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The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to protect a patient’s right to medical records. Imagine you’re diagnosed with an illness and you have to look years back into your care. “The patient actually may find when he or she goes to look that the records have been destroyed without the patient’s consent,” said Senator Richard Roth who authored the bill SB 1238 the Medical Records Protection Act.

You hire a contractor to replace your roof and paint your house, then end up on the hook for more than a quarter million dollars. It happened to a Los Angeles man. And others have shared similar home improvement nightmares with the NBC4 I-Team.

By Joe Michaels

A legislative bill being introduced at the State Capitol would give California drivers an easy way to help the homeless.

Senator Richard Roth is behind an effort to create a specialized license plate using a hashtag as one of its seven digits.  Money raised would fund supportive services at Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention programs.

“These are men and women who have served our country,” said Senator Roth.  “It’s our solemn duty to make sure that we provide a path for them out of homelessness so they can succeed in society.”

By Teri Sforza and Tony Saavedra

People looking to quit alcohol or other drugs typically find treatment the same way they might search for take-out food or a mechanic – by typing search words into Google.

Once there, addicts and their families can get trapped in a tangle of lies.

The deception has taken many forms:

— Competitors hijack online traffic from established centers by buying common misspellings and iterations of rehab names and key phrases.