AB 2336, as introduced, Grove. Public health: personal health care.
Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to conduct the Adolescent Family Life Program to serve certain specified functions, including, but not limited to, ensuring that pregnant adolescents receive comprehensive continuous prenatal care in order to deliver healthy babies.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 124180 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) The department may conduct the Adolescent
4Family Life Program tobegin delete assureend deletebegin insert ensureend insert that pregnant adolescents
5receive comprehensive continuous prenatal care in order to deliver
6healthy babies; to establish networks within regions to provide to
7pregnant and parenting teens and their children necessary services
8including medical care, psychological and nutritional counseling,
P2 1maternity counseling, adoption counseling, academic and
2vocational programs, and day care; to provide a continuous case
3manager to each family unit; and to maintain abegin delete data baseend deletebegin insert
databaseend insert
4 to measure outcomes of adolescent pregnancies. Specific
5procedures to operate this program will be defined and carried out
6through standards and guidelines established by the department.
7(b) begin deleteNo grant end deletebegin insertGrant end insertfundsbegin delete mayend deletebegin insert shall notend insert be used for essential
8services to pregnant adolescents or schoolage parents unless the
9services are not available in the county or are insufficient to meet
10the basic needs of the population to be served; in that case, funds
11may be used for essential services only as set forth in the approved
12grant
application.begin delete No grantend deletebegin insert
Grantend insert fundsbegin delete mayend deletebegin insert shall notend insert be expended
13for abortions, abortion referrals, or abortion counseling.
O
99