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SB 238 would have required an employer to annually provide a detailed notice to the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), employees, and union representatives of all workplace surveillance tools in use. The bill would have also required DIR to make the notice public on its website and subject employers to stiff penalties for noncompliance.
AB 669 would have prohibited health plans, starting in 2027, from concurrent or retrospective review of medical necessity of in-network services and benefits for the first 28 days of residential, inpatient, partial hospitalization, or intensive outpatient therapy for substance use treatment. The bill specified a concurrent or retrospective review with an appeal process for intensive...
SB 384 would have prohibited a business from using a price-setting algorithm that is used by two or more competitors to set a price or supply level of a good or service. The bill would have also authorized the attorney general, city attorney, or county counsel to file a civil action for violations, with civil...
SB 295 would require entities to provide information, upon the attorney general’s request, on the use of a pricing algorithm. This bill would also prohibit entities from using or distributing any pricing algorithm if the person has actual knowledge that the pricing algorithm uses or incorporates competitor data. For violations, the attorney general would be...
SB 354 would enact the Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act to establish new standards for the processing and sharing of consumers’ personal information by insurance licensees and their third-party service providers. Amendments that exempt hospitals and other health care providers from the bill were taken in the Senate Appropriations Committee, at CHA’s request. Senate...
AB 237 would make it a crime for a person to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person at specified locations, including medical facilities.
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AB 1460 would have prohibited drug manufacturers from engaging in discriminatory practices that prevent or interfere with a qualifying nonhospital 340B community clinic’s ability to purchase or deliver 340B discounted drugs through contract pharmacies. This bill would also have allowed prescription drug manufacturers to request deidentified claims data from 340B-covered entities once a year to investigate...
AB 485 would have required the California Department of Public Health to deny a new license or renewal of an existing license for any hospital that has an outstanding judgment for nonpayment of wages. The state public health officer could have exempted a hospital employer from the bill’s requirements upon determining that denying, suspending, or...
AB 1331 would limit the use of workplace surveillance tools in bathrooms. It would also give workers the right to leave behind workplace surveillance tools that are either on their person or in their possession when entering a bathroom.
SB 363 would have required health plans and insurers to annually report to either the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance their total number of claims processed, as well as treatment denials or modifications. Health care service plans or health insurers with 10 or more independent medical reviews in a given year...
