Bill Text: CA AB1423 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prisoners: medical treatment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 381, Statutes of 2015. [AB1423 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1423-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1423	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mark Stone

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act relating to medical treatment of prisoners.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1423, as introduced, Mark Stone. Prisoners: medical treatment:
consent.
   Under existing law a person who allows any lack of care that would
injure or impair the health of a person confined in the state prison
is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law prohibits the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation from modifying or canceling an order
of a physician employed by the department for medical treatment of an
inmate that is required to prevent a violation of that prohibition,
or to prevent serious and imminent harm to the health of a prisoner,
except under specified circumstances. Existing law authorizes the
Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to
allow the temporary removal of an inmate from the state prison for
the purposes of receiving medical treatment.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish a process by which the department
can obtain consent to release information to the relatives of a
prisoner suffering from a debilitating, but not life-threatening,
condition during the term of his or her imprisonment, and to obtain
consent for a proposed course of treatment for that condition.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish a process for obtaining consent to
release information to the relatives of, and to obtain consent for a
proposed course of treatment for, a person sentenced to imprisonment
in the state prison who is suffering from a debilitating, but not
life-threatening, condition during his or her term of imprisonment.