CNA Sponsored Bills
SPONSOR/SUPPORT
SB 810 (Leno) Single Payer Health Care
This bill would establish the California Healthcare System (CHS) under which all California residents would be eligible for comprehensive health care benefits. The CHS would, like Medicare, be the public single payer for private providers and patients would choose their doctor and hospital and never receive an insurance bill. It would be financed by eliminating insurance gate keeping and profits and using the billions of dollars in savings to provide care to everyone.
AB 1994 (Skinner) Presumptive Eligibility for RNs and Healthcare Workers
This bill would mandate that RNs and other healthcare workers that provide direct patient care get presumed eligible for workers comp benefits if they acquire H1N1 influenza, MRSA, blood borne illness or suffer a neck and/or back injury.
SB 1240 (Corbett) - District hospitals-assets
This bill would set requirements on when a healthcare district contracts with another public or private entity to operate one or more of its health facilities, the bill requires the contract to comply with three components; 1) district assets cannot be transferred out and stay for the use and benefit of the district and taxpayer benefit; 2) annual independent financial audits; 3)any losses incurred by the entity in the operation of the facility cannot be a credit against the purchase price of a new facility.
SUPPORT
AB 2454 (Torlakson) – School Nurses
This bill would set a minimum staffing ratio for school nurses to students in California’s public schools.
AB 2470 (De La Torre) Health Care Rescissions
This bill Insures that no rescission be carried out unless a patient intentionally misrepresented or intentionally omitted material health information on their application for coverage. Ensuring there is an iron clad standard on the front end will give patients a fighting chance of not being kicked off the insurance rolls at the whim of the insurers.
AB 1826 (Huffman)- Pain Medications
This bill would require that require a health care service plan or health insurer covering prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for a drug that
has been prescribed for the treatment of pain without first requiring the subscriber, enrollee, or insured to use another drug or product.
AB 2393 (Ammiano) – Private post-secondary Nursing Programs
This bill would stop private post-secondary nursing programs from engaging in any unfair business practice relating to false or misleading advertising of placement, employment, salaries, or other financial information of graduate nurses.
OPPOSE
AB 1802 (Hall) – Administration of Insulin
This bill would allow unlicensed classified school employees to administer insulin to school children.
SB 1051 (Huff) - Administration of Diastat
This bill would allow volunteers to be designated to administer diastat (a rectal suppository filled with valium), to school children.
AB 1335 (Cox) Employment: working hours
This bill would replace this system of carefully crafted protections on alternative workweeks, by giving employers the right to negotiate alternate schedules one individual employee at a time. There would be no criteria for schedules to be approved or denied and nothing to prevent employers from awarding desirable schedules to employees based purely on favoritism. There would be no protection for workers who feel pressured to waive daily overtime because the workplace election would be replaced by a one on one discussion with the boss.
SB 908 (Wyland) Meal & rest periods: exceptions
This bill would exempt drivers of armored cars from having meal and rest breaks guaranteed by law.
SB 1180 (Dutton) Right to work: labor organizations
This bill would turn California into a so-called “right to work” state. That means that workers are entitled to all the benefits of union membership, but cannot be compelled to pay their fair share for that representation. This law is intended to weaken unions and make it impossible for them to bargain good contracts
SB 2077 (Solorio) - Central Packaging Pharmacies
This bill would allow hospital systems to prepackage, and redistribute bulk medications prior to and in anticipation of a prescription to patients. This deviates from current law that allows for medications to be produced after a prescription is received.
OPPOSE UNLESS AMENDED
SB 1111 (Negrete McLeod) This bill would reform the way that the state investigates complaints and enforces disciplinary action against registered nurses (RNs), and other healing arts licensees. Although reform is needed in order to ensure adequate patient protection, SB 1111 contains numerous provisions that could be detrimental to both RNs and patients alike, such as eliminate the Board of Registered Nursing’s substance abuse diversion program, which has helped thousands of RNs rehabilitate and return to safe practice.
