BILL NUMBER: AB 570	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Travis Allen

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2015

   An act to amend Section 104100 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to cardiovascular disease.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 570, as introduced, Travis Allen. Cardiovascular disease: high
blood pressure.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to
conduct a program for the control of high blood pressure. Existing
law makes findings and declarations regarding the necessity of
establishing that program.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
findings and declarations.
   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 104100 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   104100.   (a)    The Legislature finds and
declares that high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a
widespread and serious public health problem in California. This
condition, when untreated, is a major contributor to heart disease,
stroke, kidney disease, and related cardiovascular morbidity and
mortality. Although high blood pressure can be effectively controlled
through the use of now well established antihypertensive drugs,
treatment is not always adequately utilized. 
   It 
    (b)     It  is estimated that there
are  two million     2,000,000 
adults in California who have high blood pressure. It is further
estimated, based on national data, that  no more than
 71 percent  or less  of all adult Californians
with high blood pressure are aware of their condition,  and
that   and,  of those who are aware, only 40
percent are being effectively treated. Thus, of  some two
million   the approximately 2,000,000 adults in 
California  adults  with high blood pressure, only
about 568,000 have their condition adequately controlled. Unless the
problem of uncontrolled high blood pressure among  some
  the approximately  1,432,000 adults is promptly
addressed, many of these individuals will experience preventable
serious illness,  disability   disability, 
and death. In addition, the state will continue to face unnecessary
medical and welfare costs resulting from high blood pressure and its
resulting effects. Consequently, it is necessary to provide for
expanded statewide efforts, interface with relevant federal
legislation, establish and maintain appropriate guidelines, and
enhance high blood pressure control activities at the community
level. Coordination of local and state efforts in the planning,
implementation, and evaluation of high blood pressure control
activities is  required,   required  in
order to improve allocations and utilization of resources to control
high blood pressure in the  states   state's
 population.