Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

Due to the need to rapidly implement, and to provide local health jurisdictions, hospitals, long-term health care facilities, clinics, emergency medical systems, and poison control centers, or their trade associations, with timely funding for the purposes of, this article, funds …

(a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, the department shall develop and implement a program to fund and support vital public health activities and services provided by the 61 local health jurisdictions in California. (b) As a condition of funding, each local …

(a) On or before February 1 of every other year, beginning in calendar year 2024, the State Public Health Officer shall submit a written report to the Governor and the Legislature on the state of public health in California. The State Public Health Officer shall present an update…

(a) As a condition of the funding authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 101320, a local health jurisdiction administered by a city shall annually present updates on the public health status to its city council on the state of the city’s public health. The presentation…

This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority Act.

(a) The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara may, by ordinance or resolution, order the formation of the Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority under this chapter that shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the incorporated and unincorporated areas of t…

Unless the context otherwise requires, this article governs the construction of this chapter. As used in this chapter: (a) “Authority” means the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority. (b) “Board” means the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority …

Upon the adoption of an ordinance or resolution by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo authorizing the provision of medical services by the authority pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 101680, the governing body of the authority shall be vested in a boar…

The board, at its first meeting, and annually thereafter at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chair who shall preside at all meetings, and a vice chair who shall preside in his or her absence. In the event of their absence or inability to act, the members present, by an…

The board shall establish rules for its proceedings. There shall be at least four meetings per year. Board members shall be entitled to one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per diem from authority funds, for each board meeting attended and the authority may pay per diem to board memb…

A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the board.

The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution or ordinance.

Except for initial staggered terms that may be established by the board, the term of office of each noncounty member shall be two years and, in addition, time as necessary until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor. County officers or employees shall serve at…

Any vacancy on the board shall be filled for the unexpired term by the board of supervisors of the county authorized by Section 101690 to make the appointment to that position.

Professional advisory and community advisory boards shall review and comment on proposed policies and actions of the board dealing with the arrangements for health care within the jurisdiction of the authority.

The board may allow as a charge against the authority, reimbursement to members of professional and community advisory boards, of actually incurred expenses in attending meetings in amounts allowed by the board of supervisors to county officers and employees.

The authority is hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic and it shall have power: (a) To have perpetual succession. (b) To sue and be sued in the name of the authority in all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction. (c) To adopt a …

Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 14499.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, for the purposes of Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code, the authority shall be considered a public entity separate from the county or counties and sh…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state or any state agency may enter into contracts with the authority for the authority to obtain or arrange for health care under the authority’s health care systems, for all persons who are eligible to receive medical benefits und…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board of supervisors of the county in which the appellant resides may review major administrative decisions of the authority, excluding those involving personnel matters, upon appeal by the affected person and upon a majori…

Any licensed provider eligible to receive Medi-Cal reimbursement under law and who enters into a written contract with the authority under terms and conditions approved by the department shall be able to participate in this program as a provider. A written agreement shall not be …

All claims for money or damages against the authority are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code, except as provided in those parts, or by other statutes or regulations expressly …

In the formation of the authority pursuant to this chapter, Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 54773) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code is not applicable.

(a) The boards of supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara and the County of San Luis Obispo may, by ordinance or resolution, order the dissolution of the authority by declaring that there is no need for the authority to function in the counties. Both boards of supervisors shal…

The Board of Supervisors of either the County of San Luis Obispo or the County of Santa Barbara, or the board of directors of the authority, by ordinance or resolution, may terminate the authority’s operation of a health care system or systems in the County of San Luis Obispo. Th…

Each live birth shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths for the district in which the birth occurred within 21 days following the date of the event.

