CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
99
Introduced by Assembly Member Bloom
February 21, 2020
An act to amend Section 104750 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.
Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal committee: no Local program: no
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and requires it to maintain a dental program that, among other things, includes the development of comprehensive dental health plans and the coordination of federal, state, county, and city agency programs concerned with dental health, as specified.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
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.
The department shall maintain a dental program including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) Development of comprehensive dental health plans within the framework of the State Plan for Health to maximize utilization use of all resources.
(b) Provide the consultation necessary to coordinate federal, state, county, and city agency programs concerned with dental health.
(c) 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) Provide evaluation of these programs in terms of preventive services.
(e) Provide consultation and program information to the health professions, health professional educational institutions, and volunteer agencies.
(f) For purposes of this 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).