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Position
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AB 20 |
Precludes commencement of an action for damages against a
public facility for a deviation from a code or regulation that has impact on
the rights of a person with a disability to the goods and services provided
by the facility. Provides the remedy for a technical violation is injunctive
relief and the recovery of attorney's fees. |
Oppose Unless Amended principle 1008.01 |
ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY |
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AB 73 |
Establishes the California Rx Prescription Drug Web Site
Program to provide information to residents about options for obtaining
prescription drugs at affordable prices. Provides information about, and
establishes electronic links to, certain federal, state, and pharmaceutical
programs, pharmacies that are located in |
Support principle 1026.01 |
VETOED |
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AB 74 |
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish
the California Rx Prescription Drug Hotline to provide information to
consumers and health care providers about options for obtaining prescription
drugs at affordable prices. Establishes a maximum cost per call to the
hotline and requires the hotline to provide specific information. |
Support principle 1026.01 |
SENATE HEALTH |
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AB 75 |
Establishes the California Rx Plus Pharmacy Assistance
Program and fund. Authorizes the Department of Health Services to negotiate
drug rebate agreements with drug manufacturers to provide for program drug
discounts. Authorizes any licensed pharmacy or drug manufacturer to provide
services under the program. Establishes eligibility criteria and application
procedures for residents to participate in the program. |
Oppose unless Amended principle 1026.01 |
SENATE HEALTH |
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AB 440 |
Authorizes the State Department of Mental Health to
contract with the Department of Corrections for supervision of sexually
violent predators who have been conditionally released into the community
under the forensic conditional release program. |
Oppose CL Approved twin of SB 383 |
ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY |
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AB 468 |
Requires the local educational agency to obtain a copy
of the community mental health service's form for parental consent for
assessment which shall be provided to it by a community mental health service
provider, and provide the parent with an opportunity to consent to the
assessment plan in advance. |
Support (PAI Sponsor) CL Approved |
ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS |
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AB 651 |
Enacts the |
No Position |
SENATE JUDICIARY |
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AB 733 |
Relates to a psychotherapist's duty to provide warnings
regarding threats made by a patient. Revises that provision to specify that
it applies where the patient himself or herself has communicated the threat
to the psychotherapist. |
Support CL approved |
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE |
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AB 789 |
Requires each law enforcement agency, during the next
substantive revision of the local forms used to collect and report criminal
statistics to the Department of Justice, but in no event later than January
1, 2009, to modify the local forms to allow identification of whether or not
the victim of the crime has a disability and, if so, whether the disability
is psychiatric, cognitive, or physical. |
Support if Amended principle: 1028.01 |
ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY |
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AB 1062 |
Requires individuals be informed and consent regarding
the intended use of any specimen taken from the subject, the subject's right
to review all the laboratory reports or any other analysis of the specimen,
and the legal rights which the subject may have regarding any patentable
pharmaceuticals or other products that are a byproduct of, or synthesized
from, any specimen taken from the subject. |
Support principle 1024.01 |
SENATE HEALTH |
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AB 1092 |
Makes various generally conforming state law to federal
requirements relating to pupil identification, assessment and eligibility,
individualized education program development, including notice,
representation and hearing procedures and requirements, infant and toddler
programs and pupil data confidentiality. |
Oppose
principle 1015.01 |
ASSEMBLY EDUCATION |
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AB 1289 |
Grants state hospital peace officers general authority
as peace officers throughout the state, while retaining their primary duty of
enforcing specified provisions of law. Deletes the provision prohibiting
these officers from carrying firearms except upon authorization of their
employing agency. Requires additional training for those peace officers newly
hired or appointed after a specified date. |
Oppose principle 1005.01 |
ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS |
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AB 1535 |
Requires the Department of Developmental Services to
prepare or contract with an appropriate research facility to prepare, annual
reports that set forth expenditures for the purchase of services and denials
of eligibility for the prior fiscal year for each regional center aggregated
by race and ethnicity of the consumers, requires the department to post the
information on its Web site, and requires the regional center to submit
related information. |
