1999 – 2000 BILL SUMMARY

SENATE BILLS

SB 7 Figueroa Healing arts: physicians. Requires that any HMO review of a doctor's decision that alters or overturns the physician’s decision must also be made by a California licensed physician. Provisions folded into AB 58 (Davis) - vetoed.
STATUS: Assembly Appropriations Committee

SB 18 Figueroa Health care. Similar to SB 7, except applies to decisions by licensed health care professionals other than physicians. Provisions also folded into AB 58 (Davis) - vetoed.

STATUS: Assembly Appropriations Committee

SB 125 Haynes Healing arts: social workers: marriage, family, and child counselors. Eliminates the oral examination requirement for licensure as a social worker or marriage, family, and child counselor. Predecessor bill was SB 288 (Haynes) in 1998.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 137 Knight Board of Behavioral Sciences: licensees: substance abuse testing. Requires substance abuse testing as a licensing requirement for social workers and marriage, family, and child counselors.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 188 Leslie Drugs: hospitals: physicians. Provides limited exceptions for specified rural hospitals to the general rules governing dispensing drugs by authorized prescribers outside of a pharmacy setting.

STATUS: Chapter 900, Statutes of 1999

SB 191 Knight Professional engineers: registration. Eliminates the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyor’s authority to define the scope of engineering practices. Authorizes a professional engineer to practice civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, if competent; and, provides that the Professional Engineers Act does not prohibit a person from practicing any other legally recognized profession, trade, or science.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 214 Polanco Barbering and cosmetology: state board. Re-establishes the Barbering and Cosmetology Board and requires scores on the practical and written examination to be averaged together. [As heard by the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

Subsequently amended to establish the California Automotive Repair Advisory Committee to review and report on certain aspects of the automotive industry.

STATUS: Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee

SB 224 Baca Seniors’, Veterans’, and Disabled Health Care Protection Act of 1999. Requires the Department of Health Services to license and regulate nurse registries other than those providing private duty nursing services.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 235 Haynes Cosmetology: licensing. De-regulates "hair braiding" by exempting specified braiding activities from the Barbering and Cosmetology Law.

STATUS: Chapter 37, Statutes of 2000

SB 294 McPherson Contractor license number. Requires the Contractors State License Board to restore the Granite Rock Company’s original license and original license number.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 378 Kelley Collateral recovery. Makes various technical changes to the law regulating the repossession industry. Among the changes this annual technical clean-up measure makes is changing the licensing period for repossessors to two years and enhancing penalties for violations of the Collateral Recovery Act.

STATUS: Chapter 456, Statutes of 1999

SB 404 Alpert Pharmacy. Allows specified contraceptives, termed "emergency contraceptives," to be dispensed by pharmacists without a prescription from a physician.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 446 Kelley Department of Justice: stolen property: study. Requires the Department of Justice to study the incidence of organized theft and re-sale of specified types of property. [As heard by the Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

SB 450 Speier Physicians and surgeons: advertising: plastic surgery. Tightens up existing restrictions on advertisements that assert a physician is "board certified," and delegates to the Medical Board the authority to establish a moratorium on so-called high-volume liposuction.

STATUS: Chapter 631, Statutes of 1999

SB 459 Johnson Franchise Investment Law: sale of franchises: exemption. Exempts from state franchise registration, any offer or sale of a franchise that involves the adding of a new product or service line to the existing business of the prospective franchisee, subject to certain specified requirements (e.g., "fractional franchises").

STATUS: Chapter 325, Statutes of 1999

SB 466 Perata Acupuncture. Expands the acupuncture scope of practice by defining low-level laser stimulation and adding it as a technique within the definition of acupuncture. Authorizes an acupuncturist to use magnets and animal mineral products as a treatment modality.

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 585 Chesbro Clinical laboratories. Permits specified health care practitioners to perform microscopy procedures currently restricted to licensed physicians.

STATUS: Chapter 70, Statutes of 1999

SB 595 Speier Outpatient settings. Redefines an "outpatient setting" at which a physician must perform any surgery that exceeds a specified anesthesia threshold. Establishes new standards and requirements for accreditation of outpatient settings. Requires additional disclosures regarding accreditation.

STATUS: Assembly Appropriations Committee

SB 610 Costa Private postsecondary education. Makes technical changes to the Private Post-Secondary Education Law.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 642 Haynes Medi-Cal: reimbursement: probationary licensee. Prohibits licensed medical professionals, who are on probation, from being reimbursed for services performed by the licensee while under the supervision of another physician during the probationary period.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 765 Schiff Biological specimens. Requires licensed health care professionals to secure human biological specimens they collect in a locked container. Requires clinical lab employees to report violations, as specified, on a triplicate form to be developed by the Department of Health Services. (See also AB 1558.)

STATUS: Chapter 748, Statutes of 1999

SB 809 O’Connell Licensing. Establishes a statute of limitations for the filing of disciplinary accusations against licensed mental health professionals and respiratory care therapists.

STATUS: Chapter 459, Statutes of 1999

SB 816 Escutia Physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Clarifies the authority of physician assistants and nurse practitioners to dispense specified medications.

