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| ARCA Bill File
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January 28, 2008 |
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BOD = ARCA Board |
For more information on a specific bill
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EC = Executive Committee |
| LC= Legislative Committee |
| RJB= Executive Director |
| Bill |
Author |
Position
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Approved
By/Date |
Status |
| AB
1 |
Laird
& Dymally |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Held
at Desk
10/10/07 |
| Summary: Health
care coverage. (1) Existing law
establishes various public programs to provide health care coverage to
eligible children, including the Medi-Cal program administered by the
State Department of Health Care Services and county welfare agencies,
and the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk
Medical Insurance Board. Children through 18 years of age are eligible
for health care coverage under these programs if they meet certain
household income and other requirements. This bill would expand eligibility for the Medi-Cal program
and would expand eligibility for the Healthy Families Program by
allowing children with family incomes at or below 300% of the federal
poverty level to qualify for the program and would delete the
specified citizenship and immigration status requirements. |
| AB
13 |
Laird
Brownley |
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|
|
Summary:
Maternal
dental care Hospitals: staffing.
[Dropped from Bill File 6/7/07.] |
| AB
14 |
Laird |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 568
10/12/07 |
| Summary:
Discrimination: Civil Rights Act of 2007. (1) The Unruh Civil
Rights Act entitles all persons within the jurisdiction of this state
to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities,
privileges, or services in all business establishments, regardless of
sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability,
medical condition, marital status, or sexual orientation. Under
existing law, persons holding licenses under the provisions of the
Business and Professions Code are subject to disciplinary action for
refusing, or aiding or inciting another licensee to refuse, to perform
the licensed services because of the prospective recipient's race,
color, sex, religion, ancestry, disability, marital status, or
national origin. Existing law also creates an exception to that
prohibition for healing arts practitioners if the licensed activity
sought would pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others.
This bill would enact the Civil Rights Act of 2007, as described
herein, and would instead
subject those licensees to disciplinary action if the above-described
discrimination is based upon the prospective recipient's sex, race,
color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical
condition, marital status, or sexual orientation. |
| AB
16 |
Hernandez
|
Oppose |
LC
5/31/07 |
Senate
Cmte on Rules
[amended sen 7/5/07]
|
| Summary:
Pupil
immunizations.
Existing law prohibits the governing authority of a school or other
institution from unconditionally admitting any person as a pupil of
any private or public elementary or secondary school, child care
center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or
development center, unless prior to his or her first admission to that
institution her or she has been fully immunized against various
diseases. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2009,
revise the list of institutions that are subject to the prohibition,
and would require the State Public Health Officer to create a list of
diseases for which immunization shall be required prior to entry into
those institutions. |
| AB
18 |
Blakeslee |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 485
10/11/07 |
| Summary:
Signature
stamps: authorized users. Existing law provides that, when a
signature is required for any purpose specified in the Elections Code,
a person who cannot write may satisfy that requirement by the use of a
mark if certain conditions are met, except as specified. This bill
would provide, in addition, that a person with a disability, as
defined, who, by reason of the disability, is unable to write may use
a signature stamp, or authorize another person to use the stamp, to
serve as his or her signature for any purpose specified in the
Elections Code. |
| AB
30 |
Evans |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Assembly
Cmte on Rules |
| Summary:
Health
care coverage: inborn errors of metabolism.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (the
Knox-Keene Act), provides for the licensure and regulation of health
care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes
a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for
the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
Under existing law, a plan and a health insurer are required to
provide coverage, as specified, for the testing and treatment of
phenylketonuria. This bill would extend this coverage requirement for
health care service plans and insurers, as specified, to inborn errors
of metabolism, as defined. |
| AB
55 |
Dymally |
