BILL NUMBER: AB 2336	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Grove

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 124180 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2336, as introduced, Grove. Public health: personal health
care.
   Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to
conduct the Adolescent Family Life Program to serve certain specified
functions, including, but not limited to, ensuring that pregnant
adolescents receive comprehensive continuous prenatal care in order
to deliver healthy babies.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
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 124180 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   124180.  (a)  The department may conduct the Adolescent Family
Life Program to  assure   ensure  that
pregnant adolescents receive comprehensive continuous prenatal care
in order to deliver healthy babies; to establish networks within
regions to provide to pregnant and parenting teens and their children
necessary services including medical care, psychological and
nutritional counseling, maternity counseling, adoption counseling,
academic and vocational programs, and day care; to provide a
continuous case manager to each family unit; and to maintain a
 data base   database  to measure outcomes
of adolescent pregnancies. Specific procedures to operate this
program will be defined and carried out through standards and
guidelines established by the department.
   (b)   No grant   Grant  funds 
may   shall not  be used for essential services to
pregnant adolescents or schoolage parents unless the services are not
available in the county or are insufficient to meet the basic needs
of the population to be served; in that case, funds may be used for
essential services only as set forth in the approved grant
application.  No grant   Grant  funds
 may   shall not  be expended for
abortions, abortion referrals, or abortion counseling.