CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1131Introduced by Assembly Member GloriaFebruary 21, 2019 An act to amend Section 120190 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1131, as introduced, Gloria. Communicable diseases reporting.Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including the administration of provisions relating to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. Existing law requires a health officer of specified local jurisdictions to immediately report to the department by telegraph or telephone every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Existing law further requires a health officer, within 24 hours, to make reports as the department may require. This bill would delete the option for a health officer to report cases by telegraph and instead authorize a health officer to comply with the reporting requirement by telephone or electronic communication. The bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 120190 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:120190. Each A health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone or electronic communication to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Within 24 hours after investigation each investigation, a health officer shall make reports as the department may require.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1131Introduced by Assembly Member GloriaFebruary 21, 2019 An act to amend Section 120190 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1131, as introduced, Gloria. Communicable diseases reporting.Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including the administration of provisions relating to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. Existing law requires a health officer of specified local jurisdictions to immediately report to the department by telegraph or telephone every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Existing law further requires a health officer, within 24 hours, to make reports as the department may require. This bill would delete the option for a health officer to report cases by telegraph and instead authorize a health officer to comply with the reporting requirement by telephone or electronic communication. The bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 1131
Introduced by Assembly Member GloriaFebruary 21, 2019
Introduced by Assembly Member Gloria
February 21, 2019
An act to amend Section 120190 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1131, as introduced, Gloria. Communicable diseases reporting.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including the administration of provisions relating to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. Existing law requires a health officer of specified local jurisdictions to immediately report to the department by telegraph or telephone every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Existing law further requires a health officer, within 24 hours, to make reports as the department may require. This bill would delete the option for a health officer to report cases by telegraph and instead authorize a health officer to comply with the reporting requirement by telephone or electronic communication. The bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including the administration of provisions relating to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. Existing law requires a health officer of specified local jurisdictions to immediately report to the department by telegraph or telephone every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Existing law further requires a health officer, within 24 hours, to make reports as the department may require.
This bill would delete the option for a health officer to report cases by telegraph and instead authorize a health officer to comply with the reporting requirement by telephone or electronic communication. The bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 120190 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:120190. Each A health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone or electronic communication to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Within 24 hours after investigation each investigation, a health officer shall make reports as the department may require.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 120190 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:120190. Each A health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone or electronic communication to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Within 24 hours after investigation each investigation, a health officer shall make reports as the department may require.
SECTION 1. Section 120190 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
120190. Each A health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone or electronic communication to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Within 24 hours after investigation each investigation, a health officer shall make reports as the department may require.
120190. Each A health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone or electronic communication to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Within 24 hours after investigation each investigation, a health officer shall make reports as the department may require.
120190. Each A health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone or electronic communication to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Within 24 hours after investigation each investigation, a health officer shall make reports as the department may require.
120190. Each A health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone or electronic communication to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the department. Within 24 hours after investigation each investigation, a health officer shall make reports as the department may require.