BILL#
AUTHOR

POSITION

LPIU
STAFF

DESCRIPTION
(DATE LAST AMENDED)

LOCATION

AB 20
Lieber

Oppose 

Victims of crime.  States that dependent persons to have the same exemptions as children under 10 yrs have currently, when testifying in a court of law, when a case involves physical, mental or sexual abuse

09/28/2004-CHAPTERED

AB 37
Yee

Support If Amended 

CL Approved 

Health care coverage: mental health Requires a health care service plan & a health insurer to contract with a county department of mental health to provide all medically necessary treatment available through the department to an enrollee or insured suffering from a serious emotional disturbance, if that treatment is not available through a contracting provider.

02/02/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE

AB 441
Matthews

Support If Amended 

CL Approved 

Juveniles: court-ordered evaluations Authorizes a court to order an evaluation at an outpatient mental health site if the court is in doubt as to whether the minor has mental retardation or a psychiatric disability. Provides that if the court determines, based on the outpatient evaluation that the person has mental retardation or a psychiatric disability, specified provisions of law concerning treatment or commitment apply.

02/02/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE

AB 939
Yee

Oppose 

Psychiatric inpatient hospital services: reimbursement.  Authorizes a mental health plan to enter into a contract for the provision of mental health services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with a hospital that is reimbursed through the fee-for-service payment system, using the Medi-Cal fiscal intermediary, and that provides for a per diem reimbursement rate that includes room and board, routine hospital services, and all hospital-based ancillary services and that provides separately for the attending mental health professional's daily visit fee.

09/24/2004-CHAPTERED

AB 1163
Frommer

Support 

Principles 

Medi-Cal program and Healthy Families Program: bridge health insurance coverage Requires, by 10/01/04, the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board & DHS in consultation with counties & consumer advocates, to establish county bridge health insurance coverage options for eligible children leaving the Healthy Families Program or the Medi-Cal program & switching to county-sponsored health insurance programs.

02/02/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

AB 1240
Mullin

Oppose 

Care facilities: criminal record clearances.  Increases civil penalties for violations of criminal background check provisions governing various community care facilities (CCFs), including child care facilities, foster care and residential care facilities.

09/21/2004-CHAPTERED

AB 1424
Mountjoy

Oppose Unless Amended 

CL Approved 

Minors: psychotropic drugs. Refusal of a parent or guardian of a child to administer or consent to the administration of any psychotropic drug , as defined, to the child or to consent to any other psychological or psychiatric evaluations or treatments for the child does not, in and of itself, constitute a basis for finding that the child comes within the definition of a dependent child, for adjudging the child to be a dependent child of the juvenile court, or for removing the child from the physical custody of the parent or guardian.

02/02/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE

AB 1448
Liu

Support 

CL Approved 

Elder and dependent adult abuse: civil actions: binding arbitration. Prohibits a long-term care facility from taking specified retaliatory action against a resident or applicant because he or she refuses to waive rights & procedures available under the act, or because he or she refuses to sign or comply with an arbitration agreement that violates the bill.

02/02/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY INACTIVE FILE

AB 1504
Spitzer

Oppose 

Release of committed persons.  Allows a prosecutor to notify the victim or next of kin of the victim of the date of the hearing at which the committing court may approve a plan for the defendant's supervision & treatment in the community & his or her pending release before the committed person is placed on outpatient status.

09/21//2004-CHAPTERED

AB 1806
Spitzer

Oppose 

CL Approved 

Criminal procedure: insanity.  This bill would, regarding the application for release of a person found not guilty by reason of insanity, eliminate this hearing requirement and permit the summary denial of the application, unless the written recommendations of the director of the state facility and the community program director would permit that release.

05/29/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE

AB 1851
Harman

Support 

CL Approved 

Incapacity: protective proceedings.  Existing law provides for the disposition of certain funds held for the benefit of a minor or incompetent person. This bill would revise and recast those provisions, and would replace the term "incompetent person" with the term "person with a disability." Provides that those provisions do not apply to an adult with capacity who has no conservator.

06/24/2004-CHAPTERED

AB 1946
Steinberg

Support 

CL Approved 

Sentencing.  Provides that terminally ill or medically incapacitated prisoners, as specified, are eligible to apply to have their sentences recalled and to be re-sentenced. Makes legislative findings that programs should be available for inmates that are designed to prepare nonviolent felony offenders for successful reentry into the community.

09/24/2004-VETOED

Aghazarian

Oppose

CL Action Pending

Placement of minors: group homes. Authorizes probation offices to share information with other law enforcement officers in their jurisdiction about delinquent words form other counties who are placed in local group homes.

8/30/2004-CHAPTERED

AB 2019
Steinberg

Oppose Unless Amended 

Juvenile law: mentally and developmentally disabled minors. Creates a procedure in certain counties for a minor who is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to be evaluated for a mental or emotional disturbance or a developmental disability.

