Existing federal law sets forth certain requirements that dialysis facilities must meet in order to be certified under the Medicare Program, including a requirement that patient care dialysis technicians at those facilities complete a specified training program, have a high school diploma or equivalency, be certified under a state or national certification program, and meet all applicable state requirements, as specified. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various clinical laboratory personnel and makes a violation of those provisions a crime. Within that law, the Hemodialysis Technician Training Act prohibits a person from providing services as a hemodialysis technician without being certified by the State Department of Public Health as meeting certain requirements, as specified. This bill would revise those requirements and prohibit a person from providing services as a hemodialysis technician without being certified by the department as having a high school diploma or equivalency or 4 years of specified work experience, successfully completing a training program meeting specified requirements, and passing a standardized test, certified by faculty of the University of California and approved by the department, as specified, or passing an examination offered by a certification program approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as specified. The bill would require technicians certified by the department as of the bill's operative date to meet those requirements by April 15, 2010, as specified. The bill would make other conforming and technical, nonsubstantive changes. By changing the definition of a 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. This bill would also declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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Existing law, commonly known as the Radiation Protection Act of 1988, sets forth the duties of various agencies relating to the protection of the public health and safety from the harmful effects of radiation, including, among others, the duties of the State Department of Public Health regarding the licensing and regulation of radiologic technology, including, but not limited to, the inspection of mammographic X-ray equipment. Violation of provisions relating to radiologic technology is a misdemeanor. This bill would require a facility that operates a mammogram machine to post notices of serious violations, as defined, in an area that is visible to patients. The bill would require the facility to post the notice within 2 working days after receipt of the documents from the department and require that the documents remain posted for a minimum of 5 working days or until action correcting the violation has been completed, whichever is later. Because this bill would create a new crime, the 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.
(1) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt by January 1, 2011, greenhouse gas emission limits and emission reduction measures to achieve the maximum technological feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act defines greenhouse gases to include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. This bill would also include in that definition nitrogen trifluoride. Because a violation of the act may be a crime and this bill would expand the scope of the act, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. (2) 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. (3) This bill would incorporate changes to Section 38505 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by both this bill and AB 1404, which would become operative only if both bills are enacted and this bill is enacted after AB 1404.
Existing law makes it a crime for a person who knows or reasonably should know that a person is an elder or dependant adult, under circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm or death, to willfully cause or permit any elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflict unjustifiably physical pain or mental suffering thereon, or to cause or permit the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his or her person or health is endangered, as specified. Existing law punishes a violation of this provision by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not to exceed $6,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years. This bill would increase the fine for a 2nd or subsequent violation of that provision to an amount not to exceed $10,000. Under existing law, a person who knows or reasonably should know that a person is an elder or dependent adult and who, under circumstances or conditions other than those likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes an elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflicts physical pain or mental suffering thereon, or permits the health of the elder or dependent adult to be endangered is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law punishes a 2nd or subsequent violation of that provision by a fine not to exceed $2,000 or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would increase the fine for a 2nd or subsequent violation of that provision to an amount not to exceed $5,000.
Existing law allows taxpayers, until January 1, 2010, to contribute amounts in excess of their personal income tax liability for the support of the California Fund for Senior Citizens. Existing law repeals the contribution provisions for this fund either on the September 1 following the calendar year for which the Franchise Tax Board estimates that the minimum contribution amount will be less than a prescribed amount or on January 1, 2010, whichever occurs first. This bill would, under this latter limit, extend the operation of those contribution provisions until January 1, 2015.
This measure would urge the United States government to urge the Mexican government to extend the deadline for Mexican laborers, known as braceros, who worked in the United States beginning in 1942 as part of a labor importation program initiated by the United States to alleviate a labor shortage during World War II, to submit a claim to recover unpaid wages from a specified settlement fund. It would also urge the United States government to urge the Mexican government to accept a variety of documents as proof of a valid claim.
This measure adopts the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 2009–10 Regular Session.
This measure would designate Friday, May 8, 2009, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
This measure would recognize the month of February 2009 as American Heart Month in California, would recognize February 6, 2009, as Wear Red Day in California, and would urge public support for Go Red for Women events.
Existing law requires a passenger vehicle rental company to only advertise a rental rate that includes the entire amount, except certain taxes and charges. Existing law authorizes the rental company, when providing a quote or imposing charges for a rental, to separately state the certain taxes and charges. Existing law prohibits a rental company from charging in addition to the rental rate and certain taxes and charges, any fee that must be paid by the renter as a condition of hiring or leasing the vehicle other than customer facility charges and airport concession fees. Existing law also requires the rental company, if customer facility charges, airport concession fees, or tourism commission assessments are imposed, to provide the person receiving the quote with a good faith estimate of the rental rate and certain taxes and charges when the quote is given, to clearly and conspicuously disclose in the rental contract the total rate and certain taxes and charges when the rental commences, and to provide each person, other than those persons within the rental company, offering quotes to actual or prospective customers access to information about certain taxes and charges. This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, include the increased vehicle license fee, as defined, among those specified taxes and charges. This bill would become operative only if SB 3 or AB 3 of the 2009–10 3rd Extraordinary Session of the Legislature is enacted and increases the vehicle license fee above 0.65% of the value of the vehicle and shall cease to become operative upon restoration of the vehicle license fee to no more than 0.65% of the value of the vehicle.