BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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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.
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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)
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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,
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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,
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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
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