Public health emergencies: funding.

Existing law establishes procedures and requirements to govern the allocation to, and expenditure by, local health jurisdictions, hospitals, long-term health care facilities, 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. This bill would expand these provisions to apply to public health emergency preparedness and response by trade associations of those entities or facilities. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.