Cal: Health Homes for Medi-Cal Enrollees
04/17/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to create a health home program for medical enrollees with chronic conditions, as authorized under federal law. Provides that those provisions shall not be implemented unless federal financial participation is available and additional General Fund moneys are not used to fund the administration and service costs.

AB 364 - Calderon I
Community Care Facilities: Unannounced Visits
04/17/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the Department of Social Services to make unannounced visits to a community care facility or a residential care facility for the elderly as often as necessary but no less often that once every specified number of years.

AB 371 - Salas
Sewage Sludge: Kern County
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. To Inactive File.
Authorizes the Kern County Board of Supervisors, upon a majority vote, to regulate or prohibit by ordinance, in a manner more stringent than state or federal law and in a nondiscriminatory manner, the land application of sewage sludge in unincorporated areas in the jurisdiction of the county. Relates to applications for waste discharge.

AB 390 - Logue
Health Care
03/21/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions requiring the State Department of Health Services to give due consideration to the appropriate organization and the accessibility and availability of the facilities and resources for health care to eligible persons, and to new and innovative approaches to the delivery of health care services.

AB 395 - Fox
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Facilities
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Includes in the definition of alcoholism and drug abuse recovery and treatment facilities a premises, place, or building that does not require a health facility license and that provides an accredited program that uses a multidisciplinary team to provide 24-hour residential medical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug abuse and who need treatment or detoxification services.

AB 396 - Fox
Prescriptions
02/15/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Requires 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. Requires 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.

AB 4 - Wilk
Healthcare
05/16/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Requires that individuals receiving coverage through the Health Benefit Exchange and who are receiving a tax credit would be subject to the required grace period and provisions of coverage during the grace period, if any, as provided by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

AB 40 - Mansoor
Substance Abuse: Recovery and Treatment Facilities
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires an alcoholism or drug abuse treatment program licensee to report specified events or incidents, including the death of a program resident, telephonically within one working day of the event or incident, and to provide a written report within a specified time period.

AB 402 - Ammiano
Disability Income Insurance: Mental Illness
05/16/2013 - To SENATE Committee on INSURANCE.
Requires every policy of disability income insurance that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after a specified date, and that provides disability income benefits to provide coverage for disability caused by severe mental illnesses.

AB 404 - Eggman
Healing Arts: Behavioral Sciences: Retired Licenses
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Reduces the number of years as specified for a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker, educational psychologist, or professional clinical counselor who holds a retired license to apply to have his or her license restored to active status without having to apply for licensure and pass the examinations required for licensure.

AB 411 - Pan
Medi-Cal: Performance Measures
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Requires all Medi-Cal managed care plans to analyze their Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set measures, or their External Accountability Set performance measure equivalent, by geographic region, race, ethnicities, and primary language, and to implement strategies to reduce identified disparities between members of different races and ethnicities, sexual orientations, and with gender identities. Requires that these analyses be reported to the State Department of Health.

AB 413 - Chavez
Foster Care: Specialized Foster Care Homes
05/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Provides that the conditions of existing law that permits a licensed small family home to accept more than a specified number of foster children under certain conditions would apply if a specified number of foster children are physically present and would apply if a licensed small family home exceeds the specified child limit. Relates to specialized foster care homes for children with special health care needs.

AB 419 - Lowenthal B
CalWORKs: Eligibility
05/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Relates to criteria for eligibility for the CalWORKs program. Requires that a child who is a patient in a public or private hospital for medical or surgical care be considered temporarily absent from the home for the duration of the hospital stay.

AB 421 - Williams
Health and Home Care: Worker Training
03/19/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation and collaboration with others, to develop a training curriculum for in-home support services providers that addresses issues of consistency, accountability, and increased quality of care for in-home supportive services recipients.

AB 422 - Nazarian
Health Care Applications
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Requires notices of a Healthy Families Program application to include prescribed advisements about the availability of free or reduced-cost comprehensive health care coverage through Medi-Cal or the California Health Benefit Exchange respectively.

AB 428 - Eggman
Marriage and Family Therapy: Clinical Social Workers
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Amends existing law that provides for the licensure or registration and regulation of marriage and family therapists and interns and licensure and regulation of clinical social workers by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Specifies the coursework that will fulfill the educational requirements for licensure. Deletes provisions that permit acceptance of coursework requirements certification from the Chief Academic Officer of the educational institution.

AB 446 - Mitchell
HIV Testing
05/15/2013 - Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Provides that a medical care provider or a person administering a HIV test to provide a patient with information about risk reduction strategies and information after the test results are received. Requires informed consent. Requires consent recording in the patient's medical record. Requires patients in a certain age group who have consented to the test to be offered such test. Specifies the manner of results notification. Authorizes Internet Web site notification using a secure identification number.

AB 451 - Eggman
Healing Arts: Therapists and Counselors: Licensing
05/02/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Extends application of provisions relative to the licensure or registration and regulation of marriage and family therapists and interns by the Board of Behavioral Sciences.

AB 452 - Brown
Radioactive Materials: Federal Regulation
04/30/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS: Not heard.
Provides regulations adopted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in effect on a specified date, are deemed to be the regulations of this state and adopted pursuant to the Radiation Control Law. Provides for the adoption of future federal regulations, if found to meet specified criteria. Requires adoption of regulations that are determined to be necessary for the administration and enforcement of the adopted federal regulations. Prohibits adopting regulations that cannot be relinquished to agreement states.

AB 460 - Ammiano
Health Care Coverage: Infertility
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Requires coverage, under Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act that provides for coverage for the treatment of infertility be offered and provided without discrimination on the basis of age, ancestry, color, disability, domestic partner status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

AB 471 - Atkins
Medi-Cal: Program of All-Inclusive Care for Elderly
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Deletes from provisions of the Medi-Cal program a provision for the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) that limits the number of contracts with PACE organizations implementing the PACE program as specified.

AB 473 - Ammiano
Medical Marijuana: State Regulation and Enforcement
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Creates the Division of Medical Marijuana Regulation and Enforcement within the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to establish statewide standards for the cultivation, manufacturing, testing, transportation, distribution, and sales of medical marijuana and medical marijuana products. Requires a statewide fee scale in relation to these activities. Requires uniform policies for taxation of medical marijuana businesses. Relates to identification cards. Authorizes penalties for violations.

AB 49 - Buchanan
License Plates: Breast Cancer Awareness
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to sponsor a breast cancer awareness license plate program. Requires the State Department of Motor Vehicles to issue license plates under certain conditions. Requires the plates to be issued under the program to have a specific design. Requires the revenue generated to be deposited in the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund.

AB 496 - Gordon
Medicine: Sexual Orientation: Gender Identity
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Amends existing law that creates the Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists. Revises the membership. Requires licensed task force and advocate task force members to provide health services to, or advocate on behalf of, specified persons. Requires the physician linguistic competency program to address those groups. Requires program training to be formulated with medical societies of those groups. Redefines the term cultural and linguistic competency.

AB 498 - Chavez
Medi-Cal
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Amends existing law that states that the Medi-Cal program governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions and that modifies the inpatient fee-for-service reimbursement methodology for nondesignated public hospital under a specified demonstration project for services on or after a specified date. Prohibits a payment made to a nondesignated public hospital from being subject to a peer grouping inpatient reimbursement limitation, unless otherwise required by federal law.

AB 5 - Ammiano
Homelessness
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Enacts the Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act. Provides that no person's rights, privileges, or access to public services may be denied or abridged because he or she is homeless. Provides the right to specified actions, confidentiality of certain records, legal assistance, and restitution. Prohibits retaliation against a public employer for assisting the homeless. Requires reports and public information regarding ordinances and certain actions against the homeless. Provides civil penalties.

AB 50 - Pan
Health Care Coverage: Medi-Cal: Eligibility
05/13/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to establish a process to allow a hospital that is a participating Medi-Cal provider to elect to be a qualified entity for purposes of eligibility for Medi-Cal and providing medical assistance during the presumptive eligibility period. Requires the application and renewal form for state health subsidy programs to include demographic data and questions regarding sexual orientation and gender identity or expression which are voluntary.

AB 505 - Nazarian
Medi-Cal: Managed Care: Language Assistance Services
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to require all managed care plans contracting with the department to provide language assistance services, which includes interpretation and translation services, to limited-English-proficient enrollees.

AB 508 - Calderon I
Debt Collection: Homeless Veterans
05/16/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Prohibits the issuance of an order for the garnishment of earnings or the levy of a bank account or the earnings of a homeless veteran for the enforcement and collection of fees, fines, forfeitures, or penalties imposed by a court due to the violation of a state or local law related to loitering, curfew violations, or illegal lodging for a period of 5 years, if the court has reason to believe that the debtor is a homeless veteran.

AB 514 - Bonta
The Safe Schools and Safe Learning Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Creates the Safe Schools for Safe Learning Act of 2013. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction's Web site to post a list of statewide resources for youth who have been affected by gangs, gun violence, and psychological trauma caused by violence at home and at school.

AB 518 - Yamada
Community-Based Adult Services
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Establishes the Community-Based Adult Services program as a Medi-Cal benefit. Requires providers to meet specified requirements and requires the Department of Health Care Services to only certify and enroll as new providers only those providers that are exempt from taxation as a nonprofit entity.

AB 520 - Chesbro
Alcoholic Beverages: Licenses
03/04/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION.
Amends existing law that authorizes a special beer and wine license for hospitals and rest homes that permits the sale or service of beer and wine purchased from a licensed winegrower or beer and wine wholesaler only to patients or residents of those facilities. Replaces the term rest homes with senior care facilities.

AB 540 - Pan
Reporting and Tracking of Violent Deaths
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the State Department of Public Health to establish and maintain the State Electronic Violent Death Reporting System. Requires the department to collect data on violent deaths, contract with county health departments to collect certain data, and apply for grants to implement these provisions.

AB 549 - Jones-Sawyer
Comprehensive School Safety Plan: Adult on Campus Role
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires school safety strategies and programs to include the development of clear guidelines for roles and responsibilities of mental health and intervention professionals, school resource officers and police officers on the school campus and requires these guidelines to conform to specific requirements including protection the physical safety of pupils and school staff. Requires a school or district that receives state or federal funding for campus safety to comply with certain requirements.

AB 565 - Salas
State Physician Corps Program
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Amends the State Physician Corps Program. Requires the guidelines for the selection and placement of program applicants to include criteria that would give priority consideration to program applicants who have experience providing health care services to medically underserved populations or in a medically underserved area. Require priority to rural applicants who agree to practice in a physician owned and operated medical practice setting. Includes a primary care private practice.

AB 58 - Wieckowski
Medical Experiments: Human Subjects
04/18/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Amends existing regulations concerning the conduct of medical experiments on human subjects and requiring informed consent prior to conducting medical experiments on human subjects and exempting a medical experimental treatment that benefits a patient subject to a life-threatening emergency, by continuing the exemption for life-threatening emergencies indefinitely. Adds conditions for the use of medical experimental treatment including approved informed consent procedures to be used with subjects.

AB 581 - Ammiano
Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committees on HUMAN SERVICES and JUDICIARY.
Prohibits an community care facility licensee or a residential facility for the elderly licensee, or officer or employee of the licensee, from discriminating or retaliating in any manner, including eviction or threat of eviction, against any person receiving the services of the facility, or against any employee of the licensee's facility, or for the reason that, the person or employee or any other person has initiated or participated in the filing of a complaint, grievance, or a request for inspection.

AB 582 - Chesbro
Medi-Cal: Complex Rehabilitation Technology
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires that complex rehabilitation technology be recognized as a separate benefit by the Medi-Cal program in both fee-for-service and managed care delivery systems. Requires that the technology be reimbursed through a specified methodology. Relates to wheelchairs and scooters. Requires complex rehabilitation technology be subject to a prior authorization process. Authorizes the department to adopt additional utilization controls.

