Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act's requirements a crime. Existing law requires every health care service plan contract that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses to include coverage for specified equipment and supplies for the management and treatment of diabetes. Existing law provides for the regulation of insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires an insurance policy that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses that is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, to include coverage for specified equipment and supplies for the management and treatment of insulin-using diabetes, non-insulin-using diabetes, and gestational diabetes as medically necessary, even if the items are available without a prescription. Existing law requires an insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, that covers prescription benefits to include coverage for specified diabetes management prescription items, including insulin and glucagon. This bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or a specified disability insurance policy that is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, from imposing cost sharing on a covered insulin prescription, except for a copayment not to exceed $50 per 30-day supply of insulin, and no more than $100 total per month, regardless of the amount or type of insulin. The bill would apply these cost-sharing limitations until January 1, 2024. The bill would also authorize the Attorney General to investigate pricing of prescription insulin drugs to ensure adequate pricing protections for consumers, and would authorize the Attorney General, by November 1, 2022, to issue and make publicly available a report detailing its findings from any insulin pricing investigations. The bill would exempt trade secret or proprietary business information submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to these provisions from specified disclosure requirements. The bill would make these provisions applicable until January 1, 2024. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. 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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The Consumers Legal Remedies Act makes unlawful various specified methods, acts, or practices undertaken in a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer, and provides for civil actions by persons who suffer damage as a result of the use or employment of these methods, acts, or practices. The Check Sellers, Bill Payers and Proraters Law licenses and regulates proraters. Existing law defines a "prorater" as a person who, for compensation, engages in the business of receiving money or evidences thereof for the purpose of distributing the money or evidences thereof among creditors in payment or partial payment of the obligations of the debtor. This bill would include, as an unlawful act under the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, engaging in the business of receiving or soliciting money or evidences thereof, or processing payment for the purpose of distributing the money or evidences thereof, among creditors in payment or partial payment of the obligations of the debtor in a manner that deceives consumers, including by, among other methods, failing to disclose clearly and conspicuously the terms and risks of the program. The bill would also include as an unlawful practice under the act, engaging in the business of a prorater in a manner that violates the Check Sellers, Bill Payers and Proraters Law. The bill would make it an unlawful act to provide payment processing services, for which a fee is charged to a consumer, to a prorater that is acting in violation of these provisions. The bill would specify that these provisions do not apply to entities that are exempt from taxation, as specified.
The California Constitution, pursuant to provisions enacted by the initiative Proposition 209 in 1996, prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. The California Constitution defines the state for these purposes to include the state, any city, county, public university system, community college district, school district, special district, or any other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of, or within, the state. This measure would repeal these provisions. The measure would also make a statement of legislative findings in this regard.
This measure would proclaim the week of March 1, 2020, to March 7, 2020, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.
The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for the disqualification of electors while mentally incompetent or imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of a felony. Existing statutory law, for purposes of determining who is entitled to register to vote, defines imprisoned as currently serving a state or federal prison sentence. This measure would instead direct the Legislature to provide for the disqualification of electors who are serving a state or federal prison sentence for the conviction of a felony. This measure would also delete the requirement that the Legislature provide for the disqualification of electors while on parole for the conviction of a felony. The measure would provide for the restoration of voting rights upon completion of the prison term.
This measure would proclaim March 2, 2020, to March 6, 2020, inclusive, as School Breakfast Week.
Existing law prohibits a person employed by or engaged in a public school from inflicting, or causing to be inflicted, corporal punishment upon a pupil. Existing law prohibits an educational provider, as defined, from using a behavioral restraint or seclusion in certain circumstances, including, but not limited to, using seclusion or a behavioral restraint for the purpose of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation, and prohibits the use of certain restraint and seclusion techniques. This bill would establish the Pupil and Staff Safety Pilot Program to be administered through the "Scale Up MTSS Statewide" (SUMS) project, in consultation with the State Department of Education. The program would authorize local educational agencies, as defined, to apply for pilot program funds for the purpose of training staff who have contact or interaction with pupils on deescalation techniques and alternatives to physical restraint and seclusion of pupils. The bill would require a local educational agency that provides training pursuant to the pilot program to report on the training to the administrator of the SUMS project and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent, once all pilot program funds are expended, to submit a summary of the local educational agency reports the Superintendent received to the Legislature, the Department of Finance, the State Board of Education, and the Legislative Analyst's Office. The bill would make implementation of the pilot program contingent upon one-time funds being provided for its purposes, as specified.
This measure would recognize June 19, 2020, as Juneteenth and would urge the people of California to join in celebrating Juneteenth as a day to honor and reflect on the significant role that African Americans have played in the history of the United States and how they have enriched society through their steadfast commitment to promoting unity and equality.
This measure would declare the week of February 17 to February 21, 2020, inclusive, as California Fitness Week, and would encourage Californians to enrich their lives through proper nutrition and exercise.
This measure would proclaim February 20, 2020, as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.