Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) The authority shall develop a written application for the awarding of grants under this part within 90 days of the adoption of this act. The authority shall award grants to eligible children’s hospitals, subject to the limitations of this part and to further the purposes of t…

The Bureau of State Audits may conduct periodic audits to ensure that bond proceeds are awarded in a timely fashion and in a manner consistent with the requirements of this part, and that awardees of bond proceeds are using funds in compliance with applicable provisions of this p…

The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this part shall be deposited in the Children’s Hospital Bond Act Fund, which is hereby created. (Added November 4, 2008, by initiative Proposition 3.)

The purpose of the Children’s Hospital Program is to improve the health and welfare of California’s critically ill children, by providing a stable and ready source of funds for capital improvement projects for children’s hospitals. The program provided for in this part is in the …

The authority is authorized to award grants to any children’s hospital for purposes of funding projects, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 1179.51. (Added November 4, 2008, by initiative Proposition 3.)

(a) Twenty percent of the total funds available for grants pursuant to this part shall be awarded to children’s hospitals as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 1179.51. (b) Eighty percent of the total funds available for grants pursuant to this part shall be a…

(a) The authority shall develop a written application for the awarding of grants under this part within 90 days of the adoption of this act. The authority shall award grants to eligible children’s hospitals, subject to the limitations of this part and to further the purposes of t…

The Bureau of State Audits may conduct periodic audits to ensure that bond proceeds are awarded in a timely fashion and in a manner consistent with the requirements of this part, and that awardees of bond proceeds are using funds in compliance with applicable provisions of this p…

The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this part shall be deposited in the Children’s Hospital Bond Act Fund, which is hereby created. (Added November 6, 2018, by initiative Proposition 4, Sec. 1. Effective December 19, 2018.)

The purpose of the Children’s Hospital Program is to improve the health and welfare of California’s critically ill children by providing a stable and ready source of funds for capital improvement projects for children’s hospitals. The program provided for in this part is in the p…

The authority is authorized to award grants to any children’s hospital for purposes of funding projects, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 1179.82, or to a hospital pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1179.86. (Added November 6, 2018, by initiative Proposition 4, Sec. 1…

(a) Eighteen percent of the total funds available for grants pursuant to this part shall be awarded to children’s hospitals as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 1179.82. (b) Seventy-two percent of the total funds available for grants pursuant to this part sha…

(a) The authority shall develop a written application for the awarding of grants under this part within 90 days of the adoption of this act. The authority shall award grants to eligible children’s hospitals, subject to the limitations of this part and to further the purposes of t…

The California State Auditor may conduct periodic audits to ensure that bond proceeds are awarded in a timely fashion and in a manner consistent with the requirements of this part and that awardees of bond proceeds are using funds in compliance with applicable provisions of this …

The department shall examine into the causes of communicable disease in man and domestic animals occurring or likely to occur in this state. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) The department shall establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions. For each reportable disease and condition, the department shall specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition, and the mechanisms required for, and the co…

The department may establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Upon being informed by a health officer of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease the department may take measures as are necessary to ascertain the nature of the disease and prevent its spread. To that end, the department may, if it considers it proper, take possess…

(a) The state director may order examinations for tuberculosis infection in the following persons for the purpose of directing preventive measures: (1) Persons in close contact with persons with infectious tuberculosis disease. (2) Other persons for whom the state director has re…

The department may quarantine, isolate, inspect, and disinfect persons, animals, houses, rooms, other property, places, cities, or localities, whenever in its judgment the action is necessary to protect or preserve the public health. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effect…

The department may destroy such objects as bedding, carpets, household goods, furnishings, materials, clothing, or animals, when ordinary means of disinfection are considered unsafe, and when the property is in its judgment, an imminent menace to the public health. (Added by Stat…

Pursuant to Section 11158 of the Government Code, the sheriff of each county, or city and county, may enforce within the county, or the city and county, all orders of the State Department of Public Health issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectio…

