California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2832

Introduced by Assembly Member Travis Allen

February 19, 2016

An act to add Section 120456 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to immunizations.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2832, as introduced, Travis Allen. Immunizations: vaccine injury information.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health within the California Health and Human Services Agency. The department is vested with certain duties, powers, and responsibilities, including programs related to immunizations and communicable diseases.

This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to maintain a conspicuous link to federal resources related to vaccine injuries, including, but not limited to, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, on the agency’s Internet Web site.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 120456 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:

120456.  

The California Health and Human Services Agency
shall maintain a conspicuous link to federal resources related to
vaccine injuries on its Internet Web site, including, but not limited
to, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and the National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.