BILL NUMBER: AB 1192	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garrick

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 120460) to Part
2 of Division 105 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public
health.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1192, as amended, Garrick. Immunization information: pertussis.

   Existing law creates various programs relating to requiring and
distributing information relating to immunizations for various
communicable diseases.
   This bill would require  the department to create and
distribute information for use by hospitals that includes 
 , during the postpartum period and prior to discharge, a
hospital to provide parents of newborns with  specified
information relating to pertussis.  The bill would also
require hospitals to distribute that information to the parents of
newborn children prior to release from the hospital. 
   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.    The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:  
   (a) The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, part
of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has
issued recommendations for the use of the pertussis vaccine,
stressing the importance of routinely vaccinating those with close
contact with infants.  
   (b) This issue is particularly important in California due to the
ongoing pertussis epidemic. In 2010, over 9,000 cases were reported
to the State Department of Public Health-- more cases than in any of
the preceeding 65 years.  
   (c) The most severe disease occurs in infants three months of age
or younger. Many of the 2010 cases occurred in infants, and 10 infant
deaths were reported.  
   (d) In the first three months of 2011, 514 cases of pertussis were
reported. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Chapter 3.5
(commencing with Section 120460) is added to Part 2 of Division 105
of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 3.5.  IMMUNIZATION EDUCATION


   120460.  (a) The department shall create and distribute
information for use by hospitals that includes all of the following:
   (1) Information on the signs of pertussis, otherwise known as
whooping cough.
   (2) Information on the risks of pertussis.
   (3) The availability of a vaccine for pertussis.
   (b) Hospitals shall distribute the information provided by the
department to the parents of newborn children prior to release from
the hospital.
   (c) Nothing in this section shall require a hospital to provide or

    120460.    (a) During the postpartum period, prior
to discharge, a hospital shall provide parents of newborns with all
of the following information:  
   (1) The risks of pertussis, especially as those risks pertain to
infants.  
   (2) The availability of a vaccine to protect against pertussis.
 
   (3) The recommendation of the federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention that those with close contact with newborns receive
vaccination against pertussis. 
    (b)     Nothing in this section shall
require a hospital to provide or  pay for vaccination against
pertussis.