BILL NUMBER: AB 2424	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Part 8 (commencing with Section 106100) to Division
103 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2424, as introduced, Gomez. Health Improvement and Innovation
Fund.
   Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health,
within the California Health and Human Services Agency, vested with
certain duties, powers, functions, jurisdiction, and responsibilities
over specified public health programs.
   This bill would create the Health Improvement and Innovation Fund
in the State Treasury and the moneys in the fund would be available,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, for certain purposes,
including, but not limited to, reducing the rates of preventable
health conditions and addressing health disparities. The department
would be required to award moneys from the fund to eligible
applicants, as described.
   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.  Part 8 (commencing with Section 106100) is added to
Division 103 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

      PART 8.  Health Improvement and Innovation Fund


   106100.  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
Health Improvement and Innovation Fund.
   (b) Moneys in the fund shall be available, upon appropriation by
the Legislature, for the following purposes:
   (1) Reduce the rates of preventable health conditions.
   (2) Address health disparities.
   (3) Reduce state health care costs.
   (4) Build evidence of effective prevention programs.
   (c) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall award moneys
from the fund to eligible applicants.
   (2) Eligible applicants shall include, but not be limited to,
community-based organizations and local governments.