Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils, and authorizes a governing board to employ properly certified persons for the work. This bill would establish the School Medication Authorization Task Force, consisting of 10 members who would be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The bill would require the task force to provide specified advice regarding the administration of emergency medication to a pupil on a school campus and establish training and supervision standards regarding the administration of medical care in a school setting. The bill would require the task force to follow prescribed procedures relating to its operation.
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Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires the administrative director, after consultation with the Insurance Commissioner, to contract with a qualified organization to study the effects of the 2003 and 2004 legislative reforms on insurance rates. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change in those provisions.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, administration of provisions relating to disease prevention and health promotion. Existing law requires the department to maintain a dental program that includes prescribed components and to appoint a dentist licensed in California to administer the program. This bill would delete the requirement that the licensed dentist appointed to administer the program be licensed in California.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law authorizes the department to issue a clinical laboratory scientist's license to an applicant who is the lawful holder of a baccalaureate or an equivalent or higher degree and who meets specified training and experience requirements, subject to the payment of a licensing fee. This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, authorize the department to issue a clinical laboratory scientist's license to an applicant who completes at least 2 years of full-time employment as a clinical laboratory scientist at a CLIA certified laboratory, who possesses a baccalaureate or an equivalent or higher degree from an accredited institution, and who passes a national examination approved by the department, subject to the payment of the requisite licensing fee.
Existing law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, regulates the disclosure of medical information, as defined, by a provider of health care. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the privacy of medical information.
Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is responsible for administering various programs and services for the benefit of veterans. This bill would appropriate the sum of $7,300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide for specified veterans' services.
Existing law regulates contracts for particular transactions, including contracts for health studio services, the lease or rental of athletic facilities, and the sale of sport memorabilia. This bill would prohibit a professional sports team that has previously entered into a financial agreement with a public entity from entering into a relocation agreement, as defined, unless it first provides to the public entity a bond, undertaking, or deposit in an amount adequate to ensure that its obligations under the financial agreement will be satisfied. The bill also would prohibit a professional sports team from entering into a relocation agreement if that team is in breach or default of any financial agreement, or if entry into a relocation agreement would cause a breach or default of any financial agreement, unless and until the breach or default is cured. The bill would provide that any agreement entered into in violation of these prohibitions is contrary to public policy and is unenforceable. The bill would authorize the home public entity and home community, as defined, to seek, and would require the court to grant, an injunction to enjoin performance of any act under a relocation agreement that is made unenforceable by this bill. The bill would provide that performance under a relocation agreement entered into in violation of these prohibitions shall not be enjoined if all of the financial obligations the professional sports team owes to a home public entity and home community under a financial agreement are satisfied in full. The bill would require that any action or proceeding pursuant to these provisions be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the home public entity and home community are located. The bill would provide that these provisions apply to any relocation agreement entered on or after January 1, 2011. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) The Ralph M. Brown Act authorizes a legislative body of a local agency to hold closed sessions with the agency's designated representatives regarding the salary and compensation of represented and unrepresented employees. This bill would require that proposed compensation increases of more than 5% for specified employees be publicly noticed, as prescribed. By adding to the duties of local officials, this bill would impose 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law authorizes a court to postpone the revocation or suspension of a person's driving privilege until the term of imprisonment is served if that person was convicted of certain DUI provisions, among other things, and sentenced to serve one year in a county jail or more than one year in the state prison. This bill would instead require the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of record of a court, to postpone the revocation or suspension of a person's driving privilege until the term of imprisonment is served if that person was convicted of certain DUI provisions and sentenced to incarceration in state prison. The bill would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to notify the department 30 days prior to the release of an inmate whose license was suspended.
Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to recognize the practice of telemedicine as a legitimate means by which an individual may receive medical services from a health care provider without person-to-person contact with the provider. Existing law defines telemedicine as the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data, and education using interactive audio, video, or data communications. Existing law sets forth procedures a health care practitioner must follow prior to providing health care through telemedicine. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to telemedicine.