AB 585 - Fox
Homeless Veterans' Assistance Pilot Program
03/04/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committees on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT and VETERANS AFFAIRS.
Establishes the Homeless Veterans' Housing Assistance Pilot Program, in up to 4 counties that agree to participate. Provides that the pilot program would be administered at the state level by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Requires the department to provide funds to each county for purposes of the pilot program, from which the county would provide a monthly stipend to eligible homeless veterans.

AB 591 - Fox
Hospital Emergency Room: Geriatric Physician
03/04/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Requires each general acute care hospital with an emergency department to have, at all times, a geriatric physician serving on an on-call basis.

AB 596 - Brown
Health Care Services Grants
02/20/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of existing law which establish a program for the Health Facilities Authority to award grants to projects designed to demonstrate enhanced cost-effective methods of delivering quality health care services to vulnerable populations or communities.

AB 599 - Donnelly
Minors: Vaccinations: Parental Consent
05/14/2013 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH without further action pursuant to JR 62(a).
Relates to existing law which allows a minor who may have come into contact with an infectious or contagious disease to consent to medical care if the disease or condition is one that is required to be reported to the local health officer. Specifies that these provisions do not authorize a minor to receive a vaccine without the consent of the parent or guardian of the minor.

AB 602 - Yamada
Mentally and Developmentally Disabled: Reporting Abuse
04/10/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to provide a training course relating to law enforcement interaction with mentally disabled or developmentally disabled persons living within a state mental hospital, long-term care facility or state developmental center. Requires the course for law enforcement personnel in law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction over state mental health hospitals and state developmental centers.

AB 610 - Achadjian
State Hospitals: Involuntary Treatment
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Makes provisions of existing law that requires a county to submit a statement of all mental health treatment costs and a separate statement of nontreatment costs to be submitted to the State Department of State Hospitals and the Controller when a trail or hearing is held for specified inmates of state hospitals applicable to hearings for an order seeking involving treatment of a person confined in a state hospital with psychotropic medication or other medication for which an order is required.

AB 614 - Chavez
State Veterans' Homes: Financial Investigation
05/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on VETERANS AFFAIRS.
Requires, prior to admission of a veteran as a member of a state veterans' home, the State Department of Veterans Affairs to review the veteran's financial status to ensure that the veteran is unable to pay for the necessary hospitalization or domiciliary care outside of the home. Authorizes the department to promulgate and maintain regulations.

AB 617 - Nazarian
Health Benefit Exchange: Appeals
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the Health Benefit Exchange board to contract with the State Department of Social Services to serve as the Exchange appeals entity designated to hear appeals of eligibility determination or redetermination for persons in the individual market. Establish an appeals process for initial eligibility or enrollment determinations and redetermination, including an informal resolution process. Establishes continuing eligibility for individuals during the appeals process.

AB 620 - Buchanan
Healthcare Facilities: Missing Patients & Participants
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committees on HEALTH and HUMAN SERVICES.
Requires specified health facilities, including various kinds of intermediate care facilities, congregate living health facilities, and nursing facilities, community care facilities offering adult day programs, and adult day health care centers to develop, implement, comply with, and review annually a safety plan for the purpose of addressing the issues that arise when a patient or participant is missing. Requires the plan to include requirements regarding notification of the person missing.

AB 623 - Lowenthal B
Inmates: Psychiatric Medication: Consent
03/04/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
Prohibits a person confined in a county jail from being administered any psychiatric medication without his or her prior informed consent.

AB 624 - Mitchell
County Jail: Rehabilitation Credits
05/15/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Authorizes a sheriff, in addition to the credits otherwise earned, to award a prisoner program credit reductions from his or her term of confinement for successful completion of specific program performance objectives for rehabilitative programming, including academic programs, vocational programs, vocational training, substance abuse programs, and core programs such as anger management and social life skills.

AB 633 - Salas
Emergency Medical Services: Civil Liability
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Prohibits an employer from having a policy or practice of prohibiting an employee from providing voluntary emergency medical services, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in response to a medical emergency. Provides that an employee is not liable for any civil damages resulting from an act or omission when he or she, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency. Provides an exception.

AB 635 - Ammiano
Drug Overdose Treatment: Liability
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
Authorizes a licensed health care provider who is permitted by law to prescribe an opioid antagonist and is acting with reasonable care to prescribe and subsequently dispense or distribute an opioid antagonist for the treatment of an opioid overdose to a person at risk of an opioid-related overdose or a specified person in a position to assist a person at risk of an opioid-related overdose. Authorizes these licensed health care providers to issue standing orders for the distribution of an opioid antagonist.

AB 652 - Ammiano
Child Abuse & Neglect Reporting Act: Homeless Children
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Provides that the fact that a child is homeless or is classified as an unaccompanied minor is not, in and of itself, a sufficient basis for reporting child abuse or neglect.

AB 657 - Nazarian
Women's Health
02/21/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Relates to the State Department of Public Health. Deletes an obsolete reference from provisions regarding developing strategies to improve the health and mental health status of specified persons, including women and requiring the department to include prescribed information in any literature that it produces regarding breast cancer.

AB 658 - Calderon I
Personal Information: Disclosure
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
Applies the prohibitions of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to any business that offers software or hardware, including a mobile application or other related device that is designed to maintain medical information to allow an individual to manage his or her information, or for the diagnosis, treatment, or management of a medical condition of the individual.

AB 663 - Gomez
Care Facilities: Training Requirements
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Relates to training for residential care facility administrators. Requires administrator and ombudsman training to include cultural competency and sensitivity in issues relating to the underserved aging lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

AB 670 - Atkins
Pharmacy Law: Incentive Payments
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Prohibits a pharmacist or pharmacy employer from receiving any payment or other compensation, in the form of money or otherwise to specifically recommend or replace an originally prescribed drug product with a drug product that does not have the same active ingredients as the originally prescribed drug product, unless the recommendation or replacement is the result of, and the payment is included in the reimbursement for, the pharmacist performing a comprehensive medication review.

AB 676 - Fox
Health Care Coverage: Postdischarge Care Needs
04/16/2013 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Prohibits health care service plans, health insurers, and the Department of Health Care Services or Medi-Cal managed care plans from causing an enrollee, insured, or beneficiary to remain in a general acute care hospital or an acute psychiatric hospital upon determination by the attending physician on the medical staff has determined that the individual no longer requires inpatient hospital care. Requires those entities to perform specified duties after receipt of notice of discharge.

AB 678 - Gordon
Health Care Districts: Community Health Assessment
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Requires that a health care district conduct an assessment, every 5 years, of the community's health needs and provide opportunities for public input. Requires the annual reports to address the progress made in meeting the community's health needs in the context of the assessment. Requires that any written statement by a district regarding the services provided and future needs to also address any community health needs assessment accomplished.

AB 68 - Maienschein
Parole
05/14/2013 - From SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to give notice of any medical parole hearing and any medical parole release to both the county of commitment and the county of proposed release, prior to a medical parole hearing or a medical parole release.

AB 681 - Melendez
County Inmates: Medical Visits
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
Authorizes a fee in a specified amount for each inmate-initiated medical visit of an inmate confined in a county or city jail. Provides an exception.

AB 686 - Quirk
Hazardous Waste: Pharmaceutical Facilities
05/07/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Requires the State Department of Toxic Substances Control to develop recommendations for standards and guidelines for the operation of on-site waste management and recycling of hazardous waste at facilities engaged in pharmaceutical manufacturing or process development. Requires a report including any statutory recommendations and regulatory actions needed to assure the safe and efficient management of waste by such manufacturing or activities.

AB 689 - Bonta
Health Facilities: Influenza
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires each general acute care hospital under specified conditions, to offer onsite vaccinations for influenza to all patients at discharge, pursuant to specified procedures. Requires a general acute care hospital that offers vaccinations pursuant to these provisions to inform each inpatient that he or she may be required to pay for the cost of the vaccination.

AB 697 - Gomez
Nursing Education: Service in State Veterans Homes
03/11/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committees on HEALTH and VETERANS AFFAIRS.
Establishes a loan assumption program for employees of state veterans' homes within the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education Program. Provides loan assumption benefits to persons who fulfill agreements to work full time for 4 consecutive years as clinical registered nurses in state veterans' homes that employ registered nurses.

AB 70 - Morrell
Budget Bill: Public Availability
04/09/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUDGET.
Provides that no vote may be taken in either house of the Legislature on the Budget Bill or other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill, as defined in the Constitution, until those bills have been made available to the public for 3 days on a publicly available Internet Web site.

AB 704 - Blumenfield
Emergency Medical Service: Military Experience
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop and adopt regulations to accept the education, training, and practical experience completed by an applicant with military experience toward the qualifications and requirements for EMT-I certification, EMT-II certification, or EMT-P licensure.

AB 705 - Blumenfield
Combat to Care Act
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Requires 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 transferable to the curriculum required for licensure by the board. Requires providing an applicant a list of required education to be completed for licensure and to grant the applicant a license upon passing the standard examination, if he or she meets specified criteria.

AB 710 - Pan
Health Benefit Exchange: Multiemployer Plans
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Amends existing law that requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that make available qualified health plans to qualified individuals and small employers. Requires the exchange's governing board to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans through the exchange by multiemployer plans.

AB 714 - Wieckowski
Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Relates to the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999 that authorizes the University of California to establish a spinal cord injury research fund to accept public funds and private funds for purposes of spinal cord injury research. Appropriates a specified amount of funds from the General Fund to that fund.

AB 716 - Quirk-Silva
Infrastructure Plan: State Planning and Funding
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Amends the Infrastructure Planning Act which requires the Governor to submit annually to the Legislature, in conjunction with the Governor's budget, a proposed infrastructure plan. Requires the plan to set out priorities for coordination of investment. Expands the definition of infrastructure to include housing. Requires the Strategic Growth Council to hold a public hearing and to submit its comments on the plan to the Legislature prior to submission of the plan by the Governor. Requires specified planning.

AB 720 - Skinner
Inmates: Health Care Enrollment
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires counties to designate an individual or agency to enroll certain individuals held in county jail into the MediCal Program consistent with federal requirements. Provides that individuals who are currently enrolled in the county where they reside and who would become eligible for benefits because of detention before or after conviction shall have their benefits suspended and shall enroll in the above program. Requires informing individuals regarding the Medi-Cal program prior to release.

AB 721 - Bradford
Controlled Substances: Transporting
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Amends an existing law which makes it an offense to transport specified Schedule III, IV, or V controlled substances which are not a narcotic drug, unless upon written prescription. Makes that portion of the offense transporting those controlled substances with the intent to sell.

AB 722 - Lowenthal B
Vehicles: Driver's Licenses: Medical Examinations
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING.
Amends existing law which requires applicants for an original or renewal certificate to drive a school bus, a school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor vehicle to submit a report of a medical examination. Adds a doctor of chiropractic and a certified medical examiner to the list of persons who may make a report of a medical examination of the specified applicants.

AB 725 - Wilk
Health Care Coverage
03/19/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the Knox-Keene Health Care Services Plan Act of 1975, and the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

AB 73 - Blumenfield
Budget Act of 2013
03/14/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUDGET.
Makes appropriations for support of state government for the 2013-14 fiscal year.

AB 74 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 75 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 753 - Lowenthal B
Cognitively Impaired Adults: Resource Centers
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time, urgency clause adopted. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Requires the Director of Health Care Services to maintain or enter into contracts directly with caregiver resource centers to provide direct services to caregivers of cognitively impaired adults throughout the state. provides the services would include family consultation, respite care, short-term counseling, and support groups. Authorizes entering into exclusive or nonexclusive contracts on a bid or negotiated basis and amending existing contracts to provide or arrange for such services.

