01.15.06
California tweaks state Health Care Directive Registry
AB 1676, passed during the 2005 Legislative session, makes further changes to California’s little-known Healthcare Directive Registry. California law allows registration of an Advance Health Care Directive with the Secretary of State; the new legislation directs the Secretary of State to work with the Attorney General and the Department of Health Services to develop written information about Advance Health Care Directives, and to make that information available on the websites of the Secretary of State, the Department of Health Services, the Attorney General, the Department of Managed Health Care, the Department of Insurance, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the Medical Board of California.