Bill Text: CA AB2655 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Multicultural health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-30 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Eggman. [AB2655 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2655-Introduced.html
State Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity within the State Department of Public Health shall do all of the following:
Bill Title: Multicultural health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-30 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Eggman. [AB2655 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2655-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2655
Introduced by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to amend Section 152 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2655, as introduced, Blanca Rubio.
Multicultural health.
Existing law establishes the Office of Health Equity in the State Department of Public Health for the purposes of aligning state resources, decisionmaking, and programs to accomplish certain goals related to, among others, health equity and protecting vulnerable communities. Existing law requires the office to perform certain functions in connection to multicultural health. Existing law also requires the department to biennially prepare and submit a report to the Legislature on the status of these activities.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 152 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:152.
(a) The(1) Perform strategic planning to develop departmentwide plans for implementation of goals and objectives to close the gaps in health status and access to care among the state’s diverse racial and ethnic communities, women, persons with disabilities, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ)
communities.
(2) Conduct departmental policy analysis on specific issues related to multicultural health.
(3) Coordinate projects funded by the state that are related to improving the effectiveness of services to ethnic and racial communities, women, and the LGBTQQ communities.
(4) Identify the unnecessary duplication of services and future service needs.
(5) Communicate and disseminate information and perform a liaison function within the department and to providers of health, social, educational, and support services to racial and ethnic communities, women, persons with disabilities, and the LGBTQQ communities. The department shall consult regularly with representatives from diverse racial and ethnic communities, women, persons with disabilities, and
the LGBTQQ communities, including health providers, advocates, and consumers.
(6) Perform internal staff training, an internal assessment of cultural competency, and training of health care professionals to ensure more linguistically and culturally competent care.
(7) Serve as a resource for ensuring that programs collect and keep data and information regarding ethnic and racial health statistics, including those the statistics described in reports released by Healthy People 2020, and information based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, strategies and programs that address multicultural health issues, including, but not limited to, infant and maternal mortality,
cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), child and adult immunization, osteoporosis, menopause, and full reproductive health, asthma, unintentional and intentional injury, and obesity, as well as issues that impact the health of racial and ethnic communities, women, and the LGBTQQ communities, including substance abuse, mental health, housing, teenage pregnancy, environmental disparities, immigrant and migrant health, and health insurance and delivery systems.
(8) Encourage innovative responses by public and private entities that are attempting to address multicultural health issues.
(9) Provide technical assistance to counties, other public entities, and private entities seeking to obtain funds for initiatives in multicultural health, including identification of funding sources and assistance with
writing grants.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the State Department of Public Health shall biennially prepare and submit a report to the Legislature on the status of the activities required by this chapter. This report shall be included in the report required under pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 131019.5.