|
|
|
Summary:
Medi-Cal:
aged and disabled individuals
Los Angeles
County
Hospital
Authority. [Dropped
from Bill File 7/5/07.] |
| AB
115 |
Shirley
Horton |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 3/14/07]
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Sex offenders: registration. Existing law requires persons
convicted of specified sex offenses to register with local law
enforcement authorities, as specified. A willful violation of these
registration requirements is punishable as a misdemeanor or as a
felony, as specified. Existing law requires persons who are subject to
registration be informed of their duty to register upon release from
incarceration or confinement in a hospital, as specified, and requires
the official responsible for place of confinement or hospital to
forward the person's expected address upon release to the Department
of Justice. This bill, beginning June 1, 2010, would require that the information required for
registration include all e-mail addresses and instant messaging
identities that may be used by the person, as specified. |
| AB
147 |
Wolk |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill |
| Summary:
Discrimination: persons with disabilities. Existing
federal law, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, prohibits
the discrimination against an individual with a disability on the
basis of that disability in specified situations, including employment
opportunities, and access to public accommodations, services, and
transportation. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation that would assist with the implementation and
enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. |
| AB
182 |
Ma |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Vetoed
by the Governor
10/10/07 |
| Summary:
In-home
supportive services: provision of training for providers and
recipients. Existing law provides for the In-Home Supportive
Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and
disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own
homes. Existing law permits services to be provided under the IHSS
program either through the employment of individual providers, a
contract between the county and an entity for the provision of
services, the creation by the county of a public authority, or a
contract between the county and a nonprofit consortium. Under existing
law, the functions of a nonprofit consortium contracting with the
county, or a public authority established for this purpose, include
providing for training for providers and recipients. This bill would
require each
public authority or nonprofit consortium, in consultation with its advisory committee and stakeholders, to develop training standards
and core topics, which shall be used by a nonprofit consortium
contracting with the county or public authority in providing this
training. |
| AB
190 |
Bass |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill |
| Summary:
Child welfare services. Existing law requires the State
Department of Social Services to contract with an appropriate and
qualified entity to conduct an evaluation of the adequacy of current
child welfare services budgeting methodology, and to convene an
advisory group. Pursuant to existing law, the Director of Social
Services has convened an advisory group, the Child Welfare Services
Stakeholders Group, to address concerns facing the child welfare
system. This bill would require the state to budget the child welfare
services program, exclusive of specified state funding, in accordance
with specified optimal caseload standards recommended by the Child
Welfare Services Stakeholders Group. |
| AB
216 |
Bass |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 382
10/10/07 |
| Summary:
Special
education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools. Existing law requires
school districts, county offices of education, and special education
local plan areas to comply with state laws that conform to the federal
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, in order that the state
may qualify for federal funds available for the education of
individuals with exceptional needs. Under existing law, a nonpublic,
nonsectarian school that provides special education and related
services to an individual with exceptional needs is required to
certify in writing to the Superintendent that it meets specified
requirements, including, among others, that pupils have access to the
specified educational materials, services, and programs to the extent
available at the local educational agency in which the nonpublic
school is located. One of the specified educational materials relates
to standards-based, core curriculum and instructional materials.
This bill, instead, would require that the educational materials,
services, and programs provided by the nonpublic, nonsectarian school
and be consistent with the pupil’s individualized education program.
The bill also would revise the provision relating to standards-based,
core curriculum and instructional materials. |
| AB
237 |
Strickland |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill |
| Summary:
Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services: financing.
