2007 Legislation
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Advocating for Consumers in Sacramento Legislative Information 2007 Legislation
This page was updated 10/15/07
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Governor's Decisions on 2006 Health Care Legislation
2007 Bills of Interest to California Health Advocates
- printable version - October 15 th, 2007
Health advocates are actively working on the following bills, which includes efforts to expand health care coverage and provide consumer protections for patients. Also listed is the position of Health Access California, the statewide health consumer advocacy coalition working for the goal of quality, affordable health care for all.
See also our 2007 Policy Recommendations
HEALTH CARE COVERAGE
Major Coverage Expansions
AB 8
(Nunez) |
Would require all businesses to offer health coverage and employees to take it. Creates a state cooperative to purchase health insurance. Expands Medi-Cal/Healthy Families. Would insure all children under 300% FPL and eventually childless adults. Would reform the individual insurance market to restrict pre-existing coverage exclusions and require companies to spend at least 85 cents per premium dollar on health care for enrollees.
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Vetoed/
Support |
Legislation Related to Access to Care
SB 275
(Cedillo) |
Would prevent patient dumping by requiring hospitals to have a written policy on discharging patients, and requiring hospitals to appropriately plan post-discharge care with patients. Also prevents hospitals from moving patients to locations, other than their residence, without the consent of the patient. |
Vetoed/
Support |
SB 474
( Kuehl)
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Clarifies that hospitals would continue to get paid the same amount under the federal hospital financing waiver and extends the sunset date to the 2007-08 fiscal year. Would also protect patients who live in Los Angeles and will be impacted by the closure of the Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center. SB474 would create a special fund that would pay for services that would have otherwise been provided by King-Drew Medical Center. Los Angeles County would contract with other providers in the area to assure that patients could continue to receive care. |
Signed/
Support |
Legislation related to Public Programs
AB 12
(Beall) |
Would create the Adult Health Coverage Expansion Program in Santa Clara County which would be administered by a county or local initiative.
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Signed |
AB 343
(Solorio) |
Would require the state to disclose names of employers who, rather than providing health coverage, have many of their workers and their families on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill – AB1840 (Horton) -- last year. |
Vetoed/
Support |
AB 910
(Karnette) |
Privately-purchased health coverage for children with mental or physical disabilities would not end at a certain age.
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Signed/
Support |
AB1113
(Brownley) |
Extends and increases eligibility for the Medi-Cal California Working Disabled Program. |
Vetoed/
Support |
Insurance Reforms
AB 1324
(De La Torre) |
Would require health plans to justify to DOI or DMHC why they are rescinding health coverage to enrollees. Health plans may not recover costs of care provided to enrollees unless they can prove consumers purposely deceived them. |
Vetoed/
Support |
OTHER HEALTH LEGISLATION
Consumer Protections
SB350
(Runner) |
Makes technical changes to California’s landmark legislation last year that bans the practice of hospital overcharging |
Signed/
Neutral |
Benefit Packages
AB 423 (Beall) |
Would expand Knox Keene to include diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. |
Vetoed/
Support |
Prescription Drugs
SB 472
(Corbett) |
Would require state Board of Pharmacy to come up with standardized drug labeling for prescription medications |
Signed/
Support |
For questions or an updated list, contact our policy coordinator in Sacramento, Hanh Kim Quach, at 916-497-0923, hquach@health-access.org.
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