Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

Counties shall be reimbursed for the amount required by the county to carry out its community child health and disability prevention program in accordance with the approved community child health and disability prevention plan. Claims for state reimbursement shall be made in the …

Counties shall be reimbursed for the amount required by the county to carry out its community child health and disability prevention program in accordance with the approved community child health and disability prevention plan. Claims for state reimbursement shall be made in a ma…

(a) In order to ensure the maximum utilization of the California Medical Assistance Program and other potential reimbursement sources, the department shall develop a schedule and method of reimbursement at reasonable rates for services rendered pursuant to this article. The reimb…

The department may contract with a private entity for the performance of processing claims for state reimbursement, so long as the cost of the contract is no more than 85 percent of the cost of the service if performed in state service and there is compliance with other applicabl…

On and after July 1, 1976, each child eligible for services under this article shall, within 90 days after entrance into the first grade, provide a certificate approved by the department to the school where the child is to enroll documenting that within the prior 18 months the ch…

Any child between birth and 90 days after entrance into the first grade and all persons under 21 years of age who are eligible for the California Medical Assistance Program shall be eligible for services from the child health and disabilities prevention program in the county wher…

Each community child health and disability prevention program shall provide the child or his or her parent or guardian with a copy of the results of the health screening and evaluation, as well as an explanation of the meaning of the results, and shall, where the need indicates, …

(a) In cooperation with the county child health and disability prevention program, the governing body of every school district or private school that has children enrolled in kindergarten shall provide information to the parents or guardians of all children enrolled in kindergart…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Hughes Children’s Health Enforcement Act.” (b) The Legislature recognizes the importance of health to learning and to a successful academic career. The Legislature also recognizes the important role of schools in ensuring t…

All information and results of the health screening and evaluation of each child shall be confidential and shall not be released without the informed consent of a parent or guardian of the child. The results of the health screening and evaluation shall not be released to any publ…

This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 2024, or on the date certified by the department pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 124024, whichever date is later, and shall be repealed on January 1 of the year following the inoperative date.

(a) The Newborn Eye Pathology Screening Task Force is established and shall advise the State Department of Health Services on the newborn eye pathology screening protocol. (b) The task force shall be composed of the following 12 members: (1) The Director of Health Services as a n…

(a) On or before June 30, 2002, the department shall adopt the protocol developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics to optimally detect the presence of treatable causes of blindness in infants by two months of age. If a protocol is not developed on or before June 30, 2002, th…

This article shall be known, and may be cited as, the Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening, Tracking and Intervention Act.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Hearing loss occurs in newborns more frequently than any other health condition for which newborn screening is currently required. (2) Early detection of hearing loss, early intervention, and followup services befor…

As used in this article: (a) “Birth admission” means the time after birth that the newborn remains in the hospital nursery prior to discharge. (b) “CCS” means the California Children’s Services program administered through the State Department of Health Services. (c) “Department”…

(a) (1) Every general acute care hospital with licensed perinatal services in this state shall administer to every newborn, upon birth admission, a hearing screening test for the identification of hearing loss, using protocols approved by the department or its designee. (2) In or…

The department or its designee shall approve hospitals for participation as newborn hearing screening providers. These facilities shall then receive payment from the department for the newborn hearing screening services provided to newborns and infants eligible for the Medi-Cal o…

The department or its designee shall provide every general acute care hospital that has licensed perinatal services, or neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as specified in Section 123975, written information on the current and most effective means available to screen the hearing…

(a) The department shall establish a system of early hearing detection and intervention centers that shall provide technical assistance and consultation to hospitals in the startup and ongoing implementation of a facility hearing screening program and followup system. (b) The ear…

(a) The department shall develop and implement a reporting and tracking system for newborns and infants tested for hearing loss. (b) The system shall provide the department with information and data to effectively plan, establish, monitor, and evaluate the Newborn and Infant Hear…

Parents of all newborns and infants diagnosed with a hearing loss shall be provided written information on the availability of community resources and services for children with hearing loss, including those provided in accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Ed…

The department may conduct a community outreach and awareness campaign to inform medical providers, pregnant women, and the families of newborns and infants on the availability of the newborn hearing screening program and the value of early hearing testing. The outreach and aware…

A newborn hearing screening test shall not be performed without the written consent of the parent.

For purposes of this article, “CCHD” means critical congenital heart disease.