Existing law creates the continuously appropriated Medical
Providers Interim Payment Fund, for the purposes of paying Medi-Cal
providers, providers of drug treatment services for persons infected
with HIV, and providers of services for the developmentally disabled,
on or after July 1, and before September 1, of the fiscal year for
which a budget has not yet been enacted or there is a deficiency in
the Medi-Cal budget in any fiscal year, and appropriates, for each
fiscal year in which these payments are necessary, up to
$1,000,000,000 from the General Fund, in the form of loans, and
$1,000,000,000 from the Federal Trust Fund to the Medical Providers
Interim Payment Fund. This bill would increase, to an amount not to
exceed $2,000,000,000, the annual appropriation from the General Fund
and from the Federal Trust Fund to the Medical Providers Interim
Payment Fund. By increasing the amount transferred into a continuously
appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. |
| AB
238 |
Beall |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Vetoed
by the Governor 10/10/07 |
| Summary:
In-homes supportive services: reading services for blind and
visually impaired recipients. Existing
law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
program, under which, either through employment by the recipient, or
by or through contract by the county, qualified aged, blind, and
disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own
homes. Existing law defines “supportive services” for purposes of
the program. This bill would include within the definition of
supportive services designated reading assistance services to a
recipient of services under the In-home Supportive Services program
who is blind or visually impaired, or who has another disability that affects his or her ability to read. |
| AB
273 |
Jones |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Senate
Cmte on Appropriations
[amended asm 6/1/07]
Suspense File
|
| Summary:
Public health: foster children. Existing law provides for
the Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) program under the
supervision of the State Department of Health Care Services, pursuant
to which certain health and disability prevention treatment services
are provided to eligible children. Existing law authorizes certain
providers, including physicians licensed to practice medicine in
California, to participate in the program if approved by the community
child health and disability program director in accordance with
program standards and if certified by the department. Under existing
law, when a child who is taken into temporary custody as a dependent
child of the court is in need of medical, surgical, dental, or other
remedial care, the assigned social worker or the juvenile court may
authorize that care, under specified circumstances. This bill would
require prescribed health and dental assessments to be provided to
children under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. |
| AB
277 |
Soto |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Vetoed
by the Governor
10/12/07 |
| Summary:
Foster care: foster family home licensing. Existing
law provides for the licensure and regulation of community care
facilities, including foster family agencies, foster family homes,
small family homes, and group homes, as defined, by the State
Department of Social Services. Existing law requires every licensed
foster parent to complete a minimum of 12 hours of foster placement
training, and an additional 8 hours of annual postplacement foster
parent training covering specified topics. This bill would, instead,
require that every licensed foster parent complete 12 hours of annual
postplacement foster parent training, and that this training
additionally cover the dependency court process and permanency options
and service and supports available to foster parents providing
permanent placement. |
| AB
304 |
Huff |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 18
6/28/07 |
Summary:
Community
care facilities and
residential care facilities for the elderly: disaster and mass
casualty plans. Existing law, the California Community Care
Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of community
care facilities, as defined, and provides for criminal sanctions for a
violation of those provisions. Existing law requires any person
desiring issuance of a license for a community care facility or a
special permit for specialized services to file with the State
Department of Social Services, an application on a prescribed form,
containing specified information. This bill would require a community
care facility or residential care facility that is licensed or has a
special permit therefor to provide a copy of the disaster and mass
casualty plan required pursuant to a specified regulations to
any fire department, law enforcement agency, or civil defense or other
disaster authority in the area or community in which the facility is
located, upon request of the fire department, law enforcement agency,
or civil defense or other disaster authority. |
| AB
308 |
Galgiani |
Watch
+ |
LC
4/23/07 |
Senate
Cmte on Health
[amended sen 8/23/07] |
Summary:
Medi-Cal:
early and periodic screening, and diagnosis services HIV
drug treatment: developmental services: financing. Existing
law creates the continuously appropriated Medical Providers Interim
Payment Fund, for the purposes of paying Medi-Cal providers, providers
of drug treatment services for persons infected with HIV, and
providers of services for the developmentally disabled, on and after
July 1, and before September 1, of the fiscal year for which a budget
has not yet been enacted or there is a deficiency in the Medi-Cal
budget in any fiscal year, and appropriates, for each fiscal year in
which these payments are necessary, up to $1,000,000,000 fro the
General Fund, in the form of loans, and $1,000,000,000 from the
Federal Trust Fund to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund. This
bill would increase, to an amount not to exceed $2,000,000,000, the
