Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

A statement of intention to establish a board of directors composed of representatives as set forth in Section 4730.1 of the Health and Safety Code.

The Legislature finds that many programs of the department are hindered by the length of time required for the state to execute contracts and pay vendor claims. These programs include, but are not limited to, community hypertension, rural health services development, family plann…

The Public Health Federal Fund in the State Treasury is hereby created. All grants of money received by the state from the United States, the expenditure of which is administered through or under the direction of the department, shall, on order of the Controller, be deposited in …

All money in the Public Health Federal Fund is hereby appropriated to the department, without regard to fiscal years, for expenditure for the purposes for which the money deposited therein is made available by the United States.

The department and the Controller shall keep a record of the classes and sources of income deposited in, or transferred to, the Public Health Federal Fund, and of the disbursements and transfers therefrom.

The Director of Finance and the Controller may approve any general plan that meets the following requirements: (a) Any expenditures that are a proper charge against the money made available by the United States and deposited in the Public Health Federal Fund may be paid in the fi…

All grants or donations of money received by the state from sources other than the United States, the expenditure of which is administered through or under the direction of the department, shall, on order of the Controller, be deposited in the Special Deposit Fund, subject to Art…

(a) The fees or charges for the issuance or renewal of any permit, license, registration, or document pursuant to Sections 1676, 1677, 2805, 11839.25, 103625, 106700, 106890, 106925, 107080, 107090, 107095, 107160, 110210, 110470, 110471, 111130, 111140, 111630, 111923.5, 111923.…

(a) (1) The fees or charges for a record search or for the issuance of any license, permit, registration, or any other document pursuant to Section 26840 of the Government Code, or Section 102525, 102625, 102670, 102725, 102750, 103040.1, 103050, 103065, 103225, 103325, 103400, 1…

For the fee specified in Section 26840 of the Government Code, the adjustment authorized by Section 100430 shall apply only to the portion of the fee designated for the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. Any increase in this component of the fee shall be added to the total fee …

For the fee specified in subdivision (c) of Section 103625, the adjustment authorized by Section 100430 shall apply to the additional fee charged to applicants other than public agency applicants for certified copies of marriage or marriage dissolution records, as well as to the …

(a) The fees or charges required to accompany an application for the issuance or renewal of any license pursuant to Section 1300 of the Business and Professions Code or pursuant to Sections 1616 or 1639.5 shall be adjusted annually pursuant to Section 1300.2 of the Business and P…

(a) The Director of General Services may acquire real property in order to construct a laboratory and office facility or remodeling an existing facility in the City of Richmond, for the use of the State Department of Health Services. (b) Revenue bonds, negotiable notes, and negot…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is in the state’s interest to utilize fully state real property assets. (b) The State Department of Health Services intends to vacate its facilities currently located at 2151 Berkeley Way in the City of Berkeley upon…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the property at 2151 Berkeley Way in the City of Berkeley be conveyed to the University of California pursuant to a process mutually agreed to by the State Department of Health Services, the Department of General Services, and the Univ…

It is the Legislature’s intent in enacting this article to promote efficiency in the administration of multiple contracts between nonprofit organizations and the divisions of the department by requiring uniform provisions concerning fringe benefits. Nothing contained in this arti…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall review the following categorical programs and develop a procedure by which a contracting nonprofit organization is notified at the execution of a contract of the terms and conditions relating to the allowable costs …

Nothing contained in this article shall conflict with any mandate imposed by laws or regulations of the state or federal government.

The department shall take the steps necessary to achieve uniformity among contracts.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of state law or any division in the allocation of funds in the Budget Act, the department may, within its authority to contract with a provider for the provision of health services, enter into a single contractual instrument encompassing servi…

To the extent that a reduction in administrative costs would thereby result, any agency or agencies authorized to conduct audits under any state health services program that is the subject of a contract with a provider shall conform the scope of any audit to include other health …

Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, any contract under this article shall be subject to review and approval by the Department of General Services.

No provision of this article shall be construed to prohibit the department from providing under any contract entered into under this article for reimbursement on the basis of negotiated rates, capitation, fee-for-service, or any other method designed to reduce administrative cost…

In order to implement this article, the department may establish a single account wherein all funds for eligible programs may be deposited for purposes of contracting in a single form.