AB 755 - Ammiano
Suicide Barriers
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Provides that the construction or reconstruction of a bridge designed for use by motor vehicles shall not be eligible for federal fund apportioned to the state, funds made available from the Highway Users Tax Account, or toll bridge funds unless the planning process for the bridge project takes into account the need for a suicide barrier.

AB 76 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 760 - Dickinson
Taxes: Ammunition Sales
04/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION: To Suspense File.
Imposes a tax upon retailers for the privilege of selling ammunition. Imposes a complemental excise tax on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state. Requires that revenues collected be allocated to the School-Based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services Matching Grant Program.

AB 764 - Linder
Human Remains
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Establishes a pilot program that would authorize the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to issue a limited crematory license to no more than 5 hydrolysis facilities, subject to specified requirements.

AB 768 - Achadjian
Sexually Violent Predators: Condition Release
04/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Not heard.
Prohibits a sexually violent predator from being granted conditional release from a secure state hospital as a transient in any county or being placed in housing that consists of a recreational or other vehicle. Declares that extraordinary circumstances justifying the placement of a person who has been granted conditional release in a county other than his or her county of domicile are present when housing cannot be located within the county of domicile within a specified time period.

AB 77 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 776 - Yamada
Medi-Cal
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Amends the Medi-Cal program that states beneficiaries residing in counties participating in certain projects be provided long-term services and supports and requires the Department of Health Care Services to consult stakeholders. Defines the term stakeholder to include area agencies on aging and independent living centers.

AB 78 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 784 - Weber
In-Home Supportive Services: Provider Benefits
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Not heard.
Establishes an advisory committee to assess the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on health care benefits for in-home supportive services providers. Requires the committee to provide a report to specified legislative committees, on the appropriate employer in the in-home supportive services program to provide health care benefits for provisions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

AB 787 - Stone
Foster Care
05/16/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Authorizes a nonminor former dependent to petition the court for a hearing to determine whether to resume dependency jurisdiction over a former dependent, or to assume or resume transition jurisdiction over a former ward, if the nonminor was receiving specified forms of public assistance after a specified age and the nonminor's former guardian or adoptive parent dies after the nonminor has reached a specified age. Provides exceptions.

AB 79 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 80 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 804 - Lowenthal B
Medi-Cal: Pharmacy Providers: Invoices
05/16/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Amends existing law that requires reimbursement to Medi-Cal pharmacy providers for drugs. Provides that pharmacy invoice information is confidential and exempt from public disclosure.

AB 809 - Logue
Healing Arts: Telehealth
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committees on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT and HEALTH.
Requires a health care provider at the originating site to provide the patient with a waiver for the course of treatment involving telehealth services to obtain informed consent for the agreed course of treatment. Requires the signed waiver to be contained in the patient's medical record.

AB 81 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 82 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 83 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 830 - Holden
Clinical Laboratories
03/21/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION.
Requires the State Department of Public Health to promulgate regulations to require hospitals and health care facilities that employ clinical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to provide training to those individual and any other employees charged with supervising those individuals on specified subject matters.

AB 831 - Bloom
Drug Overdoses
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Establishes within the State Health and Human Services Agency, a temporary working group, to develop a plan to reduce the rate of fatal drug overdoses in the state. Requires the group to make recommendations to specified legislative committees. Establishes a grant program to provide funds for programs related to drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response education. Makes an appropriation therefore for the 2014-15 fiscal year.

AB 836 - Skinner
Dentists: Continuing Education
05/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Prohibits the Dental Board of California from requiring a retired dentist who provides only uncompensated care more than 60% of the hours of continuing education that is required of other licensed dentists. Requires the board to report on the outcome of a provision of existing law, pursuant to, and at the time of, its regular sunset review process.

AB 84 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 845 - Cooley
Shaken Baby Syndrome
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires the State Department of Social Services to develop and implement the Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Program, which would provide new parents and other adult caregivers of newborns and young infants with information and education relating to the prevention of shaken baby syndrome. Requires a process for selecting counties to voluntary participate. Requires a report on the program's ability to reduce the number of infant injuries or deaths from the syndrome, and feedback regarding the program.

AB 85 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 851 - Logue
Dentistry: Licensure and Certification Requirements
03/04/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committees on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION and VETERANS AFFAIRS.
Requires the Dental Board to accept education, training, and practical experience completed by an applicant in military service toward the qualifications and requirements to receive a license or certificate. Requires certain schools seeking accreditation or approval to have procedures in place to evaluate an applicant's military education training and practical experience toward the completion of certain educational programs.

AB 854 - Stone
Elder Abuse
03/21/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of existing law requiring a long-term health care facility to report to the State Department of Public Health all incidents of alleged or suspected abuse of a facility resident.

AB 855 - Brown
State Employees: Absence Without Leave: Reinstatement
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
Relates to the reinstatement of state employees absence without leave. Provides that an employee may demonstrate that he or she is ready, able and willing to resume the discharge of the duties of his or her position by submitting a written verification from a license health care provider showing the employee is released to return to work. Requires a grant of reinstatement if the hiring authority invokes these provisions before the employee is absent without leave for 5 consecutive work days.

AB 859 - Gomez
Professions and Vocations: Military Medical Personnel
02/21/2013 - INTRODUCED.
Promotes and pursues programmatic changes to nursing and paramedic licensure requirements for the state's military medical personnel in order to recognize the talent, skills, and training of these military medical personnel.

AB 86 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 867 - Yamada
Aeronautics: Meteorological Towers: Markings
04/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION: Not heard.
Amends existing law that requires a meteorological tower to be marked if the tower is located on prime agricultural land or is within one mile of such land, and erected after a specified date. Applies the marking requirements to a meteorological tower that is located outside the boundaries of an incorporated city, on prime agricultural land, or within a specified distance of such land. Requires the tower to be marked with a flashing light.

AB 87 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 88 - Buchanan
School Finance: New Pupil Funding Formula
05/06/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula. Changes small school funding calculations. Requires entities that get funding directly to revise local control and accountability. Relates to reimbursement for free and reduced prices meals.

AB 880 - Gomez
Medi-Cal Program Costs: Large Employer Responsibility
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires a large employer to pay an employer responsibility penalty for each covered employee enrolled in Medi-Cal based on the average cost of coverage provided by such employers to their employees, including both the employer's share and employee's share of premiums. Provides a related fund for such penalties with the moneys going to provide payment for Medi-Cal related expenses. Makes it unlawful for employers to commit specified actions to avoid the penalty. Provides misdemeanor punishment.

AB 883 - Cooley
Child Sexual Abuse: Prevention and Intervention
03/21/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
States the intent of the Legislature to create a pilot program to fully fund agencies and private or nonprofit programs that provide child sexual abuse prevention and intervention services.

AB 889 - Frazier
Health Care Coverage: Prescription Drugs
05/15/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Authorizes health care service plans and health insurers to require step therapy under specified conditions. Requires that plan or insurer to have a process in place to authorize exceptions to step therapy when medically necessary and to conform effectively and efficiently with continuity of care requirements. Prohibits requiring a patient try and fail a specified number of times before allowing access to other medication. Prohibits repeat step therapy under certain conditions. Exempts certain policies.

AB 89 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 90 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 900 - Alejo
Medi-Cal: Reimbursement: Nursing Facilities
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires that the Medi-Cal program payment reduction not apply to skilled nursing facilities that are a distinct part of a general acute care hospital for specified dates of service.

AB 91 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 912 - Quirk-Silva
Health Care Coverage: Fertility Preservation
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires a health care service plan and a health insurer to provide, on a group and individual basis, coverage for medically necessary expenses for standard fertility preservation services when a necessary medical treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility to an enrollee or insured.

AB 92 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 93 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 931 - Gaines B
Public Employee Retirement: Health Benefits
03/21/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY.
Relates to the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System. Requires the board to establish a wellness program that provides financial incentives for participation. Requires the board to offer a high deductible health plan and a health savings account option to public employees and annuitants. Establish the Public Employees' Health Savings Fund for employees who elect the high deductible or health savings plan option.

AB 94 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 95 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 951 - Medina
Educational Rights of Homeless Children
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires a local educational agency to ensure that the liaison for homeless children and youth is property trained regarding the rights of homeless children to receive educational services, including, an overview of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Requires the liaison to provide notice to homeless families at schools and in the community of educational rights of homeless children and youth and to facilitate access to schools services. Requires staff training to get related funding.

AB 954 - Maienschein
Developmental Services: Habilitation
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Increases the hourly rate paid to providers of individualized and group-supported employment services and increases the fees paid to the interim program providers.

AB 957 - Wagner
Postmortem Photographs
05/02/2013 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
Prohibits the dissemination of a copy, reproduction, or facsimile of a photograph, negative, or print of the body of a deceased person taken by the coroner at the scene of death. Excludes from application of this provision the making or dissemination of a copy or facsimile for use in the field of forensic pathology, in medical or scientific education or research, and by a coroner or any law enforcement agency, including identification confirmation. Relates to a coroner's personal liability.

AB 958 - Jones
Child Custody: Evaluations and Reports
04/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on JUDICIARY.
Amends an existing law which permits a court to appoint a child custody evaluator who must be licensed as a physician, psychologist, marriage and family therapist, or clinical social worker, to conduct a child custody evaluation and file a written confidential report. Requires a court to disclose the report to the licensing board governing the child custody evaluator upon receiving a written request from the board.

AB 96 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 961 - Levine
Health Facilities: Investigations: Disclosure
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Relates to the licensing and regulation of health facilities and long-term health facilities. Requires the Department of Health Care Services to complete an investigation and issue a citation within a specified time period. Relates to the confidentiality of records obtained in the course of providing services pursuant to specified provisions relating to persons with developmental disabilities.

AB 97 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 973 - Quirk-Silva
Long Term Health Facilities: Cultural Change
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires moneys from the State Health Facilities Citation Penalties Account to be continuously appropriated and used. Requires a contract to promote culture change, and to serve long-term health care facilities stakeholders, including, among others, residents and long-term health care facility personnel, to perform a variety of tasks including implementing person-centered care and cultural change, and to submit annual reports.

AB 974 - Hall
Patient Transfer
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Requires that, prior to a transfer of a patient for a nonmedical reason, a hospital ask the patient if there is a preferred contact person who should be notified, and make a reasonable attempt to contact that person and, alert him or her about the proposed transfer, and if the patient is not able to respond, that the hospital make a reasonable effort to ascertain the identity of the preferred contact person or the next of kin and to alert him or her about the transfer.

AB 975 - Wieckowski
Health Facilities Community Benefits
05/08/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Requires a private nonprofit hospital and nonprofit multispecialty clinic to develop a community benefits statement and a description of the process for approval of the community benefits statement by the hospital's or clinic's governing board. Requires the entities, prior to adopting the plan, to complete a community needs assessment. Authorizes the creation of a related advisory committee. Requires making the assessment available to the public. Relates to reporting requirements for welfare exemption.

AB 98 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 987 - Jones
Personal and Home Care Training Program
04/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Relates to the Personal and Home Care Training Program. Requires the Secretary of State and Consumer Services to submit an application on behalf of the state to the federal Department of Health and Human Services to receive a grant to establish a Personal and Home Care Aide training program that would include opportunities for honorably discharged veterans in the state.

AB 99 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

AB 998 - Fong
Interagency Council on Homelessness
05/01/2013 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Creates the State Interagency Council on Homelessness. Provides that the council be composed of specified members. Authorizes the council to perform various duties, including providing a state plan to respond to homelessness. Authorizes the council to seek all available federal funding for purposes of funding the council and its activities.

ACA 11 - Gorell
State Budget
04/04/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committees on BUDGET and APPROPRIATIONS.
Requires that a bill addressing a fiscal emergency in this context be passed in each house of the Legislature by a 2/3 vote. Authorizes the Governor, if the Legislature fails to act by the 45th day following the emergency proclamation as described above, to issue a proclamation reducing or eliminating one or more items of appropriation from the General fund for the fiscal year in which the fiscal emergency is declared.