STATUS: Chapter 749, Statutes of 1999

SB 835 Figueroa Cosmetic surgery: education and training. Establishes a cosmetic surgery disclosure program that makes physician training and education information available to the public via the Internet or telephone.

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 836 Figueroa Advertising: truthfulness: referral services. Expands and clarifies the existing restrictions on false and misleading advertising by licensed health care professionals, including use of "before" and "after" photographs.

STATUS: Chapter 856, Statutes of 1999

SB 837 Figueroa Cosmetic surgery: facilities. Requires cosmetic surgery, as defined, to be performed by physicians in a general acute care hospital or in specified "outpatient settings" that meet certain requirements.

STATUS: Assembly Appropriations Committee

SB 838 Figueroa Vocations: Pharmacy Law. Allows out of state pharmacies, lawfully organized as limited liability companies in their home state, to register as out of state pharmacies.

STATUS: Chapter 73, Statutes of 1999

SB 865 Hughes Real property – home equity scams. Requires the suspension or revocation of a home improvement contractor’s license for violations of the regulations governing the financing provisions of home improvement contracts. Requires the revocation of a notary public’s commission for falsely acknowledging a signature on a document that affects title to real property, or for knowingly and willfully performing any notarial act that affects title to real property with intent to defraud. [As heard by the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

SB 891 Costa Vocational education: truck driver training grants. Authorizes any person who owns or operates a school, or gives instruction for the driving of motortrucks, as specified, to apply to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education for grants to pay a portion of student costs for taking a specified training course.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 914 Sher Contractors: express trust funds: liens. Re-establishes the right to a mechanic’s lien for claims for unpaid wages and fringe benefits by an employee benefit express trust fund.

STATUS: Chapter 795, Statutes of 1999

SB 929 Polanco Optometry. Expands the scope of practice of optometrists by allowing them to treat additional diseases and conditions and to prescribe specified types of medications.

STATUS: Chapter 676, Statutes of 2000

SB 931 Polanco Barbering and cosmetology: technical advisory committees. Establishes a 5 member Barbering and Cosmetology Technical Advisory Committee to assist the Department of Consumer Affairs in regulating and licensing barbers and cosmetologists and to perform other duties and functions delegated to it by the department's director.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 988 Figueroa Unsolicited and unwanted telephone solicitations. Requires the Attorney General to maintain a "Do Not Call" list of telephone numbers of persons who do not want to receive unsolicited calls from telephone solicitors, and prohibits solicitors from calling any telephone number on the current "Do Not Call" list.

STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee

SB 1045 Murray Healing arts. Increases the licensing fees for physicians by $100, revises the Medical Board's disciplinary process, and makes other related changes.

STATUS: Senate Inactive File

SB 1054 Haynes Hospitals: medical staff. Prohibits hospitals from denying staff privileges to a physician on the basis of anything but the physician's individual qualifications.

STATUS: Assembly Health Committee

SB 1059 Johannessen Naturopathic medicine. Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to study, prepare and submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2001, regarding the state and practice of naturopathy, and whether it is appropriate to recognize, validate, or regulate naturopathy.

STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee

SB 1128 Speier Physicians and surgeons; continuing medical education. Requires the Medical Board’s Division of Licensing to grant one and one-half hours of credit to physicians for each hour of specified continuing education coursework.

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

SB 1134 Karnette Barbering and cosmetology: independent contractor. Requires a written contract to be executed between

proprietors of licensed establishments (i.e., shops or salons) and booth renters.

STATUS: Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economical Development Committee

SB 1151 Polanco Contractors: notice to owners. Requires additional information about a contractor’s license bond to be included in the notice regarding mechanics’ lien laws that a contractor must give to specified property owners prior to entering into a contract. Requires a contractor to obtain a written receipt from the property owner that he or she has received and read that notice. [As heard by the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

 

SB 1178 Figueroa Petroleum franchises: franchise dealers fair practices. Prohibits oil companies from discriminating against gas station owners who wish to sell their franchise. Bars denial of the right to sell if the reason is to lower the value of the franchise, or if the reason is that the prospective buyer does not speak English. Requires the reason, if there is a denial, to be stated in writing.

STATUS: Chapter 523, Statutes of 1999

SB 1206 Perata Bicycles: registration. Establishes, to the extent funded in the Budget Act, a licensing program within the Department of Consumer Affairs for "Bicycle Security Providers".

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 1215 Perata Dental professionals. Creates a Board of Allied Dental Health Professionals to regulate dental assistants and other auxiliary dental professionals and revises the scope of practice for dental hygienists.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 1216 Hughes Home inspectors: requirements. Strengthens regulations for persons who perform home inspections.

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 1218 Leslie Clinical laboratories: onsite testing. Authorizes employers to conduct on-site testing of employees under specified circumstances outside the normal licensing law for laboratories that conduct analysis of bodily substances.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 1252 Peace Private security services. Requires any private security service operating in California whose primary office is outside the state to maintain an office in California under the direction of a qualified manager, and to maintain at that office all records required by California law.

STATUS: Chapter 665, Statutes of 1999

 

SB 1287 Murray Occupational therapy: licensure. Enacts state licensing of occupational therapists and certification of occupational therapy assistants, and regulation of the practice of occupational therapy by a new Board of Occupational Therapy in the Department of Consumer Affairs.

