Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(a) The department, through its program of maternal and child health, shall award contract augmentations to four Adolescent Family Life Programs that meet the requirements of this section and develop plans for a comprehensive coordinated substance abuse prevention, intervention, …

A comprehensive coordinated substance abuse prevention, intervention, and counseling program, as used in Section 124185, shall include, but not be limited to, programs that: (a) Have demonstrated a capacity for developing interagency cooperative approaches to reduce the incidence…

The department shall require reports to be prepared by all programs funded pursuant to this article.

Funding for the purpose of this article shall be provided through funds appropriated to the department through the annual Budget Act.

(a) The Legislature finds that recent responsibilities for assessing and treating the mental disorders of children and adolescents have been required of county mental health programs creating an unmet need for personnel in the field of mental health who have expertise in preventi…

It is the purpose of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to encourage the Regents of the University of California to augment the academic child and adolescent programs at the medical schools of the University of California. The programs shall include, but not be limited to…

(a) A youth sports organization that elects to offer an athletic program shall comply with all of the following: (1) (A) An athlete who is suspected of sustaining a concussion or other head injury, or who has passed out or fainted, in an athletic activity shall be immediately rem…

(a) A youth sports organization, as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 124235, that elects to offer an athletic program shall annually give the Opioid Factsheet for Patients published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to each athlete. The athle…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Coach” means a person appointed by the youth sports organization to supervise or instruct a participant in a sport. (b) “Official practice or match” means a sport session in which live action or one or more drill…

(a) Commencing January 1, 2028, a youth sports organization that elects to offer an athletic program shall ensure that its athletes have access to an automated external defibrillator (AED) during any official practice or match, subject to subdivisions (b) and (c). (b) Commencing …

(a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Youth Football Act. (b) As used in this article: (1) “Coach” means a person appointed by a youth sports organization to supervise or instruct a participant in the sport of youth tackle football. (2) “Full-contac…

On and after January 1, 2021, a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program shall comply with all of the following requirements: (a) A tackle football team shall not conduct more than two full-contact practices per week during the preseason and regular seaso…

On and after January 1, 2021, a youth tackle football league shall comply with both of the following: (a) Establish youth tackle football participant divisions that are organized by relative age or weight or by both age and weight. (b) Retain information from which the names of i…

Nothing in this article shall prohibit any youth sports organization or youth tackle football league from adopting and enforcing rules intended to provide a higher standard of safety for youth tackle football participants than the requirements established under this article.

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Youth Sports for All Act.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Centralized entity” means a department, commission, board, council, or their equivalent. (b) “Commission” means the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Development of a California Department of Youth Sports or an Equiv…

(a) (1) The State Public Health Officer shall, on or before July 1, 2026, or six months after implementation of this article commences pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 124256, whichever is later, establish and convene the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Development of a Calif…

(a) The commission shall conduct a study of issues in youth sports that includes all of the following: (1) An assessment of the need and potential for a centralized entity to improve access to and involvement in sports for all youth, regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, g…

(a) The implementation of this article is contingent upon either of the following: (1) An appropriation for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute. (2) Sufficient funds being obtained by the department from federal, nonprofit, or private sources for the purposes…

(a) As used in this section: (1) “Mental health treatment or counseling services” means the provision of outpatient mental health treatment or counseling by a professional person, as defined in paragraph (2). (2) “Professional person” means any of the following: (A) A person desi…

As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Children and youth” means individuals up to 26 years of age. (b) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health. (c) “Social media” means a social media platform, as defined in Section 22675 of the Business …

(a) The department, in consultation with the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, shall report to the Senate and Assembly Committees on Health, the Senate Committee on Judiciary, the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, and other r…

This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.

(a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act. (b) (1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that physicians engaged in family medicine are in very short supply in California. The current emphasis placed on specializatio…

As used in this article, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Family physician” means a primary care physician and surgeon who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services…

There is hereby created a state medical contract program with accredited medical schools, hospitals and other health care delivery systems, teaching health centers, programs that train postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants, programs that train primary care physician’s …

When funding primary care and family medicine programs or departments, primary care and family medicine residencies, and programs for the training of postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants, primary care physician assistants, postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners…

Pursuant to this article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the Director of the Department of Health Care Access and Information shall do all of the following: (a) Develop application and contract criteria based on health care workforce needs and priorities. (b) Dete…

(a) The terms used in this article have the same meaning as in Section 128205. (b) There is hereby created a California Health Workforce Education and Training Council that shall be responsible for helping coordinate California’s health workforce education and training to develop…

The members of the council, other than state employees, shall receive compensation of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day’s attendance at a council meeting, in addition to actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the course of attendance at a council meeting.

(a) The council shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Develop graduate medical education and workforce training and development priorities for the state. (2) Discuss…

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Midwifery Workforce Training Act.

The Legislature finds and declares that maternity care providers are in short supply and maldistributed around the state, resulting in what the March of Dimes defines as “maternity care deserts” and “limited-access maternity care areas.” Many major counties are on track to have a…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Certified nurse-midwife” means an advanced practice nurse with training in midwifery, as specified in, and a certificate issued pursuant to, Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2746) of Chapter 6 of Division 2 o…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for a program designed primarily to increase the number of students receiving quality education and training as a certified nurse-midwife or a licensed midwife in accordance with the global standards for midwifery education and t…

This article shall become operative on January 1, 2022.

(a) Upon appropriation from the Legislature, the Department of Health Care Access and Information shall administer funding for a statewide study on midwifery education. The study shall be conducted by an outside consultant familiar with the health care and midwifery landscapes an…

The officer, board or commission abating the nuisance shall keep an account of the cost of abatement in front of or on each separate parcel of land and shall render an itemized report in writing to the board of supervisors showing the cost of removing the weeds on or in front of …

Before the report is submitted to the board of supervisors, a copy of it shall be posted for at least three days on or near the chamber door of the board with a notice of the time when the report will be submitted to the board for confirmation.

At the time fixed for receiving and considering the report, the board shall hear it and any objections of any of the property owners liable to be assessed for the work of abatement. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Thereupon the board may make such modifications in the report as it deems necessary, after which, by order or resolution, the report shall be confirmed. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The amount of the costs for abating the nuisance in front of or upon the various parcels of the land mentioned in the report as confirmed and the amount of the costs incurred by the responsible agency in enforcing abatement upon the parcels, including investigation, boundary dete…

A copy of the report, as confirmed, shall be turned over to the auditor of the county, on or before the tenth day of August following such confirmation, and the auditor shall enter the amounts of the respective assessments against the respective parcels of land as they appear on …

The tax collector shall include the amount of the assessment on bills for taxes levied against the respective lots and parcels of land. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Thereafter the amounts of the assessments shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes are collected, and are subject to the same penalties and the same procedure and sale in case of delinquency as provided for ordinary county taxes. (Enacted by Stat…

All laws applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of county taxes are applicable to such special assessment taxes. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The county tax collector may, in his discretion, issue separate bills for such special assessment taxes and separate receipts for collection on account of such assessments. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

All or any portion of any such special assessment, penalty or costs heretofore or hereafter entered, shall on order of the board of supervisors be canceled by the auditor if uncollected, or, except in the case provided for in subdivision (e) hereof, refunded by the county treasur…

No order for a refund under the foregoing section shall be made except on a claim: (a) Verified by the person who paid the special assessment, his guardian, executor, or administrator; (b) Filed within three years after making of the payment sought to be refunded. The provisions …

The lien, whether bonds issued to represent the assessment or otherwise, shall be subordinate to all fixed special assessment liens previously imposed upon the same property, but it shall have priority over all fixed special assessment liens which may thereafter be created agains…