ACA 5 - Grove
Abortion: Parental Notification
04/08/2013 - Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committees on HEALTH and JUDICIARY.
Proposes a constitutional amendment to create the Parental Notification, Child and Teen Safety, Stop Predators Act, which would prohibit a physician and surgeon from performing an abortion on an unemancipated minor unless the physician and surgeon or his or her agent has delivered written notice to the parent of the unemancipated minor, or until a waiver of that notice has been received from the parent or issued by a court pursuant to a prescribed process.

ACR 40 - Perez J
Donate Life California Day: Driver's License
04/19/2013 - Resolution Chapter No. 19
Designates April 9, 2013, as DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2013 as DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California, and encourages all Californians to sign up with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.

AJR 7 - Bonta
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
05/20/2013 - Resolution Chapter No. 35
Requests the President and the Congress to exclude Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid from being part of any legislation to reduce the federal deficit. Expresses the Legislature's opposition to cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and calls on California's representatives to the Congress to vote against cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and to consider improving those systems in ways that would strengthen their protections.

CSA 7 - Wolk
Public Libraries
12/03/2012 - INTRODUCED.
Amends the constitution relative to public libraries. Relates to ad valorem tax rates. Creates a certain exception to a specified limit for a rate imposed by a city, county, city and county, or special district to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund public library facilities. Authorizes the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax imposed for the purpose of funding public libraries.

HR 13 - Williams
Homeless Court Programs
04/01/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY.
Encourages county governments to find ways to make homeless courts more accessible, such as allowing people to bring multiple cases to court per year instead of limiting them to one, and allowing fines to be recalled from collection by the county or collection agencies.

HR 15 - Conway
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
05/09/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Adopted by ASSEMBLY.
Proclaims May 9, 2013, "National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day" in the state.

HR 8 - Hall
Problem Gambling Awareness Week
03/07/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Adopted by ASSEMBLY.
Recognizes the week of March 3, 2013, to March 9, 2013 as Problem Gambling Awareness Week.

SB 1 - Hernandez E
Medi-Cal: Eligibility
05/09/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Implements various provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by modifying provisions relating to determining eligibility for certain groups. Extends Medi-Cal eligibility to specified adults. Requires that income eligibility be determined based on modified adjusted gross income. Prohibits the use of an asset or resources test for individuals whose financial eligibility for Medi-Cal is determined based on the application of income.

SB 100 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 101 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 102 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 103 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 104 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 105 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 107 - Corbett
Sexual Assault: Victim Medical Evidentiary Examination
05/16/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
Amends existing law that authorizes the local law enforcement agency to seek reimbursement from the Emergency Management Agency for the costs incurred by a qualified health care professional, hospital, or other emergency medical facility of sexual assault victim examinations in cases in which the victim does not participate in the criminal justice system. Extends indefinitely the authorization to utilize certain federal grant moneys to provide reimbursement.

SB 115 - Hill
Parent and Child Relationship
05/16/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY.
Amends provisions of the Uniform Parentage Act to provide that notwithstanding the treatment in law of a sperm donor, any interested party may bring an action at any time for the purpose of determining the parentage of a man presumed to be the father because he receives the child into his home and openly holds out the child as his natural child.

SB 126 - Steinberg
Health Care Coverage: Developmental Disorder or Autism
05/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Extends the operation of existing law that requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies to provide benefits for specified conditions, including coverage for behavioral health treatment and for pervasive developmental disorder or autism.

SB 127 - Gaines T
Firearms: Mentally Disordered Persons
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Amends an existing law which prohibits a person from possessing a firearm or deadly weapon when the person has communicated a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim or victims to a licensed psychotherapist, and which requires that psychotherapist to report the identify of such persons to a local law enforcement agency. Requires the psychotherapist to make the report within 24 hours in a specified manner, and the agency to notify the Department of Justice.

SB 131 - Beall
Damages: Childhood Sexual Abuse: Statute of Limitations
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Requires an action for the recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse commences within a specified time period of the date the plaintiff attains the age of majority or within a specified time period of the fact of the psychological injury or illness and its causal connection is first communicated to the plaintiff by a licensed mental health practitioner, whichever period expires later. Relates to discovery and ruling on a motion challenging certain related acquisitions.

SB 138 - Hernandez E
Confidentiality of Medical Information
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Specifies the manner in which a health care service plan or health insurer is required to maintain confidentiality of information regarding the treatment of insured individuals less than 26 years of age who are insured as dependents, the treatment of an insured individual involving sensitive services or situations in which disclosure would endanger the insured individual. Specifies that a health insurer shall comply with the requirements of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act.

SB 140 - Leno
Firearms: Prohibited Persons
05/01/2013 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 2
Appropriates a specified amount of funds from the Dealers Record of Sale Special Account to the Department of Justice to address the backlog in the Armed Prohibited Persons System that cross-references persons who have ownership or possession of a firearm with those who are prohibited from owing or possessing a firearm. Requires the department to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee regarding ways the backlog in the system has been reduced or eliminated.

SB 146 - Lara
Workers' Compensation: Medical Treatment: Billing
05/09/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Amends provisions regarding workers' compensation medical services billing and pharmacy payment requests. Prohibits a copy of a prescription from being required with a request for payment of pharmacy services. Gives an entity an extended time period to resubmit pharmacy bills for payment that were filed after a specified date and were denied due to the lack of the copy of the prescription. Authorizes certain entities to request a copy of the prescription during a review of drugs dispensed by the pharmacy.

SB 158 - Correa
Autism Services: Demonstration Program
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Establishes the Regional Center Excellence in Community Autism Partnerships program to implement measures in underserved communities to promote awareness and reduce the stigma associated with autism or pervasive developmental spectrum disorders, improve the early screening, diagnosis, and assessment, and increase access to evidence-based interventions and treatments. Requires the department to contract with a state university campus to serve as the coordinating center.

SB 161 - Hernandez E
Stop-loss Insurance Coverage
05/15/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Prohibits stop-loss insurers from excluding any employee or dependent on the basis of actual or expected health status-related factors. Requires such insurer to renew, at the option of the small employer, all stop-loss insurance policies. Prohibits a stop-loss insurance policy issued to a small employer from containing certain individual or aggregate attachment points for a policy year or providing coverage for an employee or his or her dependent. Provides administrative penalties for a violation.

SB 164 - Rubio
Developmental Services: Regional Centers: Funding
02/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
States that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require the Department of Developmental Services to report, under the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, to the Legislature on the status of its budget process for regional center funding.

SB 172 - Beall
In-home Supportive Services: Sales Tax
02/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing law that creates the Personal Care IHSS Quality Assurance Revenue Fund and requires the IHSS provider tax and related supplementary payments to be implemented no earlier than a specified date, and provides for these provisions to become operative only if a specified federal approval is granted.

SB 177 - Liu
Homeless Youth Education Success Act
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Requires a homeless child or youth to be immediately deemed to meet residency requirements for participation in interscholastic sports or other extracurricular activities. Requires public schools and county offices of education to immediately enroll a homeless child or youth seeking enrollment. Requires the local educational liaison to ensure that public notice of the educational rights of homeless children and youths is disseminated in schools within the liaison's local educational agency.

SB 18 - Hernandez E
State Health Benefits Review Program: Health Insurance
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Amends existing law that requests the University of California to establish the State Health Benefits Review Program to assess legislation to mandate a benefit or service or to repeal a mandated benefit or service. Includes essential health benefits and the impact on the State Health Benefit Exchange in the areas to be reported by the program.

SB 191 - Padilla
Emergency Medical Services
05/06/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Extends the operative date of existing law that establishes the Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund, which authorizes each county to establish an emergency medical services fund for reimbursement of costs related to emergency medical services and authorizes county boards of supervisors to elect to levy an additional penalty upon fines, penalties and forfeitures collected for criminal offenses.

SB 198 - Price
Physical Therapy Board of California
05/22/2013 - In SENATE. To Special Consent Calendar.
Provides for the licensure of physical therapy assistants. Imposes additional requirements on the Physical Therapy Board. Revises the board's membership. Authorizes the board to prescribe, amend, or repeal any rules within a code of professional conduct. Expands unprofessional conduct. Imposes a penalty for not submitting patient records to the board. Relates to persons licensed in other jurisdictions. Relates to proceedings against a licensee and applicants within the jurisdiction of the board.

SB 20 - Hernandez E
Health Care: Workforce Training
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Requires, on the date that the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program becomes inoperative, all the funds in the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund to be transferred each year to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians in the Health Professions Education Fund for the purposes of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program. Requires the Director of Finance to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in that regard.

SB 200 - Anderson
Medi-Cal: Rural Hospitals
02/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing law that requires the State Department of Health Care Services to consider the special needs of rural hospitals that are financially distressed and in danger of closure, and authorizes the department to provide technical and other assistance relating to Medi-Cal to these hospitals.

SB 204 - Corbett
Prescription Drugs: Labeling
05/23/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time and amended. To second reading.
Requires a pharmacist to use translations of the directions for use in non-English languages published on the Board of Pharmacy's Internet Web site, as applicable, when labeling a prescription container. Authorizes a pharmacist to translate the directions for use into additional non-English languages if certified translation services are utilized to complete the additional translations.

SB 205 - Corbett
Prescription Drugs: Labeling
05/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Requires certain portions of the required information on the prescription label, including the name of the patient or patients, to be printed in at least a specified size sans serif typeface.

SB 21 - Roth
UC Riverside Medical School: Funding
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Annually appropriates funds 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 for planning and startup costs associated with academic programs. Includes academic planning activities, support of academic program offerings and faculty recruitment, acquisition of instructional materials and equipment, ongoing operating support for faculty, staff, and other annual operating expenses.

SB 22 - Beall
Health Care Coverage: Mental Health Parity
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Requires every health care service plan, contractor thereof, and health insurer to submit an annual report to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance certifying compliance with specified state laws and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. Requires the reports to be a public record available upon request and published on the department's Web site. Requires the entities to provide an analysis regarding compliance. Prohibits identifying information.

SB 222 - Padilla
Genetic Information: Privacy
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Enacts the Genetic Information Privacy Act. Declares that an individual's genetic information is protected by the right to privacy. Prohibits any person from collecting, storing, analyzing, or disclosing genetic information without the written authorization of the individual to whom the information pertains. Prescribes specific circumstances under which genetic information may be collected, stored, analyzed, or disclosed without the authorization. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for a violation.

SB 226 - Emmerson
Defendants: Severe Mental Disorder: Incarceration
04/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Reconsideration granted.
Requires a court, upon conviction of a defendant for certain specified offenses involving force or serious bodily injury, or involving the threat of force or violence likely to produce substantial physical harm, that is punishable as a felony by imprisonment in a county jail, if the court has reason to believe the defendant has a severe mental disorder, to suspend the imposition of the sentence and transport the defendant for evaluation.

SB 231 - Correa
Bullying: State Bullying Prevention Hotline
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Enacts the Michael Joseph Berry Peer Abuse Prevention and Awareness Act of 2013, pursuant to which the Bullying Prevention Hotline would be established. Requires the contracting with an entity that has experience in hotline telephone services, behavioral health services, crisis prevention and intervention services, suicide prevention and intervention services, and with providing services in a linguistically and culturally competent manner. Requires recommendations regarding bullying to school districts.

SB 239 - Hernandez E
Medi-Cal: Hospital Quality Assurance Fee
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Imposes a hospital quality assurance fee on certain general acute care hospitals to be deposited into the Hospital Quality Assurance Revenue Fund. Requires supplemental payments to be made to private hospitals for certain services and increased capitation payments to be made to Medi-Cal managed care plans.