08/25/2004-DEAD-SENATE INACTIVE FILE

AB 2125
Levine

Oppose 

CL Approved 

Prescriptions: requisite information.  Requires a physician and surgeon, unless directed otherwise by the patient, to indicate the patient's diagnosis on each prescription. Requires a pharmacist to include this information on the container's label, unless directed otherwise by the patient.

05/29/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE

Chu

Analysis Pending

9/21/2004-VETOED

AB 2324
Chan

Support 

Principles 

Health data reporting: underrepresented ethnic and racial groups.  Requires each state program directly involved in furnishing information to, or rendering services to, the public to collect data regarding the race, ethnicity, and primary language of all participants, on a voluntary basis.

05/29/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

AB 2408
Yee

Support 

Principles 

Bilingual services. Under the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act, state agencies directly involved in furnishing information or rendering services to a substantial number of non-English-speaking people, are required to employ a sufficient number of qualified bilingual persons to ensure provision of information and services in the language of non-English-speaking persons. Agencies need only implement the act by filling positions made vacant by retirement or normal attrition. This bill requires that newly created positions be filled.

08/30/2004-VETOED

AB 2502
Keene

Oppose Unless Amended 

Principles 

Dependent children: psychotropic medications. Requires that the court to approve or deny, in writing, a request for authorization to administer psychotropic medication, or set the matter for hearing, as specified, within 7 court days. 

08/30/2004-CHAPTERED

Bates

Analysis pending

IHSS Providers: criminal background checks. Authorizes In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) non-profit consortia and Public Authorities to include criminal background checks, conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ), in processing potential IHSS caregivers.

5/19/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

Lieber

Support if Amended

Principles

Building accessibility: hotels and motels. Requires the State Architect to develop and propose building standards for the installation of grab bars in the bathrooms of hotel guest rooms to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption after January 1, 2005.

9/21/2004-VETOED

AB 2547
Lowenthal

Oppose Unless Amended 

CL Approved 

Physician and surgeon reporting of medical conditions: Department of Motor Vehicles.  Authorizes a physician and surgeon until January 1, 2008, to voluntarily disclose information relating to a diagnosis of a lapse of consciousness disorder or other medical condition that may affect a patient's ability to drive safely to the Department of Motor Vehicles, and eliminates the responsibilities of the local health officer. Exempts the physician and surgeon from criminal and civil liability for making a report pursuant to the bill.

07/27/2004-DEAD-SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

Horton, Shirley

Oppose

Principles

Community care facilities: alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities: public notice. Requires public notice and a public forum when a new residential care or drug and alcohol residential facility are proposed in a city or county.

4/13/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

Reyes

Watch

Confidentiality of Medical Information. Prohibits a provider of health care or a health care service plan from disclosing medical information to any 3rd-party for the purpose of medical data processing or medical record transcription.

03/30/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE

Leslie

Oppose

Principles

Imposes additional procedural requirements and limitations on persons with disabilities who seek to redress violations of state law regarding disability discrimination by businesses, housing accommodations and public facilities.

05/4/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

AB 2612
Liu

Oppose Unless Amended 

Principles 

Conservators: educational requirements.  Existing law requires guardians, conservators, and trustees to provide specified information to a statewide registry, except as specified, and a court is prohibited from appointing these guardians, conservators, and trustees unless they are registered. This bill states the intent of the Legislature to create certification and education requirements for professional conservators.  

05/29/2004-DEAD-NEVER HEARD IN COMMITTEE

Salinas

Analysis Pending

Community care facilities: mentally ill residents. Requires that by January 1, 2006, the Department of Social Services (DSS) enter into agreements with up to 10 local mental health departments to outline a protocol to address monitoring responsibilities, facility closures, training and mediation of disputes relating to adult residential facilities and social rehabilitation facilities.

9/21/2004-CHAPTERED

Mountjoy

Analysis Pending

Foster Care: psychotropic medication. Requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to conduct a study of the administration of psychotropic medication to children in foster care in Alameda, Madera, San Bernardino and Stanislaus counties, and requires a report to the Legislature by July 1, 2006.

5/19/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

AB 2667
Haynes

Oppose 

Principles 

Aid to immigrants. Defines "entry date" for purposes of eligibility for Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) to mean effective

date of immigration status rather than date of physical entry, overturning a court decision invalidating a Department of Social Services (DSS) regulation.

05/29/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

Mountjoy

Analysis Pending

Prisons: Medical Treatment. Prohibits a California Department of Corrections (CDC) or a California Youth Authority (CYA) physician from interfering with a diagnosis and recommendation for treatment of an inmate or ward given by a physician outside the department facility if the treatment meets certain criteria, unless the facility physician has performed a good faith examination of the inmate.