annual appropriation from the General Fund and from the Federal Trust
Fund to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund. By increasing the
amount transferred into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill
would make an appropriation. Existing law provides for the
Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care
Services, under which basic health care services are provided to
qualified low-income persons. Medi-Cal benefits include services
provided under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and
Treatment Program, including mental health services. Existing law
requires the State Department of Mental Health to manage the Early and
Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program. This bill would
require the State Department of Mental Health, in consultation with
the State Department of Health Care Services, to adopt regulations to
provide for the prompt reimbursement to counties of Medi-Cal claims
for the provision of services under the Early and Periodic Screening,
Diagnosis, and Treatment Program.. |
| AB
313 |
Benoit |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 5/1/07]
2 year bill |
| Summary:
Child
day
care facility rating system. Existing law, the California Child
Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of
specified types of child day care facilities responsible for the
regular care of children. Existing law requires each child day care
facility to post a written notice accessible to parents and guardians
and requires the notice to include prescribed information. A willful
violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would require the
State Department of Social Services, by January 1, 2010, to
develop and implement a licensed child day care facility rating system
for quality of care and child safety, after implementing an
unannounced visitation system. This bill would require that the
department post the ratings information on the department's Internet
Web site and update the posted ratings as often as possible to
maintain current and accurate information. It would require each
facility to post its rating in a conspicuous place at the facility. |
| AB
322 |
Anderson
and Berg |
Support |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
Cmte on Appropriations
Suspense File |
| Summary:
Area agencies on aging and independent living centers: funding. Existing
law designates area agencies on aging as local units on aging in
California, which are financially supported by a variety of sources,
including federal funding, state and local government assistance, the
private sector, and individual contributions. Existing law also
provides for independent living centers, for the purpose of assisting
individuals with disabilities in their attempts to live fuller and
freer lives outside institutions, and achieve social and economic
independence. This bill would continuously appropriate from the
Federal Trust Fund, in the absence of enactment of the annual Budget
Act by July 1 of a fiscal year, (1) to the California Department of
Aging, the amount of federal funds contained in the Federal Trust Fund
that is necessary to pay area agencies on aging for the administration
of programs under their jurisdiction, and (2) to the Department of
Rehabilitation, the amount of federal funds contained in the Federal
Trust Fund that is necessary to pay independent living centers for the
administration of programs under their jurisdiction, pending enactment
of the Budget Act. |
| AB
327 |
Horton |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Residential facilities. (1) Existing law, the California
Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and
regulation, administered by the State Department of Social Services,
of community care facilities. This bill would require the department,
in consultation with, and with the assistance of, the State Department
of Alcohol and Drug Programs, the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, the State Department of Mental Health, and other
appropriate state and local agencies, to establish and maintain a
statewide computerized database that includes, among other things, all
community care facilities except foster family homes and homes
certified by foster family agencies, and alcoholism and drug abuse
treatment and recovery facilities, including identifying services
provided by existing licensed and unlicensed residential programs, as
defined. |
| AB
342 |
Saldana |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 12
6/7/07 |
| Summary:
Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs. Existing
law provides that any individual with exceptional needs who requires
specialized physical health care services, during the regular
schoolday, may be assisted by certain qualified persons. This bill
would also authorize a qualified person holding a certificate of
public health in nursing to assist those individuals. |
| AB
345 |
Saldana |
Support |
LC
5/31/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Alcoholic beverages: underage drinking prevention. Under the
existing Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, excise taxes are imposed at
various rates on the privilege of selling or possessing for sale beer,
wine, and distilled spirits, as defined, and are administered by the
State Board of Equalization. The proceeds from these taxes are
deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund and, subject to the
payment of refunds, are transferred to the General Fund. This bill
would provide that, for calendar years beginning on or after January
1, 2008, the State Board of Equalization shall calculate the total
amount of all surtaxes, interest, and penalties that would be
collected as a result of a reclassification of any alcoholic beverage
from beer to a distilled spirit. This bill would also require the
board, for calendar years beginning on and after January 1, 2008, to
provide the Legislature and the Legislative Analyst's Office with an
annual revenue analysis of the amounts that would be collected as a
