2013 Bill Summary Senate Committee on Business, Professions & Economic Development Page 21 of 21
2013 Bill Summary
Senate Committee on Business, Professions & Economic Development
Senator Ted Lieu, Chair
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Bill No / Author / Subject / Summary / Status / Staff /SB 12 / Corbett / Consumer affairs / Creates the “Made in California Program” within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) for the purpose of encouraging consumer product awareness and to foster the purchases of products manufactured in California. Provides that it is an unfair method of competition or unfair business practice to use the designated “Made in California” label without participating in the Made in California Program. / Chapter 541, Statutes of 2013 / SM
SB 62 / Price, Lieu / Coroners: reporting requirements: prescription drug use / Requires coroners to provide information in a form to the Medical Board, under specific circumstances and in confidence for deaths attributed to Schedule II-IV drugs. Requires the form to be developed in consultation with the California State Association of Coroners. Ensures that physicians are notified of an investigation that may stem from data provided to the Board. / Vetoed by the Governor / SM
SB 117 / Hueso / Integrative cancer treatment / Provides that a physician and surgeon shall not be subject to discipline for unprofessional conduct solely on the basis of providing treatment or advice for cancer given in compliance with provisions in the California Health and Safety Code relating to "integrative cancer treatment." Requires: informed consent; the treatment meet specified evidence-based medical standards, periodic patient reevaluation of treatment. / 2 year bill in Senate BP&ED Committee / GV
SB 119 / Calderon / Crematories: burning of flags / Authorizes a crematory to incinerate an American flag or flags separately from human remains within one week before or after Memorial Day, Flag Day, or Independence Day, and requires a crematory to maintain a record of all flags incinerated. / Chapter 205, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 152 / Roth / Licensed professionals: engineers: geologists: geophysicists / Deletes the current provisions allowing a temporary authorization to practice engineering, geology, and geophysics, and requires the use of a written contract when contracting to provide geological or geophysical services. / Chapter 178, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 198 / Price, Lieu / Physical Therapy Board of California / Reorganizes, recasts, updates and clarifies the Physical Therapy Act (Act); eliminates redundant and outdated provisions; makes technical and conforming changes, and renumbers various Code sections. / Chapter 398, Statutes of 2013 / BG
SB 202 / Galgiani / Automotive repair / Requires tire repair and changing businesses to be licensed as an automotive repair dealer under the Bureau of Automotive Repair. / Held on Assembly Appropriations Suspense File / GV
SB 204 / Corbett / Prescription drugs: labeling / Requires, beginning on January 1, 2016, translations of the directions for use in non-English languages published on the Board of Pharmacy’s Website to be used, as applicable, when labeling a prescription container. / 2 year bill in Assembly Health Committee / SM/KW
SB 205 / Corbett / Prescription drugs: labeling / Requires certain portions of the required information on prescription labels, including the name of the patient(s), to be printed in at least 12-point sans serif typeface. / Vetoed by the Governor / SM/KW
SB 207 / Cannella / Department of Consumer Affairs: licensee information / Modifies the requirement that the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists disclose information on the Internet about its registrants and licensees to exclude disclosing the address of record of a licensee / 2 year bill in Senate BP&ED Committee / GV
SB 218 / Yee / Healing arts: California traditional Chinese medicine traumatologist certification / Establishes the California Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatology Committee under the California Acupuncture Board and requires the Board to issue a certificate to practice as a Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatologist to applicants who meet certain education, training and clinical experience requirements and pay fees, as specified. / 2 year bill in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee / LC
SB 243 / Wyland / Professional clinical counselors / Clarifies that professional clinical counseling does not include the assessment or treatment of couples or families unless the clinical counselor has completed specified training and education. The bill expands the definition of “professional clinical counseling;” and makes conforming changes. / Chapter 465, Statutes of 2013 / LC
SB 261 / Monning / Contractors: fraudulent use of license / Authorizes the Contractors State License Board to take administrative action against any licensed or unlicensed person for the improper use of a contractor license. / Chapter 163, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 262 / Monning / Contractors / Makes failure on the part of a licensed contractor to exercise direct supervision and control over a construction operation a cause for disciplinary action, punishable as a misdemeanor by imprisonment in county jail, by a fine of $3,000 to $5,000, or by both. / Chapter 180, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 263 / Monning / Contractors: unlicensed activity / Clarifies the misdemeanor penalty for engaging in unlicensed contracting to also include a person who has never been a licensed contractor, or a person who acts under an inactive, expired, revoked, or suspended license. Provides that entering into a contract during a period in which the license was inactive, expired, revoked, or suspended is a cause for discipline if the purpose of the contract is for that person to perform an act subject to licensure under the law. Defines "duly licensed" and unlicensed persons." / 2 year bill in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee / GV
SB 269 / Hill / Prepaid rental listing service / Expands the enforcement powers of the Bureau of Real Estate over prepaid rental listing services licensees, authorizes consumers harmed by providers to seek compensation from the Consumer Recovery Account, increases application fees for the prepaid rental listing service license to better fund the Account. / Chapter 436, Statutes of 2013 / KW
SB 272 / Corbett / Advertising and solicitations: government and military endorsements / Prohibits implying any military veteran or military veteran service organization connection, approval or endorsement of any financial product, goods or services unless there is a direct connection to that military veteran entity. / Chapter 695, Statutes of 2013 / SM
SB 294 / Emmerson / Sterile drug products / Expands the types of sterile compounded drugs for which a license is required, deletes the licensing exemption for certain types of pharmacies, and requires inspection of nonresident sterile compounding pharmacies by the Board of Pharmacy. / Chapter 565, Statutes of 2013 / SM/KW
SB 304 / Price, Lieu / Healing arts: boards / Revises the Medical Practice Act to transfer inspectors and medical consultants from the Medical Board of California to the Division of Investigation within the Department of Consumer Affairs, extends the sunset date of Board by four years, and amends the Veterinary Practice Act to extend its sunset date by two years. / Chapter 515, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 305 / Price, Lieu / Healing arts: boards / Extends the sunset, until January 1, 2018, of several licensing boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs and makes certain statutory changes to those boards’ responsibilities. / Chapter 516, Statutes of 2013 / LC
SB 306 / Price
Torres / Was: Healing arts: boards.