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 1291 Polanco Health care: scope of practice. Prohibits hospitals from entering into illegal fee splitting and kickback arrangements with physicians and charging emergency room physicians excessive fees for administrative services. [As heard by the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

SB 1305 Figueroa Medical malpractice settlements: reports. Requires the Medical Board of California to study medical malpractice settlements and patterns of claims or actions for damages for death or personal injury, to determine specified information, and to report the study’s findings to the Legislature by July 1, 2001. [As heard by the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

SB 1306 B&P Comm. Professional and vocational licenses: regulatory boards and officers. Makes various changes to sunset dates for numerous regulatory programs within the Department of Consumer Affairs (annual committee omnibus bill).

STATUS: Chapter 656, Statutes of 1999

SB 1307 B&P Comm. Licensed professionals. Makes various changes to

numerous regulatory programs within the Department of Consumer Affairs (annual committee omnibus bill).

STATUS: Chapter 983, Statutes of 1999

SB 1308 B&P Comm. Healing arts: licensees. Makes various changes to the

regulatory programs of eight health related boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs (annual committee omnibus bill).

STATUS: Chapter 655, Statutes of 1999

SB 1339 Figueroa Pharmacy: quality assurance program. Requires pharmacies to establish quality assurance programs, and requires the Board of Pharmacy to adopt regulations specifying the requirements and implementation of the quality assurance programs.

STATUS: Chapter 677, Statutes of 2000

SB 1384 B&P Comm. Labeling. Alternatively authorizes manufacturers to mark an optical disc by using a unique identifying code instead of an identification mark that identifies the name of the manufacturer and the state in which the optical disc was manufactured.

STATUS: Chapter 120, Statutes of 2000

SB 1418 Haynes Cosmetology: licensing. De-regulates "hair braiding" by exempting specified braiding activities from the Barbering and Cosmetology Law. (See also SB 235.)

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

SB 1479 Figueroa Midwifery: authorized practices: birth certificates. Requires licensed midwives to have specific arrangements made regarding medical care. Requires licensed midwives to make additional disclosures to potential clients. Requires licensed midwives to register birth certificates under specified conditions.

STATUS: Chapter 303, Statutes of 2000

SB 1524 Figueroa Contractors; license bonds; liability insurance. Eliminates the requirement that contractors provide a licensing bond, and adds a requirement that contractors carry a specified level of liability insurance. [As heard by the Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

SB 1554 B&P Comm. Healing arts. Revises the licensing statutes of various health professionals (annual committee omnibus bill).

STATUS: Chapter 836, Statutes of 2000

SB 1555 Figueroa Funeral practices. Requires funeral directors to charge the same fee for services irrespective of where the consumer purchases a casket.

STATUS: Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee

SB 1563 Leslie Real property. Requires the Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors to establish minimum education or experience requirements for admission to the licensing exam and makes changes related to recording of maps and resetting of markers.

STATUS: Chapter 678, Statutes of 2000

SB 1600 Burton Physical therapy. Deletes a sunset clause on the provision of law that authorizes physical therapists to perform electromyography testing.

STATUS: Chapter 427, Statutes of 2000

SB 1606 Speier Sellers of travel. Requires the Attorney General to establish a system, on its internet website and on its toll-free telephone number, that provides information regarding the Seller of Travel Law and the services of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation. Requires the Trade and Commerce Agency to adopt regulations governing the manner in which it provides links to private entities from its internet website and its toll-free telephone number.

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 1620 Kelley Veterinary medicine: continuing education. Modifies the conditions for continuing education for veterinarians required for license renewals sought after January 1, 2002.

STATUS: Chapter 995, Statutes of 2000

 

SB 1630 Hayden Assisted reproductive technology. Prohibits a licensed tissue bank from providing assisted reproductive technology procedures and services related to oocyte donation unless its medical director is certified in a specialty or subspecialty. Requires the Department of Health Services to develop a standardized written summary regarding assisted reproductive technology and oocyte donation procedures.

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 1636 Poochigian Osteopathic physicians and surgeons: licensing: regulation. Authorizes the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to adopt a cite and fine regulation and repeals unnecessary testing and filing requirements.

STATUS: Chapter 197, Statutes of 2000

SB 1639 Murray Structural pest control. Prohibits the Structural Pest Control Board from charging a fee for approving a continuing education course if it is provided at no charge to the person taking the course.

STATUS: Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee

SB 1699 Hayden Health: cellular telephones. Requires the Department of Health Services to conduct a review of existing research pertaining to the health effects of cellular phone use and report back to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2001.

STATUS: Assembly Appropriations Committee

SB 1724 Dunn Confidential records: tax records. Makes various changes to the laws concerning the privacy of taxpayer information and records.

STATUS: Chapter 1084, Statutes of 2000

SB 1744 Murray Health studio contracts. Allows health clubs to enter into contracts with members obligating the member to pay amounts in excess of $1,000 if certain bonding requirements are met.

STATUS: Vetoed

 

SB 1828 Speier Dangerous drugs and devices. Prohibits prescribing or dispensing of "dangerous drugs" over the Internet unless a "good faith examination" is conducted, and establishes civil penalties or fines for violations.

