AB63 Office of Binational Health    
Would create the state Office of Binational Health. Would require the office to submit an annual report to the DHS, Legislature and the Governor. (PASSED HEALTH, IN APPROP)

AB611 Prenatal Health: Information Dissemination
Would require DHS to review the adequacy of prenatal nutrition information available to physicians providing health care to pregnant womenand report it findings to the legislature. (PASSED HEALTH, PASSED APPROP, IN ASSEMBLY)

AB1061 Health Coverage: Health Care Programs
Would repeal the Healthy Families program, Medi-Cal programs, the Maternal and Child Health program act and other related programs. (IN HEALTH)

AB1400 -- Childhood Lead Poisoning
Would require DHS to establish 10 one-year pilot programs to screen children for elevated blood lead levels. (PASSED HEALTH, IN AP-PROP)

SB148 Health Care Coverage: Phenylketonuria    
Would mandate that health care service plan contracts provide coverage for the testing and treatment of phenylketonuria. (PASSED INS, PASSED APPROP, IN SEN)

SB265 Health Care Coverage   
Would expand who must provide health care coverage and would forbid denying coverage due to a preexisting condition among other things. (IN INS)

SB441 Motorized Scooters    
Would establish the requirement for safety helmets and other provisions regarding the use of motorized scooters. (PASSED PUBLIC SERV, IN APPROP)

SB480 Health Care Coverage
Would require health coverage be universally available to every resident of California by July 1, 2003. (PASSED H&HS, IN APPROP)

SB493 Taxpayer Contributions: California Birth Defects Research Fund
Would allow taxpayers to designate on their tax returns that a specified amount in excess of their tax liability be transferred to the CBDRF. (PASSED REV&TAX, FAILED APPROP, RECONSIDERATION)

SB567 Vehicles: Child Passenger Restraint System: Seatbelts
Would increase the penalties for not complying with the current law. (PASSED TRANS, IN APPROP)

SB648 Venereal Disease
Would allow local health officers to include chlamydia within the definition of venereal diseases. (PASSED H&HS, IN APPROP)

SB1033 Child Health and Disability Prevention
Would change various fiscal and procedural requirements of the CHDP program. (PASSED EDUC, IN APPROP)

SB1115 Lyme Disease: Advisory Committee & Info Service
Would create an advisory committee in the DHS and would require the
establishment of a public information service. (PASSED H&HS, IN APPROP)

SB1185 Genetic Characteristics: Definition
Would recast and rephrase the definition of “genetic characteristics”. (PASSED SENATE, IN ASSEMBLY)

SB1191 Hereditary and Congenital Diseases: Hemoglobin Disorders
Would require DHS to develop a pilot program to determine the cost and effectiveness of cord blood banking. (PASSED H&HS, IN APPROP)

SB1197 Motorcycles: Helmets
Would repeal the entire section regarding the requirements to wear a safety helmet when operating or riding on a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or motorized bicycle. (IN TRANS)