Bill Description
Status
Assigned Position
(Priority)
Access to Care
AB 213 (Logue R) Healing arts: military experience. Increases
the workforce of California by requiring the Department of
Consumer Affairs, and the State Department of Public Health, to FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
accept education, training, and practical experience completed by
an applicant in military service towards the qualifications and
requirements to receive a license or certificate.
Sheila
Support (High)
AB 512 (Rendon D) Healing arts: licensure exemption. Extends
sunset date, from January 2014, to January 2018, on existing law
permitting qualified, out-of-state health care practitioners to
volunteer their services on a limited basis at health care events
designed to provide free services for underinsured individuals.
CHAPTERED
Sheila
Support (Low)
AB 565 (Salas D) California Physician Corps Program. Increases
the priority given to program applicants of the Steven M.
Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program, if the
applicants illustrate three years of experience providing health care
services to medically underserved populations in a federally
designated health professional shortage area or medically
underserved area.
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
Sheila
Support (Low)
AB 589 (Fox D) Medical education: underrepresented medical
specialties. Establishes a loan assumption program, not to exceed FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
$20,000, for California physicians, working full-time in specialties
which are underrepresented. Sunsets on July 1, 2019.
Sheila
Support (Low)
AB 704 (Blumenfield D) Emergency medical services: military
experience. Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority
to develop and adopt regulations to accept the training, and
experience completed by an applicant with military experience,
toward the requirements for an emergency medical technician
(EMT-I), an advanced emergency medical technician (EMT-II)
certification, or an emergency medical technician-paramedic
(EMT-P) licensure.
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
AB 705 (Blumenfield D) Combat to Care Act. Requires the
Board of Registered Nursing to adopt regulations identifying
Armed Forces education, training, and experience that is
FAILED, 2-YEAR
equivalent or transferable to coursework required for licensure by
BILL
the board. Additionally, requires the Board of Registered Nursing
to provide the applicant with a list of coursework to be completed
to be eligible for licensure.
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
AB 809 (Logue R) Healing arts: telehealth. Requires that a
health care provider initiating the use of telehealth at an
originating site, shall inform and receive consent from a patient
FAILED, 2-YEAR
that telehealth may be used in their care. Additionally, the consent
BILL
shall be documented in the patient’s medical record and shared
with the distant site health care provider from whom telehealth is
requested or obtained.
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
AB 1028 (Patterson R) Vocational nursing: interim permits.
Permits an applicant of a vocational nursing license to submit an
application for an interim permit (IP) in concurrence with an
application for the required licensing examination. Requires the
California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric
Technicians (BVNPT) to decide whether to issue the permit and, if
the BVNPT deems to, issue the IP within 60 days of receiving the
application.
CHAPTERED
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
AB 1288 (V. Manuel Pérez D) Medical Board of California and
Osteopathic Medical Board of California. Requires the Medical
Board of California to develop a process to give priority review
status to the application of an applicant who can demonstrate, as
specified, that they intend to practice in a medically underserved
area or serve a medically underserved population.
CHAPTERED
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
SB 118 (Lieu D) Unemployment insurance: education and
workforce investment systems. Requires the California
Workforce Investment Board to incorporate six specific principles
into the state’s strategic plan to align the education and workforce
investment systems of the state to the needs of the current
economy, as well as promote a well-educated and skilled
workforce to meet future workforce needs.
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
SB 271 (Hernandez D) Associate Degree Nursing Scholarship
Program. Extends Associate Degree Scholarship Pilot Program to
provide scholarships in counties determined to have most need.
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
SB 491 (Hernandez D) Nurse practitioners. Deletes requirement
that Nurse Practitioners (NPs) perform certain tasks pursuant to
standardized procedures and/or consultation with a physician or FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
surgeon and authorizes an NP to perform those tasks
independently. Requires, after July 1, 2016, that NPs possess a
certificate from a national certifying body in order to practice.
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
SB 646 (Nielsen R) Medi-Cal: distinct part nursing facilities.
Reverses reductions in compensation for DP/SNF services called
for by AB 97 (2011) to hospitals as defined.
Tom
Support (High)
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
Sheila
Support
(Medium)
FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
SCA 5 (Hernandez D) Public education. Repeals portions of
Proposition 209 that prohibit the consideration of race in
FAILED, 2-YEAR
recruitment, admissions, and retention programs by state
BILL
universities and colleges, thereby impacting healthcare workforce
diversity, and improving access to jobs for college educated adults.
Clinic
AB 297 (Chesbro D) Primary care clinics. Permits licensed
primary care clinics to submit certification from the Accreditation
Association for Ambulatory Health Care to the Department of
Public Health for data collection and extraction for fee
calculations, in addition to the existing ability to submit
certification to the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations.