STATUS: Chapter 681, Statutes of 2000

SB 1852 Alpert Medical assistants. Permits nurse practitioners, nurse- midwives and physician assistants to supervise medical assistants in certain licensed clinics.

STATUS: Assembly Health Committee

SB 1861 Hayden Physician assistants. Requires the office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to contract with physician assistant programs, develop curriculum in collaboration with community based organizations, provide 10 scholarships for $30,000 each, for the purposes of developing and implementing a training curriculum for international medical graduates.

STATUS: Assembly Appropriations Committee

SB 1863 B&P Comm. Professions and vocations. Revises the licensing statutes of various health professionals (annual committee omnibus bill).

STATUS: Chapter 1054, Statutes of 2000

SB 1881 O’Connell Professional fiduciaries. Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to conduct a study on the potential licensing and regulation of professional fiduciaries.

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 1889 Figueroa Internet: licensee information. Requires specified entities within the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Department of Real Estate, by July 1, 2001, to disclose information about their licensees on the Internet. The information is to include the status of the license and the address of record.

STATUS: Chapter 927, Statutes of 2000

 

SB 1940 Bowen Medical information: authorization: pharmacists. Prohibits a person or entity that is licensed, regulated or certified by the Board of Pharmacy from intentionally sharing, selling, or otherwise using any medical information regarding a consumer, for marketing or promotional purposes, without obtaining valid, prior, written consent from the consumer that both complies with the requirements of existing law and with certain additional requirements. [As assigned to, but never heard by, the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee

SB 1967 Kelley Yacht and Ship Brokers Act. Revises the laws governing yacht and ship brokers licensed by the Department of Boating and Waterways to: authorize the department to require additional information for licensing a salesperson, expand the grounds for license denial or discipline, authorize administrative legal actions to obtain the current civil penalties for violations of the licensing law, and prohibits a broker from organizing as a Limited Liability Company.

STATUS: Chapter 508, Statutes of 2000

SB 2028 Figueroa Joint Legislative Sunset Review Committee: geologists and geophysicists: State Athletic Commission. Extends the sunset date of the Board of Registration for Geologists and Geophysicists and the State Athletic Commission by four years (July 2005). Extends the sunset review of the Board for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education by one year (from 2001 to 2002).

STATUS: Chapter 393, Statutes of 2000

SB 2029 Figueroa Contractors State License Board. Extends the sunset date of the Contractors State License Board by two years, changes the Board composition, establishes monitoring of the Board and requires the Board to perform several duties.

STATUS: Chapter 1005, Statutes of 2000

SB 2030 Figueroa Engineers and land surveyors. Extends the sunset date of the Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and makes other changes to the Board.

STATUS: Chapter 1006, Statutes of 2000

SB 2031 Figueroa Professions and vocations. Places the Osteopathic Medical Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs and adds two members to the Board. Continues the ability of podiatric medical school graduates to obtain a limited license while in postgraduate training.

STATUS: Vetoed

SB 2032 Figueroa Shorthand reporting. Extends the sunset dates of the Court Reporters Board of California and the Transcript Reimbursement Fund.

STATUS: Chapter 1007, Statutes of 2000

SB 2033 Figueroa Structural Pest Control Board. Extends the sunset date of the Structural Pest Control Board and revises the procedure for issuance of research contracts funded by the Board’s Research Fund.

STATUS: Chapter 539, Statutes of 2000

SB 2034 Figueroa Healing arts: Chiropractic Act, Osteopathic Act. Requires the Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Osteopathic Medical Board to prepare and submit reports to the Joint Sunset Legislative Review Committee by September 1, 2001, and September 1, 2003, respectively.

STATUS: Chapter 199, Statutes of 2000

SB 2075 Speier Pharmaceuticals: price regulation. Requires the Department of Health Services, in consultation with the task force created by the bill, to evaluate and report (by December 21, 2001) on a method to establish a system of price regulation which would require manufacturers and wholesalers to sell dangerous drugs at a price which does not exceed the price at which those drugs are sold in Canada.

STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee

 

SB 2090 Murray Shorthand reporters. Expands the definition of shorthand reporting to include the making of a verbatim record of any court-ordered hearing. Requires a court reporting school to offer all components of a court reporting program, to notify the Court Reporters Board of the discontinuance or pending discontinuance of any component of the court reporting program, and to discontinue the program in its entirety within two years of the notice of discontinuance sent to the Board.

STATUS: Chapter 1009, Statutes of 2000

SB 2100 Vasconcellos Healing arts: nonconventional treatment. Requires the Medical Board and the Osteopathic Medical Board to establish specified policies related to the practice of alternative medicine, and requests the University of California to review specified issues related to alternative medicine.

STATUS: Chapter 660, Statutes of 2000

SB 2123 Figueroa Private patrol operators. Revises the timeframe for submission of a registration application and fee for persons scheduled to work as security guards under a temporary registration card, and increases the penalty for failure to comply with this timeframe.

