Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition. Existing law also supports research into the development of a vaccine to protect against coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley Fever. This bill would require the department, when it receives a report of a case of coccidioidomycosis after the department's reporting deadline for a specified year, to include the case in its data collection for the next year and attribute it to the year of diagnosis in future data reporting. This bill would require the department to collect data on coccidioidomycosis cases by April 15 of each year, as specified. The bill would require the department, if it collects data on coccidioidomycosis cases and removes discrepant data from its internal dataset, to timely report sufficient information about its removal of the discrepant data to a local health officer and the local health officer may remove the discrepant data from the county's dataset. The bill would also require the department, if it publishes provisional data on coccidioidomycosis cases, to publish an explanation of data changes likely to occur and of discrepancies between data reported by a local health officer and data reported by the department. The bill would require the department to publish the date range of a dataset and the date on which the dataset was updated if the department publishes data on coccidioidomycosis cases.
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Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions. Existing law requires, for each reportable disease and condition, the department to specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition, and the mechanisms required for, and the content to be included in, reports made. This bill would, until January 1, 2024, authorize the department, for the purpose of reports confirming a case of Valley Fever, to use laboratory criteria for diagnosis, with or without clinical criteria.
This measure would declare October 23 to 31, 2018, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and to participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would declare July 27, 2018, as California Bullying Prevention Day, also to be known as Rosie's Day.
Existing law generally requires an inmate who is released on parole or postrelease community supervision to be returned to the county that was the last legal residence of the inmate prior to his or her incarceration. This bill would require an inmate who is released on parole or postrelease community supervision who was committed to prison for a registrable sex offense to be returned through all efforts reasonably possible to the city that was the last legal residence of the inmate prior to incarceration or a close geographic location in which he or she has family, social ties, or other economic ties and access to reentry services, unless return to that location would violate any other law or pose a risk to his or her victim.
This measure would urge the United States Department of Justice not to direct its enforcement priorities towards California's lawfully and closely regulated cannabis industry, among other things.
This measure would encourage the federal government to maintain or restore full funding to integral international exchange programs, such as the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, establishes procedures for the reporting and investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect. The act requires certain professionals, including teachers and specified school employees, known as "mandated reporters," to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. Existing law makes reports of child abuse or neglect confidential and only authorizes the disclosure of the reports to certain individuals or entities. This bill would authorize the disclosure of those confidential reports to a teacher or school administrator, but only for purposes of disclosing information about child abuse reports filed by that teacher or administrator. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.