Amended to: Pharmacy: dangerous drugs and dangerous devices: automated drug delivery systems / When heard by the Committee, the bill would have extended until January 1, 2018, the provisions establishing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board, the Physical Therapy Board of California and the California Board of Occupational Therapy and extends the terms of the executive officers of the Physical Therapy Board of California and the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board.
The bill now revises the conditions under which a prescriber may dispense dangerous drugs and dangerous devices. Also imposes new conditions on an automated drug delivery system. / 2 year bill in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee / LC
SB 307 / Price / Healing arts: Veterinary Medical Board / Extends, until January 1, 2016, the sunset of the Veterinary Medical Board (VMB) and makes other changes regarding the inspection authority of the VMB as it pertains to veterinary premises, the membership, and responsibility of the Multidisciplinary Committee of the VMB, and the requirements for veterinary assistants regarding access to controlled substances. / Senate Inactive File / BG
SB 308 / Price, Lieu / Professions and vocations / Extends until January 1, 2018 the sunset dates for the Interior Design Law and the Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind; extends until January 1, 2016 the sunset of the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, and makes other changes. / Chapter 333, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 309 / Price, Lieu / State Athletic Commission / Extends, until January 1, 2016, the sunset of the California State Athletic Commission and makes a number of changes to improve Commission operations while also providing the Commission with modest revenue enhancements to support their mission. / Chapter 370, Statutes of 2013 / SM
SB 352 / Pavley / Medical assistants: supervision / Allows medical assistants to perform technical supportive services, in doctor’s offices and all medical clinics, under the supervision of a physician assistant, nurse practitioner or certified nurse-midwife without a physician on the premises. / Chapter 286, Statutes of 2013 / LC
SB 381 / Yee / Healing arts: chiropractic practice / Defines “joint manipulation” and “joint adjustment” as synonymous terms and prohibits a health care provider, other than a chiropractor, physician, surgeon or osteopathic physician from performing joint manipulation or adjustment. / Failed passage in BP&ED Committee. Reconsideration was granted, but no hearing scheduled. Held as a 2 year bill in Senate BP&ED Committee / LC
SB 410 / Yee / Anesthesiologist assistants / Enacts the Anesthesiologist Assistant Practice Act, which would require the licensure and regulation of anesthesiologist assistants by the Medical Board of California. / 2 year bill in Senate BP&ED Committee / GV
SB 417 / Berryhill / Public buildings and works: qualifications of contractors / Authorizes state and local agencies, prior to advertising for bids for construction of a public building or a public works project, to advise the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) of any supplemental license, certification, or education required of a contractor to qualify to bid on the contract for that project. Requires the CSLB to review the information received regarding any supplemental license, certification, or education requirements, and to post any supplemental requirements it approves in an easily identifiable location on the board’s Internet Web site. / 2 year bill in Senate BP&ED Committee / GV
SB 431 / Price / Economic development: California Socioeconomic Development Pods Program / Establishes the California Socioeconomic Development Pods Program within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to encourage the use of social innovative financing, as defined, within blighted areas in the state. Creates the Pod Accelerator Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, within the State Treasury, to receive moneys collected and received by GO-Biz for the program from gifts, bequests, or donations. / 2 year bill in Senate Governance and Finance Committee / SM
SB 445 / Price
Hill / Was: Pharmacies: advertising: controlled substances.
Amended to: Revenue bond financing of prison construction / When heard by this Committee, the bill prohibited pharmacies from advertising the sale of controlled substances.
The bill now modifies the manner in which the Board of State and Community Corrections awards project funds for the construction of local county jails. / 2 year bill in Assembly Public Safety Committee / SM
SB 465 / Correa / Packaging and labeling: containers: slack fill / Revises the definition for "nonfunctional slack fill" prohibited in packaged goods to require that nonfunctional slack fill be substantially less than the allowed capacity, and clarifies a particular exemption to require the actual size of the product be clearly and conspicuously depicted on any side of the exterior packaging, except the bottom. / Chapter 429, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 482 / Hill / Point-of-sale systems / Deletes the January 1, 2014, sunset date on the law authorizing a county to perform inspections, and charge inspection fees for retail point-of-sale systems. / Chapter 166, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 484 / Wyland / Tax preparers / Revises the composition of the California Tax Education Council, authorizes the Council to deny, suspend, or revoke a tax preparer registration for specified violations, and makes other changes to the Tax Preparers Law / Chapter 660, Statutes of 2013 / GV
SB 485 / Calderon / Weighmasters: junk dealers and recyclers / Requires a junk dealer or recycler to submit additional information regarding its junk dealer business to the Department of Food and Agriculture when applying or renewing a weighmaster's license; requires the Department to investigate the information and revoke the license if the information submitted is inaccurate; increases the fees that junk dealers or recyclers pay for each fixed location, and sunsets these provisions on January 1, 2019. / Chapter 518, Statutes of 2013 / GV