Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires a medical laboratory technician to be licensed by the department, sets forth the duties that a licensed medical laboratory technician is authorized to perform, and prohibits a licensed medical laboratory technician from performing microscopic analysis or immunohematology procedures. This bill would exempt from that prohibition blood smear reviews other than manual leukocyte differentials, microscopic urinalysis, and blood typing of moderate complexity such as automated ABO/Rh testing and antibody screen testing. The bill would also repeal an obsolete provision.
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This measure would declare October 23 to 31, 2018, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and to participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would declare July 27, 2018, as California Bullying Prevention Day, also to be known as Rosie's Day.
This measure would urge the United States Department of Justice not to direct its enforcement priorities towards California's lawfully and closely regulated cannabis industry, among other things.
Existing law requires a person or business conducting business in California or an agency that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose a breach in the security of the data to a resident of California whose encrypted or unencrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person, as specified. If the breach exposed a social security number, a driver's license, or a California identification card number, existing law requires the notification to include the toll-free telephone numbers and addresses of the major credit reporting agencies. This bill would, if the security breach exposed a social security number, a driver's license number, or a California identification card number, require the notice to also include the Internet Web site address of each of the major credit reporting agencies and a notice instructing the affected person that information related to security freezes and fraud alerts is available from the major credit reporting agencies.
Existing federal laws and regulations regulate the operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) , also known as drones or remotely piloted aircraft. Existing federal laws and regulations require the registration of certain UASs, require commercial operators of UASs to be licensed, prohibit the operation of UASs above specified altitudes and within specified distances of an airport, prohibit nighttime operation, and require a UAS to remain within the sight of the pilot. Existing California law prohibits the use of a UAS to interfere with emergency personnel or operations at the scene of an emergency. Existing law also creates a civil cause of action against a person who enters the airspace above the dwelling of another and captures images or other recordings, as specified. This bill would make it an infraction to operate an unregistered UAS that is required to be registered under federal law. By creating a new infraction, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires the California Department of Aging to administer the federal Older American's Act in California and the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, and imposes various functions and duties on the department with respect to the administration and development of programs for older individuals. Existing law requires the department, in allocating specified state and federal funding to older individuals, to ensure that priority consideration is given to elderly individuals identified as in greatest economic or social need. Existing law defines "greatest social need" for purposes of the act to mean the need caused by noneconomic factors, that include physical and mental disabilities, language barriers, cultural or social isolation, including that caused by racial and ethnic status, that restrict an individual's ability to perform normal daily tasks or that threaten his or her capacity to live independently. This bill would revise this definition to include cultural or social isolation caused by sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
This measure would encourage the federal government to maintain or restore full funding to integral international exchange programs, such as the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.