Bill Text: CA SB1132 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: County health officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-24 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [SB1132 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1132-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Senate
April 09, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1132
| Introduced by Senator Durazo (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gipson) ( (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ortega and Santiago) |
February 13, 2024 |
An act to add and repeal Section 101045 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1132, as amended, Durazo.
County health officers.
Existing law requires a county or city health officer to annually investigate health and sanitary conditions in a county jail, publicly operated detention facility in the county, and private work furlough facility, as specified. Existing law authorizes a county or city health officer to make additional investigations of a county jail or detention facility as they determine necessary.
This bill would additionally authorize a county or city health officer to investigate a private detention facility, as defined, as they determine necessary.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 101045 of the Health and Safety Code is repealed.SEC. 2.
Section 101045 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:101045.
(a) The county health officer shall, at least annually, investigate health and sanitary conditions in a county jail, publicly operated detention facility in the county, and private work furlough facility and program established pursuant to Section 1208 of the Penal Code. A private work furlough facility and program shall pay an annual fee to the county health officer commensurate with the annual cost of those investigations, as determined by the county health officer. The county health officer may make additional investigations of a county jail, private detention facility, or other detention facility of the county as they determine necessary. The county health officer shall submit a report to the Board of State and Community Corrections, the sheriff or other person in charge of the jail or detention facility, and to the board of supervisors. In a city having a health officer, the city health officer shall, at least annually, investigate health and sanitary conditions in a city jail and other detention facility. The city health officer may make additional investigations of a city jail, private detention facility, or other detention facility as they determine necessary. The city health officer shall submit a report to the Board of State and Community Corrections, the person in charge of the jail or detention facility, and to the city governing body.(b) Whenever requested by the sheriff, the chief of police, local legislative body, or the Board of State and Community Corrections, but not more often than twice annually, the county health officer or, in cities having a city health officer, the city health officer, shall investigate health and sanitary conditions in a jail or detention facility described in this section, and submit a report to each of
the officers and agencies authorized in this section to request the investigation and to the Board of State and Community Corrections.
(c) The investigating officer shall determine if the food, clothing, and bedding is of sufficient quantity and quality that at least shall equal minimum standards and requirements prescribed by the Board of State and Community Corrections for the feeding, clothing, and care of prisoners in local jails and detention facilities, and if the sanitation requirements required by Article 1 (commencing with Section 114250) of Chapter 8 of Part 7 of Division 104 for restaurants have been maintained.
(d) For the purposes of this section, “private detention facility” has the same meaning as in Section 7320 of the Government Code.
