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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Another measure aimed astatine protecting women successful healthcare settings is 1 measurement person to the Governor's desk.
AB 849 passed the Senate Health Committee Wednesday aft 8 members voted for the bill. Three members did not vote, including 2 republicans and 1 democrat. The measure present moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee, wherever it is expected to pass.
AB 849 is aimed astatine helping make amended grooming for chaperones during ultrasounds and volition necessitate stricter and clearer guidelines for erstwhile the chaperones are expected to beryllium present.
Both bills are sponsored by Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria.
This comes aft nearly a twelve women from Los Banos allege intersexual assaults astatine the hands of their ultrasound tech astatine Sutter Health's Los Banos Memorial Hospital betwixt 2020 and 2022.
AB 848 is the sister measure of AB 849. AB 848 gives judges the abstraction to adhd stricter punishments for those convicted of intersexual assaults successful a healthcare setting, and tin usage the patient-provider narration arsenic an aggravated factor. AB 848 passed the Senate Public Safety Committee successful the California State Legislature earlier this summer.
The lawyer representing galore of the women who allege maltreatment says this instrumentality is needed, arsenic immoderate of the women were assaulted with chaperones present, arsenic they were not decently trained.
“The 9 intersexual battle survivors I correspond proceed to beryllium encouraged by the advancement Assemblymember Soria is making successful Sacramento to insure that the women coming aft them won’t endure arsenic they have, that they won’t beryllium alone, that they volition person an state successful the country who knows what healthcare looks like, and what to bash if the unthinkable happens. Their voices whitethorn not person been heard successful those middle-of-the-night moments successful the ultrasound room, but they are being heard now," lawyer Amanda Whitten says.
The Senate Appropriations Committee is expected to ballot connected this successful August. Both bills person already passed the house, and are expected to rapidly determination backmost from the location to the governor's table to go law.
