BILL NUMBER: AB 1149	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wood

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 101315 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health emergencies, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1149, as introduced, Wood. Public health emergencies: funding.
   Existing law establishes procedures and requirements to govern the
allocation to, and expenditure by, local health jurisdictions,
hospitals, long-term health care facilities, clinics, emergency
medical systems, and poison control centers of federal funding
received for the prevention of, and response to, public health
emergencies. Existing law provides that these procedures apply only
when the specified entities are designated by a federal or state
agency to manage the funds for public health preparedness and
response to public health emergencies, pursuant to a specified
federally approved plan.
   This bill would expand these provisions to apply to public health
emergency preparedness and response by trade associations of those
entities or facilities.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 101315 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   101315.  (a) Federal funding received by the State Department of
Public Health for bioterrorism preparedness and emergency response is
subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act or other statute,
commencing with the 2003-04 fiscal year.
   (b) This article  shall govern   governs
 those instances when federal funding is allocated and expended
for public health preparedness and response by local health
jurisdictions, hospitals, long-term health care facilities, clinics,
emergency medical systems, and poison control  centers
  centers, or their trade associations,  for the
prevention of, and response to, bioterrorist attacks and other public
health emergencies pursuant to the federally approved collaborative
state-local plan.
   (c) A local health jurisdiction shall be ineligible to receive
funding from appropriations made for purposes of this article when
that local health jurisdiction receives directly or through another
local jurisdiction federal funding for the same purposes. Moneys
appropriated for purposes of this article that would have been
allocated to a local health jurisdiction that is ineligible, pursuant
to this subdivision, to receive funding shall be allocated, as
provided in Section 101317, among the remaining local health
jurisdictions that are eligible.
   (d) Funds appropriated for the purposes of this article shall not
be used to supplant funding for existing levels of service and shall
only be used for purposes specified in Section 101317.
   (e) This article shall apply only when local health jurisdictions,
hospitals, long-term health care facilities, clinics, emergency
medical systems, and poison control  centers  
centers, or their trade associations  are designated by a
federal or state agency to manage the funds for public health
preparedness and response to bioterrorist attacks and other public
health emergencies, pursuant to the federally approved collaborative
state-local plan.
  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 ensure an adequate and timely response to public
health threats by preventing the lapse of provisions relating to the
allocation and expenditure of federal funds for public health
emergency preparedness programs, it is necessary for this act to take
effect immediately.