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
Community Health
SB 20 (Hernandez D) Health care: workforce training. Requires
all funds in the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties
Fund be transferred each year to the Medically Underserved
Account for Physicians in the Health Professions Education Fund
FAILED, 2-YEAR
for purposes of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan
BILL
Repayment Program, beginning on the date the Major Risk
Medical Insurance Program becomes inoperative. Requires
Director of Finance to notify Joint Legislative Budget Committee
in that regard.
Finance
AB 18 (Pan D) Health care coverage: pediatric oral care.
Provides health plan exemption for dental coverage IF the Health
FAILED, 2-YEAR
Benefits Exchange offers stand-alone dental option, which
BILL
provides dental services similar in scope to that outlined in the
Affordable Care Act.
Tom
Support (Low)
AB 498 (Chávez R) Medi-Cal. Directs the Department of Health
Care Services to seek necessary federal approvals or waivers to
separately implement the safety net care pool payments for
uncompensated care for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 fiscal years.
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
Tom
Support
(Medium)
ABX1 1 (John A. Pérez D) Medi-Cal: eligibility. Extends MediCal benefits to certain adults using income eligibility criteria based
on the individuals modified adjusted gross income (MAGI).
Requires comprehensive coverage for subscribers during
pregnancy until the 60th day after the last day of pregnancy and to
children less than 2 years of age born to mothers under the
program since July 1, 2004 or earlier. Also, makes changes to the
Welfare and Institution Code to remain in effect until January 1,
2014.
CHAPTERED
Tom
Support
(Medium)
SB 640 (Lara D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement: provider payments.
Requires, to the extent permitted by federal law, the 10% payment
reductions for specified non-Medi-Cal programs not apply to
skilled nursing facilities or subacute care units that are a distinct
FAILED, 2-YEAR
part of a general acute care hospital, intermediate care or other
BILL
facilities serving 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 June 1,
2011.
Tom
Support (High)
SBX1 1 (Hernandez D) Medi-Cal: eligibility. Extends Medi-Cal
benefits to certain adults using income eligibility criteria based on
the individuals modified adjusted gross income (MAGI). Requires
comprehensive coverage for subscribers during and to children less
than 2 years old born to mothers under the program since July 1,
2004 or earlier. Makes changes to Welfare and Institution Code to
remain in effect until January 1, 2014.
Tom
Support
(Medium)
CHAPTERED
Hospital
AB 591 (Fox D) Hospital emergency room: geriatric physician.
FAILED, 2-YEAR
Requires each general acute care hospital with an emergency dept.
BILL
to have a geriatric physician on an on-call basis at all times.
Amber
Oppose
(Medium)
AB 676 (Fox D) Health care coverage: postdischarge care needs.
Prohibits health care service plans, health insurers, and the
FAILED, 2-YEAR
Department of Health Care Services’ Medi-Cal managed care
BILL
plans from causing patients to remain in acute care when
attending physicians determine they should be discharged.
Amber
Support (Low)
AB 900 (Alejo D) Medi-Cal: reimbursement: distinct part
nursing facilities. Prohibits the Distinct Part Skilled Nursing
Facility (DP/SNF) reductions associated with AB 97 (from the
FAILED, 2-YEAR
2011 Session) from being implemented. Requires that the
BILL
reduction not apply to Skilled Nursing Facilities which are part of
general acute care hospitals for dates of service on or after June 1,
2011, and would take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Tom
Support (High)
SB 455 (Hernandez D) General acute care hospitals: patient
classification system. Requires the Department of Public Health
to adopt and amend regulations to require every general acute care FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
hospital to establish and maintain a patient classification system.
Requires the classification system review committee be appointed
by the bargaining agent, if the hospital is represented by one.
Amber
Oppose
(Medium)
SB 563 (Galgiani D) Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development: hospital construction. Requires a person or entity
requesting a copy of a plan for construction or alteration of a
hospital building to pay the cost of producing that plan.
Amber
Support (Low)
Amber
Oppose (Low)
Amber
Oppose unless
Amended (Low)
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
SB 718 (Yee D) Hospitals: workplace violence prevention plan.
Requires a hospital, as part of its injury prevention program, to FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
adopt a workplace violence prevention plan. Also requires a
hospital to adopt safety and security policies.
Labor Relations
AB 218 (Dickinson D) Employment applications. Prohibits a
state or local agency from asking an applicant to disclose a
criminal conviction, except as specified, until the applicant has
demonstrated they meet all required qualifications for the position.
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
AB 517 (Achadjian R) Occupational safety and health: local
public entities. Permits all local government agencies to seek
California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
(Cal/OSHA) civil fine rebates once conditions that lead to the
citation have been identified and remedied and there have been no
serious Cal/OSHA violations for at least two years.
Amber
Support (Low)
AB 729 (Hernández, Roger D) Evidentiary privileges.
Authorizes evidentiary privileges on communications between a
union agent and a represented employee.
