Bill Description
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AB 633 (Salas D) Emergency medical services: civil liability. Prohibits
employers from having a policy precluding employees from providing
emergency medical services, including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary
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resuscitation, in response to a medical emergency. Provides that employers are
not liable for civil damages resulting from an act or omission of its employee
who renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency.
Sheila
AB 1174 (Bocanegra D) Dental professionals: teledentistry. Expands scope
of practice for Registered Dental Assistants, Registered Dental Assistant in
Extended Functions, and Registered Dental Hygienists to enable teledentistry FAILED, 2-YEAR BILL
in accordance with a Health Workforce Pilot Program (HWPP). Enables
reimbursement by Medi-Cal for Virtual Dental Home (VDH) treatment.
Sheila
AB 1176 (Bocanegra D) Medical residency training program grants.
Establishes the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Council and GME Fund
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and assesses health plans and insurers five dollars annually per covered life to
fund GME residency training programs.
Sheila
SB 352 (Pavley D) Medical assistants: supervision. Deletes the requirement
that the services performed by the medical assistant be in a specified clinic
when under the specific authorization of a physician assistant, nurse
practitioner, or nurse-midwife.
Sheila
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SB 492 (Hernandez D) Optometrist: practice: licensure. Permits an
optometrist to diagnose, treat and manage additional conditions with ocular
manifestations; directs the California Board of Optometry to establish FAILED, 2-YEAR BILL
educational and examination requirements; and permits optometrists to
perform vaccinations, surgical and non-surgical primary care procedures.
Sheila
SB 493 (Hernandez D) Pharmacy practice. Makes technical changes to the
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provisions governing the licensing of pharmacists within California.
Sheila
Clinic
AB 259 (Logue R) Health and care facilities: CPR. Creates misdemeanor for
a long-term health care facility, community care facility, adult day health care
center, or residential care facility for the elderly, to have a policy prohibiting FAILED, 2-YEAR BILL
an employee from administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),
exception for a "do not resuscitate" form or other instructions.
Sheila
AB 1054 (Chesbro D) Mental health: skilled nursing facility: reimbursement
rate. Sets the reimbursement rate for mental health services provided in health
facilities, at the rate established through negotiations between the institution
and the county in which it is located.
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Finance
AB 50 (Pan D) Health care coverage: Medi-Cal: eligibility: enrollment.
Allows a hospital participating in the Medi-Cal program to elect to become
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qualified to determine an individual’s eligibility for Medi-Cal and to provide
medical assistance during the presumptive eligibility period.
Tom
SB 22 (Beall D) Health care coverage: mental health parity. Expands
reporting obligations of health service plans with respect to mental health
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coverage. Obligations would include conducting surveys of enrollees,
providers of care analyzing the date and reporting findings annually.
Tom
SB 28 (Hernandez D) California Health Benefit Exchange. Expands
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exemptions considered when determining Modified Adjusted Gross Income
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SBX1 3 (Hernandez D) Health care coverage: bridge plan. Exempts a bridge
plan product, as defined, from needing to establish an American Health
Benefit Exchange that makes available qualified health plans to qualified
individuals and small employers by January 1, 2014.
Tom
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Hospital
AB 446 (Mitchell D) HIV testing. Requires that an HIV test be performed for
each blood draw that is ordered for a patient in the emergency department of a
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general acute care hospital, public clinic, or urgent care center provided the
patient has given consent.
Amber
AB 689 (Bonta D) Health facilities: influenza. Requires each general acute
care hospital to offer onsite vaccinations for influenza to all inpatients prior to
discharge, annually, beginning no later than October 1 and ending on the
following April 1, except when there is a state vaccine shortage or when a
physician does not recommend that the patient receive an influenza vaccine
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due to potential health hazards, pursuant to standardized procedures of the
hospital and in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices of the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and
Human Services.
Amber
AB 974 (Hall D) Patient transfer: notice to contact person or next of kin.
Requires that, prior to a transfer of a patient for a nonmedical reason, the
hospital ask the patient if there is a preferred contact person who should be
notified, and make reasonable attempt to contact them and alert them about GOVERNOR’S DESK
the proposed transfer, and, if the patient is not able to respond, requires that
the hospital make reasonable effort to ascertain the identity of the preferred
contact person or the next of kin and alert them about the transfer.
Amber
SB 266 (Lieu D) Health care coverage: out-of-network. Prohibits a health
facility or provider group from presenting itself as being within a plan network
unless all providing services within the facility or group are within the FAILED, 2-YEAR BILL
network; or the facility or group acknowledges to the patient in writing or
verbally that some providers may be outside of the plan network.