result of a reclassification of an alcoholic beverage from a
beer to a distilled spirit, including, but not limited to, the total
amount of all surtaxes, interest, and penalties that would be
collected by the board due to a reclassification and a projection of
the amounts to be collected in the following year. |
| AB
346 |
Beall |
Support |
LC
5/31/07 |
Senate
[amended sen 7/3/07]
Inactive File
|
| Summary:
Alcoholic beverages: labels. The
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of
Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of
alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture,
distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. The
act also provides for specified labeling requirements for containers
of alcoholic beverages sold within this state, as provided. This bill
would require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to
promulgate regulations, on or before July 1, 2008, to require that any
alcoholic beverage container, represented by the manufacturer to be
a malt beverage, sold for consumption within this state to
bear a label or a firmly affixed sticker, under specified
circumstances, that includes specified information regarding its
alcohol content and its status as an alcoholic beverage, if the
department determines, using objective evidence, that the malt beverage container
may be mistaken by a reasonable person,
for a beverage that does not contain alcohol. |
| AB
364 |
Berg |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Discharge policy: preadmission screening. Existing law
provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the
State Department of Health Services. Effective July 1, 2007, these
duties of the department will be transferred to the State Department
of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing
law requires each hospital to have in effect a written discharge
planning policy and process that requires appropriate arrangements for
posthospital care and a process that requires that each patient be
informed, orally or in writing, of the continuing care requirements
following discharge from the hospital, as specified. This bill would
require that the hospital discharge policy inform the patient of the
availability of home and community-based options prior to discharge,
and would require that prior to a transfer of an older adult patient
to any skilled nursing facility, the patient be assessed by a
preadmission screening to ensure the appropriateness of the proposed
skilled nursing facility placement. |
| AB
374 |
Berg |
Watch
+ |
LC
5/31/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 5/25/07]
Inactive File
|
| Summary:
California Compassionate Choices Act. Existing law
provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the
State Department of Health Services. Effective July 1, 2007,
responsibility for the administration of the abovementioned provisions
will be transferred to the State Department of Public Health. Existing
law authorizes an adult to give an individual health care instruction
and to appoint an attorney to make health care decisions for that
individual in the event of his or her incapacity pursuant to a power
of attorney for health care. This bill would enact the California
Compassionate Choices Act, which would authorize an adult who meets
certain qualifications, and who has been determined by his or her
attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as
defined, to make a request for medication prescribed pursuant to this
bill to provide comfort with an assurance of peaceful dying if
suffering becomes unbearable. The bill would establish procedures for
making these requests. |
| AB
378 |
Benoit |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 5/1/07]
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Elder and dependent adult abuse.
Under existing law, a caretaker, as defined, of
an elder or dependent adult who violates a law proscribing theft,
embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or identity theft with respect to the
property of the elder or dependent adult, may be subject to
imprisonment in a county jail, or imprisonment in the state prison if
the value of the money, labor, or real or personal property taken
exceeds $400.This bill would provide that a caretaker of an elder or
dependent adult who commits a 2nd or subsequent violation
of a law proscribing theft, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or identity
theft with respect to the property of an elder or dependent adult,
regardless of the value of the money, labor, or real or personal
property taken would be subject to punishment by
imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, or by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not
exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. |
| AB
382 |
Cmt
on Housing & Community Development |
|
|
|
| Summary:
Housing omnibus. [Dropped from
Bill File 4/23/07.] |
| AB
399 |
Feuer |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Vetoed
by the Governor
10/14/07 |
| Summary:
Long-term
health care facilities. (1)
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State
Department of Health Services of health care facilities, including
long-term health care facilities. Effective July 1, 2007, these duties
are transferred to the State Department of Public Health. This bill
would require the department to complete its investigation of the
complaint within 40 working days of its receipt, except that this
period may be extended if the department has diligently attempted, but
has not been able to obtain, necessary evidence related to the
investigation. |
| AB
411 |
Emmerson |
Oppose
unless amended |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 4/10/07]
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Residential care facilities: overconcentration. Existing
law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act,
provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care
facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services.
