This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage for pelvic floor physical therapy after pregnancy. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

This bill would require water utilities to test water faucets and fixtures in TK-12 schools for lead concentrations greater than five parts per a billion (5 ppb) over the next five years. Faucets and fixtures found to exceed the 5ppb standard must be made inoperable until the lead is mitigated or fixture replaced.

This bill would require the department to develop and adopt a statewide policy to discontinue roadside spraying of herbicides and synthetic pesticides in each county where the county board of supervisors has adopted a resolution that opposes the spraying of herbicides and synthetic pesticides in the county, except where no alternative vegetation management practice is feasible or during a state of emergency relating to wildfire if the spraying is solely for purposes of preventing, combating, or mitigating the risk of wildfire. The bill would require the department, in developing that policy, to consider implementing alternative vegetation management practices, as specified.

This bill would add the right of every resident to receive the information that is material to an individual’s informed consent decision concerning whether to accept or refuse the administration of psychotherapeutic drugs. This bill would also add the right to be free from psychotherapeutic drugs used for the purpose of resident discipline, convenience, or chemical restraint, except in an emergency that threatens to cause immediate injury to the resident or others. This bill would make the prescriber responsible for disclosing the material information relating to psychotherapeutic drugs to the resident and obtaining their written informed consent.

This bill would expand transparency between nonpublic schools and parents and/or guardians of the pupils with exceptional needs in nonpublic schools by requiring Local Educational Agencies to alert parents and/or guardians via email or mail when a nonpublic school status changes to conditional or suspended/revoked due to a California Department of Education investigation. There have been incidents of restraint and seclusion of students with exceptional needs which have resulted in a nonpublic school having their status changed by the California Department of Education, but parents or guardians are currently not alerted of such changes.

This bill would require a local educational agency to ensure that the parent understands the proceedings during the planning process for the individualized education program, including communicating in the parent’s native language, or in another mode of communication used by the parent, arranging for an interpreter, providing translation services, and providing alternative communication services. The bill would require a local educational agency, upon request by a pupil’s parent, to translate the pupil’s completed individualized education program, any revisions to the individualized education program, and certain documents discussed at an individualized education program team meeting.