BILL NUMBER: AB 66	CHAPTERED  06/23/08

	CHAPTER  34
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 23, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 23, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 16, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 19, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 11, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 17, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 2, 2007
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2007
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 28, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dymally

                        DECEMBER 4, 2006

   An act relating to infant botulism treatment and prevention,
making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 66, Dymally. Infant botulism treatment and prevention.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to
establish an Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Unit for the
production and distribution of human Botulism Immune Globulin (BIG),
to charge a fee for BIG, and to deposit the fees, and any earned
interest, into the Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Fund.
Existing law requires funds deposited in the Infant Botulism
Treatment and Prevention Fund to be made available to the department
for expenditure for the purposes of the program upon appropriation by
the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
   Existing law authorizes the department to manufacture, test,
distribute, and maintain licensure of BIG if all necessary federal
licenses are obtained. Existing law states that the department was
issued a license by the federal Food and Drug Administration on
October 23, 2003, and that the product may be labeled with the
proprietary name BabyBIG (R).
   This bill would appropriate $1,472,000 from the Infant Botulism
Treatment and Prevention Fund for the 2007-08 fiscal year in
augmentation of the amount appropriated in the 2007 Budget Act for
allocation by the Controller for any purpose that is described in the
above provisions, including the purpose of supporting the continued
production of BabyBIG (R) for distribution to patients with infant
botulism.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Appropriation: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The sum of one million four hundred seventy-two
thousand dollars ($1,472,000) is hereby appropriated from the Infant
Botulism Treatment and Prevention Fund, established pursuant to
Section 123709 of the Health and Safety Code, for the 2007-08 fiscal
year in augmentation of Item 4265-001-0272 of Section 2.00 of the
Budget Act of 2007 (Chapters 171 and 172 of the Statutes of 2007).
These funds shall be allocated by the Controller to Schedule (2), 20
- Public and Environmental Health, of Item 4265-001-0001 of Section
2.00 of the Budget Act of 2007 for any purpose that is described in
Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 123700) of Chapter 3 of Part 2
of Division 106 of the Health and Safety Code, including the purpose
of supporting the continued production of BabyBIG (R) for
distribution to patients with infant botulism.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide a 2007-08 fiscal year budget adjustment to
enable the State Department of Public Health to adequately produce
and maintain BabyBIG (R), it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.