State Issues

The following legislation has been identified as pertinent to CHI's missions and objectives by the CHI State Legislative Committee (SLC). CHI's top legislative priorities are listed by the position we have taken on the bills.  

 

Bills CHI Supports

AB 35 (Furutani) - Education: Workforce Development

AB 549 (Furutani) - Licensure: Clinical Laboratory Personnel

AB 1307 (Buchanan) - Newborn Genetic Screening

AB 1414 (Hill) - Controlled Substances: Apomorphine 

AB 1455 (Hill) - Pseudoephedrine (PSE): E-tracking

AB 1733 (Hill) - Director of California Biotechnology Retention and Recruitment

AB 1826 (Huffman) - Health Care Coverage: Prescriptions

AB 1931 (Torrico) - The Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Act

AB 1937 (Fletcher) - Pupil Health: Immunizations

AB 2352 (John A. Pérez) - Anti-rejection Medication

ACR 88 (Torlakson) - STEM Education

ACR 116 (Hill) - California Lab Day

ACR 117 (Hill) - Rare Disease Day

SR 33 (Padilla) National Engineers Week

SB 220 (Yee) - Smoking Cessation Products

SB 961 (Wright) - Oral Cancer Treatments

SB 1104 (Cedillo) - Health care coverage: diabetes-related complications

SB 1444 (Hancock) - STEM Education

 

Bills CHI Opposes

AB 1178 (Block) - Taxation: personal income tax credit: corporation taxes: tax havens

AB 2112 (Monning) - Prescription Record Privacy Act

AB 2139 (Chesbro) - Product Stewardship

AB 2666 (Skinner) - Corporation Taxes: Transparency

ACA 24 (Nestande) - University of California

SB 364 (Florez) - Health Facilities: Cancer Centers

SB 484 (Wright) - Ephedrine and Pseudoephedrine

SB 797 (Pavley) - Product Safety: Bisphenol A

SB 928 (Simitian) - Consumer Products: Content Information

SB 1071 (DeSaulnier) - CURES Program

SB 1086 (Florez) - Franchise Tax Board: tax expenditure reporting

SB 1100 (Corbett) - Product Stewardship: Household Batteries

SB 1272 (Wolk) - Corporation Taxes: Credits

SB 1391 (Yee) - Tax Credits: Reporting

SCA 21 (Yee) - University of California

 

Bills CHI is Monitoring/Neutral

AB 70 (Norby) - Public postsecondary education: genetic testing

AB 810 (Caballero) - Sales and use tax exemption: manufacturing equipment research and development

AB 1565 (Buchanan) - Research and development tax credit areas

AB 2278 (Anderson) - Income and corporation tax credits: research and development

SB 22 (Simitian) - Hazardous Materials: Toxic Substances

SB 482 (Padilla) - Personal Genomics

SB 810 (Leno) - Single Payer Health Care Coverage

SB 1064 (Alquist) - California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act

 SB 1106 (Yee) - Prescribers: dispensing of samples