Bill Text: CA SB1392 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public health: neonatal group B streptococcal disease.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1392 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1392-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1392	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 1695 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1392, as introduced, Galgiani. Public health: neonatal group B
streptococcal disease.
   Existing law creates in the California Health and Human Services
Agency the State Department of Health Care Services, which is vested
with specified powers of the former State Department of Health
Services. Existing law required the State Department of Health
Services, to the extent that funds were available in the department's
budget for the 1994-95 fiscal year for this purpose, to convene a
consensus conference to address the issue of testing or treatment to
prevent neonatal group B streptococcal disease (chemoprophylaxis).
Existing law required the State Department of Health Services to make
every effort to obtain appropriate federal funds for this purpose if
the department determined that state funds were not available.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
consensus conference provision described above.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1695 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1695.  To the extent that funds are available in the State
Department of Health Services' budget for the 1994-95 fiscal year for
this purpose, the department shall convene a consensus conference to
address the issue of testing or treatment to prevent neonatal group
B streptococcal disease (chemoprophylaxis). The conferees shall
include, but not be limited to, representation from the California
Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists District IX, the California
Medical Association, the California Conference of Local Health
Officers, and the Group B Strep Association. The conference shall
convene at least once during the 1994-95 fiscal year. The department
shall develop, based on the proceedings of the consensus conference,
a standardized written summary on group B streptococcal disease and
guidelines on the prevention of neonatal group B streptococcal
disease, no later than July 1, 1995.  If the department
determines that state funds are not available, the   The
 department shall make every effort to obtain appropriate
federal funds for this  purpose.   purpose if
the department determines that state funds are not available.