Bill Text: CA AB2834 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Oral Health Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2834 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2834-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2834	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 17, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Low

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section  104755   104750
 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to oral health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2834, as amended, Low. State Oral Health Program.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to
maintain a dental program, as specified, and requires the department
to appoint a dentist licensed in California to administer the
program.  The program components include, but are not limited to,
development of comprehensive dental health plans within the
framework of the State Plan for Health to maximize utilization of all
resources, and provision of the consultation necessary to coordinate
federal, state, county, and city agency programs concerned with
dental health. 
   This bill would  add to the components of the dental program,
developing and maintaining a data collection and reporting system
  to monitor the dental disease experience and unmet dental
need in California. The bill also would  make  a
 technical, nonsubstantive  change to a provision of
the program.   changes to these provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 104750 of the   Health
and Safety Code   is amended to read: 
   104750.   (a)    The department shall maintain a
dental program including, but not limited to, the following:

   (a) Development of 
    (1)     Develop  comprehensive dental
health plans within the framework of the State Plan for Health to
maximize utilization of all resources. 
   (b) 
    (2)  Provide the consultation necessary to coordinate
federal, state, county, and city agency programs concerned with
dental health. 
   (c) 
   (3)  Encourage, support, and augment the efforts of city
and county health departments in the implementation of a dental
health component in their program plans. 
   (d) 
    (4)  Provide evaluation of these programs in terms of
preventive services. 
   (e) 
    (5)  Provide consultation and program information to the
health professions, health professional educational institutions,
and volunteer agencies. 
   (6) Develop and maintain a data collection and reporting system to
monitor the dental disease experience and unmet dental need in
California.  
   (f) 
    (b)  For purposes of this  article 
 article,  "State Plan for Health" means that comprehensive
state plan for health being developed by the department pursuant to
Public Law 89-749 (80 Stat. 1180). 
  SECTION 1.    Section 104755 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   104755.  The director shall appoint a dentist licensed in
California to administer the dental program.