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California Psychiatric Association
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BILL |
DESCRIPTION |
CPA POSITION/NOTES |
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| AB 262 (Chan) | Physician Prescribing Practices Act. Would regulate the sale, release or exchange of physician prescribing data, The bill would require the Medical Board of California to maintain a ‘‘Do Not Use’’ list for individual physicians to “opt out” of release of data. | SUPPORT CMA Sponsored Bill. |
DEAD. Last minute lobbying by opponents on the last day of session successfully blocked this bill from going forward. |
| AB 939 (Yee) | Psychiatric Inpatient Hospital Services Reimbursement. Would Authorize 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 a mental health professionals daily visit fee. | SUPPORT | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR |
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AB 1792 (Yee) |
Harmful matter definitions re: violent video games for minors. | SUPPORT Entertainment industry opposition strong. First amendment arguments prevail. |
DEAD. Assembly Arts and Entertainment Committee. Author reports this bill will be reintroduced next year. |
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AB 1793 (Yee) |
Mature rated video games, access of minors: This bill would require every video game retailer to post a sign providing information about a video game rating system or notifying consumers that a rating system is available to aid in the selection of a game, and to make available, upon request, information explaining the system. | SUPPORT Originally designed to sequester mature rated video games to decrease access of minors to violent content. |
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR |
| AB 1806 (Spitzer) |
Criminal procedure: Insanity. Eliminates due process hearing for release from incarceration. | OPPOSE | DEAD. Failed passage in Committee April 20. |
| AB 1817 (Maze) |
Authorizes members of the legislature to inspect juvenile court records of deceased juveniles | OPPOSE
Violation of the privacy of medical records at issue. |
DEAD. Already existing mechanism includes broad, due process protected access for medical or police purposes while protecting confidentiality. |
| AB 1923 (Lowenthal) |
Alters definition of ‘unhealthy condition’ to include exposure to a critical incident; employers to establish critical incident stress counseling programs, with referral to experts on post traumatic stress disorder. | SUPPORT AND AMEND
(studies show ‘critical incident debriefings’ can have harmful effects on some individuals) |
DEAD. Held in Senate Appropriations Committee. |
| AB 1957 (Frommer)
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Prescription drugs. Requires pharmacy board website to publish a safe list of reduced price prescription drug sources with price comparisons. | Coordinate with CMA | VETO |
| AB 1959 (Chu) |
Would require the state auditor to conduct an audit of the state’s procurement and reimbursement practices as they relate to the purchase of drugs for or by state agencies, as specified, and report to the Legislature, May 31, 2005. | WATCH | VETO |
| AB 2019 (Steinberg) |
Mentally incompetent minors. Establishes procedures for conducting competency hearings for minors that suspend criminal proceedings until a competency determination has been reached. Provides for treatment for lack of competency. | SUPPORT | DEAD. Author’s office reports last minute issues which could not be resolved on the last day of session. |
| AB 2125 (Levine) |
Mandatory prescription labeling with diagnosis listed – all packaging to include the diagnosis with description of contents. | OPPOSE
Mandatory labeling in all cases relieves physician and patient of choice. |
DEAD. Assembly Health Committee hearing cancelled at request of the author. Deadline for policy matters to be heard exceeded. |
| AB 2136 (Goldberg) | Treatment for Withdrawal from Controlled Substances. Allows courts to discontinue narcotic replacement therapy for an individual only when the treating professional recommends discontinuation and court finds discontinuation is necessary to an effective treatment plan. | APPROVE | VETO |
| AB 2286 (Mountjoy) |
Psychotropic Drugs: Prohibits school personnel
communicating concerns to parents regarding possible disorders, evaluations
and medications. Refusal to seek a psychiatric evaluation or treatment could
not be used as a basis for exclusion from school or school based activities.
