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Lawmakers pass policy changes to protect community members against the opioid epidemic, non-disclosure agreements, mental health stigmas and uneducated athletic trainers with criminal backgrounds.
By: East County News Service
October 3, 2024 (San Diego, CA) – Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a dozen bills authored by local Assemblymember Akilah Weber into law. Below are the new laws, which include measures to expand NARCAN access to prevent overdoses, ban companies from forcing consumers to sign non-disclosure agreements, protect the privacy of domestic violence survivors and mental health patients, prevent racial hairstyle bias in youth sports, require insurers to cover pasteurized, donor breast milk for infants in intensive care, and more.
AB 796: Title Protection for Athletic Trainers
This bill would establish title protection for certified athletic trainers, prohibit an individual from holding themselves out to be an athletic trainer or certified athletic trainer without the required education and training requirements and would prevent a person that has been convicted in court or has had their license or registration in another state restricted from practicing athletic training in California.
AB 1815: Expansion of the CROWN Act
This bill would expand the CROWN ACT prohibiting hair discrimination to include amateur or youth sports organizations and any private entities open to members of the public, whether they are for-profit businesses or non-profit organizations.
AB 1841: Narcan in University Housing
This bill would require CSU and Community colleges to train students on the use of opioid reversal medication and requires university housing to be stocked with opioid reversal medication.
AB 1891: Admissions for Community College Health Programs
This bill would allow California’s community colleges to utilize multi-criteria screening as first-come-first serve, a lottery system, or a combination of these practices in their admission process for Allied Health programs.
AB 1900: Consumer NDAs
Prohibits companies from requiring a consumer to sign a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of receiving a refund or anything of value.
AB 1984: Reporting on Student Transfers
Would require the Department of Education to collect and publish on its website, the number of students who transferred to alternative schools due to disciplinary reasons in each school district.
AB 2072: Biomedical Health Plans
Would extend the sunset date to January 1, 2030, and the ability for biomedical companies to offer affordable, high-quality health insurance to their employees through California’s small employer association health plan law.
AB 2119: Destigmatizing Mental Health Code
Would remove outdated and stigmatizing language regarding mental and behavioral health conditions from current Welfare and Institutions Code, including words like “defect” or “burden.”
AB 2166: Textured Hair Training
Would require courses in hairstyling, barbering, or cosmetology to include instruction for providing services to persons with varying hair types, including different textures, thicknesses, and curl or wave patterns. Additionally, the bill would require examinations for licensure in barbering or cosmetology to include questions about textured hair.
AB 2319 (Joint Author): Implicit Bias Training
Expands the types of healthcare providers and health facility employees who must participate in implicit bias training pursuant to the California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act.
AB 3059: Donor Breast Milk
Would require commercial health plans to cover medically necessary pasteurized donor human milk for infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICU), and exempts hospitals from obtaining a tissue bank license in order to distribute donor milk.
SB 1394 (Joint Author): Vehicle Privacy for Domestic Violence Survivors
Would require vehicle manufacturers to allow drivers to terminate remote access to a vehicle and remote access to the location of the vehicle, when they are survivors of domestic violence.
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Thank You, Dr. Weber!
The Bill's you introduced, and got approved, were both thoughtful and helpful! Good luck in winning your Senate Seat!