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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER: Governor gets bills that would crack down on addiction treatment scams, raise standards
Excerpted from The Orange County Register
By Teri Sforza
In that unwieldy stack of newly proposed laws atop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk: Four bills that aim to require licensing, reduce fraud and false advertising and raise standards in California’s notoriously under-regulated addiction treatment industry.
mHEALTHINTELLIGENCE: CA Lawmaker Pushes to Improve Birth Control Access Through Telehealth
Excerpted from mHealthIntelligence
By Eric Wicklund
A California lawmaker is hoping that replacing one word in the state’s telehealth law will enable residents to get birth control pills through an mHealth app or telehealth service.
AB 1264, submitted by State Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach) earlier this year, replaces the word “it” with “the licensee” in defining the Business and Professions Code regarding the use of telehealth or prescribe, dispense or furnish so-called “dangerous drugs.”
Legislature Votes to Protect Patients in Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities
Action Necessary in Response to the Opioid Crisis
SACRAMENTO — Assembly Bills (AB) 919 and 920, authored by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach), will increase protections for vulnerable patients seeking legitimate substance abuse treatment. Both bills passed the Legislature unanimously, at the end of the legislative session with bipartisan support, and will now be sent to the Governor who has until October 13, 2019 to consider legislation.
SACRAMENTO BEE: Get birth control with an app? California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon decide
Excerpted from the Sacramento Bee
By Andrew Sheeler
It could soon be legal to access birth control through a smartphone app.
California lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom that “clarifies vague telehealth law related to safely prescribing prescriptions,” according to the office of bill sponsor Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach.