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The California Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) (referenced in statute by its original name, the Legislative Counsel Bureau) [1] was founded in 1913 and is a nonpartisan public agency that drafts legislative proposals, prepares legal opinions, and provides other confidential legal services to the Legislature and certain other California agencies and offices.
Introduced in the Senate as the "Enduring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2015" by Orrin Hatch (R–UT) on February 12, 2015; Committee consideration by Senate Judiciary Committee; Passed the Senate on March 17, 2016 Passed the House on April 12, 2016 Signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 19, 2016
Low-income Californians would have an easier time purchasing hormonal birth control pills at their local pharmacy under a new bill. The bill, which was recently introduced to the California State ...
The Charter of Patients' Rights lists seventeen rights that patients are entitled to: [6] Right to information: Every patient has the right to know what is the illness that they are suffering, its causes, the status of the diagnosis (provisional or confirmed), expected costs of treatment. Furthermore, service providers should communicate this ...
California law requires health plans and insurers licensed by the state to provide transgender enrollees with medically necessary gender-affirming care. It also aims to protect doctors from laws ...
It was the largest under a state law enacted following widely publicized violations of privacy involving celebrities, including Farrah Fawcett, Britney Spears and California First Lady Maria Shriver. A second fine, of $187,500, was part of an investigation into employees improperly accessing the medical records of the so-called Octomom Nadya ...
Abortion rights advocates point to Fontana as an example of how local opposition can undermine California's progressive abortion access laws, which are among the strongest in the nation.
The California Budget Act of 1995 had required the Health and Welfare Agency Data Center (now the California Office of Systems Integration), in collaboration with the County Welfare Directors Association, to develop a plan to consolidate the systems to no more than four county consortia; ABX1 of 2011 required OSI to oversee the LRS contract and ...