BILL NUMBER: AB 2546	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 120340 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2546, as introduced, Salas. Childhood immunization.
   Existing law prohibits the governing authority of a school or
other institution from unconditionally admitting any person as a
pupil of any private or public elementary or secondary school, child
care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or
development center, unless prior to his or her first admission to
that institution he or she has been fully immunized against various
diseases, including hepatitis B, pertussis (whooping cough), and
varicella (chickenpox), and any other disease deemed appropriate by
the State Department of Public Health, taking into consideration the
recommendations of specified entities. Existing law authorizes a
person who is not fully immunized to be admitted by the governing
authority of the facility on the condition that, within the time
period set by departmental regulations, he or she has been fully
immunized.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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 120340 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   120340.  A person who has not been fully immunized against one or
more of the diseases listed in Section 120335 may be admitted by the
governing authority on condition that  ,  within time
periods designated by regulation of the department  ,  he or
she presents evidence that he or she has been fully immunized
against all of  these   the  diseases 
listed in subdivision (b) of Section   120335  .