(a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2013, a general acute care hospital that has a licensed perinatal service shall offer to parents of a newborn, prior to discharge, a pulse oximetry test for the identification of CCHD. (2) The State Department of Health Care Services shall issue guidance…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that childhood lead exposure represents the most significant childhood environmental health problem in the state today; that too little is known about the prevalence, long-term health care costs, severity, and location of these proble…

(a) A laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis on a specimen of human blood drawn in California shall report the information specified in this section to the department for each analysis on every person tested. (b) (1) The analyzing laboratory shall report all of the follow…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the activities conducted by the department pursuant to Section 124130 have confirmed and supported the findings specified in Section 124125 and, in addition, have resulted in the following findings: (a) Very few children are currentl…

The department shall use an electronic database consistent with the goals outlined in Section 124125 to support electronic laboratory reporting of blood lead tests reported pursuant to Section 124130, management of lead-exposed children, and assessment of sources of lead exposure…

(a) The department shall design and implement a screening program for lead exposure of children not older than seven years old in migrant labor camps where lead-based paint has been identified pursuant to Section 50710.5. (b) The department may implement the screening program thr…

The department shall continue to direct the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program to implement a program to identify and conduct medical followup of high-risk children, and to establish procedures for environmental abatement and followup designed to reduce the incidence of …

After January 1, 1993, the department, through the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, shall continue to take steps that it determines are necessary to reduce the incidence of excessive childhood lead exposure in California.

The State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services and the appropriate federal agency or department, shall establish and implement appropriate education, preventative, and outreach activities, focusing on the new immigrant popula…

(a) Except for an influenza vaccine described in subdivision (b), on and after July 1, 2006, a person who is knowingly pregnant or who is under three years of age shall not be vaccinated with a mercury-containing vaccine or injected with a mercury-containing product that contains…

The following definitions shall govern the construction of this article, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “Program” means a Public School Health Center Support Program. (b) “School health center” means a center or program, located at or near a local educational agency, …

(a) The department, in cooperation with the State Department of Education, shall establish a Public School Health Center Support Program. (b) The program, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, shall perform the following program functions: (1) Provide technical…

(a) The department shall establish standardized data collection procedures and collect data specified in subdivisions (c) and (d) from school health centers on an ongoing basis. (b) The data collected pursuant to this section shall be submitted in a format determined by the depar…

The State Department of Education, in collaboration with the department, shall perform the following functions: (a) Coordination of programs within the State Department of Education that support school health centers and programs within the State Department of Health Care Service…

The program, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, shall act as a liaison for school-based health centers.

The department shall establish a grant program within the Public School Health Center Support Program to provide technical assistance, and funding for the expansion, renovation, and retrofitting of existing school health centers, and the development of new school health centers, …

General—Independent Citizen’s Oversight Committee (ICOC) This chapter implements Article XXXV of the California Constitution, which established the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (institute).

Creation of the ICOC There is hereby created the Independent Citizen’s Oversight Committee, hereinafter, the ICOC, which shall govern the institute and is hereby vested with full power, authority, and jurisdiction over the institute.

ICOC Membership; Appointments; Terms of Office (a) ICOC Membership The ICOC shall have 35 members, appointed as follows: (1) The Chancellors of the University of California at San Francisco, Davis, San Diego, Los Angeles, Irvine, and Riverside shall each appoint an executive offi…

Majority Vote of Quorum Actions of the ICOC may be taken only by a majority vote of a quorum of the ICOC.

Public and Financial Accountability Standards (a) Annual Public Report The institute shall issue an annual report to the public which sets forth its activities, grants awarded, grants in progress, research accomplishments, and future program directions. Each annual report shall i…

Medical and Scientific Accountability Standards (a) Medical Standards In order to avoid duplication or conflicts in technical standards for scientific and medical research, with alternative state programs, the institute will develop its own scientific and medical standards to car…

ICOC Functions The ICOC shall perform the following functions: (a) Oversee the operations of the institute. (b) Develop annual and long-term strategic research and financial plans for the institute. (c) Make final decisions on research standards and grant awards in California acr…

ICOC Operations (a) Legal Actions and Liability (1) The institute may sue and be sued. (2) Based upon ICOC standards, institute grantees shall indemnify or insure and hold the institute harmless against any and all losses, claims, damages, expenses, or liabilities, including atto…

Scientific and Medical Working Groups—General (a) The institute shall have, and there is hereby established, four separate scientific and medical working groups as follows: (1) Scientific and Medical Research Funding Working Group. (2) Scientific and Medical Accountability Standa…