Existing law establishes various programs for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health to be administered by the State Department of Public Health, including, but not limited to, the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. Violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would require every licensed general acute care hospital with an emergency department to determine the range of crowding scores, as defined, that constitute each category of the crowding scale, as provided, for its emergency department. The bill would require every licensed general acute care hospital with an emergency department to calculate and record a crowding score every 4 hours, except as specified, to assess the crowding condition of its emergency department. The bill would require, by January 1, 2014, every licensed general acute care hospital with an emergency department to develop and implement a full-capacity protocol for each of the categories of the crowding scale. This bill would require every licensed general acute care hospital with an emergency department to file its full-capacity protocol with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and to annually report revisions to its protocol. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2017. By changing the definition of an existing crime, 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.
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(1) Existing law requires that, upon a breach of the obligation of a mortgage or transfer of an interest in property, the mortgagee, trustee, or beneficiary record a notice of default in the office of the county recorder where the mortgaged or trust property is situated and mail the notice of default to the mortgagor or trustor. Existing law specifies other requirements and procedures for completion of a foreclosure sale, including recording a notice of sale prior to exercising a power of sale. Existing law requires, under specified circumstances, that a summary of mortgage terms be provided to the borrower in one of 5 specified languages. This bill, with respect to residential real property containing no more than 4 dwelling units, would require a mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent to provide to the mortgagor or trustor attached to a copy of the recorded notice of default and a copy of the notice of sale a summary of the information required to be contained in those notices in English and 5 specified languages. The bill would also require the notice of default and notice of sale to include a statement, in English and 5 specified languages, that a summary of the key provisions of the respective notice in English and 5 specified languages is attached. The bill would provide that the attached summaries are not required to be recorded or published. Those provisions would become operative on April 1, 2013, or 90 days following the issuance of summary translations by the Department of Corporations, whichever occurs later. The bill would also require the Department of Corporations to provide a standard translation of the statement and summaries described above for a notice of default and a notice of sale, respectively, in those languages, and to make those documents available without charge on its Internet Web site. The bill would specify that any mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent who provides the department's translations, in the manner prescribed, shall be in compliance with that provision. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2924 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 278, to be operative only if AB 278 and this bill are both enacted, both bills amend Section 2924 of the Civil Code and are effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is enacted last. (3) The bill would repeal duplicate provisions of law.
(1) The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, makes approximately $5.4 billion in bond funds available for safe drinking water, water quality and supply, flood control, natural resource protection, and park improvements. The bond act makes $60,000,000 available to the State Department of Public Health (department) for the purpose of loans and grants for projects to prevent or reduce contamination of groundwater that serves as a source of drinking water and requires the department to require repayment for costs that are subsequently recovered from parties responsible for the contamination. Existing law requires the department, in collaboration with the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the State Water Resources Control Board, to develop and adopt regulations governing the repayment of costs that are subsequently recovered from parties responsible for the contamination of groundwater. Existing law, the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act, creates in the General Fund the Site Remediation Account, and authorizes the money in that account to be expended by the DTSC, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for direct site remediation costs. This bill would require the department to adopt the implementing regulations as emergency regulations, pursuant to a specified procedure, and would require the emergency regulations to remain in effect for 180 days after the effective date of those emergency regulations, by which time the department would be required to adopt regulations. The bill would require the regulations to include a provision allowing the department to enter into an agreement with a grantee that recovers the funds that would authorize the expenditure of the recovered funds to implement ongoing treatment and remediation activities in accordance with the purposes for which funds may be granted pursuant to the bond act. The bill would establish the Groundwater Contamination Prevention Account in the State Treasury and would require the department to deposit in that account the funds recovered from responsible parties pursuant to the payment recovery provisions in the bond act. The bill would continuously appropriate funds in the account to the department for purposes of implementing the groundwater contamination cleanup and prevention provisions of the bond act, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would authorize the department to expend up to 3% of the recovered funds deposited in the Groundwater Contamination Prevention Account to pay for the department's oversight costs. The bill would authorize the department to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the DTSC to provide oversight activities or to transfer funds from the Groundwater Contamination Prevention Account to the Site Remediation Account. The bill would appropriate the transferred funds to the DTSC for purposes of implementing the department's agreement with a grantee. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes various state water policies, including the policy that the use of water for domestic purposes is the highest use of water. This bill would declare that it is the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. The bill would require all relevant state agencies, including the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the State Department of Public Health, to consider this state policy when revising, adopting, or establishing policies, regulations, and grant criteria when those policies, regulations, and grant criteria are pertinent to the uses of water described above.
Existing law requires specified information to be provided to patients regarding their health care. Existing federal law requires a written report of the results of each mammography examination and requires a summary of that report to be sent to the patient within a specified time period. This bill, from April 1, 2013, until January 1, 2019, would require, under specified circumstances, a health facility at which a mammography examination is performed to include in the summary of the written report that is sent to the patient a prescribed notice on breast density.
Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish a certification program for peace officers and for the Department of the California Highway Patrol and to establish minimum standards relating to physical, mental, and moral fitness for peace officers, as specified. This bill would make a peace officer trainee, as defined, who knowingly cheats, assists in cheating, or aids, abets, or knowingly conceals efforts by others to cheat in any manner on a basic course examination mandated by the commission liable for a fine of not more than $1,000 per occurrence.
This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would add comprehensive, preventative dental care coverage to Medicare benefits.
This measure would recognize September 2012 as Recovery Month in California, in order to raise awareness of the importance of substance use disorders treatment and to help people living with substance use disorders and their families to receive treatment.
This measure would recognize the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaim December 26 through January 1 each year as Kwanzaa Week.
This measure would urge the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and specifically its director, Edward DeMarco, to immediately allow the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to offer principal reductions to homeowners who owe more on their home loans than what their homes are worth.