CLSA Wire

Looking ahead at 2020, we anticipate a ballot crowded with initiatives, many of which could have a significant impact on California’s life sciences industry. The issues being covered range from consumer privacy, which we have previously discussed at length, to commercial property taxes and funding for California’s stem cell agency.

The enactment of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375) (CCPA) brought sweeping restrictions on the collection and use of consumer information. A clean-up bill that same year, SB 1121 (Dodd), added key exceptions to the CCPA to help protect clinical trials and other biomedical research from unintended consequences, including exceptions for, among other things, protected health information (PHI) under federal law and information collected as part of a clinical trial subject to various laws and guidelines.

Life Sciences Trade Groups Warn Congress: International Reference Pricing Proposals Included in Bills like H.R. 3 Undermine Hope for Patients and America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation

While the 2018 legislative year marked arguably the most successful year ever for CLSA in Sacramento and provided a number of major policy issues on which to focus our energy, the 2019 legislative year was “death by a thousand cuts,” requiring CLSA to spread its attention broadly across a host of issues outside of our traditional areas of focus.

On Oct. 22, CLSA, in partnership with Allergan and Edwards Lifesciences, hosted facility tour and roundtable discussion with the nearly 40 personnel, including state legislators, legislative staff, the Orange County Medical Association, and other key stakeholders to educate policymakers and stakeholders on the value of life sciences innovation in Orange County.