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Votes at a glance: Appropriations Committee advances multiple measures including child-passenger safety and health-cost reporting bills
Summary
The Assembly Appropriations Committee on May 7 advanced a set of bills by roll call and by consent, including AB 435 (child-passenger-safety five-step test), AB 1415 (expanded data authority for the Office of Health Care Affordability), AB 539 (prior-authorization reform), AB 1466 (groundwater adjudication standard), and AB 1207 (cap-and-trade price-ceiling alignment).
The Assembly Appropriations Committee on May 7 moved a number of bills out of the committee by vote or by consent calendar. Below are the bills discussed briefly in the hearing and the committee actions recorded in the transcript.
AB 435 — Child passenger safety (presented by Assemblymember Wilson): The bill would implement a five-step test for child passenger safety and extend booster-seat requirements and rear-seat seating rules for specified ages. Support from the California Hospital Association was recorded. The committee approved the bill by roll call.
AB 1415 — Office of Health Care Affordability (presented by Assemblymember Bonta): The bill would expand the Office of Health Care Affordability’s data access to include information from health systems and management-service organizations to better identify cost drivers. Supporters included Health Access California and Consumer groups; the…
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