CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 528Introduced by Senator Weber PiersonFebruary 20, 2025 An act to amend Section 124300 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 528, as introduced, Weber Pierson. Health care: family planning.Existing law requires local health departments to make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning available in a certain language if 10% or more of the population in a county, as specified, speaks a language other than English as its native language. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to make a translation of the family planning information materials available upon request.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those 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 124300 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:124300. (a) Within any county where 10 percent or more of the population, as determined by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, speaks any one a language other than English as its native language, every local health department shall make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning that are made available to the public also available in the other language.The(b) The State Department of Health Care Services, upon request, shall make a translation available in other than English those family planning informational materials normally distributed to the general public.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 528Introduced by Senator Weber PiersonFebruary 20, 2025 An act to amend Section 124300 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 528, as introduced, Weber Pierson. Health care: family planning.Existing law requires local health departments to make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning available in a certain language if 10% or more of the population in a county, as specified, speaks a language other than English as its native language. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to make a translation of the family planning information materials available upon request.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 528
Introduced by Senator Weber PiersonFebruary 20, 2025
Introduced by Senator Weber Pierson
February 20, 2025
An act to amend Section 124300 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 528, as introduced, Weber Pierson. Health care: family planning.
Existing law requires local health departments to make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning available in a certain language if 10% or more of the population in a county, as specified, speaks a language other than English as its native language. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to make a translation of the family planning information materials available upon request.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law requires local health departments to make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning available in a certain language if 10% or more of the population in a county, as specified, speaks a language other than English as its native language. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to make a translation of the family planning information materials available upon request.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 124300 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:124300. (a) Within any county where 10 percent or more of the population, as determined by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, speaks any one a language other than English as its native language, every local health department shall make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning that are made available to the public also available in the other language.The(b) The State Department of Health Care Services, upon request, shall make a translation available in other than English those family planning informational materials normally distributed to the general public.
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 124300 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:124300. (a) Within any county where 10 percent or more of the population, as determined by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, speaks any one a language other than English as its native language, every local health department shall make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning that are made available to the public also available in the other language.The(b) The State Department of Health Care Services, upon request, shall make a translation available in other than English those family planning informational materials normally distributed to the general public.
SECTION 1. Section 124300 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
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124300. (a) Within any county where 10 percent or more of the population, as determined by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, speaks any one a language other than English as its native language, every local health department shall make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning that are made available to the public also available in the other language.The(b) The State Department of Health Care Services, upon request, shall make a translation available in other than English those family planning informational materials normally distributed to the general public.
124300. (a) Within any county where 10 percent or more of the population, as determined by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, speaks any one a language other than English as its native language, every local health department shall make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning that are made available to the public also available in the other language.The(b) The State Department of Health Care Services, upon request, shall make a translation available in other than English those family planning informational materials normally distributed to the general public.
124300. (a) Within any county where 10 percent or more of the population, as determined by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, speaks any one a language other than English as its native language, every local health department shall make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning that are made available to the public also available in the other language.The(b) The State Department of Health Care Services, upon request, shall make a translation available in other than English those family planning informational materials normally distributed to the general public.
124300. (a) Within any county where 10 percent or more of the population, as determined by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance, speaks any one a language other than English as its native language, every local health department shall make copies of circulars and pamphlets relating to family planning that are made available to the public also available in the other language.
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(b) The State Department of Health Care Services, upon request, shall make a translation available in other than English those family planning informational materials normally distributed to the general public.