SB 65 — Maternal care and services.

Summary

(1) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing, and requires the board to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a person who, among other qualifications, meets educational standards established by the board or the equivalent of those educational standards. Existing law, the Licensed Midwifery Practice Act of 1993, provides for the licensure of midwives by the Medical Board of California. Existing law, the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act, provides for specified training programs for certain health care workers, including family physicians, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Existing law establishes a state medical contract program with accredited medical schools, hospitals, and other programs and institutions to increase the number of students and residents receiving quality education and training in specified primary care specialties and maximize the delivery of primary care and family physician services to underserved areas of the state. This bill would enact the Midwifery Workforce Training Act, under which the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, contract with programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives to increase the number of students receiving quality education and training as a certified nurse-midwife or a licensed midwife, as specified. The bill would require the office to contract only with programs that include, or intend to include, a component of training designed for medically underserved multicultural communities, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, or rural communities, and that are organized to prepare program graduates for service in those neighborhoods and communities. (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to track data on pregnancy-related deaths, including specified health conditions, indirect obstetric deaths, and other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy and complications predominantly related to the puerperium, and requires this data to be published at least once every 3 years. Existing law also requires the department to develop a plan to identify causes of infant mortality and morbidity in California and to study recommendations on the reduction of infant mortality and morbidity in California. This bill would, commencing August 1, 2022, establish the California Pregnancy-Associated Review Committee, and would require the committee to, among other things, identify and review all pregnancy-related deaths and severe maternal morbidity. The bill would require the committee to be composed of a minimum of 13 members, as specified, and would authorize the committee to request from any state department, commission, local health department, or coroner, among others, specified information, including death records, medical records, and autopsy reports. The bill would make all proceedings, activities, and opinions of the committee confidential. This bill would require each county to annually report infant deaths to its respective local health department. The bill would require local health departments, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish a Fetal and Infant Mortality Review committee to investigate infant deaths to prevent fetal and infant death under specified circumstances, and would require those local health departments that participate in the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review process to annually investigate, track, and review cases of term infants, as defined, who were born following labor with the outcome of intrapartum stillbirth, early neonatal death, or postneonatal death. The bill would require counties, hospitals, birthing centers, and state entities to provide to local health departments death records, medical records, and autopsy reports, among other information, that will help the local health department conduct the fetal and infant mortality review. By imposing duties on local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services pursuant to a schedule of benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. This bill would require the department to convene a workgroup to examine the implementation of the Medi-Cal doula benefit, as specified. No later than July 1, 2024, the bill would require the department to publish a report that addresses the number of Medi-Cal recipients utilizing doula services and identifies barriers that impede access to doula services, among other things, and would require the department to post that report on its internet website. (4) Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Existing law requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility, but provides an exemption to a woman who is pregnant and for whom it has been medically verified that the pregnancy impairs their ability to be regularly employed or participate in welfare-to-work activities or the county has determined that, at that time, participation will not readily lead to employment or that a training activity is not appropriate. This bill would remove the medical verification and county determination requirements, and would instead provide an exemption to any recipient who is pregnant. Because the bill would result in an increase in CalWORKs eligibility, thus increasing the duties of counties administering the CalWORKs program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program. This bill would, instead, provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the bill. (5) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (6) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Bill Text

• Chaptered 10/04/21 - Chaptered Current pdf October 04, 2021
• Enrolled 09/14/21 - Enrolled pdf September 14, 2021
• Amended 09/02/21 - Amended Assembly pdf September 02, 2021
• Amended 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly pdf August 30, 2021
• Amended 06/14/21 - Amended Assembly pdf June 14, 2021
• Amended 04/15/21 - Amended Senate pdf April 15, 2021
• Amended 04/05/21 - Amended Senate pdf April 05, 2021
• Amended 03/10/21 - Amended Senate pdf March 10, 2021
• Introduced 12/07/20 - Introduced pdf December 07, 2020
• SB65 View text html

Action History

1. October 04, 2021

   Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 449, Statutes of 2021.

2. October 04, 2021

   Approved by the Governor.

3. September 17, 2021

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.

4. September 10, 2021

   Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 2608.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

5. September 09, 2021

   In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

6. September 09, 2021

   Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3028.) Ordered to the Senate.

7. September 02, 2021

   Ordered to third reading.

8. September 02, 2021

   Read third time and amended.

9. August 31, 2021

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

10. August 30, 2021

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

11. August 26, 2021

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (August 26).

12. August 19, 2021

    August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

13. July 01, 2021

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

14. July 01, 2021

    Coauthors revised.

15. June 23, 2021

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.

16. June 14, 2021

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

17. May 28, 2021

    Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUM. S.

18. May 24, 2021

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

19. May 24, 2021

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 1237.) Ordered to the Assembly.

20. May 20, 2021

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

21. May 20, 2021

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1181.) (May 20).

22. May 18, 2021

    Set for hearing May 20.

23. May 17, 2021

    May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.

24. May 07, 2021

    Set for hearing May 17.

25. May 06, 2021

    May 10 hearing postponed by committee.

26. April 30, 2021

    Set for hearing May 10.

27. April 28, 2021

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

28. April 26, 2021

    Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

29. April 26, 2021

    Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 909.)

30. April 20, 2021

    April 20 hearing postponed by committee.

31. April 16, 2021

    Set for hearing April 20.

32. April 15, 2021

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

33. April 14, 2021

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 794.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

34. April 05, 2021

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

35. March 26, 2021

    Set for hearing April 14.

36. March 18, 2021

    Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S.

37. March 10, 2021

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

38. January 28, 2021

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

39. December 08, 2020

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.

40. December 07, 2020

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

• Skinner · Primary
• Kamlager · Cosponsor
• Leyva · Cosponsor
• Henry I. Stern · Cosponsor
• Thomas J. Umberg · Cosponsor
• Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry · Cosponsor
• Joaquin Arambula · Cosponsor
• Isaac G. Bryan · Cosponsor
• Burke · Cosponsor
• Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah · Cosponsor
• Lena A. Gonzalez · Cosponsor
• Susan Rubio · Cosponsor
• Wendy Carrillo · Cosponsor

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