California Health and Safety Code

§ 1367.043

HSC § 1367.043 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 2 · Ch. 2.2 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)(1) Within six months after the department issues guidance pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (e), and no later than March 1, 2025, a health care service plan that issues, sells, renews, or offers health care service plan contracts for health care coverage in this state, including a grandfathered health plan, but not including specialized health care service plan contracts that provide only dental or vision services, shall require all of its health care service plan staff who are in direct contact with enrollees in the delivery of care or enrollee services to complete evidence-based cultural competency training for the purpose of providing trans-inclusive health care for individuals who identify as transgender, gender diverse, or intersex (TGI).

(2)An evidence-based cultural competency training implemented pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include all of the following:

(A)Information about the effects, including, but not limited to, ongoing personal effects, of historical and contemporary exclusion and oppression of TGI communities.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 822, Sec. 2. (SB 923) Effective January 1, 2023.