(a) By the 10th of each month, a person engaged in the business of pest control under the authority of a license issued pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 11701), Chapter 4, Division 6 of the Food and Agricultural Code shall file a spray report with the county agricul…

The rapid increase in the population of the state and the increasing industrialization in both the urban and rural areas necessitate the provision of effective public health services to all the people of the state. In many areas within the state local health departments lack the …

“Population,” for the purpose of this chapter, shall be determined by the most recent United States decennial census; provided, however, whenever it appears to the department that the population of any city or county, changed sufficiently to warrant adjustment, the department for…

For the purposes of this chapter a “local health department” shall be interpreted to mean any one of the following public health administrative organizations: (a) A local health department serving one or more counties that shall provide services to all cities whose population is …

Local health departments qualifying for assistance as provided in this chapter, on or after September 19, 1947, shall receive financial aid as of the date of their becoming eligible.

Provisional approval may be given by the department to a county health department that meets minimum standards as specified in this chapter, Section 100295, and Part 3 (commencing with Section 124300) of Division 106, but that does not serve all cities of less than 50,000 populat…

From the appropriation made for the purposes of this article, allocation shall be made to the administrative bodies of qualifying local health jurisdictions described as public health administrative organizations in Section 101185 in the following manner: (a) A basic allotment as…

The department succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the State Department of Benefit Payments with respect to the processing, audit, and payment of funds appropriated for the purposes of this article to the…

The department shall have possession and control of all records, papers, equipment, and supplies held for the benefit or use of the Director of Benefit Payments in the performance of his or her duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction that are vested in the de…

All officers and employees of the Director of Benefit Payments who are serving in the state civil service, other than as temporary employees, on July 1, 1978, and who are engaged in the performance of a function vested in the department by Section 101235 shall be transferred to t…

After determining the total amounts available to each area, the department shall notify the governing body of each local health department of that amount, and of the conditions governing its availability.

No funds appropriated for the purposes of this article shall be allocated to any local health department unless the governing body of the local health department has appropriated an amount equal to at least twice the per capita allotment provided in subdivision (b) of Section 101…

No funds appropriated for the purposes of this article shall be allocated to any local health department whose professional and technical personnel and whose organization and program do not meet the minimum standards established by the department.

The basic and per capita allotments shall be paid quarterly to the administrative body of each qualifying local health department. Each quarterly payment may be adjusted on a basis of the actual expenditures during the previous quarter, if the adjustment is necessary to maintain …

Notwithstanding Section 101260, a county board of supervisors may, with the concurrence of the director, transfer the total function of providing environmental health and sanitation services and programs to a comprehensive environmental agency of the county other than the county …

If a transfer authorized by Section 101275 is made: (a) Each agency shall employ as the immediate supervisor of the environmental health and sanitation services a director of environmental health who is a registered environmental health specialist and the agency shall employ an a…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 101260, the county board of supervisors may, with the concurrence of the county officer providing the services, transfer all or any portion of the function of providing vector control services to any mosquito abatement and vector control district forme…

(a) (1) The board of supervisors of a county with a population of less than 50,000 may enter into a contract with the department and the department may enter into a contract with that county to organize and operate a local public health service in that county. (2) The department …

Any counties that were eligible for organization and operation of local public health services by the department pursuant to former Section 1157, as amended by Section 130 of Chapter 429 of the Statutes of 1978, as of January 1, 1988, shall continue to be eligible, notwithstandin…

(a) Counties contracting with the department pursuant to Section 101300 may enter into a contract with the department whereby the department’s program that administers the Section 101300 contract agrees to assume responsibility for some or all of the administrative activities for…

In the event a health emergency is declared by the board of supervisors in a county, or in the event a county health emergency is declared by the county health officer pursuant to Section 101080, the local health officer shall have supervision and control over all environmental h…

(a) Federal funding received by the State Department of Public Health for public health emergency preparedness and response is subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act or other statute, commencing with the 2003–04 fiscal year. (b) This article governs those instances whe…

Of the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for local health jurisdictions for the purpose of preparing California for public health emergencies, including a potential pandemic influenza event, a baseline allocation of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) shall be provided to …

(a) For purposes of this article, allocations shall be made to the administrative bodies of qualifying local health jurisdictions described as public health administrative organizations in Section 101185, and pursuant to Section 101315, in the following manner: (1) (A) For the 20…

Notwithstanding any other law, moneys made available in the 2004–05 Budget Act for public health emergency preparedness and response shall be available for expenditure and encumbrance until August 30, 2006.

(a) Federal funding received pursuant to the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act (Public Law 111-32) for pandemic influenza for purposes of state and local public health and emergency response infrastructure, including, but not limited to, epidemiology, communicable disease resp…