Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with House amendments and pass a bill that amends various state healthcare provisions in California.

Highlights:

• Amends various state healthcare provisions in California (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the posted licensing and certification fees for medical  to include, but not be limited to, annual licensing, report of change application, and written notification fees, and would make conforming changes to reflect the inclusion of fees other than annual fees (Sec. 1). 

• Repeals various obsolete provisions, including a related fee schedule, and would replace references to renewal fees with references to annual license fees (Sec. 1). 

• Require the Office of Oral Health to support the establishment of community-based clinical education rotations for dental students in their final year or dental residents (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the Office of Oral Health to compile data and prepare a report to be submitted to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2027 on specific desired outcomes for the department (Sec. 1). 

• Establish the Electronic Cigarette Settlements Fund within the State Treasury (Sec. 1). 

• Authorize the department to develop and administer a syndromic surveillance program and, subject to an appropriation, to either designate an existing system or to create a new system that would be required, at a minimum, to provide public health practitioners access to an electronic health system to rapidly collect, evaluate, share, and store syndromic surveillance data (Sec. 1).

• Require general acute care hospitals with emergency departments to submit data electronically to the system in accordance with the schedule, standards, and requirements established by the department, unless the hospital reports its data to the local health department and the local health department reports that data to the department (Sec. 1). 

• Requires DSH to coordinate with the sheriff in the county of commitment to transport a defendant who has been committed to a DSH facility for medical purposes once a placement in the facility is available and would require DSH to notify the sheriff and the court if the defendant has not been transported within 90 days from the date of commitment (Sec. 1). 

• Require a health care minimum wage to be enforceable by the Labor Commissioner through specified procedures (Sec. 1). 

• Require the Department of Industrial Relations to amend, supplement, and republish the Industrial Welfare Commission’s wage orders to be consistent with these minimum wage provisions of the state of California  (Sec. 1). 

• Amends California Healthcare laws for other purposes (Sec. 1). 

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that amends various state healthcare provisions in California.

Highlights:

• Amends various state healthcare provisions in California (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the posted licensing and certification fees for medical  to include, but not be limited to, annual licensing, report of change application, and written notification fees, and would make conforming changes to reflect the inclusion of fees other than annual fees (Sec. 1). 

• Repeals various obsolete provisions, including a related fee schedule, and would replace references to renewal fees with references to annual license fees (Sec. 1). 

• Require the Office of Oral Health to support the establishment of community-based clinical education rotations for dental students in their final year or dental residents (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the Office of Oral Health to compile data and prepare a report to be submitted to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2027 on specific desired outcomes for the department (Sec. 1). 

• Establish the Electronic Cigarette Settlements Fund within the State Treasury (Sec. 1). 

• Authorize the department to develop and administer a syndromic surveillance program and, subject to an appropriation, to either designate an existing system or to create a new system that would be required, at a minimum, to provide public health practitioners access to an electronic health system to rapidly collect, evaluate, share, and store syndromic surveillance data (Sec. 1).

• Require general acute care hospitals with emergency departments to submit data electronically to the system in accordance with the schedule, standards, and requirements established by the department, unless the hospital reports its data to the local health department and the local health department reports that data to the department (Sec. 1). 

• Requires DSH to coordinate with the sheriff in the county of commitment to transport a defendant who has been committed to a DSH facility for medical purposes once a placement in the facility is available and would require DSH to notify the sheriff and the court if the defendant has not been transported within 90 days from the date of commitment (Sec. 1). 

• Require a health care minimum wage to be enforceable by the Labor Commissioner through specified procedures (Sec. 1). 

• Require the Department of Industrial Relations to amend, supplement, and republish the Industrial Welfare Commission’s wage orders to be consistent with these minimum wage provisions of the state of California  (Sec. 1). 

• Amends California Healthcare laws for other purposes (Sec. 1). 

Full Bill Text