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AB 444: Medical waste: home-generated medical waste.

  • Session Year: 2017-2018
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2017-04-18
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The Medical Waste Management Act generally regulates the management and disposal of medical waste.

This bill would authorize the California Environmental Protection Agency to develop a statewide program for the collection, transportation, and disposal of home-generated medical waste, as defined.

The Medical Waste Management Act, among other things, authorizes a local agency to approve, as part of a medical waste management program, a location as a point of consolidation for the collection of home-generated sharps waste, which, after collection, is transported and treated as medical waste. The act requires sharps containers at a home-generated sharps consolidation point that are ready for disposal to not be held more than 7 days, except as provided.This bill would extend the time period that sharps containers at a home-generated sharps consolidation point may be held from 7 to 14 days.

Discussed in Hearing

Assembly Floor55SEC
May 30, 2017

Assembly Floor

Assembly Standing Committee on Appropriations1H
May 26, 2017

Assembly Standing Committee on Appropriations

Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials7MIN
Apr 25, 2017

Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials

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