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SB 277 did not allow public health officials to oppose unjustified medical exemptions provided by physicians, and public health officials supported a change in the law to allow them to address abuses of the medical exemption process and thus decrease the possibility of infectious disease outbreaks.
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act of 1959, codified as Government Code ยงยง12900 - 12996, [1] is a California statute used to fight sexual harassment and other forms of unlawful discrimination in employment and housing, which was passed on September 18, 1959.
Medi-Cal was created in 1965 by the California Medical Assistance Program a few months after the national legislation was passed. Approximately 15.28 million people were enrolled in Medi-Cal as of September 2022, [3] or about 40% of California's population; in most counties , more than half of eligible residents were enrolled as of 2020.
Abortion in California is legal up to the point of fetal viability. An abortion ban was in place by 1900, and by 1950, it was a criminal offense for a woman to have an abortion. In 1962, the American Law Institute published their model penal code, as it applied to abortions, with three circumstances where they believed a physician could ...
Under a 2019 state law, anyone who loses Medi-Cal coverage is automatically enrolled in Covered California's lowest cost policy in the silver tier, which pays 70% of the healthcare costs incurred ...
Daniel Kim/Sacramento Bee file. California lawmakers have approved a controversial no-bid statewide Medi-Cal contract for HMO giant Kaiser Permanente over the objection of county governments and ...
The law Democrats approved last year extends the MCO tax through 2027 and dedicates a portion of the revenue to increase payment rates to doctors and other Medi-Cal providers, in some cases, for ...
California End of Life Option Act is a law enacted in June 2016 by the California State Legislature which allows terminally ill adult residents in the state of California to access medical aid in dying by self-administering lethal drugs, provided specific circumstances are met. [1] The law was signed in by California governor Jerry Brown in ...