Public health: federal funding: public health emergencies.

Existing law establishes procedures and requirements to govern the allocation to, and expenditure by, local health jurisdictions, hospitals, clinics, emergency medical systems, and poison control centers of federal funding received for the prevention of, and response to, public health emergencies. Existing law provides that these procedures apply only when the specified entities are designated by a federal or state agency to manage the funds for public health preparedness and response to public health emergencies, pursuant to a specified federally approved plan. Existing law requires funds to be allocated to these entities through the use of agreements that are exempt from provisions that establish public contracting standards. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative as of September 1, 2012, and repeals these provisions as of January 1, 2013. This bill would expand these provisions to apply to public health emergency preparedness and response by long-term health care facilities, and would delete the repeal of these provisions. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.