STATUS: Chapter 683, Statutes of 2000

SB 2184 Soto Special events: emergency medical services. Requires the Office of Emergency Services to: prepare and publish a technical services bulletin regarding emergency service contingency plans for "special event facilities"; publish a model local ordinance for establishing a permitting system for special event facilities; prepare training courses on managing emergencies at such facilities; and, recommend to the Legislature and the governor any changes needed in statutes regarding emergency and fire suppression services at such facilities.

STATUS: Assembly Appropriations Committee

 

 

ASSEMBLY BILLS

AB 52 Cedillo Athletic events: fees. Establishes a maximum fee on admission receipts paid to the California Athletic Commission by promoters for any one boxing contest.

STATUS: Chapter 436, Statutes of 2000

AB 58 Davis Health care practitioners. Provides that any review of a decision by a licensed health care professional must be performed by a person with a comparable license. Contains the provisions of SB 7 (Figueroa) and SB 18 (Figueroa).

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 124 Ackerman Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board. Re-establishes the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board effective January 1, 2000, and requires the Board to administer the speech-language pathology and audiology licensing laws until July 1, 2002. Makes several changes regarding public school speech-language pathologists, license reciprocity, mandatory continuing education, and temporary licensing.

STATUS: Chapter 436, Statutes of 1999

AB 132 Migden Cosmetology: licensing. Provides for a lesser level of regulation, and a reduced amount of pre-licensing education, for natural hair braiders. [As heard by the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

AB 141 Knox Pharmacies. Requires the Board of Pharmacy to conduct a study regarding the incidence of medication errors in California pharmacies, and to report its findings to the Legislature by December 1, 2004. [As heard by the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

AB 253 Thomson Licensing. Requires applicants to be licensed as marriage and family therapists to complete graduate coursework in psychological testing and psychopharmacology.

STATUS: Chapter 406, Statutes of 1999

AB 261 Lempert Pharmacists. Modifies the laws governing dispensing of medications at specified clinical settings where there is no pharmacy. Allows specified modifications to prescriptions within guidelines developed between the prescriber and the pharmacist.

STATUS: Chapter 375, Statutes of 1999

AB 271 Gallegos Health care. Increases the regulatory oversight of outpatient surgery by requiring malpractice insurance, increasing the reporting requirements, and increasing staffing requirements at outpatient surgery centers.

STATUS: Chapter 944, Statutes of 1999

AB 285 Corbett Health care coverage: medical advice services. Provides for the regulation by the Department of Consumer Affairs of in-state and out-of-state telephone medical advice services that contract with or are provided by health plans and disability insurers. Requires that medical advice staff be appropriately licensed either by the state in which they are located or by California (the latter required for registered nurses), and requires the department to study and report to the Legislature on medical advice services provided by out-of-state licensees.

STATUS: Chapter 535, Statutes of 1999

AB 341 Cox Professions and vocations: background checks. Expands criminal background check requirements for private security-related personnel who are regulated by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.

STATUS: Chapter 318, Statutes of 1999

AB 352 Migden Professional licensing. Requires the Board of Behavioral Sciences to maintain a central file of licensees and expands the definition of a peer review body to include professional organizations for marriage and family therapists.

STATUS: Chapter 252, Statutes of 1999

AB 376 Floyd Weights and measures: device repair: service agencies. Revises regulatory provisions related to the training and registration of device agencies and repairpersons.

STATUS: Chapter 364, Statutes of 1999

AB 394 Kuehl Health facilities: nursing staff. Establishes presumptive nurse to patient ratios at various levels depending on the type of facility or unit. Delegates to the Department of Health Services the ultimate authority to establish nurse to patient ratios at in-patient facilities.

STATUS: Chapter 945, Statutes of 1999

AB 400 Lempert Psychology. Eliminates the ability of psychology students to earn their qualifying degree from non-accredited institutions, but grandfathers existing non-accredited schools.

STATUS: Chapter 625, Statutes of 2000

AB 497 Gallegos Dentists. Repeals the current requirement that a dentist be at each practice location at least 50 % of the time it is open for the practice of dentistry and, instead, provides that the Dental Practice Act does not prohibit a dentist from maintaining more than one practice location if specified requirements are met.

STATUS: Chapter 224, Statutes of 2000

AB 531 Soto Service stations. Requires service stations to provide free air and water to gas-buying customers and to notify their customers of this service.

STATUS: Chapter 583, Statutes of 1999

AB 545 Robert Pacheco Hearing aid dispensers. Establishes the Hearing Aid Dispensers Advisory Commission, comprised of specified members, to perform duties and functions delegated to it by the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs (who administers the licensing laws regulating hearing aid dispensers). Requires the director to meet and consult with the Commission, and authorizes specified functions that may be delegated to it.

STATUS: Chapter 440, Statutes of 1999

AB 552 Thompson Outpatient settings: general anesthesia. Extends, from January 1, 2000 to January 1, 2002, the sunset date of the current law that authorizes a physician to administer general anesthesia in the office of a licensed dentist if the physician holds a general anesthesia permit issued by the Board of Dental Examiners.

STATUS: Chapter 177, Statutes of 1999

AB 648 Strickland Dance studio lessons. Removes the statutory price cap on dance studio contracts and makes other related changes.