PAI Sponsored bill CL approved |
SENATE INACTIVE FILE |
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AB 1662 |
Relates to special education. Makes various revisions
conforming state law to federal requirements relating to pupil
identification, assessment, and eligibility, individualized education program
development, including notice, representation, and hearing procedures and
requirements, and pupil data confidentiality. |
Support if Amended |
ENACTED |
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AB 1667 |
Requires that any individual with special needs and any
pupil with a disability who requires specialized physical health care
services during the regular school day at the school site, be assisted by
certain school personnel. |
Oppose |
SENATE INACTIVE FILE |
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AB 1676 |
Enacts the Advanced Directives and Terminal Illness
Decisions Program, which would require the State Department of Health
Services to develop information about end of life care and advanced health
care directives. Requires the DMV to include this information as part of its
vehicle registration mailings and to provide access to advanced health care
directive information and information about the Secretary of State's advanced
health care directive registry. |
Support principle 1024.01 |
ENACTED |
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SB 212 |
Authorizes a physician or surgeon to report to the DMV
in good faith specified information relating to a patient at least 15 years
of age or 14 years of age, if the patient has a conditional license, who has
been diagnosed as having suffered a lapse of consciousness or has a disorder
or medical condition that may affect the ability to drive safely. |
Oppose unless Amended CL approved |
ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY |
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SB 257 |
Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability
Commission to elect, from its members, a chair and vice chair at its first
meeting and annually thereafter. |
Support principle 1006.01 |
ASSEMBLY INACTIVE FILE |
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SB 258 |
Requires the Department of Mental Health to establish a
working group to develop recommendations for improvements to the quality of
residential care facilities providing board, care and supervision for adults
with mental illnesses and report to the Governor and the Legislature. |
Support principle 1018.01/ 1005.01 |
ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS |
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SB 294 |
Relates to automatic appeal if a defendant is sentenced
to death. Allows a defendant to waive that automatic appeal in writing. |
Oppose CL approved |
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY |
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SB 330 Cedillo (D) |
Requires a criminal action to be dismissed if a
defendant in a misdemeanor or infraction case is not brought to trial within
30 days after the date of the reinstatement of criminal proceedings pursuant
to the provisions of law governing the mental competency of defendants. |
Support |
ENACTED |
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SB 378 |
Provides that mandatory competency standards for death
penalty direct appeals and habeas corpus proceedings shall require appointed
counsel to be a member in good standing of the State Bar for a total of 5
years, have at least 3 years experience in handling appeals or post
conviction felony proceedings. Provides an expedited system of reviewing
cases in which a death sentence is imposed which would be the only procedures
for challenging a conviction that resulted in a sentence of death, except as
specified. |
Oppose unless Amend CL approved |
SENATE PUBLIC
SAFETY |
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SB 380 |
Requires a licensed health professional and a health
facility to report all suspected serious adverse drug events that are
spontaneously discovered or observed in medical practice to MedWatch, the
drug safety information and adverse reporting program operated by the federal
FDA using the FDA 3500 Voluntary Form. |
Support principle 1026.01 |
ASSEMBLY INACTIVE |
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SB 383 |
Authorizes the State Department of Mental Health to
contract with the Department of Corrections for supervision of sexually
violent predators who have been conditionally released into the community
under the forensic conditional release program. |
Oppose CL approved |
ENACTED |
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SB 447 |
Relates to extended detention of certain persons who
would otherwise be discharged from the Youth Authority. Limits the
application to persons who are physically dangerous to the public because of
a mental or physical disability which causes them difficulty controlling
their dangerous behavior. |
Support if Amended CL approved |
ENACTED |
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SB 526 |
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish
and operate a dedicated complaint response unit in each district office of
the Licensing and Certification division of the department to respond to
consumer inquiries and complaints. |
Support CL approved |
SENATE HEALTH |
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SB 556 |
States that no person shall be denied the opportunity to
benefit from probation with completion of a drug treatment program as a
condition of probation based solely on evidence of a co-occurring psychiatric
disorder. Authorizes a court to impose treatment for a person on probation or
parole beyond the 12 month period maximum listed in existing law to increase
that total to a period of treatment and aftercare to not exceed 24 months.
