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                       SENATE THIRD READING

  SB 1360 (Committee on Health and Human Services) - As Amended:   
                           July 14, 1995

 SENATE VOTE:  38-0

ASSEMBLY ACTIONS:  

 COMMITTEE:  HEALTH            VOTE:  18-0      COMMITTEE:             
  VOTE:      
 DIGEST

 Existing law distributes functions governing public health and  
related administrative functions throughout the Health and Safety  
Code (HSC).

 This bill:

1) Arranges all current law provisions of the HSC relating to  
   public health into seven new divisions, as follows:

         101-Administration of Public Health
         102-Vital Records and Health Statistics
         103-Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
         104-Environmental Health
         105-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
         106-Personal Health Care
         107-Statewide Health Planning and Development

2)  Renumbers the code sections into multiples of five to allow  
for future additions and revisions. 

3)  Declares legislative intent to reorganize and clarify portions  
of the HSC, and thereby facilitate its administration.  Declares  
that this act would have only technical and nonsubstantive effect.  
 (Amendments were taken to prevent 1994 and 1995 legislation,  
keyed to the sections that this bill amends, from being chaptered  
out.)
   
 FISCAL EFFECT











                                                          SB 1360
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None

 COMMENTS

1) Existing law, AB 1491 (Bronzan), Chapter 611, Statutes of 1991,  
   requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to  
   conduct a comprehensive review of the statutes relating to  
   public health and to recodify the HSC.  AB 1491 was one of two  
   bills used as vehicles for the realignment of state and local  
   responsibilities for health services during the 1991-92  
   Legislative Session. 
  
   This bill is the product of a year-long collaborative effort  
   between health officials at various levels of the public and  
   private sectors.  Participants included:  the DHS, local health  
   enforcement agencies, Legislative Counsel's office and a  
   Recodification Task Force with prescribed members.

   This bill is an entirely technical bill that would make no  
   substantive policy changes.  According to the DHS, this bill  
   represents parts I and II of a three-part effort to recodify  
   the HSC.  In addition, it would reorganize existing law into a  
   better framework that is updated and easy-to-use.  Statutes  
   unrelated to public health would remain in their current  
   format.

2) Clean-up legislation may still be required to recodify 1994 and  
   1995 public health legislation.


 Analysis prepared by:  Cindy L. Richburg, Esq. / ahealth /  
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