STATUS: Chapter 1024, Statutes of 1999

AB 660 Cardenas Pharmacy. Permits pharmacists to refill prescriptions without authorization from the prescriber from November 1, 1999 to February 29, 2000 in the event of a Year 2000 computer problem.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

AB 671 Campbell Private Investigator Act: exemption from licensure. Exempts persons who make objective observations of consumer purchases of products or services by use of a pre-established questionnaire (so-called "mystery shoppers") from private investigator licensing requirements.

STATUS: Chapter 123, Statutes of 1999

AB 693 Machado Structural pest control: solicitation by unlicensed persons. Clarifies that unlicensed personnel may distribute advertising materials and solicit customers, but may not make any recommendations, or quote prices that require the exercise of professional judgement.

STATUS: Chapter 257, Statutes of 1999

AB 791 Thomson Healing arts: pain management. Adds pain management training, assessment, and education to the curriculum requirements for health care practitioners.

STATUS: Chapter 403, Statutes of 1999

AB 900 Alquist Peace officers: Board of Dental Examiners. Authorizes the Board of Dental Examiners to have 10 sworn peace officer positions in its enforcement unit, and requires a study to determine the peace officer staffing needs of the Board.

STATUS: Chapter 840, Statutes of 1999

AB 952 Wiggins Contractors State License Board: legislative intent: major fraud investigation unit. Creates a major fraud investigation unit within the Contractors State License Board.

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 963 Gallegos Automotive products: coolants and antifreeze. Extends the interim sunset date for recycled engine coolant and antifreeze standards.

STATUS: Chapter 494, Statutes of 1999

AB 1079 Robert Pacheco Immigration consultants. Expands regulation of immigration consultants by doubling and making permanent the state bonding requirement and making other related changes.

STATUS: Chapter 336, Statutes of 1999

AB 1096 Romero Interior designers. Establishes a state regulatory program for interior designers and creates a Board of Interior Design.

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 1144 Aanestad Psychology. Creates a new category of psychologist called a "certified psychologist," who would be allowed to prescribe drugs to persons ages 18 to 65.

STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee

AB 1202 Firebaugh Hemodialysis: technician training. Makes permanent specified training requirements for hemodialysis technicians, and makes other changes.

STATUS: Chapter 979, Statutes of 1999

AB 1206 Wesson Roadway construction contractors: licensure. Requires roadway construction zone workers to be licensed pursuant to the Contractors State License Law.

STATUS: Chapter 708, Statutes of 1999

AB 1231 Machado Advertising: coupons. Makes it unlawful to offer a coupon, as defined, that is untrue or misleading, or to represent that a coupon is a gift or a prize if the coupon recipient must pay any money or purchase, lease or rent any goods or services under specified conditions.

STATUS: Chapter 907, Statutes of 1999

 

AB 1342 Granlund Real property. Makes several technical changes regarding land surveying procedures for corner record forms and record of survey requirements for specified documents.

STATUS: Chapter 608, Statutes of 1999

AB 1375 House Advertising: telephone directory listings: business location representations. Requires florists that use local numbers that forward calls to a distant location to include the actual physical location advertising of the business in any advertisement.

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 1379 Granlund Funeral directors and embalmers. Makes minor, technical changes to the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Law.

STATUS: Chapter 241, Statutes of 1999

AB 1427 Wiggins Barbering and cosmetology: licensure exception. Provides for an exemption from the Barbering and Cosmetology Law for certified massage therapists, subject to specified limitations.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

AB 1430 Bates Prescriptions: electronic transmissions. Amends the Pharmacy Law to better allow the use of electronic technology in the writing, dispensing, and regulatory oversight of prescriptions.

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 1433 Granlund Certified nurse assistants. Corrects an erroneous reference concerning the use of the title "nurse assistant".

STATUS: Chapter 411, Statutes of 1999

AB 1462 Cox Burial containers: preneed contracts. Requires any seller of funeral products that are not being delivered to the buyer within 30 days to hold the funds in trust.

STATUS: Senate Judiciary Committee

AB 1481 Granlund Parking meters. Allows the county sealer of weights and measures to immediately "close" a parking meter found to be inaccurate by the county sealer.

STATUS: Chapter 511, Statutes of 2000

AB 1496 Granlund Home medical equipment services providers. Provides for the licensing and regulation of home medical equipment services providers by the Board of Pharmacy. [As heard by the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Com.]

Subsequently amended and the bill was taken over by Assemblymember Olberg. Replaces "medical device retailer" as a category of licensure under the Board of Pharmacy with "home medical device retail facility (HMDRF)," which will be licensed and regulated by the Department of Health Services (DHS), and expands the definition of who must be licensed as an HMDRF.

STATUS: Chapter 837, Statutes of 2000

AB 1520 Leach Bunk beds. Enacts the Bunk Bed Safety Act of 1999 to specify mandatory safety standards for bunk beds that are sold, remanufactured, retrofitted, leased, sublet, or otherwise placed in the stream of commerce in California, except as specified, on or after January 1, 2000.

STATUS: Chapter 920, Statutes of 1999

AB 1545 Correa Health practitioners. Clarifies the authority of specified health care licensees to accept delivery of and to hand out specified medications.

STATUS: Chapter 914, Statutes of 1999

AB 1557 Migden Clinical laboratories: unlicensed personnel. Establishes training and certification requirements for phlebotomists.

