Personal protective equipment: stockpile.

Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2022, the State Department of Public Health and the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with other state agencies, to establish a personal protective equipment (PPE) stockpile, upon appropriation and as necessary. Existing law further requires the department, informed by the recommendations of the Personal Protective Equipment Advisory Committee, to establish guidelines for its procurement, management, and distribution of PPE. This bill would authorize the department to rotate PPE in the stockpile by selling the PPE to a nonprofit agency, local government, or provider, and by contracting to purchase PPE on behalf of a local government or provider. The bill would require a nonprofit agency, local government, or provider that obtains PPE pursuant to these provisions to reimburse the department for the costs of the PPE. The bill would also make a technical change to the date in these provisions.