Amber
Oppose (Low)
Amber
Support (Low)
AB 416 (Gordon D) State Air Resources Board: Local Emission
Reduction Program. Creates the Local Emission Reduction
FAILED, 2-YEAR
Program, which will allocate monies to local governments for
BILL
grants and other financial assistance to develop and implement
greenhouse gas emission reduction projects.
Amber
Support (Low)
AB 543 (Campos D) California Environmental Quality Act:
translation. Requires a lead agency to translate specified CEQA
notices and summaries of any negative declaration, mitigated
negative declaration, or environmental impact report when a
FAILED, 2-YEAR
community of non-English speaking people comprises at least 25%
BILL
of the population within a lead agency's jurisdiction and the
project is proposed to be located at or near an area where nonEnglish speaking residents comprise at least 25% of the
population.
Amber
Oppose (Low)
AB 639 (John A. Pérez D) Veterans Housing and Homeless
Prevention Bond Act of 2014. Establishes the Veterans Housing
and Homeless Prevention Act which will restructure $600 million
of existing Proposition 12 bond funds for use on construction
and/or rehabilitate multifamily housing for veterans and their
families.
Amber
Support (Low)
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
Local Government
AB 130 (Alejo D) Health care districts: chief executive officers:
benefits. Ensures that a Healthcare District’s Chief Executive
Officer does not receive retirement benefits prior to retirement.
CHAPTERED
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
AB 678 (Gordon D) Health care districts. Requires specific
Healthcare Districts to conduct an assessment of the community’s
health needs every 5 years, report the findings in their annual FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
report to the community, and submit the assessment to the Local
Area Formation Commission, as part of their Municipal Service
Review.
Amber
Support
(Medium)
AB 748 (Eggman D) Judgments against the state: interest. Sets
the judicial interest rate charged in judgments against the state or
local governments to the previous year’s Pooled Money
Investment Account rate, and sets an upper limit of 7 percent.
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
Amber
Neutral
AB 1149 (Campos D) Identity theft: local agencies. Requires
local agencies to notify consumers of a breach if personal
information has been accessed by unauthorized persons and
makes local agencies subject to provisions of the Information
Practices Act of 1977 (IPA).
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
Amber
Oppose (Low)
SB 556 (Corbett D) Agency: ostensible: nongovernmental
entities. Requires contractors that perform labor or services for a
public entity from displaying a seal, emblem, insignia, trade, brand
FAILED, 2-YEAR
name, or any other term, symbol, or content on a vehicle or
BILL
uniform that could be interpreted as implying that the labor or
services are being provided by employees of the public agency,
unless specific disclosure requirements are followed.
Amber
Oppose
(Medium)
SB 594 (Hill D) Use of public resources. Places significant new
restrictions and disclosure requirements on specified nonprofit
organizations that participate in campaign activities.
Amber
Neutral
SB 731 (Steinberg D) Environment: California Environmental
FAILED, 2-YEAR
Quality Act. Seeks to make meaningful changes to the California
BILL
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Amber
Oppose unless
Amended (Low)
SCA 3 (Leno D) Public information. Places a proposition on the
2014 General Election Ballot to require public agencies to comply
with the California Public Records Act (CPRA) but would remove
the state’s reimbursement obligation for current and future CPRA
and Brown Act costs.
Amber
Neutral
Amber
Support
(Medium)
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
GOVERNOR’S
DESK
SCA 11 (Hancock D) Local government: special taxes: voter
FAILED, 2-YEAR
approval. Authorizes a local agency to pass a special tax with 55%
BILL
voter approval.
Workers Compensation
AB 638 (Alejo D) Workers' compensation: proceedings:
expedited hearings. Ensures that injured workers left without
proper coverage for workplace injuries have priority access to the FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) for accessing
benefits through the Uninsured Employers Benefit Trust Fund
(UEBTF).
Amber
Support (Low)
AB 1138 (Chau D) Workers' compensation: records. Requires
employers to maintain, and share upon request, a list of California FAILED, 2-YEAR
BILL
employees covered by their workers’ compensation insurance
policy.
Amber
Oppose
(Medium)
SB 626 (Beall D) Workers' compensation. Repeals many
provisions of the workers’ compensation reform. Specifically,
eliminates impairment ratings for psychiatric add-ons in some
cases, limits utilization review and independent medical review
(IMR) by requiring the reviewing physician hold the same license
FAILED, 2-YEAR
as the physician requesting treatment, repeals the provision that
BILL
prohibits a chiropractor from being a primary treating physician
once the maximum number of chiropractic treatments have been
received, and makes IMR decisions appealable to the Workers’
Compensation Appeals Board, which puts decisions about
medical necessity back into the hands of judges.
Amber
Oppose (High)
SB 809 (DeSaulnier D) Controlled substances. Establishes the
Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System
(CURES) Fund within the State Treasury to receive funds to be
allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the
Department of Justice for the purposes of funding the CURES
program.
Amber
Support (Low)
GOVERNOR’S
DESK