BILL NUMBER: SB 115	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Fuller

                        JANUARY 13, 2015

   An act relating to disease prevention, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 115, as introduced, Fuller. Valley fever.
   Existing law establishes the Valley Fever Vaccine Project,
administered by the State Department of Public Health and provides
for state support and funding of efforts by the project to conduct
valley fever vaccine research.
   This bill would appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund to
the department for the 2015-16 fiscal year, for purposes of extending
the project.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby
appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Public
Health for the 2015-16 fiscal year, for purposes of valley fever
vaccine research pursuant to Section 120480 of the Health and Safety
Code. One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) shall be allocated to
the department in the 2015-16 fiscal year for purposes of costs
associated with the administration of Section 120480 of the Health
and Safety Code.