SB 243 - Wyland
Professional Clinical Counselors
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Permits an applicant for licensure as a professional clinical counselor, in order to qualify to take the licensure examination, to obtain his or her direct counseling experience by providing direct counseling to individuals, groups, couples, and families. Provides that professional clinical counseling does not include the assessment or treatment of couples and families unless the counselor has completed specified training and education.

SB 249 - Leno
Public Health: Health Records: Confidentiality
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Requires laboratories to report cases of HIV infection to the local health officer using patient names on a form developed by the State Department of Public Health. Authorizes local public health agency staff to disclose information to the HIV-positive person or the health care provider who provides HIV care. Relates to sharing of such information in public health records. Relates to enrollment without disruption of Medi-Cal or any insurance program.

SB 252 - Liu
Social Services: CalWORKs: Unemployment and Disability
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Authorizes a pregnant woman to satisfy welfare-to-work participation requirements by participating in a voluntary maternal, infant and early childhood home visiting program. Provides for a good cause exemption. Provides that each applicant and recipient of CalWORKs receive information regarding unemployment insurance and pregnancy disability leave benefits. Requires making certain training and information regarding paid family leave available to certain employees.

SB 258 - Lieu
Workers' Compensation
05/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Relates to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. Provides that all members of the board be experienced attorneys licensed to practice in the state. Amends existing law that requires and order or award for payment of a lien for medical or hospital treatment to be made under certain conditions. Authorizes an assignment of that payment if the assignment was completed prior to a specified date, or if it was required by a contract that became enforceable and irrevocable prior to a specified date.

SB 264 - Pavley
Accountable Care Organizations
02/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Requires an accountable care organization operating in the state to have a clinical laboratory testing advisory board to recommend testing guidelines that the accountable care organization may adopt.

SB 28 - Hernandez E
California Health Benefit Exchange
05/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to provide the health benefit exchange with information of subscribers, applicants and the temporary high risk pool to assist in outreach to those subscribers and applicants. Requires the board to notify subscribers and applicants that they may be eligible for reduced-cost coverage through the exchange or no-cost coverage through Medi-Cal, including information on obtaining coverage. Relates to accelerated enrollment of children into Medi-Cal.

SB 282 - Yee
Confidential Medical Information: Authorization
05/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Requires that the authorization to disclose 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.

SB 289 - Correa
Vehicles: Driving Under the Influence: Drugs
04/30/2013 - In SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Heard, remains in Committee.
Makes it unlawful for a person to drive a motor vehicle if his or her blood contains any drug classified in Schedules I, II, III, or IV of the State Uniform Controlled Substance Act, unless the drug was consumed in accordance with a valid prescription.

SB 294 - Emmerson
Sterile Drug Products
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Prohibits a pharmacy from compounding or dispensing, and a nonresident pharmacy from compounding for shipment into this state, sterile drug products for injection, administration into the eye, or inhalation, unless the pharmacy has obtained a sterile compounding pharmacy license from the Board of Pharmacy. Specifies requirements for the issuance or renewal of a license, and requirements for the pharmacy as a licensee.

SB 295 - Emmerson
Sexually Violent Predators: Civil Commitment
05/20/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Relates to civil commitment of sexually violent predators. Relates to Proposition 83. Clarifies which provisions are to be used when a committed person petitions for conditional release or unconditional discharge. Requires the community program director make a recommendation to the court as to the appropriateness of placement in a a state-operated forensic conditional release program before a hearing can be held. Prohibits action on a petition for release that was not make without specified consent.

SB 3 - Hernandez E
Health Care Coverage: Bridge Plan
05/09/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Requires the Health Benefit Exchange to enter into contracts with and certify as a qualified health plan bridge plan products that meet specified requirements, including a Medi-Cal managed care plan. Requires the Exchange to enroll individuals in a bridge plan. Authorizes the Exchange to adopt related regulations. Authorizes a health care service plan or insurance carrier offering a bridge plan product in the Exchange to limit the products its offers in the Exchange to the bridge plan product.

SB 304 - Price
Healing Arts: Boards
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Relates to the board of the healing arts and licensure of physicians and surgeons. Prohibits false advertising. Limits exceptions to a board with approved equivalent requirements. Requires applicants and licensees to report any electronic mail addresses, which are confidential. Relates to required reports and compliance times for health care facilities that have electronic records. Transfers all investigators employed by the Medical Board of California and their staff to the Department of Justice.

SB 309 - Price
State Athletic Commission
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Extends the repeal date of the law requiring the State Athletic Commission to appoint an executive officer. Eliminates a natural person limitation on who may be licensed as a boxer and martial arts fighter. Authorizes a sanctioning body to administer nonprofit boxing, wrestling or martial arts clubs and organizations. Regulates professional trainers and promoters. Requires licensure examinations by a physician. Relates to spending certain funds for special neurological examinations.

SB 319 - Price
Developmental Services: Regional Centers: Data
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to ensure that regional centers collect, analyze, and report specified data using uniform methodology and procedures that allow for comparisons across regional centers. Requires each center to develop and post on its Internet Web site an annual report relating to whether the data indicates specified disparities and, if applicable, the center's recommendations and plans to reduce those disparities. Requires the department's portal to include these reports.

SB 320 - Beall
Health Care Coverage: Acquired Brain Injury
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Prohibits a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy issued from denying coverage for medically necessary medical or rehabilitation treatment for an acquired brain injury at a facility within the plan's or insurer's network that is properly licensed and accredited at which appropriate services may be provided, including specified facilities such as a hospital or a long-term acute care hospital.

SB 321 - Price
Developmental Services: Regional Centers: Performance
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Relates to the Department of Developmental Services contracts with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and that contracts include annual performance objectives. Requires those objectives to be designed to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate services and supports. Requires the department to establish performance contract guidelines and to specify in the contract any areas requiring racial and ethnic disparity reduction.

SB 322 - Hueso
Water Recycling
05/20/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Relates to water recycling. Requires the State Department of Public Health to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Requires the department to convene and administer an expert panel to establish uniform regulatory criteria for direct potable water reuse. Provides for a task force and funding. Authorizes contracting with a University of California, California State University, or other research institution.

SB 330 - Padilla
Pupil Instruction: Health: Mental Health Instruction
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Requires, during the next revision of Health Framework for California Public Schools, the development, and recommendation for adoption by the State Board of Education, a distinct category on mental health instruction to education pupils about all aspects of mental health. Requires convening of stakeholders in the mental health and educational fields to provide input for the development of such instruction. Requires a review of information and programs from other states and countries.

SB 332 - Emmerson
State Health Benefits Exchange: Records
05/23/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Amends existing law that exempts specified records of the State Health Benefit Exchange from the State Public Records Act and requires contracts entered into and amendments thereto, by the Exchange governing board to be open to inspection after one year. Makes open to public inspection specified documents of the board or its staff. Provides the exemption applies to certain participating carrier contracts. Provides for the time frame for a carrier contract rate portion to be exempt from open inspection.

SB 335 - Yee
Governors Budget: Services Contracts
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Requires the Governor to submit with the Governor's budget a report that contains specified information regarding current and proposed contracts for services in a specified amount or more.

SB 346 - Beall
Public Social Services: Records
05/16/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Authorizes a county welfare department to share information with other local governmental programs, departments, or entities participating in the administration of public medical assistance or other social services programs in that county for the purposes of establishing a client-centered approach to the provision of those services. Requires the local governmental program, department or entity to comply with applicable state and federal confidentiality and privacy laws.

SB 347 - Beall
Youth Shelters: Funding
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Authorizes a county to use any unexpended funds awarded to a shelter for abused and neglected children for the purpose of acquiring, renovating, constructing, or purchasing equipment for a shelter for runaway or homeless youth. Directs the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation to revise any contracts as necessary to implement this provision. Authorizes a county that is the recipient of a contract to use funds received under the contract to provide grant awards to certain nonprofit entities.

SB 349 - Walters
Home- and Community-Based Services Waiver: Shelter Work
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Relates to the Medi-Cal program. Requires a provider of sheltered work under a specified home- and community based services waiver to demonstrate that the provider is transitioning a percentage of its clients annually into integrated, individualized employment settings, with or without support, in order to get reimbursed under the waiver.

SB 351 - Hernandez E
Health Care Coverage: Hospital Billing
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Amends existing law regarding discount payments for financially qualified patients as well as a written charity care policy. Requires a diagnosis and billing outlier hospital and a hospital that is part of a diagnosis and billing outlier health system to notify the patient and all payers of that status and that the hospital' s total billed charges may be subject to adjustment; provides for assignment of a separate diagnosis and billing indicator rate for certain disorders. Requires medical reviews.

SB 364 - Steinberg
Mental Health
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Encourages each county mental health department to post on its Internet Web site a list of ambulatory services for persons with mental health disorders and substance abuse in the county that may be accessed by providers and consumers of mental health services. Requires a county health director to develop procedures for the county's designation and training of professionals who will be designated to perform functions relating to a 72-hour treatment and evaluation process.

SB 367 - Block
Developmental Services: Regional Centers
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Requires each developmentally disabled regional center's governing board, as a condition of its contract, to require the center's Executive Director, or his or her designee, to provide an annual report on the center's efforts to address issues of inequity in access to services that includes specified information. Requires the board to require the center to post information released to the annual report on its Internet Web site, when possible.

SB 375 - Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee
Workers' Compensation: Liens
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Corrects an erroneous cross-reference with regard to whether or not a workers' compensation lien claimant is entitled to medical information.

SB 382 - Roth
Veterans Benefits: Department of Veterans Affairs
04/03/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committee on VETERANS AFFAIRS.
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to create the California Veterans Leadership Program to connect returning veterans of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with employment, housing, and mental health resources and tools.

SB 393 - Walters
Prescription Drugs: Procurement: False Representation
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law that makes it a misdemeanor for any person, in order to obtain any drug that can be lawfully dispensed by a pharmacist only on prescription, to falsely represent that he or she is a physician in a telephone communication with a pharmacist.

SB 394 - Walters
Prescription Drugs
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing law that prohibits a person from issuing a prescription that is false or fictitious.

SB 410 - Yee
Anesthesiologist Assistants
05/02/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committees on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT and PUBLIC SAFETY.
Enacts the Anesthesiologist Assistant Practice Act. Requires the licensure and regulation of such assistants by the State Medical Board. Prescribes the service that may be performed by such assistants under the supervision of a qualified physician and surgeon. Makes it a crime for a person to practice as an anesthesiologist assistant without a license or to practice outside the scope of his or her practice. Requires the board to adopt related regulations.

SB 430 - Wright
Pupil Health: Vision Appraisal: Binocular Function
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Relates to student, appraisal vision by the school nurse or other authorized person. Requires the appraisal to also include a screening test for binocular function. Provides that the binocular function appraisal need not begin until the pupil has reached 3rd grade. Authorizes the appraisal to include a validated symptom survey.

SB 439 - Steinberg
Medical Marijuana
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Exempts from certain criminal acts and abatement of nuisance provisions collectives and cooperatives organized and operated to cultivate and distribute marijuana for medical purposes. Exempts those entities and persons from criminal prosecution or punishment solely on the basis of the fact that they receive compensation for actual expenses incurred in carrying out activities that are in compliance with specified guidelines.

SB 445 - Price
Pharmacies: Advertising: Controlled Substances
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION.
Prohibits advertisements by pharmacies that specifically promote the sale or dispensing of any controlled substances.

SB 455 - Hernandez E
General Acute Care Hospitals: Patient Classification
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Requires the Department of Public Health to require every general acute care hospital to establish and maintain a patient classification system for establishing staffing requirements by unit, patient, and shift, and to establish a review committee to review the reliability of the system and to review the system. Provides that no new regulations are required or authorized for implementation of this section. Relates to nurse-to-patient ratios and assignment of additional staff.