For live births that occur in a hospital, or a state-licensed alternative birth center, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204, the administrator of the hospital or center or a representative designated by the administrator in writing may sign the birth ce…

For those live births occurring in a hospital, and upon a parent’s request, a footprint shall be taken of the child prior to discharge from the facility and shall be made available to the parents. The footprint shall be placed on a sheet of paper that is separate from the birth c…

For live births that occur outside of a hospital or outside of a state-licensed alternative birth center, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204, the physician in attendance at the birth or, in the absence of a physician, the professionally licensed midwif…

(a) The certificate of live birth shall contain those items necessary to establish the fact of the birth and shall contain only the following information: (1) Full name and sex of the child. (2) Date of birth, including month, day, hour, and year. (3) Place of birth. (4) Full nam…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 102465 and 102470, the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, with regard to identification of the parents, shall modify the certificate of live birth to do both of the following: (1) Contain two lines that both read “Name of Parent.” (2) Contain, next …

(a) If the birth mother is one of the parents listed on the certificate of live birth pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 102425, the birth mother’s name, date of birth, and place of birth shall be linked to her medical and social information collected pursuan…

(a) (1) In addition to the items of information collected pursuant to Section 102425, the State Registrar shall instruct all local registrars that have automated birth registration to electronically capture the information specified in paragraph (2), and other necessary items as …

(a) The second section of the certificate of live birth as specified in subdivision (b) of Section 102425, the electronic file of birth information collected pursuant to subparagraphs (B) to (I), inclusive, of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 102426, the birth mother l…

Notwithstanding Sections 102425 and 102430, the department may transmit to the Social Security Administration the information necessary to issue a social security number to a child in a case where the child’s parent has requested the issuance pursuant to paragraph (14) of subdivi…

After public hearing and consultation with the Vital Statistics Advisory Committee, the State Registrar shall adopt regulations specifying the contents of a medical and health report and shall supply the necessary forms to hospitals and local registrars. The contents of the repor…

Notwithstanding Section 102430, a parent’s social security number contained in the confidential medical and social information portion of the child’s certificate of live birth shall be accessible to the State Department of Child Support Services and local child support agencies f…

(a) For each registration of live birth submitted to the local registrar pursuant to Section 102400, the hospital administrator, or the person’s representative, shall submit a completed medical and health report that meets the requirements of Section 102445. For live births that …

(a) The medical and health report required pursuant to Section 102445 shall be clearly labeled “Confidential Information for Public Health Use Only.” The parent or informant shall be informed of the purposes for collecting the information, its confidential nature, and that comple…

With the exception of statistical tabulation purposes, the medical and health report shall be kept confidential and access to the report shall be limited to the following persons: (a) State and local registrar’s staff. (b) State and local health department staff. (c) Persons with…

(a) The State Registrar shall appoint a Vital Statistics Advisory Committee that shall have the following duties: (1) Review and make recommendations to the State Registrar as to the adequacy of procedures to assure accuracy and confidentiality of personal health and medical info…

The State Registrar shall publish within 30 days of receipt of recommendations by the Vital Statistics Advisory Committee, made pursuant to Section 102465, (1) a list of the recommendations adopted, and (2) a list of the recommendations not adopted, with reasons for the action.

(a) Any person who releases a copy of the confidential portion of the certificate of live birth, except as specifically provided by this part, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500) or six months in jail. The criminal penalty shall n…

A certificate of finding of an unidentified live child of less than one year of age shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths by the person or institution with whom the child is placed, within four days following the finding.

The certificate shall include the name, sex, color or race, the date and place of finding, and the name of the person or institution with whom the child is placed.

The person or institution with whom the child is placed shall give the child a name; the place in which the child is found shall be known as the legal place of birth; and the date of birth shall be determined as closely as possible and shall be known as the legal date of birth.

The certificate of finding shall be handled in the same manner and shall serve all the purposes of a certificate of live birth.

If the child is later identified and a certificate of birth found or obtained, the fact shall be reported to the State Registrar and he or she shall enter this upon the certificate of finding, with citation to the certificate of birth.

The department shall maintain a dental program including, but not limited to, the following: (a) Development of comprehensive dental health plans within the framework of the State Plan for Health to maximize utilization of all resources. (b) Provide the consultation necessary to …

(a) The Office of Oral Health, in consultation with the Dental Board of California, the California Dental Association, California dental schools, and other stakeholders, shall support the establishment of community-based clinical education (CBCE) rotations for dental students in …