Bill Text: CA AB2253 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-09 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 10. [AB2253 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2253-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2253

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Introduced by Assembly Member Waldron

February 08, 2024

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An act to amend Section 131000 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2253, as introduced, Waldron. Public health.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health within the California Health and Human Services Agency. The department is responsible for regulating areas including, but not limited to, health facility licensing and certification, communicable disease control, and health information and strategic planning.

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to a provision relating to the establishment of the department.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 131000 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

131000.

 There is in within the California Health and Human Services Agency a State Department of Public Health.