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Committee sets positions on several bills, including support for fluoride coverage and opposition to infection-control timing change
Summary
The Dental Hygiene Board of CaliforniaLegislation & Regulatory Committee reviewed a set of bills and recommended positions to the full board: watch on several health-benefit benchmark and access bills, support for AB 350 (fluoride coverage expansion), and oppose AB 873 (changes to infection-control timing for unlicensed dental assistants).
At its meeting the committee reviewed multiple bills of interest and voted to recommend positions for the full board to adopt later. The committeemotion, made by Julie Elginer and seconded by Sonia Pat Hansen, recorded the following recommended positions:
- AB 224 (Bonta): Watch. Expresses legislative intent to review California's essential health benefits benchmark plan and establish a new benchmark for 2027. Staff recommended watch since the bill is early in the process.
- AB 341 (Arambula): Watch. Would establish an oral-health technical assistance center to improve dental care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; staff recommended watch and committee discussed adding RDHAPs to the programscope to expand access for home- and…
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