9/24/2004-VETOED

AB 2793
Nakanishi

Oppose 

Psychiatrists: biologic and molecular-based brain disease.  Provides that a psychiatrist provide the primary medical treatment and diagnosis of biologic and molecular-based brain disease, for a person of any age.

05/29/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS COMMITTEE

Nunez

No Position

move, or to check out and reregister, before 30 days has expired if a purpose is to have that occupant maintain transient occupancy status and provides that evidence that an occupant was required to check out and reregister creates a rebuttable presumption, which affects only the burden of production, of this purpose.

9/30/2004-CHAPTERED

AB 2889
Laird

Support 

Principles 

Employment discrimination.  Makes employers responsible for the acts of nonemployees with respect to all forms of harassment in the workplace where the employer or its agents or supervisors knew or should have known of the conduct and failed to take immediate and appropriate corrective action.

08/04/2004-DEAD-SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

AB 2900
Laird

Support 

Employment: discrimination.  Prohibits discrimination on the same bases as in the Fair Employment and Housing Act. Those bases are race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation.

09/25/04-CHAPTERED

AB 3036
Yee

Oppose 

CL Approved 

Capital facilities fees. Allows a public agency that provides public utility service to only charge another public agency rates, or fees based on the objective criteria that applies to comparable nonpublic users.

08/25/2004-DEAD-SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE -gutted –used to be a bill about State Mental Health Quality Council

SB 38
Denham

Oppose 

Organ and tissue donation: donations to incarcerated persons. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide forms relating to organ and tissue donation to include a provision allowing the donor to indicate whether he or she desires to prohibit a donation to any person who is incarcerated in state prison or a county jail.

02/02/2004-DEAD-SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

Oller

Oppose

Principles

Disability: access. Imposes pre-litigation procedural requirements upon the filing of any claim under the state's equal access to public or housing accommodation laws. It requires a 90-day notice of violation by certified mail and would prohibit the award of attorney's fees, treble damages, and costs currently available under Civil Code Section 54.3 for violations of the equal access laws.

02/02/2004-DEAD-SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

Torlakson

Support

Landlord and tenant: payments. Provides that a landlord or landlord’s agent may not demand or require cash as the exclusive form of payment of rent or deposit of security. The bill also provides that this provision may not be contravened by the parties.

06/28/2004-CHAPTERED

SB 222
Margett

Support 

CL Approved 

Wards: detention: adult facilities Permits the court to commit any person adjudged to be a ward of the court who is 18 years of age or older to a county jail for a period not to exceed one year, upon the informed consent of the ward, court and prosecutor.

02/02/2004-DEAD-SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE

SB 366
Johnson

Oppose 

CL Approved 

Psychiatric injuries: compensation: proof. Requires proof by clear and convincing evidence of specified matters in order to establish a psychiatric injury, including, among others, proof that the mental disorder arose out of and in the course of employment.

02/02/2004-DEAD-LABOR & INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE

SB 372
Margett

Oppose 

CL Approved 

Involuntary detention: grave disability. Redefines the definition of "gravely disabled" to include, in addition to situations in which such an indictment or information is pending against the defendant, situations in which a criminal complaint is pending against the defendant at the time of commitment, as specified, and the complaint has not been dismissed.

02/02/2004-DEAD-SENATE HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Oller

Oppose

CL Approved

Group Homes: Placement of Minors. Prohibits the placement of certain juvenile offenders in group homes located in neighborhoods that are zoned residential.

01/13/2004-DEAD-SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE

SB 696
Scott

Oppose 

CL Approved 

Teacher credentialing: suspension of credential.  Requires the governing board, if a majority of the panel finds that an employee is suffering from mental illness to a degree that renders him/her incompetent to perform his/her duties, & places the employee on mandatory sick leave of absence, to notify the Commission on Teacher Credentialing of the action, & provide the commission with a copy of the panel's written report not later than 10 days after that action.

02/02/2004-DEAD-SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Escutia

Support

Principles

In Home Supportive Services: Hospital Stays. Provides that a recipient, who is eligible for personal care services under the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, shall be entitled to continue to receive those services after being admitted as a patient in a hospital or skilled nursing facility. The bill further limits these services to a maximum of either 30 days or 140 hours of services, whichever is greater.

02/02/2004-DEAD-SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

Burton

Support

Principles

Tenancy. Repeals the sunset of the requirement that a landlord must give an additional 30 days' notice of a rent increase (for a total of 60 days' notice) when the increase is in excess of 10 percent of the rent. Repeals the sunset of the prohibition on a landlord making a decision to rent to a tenant based upon the prospective tenant's source of income.

09/17/2004-CHAPTERED

Vasconcellos

Support

Principles

Hypodermic Needles and Syringes. Permits a pharmacist or physician, without a prescription to furnish hypodermic needles or syringes for human use if the person is known to the furnisher and the furnisher has previously been provided proof of a legitimate medical need requiring a hypodermic needle or syringe to administer a medicine or treatment.

