California Assembly Bill AB2834 Latest Draft

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2834AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 17, 2016 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Low FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to amend Section  104755   104750  of the Health and Safety Code, relating to oral health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2834, as amended, Low. State Oral Health Program. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to maintain a dental program, as specified, and requires the department to appoint a dentist licensed in California to administer the program.  The program components include, but are not limited to, development of comprehensive dental health plans within the framework of the State Plan for Health to maximize utilization of all resources, and provision of the consultation necessary to coordinate federal, state, county, and city agency programs concerned with dental health.  This bill would  add to the components of the dental program, developing and maintaining a data collection and reporting system   to monitor the dental disease experience and unmet dental need in California. The bill also would  make  a  technical, nonsubstantive  change to a provision of the program.   changes to these provisions.  Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no   yes  . State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:  SECTION 1.   Section 104750 of the   Health and Safety Code   is amended to read:  104750.  (a)    The department shall maintain a dental program including, but not limited to, the following:  (a) Development of   (1)     Develop  comprehensive dental health plans within the framework of the State Plan for Health to maximize utilization of all resources.  (b)   (2)  Provide the consultation necessary to coordinate federal, state, county, and city agency programs concerned with dental health.  (c)  (3)  Encourage, support, and augment the efforts of city and county health departments in the implementation of a dental health component in their program plans.  (d)   (4)  Provide evaluation of these programs in terms of preventive services.  (e)   (5)  Provide consultation and program information to the health professions, health professional educational institutions, and volunteer agencies.  (6) Develop and maintain a data collection and reporting system to monitor the dental disease experience and unmet dental need in California.   (f)   (b)  For purposes of this  article   article,  "State Plan for Health" means that comprehensive state plan for health being developed by the department pursuant to Public Law 89-749 (80 Stat. 1180).  SECTION 1.   Section 104755 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 104755. The director shall appoint a dentist licensed in California to administer the dental program.