BILL NUMBER: AB 599INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Hall FEBRUARY 25, 2009 An act to amend Section 100700 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to laboratories. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 599, as introduced, Hall. Forensic blood alcohol testing laboratories. Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health regulates laboratories engaged in the performance of forensic alcohol analysis tests by or for law enforcement agencies on blood, urine, tissue, or breath for the purpose of determining the concentration of ethyl alcohol in persons involved in traffic accidents or in traffic violations. Existing law also requires the department to establish a committee for the review of regulations relating to these laboratories with this committee known as the Forensic Alcohol Review Committee. This bill would exempt from those regulations laboratories that are accredited in the forensic alcohol analysis discipline or subdiscipline by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB) or by another accrediting body approved by the Forensic Alcohol Review Committee. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 100700 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 100700. (a) Laboratories engaged in the performance of forensic alcohol analysis tests by or for law enforcement agencies on blood, urine, tissue, or breath for the purposes of determining the concentration of ethyl alcohol in persons involved in traffic accidents or in traffic violations shall comply with Group 8 (commencing with Section 1215) of Subchapter 1 of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, as they exist on December 31, 2004, until the time when those regulations are revised pursuant to Section 100703. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the department shall not require laboratories to be licensed. (c) Laboratories that are accredited in the forensic alcohol analysis discipline or subdiscipline by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB) or by another accrediting body approved by the Forensic Alcohol Review Committee established pursuant to Section 100703, shall be exempt from the requirements of this section.