TRSA’s efforts to reform California’s Title 22 rule that regulates the laundering of healthcare linen took another step forward recently when it passed in a unanimous vote out of the California State Senate Committee on Health. Even better, the bill was amended to allow TRSA operators’ flexibility in processing healthcare linens until the California Department of Health (CDH) updates the regulation. AB 2679, authored by Assembly Member Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), directs the CDH to reform the outdated prescriptive method of laundering healthcare linens to include more modern, effective and efficient methods.

As amended by the California Senate Committee on ...