SB 460 - Pavley
Prenatal Testing Program: Education
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Relates to prenatal testing programs and education. Requires inclusion of prescribed information regarding environmental health to the state Prenatal Screening Program Prenatal Patient Booklet and to post that information on the department's Internet Web site. Require the department of public health to send a notice to obstetrician-gynecologists that informs them of the change to the booklet and encourages them to discuss environmental health with their patients.

SB 465 - Correa
Packaging and Labeling: Containers: Slack Fill
05/07/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Amends the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. Prohibits a commodity container to have a false bottom, false sidewalls, false lid or covering, or to be made or filled as to facilitate the perpetration of deception or fraud. Provides that a container that does not allow a consumer to fully view its contents violates this provision if it contains nonfunctional slack fill. Includes packaging and labeling of foods, drugs, devices and cosmetics.

SB 488 - Hueso
Substandard Housing: Regulations
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Authorizes a code enforcement officer, upon successful completion of a course of study in the appropriate subject matter as determined by the local jurisdiction, to determine whether an infestation exists or whether there is a lack of adequate garbage and rubbish removal facilities if an agreement does not exist with an agency that has a health officer. Specifies that a local housing department is authorized to enforce regulations related to lead hazards.

SB 491 - Hernandez E
Nurse Practitioners
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. To third reading.
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Deletes a requirement that certain acts be performed pursuant to a standardized procedure or in consultation with a physician and surgeon. Authorizes a nurse-practitioner to examine patients, establish a medical diagnosis and prescribe drugs and devices. Requires that an applicant for certification as a nurse practitioner hold national certification. Requires a nurse practitioner to refer a patient to a physician under certain circumstances.

SB 492 - Hernandez E
Optometrist: Practice: Licensure
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Adds the provision of habilitative optometric services to the practice of optometry. Expands the parameters of optometrists using therapeutic pharmaceutical agents by removing certain limitations on their practice and adding the ability to immunize and treat certain diseases, and allows an optometrist to use all agents approved by the federal government. Deletes limitations on certain kinds of diagnostic tests. Requires consultation with a physician for a detected disease outside of an optometrist's scope.

SB 493 - Hernandez E
Pharmacy Practice
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Authorizes a pharmacist to administer drugs and biological products that have been ordered by a prescriber. Expands other functions pharmacists are authorized to perform, including, to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives, prescription smoking cessation drugs, and medications not requiring a diagnosis that are recommended for international travelers. Authorizes pharmacists to order tests for the purpose of managing the efficacy and toxicity of drug therapies.

SB 494 - Monning
Health Care Providers: California Health Benefit
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Authorizes the assignment of a specified amount of enrollees or insured to each full-time equivalent primary care physician and a specified amount of enrollees if the provider supervises nonphysician medical practitioners. Requires, under the Medi-Cal program the location, hours, and language capabilities of practitioners be evaluated. Defines nonphysician medical practitioners as a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner.

SB 495 - Yee
Postsecondary Education Employees: Physicians
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. To third reading.
Encourages the California State University and the University of California to make the funding of student health center clinics a priority when allocating funds for student and campus services, and to give consideration for additional compensation to the physicians who address student health care challenges at student health centers in the respective segments.

SB 506 - Hill
Ephedrine: Retail sale
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Provides that it is a misdemeanor, for a retail distributor, to sell or distribute specified amounts of no prescription products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phylpropanolamine within specified time limits. Provides for the secure storage of and monitoring of such products. Requires retail distributors to transmit sale information to the National Precursor Log Exchange. Requires that such system be available to law enforcement at no charge.

SB 508 - Hernandez E
Health Disparity Report
03/11/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Relates to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Requires the Office to develop a health disparity report based upon the inpatient hospital discharge data set. Requires the report to focus on specified areas of concern, such as cardiovascular disease and breast cancer.

SB 509 - DeSaulnier
State Health Benefit Exchange: Background Checks
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Authorizes the State Health Benefit Exchange Executive Board to require fingerprint images and relation information from employees of their service center, prospective employees, contractors, subcontractors, volunteers, or vendors for the purpose of obtaining prescribed criminal background history information through the Department of Justice. Authorizes the department to charge a fee to cover related costs.

SB 528 - Yee
Care and Treatment: Minor and Nonminor Parents
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Provides for the rights of dependent children to consent to specified types of medical and other care, including the diagnosis and treatment of sexual assault, medical care relating to the prevention or treatment of pregnancy, treatment of infectious, contagious and communicable diseases, mental health treatment and treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. Relates to state subsidized child development services. Requires child welfare agencies to update the case plans for pregnant and parenting teens.

SB 534 - Hernandez E
Health and Care Facilities
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Requires that until the State Department of Public Health adopts regulations relating to the provision of services by a chronic dialysis clinic, a surgical clinic, or a rehabilitation clinic, those clinics to comply with prescribed federal certification standards in effect immediately preceding a specified date. Relates to intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled. Provides for suspension of license under certain circumstances. Relates to reimbursement.

SB 55 - Hill
Ignition Interlock Devices: Repeat DUI Offenders
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Establishes a statutory scheme for the issuance of a restricted driver's license, being reissued a driver's license, or having the privilege to operate a motor vehicle reinstated for a 2nd or subsequent conviction for a violation of specified offenses. Requires a person to install an ignition interlock device on all vehicles that person owns or operates for a specified period. Provides specified requirements for device manufacturers. Requires court fees for an alcohol and drug assessment program.

SB 554 - Anderson
Employment: Overtime Compensation
04/24/2013 - In SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Not heard.
Exempts employees of 24-hour nonmedical out-of-home licensed residential facilities of 15 beds or fewer for the developmentally disabled, elderly, or mentally ill adults from existing law provisions. Authorizes overtime pay at specified rates for all hours worked by those employees in excess of 40 to 48 hours in a workweek, or in excess of 16 hours in a workday. Prohibits employees from working more than 24 consecutive hours, until the employee receives at least 8 hours of off-duty period.

SB 561 - Fuller
Pupil Discipline: Expelled Students: Mental Evaluation
03/11/2013 - To SENATE Committees on EDUCATION and HEALTH.
Requires that a pupil expelled from school for specified offenses undergo a mental health evaluation conducted by a licensed clinical psychologist in order to enroll in one of specified schools.

SB 562 - Galgiani
Dentists: Mobile or Portable Dental Units
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION.
Authorizes a licensed dentist to operate one mobile or portable dental unit registered and operated in accordance with regulations. Authorizes the regulations to include requirements for availability of followup and emergency care, maintenance, and availability of provider and patient records, and treatment information to be provided to patients and other appropriate parties.

SB 564 - Monning
Ski Resorts: Safety Plans: Accident Reports
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Requires a ski resort to prepare an annual safety plan and, upon request, make the safety plan available to the public the same day the request is received. Requires a resort to make available to the public, within a specified time period, a monthly report with specified details about any fatal incidents at the resort that resulted from a recreational activity.

SB 565 - Knight
Public School Volunteers
04/30/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Relates to a nonteaching volunteer aid and an automated records check of a prospective nonteaching volunteer aid regarding sex offenses. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of a serious or violent felony who is on postrelease community supervision or parole from serving as a volunteer aide.

SB 578 - Wyland
Marriage and Family Therapists: Unprofessional Conduct
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION.
Amends the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act. Specifies that unprofessional conduct includes engaging in a dual relationship with a client that is likely to impair his or her professional judgment or lead to exploitation of the client. Describes a dual relationship. Requires the therapist to fully document the relationship to ensure that his or her judgment is not impaired and the client is not exploited. Specifies a violation would not be a crime.

SB 580 - Leno
Crime Victims: Trauma Recovery Center Grants
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Relates to the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. Authorizes a program to award grants to trauma recovery centers.

SB 585 - Steinberg
Mental Health: Mental Health Services Fund
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Establishes the Mental Health Services fund to fund specified county mental health programs, including programs funded under the Adult and Older Adult Mental Health System of Care Act. Establishes service standards that require that a service planning and delivery process provides for services that are client directed. Provides that any county that elects to implement Laura's Law may pay for services using funds distributed from various funds and/or accounts for which the Comptroller makes distributions.

SB 588 - Emmerson
Medical Records: Reproduction Fees
04/17/2013 - From SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to Committee on JUDICIARY.
Amends existing law that authorizes any person or enumerated health care provider to charge all reasonable costs incurred in making the patient records available. Provides that, where the records are delivered to the attorney or the attorney's representative for inspection or copying at the record custodian's business, the fee for complying will be a specified amount. Requires an attorney who requests that the health care provider provide paper or electronic copies of the medical records to pay fees.

SB 596 - Yee
Pupil Health: School-Based Mental Health Services
04/03/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committees on EDUCATION and HEALTH.
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a pilot program to which the State Department of Education and relevant state and local partners would assist school districts in efforts to establish or enhance mental health services and support to pupils of public elementary and secondary schoolsites. Specifies what the service may include and the program's primary goals.

SB 598 - Hill
Biosimilars
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Authorizes a pharmacist, in his or her discretion to select a biosimilar when filing a prescription order for a prescribed biological product only if certain conditions are met, including notification of the prescriber or entering appropriate information in a patient record. Prohibits a pharmacist from substituting such product unless the product selected costs the patient less than the prescribed biological product. Requires that the substitution of a biosimilar product be communicated to the patient.

SB 609 - Wolk
Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman
05/16/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on AGING & LONG TERM CARE.
Requires the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to deposit specified funds into the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program Improvement Act Account. Increases the maximum civil penalty for anyone who willfully interferes with a lawful action of the office. Requires the initiation of an action if the assessment is not paid within a specified time period. Creates the Access to Facilities Account for placement of those penalties. Authorizes payment of local ombudsmen training travel costs.

SB 61 - Yee
Juveniles: Solitary Confinement
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Provides that a minor or ward who is detained in, or sentenced to, any juvenile facility or other secure state or local facility shall not be subject to solitary confinement, unless the minor or ward poses an immediate and substantial risk of harm to others or to the security of the facility, and all other less-restrictive options have been used. Requires a suicide crisis intervention plan before using such confinement. Specifies the maximum confinement hours. Relates to the Juvenile Justice Commission.

SB 615 - Galgiani
Public Works: Prevailing Wages
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Expands the definition of public works for purposes of provisions relating to the prevailing rate of per diem wages, to also include any construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under private contract on a hospital or health care facility project when the project is paid for in whole or in part with the proceeds of conduit revenue bonds.

SB 62 - Price
Coroners: Reporting Requirements: Prescription Drug Use
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Expands provisions concerning gross negligence or incompetence of medical professionals to require a coroner to make a report when they receive information that indicates that a contributing factor in a cause of death is related to the toxicity from a Schedule II, III, or IV drug. Requires the coroner to file the report with the State Medical Board. Extends the time during which the coroner's report and other information may follow the report to as soon as possible once the report is complete.

SB 622 - Monning
Taxation: Sweetened Beverage Tax: Children
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Imposes a tax on every distributor for the privilege of distributing in this state bottled sweetened beverages. Deposits all taxes in the Children's Health Promotion Fund for the purposes of statewide childhood obesity prevention activities and programs and to provide funds to either the University of California or the California State University to conduct a specified report. Requires specified entities to make rules and regulations and to provide procedural measures.

SB 626 - Beall
Workers' Compensation
04/24/2013 - In SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Not heard.
Amends the worker's compensation system. Increases the membership of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation. Deletes a prohibition against a chiropractor from being a treating physician under a workers' compensation claim after so many treatments. Deletes the limitation on chiropractic, occupational therapy, and physical therapy visits per industrial injury. Relates to medical treatment utilization reviews. Regards increases in psychiatric disorder impairment ratings.

SB 631 - Beall
Health Care: Health Facilities: Observation Services
04/11/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Requires a general acute care hospital that provides observation and short-stay observation services to apply for approval from the Department of Public Health to provide the services as a supplemental service. Requires a general acute care hospital to obtain a special permit to provide short-stay observation services. Requires the adoption of staffing standards for outpatient services and ambulatory surgery standards.

