AB 40: California Environmental Quality Act: environmental impact reports: coal handling, storage, and export.

The bill aims to amend the health and safety code to expand the definition of "emergency services and care" to include reproductive health services, such as abortion. This expansion would make it a crime for health facilities and health care service plans to deny or delay necessary reproductive health services in emergency situations. The bill would also provide that no reimbursement is required for costs associated with this expansion. The bill is declared to take effect immediately as an urgency statute, allowing it to be implemented immediately without a delay.