Bob Wieckowski
- Democratic
Author
(1) Under existing law, the Medical Waste Management Act, the State Department of Public Health regulates the disposal of medical waste. The act requires specified biohazard materials to be disposed of in biohazard bags and requires specified treatment for medical waste. Transportation, storage, treatment, or disposal of medical waste in a manner not authorized by the act is a crime. Existing law defines specified terms for purposes of the Medical Waste Management Act, including "biohazard bag." Existing law defines a biohazard bag to mean a film bag that is impervious to moisture. Existing law requires the film bags that are used for transport to be marked and certified by the manufacturer as having passed specified tests prescribed for tear resistance and for impact resistance. This bill would revise the definition of "biohazard bag" and would limit the application of the requirement that film bags used for transport be marked and certified by the manufacturer as having passed specified tests only to those film bags that are used for transport from the generator's facility onto roadways and into commerce to a treatment and disposal facility. The bill would revise the requirements for biohazard bags that are used to collect medical waste within a facility, as specified. (2) Existing law requires a hazardous waste transporter or generator transporting medical waste to maintain a completed shipping document in compliance with the United States Department of Transportation and a tracking document if the waste is transported to a facility other than the final medical waste treatment facility. This bill would instead require a hazardous waste transporter that transports medical waste to maintain a tracking document in compliance with specified requirements for purposes of tracking medical waste from the point when the waste leaves the generator facility until the waste receives final treatment. The bill would also require the tracking document to be maintained only by hazardous waste transporters, and not by generators transporting waste. The bill would also make conforming changes. (3) 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 352, Statutes of 2015.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2494.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Urgency clause adopted.
From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2487.)
Set for hearing September 3.
From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E.Q. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2273.) Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d).
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2636.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 19).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 30).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 880.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Set for hearing April 27.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 649.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 15.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB225 | HTML |
| 02/13/15 - Introduced | |
| 06/08/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/23/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/02/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/17/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/08/15 - Enrolled | |
| 09/28/15 - Chaptered |
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