Bill Text: CA AB710 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: State Department of Public Health: pregnancy care and abortion services awareness campaign.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB710 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 710
| Introduced by Assembly Member Schiavo (Coauthors: Assembly Members Addis, Aguiar-Curry, Bauer-Kahan, Pellerin, and Petrie-Norris) (Coauthors: Senators Blakespear and Skinner) |
February 13, 2023 |
An act to add and repeal Section 123261 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 710, as amended, Schiavo.
State Department of Public Health: pregnancy care and abortion services awareness campaign.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinics and health facilities, including, but not limited to, primary care and specialty clinics, by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, the department is also responsible for the statewide administration of various programs and policies relating to personal health, including maternal, child, and adolescent health. Existing law requires the department to develop a coordinated state strategy for addressing the health-related needs of women, including implementation of goals and objectives for women’s health, as specified.
This bill would require the department to conduct an awareness campaign to communicate with local health departments, health care providers, and the public regarding facilities that provide health care services, including, but not limited to,
primary care and specialty clinics. The bill would require the awareness campaign to include information about the services the facilities offer, and the activities of the department, relating to pregnancy care and abortion. The bill would require the campaign to provide outreach make that information available to, among others, health care professional associations and societies and health care employers. The bill would authorize the department to award grants or enter into contracts to perform the functions required to conduct the awareness campaign, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2025.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 123261 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:123261.
(a) The State Department of Public Health shall conduct an awareness campaign to communicate with local health departments, health care providers, and the public, regarding facilities that provide health care services, including, but not limited to, primary care and specialty clinics. The awareness campaign shall include, but is not limited to, both of the following:(1) Information about the services the facilities offer relating to pregnancy care and abortion.
(2) Information about the activities of the department related to pregnancy care and abortion.
(b) The
department, as part of its administration of the
awareness campaign, shall provide outreach make information specified in subdivision (a) available to all of the following groups:
(1) The general public.
(2) Health care providers. For purposes of this paragraph, outreach to health care providers includes, but is not limited to, physician education, resources, and tools.
(3) Health care professional associations and societies.
(4) Health care employers.
(5) Local public
health officers and health departments.
(c) The department may award grants or enter into contracts to perform the functions required by this section. The award of a contract or grant is exempt from Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code and is exempt from approval by the Department of General Services prior to its execution.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require recipients of information pursuant to subdivision (a) to use the information or to use the information in a particular way.
(d)
(e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2025, and as of that date is repealed.
