Legislation Tracker

Requires content on adolescent abusive relationships and intimate partner violence as part of California’s comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education in Grades 7-12

Prevents health care service plans from imposing cost-sharing or other limits on certain preventive care services or screenings, including STI home test kits and PrEP support services

Increases access to gender-affirming care by expediting licensure for providers who provide gender-affirming care

Requires primary clinics to offer a syphilis test to female patients between 15 to 44 years of age at least once a year

Removes cost-sharing for PrEP and PEP in certain health plans and requires plans and insurers to supply injectable PrEP and PEP directly to providers administering these to patients

Requires public schools to internal and external condoms available to all pupils in grades 9 to 12, free of charge

Requires sexual orientation and gender identity data collection by the State Department of Public Health and other state entities and an annual report concerning data collected

Authorizes additional disclosure of confidential HIV data to facilitate coordination of, linkage to, or reengagement in care for the person or persons and permits the local public health agency to disclose information to the healthcare provider who provides care to the HIV-positive person

Includes menstrual health education in California’s comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education in Grades 7-12

Creates a program allowing undocumented people to buy coverage on the California health marketplace similar to currently offered plans

Requires health plans, insurers, and pharmacy benefit managers to count funds paid by patient assistance programs towards the deductible and out-of-pocket expenses of chronically or terminally ill patients

Requires health plans or insurers to include coverage for screenings for social determinants of health (e.g., housing, food, transportation, utilities, and personal safety)

Regulates pharmacy benefit managers by eliminating “spread pricing” and other practices in order to decrease the cost of prescription drugs

Prohibits issuer of Medicare supplement policies or certificates, also known as Medigap coverage, from denying or conditioning the coverage or discriminating in the pricing of that coverage because of the health status, claims experience, receipt of health care, medical condition, or age of an applicant, if an application for coverage is submitted during an open enrollment period

Prohibits health care plans and insurers from requiring prior authorization or step therapy to access medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder

Allows nonprofit or free clinics to dispense Schedule II drugs on the controlled substances list to relieve withdrawal while patients are being referred to treatment

Expands access to prescription and non-prescription naloxone hydrochloride by requiring coverage and prohibiting cost-sharing requirements for that coverage

Authorizes middle and high schools to develop a policy to allow middle and high school students to carry naloxone and requires public middle and high schools to stock and distribute fentanyl test strips