Existing law permits a city and county to request denial of a
residential care facility license on the basis of overconcentration of
residential care facilities. This bill would permit a city or county
to submit to the Director of Social Services additional
information regarding the siting of a proposed residential care
facility designed for 6 or fewer residents. |
| AB
423 |
Beall |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Vetoed
by the Governor4
10/14/07 |
| Summary:
Health care coverage: mental health services. Existing
law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene
Act), provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service
plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful
violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the
regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. This
bill would expand this coverage requirement for a health care service
plan contract and a health insurance policy issued, amended, or
renewed on or after January 1, 2008, to include the diagnosis and
treatment of a mental illness of a person of any age and would define
mental illness for this purpose as a mental
disorder defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV. |
| AB
459 |
Cook |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
In-home supportive services: criminal background checks. Existing
law provides for the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under
which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services
enabling them to remain in their own homes. Existing law permits
services to be provided under the IHSS program either through the
employment of individual providers, a contract between the county and
an entity for the provision of services, the creation by the county of
a public authority, or a contract between the county and a nonprofit
consortium. This bill would authorize the investigation of certain
potential personnel by a nonprofit consortium or public authority to
include criminal background checks conducted by the Department of
Justice or, in certain circumstances, by an investigative consumer
reporting agency, upon the request of the nonprofit consortium or
public authority, and upon written authorization by the potential
personnel. |
| AB
463 |
Huffman |
Watch
+ |
LC
4/23/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 387
10/10/07 |
| Summary:
Vehicles:
disabled persons: parking. Existing
law authorizes a vehicle that is equipped with a side-loading life or
ramp that is used for the loading and unloading of disabled persons to
park in not more than 2 adjacent stalls or spaces in a public
off-street parking facility when loading or unloading disabled
persons, under specified circumstances. This bill would revise
that provision to apply to a vehicle with a special license plate or
distinguishing placard issued to a disabled person or disabled
veteran, or entity transporting those persons, which is equipped with
a lift, ramp, or assistive equipment. The bill would make the
provision applicable on a street or highway or in a public or private
off-street parking facility. |
| AB
570 |
Galgiani |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Senate
Cmte on Appropriations
[amended sen 8/1/07]
Suspense File
|
| Summary:
Medi-Cal
reimbursement: intermediate care facilities. Existing law provides for
the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health
Care Services, under which health care services, including
intermediate care facility services for persons with developmental
disabilities, are provided to qualified low-income persons. Existing
law prescribes procedures for Medi-Cal reimbursement at these
facilities. This bill would require the department, by January 31,
2009, to review and prepare a report on the cost-reporting, audit, and
ratesetting requirements for designated intermediate care facilities
caring for persons with developmental disabilities, and, subject to
available federal and state funding, to implement
appropriate changes to the Medi-Cal rate development process for these
providers, as prescribed, by no later than August 1, 2010. |
| AB
572 |
Berg |
Watch
+ |
LC
4/23/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Adult
day health care services. The
California Adult Day Care Act provides for the licensure and
regulation of adult day health centers, with administrative
responsibility for this program shared between the State Department of
Health Care Services and the California Department of Aging pursuant
to an interagency agreement. This bill would require the department,
in coordination with the California Department of Aging and interested
organizations, to adopt new certification and licensing regulations
for adult day health care in order to accommodate the changes by
January 30, 2009. |
| AB
598 |
Cmte on Education |
|
|
|
| Summary:
Career
technical education. [Dropped
from Bill File 5/31/07.] |
| AB
600 |
Garcia |
|
|
|
Summary:
Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of
2006: mobilehome parks: conversion to resident ownership
Housing-Related
Park
Program. [Dropped
from Bill File 4/23/07.] |
| AB
606 |
Galgiani |
Support |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Medi-Cal: reimbursement rates. Existing law provides for
the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of
Health Care Services, and which provides health care services to
qualified low-income recipients. This bill would provide that
commencing January 1, 2008, the reimbursement levels for physician and
dental services shall be increased by 5%. |
| AB
615 |
Torrico |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 4/9/07]
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Emergency
services: populations with limited English proficiency. Existing
law requires planning for the unique needs of populations with
disabilities in creating emergency and disaster response plans and
requires the director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
to include representatives of the disabled community on specified
committees related to emergency preparedness. This bill would require
the state to prepare for the language needs of persons with limited
English proficiency in creating emergency and disaster response plans,
representation of persons with limited English proficiency on
committees responsible for emergency planning, regional trainings for
ethnic organizations on disaster preparation, and dissemination of
translated and community-friendly emergency preparedness materials.
