Elaine Alquist
- Democratic
Author
Existing law provides for the licensure of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires emergency services and care to be provided to any person requesting the services or care, or for whom services or care is requested, for any condition in which the person is in danger of loss of life, or serious injury or illness, at any licensed health facility that maintains and operates an emergency department to provide emergency services to the public when the health facility has appropriate facilities and qualified personnel available to provide the services or care. Existing law prohibits the transfer of a person needing emergency services and care from one hospital to another for any nonmedical reason, unless specified conditions are met, including a requirement that the person be examined and evaluated by a physician and surgeon. Existing law defines active labor to mean labor in which either there is inadequate time to effect safe transfer to another hospital prior to delivery or the transfer may pose a health and safety threat to the patient or the unborn child. This bill would require, notwithstanding the above-described prohibition, for purposes of providing emergency services and care to patients with conditions related to active labor presenting to the emergency department of Stanford Hospital and Clinics, that Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford be treated as a single licensed facility if the 2 hospitals have entered into a specified agreement and other specified conditions are met. These conditions would include a medical determination that the patient may be transported safely and the patient has not refused transfer. The bill also would make findings and declarations regarding the necessity for a special statute. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 18, Statutes of 2012.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
(Corrected June 7.)
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3791.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5202.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read third time and amended. (Page 5069.)
Ordered to third reading.
Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, urgency clause adopted, passed, and ordered to Senate.
Returned by the Governor at the request of the Senate.
In Assembly. Held at Desk.
Ordered to the Assembly.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:15 p.m.
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4790.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Hearing postponed by committee.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2680.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended.
Set for hearing January 17.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2649.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
(Corrected January 6.)
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Set for hearing January 11.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB630 | HTML |
| 02/18/11 - Introduced | |
| 01/04/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 01/18/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/29/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/08/12 - Enrolled | |
| 06/15/12 - Chaptered |
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