BILL NUMBER: AB 1739 VETOED DATE: 09/21/2016 To the Members of the California State Assembly: I am returning Assembly Bill 1739 without my signature. This bill codifies a specific standard for allergy testing in Medi-Cal. The Department of Health Care Services already has authority to set allergy testing standards and will be updating them later this year. When it does so, the Department should not be limited, as this bill requires, to considering just the guidelines from National Institutes of Health. Sincerely, Edmund G. Brown Jr.