This bill would also require that an existing biennial report by the
California Emergency Council on emergency preparedness include
information on the state of emergency preparedness of vulnerable
populations, including the elderly, disabled, low-income, and persons
with limited English proficiency, and identify recommendations for
improving state, regional, and local emergency preparedness, response,
and recovery for persons with limited English proficiency. |
| AB
637 |
Plescia |
Watch |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill |
| Summary:
Affordable housing. Existing law, until January 1, 2010,
authorizes contiguous agencies located within adjoining cities in a
Metropolitan Statistical Area to create and participate in a joint
powers authority in order to pool their housing funds to pay for the
direct costs of constructing, substantially rehabilitating, or
preserving the affordability of housing units that are affordable to
very low or low income households. The bill would make technical,
nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. |
| AB
638 |
Bass |
|
|
|
| Summary:
Dependent children and wards of the juvenile court: access to
services. [Dropped from Bill File
4/23/07.] |
| AB
685 |
Karnette |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 56
7/12/07 |
| Summary:
Special education. Existing
law requires that every individual with exceptional needs, as defined,
who is eligible be provided with educational instruction, services, or
both, at no cost to his or her parent or guardian or, as appropriate,
to him or her. A free appropriate public education is required to be
made available to individuals with exceptional needs in accordance
with specified federal regulations adopted pursuant to the federal
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This bill would make
technical changes to various provisions of existing law regarding
individuals with exceptional needs and special education and related
services to conform various provisions to the new federal regulations,
and update cross-references in response to those regulations,. The
bill also would delete obsolete provisions and make other clarifying
and technical, nonsubstantive changes |
| AB
706 |
Leno |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Senate
[amended sen 8/2707]
Third Reading File 9/12/07
|
Summary:
Fire
retardants: toxic effects.
Existing law makes various findings related to the toxicity of certain
fire retardants containing chemicals known as brominated fire
retardants (BFRs) and chlorinated fire retardants (CFRs), and
prohibits a person from manufacturing, processing, or distributing a
flame-retardant part of a product containing more than one-tenth of 1%
of prescribed retardants. This bill would revise and extend the
findings relating to fire retardants, and would, commencing January 1,
2010, require all seating, bedding, and furniture products to comply
with certain requirements, including that they not contain brominated
fire retardants or chlorinated fire retardants, as defined except
as specified, and be labeled as prescribed. |
| AB
725 |
Lieber
and DeVore |
|
|
|
| Summary:
Housing: universal rental housing application. [Dropped
from Bill File 5/31/07.] |
| AB
741 |
Bass |
Support |
LC
5/31/07 |
Vetoed
by the Governor
10/13/07 |
| Summary:
Infant mortality: interpregnancy care. Existing
law imposes various functions and duties on the State Department of
Public Health and prenatal care providers with respect to maternal,
child, and adolescent health. This bill would require the department
to develop a 3-year demonstration program that would offer
interpregnancy care, as defined, to women who enroll in the program
and meet specified criteria, in an effort to improve the child spacing
and adverse pregnancy outcomes for women who have had a previous very
low birth weight delivery, as specified. |
| AB
749 |
Berg |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Senate
[amended sen 6/18/07]
In Senate. Held at Desk.
|
| Summary:
Residential
care facilities for the elderly: hospice care patients.
Existing
law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care
facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services.
Existing law prohibits a residential care facility for the elderly
from admitting or retaining a resident who is bedridden, other than
for a temporary illness or for recovery from surgery. This bill would
notwithstanding those restrictions, authorize a residential care
facility for the elderly to admit a person who is a hospice patient to
the facility, or retain the person beyond a specified 14-day period,
without regard to the person’s nonambulatory or bedridden condition.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
|
| AB
792 |
Garcia |
|
|
|
| Summary:
Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing Program. [Dropped
from Bill File 4/23/07.] |
| AB
825 |
Silva |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Persons with developmental disabilities: disclosure of
information. Existing law makes all information and records
obtained in the course of providing intake assessment and services
under statutes relating to services for persons with developmental
disabilities confidential, and permits disclosure only under
prescribed conditions, including, but not limited to, in
communications between qualified professional persons, as specified,
in the provision of intake, assessment, and services or appropriate
referrals, subject to the consent of the person with developmental
disabilities or his or her guardian, as specified. This bill would
require a regional center or state developmental center to disclose
specified information and records to certain employees of a school
district or county office of education, as provided, when disclosure
is necessary for a regional center or state developmental center to
perform its official duties under existing law, as specified. |
| AB
853 |
Jones |
Watch
+ |
LC
3/13/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 4/26/07]
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
The
Home Care Services Act of 2007. Existing
law provides for the licensing and regulation of various community
care facilities by the State Department of Social Services. This bill
would enact the Home Care Services Act of 2007 and would provide for
the licensure and regulation of home care organizations, as defined,
by the State Department of Social Services. The bill would impose
various licensure requirements on a home care organization and would
also impose a civil penalty on an individual or entity that operates a
home care organization without a license. |
| AB
884 |
Dymally |
Watch |
LC
4/23/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 4/11/07]
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Low-income
housing tax credit allocation program.
