BILL NUMBER: AB 818	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1279.7 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 818, as introduced, Hernandez. Health facilities: connection
ports.
   Existing law establishes various programs for the prevention of
disease and the promotion of the public health under the
administration of the State Department of Public Health, including,
but not limited to, a program for the licensure and regulation of
health facilities.
   Existing law, to become operative January 1, 2011, prohibits
certain health facilities from using an intravenous, epidural, or
enteral feeding connection that would fit into a connection port
other than the type it was intended for, unless an emergency or
urgent situation exists and the prohibition impairs the ability to
provide health care.
   This bill would delay the operative date of this prohibition until
January 1, 2014.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1279.7 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1279.7.  (a) A health facility, as defined in subdivision (a),
(b), (c), or (f) of Section 1250, shall implement a facility-wide
hand hygiene program.
   (b) Beginning January 1,  2011   2014  ,
a health facility, as defined in subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (f)
of Section 1250, is prohibited from using an intravenous connection,
epidural connection, or enteral feeding connection that would fit
into a connection port other than the type it was intended for,
unless an emergency or urgent situation exists and the prohibition
impairs the ability to provide health care.