BILL NUMBER: AB 2541	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fletcher

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 120190 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2541, as introduced, Fletcher. Reporting of certain
communicable diseases.
   Existing law establishes various communicable disease prevention
and control programs. Existing law requires a health officer to
immediately report by telegraph or telephone to the State Department
of Public Health every discovered or known or suspected case of those
diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department.
   This bill would also include electronic mail or facsimile as
permitted methods of reporting these diseases to the department.
   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 120190 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   120190.   Each   A  health officer shall
immediately report by  electronic mail, facsimile, 
telegraph  ,  or telephone to the department every
discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated
for immediate reporting by the department. Within 24 hours after
investigation  each   the  health officer
shall make reports as the department may require.