(a) Any manufacturer or distributor of the influenza vaccine, or nonprofit health care service plan that exclusively contracts with a single medical group in a specified geographic area to provide, or to arrange for the provision of, medical services to its enrollees, shall repor…

If the department receives a report of a case of coccidioidomycosis after the department’s reporting deadline for a specified year, the department shall include the case in its data collection for the next year and attribute it to the year of diagnosis in future data reporting. (…

By April 15 of each year, the department shall collect data on coccidioidomycosis cases from both of the following: (a) The California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE). (b) Any other electronic data system used by a local health department, a coccidioidomycosis …

(a) If the department collects data on coccidioidomycosis cases from a local health officer and removes discrepant data from its internal dataset for any reason, including, but not limited to, to delete duplicate cases reported by multiple counties, the department shall report in…

(a) Consistent with subdivision (b), the list of immunizations, items, and services that were recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (H…

The chief and the issuing authority, as defined in Sections 12003 and 12007, respectively, shall in their areas of jurisdiction enforce the provisions of this part and the regulations adopted by the State Fire Marshal pursuant to this part. Any peace officer, as defined in Sectio…

The department may establish an immunization outreach program. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) A local health officer, or consortium of local health officers, may establish permanent, temporary, or mobile sites and programs, for the purpose of immunizing children, or performing outreach to refer parents to other programs that provide immunizations and comprehensive hea…

The population to be targeted by the program shall include children who do not receive immunizations through private third-party sources or other public sources with priority given to infants and children from birth up to age three. Outreach programs shall include information to …

The Health and Welfare Agency may waive state administrative, eligibility, and billing requirements that apply to other public assistance programs through which immunization and comprehensive health services outreach and vaccination are offered, for counties that establish stream…

The department shall provide financial assistance to county and areawide immunization campaigns under the direction of local health officers for the prevention of rubella. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

All moneys appropriated to the department for the purposes of this section and Section 120420 shall be made available to local health departments, as defined in Section 101185, or to areawide associations of local health departments. All moneys received by the local departments o…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that 1990 marks one of the worst measles epidemics in recent history and that this epidemic threatens the health and safety of our schoolaged children. The Legislature finds and declares that, according to the Center for Disease Control and …

The department shall purchase or prepare, and distribute free of cost, under any regulations as may be necessary, anti-rabic virus to be used in the treatment of persons exposed to rabies when they declare that it would be a hardship for them to pay for anti-rabic treatment. (Add…

“Approved laboratory” as used in this chapter means a laboratory approved by the department, or any other laboratory whose director is licensed by the department according to law. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

“Standard laboratory blood test” as used in this chapter means a test for syphilis approved by the department. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) Every licensed health care professional engaged in providing prenatal care or attending a birthing patient at the time of delivery, shall provide syphilis screening and testing as outlined in the most recent guidelines published by the State Department of Public Health. (b) T…

The blood specimen thus obtained shall be submitted to an approved laboratory for a standard laboratory test for syphilis. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

In submitting a specimen to a laboratory the physician shall designate it as a prenatal test or a test following recent delivery. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The laboratory shall submit the laboratory reports of records to the department as are required by regulation of the department. The health officer may destroy any copies of reports that have been retained by him or her pursuant to this section for a period of two years. (Added b…

All laboratory reports are confidential, and are not open to public inspection. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

In case of question concerning the accuracy of a test required by this chapter, it is mandatory upon the department to accept specimens for checking purposes from any district in the state. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Any licensed physician and surgeon, or other person engaged in attendance upon a pregnant woman or a recently delivered woman, or any representative of a laboratory who violates any provision of this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor. However, a licensed physician and surgeon, …

The intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter is as follows: (a) To fund specified pilot AIDS education programs. (b) To fund pilot projects to demonstrate the value of noninstitutional health care services such as hospice, home health, and attendant care in controlling …