STATUS: Chapter 695, Statutes of 1999

AB 1558 Wildman Practice of medicine: unprofessional conduct. Requires physicians to secure human biological specimens they collect in a locked container when placed in a public location, and authorizes the Medical Board to impose a specified fine for violations. (See also SB 765)

STATUS: Chapter 922, Statutes of 1999

 

AB 1621 Thomson Health care coverage: practice of medicine. Clarifies the definition of the practice of medicine. Expedites consumer complaint reviews by health care service plans and the Department of Corporations. Expands the role of the Attorney General with regard to complaints against plans. Establishes an independent medical review system for unresolved consumer complaints against plans. [As assigned to, but never heard by, the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

AB 1625 Cardoza Unclaimed property: private investigators. Gives licensed private investigators, attorneys, accountants and certain other licensed professionals and individuals the exclusive authority to be in the business of recovering unclaimed property in California.

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 1677 Con. Pro. Comm. Professions and vocations. Makes various technical and

minor changes to the laws governing numerous

professions regulated by the Department of Consumer

Affairs (annual committee omnibus bill).

STATUS: Chapter 657, Statutes of 1999

AB 1678 Con. Pro. Comm. Business and professions. Makes various minor,

technical, or clarifying changes to the laws governing the

regulation of architects, landscape architects, contractors,

and structural pest control operators regulated by various

licensing agencies in the Department of Consumer Affairs (annual committee omnibus bill).

STATUS: Chapter 982, Statutes of 1999

AB 1711 Leach Consumer protection. Cures a defect created by AB 1520 (Leach, Chap. 920, Stat. of 1999), and corrects an oversight in AB 271 (Gallegos, Chap. 944, Stat. of 1999).

STATUS: Chapter 6, Statutes of 2000

AB 1760 Kuehl Health facilities: regulations. Provides a one year extension to the Department of Health Services (DHS) for the adoption of regulations establishing specified nurse-to-patient staff ratios in health facilities. Deletes a provision that authorizes Los Angeles County to be subject to a phase-in process developed in conjunction with the DHS and that requires that process to be completed within one year of the adoption of the regulations by the DHS. [As assigned to, but never heard by, the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: Chapter 148, Statutes of 2000

AB 1778 Lowenthal Motor vehicle replacement parts. Requires automotive repair shops to list on consumer invoices whether crash parts are original equipment manufacture parts.

STATUS: Chapter 336, Statutes of 2000

AB 1810 Wiggins Weights and measures. Extends the sunset dates granting authority for civil penalties and device registration fees relating to weights and measures.

STATUS: Chapter 512, Statutes of 2000

AB 1820 Wright Geriatric medicine. Establishes the Geriatric Medical Training Act of 2000, which places certain licensing requirements on physicians and the Medical Board of California, and makes certain requests of the UC Regents, in an effort to increase the geriatric competency of California’s physicians.

STATUS: Chapter 440, Statutes of 2000

AB 1849 Wiggins Contractors State License Board. Creates a major fraud investigation unit within the Contractors State License Board.

STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee

AB 1866 Dutra Home furnishings. Effective January 1, 2003, requires mattresses manufactured for sale in California to be resistant to an open flame, as specified, unless a federal standard of equal requirements is enacted.

STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee

AB 1893 Dutra Common interest development; common interest development managers. Creates the Common Interest Development Manager Certification Act. [As assigned to, but never heard by, the Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

AB 1898 Wright Private postsecondary education: Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education: short-term career training. Exempts private security guard training schools, that meet certain specified requirements, from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education’s licensing requirements.

STATUS: Chapter 273, Statutes of 2000

AB 1916 Bates Architects. Authorizes the Architects Board to register all persons or business entities providing architectural services and requires those entities to have a licensed architect in responsible control over those services.

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 1979 Wesson Pharmacies: quality assurance programs. Requires pharmacies to establish a quality assurance program to document medication errors attributable to the pharmacy or its personnel in order to assess medication errors and take appropriate action. [As assigned to, but never heard by, the Sen. Bus. & Prof. Comm.]

STATUS: B & P provisions subsequently stricken from the bill.

AB 1985 Leach Private investigators: licensing. Allows for enhanced reciprocity for out-of-state licensees. Recognizes investigation experience at a public defenders’ office. Requires the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services to issue durable pocket identification cards.

STATUS: Chapter 216, Statutes of 2000

AB 2042 Briggs Veterinary medicine. Authorizes the practice of equine massage without a veterinary license and authorizes the Veterinary Medical Board to establish minimum standards of education, training and registration.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

AB 2079 Granlund Preneed funeral arrangements. Codifies and modifies an existing Cemetery and Funeral Bureau regulation relative to a reasonable annual fee for administering a trust.

STATUS: Chapter 757, Statutes of 2000

AB 2119 Leach Yacht and Ship Brokers Act. Revises the requirements and procedures for obtaining a yacht or ship broker’s license, including the acceptance of electronically filed documents.

STATUS: Chapter 380, Statutes of 2000

AB 2230 Wiggins Architectural and engineering service contracts. Permits contractors providing architectural, engineering and land surveying services to state agencies to earn interest on the portion of their fees retained by the state provided the retention amount is in excess of $10,000 and is held for a period of at least 60 days.