(Support: Church of Scientology) |
OPPOSE unless AMENDED Amendments of April 20 allow discussion and referral by qualified school district personnel. CPA offers amendments to problematic definition of medications. | DEAD. Author ‘gutted and amended’ bill because of insurmountable opposition. |
| AB 2326 (Corrbett) |
Medication report card. Department of Managed Health Care to utilize evidence based information on medications to produce a report card similar to that it produces for health maintenance organizations. | OPPOSITION WITHDRAWN. Definition of ‘evidence base’ too restrictive. CPA working to include best practices, practice guidelines and other sources of reliable information. | DEAD. Budgetary impact, DMHC staffing issues make the proposal costly and unacceptable to the administration. |
| AB 2502 (Keene) |
Juvenile court medication order timelines. Requires the approval or denial, in writing, of a request for authorization to administer psychotropic medication, or set the matter for hearing within 7 business days. | SUPPORT – Amended May 11 to provide for hearing, and to increase time period to 7 days. | SIGNED INTO LAW. Operative January 1, 2005. |
| AB 2629 (Salinas) | Community Care Licensing Division of the Department of Social Services authorized to enter into memoranda of understanding with up to 10 local volunteer mental health departments to develop a formal protocol to address shared responsibilities, monitoring, facility closures, training, and a process for mediation of disputes between the local mental health authority and the department’s local licensing office. | SUPPORT | SIGNED INTO LAW |
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AB 2645 (Mountjoy) |
Foster psychotropic utilization study –
Requires a study of psychiatric medication use by foster children in 4
counties.
(Support: Church of Scientology) |
OPPOSE – Confused, vague study design is prejudicial to foster access to appropriate mental health treatment. | DEAD. HELD IN COMMITTEE. |
| SB 598 Machado | Confidentiality of Psychotherapy Information. Authorized disclosures between treatment professionals made specifically for the purposes of diagnosis and treatment would be affirmed. | SUPPORT | SIGNED INTO LAW |
| SB 1144 (Burton) |
Public contracts, prescription drugs. This bill would provide that the manufacturers and suppliers of single-source or multi-source drugs with whom the state Department of General Services is authorized to contract shall include Canadian sources; and, would require that all contracts include appropriate safeguards and oversight and regulatory requirements | Coordinate with CMA | VETO |
| SB 1149 (Ortiz) |
Would require the state Board of Pharmacy to develop and disseminate information identifying pharmacies in Canada that meet recognized standards for the safe acquisition, shipment, handling, and dispensing of dangerous drugs to California residents. Would also require each pharmacy located in Canada that seeks to be identified for these purposes to apply for a contract with the board. Requires the board to collect, publish, and post on an Internet web site information concerning suppliers of dangerous drugs outside of the United States. The board will provide Internet web site links to other sources of information about obtaining affordable prescription medications and cost comparisons for those medications. | Coordinate with CMA | VETO |
| SB 1157 (Romero) |
Prohibits denial of reimbursement by insurers for emergency room care solely on the basis of intoxication. | SUPPORT | VETOED. Governor cites business mandate concerns. |
| SB 1192 (Chesbro) |
Require health care service plans to provide coverage for the medically necessary treatment of substance related disorders on parity with any other medical condition. | SUPPORT Amendments of April 21 limit outpatient to 20 visits. |
DEAD. Health plans vigorously oppose in Assembly Health Committee and deny critical votes. |
| SB 1325 (Kuehl) | Medical Staff Self Governance. Affirms the right of hospital medical staff to independent authority and control over medical decisions. | Coordinate with CMA. CMA Sponsored Bill. | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR |
| SB 1794 (Perata) |
Criminal procedure: Creates combined competency and medication hearing to assist in providing treatment for a small group of individuals remanded to state hospitals for return to competency treatment. | WATCH | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR |
| SB 1795 (Sher) | Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices. This bill would require a pharmaceutical company to adopt and update a Comprehensive Compliance Program in accordance with related federal government publications that would address: policies on interactions with health care professionals; limits on gifts and incentives to medical or health professionals including annual dollar limit on gifts, promotional materials, or items or activities that the pharmaceutical company may provide. | WATCH | GUTTED AND AMENDED – NO LONGER RELEVANT TO CPA |
| SB 1853 (Perata) |
LCSW – Adds diagnosis authority to statutory
language defining scope of practice of licensed clinical social workers.
[CPA Priority Bill] |
OPPOSE
Amendments proffered by CMA/CPA would limit diagnosis to preliminary diagnosis for purposes of referral to a physician. (rejected by social workers) |
DEAD. Only 10 AYE votes could be mustered by the proponents and the author on the floor of the Assembly. |
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