09/20/2004-CHAPTERED

SB 1305
Vasconcellos

Support 

CL Approved 

Elder and dependent adult abuse.  Requires the Judicial Council to establish within the Administrative Office of the Courts a unit to assess the treatment of elder and dependent adult abuse cases in the courts, and to devise administrative and educational strategies for improving the handling and coordination of these cases in California's civil and criminal courts. Requires the Judicial Council to pursue any appropriate available grant funding to support activities relating to the enhancement of the ability of the courts to handle elder and dependent adult abuse cases.

06/30/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

Torlakson

No Position

Housing: tenants: notices. Expands the types of assisted projects that are subject to existing requirements for owners to provide notice of any termination of affordability restrictions and seeks to clarify existing law requiring owners of assisted housing to provide "qualified entities" the opportunity to purchase the property before selling projects to buyers who intend to charge market rates.

07/06/2004-CHAPTERED

SB 1365
Chesbro

PAI Sponsored 

Preventing unnecessary institutionalization.  Requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to establish the Olmstead Advisory Council, to provide advice and recommendations for the placement of individuals in noninstitutional settings and for the review of actions and legislation within the scope of the Olmstead requirements.

09/28/2004-VETOED

Perata

Oppose unless amended

Principles

Voting Systems. Authorizes the Secretary of State (SOS), Attorney General, and any local elections official in the county in which the Act occurs, to bring a civil action against an individual, business, or other legal entity that commits acts of tampering before, during, or after an election. Allows the SOS to seek injunctive, administrative, and certain other relief, including monetary damages for an unauthorized change in hardware, software, or firmware to a voting system.

09/27/04-CHAPTERED

Johnson

Letter of Concern

Elections: Voting Systems. Prohibits the use of a direct recording electronic (DRE) voting system beginning January 1, 2006, unless that system has an accessible voter verified paper audit trail (AVVPAT).

09/27/04-CHAPTERED

SB 1475
Vasconcellos

Support 

CL Approved 

Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Coordinating Council. Requires the office of the Attorney General and the California District Attorneys Association with the California Health and Human Services Agency, to convene an Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Coordinating Council, to bring together representatives of various entities responsible for investigating, reporting, and prosecuting elder and dependent adult abuse case.

09/20/2004-VETOED

SB 1539
Ortiz

Support 

CL Approved 

Long-term care facilities.  Authorizes a long-term health care facility that has an exclusive contract with a health care provider, to allow a registered dental hygienist to perform dental hygiene services under a written prescription that has been obtained by the patient or an agent or guardian of the patient.  

08/24/2004-DEAD-ASSEMBLY INACTIVE FILE

Romero

Support

CL Approved 

Elder Review Teams: access to vital record information. Requires a local registrar of deaths, upon the request of a member of a county elder death review team (EDRT), to make available and assist the electronic transfer of information from a certificate of death to the county EDRT in any county that has access to the statewide System.

09/27/04-VETOED-gutted-was a bill about long term care, death of residents and the reporting requirements.

Johnson

Oppose

Principles

Elections: direct recording electronic devices. Prohibits, until January 1, 2005, a city or county from using any form of direct recording electronic device as part of the city or county's voting system for the November 2, 2004, general election.

05/12/04-DEAD-SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

SB 1760
Perata

Support 

CL Approved 

Sovereign immunity: waiver: Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.  Expressly provides that the state consents to be sued in state or federal court by any person seeking to enforce rights or obtain remedies afforded by the federal act, and would prohibit any public agency from asserting immunity against those suits.

09/29/2004-VETOED

Ortiz

Support

Principles

Public buildings: disability access. Removes the sunset date for the appropriation of funds to allow the Division of the State Architect (DSA) to continue ensuring that buildings, facilities and structures used for and by persons with disabilities, meet specified state and federal standards. Allows DSA to utilize funds for the purpose of obtaining equivalency from the United States Department of Justice verifying that California meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

08/23/04-CHAPTERED

SB 1794
Perata

Oppose Unless Amended 

Criminal procedure: competency.  Requires appointed mental health professionals to evaluate various specified issues relating to the person's competence, and to inform the court of their opinion regarding the potential side effects of any antipsychotic medication for the defendant.

9/10/2004-CHAPTERED

SB 1819
Ashburn

Oppose 

Principles 

Mental health and developmental services: confidential information.  Authorizes the disclosure of the confidential information and records to a state civil service employee against whom an adverse action has been filed as necessary to defend against the action if certain conditions are met.

9/09/2004-CHAPTERED

Burton

Support

Principles

Special Education: Mental Health Services. Provides that the superintendent is responsible for

are appropriately utilized.

9/13/2004-CHAPTERED