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Governor’s Decisions on 2005 Health Care Legislation

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This page was updated on 10/21/05
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For the bills listed below, you can either go to the full text of the bill or download a Health Access support (or oppose) letter to send to the bill author. Please feel free to use the format in our letters to send your own support (or oppose) letter.

Health Access sponsored bills:

Consumer Protection

SIGNED: AB356 (Chan), which as amended would require disclosure of the criteria and process for denying individuals health insurance coverage.
View AB356 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

SIGNED: AB1359 (Chan), which as amended April 19, 2005 would license prescription drug plans permitted under the Medicare Prescription Drug Act.
View AB1359 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

Health Access supports:

Prescription Drugs

VETOED: AB73 (Frommer, Chan), which as amended would create a website with information on affordable prescription drug prices for Californians.
View AB73 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

VETOED: AB76 (Frommer, Chan), which as introduced would create an office of pharmaceutical purchasing to purchase prescription drugs for state programs.
View AB76 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

VETOED: AB78 (Pavley, Bass) which would protect consumers by regulating pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
View AB78 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

SIGNED: SB708 (Speier) which as proposed to be amended would allow non-profit hospitals to benefit from an existing federal prescription drug discount program and in return would obligate those that benefit to increase charity care by an unspecified amount.
View SB708 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

Streamlining of Public Programs

VETOED: AB624 (Montanez), which would streamline the process for children to enroll into Medi-Cal or Healthy Families through the CHDP gateway.
View AB624 Bill Text

SIGNED: AB1533 would allow individuals who lose Healthy Families coverage due to changes in age or income to enroll in private health insurance without waiting.
View AB1533 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

VETOED: SB23 (Migden) which would provide information to all employees about the availability of Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. Health Access seeks amendments to alter the provisions that would allow automatic deduction of Healthy Families premiums from paychecks because of privacy concerns.
View SB23 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

Coverage Expansion

VETOED: AB772 (Chan) which as amended would expand and protect health insurance coverage for children in order to assure that all California children have the opportunity to have health insurance coverage.
View AB772 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

VETOED: AB1199 (Frommer), which was originally on individual insurance reform. It has since been amended to create a fund for the purpose of children’s health coverage.
View AB1199 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

VETOED: AB1698 (Nunez), which would expand coverage for dependents up to age 26.
View AB1698 Bill Text

Disclosure

VETOED: AB89 (Horton), which would require disclosure of employers of persons dependent on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families and seeks an amendment to eliminate reference to California Children’s Services.
View AB89 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

SIGNED: AB1045 (Frommer) would clarify existing law by requiring that charges for the 25 most common inpatient hospital procedures and the 25 most common outpatient procedures be made public.
View AB1045 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)

VETOED: SB917 (Speier) which as introduced would clarify existing law by requiring that the charges for 25 most common inpatient hospital procedures be made public.
View SB917 Bill Text | Download Health Access Letter (MS Word)