By Taylor C. Brewer In January 2020, the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) published its Timely Access Report for 2018. The Timely Access Regulation, section 1300.67.2.2, Title 28, of the California Code of Regulations (CCR), which became effective in Continue reading
By Michael J. Melton On February 7, 2020, CPUC Commissioner Genevieve Shiroma issued a proposed decision on data confidentiality issues pertaining to the Commission’s Order Instituting Rulemaking (OIR) on regulations relating to passenger carriers, ridesharing, and new online-enabled transportation services Continue reading
By James D. Colleran On December 16, 2019, the Department of Business Oversight (DBO) announced that it entered into a settlement agreement with TitleMax of California, a subsidiary of the nationwide financial lender TitleMax, which operates 65 California Financing Law Continue reading
By Halie Turigliatti At the Committee of Bar Examiners’ (CBE) meeting on January 31, 2020, the Committee considered staff’s recommendation that CBE issue a notice of intent to terminate the California State Bar’s accreditation of Pacific Coast University School of Continue reading
By Christine Lambert On January 17, 2020, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved California’s Veterinary Medical Board’s (VMB) proposed emergency rulemaking to amend sections 2070 and 2071, Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR) to increase licensing Continue reading
By Madeline Rojer At the State Bar Board of Trustees’ January 24, 2020 meeting, the State Bar’s interim Executive Director, Donna Hershkowitz, announced in her Executive Director Report that in 2020, the State Bar will highlight and focus on Goal Continue reading
By Strider Kachelein SB 378 (Wiener), as amended January 21, 2020, is a two-year bill that would add sections 592, 748, 776.7, 911.3, and 2111.5 to the Public Utilities Code to impose numerous requirements related to an electrical investor-owned utility’s Continue reading
By Rayne Brown On November 7, 2019, the Department of Managed Health Care’s (DMHC) Financial Solvency Standards Board held its quarterly meeting in Sacramento. At the meeting, DMHC Acting General Counsel, Sarah Ream previewed for the Board four regulations that Continue reading
By Thomas Burke AB 1140 (Stone), as amended January 23, 2020, is a two-year bill, originally introduced February 21, 2019, that would add section 22252.2 to the Business and Professions Code to require tax preparers to provide consumers with written Continue reading
By Mariela Romo On December 19, 2019, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the Contractors’ State License Board’s (CSLB) proposed emergency regulations to amend section 811, Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR) to raise certain CSLB Continue reading