SB 639 - Hernandez E
Health Care Coverage
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Relates to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Prohibits the deductible under a small employer health care service plan contract or health insurance policy offered within the state from exceeding specified levels. Provides a limit on out-of-pocket expenses for nongrandfathered products in the individual or small group and large group markets, health care service plan contracts of health insurance policies. Relates to levels of coverage. Relates to emergency room coverage.

SB 640 - Lara
Medi-Cal: Reimbursement: Provider Payments
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Requires that Medi-Cal provider payments reduction does not apply to skilled nursing facilities or subacute care units that are a distinct part of a general acute care hospital, intermediate care or other specified facilities servicing developmentally disabled individuals or specified Medi-Cal provider payments for fee-for-service benefits, including payments to pharmacies, for dates of service on or after a specified date.

SB 643 - Price
Pharmacists: Identity
03/11/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the Pharmacy Law provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy, and prohibits furnishing a prescription for a controlled substance that was transmitted by means of an oral or electronic order to an unknown person who is unable to properly establish his or her identity.

SB 644 - Cannella
Firearms: Felons in Possession: Serious Felonies
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Amends existing law that provides that any person convicted of a felony under the laws of the United State, the State of California, or any other state and who owns, purchases, receives or has in possession or under custody or control any firearm is guilty of a felony and prescribes related punishment. Provides that the punishment for subsequent convictions of that felony would be increased.

SB 645 - Nielsen
Diagnosis-Related Group Methodology
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Amends existing law that requires the Department of Health Care Services. Subject to federal approval, to develop and implement a Medi-Cal payment methodology based on diagnosis-related groups. Requires the department to develop a methodology for hospitals to review base payment rates proposed by the department. Requires the department to develop an education and training program for hospital Medi-Cal billing staff.

SB 646 - Nielsen
Medi-Cal: Reimbursement: Nursing Facilities
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Amends existing law that requires Medi-Cal provider payments and payments for specified non-Med-Cal programs to be reduced by a specified percentage for dates of service on and after a specified date. Requires that this payment reduction not apply to skilled nursing facilities that are a distinct part of a general acute hospital for dates of services on or after that specified date.

SB 65 - Leno
Budget Act of 2013
01/10/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW.
Makes appropriations for support of state government for the 2013-14 fiscal year.

SB 651 - Pavley
Developmental Centers and State Hospitals
05/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Requires designated investigators of developmental centers and state hospitals to ensure that a resident of a developmental center or a resident of a state hospital, who is a victim or suspected victim of sexual assault, is provided a medical evidentiary examination performed off the grounds. Deems a developmental center's failure to report an incident to local law enforcement a class B violation.

SB 655 - Wright
Fair Employment and Housing Act: Unlawful Practices
04/25/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Provides, in a claim under the Fair Employment and Housing Act the employee prevails if the employee has proven that a protected characteristic was a substantial factor in the adverse employment action. Provides that if an employer provides as an affirmative defense that it would have taken the same adverse action against an employee based on lawful reasons, the remedies available to the employee would be limited.

SB 66 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 664 - Yee
Laura's Law
05/13/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Relates to Laura's Law that regulates designated assisted outpatient treatment services, which a county may choose to provide for its residents. Provides that a county would no longer be required to authorize the program by resolution and make certain findings to implement the program. Authorizes the county to limit the number of persons to whom it provides assisted outpatient treatment services.

SB 669 - Huff
Emergency Medical Care: Epinephrine Auto-Injectors
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Authorizes a prehospital emergency medical care person, first responder, or lay rescuer to use an epinephrine auto-injector to render emergency care to another person. Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to establish or approve authorized training providers and minimum standards for training and the use and administration of epinephrine auto-injectors. Specifies the training components. Provides these standards do not apply to a school district, county office of education or its personnel.

SB 67 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
In-Home Supportive Services
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. To enrollment.
Requires the State Department of Social Services to implement specified reductions in hours of service for in-home supportive services to each recipient. Requires specified recipient notification. Relates to an assessment upon home health care and in-home supportive services. Creates a related fund for placement of the assessment revenue. Deletes provisions regarding in-home supportive services provisions regarding wages, a services assessment tool, and services eligibility determining factors.

SB 670 - Steinberg
Physicians And Surgeons: Drug Prescribing Privileges
04/30/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Authorizes the Medical Board, if it receives a disciplinary or negligence report that involves the death of a patient from a prescription drug overdose, to inspect and copy the medical records of the deceased patient without the consent of the patient's next of kin or a court order in order to determine the extent of a prescriber's inappropriate conduct. Revises unprofessional conduct to include failing to attend a board interview. allows a judge to limit a physician or surgeon's authority.

SB 677 - Monning
Health Care Coverage: Agencies: Reports
03/11/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Deletes obsolete provisions governing a report regarding specified information regarding the Children's Health Insurance Program relating to drug and alcohol treatment programs for children and reporting requirements of the Department of Managed Health Care working group set up to ensure clarity for health care consumers about who enforces their patient rights in the regulations of the department.

SB 68 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2012
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. To enrollment.
Amends the Budget Act of 2012 by revising items of appropriation and making other changes in the Budget Act of 2012.

SB 69 - Liu
School Finance: New Pupil Funding Formula
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Revises and recasts provisions related to the public school finance system by requiring state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools that previously received a general-purpose entitlement, to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula. Requires local boards to adopt or revise a local control and accountability plan that aligns with the annual budget and contains certain elements developed in consultation with various stakeholders.

SB 70 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 703 - Hernandez E
Medi-Cal
03/11/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
Enacts legislation that would make necessary improvements to the Medi-Cal program.

SB 709 - Nielsen
Inmates: Mental Evaluations
03/11/2013 - To SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
Requires a parole mental evaluation to be a face-to-face evaluation. Provides for sexually violent predators.

SB 71 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 718 - Yee
Hospitals: Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Requires a hospital, as part of its injury prevention program to adopt a workplace violence prevention plan. Requires a hospital to adopt safety and security policies. Requires a hospital to report any violent incident. Authorizes the assessment of a civil penalty against a hospital for failure to report a violent incident. Requires the State Division of Occupational Safety and Health to report those incidents to the Legislature and develop implementing regulations.

SB 72 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 724 - Emmerson
Liability: Charitable Vision Screenings
05/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Provides immunity to a church, nonprofit charitable organization or participating optometrist, ophthalmologist, or volunteer for any damage or injury resulting from the provision of vision screening and the distribution of donated or recycled eyeglasses.

SB 727 - Jackson
Medical Waste: Pharmaceutical Product Stewardship
05/01/2013 - In SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Heard, remains in Committee.
Requires the submission of of a plan for the safe collection and property disposal of specified waste devices by a pharmaceutical producer. Require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to post that information on its Web site. Requires each producer to also submit a related fee. Requires the imposition of administrative civil penalties for violations or a fine for non-submission of a plan by a specified date.

SB 728 - Wolk
Long Term Care Facilities: Health Care Decisions
04/03/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
Requires specified health facilities and residential facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly to provide a person with a Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form, upon his or her admission to the facility. Provides that violations of these provisions do not constitute a crime.

SB 73 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 74 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 742 - Nielsen
Defendants
04/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY: Reconsideration granted.
Provides that any person who willfully removes or disables an electronic monitoring or supervising device, including a global positioning system, is guilty of a public offense with designed punishment and the revocation of probation, parole, or postrelease community supervision. Requires that an evaluation of a prisoner who was convicted of a violent sexual offense to determine if the person is a sexually violent predator to be face-to-face, when it is found the person removed or disabled such monitor.

SB 744 - Lara
Pupils: Involuntary Transfer: Community Schools
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Revises the list of pupils who may be involuntarily enrolled in a county community school to limit the kind of probation referrals and remove homeless children. Requires the consent of a parent or guardian for enrollment of recommended pupils. Relates to individually planned education programs provided by school districts. Relates to reenrollment in a pupil's former school. Relates to the procedures regarding the placement of a pupil following removal from expulsion.

SB 747 - DeSaulnier
Public Health Impact Report
04/23/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
Enacts the Public Health Epidemic Protection Act of 2013. Requires the Department of Public Health to require the manufacturer of a contributing product to create, for approval of the department, a public health impact report containing specified information, including a list of adverse public health impacts and a mitigation plan for those impacts. Authorizes the department to enforce the PHIR and restrict or suspend sales of the product. Authorizes the department to charge the manufacturer for costs.

SB 75 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 76 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 766 - Yee
Ancillary Day Care Centers
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Amends existing law that requires a person 18 years of age or older who provides child care of child care supervision in an ancillary day care center to be registered as a trustline provider. Requires a person who is otherwise responsible for engaging with children cared for in an ancillary day care center to be registered as a trustline provider. Requires an ancillary day care center to comply with certain requirements, including maintaining specified care provider-child ratios to ensure provider presence.

SB 768 - De Leon
State Tobacco Tax Act of 2014
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Provides for the imposition of an additional tax on the distribution of cigarettes. Requires a dealer or wholesaler to file a return showing the number of cigarettes in its possession or under its control on a specified date, and imposes a related floor tax. Requires a distributor to file a return and pay a cigarette indicia adjustment tax for cigarette tax stamps in its possession. Requires tax moneys to be placed in specified welfare and healthcare related accounts and the General Fund.

SB 769 - Block
Veterans: Criminal Defendants
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
Amends existing law that provides a person who has been convicted of a felony, or who is addicted to the use of a narcotic drug, and who owns, purchases, receives, or has in possession or under custody or control any firearm is guilty of a felony. Provides that dismissal of an accusation, information, or conviction pursuant to provisions relating to a defendant who served in the United State military, does not authorize the defendant to own, possess, or have in his or her custody or control any firearm.

SB 77 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 78 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 781 - Lara
Continuing Care Contracts
05/02/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
Amends existing law that requires that a continuing care community provider that has entered into a Type A contract with an elderly resident, to file with the State Department Social Services an actuary's opinion as to the actuarial financial condition of the provider's operations. Requires such provider that has entered into a Type-A contract to make the actuarial opinion available online or to a current resident upon request.

SB 782 - DeSaulnier
Sexual Assault Treatment and Prevention: Tax
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Imposes a tax on persons operating a sexually oriented business. Creates the Sexual Assault Treatment and Prevention Fund. Requires that all revenues derived from the tax be transferred to the fund and utilized for treatment and prevention of sexual abuse. Prohibits the Office of Emergency Services from allocating any funds until an appellate court has determined the tax is not unconstitutional.

SB 784 - Fuller
Developmental Services: Individual Program Plan
04/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on RULES.
Requires the team developing an individual development plan for individuals with developmental disabilities to consider the consumer's, and his or her family's needs related to issue to include nontraditional service hours, flexibility regarding treatment settings, parental participation requirements, and the scope of services available for adult consumers, and the use of treatment interventions, including regional center-based intensive behavior interventions.

SB 788 - Senate Transportation and Housing Committee
Transportation
05/16/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Defines the term highway for these exemption purposes under the CEQA. Relates to the prepayment of retail sales tax on aircraft jet fuel. Authorizes relinquishment of certain highways. Modifies bikeway provisions. Revises the definition of logging dolly. Relates to Olympic license plates. Extends provisions of existing law regarding medical requirements for commercial driver's licensing.

SB 79 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 799 - Calderon R
Health Care Coverage: Colorectal Cancer: Genetic Tests
05/08/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.
Requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that is issued, amended,or renewed on or after a specified date, to provide coverage for genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer and screening for such cancer under specified circumstances. Requires a physician and surgeon who makes a diagnosis that a patient has colorectal cancer to provide the patient with specified information.