STATUS: Chapter 758, Statutes of 2000

AB 2234 Wiggins Prepaid rental listing services. Modifies and updates various provisions of law relative to licensing and business practices of prepaid rental listing services.

STATUS: Chapter 473, Statutes of 2000

AB 2240 Bates Prescriptions: electronic transmissions. Eliminates the requirement that electronically transmitted prescriptions be reduced to a written or hard copy under specified conditions. Authorizes prescibers to electronically enter prescriptions and hospital drug orders into a pharmacy’s or hospital’s computer from any location, with the permission of the pharmacy or hospital.

STATUS: Chapter 293, Statutes of 2000

AB 2279 Dutra Cemeteries: cremated remains: licensing. Revises current law relating to the completed permit for scattering of human remains. Adds disciplinary action provisions for making a false statement on the annual report. Specifies conditions for the removal, storage and maintenance of cremated remains.

STATUS: Chapter 276, Statutes of 2000

AB 2294 Davis Ephedrine group alkaloids: dietary supplements: sale, distribution and labeling. Prohibits the sale or distribution of any dietary supplement containing ephedrine group alkaloids unless the product label meets certain requirements.

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 2355 Granlund Orthotic and prosthetic devices and services: licensing and regulation of practitioners. Creates the California Prosthetic and Orthotic Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs to administer a new licensing and regulatory program for orthotists and prosthetists.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

AB 2370 Honda Contractors: criminal history checks. Requires applicants for certification as home improvement contractors and salespersons to be fingerprinted beginning July 1, 2001. Requires the Contractors State License Board to conduct a comprehensive study on the effectiveness and efficiency of the program and to report back to the Legislature after three years.

STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee

AB 2394 Firebaugh Healing arts: cultural and linguistic competency. Creates a Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists (Task Force) and requires the Task Force to, among other things, develop recommendations for a continuing education program. Creates a Subcommittee within the Task Force to determine the feasibility of establishing a pilot program to allow Mexican licensed health care providers to practice in nonprofit community health centers.

STATUS: Chapter 802, Statutes of 2000

AB 2423 Firebaugh Clinical laboratory fees. Exempts specified subsidiary and parent companies of a licensed clinical laboratory, health facility or health care professionals from certain billing prohibitions.

STATUS: Chapter 251, Statutes of 2000

AB 2571 Campbell Healing arts: disciplinary actions. Provides an exemption from the disciplinary statute of limitations when a physician intentionally conceals his or her incompetence, gross negligence or repeated negligent acts.

STATUS: Chapter 269, Statutes of 2000

AB 2594 Cox Insurance fraud. Increases the potential fines for the related criminal offenses of insurance fraud and illegal referral fee payments to obtain the referral of patients.

STATUS: Chapter 843, Statutes of 2000

AB 2611 Gallegos Health facilities: emergency services. Requires hospitals providing basic emergency services to develop and maintain a date-specific list of physicians to provide additional examination and treatment necessary to stabilize an individual with an emergency condition.

STATUS: Chapter 828, Statutes of 2000

AB 2629 Cox Professional engineers and surveyors. Grants authority to the Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors to adopt rules and regulations relating to professional conduct for professional engineers and land surveyors. Requires engineers and land surveyors to use written contracts when providing services for their clients.

STATUS: Chapter 976, Statutes of 2000

AB 2648 Calderon Psychiatric technicians. Allows psychiatric technicians employed by the state to negotiate through the collective bargaining process terms of employment that require the state to pay for continuing education requirements, provided funds are subsequently appropriated through the budget process.

STATUS: Chapter 208, Statutes of 2000

AB 2697 Cardoza Hearing aid dispensers. Creates the Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs and reconstitutes the Hearing Aid Dispensers Advisory Commission as the Hearing Aid Dispensers Advisory Committee.

STATUS: Chapter 277, Statutes of 2000

AB 2725 Wesson Advertising a going-out-of-business sale. Regulates the advertising for, and the conduct of, "going out of business" sales by limiting the duration of a sale to 90 days from the date it is first advertised, and requiring certain disclosures.

STATUS: Vetoed

AB 2808 Papan Shorthand reporting entities. Authorizes the Court Reporters Board to evaluate the need for registering shorthand reporting entities and report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2002.

STATUS: Chapter 334, Statutes of 2000

AB 2842 Calderon Veterinary licenses. Establishes an alternative mechanism for accrediting foreign veterinary medical schools to establish eligibility for their graduates to sit for the California licensing examination.

STATUS: Senate Business and Professions Committee

AB 2888 Con. Pro. Comm. Professions and vocations. Makes various non-substantive, technical, clarifying and minor changes in the laws that regulate specified professions and vocations regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs (annual committee omnibus bill).

STATUS: Chapter 568, Statutes of 2000

AB 2899 Health Comm. Medi-Cal. Authorizes the attending physician to sign medication orders by another practitioner, as specified, and makes technical, non-substantive changes to existing laws related to Medi-Cal.

STATUS: Chapter 858, Statutes of 2000
 

Committee Address

Staff