Existing law establishes the
California
Tax Credit Allocation Committee in state government to provide
low-income housing tax credits to stimulate the production and
rehabilitation of shelter for lower income individuals and families.
Existing law requires the committee to allocate the housing tax credit
on a regular basis consisting of 2 or more periods during which
applications may be filed and considered. The committee is required to
use certain criteria in allocating housing tax credits. This bill
would include 2 additional appointed members in the committee. The
bill would require the committee to consider whether a project is an
infill project or eliminates neighborhood blight, among the criteria
used in allocating housing tax credits. |
| AB
910 |
Karnette |
Support |
LC
3/13/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 617
10/15/07 |
| Summary:
Disabled
persons: support and health care coverage. (1)
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975
(Knox-Keene Act), provides for the licensure and regulation of health
care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes
a willful violation of the act a crime. This bill would change the
first criterion, requiring a health care service plan and a health
insurer to provide that coverage of a dependent child shall not
terminate upon attaining the limiting age if, in addition to meeting
the second criterion, as specified, the child is and continues to be
incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of a
physically or mentally disabling injury, illness, or condition. |
| AB
929 |
Sharon
Runner |
Support |
LC
3/13/07 |
Chaptered
Chapter 274
10/5/07 |
| Summary:
California Housing Finance Agency: bonds. Existing law
sets forth various powers and duties of the California Housing Finance
Agency in conjunction with the financing of housing. Existing law
authorizes the agency to issue revenue bonds not exceeding a specified
amount outstanding at any time, exclusive of indebtedness incurred to
refund or renew bonds previously issued by the agency, the proceeds of
which are used to finance housing developments and other residential
structures. The bill would make an appropriation by increasing by $2,000,000,000 the authorization of bonds to be issued by the agency,
the proceeds of which under existing law are required to be deposited
in the continuously appropriated California Housing Finance Fund. |
| AB
979 |
Price |
Watch
+ |
LC
4/23/07 |
Vetoed
by Governor
10/10/07 |
| Summary:
In-home supportive services: pilot project: provider selection. Existing
law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are
provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own
homes and avoid institutionalization. Counties are responsible for
administering the program. This bill would require the State
Department of Social Services to identify and apply for all potential
sources of federal funding
for IHSS provider training, as specified. |
| AB
987 |
Jones |
|
|
|
| Summary:
Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund: affordability covenants
and restrictions. [Dropped from Bill
File 8/16/07.] |
| AB
1017 |
Ma |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 4/9/07]
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Affordable
housing program. Existing
law provides for various affordable housing development incentive
programs. This bill would establish the California Affordable Housing
Revolving Development and Acquisition Program under the administration
of the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose
of funding projects to develop or preserve affordable housing. |
| AB
1031 |
Levine |
Support |
LC
4/23/07 |
Assembly
[amended asm 5/1/07]
2 year bill
|
| Summary:
Developmental services. Existing
law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act,
establishes the State Department of Developmental Services and sets
forth its duties and responsibilities, including, but not limited to,
administration and oversight of the state developmental centers and
programs relating to persons with developmental disabilities. Existing
law requires the department to allocate funds to private nonprofit
regional centers for the provision of community services and support
for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. This
bill would establish the Lanterman Accessible and Affordable Housing
Program to provide resour | |