SB 80 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 800 - Lara
State Health Benefit Exchange: Outreach Services
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to provide the Health Benefit Exchange with specified contact information of individuals who are not enrolled in Medi-Cal but who are the parents or caretakers of children enrolled in the Health Families Program or the Medi-Cal program due to a transition from the Health Families Program for purposes of assisting the Exchange to conduct outreach services to individuals potentially eligible for a state health care subsidy program.

SB 808 - De Leon
Sales and Use Tax: Air Common Carrier: Medi-Cal
05/08/2013 - In SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE: Not heard.
Excludes from the exemption the sale of fuel and petroleum products to an air common carrier during a calendar year following a year in which the carrier fails to send specified information to the State Board of Equalization or a year in which the board provides notification that the carrier employs people enrolled in Medi-Cal or a contractor or subcontractor of the carrier. Subjects the carrier to liability for payment of sales tax as if it were a retailer. Requires the board to notify the carriers.

SB 809 - DeSaulnier
Controlled Substances: Reporting
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Relates to the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System for the electronic monitoring of the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances. Establishes a related fund. Increases certain licensure, certification, renewal fees, fees charged to certain wholesalers, and veterinary food-animal drug retailers. Requires health care practitioners and pharmacists to obtain certain information. Imposes a tax on manufacturers for the fund. Allows insurance entities to contribute to the fund.

SB 81 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 82 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 821 - Senate Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee
Healing Arts
05/23/2013 - In SENATE. To Special Consent Calendar.
Removes the reference in existing law to the Board of Dental Examiners. Refers the authorization to practice optometry by the State Board of Optometry as an optometrist license. Relates to a centralized hospital packaging license. Regards work experience for marriage and family therapist licensure. Relates to the experience and practice requirements for licensure as a clinical social worker. Provides work experience requirements for veterinary food-animal drug retailer representative licensure.

SB 83 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 84 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 85 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 86 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 87 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 88 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 89 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 90 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 91 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 92 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 93 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 94 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 95 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 96 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 97 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 98 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SB 99 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2013.

SCA 7 - Wolk
Public Libraries
05/15/2013 - From SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE: Be adopted to Committee on ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution relative to public libraries. Relates to ad valorem tax rates. Creates a certain exception to a specified limit for a rate imposed by a city, county, city and county, or special district to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund public library facilities. Authorizes the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax imposed for the purpose of funding public libraries, upon approval of a specified percentage of the voters voting on the proposition.

SCR 28 - Block
California Mental Health No Stigma Week
05/23/2013 - Resolution Chapter No. 38
Declares May 6, 2013 to May 12, 2013, inclusive, and the first full week of May of every year thereafter, commencing with a Monday, as California Mental Health No Stigma Week.

SCR 29 - Liu
California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month
04/15/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Adopted by SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Designates the month of November 2013 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month.

SCR 8 - DeSaulnier
Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month
05/08/2013 - Resolution Chapter No. 26
Proclaims the month of March, each year, as Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month and encourages all citizens to participate in prevention programs and activities and to pledge to, Spread the Word...One Pill Can Kill.

SJR 11 - DeSaulnier
Housing with Services
05/13/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Adopted by SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Urges the President and Congress to support housing with services models to achieve federal goals of using subsidized housing as a platform for service and encourages the President and Congress to expand federal Medicaid waivers to test and integrate services into affordable housing settings.

Bills updated in the last 24 hours

AB 100 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 1005 - Alejo
Judicial Appointments: Demographic Data
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 101 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 1019 - Ammiano
State Prisons: Correctional Education and Training
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
AB 102 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 1028 - Patterson
Vocational Nursing: Interim Permits
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AB 103 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 104 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 1045 - Quirk-Silva
Sterile Compounding Pharmacies
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 105 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 1054 - Chesbro
Mental Health: Skilled Nursing Facility: Reimbursement
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
AB 106 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 107 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 108 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 1089 - Calderon I
Foster Care
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
AB 109 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 110 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 1109 - Bonilla
Emergency Housing and Assistance
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
AB 1133 - Mitchell
Foster Children: Special Health Care Needs
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
AB 1180 - Pan
Health Coverage: Conversion or Continuation of Coverage
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
AB 1208 - Pan
Medical Homes
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
AB 1231 - Perez V
Regional Centers: Telehealth and Teledentistry
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 1232 - Perez V
Developmental Services: Quality Assessment System
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
AB 1233 - Chesbro
Medi-Cal: Administrative Claiming Process
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time and amended. To third reading.
AB 1288 - Perez V
State Medical Board: Licensing: Application Processing
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
AB 1388 - Assembly Agriculture Committee
Horses: Test Verification, Horse Shows/Competitions
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 209 - Pan
Medi-Cal: Managed Care: Quality/Access/Utilization
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
AB 259 - Logue
Health and Care Facilities: CPR
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committees on HEALTH and RULES.
AB 290 - Alejo
Child Day Care: Childhood Nutrition Training
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES.
AB 35 - Hernandez R
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 428 - Eggman
Marriage and Family Therapy: Clinical Social Workers
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AB 460 - Ammiano
Health Care Coverage: Infertility
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 471 - Atkins
Medi-Cal: Program of All-Inclusive Care for Elderly
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
AB 498 - Chavez
Medi-Cal
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 514 - Bonta
The Safe Schools and Safe Learning Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 518 - Yamada
Community-Based Adult Services
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 581 - Ammiano
Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committees on HUMAN SERVICES and JUDICIARY.
AB 620 - Buchanan
Healthcare Facilities: Missing Patients & Participants
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committees on HEALTH and HUMAN SERVICES.
AB 652 - Ammiano
Child Abuse & Neglect Reporting Act: Homeless Children
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 658 - Calderon I
Personal Information: Disclosure
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
AB 663 - Gomez
Care Facilities: Training Requirements
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 678 - Gordon
Health Care Districts: Community Health Assessment
05/23/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 704 - Blumenfield
Emergency Medical Service: Military Experience
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
AB 705 - Blumenfield
Combat to Care Act
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
AB 721 - Bradford
Controlled Substances: Transporting
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 74 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 75 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 76 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 77 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 78 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 79 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 80 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 809 - Logue
Healing Arts: Telehealth
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committees on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT and HEALTH.
AB 81 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 82 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 83 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 84 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 85 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 855 - Brown
State Employees: Absence Without Leave: Reinstatement
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
AB 86 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 87 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 89 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 90 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 91 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 92 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 93 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 94 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 95 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 96 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 97 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 974 - Hall
Patient Transfer
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
AB 98 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AB 99 - Assembly Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2013
05/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES.
AJR 7 - Bonta
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
05/20/2013 - Resolution Chapter No. 35
SB 127 - Gaines T
Firearms: Mentally Disordered Persons
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
SB 131 - Beall
Damages: Childhood Sexual Abuse: Statute of Limitations
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 138 - Hernandez E
Confidentiality of Medical Information
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 158 - Correa
Autism Services: Demonstration Program
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 177 - Liu
Homeless Youth Education Success Act
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 18 - Hernandez E
State Health Benefits Review Program: Health Insurance
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
SB 198 - Price
Physical Therapy Board of California
05/22/2013 - In SENATE. To Special Consent Calendar.
SB 20 - Hernandez E
Health Care: Workforce Training
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 204 - Corbett
Prescription Drugs: Labeling
05/23/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time and amended. To second reading.
SB 21 - Roth
UC Riverside Medical School: Funding
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 22 - Beall
Health Care Coverage: Mental Health Parity
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 222 - Padilla
Genetic Information: Privacy
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 231 - Correa
Bullying: State Bullying Prevention Hotline
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 239 - Hernandez E
Medi-Cal: Hospital Quality Assurance Fee
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 249 - Leno
Public Health: Health Records: Confidentiality
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 252 - Liu
Social Services: CalWORKs: Unemployment and Disability
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 294 - Emmerson
Sterile Drug Products
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 295 - Emmerson
Sexually Violent Predators: Civil Commitment
05/20/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 304 - Price
Healing Arts: Boards
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 309 - Price
State Athletic Commission
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 319 - Price
Developmental Services: Regional Centers: Data
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 320 - Beall
Health Care Coverage: Acquired Brain Injury
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 321 - Price
Developmental Services: Regional Centers: Performance
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 322 - Hueso
Water Recycling
05/20/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 330 - Padilla
Pupil Instruction: Health: Mental Health Instruction
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 332 - Emmerson
State Health Benefits Exchange: Records
05/23/2013 - Re-referred to SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
SB 335 - Yee
Governors Budget: Services Contracts
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 347 - Beall
Youth Shelters: Funding
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 351 - Hernandez E
Health Care Coverage: Hospital Billing
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 364 - Steinberg
Mental Health
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
SB 367 - Block
Developmental Services: Regional Centers
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 375 - Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee
Workers' Compensation: Liens
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
SB 430 - Wright
Pupil Health: Vision Appraisal: Binocular Function
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 439 - Steinberg
Medical Marijuana
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
SB 445 - Price
Pharmacies: Advertising: Controlled Substances
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION.
SB 460 - Pavley
Prenatal Testing Program: Education
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 491 - Hernandez E
Nurse Practitioners
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. To third reading.
SB 492 - Hernandez E
Optometrist: Practice: Licensure
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 493 - Hernandez E
Pharmacy Practice
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 494 - Monning
Health Care Providers: California Health Benefit
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 495 - Yee
Postsecondary Education Employees: Physicians
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. To third reading.
SB 506 - Hill
Ephedrine: Retail sale
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 509 - DeSaulnier
State Health Benefit Exchange: Background Checks
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 528 - Yee
Care and Treatment: Minor and Nonminor Parents
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 55 - Hill
Ignition Interlock Devices: Repeat DUI Offenders
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 562 - Galgiani
Dentists: Mobile or Portable Dental Units
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION.
SB 578 - Wyland
Marriage and Family Therapists: Unprofessional Conduct
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & CONSUMER PROTECTION.
SB 580 - Leno
Crime Victims: Trauma Recovery Center Grants
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 585 - Steinberg
Mental Health: Mental Health Services Fund
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
SB 598 - Hill
Biosimilars
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
SB 61 - Yee
Juveniles: Solitary Confinement
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 615 - Galgiani
Public Works: Prevailing Wages
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 62 - Price
Coroners: Reporting Requirements: Prescription Drug Use
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
SB 622 - Monning
Taxation: Sweetened Beverage Tax: Children
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 639 - Hernandez E
Health Care Coverage
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 640 - Lara
Medi-Cal: Reimbursement: Provider Payments
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 644 - Cannella
Firearms: Felons in Possession: Serious Felonies
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 645 - Nielsen
Diagnosis-Related Group Methodology
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 646 - Nielsen
Medi-Cal: Reimbursement: Nursing Facilities
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 669 - Huff
Emergency Medical Care: Epinephrine Auto-Injectors
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 67 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
In-Home Supportive Services
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. To enrollment.
SB 68 - Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2012
05/20/2013 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. To enrollment.
SB 69 - Liu
School Finance: New Pupil Funding Formula
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 718 - Yee
Hospitals: Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
05/20/2013 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
SB 744 - Lara
Pupils: Involuntary Transfer: Community Schools
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 766 - Yee
Ancillary Day Care Centers
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 768 - De Leon
State Tobacco Tax Act of 2014
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 769 - Block
Veterans: Criminal Defendants
05/20/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY.
SB 782 - DeSaulnier
Sexual Assault Treatment and Prevention: Tax
05/23/2013 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
SB 800 - Lara
State Health Benefit Exchange: Outreach Services
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 809 - DeSaulnier
Controlled Substances: Reporting
05/23/2013 - From SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
SB 821 - Senate Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee
Healing Arts
05/23/2013 - In SENATE. To Special Consent Calendar.
SCR 28 - Block
California Mental Health No Stigma Week
05/23/2013 - Resolution Chapter No. 38

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