Official Summary Text
AB 40, as amended,
Bonta
Bryan.
Emergency services and care.
Redistricting: congressional districts.
Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health and makes a violation of those provisions a crime. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law requires a health facility to provide emergency services and care upon request or when a person is in danger of loss of life or serious injury or illness, and requires a health care service plan to reimburse providers for emergency services and care. Existing law defines “emergency services and care” for these purposes to mean medical screening, examination, and evaluation by a physician and surgeon, or other appropriate licensed persons under the supervision of a physician and
surgeon, to determine if an emergency medical condition or active labor exists and, if it does, the care, treatment, and surgery, if within the scope of that person’s license, necessary to relieve or eliminate the emergency medical condition, within the capability of the facility, among other things.
This bill would additionally define “emergency services and care” for the above-described purposes to mean reproductive health services, including abortion. By expanding the applicability of a crime with respect to health facilities and health care service plans, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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 no reimbursement is
required by this act for a specified reason.
The California Constitution requires the Citizens Redistricting Commission to adjust the boundary lines of the congressional, State Senate, Assembly, and State Board of Equalization districts in each year ending in 1.
If approved by the electors, ACA 8 of the 2025–26 Regular Session would temporarily adopt new congressional district boundaries until 2031. The new congressional district boundaries are set forth in AB 604 of the 2025–26 Regular Session, which specifies that those district boundaries would become operative only if ACA 8 is approved by the electors.
This bill would instead make the congressional
district boundaries in AB 604 operative only if ACA 8 is approved by the electors and another state adopts a new congressional district map that takes effect after August 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2031, and that was not required by a federal court order.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.