BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 1726| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 1726 Author: Bonta (D), et al. Amended: 8/19/16 in Senate Vote: 21 SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 7-2, 6/22/16 AYES: Liu, Block, Hancock, Leyva, Mendoza, Monning, Pan NOES: Huff, Vidak SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE: 7-0, 6/29/16 AYES: Hernandez, Nguyen, Hall, Mitchell, Monning, Nielsen, Pan NO VOTE RECORDED: Roth, Wolk SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: 5-2, 8/11/16 AYES: Lara, Beall, Hill, McGuire, Mendoza NOES: Bates, Nielsen ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 54-22, 6/2/16 - See last page for vote SUBJECT: Data collection SOURCE: Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum Empowering Pacific Islander Communities Southeast Asia Resource Action Center California Pan Ethnic Health Network DIGEST: This bill requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to collect demographic data related to each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, as specified. AB 1726 Page 2 Senate Floor Amendments of 8/19/16 narrow the scope of the bill to affect only the DPH, condition the bill upon the appropriation of funds, and extend the operative date from 2018 to 2022. ANALYSIS: Existing law: 1)Prohibits an application to any state department, board, or commission from including any question relative to an applicant's race, sex, marital status, or religion. However, existing law authorizes the collection of data on gender and marital status to be obtained subsequent to employment for research and statistical purposes. (Government Code § 8310) 2)Requires a state agency, board, or commission that directly or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate collection categories and tabulations for the following: a) Each major Asian group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, and Cambodian. b) Each major Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Hawaiian, Guamanian, and Samoan. (GC § 8310.5) 3)Requires the Department of Industrial Relations and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, in the course of collecting demographic data directly or by contract as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of California residents, to collect and tabulate data for the following: a) Additional major Asian groups, including, but not limited to, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai. b) Additional major Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander groups, including, but not limited to, Fijian and Tongan. (GC § 8310.7) AB 1726 Page 3 This bill: 1)Requires the DPH, by July 1, 2022, to collect demographic data related to each major Asian and Pacific Islander group whenever collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of persons for a report that includes rates for major diseases, leading causes of death per demographic, subcategories for leading causes of death in California overall, pregnancy rates, or housing numbers. 2)Provides that the DPH is to collect this data to the extent funding is specifically appropriated for this purpose. 3)Prohibits the DPH from reporting demographic data that would permit identification of individuals or result in statistical unreliability. This bill authorizes the DPH, to prevent identification of individuals, to aggregate data categories at a state, county, city, census tract, or ZIP Code level to facilitate comparisons and identify disparities. 4)Authorizes the DPH to continue to collect and report demographic data in the form that the data was submitted if the data was collected under either of the following circumstances: a) Pursuant to federal programs or surveys, whereby the guidelines for demographic data collection categories are defined by the federal program or survey. b) Demographic data collected by other entities, including either of the following: i) State offices, departments, and agencies other than the DPH, the Department of Industrial Relations and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. ii) Third-party entity administered surveys not solely funded by the state department. Comments Existing data collection. Existing law requires a state agency, AB 1726 Page 4 board, or commission that directly or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate collection categories and tabulations for the following: 1)Each major Asian group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, and Cambodian. 2)Each major Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Hawaiian, Guamanian, and Samoan. (Government Code § 8310.5) FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:YesLocal: No According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, this bill will impose one-time costs of about $600,000 per year for two years for the DPH to make system changes to several systems for collecting public health data, to meet the requirements of the bill (General Fund). SUPPORT: (Verified8/19/16) None received OPPOSITION: (Verified8/19/16) None received ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 54-22, 6/2/16 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Arambula, Atkins, Bloom, Bonilla, AB 1726 Page 5 Bonta, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chiu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, O'Donnell, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Waldron, Weber, Williams, Wood, Rendon NOES: Travis Allen, Baker, Brough, Chang, Chávez, Dahle, Gallagher, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Jones, Kim, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, Melendez, Obernolte, Olsen, Patterson, Steinorth, Wagner, Wilk NO VOTE RECORDED: Bigelow, Chu, Beth Gaines, Nazarian Prepared by:Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105 8/22/16 22:40:40 **** END ****