May 30, 2024
Golden State Republican Women
Janet Price, President
Submitted by the GSRW Legislative Analyst Committee
Valerie Evans, Lou Ann Flaherty and Elaine Freeman,
HOW QUICKLY BILLS PASS WHEN THE GOVERNOR SUPPORTS
UPDATE ON SB 233 (Covered in CU #19, May 9, 2024)
This bill was introduced as a Battery/Electric Vehicle bill in January 2023, amended in April 2024 as the Practice of Medicine: Arizona physicians, passed the Assembly on 05/13/24, passed the Senate on 05/21/24 and signed by the Governor on 05/23/24.
Practice of medicine: Arizona physicians: abortions and abortion-related care for Arizona patients.
SB 233, Skinner. Practice of medicine: Arizona physicians: abortions and abortion-related care for Arizona patients.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to license and regulate the practice of medicine, and establishes examination, training, and other requirements for licensure as a physician and surgeon. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.
This bill, through November 30, 2024, would authorize a physician licensed to practice medicine in Arizona who meets certain requirements to practice medicine in California for the purpose of providing abortions and abortion-related care to patients who are Arizona residents traveling from Arizona, upon application for registration with the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable.
The bill would prohibit the physician from providing care or consultation for other purposes or to other patients, except under specified circumstances. The bill would require an Arizona physician, before practicing in California, to submit specified information to the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable, including, among other information, written verification from the Arizona Medical Board or the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery, or documentation printed from an online licensing system, that the physician’s Arizona license to practice medicine is in good standing and confers on the physician the authority to practice abortions and abortion-related care.
The bill would require the applicant to provide an affidavit attesting that, among other things, the applicant meets all of the requirements for registration, as specified, and would make it a misdemeanor for a person to provide false information. The bill would limit the information the California boards are required to disclose about a registrant. The bill would deem a physician registered pursuant to the bill’s provisions a licensee of the applicable board, would authorize the applicable board to take enforcement against a person registered pursuant to the bill’s provisions, and would prohibit the applicable boards from collecting any fees for registration.
By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would repeal the bill’s provisions on January 1, 2025.
For those of us who have trouble reading prescription bottles/labels/instructions:
AB 1902, as amended, Alanis. Prescription drug labels: accessibility.
Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law requires the board to promulgate regulations that require a standardized, patient-centered, prescription drug label on all prescription medicine dispensed to patients in California.
Existing law prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a prescription except in a container that meets the requirements of state and federal law and is correctly labeled with prescribed information. Existing law makes a violation of its provisions a crime.
Existing law requires a dispenser, upon request, to provide translated directions for use, as prescribed. Existing law authorizes a dispenser to use translations made available by the board pursuant to specified regulations of the board and provides that a dispenser is not required to provide translated directions for use beyond the languages that the board has made available or beyond the directions that the board has made available in translated form.
Existing law authorizes a dispenser to provide their own translated directions for use to comply with these provisions and prohibits the provisions from being construed to prohibit a dispenser from providing translated directions for use in languages beyond those that the board has made available or beyond the directions that the board has made available in translated form.
This bill would also expressly require a dispenser to provide translated directions for use in the languages the board has made available.
This bill, except as specified, would require a dispenser, if a person informs a pharmacy that the person identifies as a person who is blind, has low-vision, or is otherwise print disabled, to provide to the person, at no additional cost, an accessible prescription label affixed to the container that meets prescribed requirements. If the accessible prescription label does not fit on the container, the bill would require the dispenser, upon dispensing the prescription drug, to provide the patient or their authorized representative with a supplemental document that otherwise meets those prescribed requirements. For purposes of these provisions, the bill would specify that a dispenser does not include a veterinarian. The bill would require the board to promulgate regulations necessary to implement the bill.
Passed the Assembly on 05/02/2024
Hearing: Jun 17 @ 10:00 am in 1021 O Street, Room 2100
More Amended Reparations Bills: Note the strikethroughs and the impact to the bill meaning.
AB 3089, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Chattel slavery: formal apology.
Previously existing law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Previously existing law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, as specified, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Force’s findings, as specified. Previously existing law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified.
This bill would provide that the State of California recognizes and accepts responsibility for all of the harms and atrocities committed by the state, its representatives thereof, and entities under its jurisdiction who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and the enduring legacy of ongoing badges and incidents from which the systemic structures of discrimination have come to exist.
The bill would further provide that the State of California accepts this responsibility with a formal apology for the harms perpetrated by the state, and orders this apology to be memorialized in the form of a proclamation apologize for perpetuating the harms African Americans have faced and affirms its role in protecting the descendants of enslaved people and all Black Californians. The bill would require a plaque memorializing this apology to be publicly and conspicuously displayed permanently installed and maintained in the California State Capitol building. Building.
The bill would require the Legislature to prepare the formal apology proclamation, which would and would request it be signed by specified state leaders. Additionally, the bill would require the Secretary of State to submit a final copy of this formal apology proclamation to the State Archives, where it would be available for viewing by the general public in perpetuity. The bill would include related legislative findings.
SB 1331, as amended, Bradford. The Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice.
Previously existing law established, until July 1, 2023, the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States. Previously existing law required the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, as specified, and to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Force’s findings, as specified. Previously existing law required the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature, as specified.
This bill would establish the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding policies approved by the Legislature and the Governor that address the harm that the State of California has caused to descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person or descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.
The bill would require the Controller to transfer from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice an amount equal to 6% of transfers from the General Fund to the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as specified. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the moneys in the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice to be expended for the above-described purpose.
The bill would authorize the fund to receive moneys from any other federal, state, or local grant, or from any private donation or grant, as specified. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.
Notice the transfer from the Special Funds has been removed!
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