Bill Text: CA AB1867 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health facilities: equipment standards.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 194, Statutes of 2012. [AB1867 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1867-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1867	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pan

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1867, as introduced, Pan. Health facilities. equipment
standards.
   Existing law, to become operative 36 months after specified
prescribed standards are developed, or January 1, 2014, whichever
occurs first, prohibits certain health facilities from using an
epidural connection that would fit into a connection port other than
the type for which it was intended, unless an emergency or urgent
situation exists and the prohibition impairs the ability to provide
health care. Existing law, to become operative 24 months after
specified prescribed standards are developed, or January 1, 2013,
whichever occurs first, prohibits these health facilities from using
an intravenous or enteral connection that would fit into a connection
port other than the type for which it was intended, unless an
emergency or urgent situation exists and the prohibition impairs the
ability to provide health care. Existing law requires the Advanced
Medical Technology Association to report annually to the Legislature
on the progress of the development of those standards.
   This bill would revise the prohibition to instead refer to
epidural, intravenous, and enteral connectors.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
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) Commencing 36 months after the publication of a new design
standard for  connections    
connectors  for epidural applications by the International
Organization for Standardization, or January 1, 2014, whichever
occurs first, a health facility, as defined in subdivision (a), (b),
(c), or (f) of Section 1250, is prohibited from using an epidural
 connection     connector  that
would fit into a  connection port    
connector  other than the type it was intended for, unless an
emergency or urgent situation exists and the prohibition would impair
the ability to provide health care.
   (c) Commencing 24 months after the publication of a new design
standard for  connections   connectors  for
intravenous or enteral applications by the International
Organization for Standardization, or January 1, 2013, whichever
occurs first, a health facility, as defined in subdivision (a), (b),
(c), or (f) of Section 1250, is prohibited from using an intravenous
 connection     connector  or an
enteral feeding  connection    
connector  that would fit into a  connection port
  connector  other than the type it was intended
for, unless an emergency or urgent situation exists and the
prohibition would impair the ability to provide health care.
   (d) The Advanced Medical Technology Association shall, on January
1 of each year until the standards are developed, provide the
Legislature with a report on the progress of the International
Organization for Standardization in developing new design standards
for  connections     connectors 
for intravenous, epidural, or enteral applications.
   (e) A health facility that is required to develop a patient safety
plan pursuant to Section 1279.6 shall include in the patient safety
plan measures to prevent adverse events associated with misconnecting
intravenous, enteral feeding, and epidural lines. This subdivision
shall become inoperative as to epidural  connections
  connectors  upon the operative date of
subdivision (b) and as to intravenous and enteral 
connections   connectors  upon the operative date
of subdivision (c).