BILL NUMBER: AB 371	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2013

   An act to amend Section 120392.2 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 371, as introduced, Salas. Immunizations.
   Existing law requires every skilled nursing facility, immediate
care facility, and nursing facility, as defined, each year,
commencing October 1 to the following April 1, inclusive, to offer
immunizations for influenza and pneumococcal disease to residents, 65
years of age or older, receiving services at the facility, based
upon the latest recommendations of the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and the latest recommendations of appropriate entities
for the prevention, detection, and control of influenza outbreaks in
California long-term care facilities.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 120392.2 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   120392.2.  (a) Each year, commencing October 1 to the following
April 1, inclusive, every health care facility, as defined in
subdivision (a) of Section 120392, shall offer, pursuant to Section
120392.4, immunizations for influenza and pneumococcal disease to
residents,  aged  65 years  of age  or
older, receiving services at the facility, based upon the latest
recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
(ACIP) of the  federal  Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and the latest recommendations of appropriate entities
for the prevention, detection, and control of influenza outbreaks in
California long-term care facilities.
   (b) Each health care facility, as defined in subdivision (a) of
Section 120392, shall offer, pursuant to Section 120392.4,
pneumococcal vaccine to all new admittees to the health care
facility, based on the latest recommendations of the ACIP.
   (c) The facility shall be reimbursed the standard Medi-Cal rate
for an immunization provided to a Medi-Cal recipient, unless he or
she is also a Medicare recipient whose coverage includes
reimbursement for the immunization.