Amber
SBX1 2 (Hernandez D) Health care coverage. Requires health care service
plans, beginning October 1, 2013, to offer, market, and sell the plan's health
benefit plans sold in the individual market for policy years beginning January
1, 2014, to individuals in each service area, but would require plans to limit
enrollment in individual health benefit plans to open enrollment periods.
Prohibits health care service plans from imposing preexisting condition
exclusion upon any individual. Authorizes plans to use only age, geographic
region, and family size for establishing rates for individual health benefit plans.
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Local Government
AB 185 (Hernández, Roger D) Open and public meetings: televised
meetings. Provides that an audio or video recording of an open and public
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meeting made at the direction of a local agency may be erased or destroyed 2
years after the recording.
Amber
AB 690 (Campos D) Jobs and infrastructure financing districts: voter
approval. Shifts property tax increments from Special Districts to Jobs and FAILED, 2-YEAR BILL
Infrastructure Districts without their consent.
Amber
AB 741 (Brown D) Local government finance: tax equity allocation
formula: qualifying cities. Would, commencing with the 2012-13 fiscal year
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and each fiscal year thereafter, increase the allocation of property tax revenues
under a new TEA formula, as specified, for qualifying cities.
Amber
AB 920 (Ting D) Property taxation: tax bill information. Establishes the
Property Tax Transparency and Accountability Program as a pilot program
which would, commencing with specified fiscal years, require participating
counties to provide specified information in each county tax bill, including FAILED, 2-YEAR BILL
information that indicates what percentage of the general ad valorem property
tax is allocated to each local government entity and a comprehensive account
of all the services funded by local governments.
Amber
AB 941 (Rendon D) Controller: reports. Re-intro of SB 186 from last year.
Changes the definition of a special district subject to the reporting
requirements of the Controller to include a public entity, agency, or board FAILED, 2-YEAR BILL
provided for by a joint powers agreement that is separate from the parties to
the agreement and is responsible for the administration of the agreement.
Amber
AB 1035 (Muratsuchi D) Local agencies: financial reports. Raises the
forfeiture amounts for a joint powers agency to which existing law does not
apply. Doubles these fines if the agency fails to submit the report to the
Controller for 2 consecutive years, and triples the fines if the agency fails to FAILED, 2-YEAR BILL
submit the report to the Controller for 3 consecutive years, in which case the
Controller would be required to conduct an independent audit report, the cost
of which would be reimbursed by the agency.
Amber
AB 1090 (Fong D) Public officers: conflicts of interest: contracts. Makes a
person who violates the prohibition against being financially interested in a
contract, or who causes another person to violate or who aids and abets
another person in violating the prohibition, subject to administrative and civil
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fines. Authorizes the Commission to enforce these violations by bringing an
administrative or civil action against a person who is subject to the prohibition
upon written authorization from the district attorney of the county in which
the alleged violation occurred.
Amber
AB 1235 (Gordon D) Local agencies: financial management training.
Requires a local agency official, in local agency service as of January 1, 2014,
or thereafter, except for an official whose term of office ends before January 1,
2015, be trained in financial management if the local agency provides any type
of compensation, or stipend to, or reimburses the expenses of, a member of a
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legislative body. Provides that if any entity develops criteria for the financial
management training, then the Treasurer's office and the Controller's office be
consulted regarding proposed course content. Declares the edification of local
government officials in financial management is a matter of statewide concern,
thus making it applicable to charter cities and counties.
Amber
AB 1248 (Cooley D) Controller: internal control guidelines applicable to
local agencies. Requires the Controller, on or before January 1, 2015, to
develop internal control guidelines applicable to a local agency, to prevent and
detect financial errors and fraud, based on specified standards and with input
from any local agency and organizations representing the interests of local
agencies. Requires the Controller to, by the same date, post the completed
internal control guidelines on the Controller's Internet Web site and update
them, as he or she deems necessary.
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Amber
SB 39 (De León D) Local agencies: public officers: claims and liability.
Would require the forfeiture of a contractual, common law, constitutional, or
statutory claim against a local public agency employer to retirement or pension
rights or benefits, as specified, by a local public officer who exercised GOVERNOR’S DESK
discretionary authority and who was convicted of a felony for conduct arising
out of, or in the performance of, his or her official duties. The bill would also
make a statement of findings. This bill contains other related provisions.
Amber
SB 751 (Yee D) Meetings: publication of action taken. Requires the
legislative body of a local agency to publicly report any action taken and the
vote or abstention on that action of each member present, thereby imposing a
state-mandated local program.
Amber
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