California Health and Safety Code 101318 – (a) Federal funding received pursuant to the 2009 Supplemental …
(a) Federal funding received pursuant to the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act (Public Law 111-32) for pandemic influenza for purposes of state and local public health and emergency response infrastructure, including, but not limited to, epidemiology, communicable disease response, workforce, laboratory capacity, public communications, and community mitigation guidance and planning, shall be subject to appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or other statute for allocation by the department in accordance with this article.
(b) This section shall govern federal funding provided by the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement and the Public Health Emergency Response Cooperative Agreement for the state and local health jurisdictions.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 101318
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(c) The proportion of funds allocated to support local health jurisdiction activities shall be at least the proportion stipulated in the 2008-09 federally approved state applications for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement unless stipulated otherwise by federal law or guidance, or unless the department, in consultation with the California Conference of Local Health Officers and the County Health Executives Association of California, submits an application that specifies a different funding allocation.
(d) The department may establish a minimum allocation of less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to local health jurisdictions, if the department consults with the California Conference of Local Health Officers and the County Health Executives Association of California.
(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 506, Sec. 2. (SB 769) Effective September 29, 2010.)