Authorizes the extension of parole by intensifying or altering treatment |
Support principle 1005.01 |
SENATE INACTIVE FILE |
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SB 643 |
PAI’s
legislative effort to advance the implementation of Olmstead. Among other things, SB 643 requires
DHS to seek 500 more slots in the home- and community-based Level A/B nursing
facility waivers. It requires DHS to
reserve 250 of these slots for residents residing in facilities and
transitioning out of facilities. The
legislation requires DHS to expedite waiver processing to so that persons who
are being discharged from hospitals can return to the community instead of
going into a nursing home. |
Support (PAI Sponsor) CL approved |
ENACTED |
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SB 660 |
Requires the principal of a school to take immediate
steps to seek the consent of the parent or guardian of an elementary school
pupil prior to making the pupil available to a peace officer for questioning.
Prohibits making the pupil available for questioning if the parent or
guardian requests the pupil not be questioned until he or she can be present.
Permits a member of the school administration, a school counselor, or a
teacher, selected by the pupil to be present at the questioning. |
Support if Amended CL approved |
ASSEMBLY INACTIVE FILE |
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SB 722 |
Provides that if probation is granted to a person
convicted of lewd and lascivious acts on a person who is less than 12 years
of age, he or she shall be required to agree to electronic monitoring or
supervision as a condition of probation. Provides that in the case of any
inmate sentenced for commission of such act on a person less than 12 years of
age, the period of parole shall be for life and must agree to electronic
monitoring or supervision as a condition of parole. |
Oppose principle 1018.01 |
SENATE PUBLIC
SAFETY |
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SB 723 |
Prohibits sexually violent predators released under the
conditional release program from being placed within 1/4 mile of any public
or private school providing instruction in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to
8, if the person has been convicted of certain offenses or the court finds
that the person has a history of improper sexual conduct with children. |
No Position |
10/042005: ENACTED |
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SB 840 |
Establishes the Health Insurance System to be
administered by the newly created Health Insurance Agency under the control
of an elected Health Insurance Commissioner. Makes all residents eligible for
specified health care benefits under the Health Insurance System, which
would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care
services provided through the system and pay claims for those services.
Requires the health care system to be operational within 2 years of
enactment. |
Support principle 1012.01 |
ASSEMBLY RULES |
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SB 855 |
Relates to provisions concerning the access rights of a
person with a disability. Establishes notice requirements for an alleged
aggrieved party to follow before bringing an action against a business for an
alleged violation of those provisions. Requires that party to provide
specified notice to the owner of the property, agent, or other responsible
party where the alleged violation occurred. Requires that owner or
responsible party to respond within 30 days as to a description of
improvements to be made. |
Oppose principle 1008.01 |
SENATE JUDICIARY |
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CA SB 864 |
Authorizes civil commitment, as a sexually violent
predator, to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health for a
4-year term for treatment of the person's diagnosed mental disorder if the
person is adjudicated to be likely to engage in sexually violent criminal
behavior if discharged. Requires the courts give a preference in scheduling
commitment trials under these provisions over all other civil matters.
Declares the intent of the Legislature to explore prerelease treatment
programs. |
Oppose CL Approved |
ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY |
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SB 865 |
Revises the list of qualifying crimes within the
definition of sexually violent offense, including, but not limited to,
engaging in 3 or more acts of substantial sexual conduct with a child under
the age of 14 years by a person who either resides in the same home with the
minor child or has recurring access to the child, and certain offenses for
which the person was committed to the Department of the Youth Authority. |
Oppose Recommended |
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY |
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SB 1098 |
Defines a sexually violent predator as a person who has
been convicted of a sexually violent offense against 2 or more victims, and
who has a diagnosed mental disability that makes a person a danger to the
health and safety of others in that is likely he or she will engage in
sexually violent criminal behavior. Provides that when the victim is less
than 14 years of age the minimum number of convictions required to meet this
definition will be reduced to one. |
Oppose CL Approved |
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY |