Hannah-Beth Jackson
- Democratic
Author
Under existing law, the Medical Waste Management Act, the State Department of Public Health regulates the management and handling of medical waste, including pharmaceutical waste, as defined. The act generally prohibits a person from transporting, storing, treating, disposing, or causing the treatment of medical waste in a manner not authorized by the act. A violation of that provision is a crime. Under existing law, everyone is generally responsible, not only for the result of his or her willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by his or her want of ordinary care or skill in the management of his or her property or person, except so far as the latter, has willfully or by want of ordinary care, brought the injury upon himself or herself. This bill would provide that a collector, as defined, is not liable for civil damages, or subject to criminal prosecution, for any injury or harm that results from the collector maintaining a secure drug take-back bin on its premises provided that the collector, not for compensation, acts in good faith to take specified steps, including that the collector regularly inspects the area surrounding the secure drug take-back bin for potential tampering or diversion, to ensure the health and safety of consumers and employees and the proper disposal in the waste stream of home-generated pharmaceutical waste, as defined, contained in the bins.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 238, Statutes of 2016.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4881.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5707.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 21).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
June 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3629.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3520.) (April 12).
Set for hearing April 12.
Withdrawn from committee.
April 6 hearing postponed by committee.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Set for hearing April 6.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB1229 | HTML |
| 02/18/16 - Introduced | |
| 03/28/16 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/19/16 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/14/16 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/27/16 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/12/16 - Enrolled | |
| 08/29/16 - Chaptered |
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