Public health services: consolidated contracts.

Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health is authorized, within its authority to contract with a provider for the provision of health services, to enter into a single contractual instrument encompassing services in any number of specified health services subject areas. This bill, in addition, would require the department, within existing resources, to develop and implement, in consultation with local health jurisdiction representatives, a model consolidated and streamlined administration and contracting process with local health jurisdictions for the department's Center for Infectious Diseases and Center for Family Health, and the programs administered by the respective centers. The bill would require the 2 designated program centers within the department to develop a single model allocation contract between the department and local health jurisdictions that incorporates the programs administered by the program center, including, but not limited to, specified elements.