Bill Text: CA AB2424 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Community-based Health Improvement and Innovation Fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2424 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2424	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 20, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Part 8 (commencing with Section 106050) to Division
103 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2424, as amended, Gomez. Community-based Health Improvement and
Innovation Fund.
   Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health,
within the California Health and Human Services Agency, vested with
certain duties, powers, functions, jurisdiction, and responsibilities
over specified public health programs.
   This bill, among other things, would create the Community-based
Health Improvement and Innovation Fund in the State Treasury, and the
moneys in the fund would be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, for certain purposes, including, but not limited to,
reducing health inequity and disparities in the rates and outcomes of
priority chronic health conditions, as defined, preventing the onset
of priority chronic health conditions using community-based
strategies in communities statewide and with particular focus on
health equity priority populations, as defined, and strengthening
 local and regional   local, regional, and state
level  collaborations between  local  public
health jurisdictions and health care providers, and across government
agencies and community partners to create healthier communities,
using a health-in-all-policies approach. The department would be
required to use a specified percentage of moneys from the fund for
certain public health and administrative activities and would be
required to award a specified percentage of moneys from the fund to
 local health jurisdictions and as competitive grants to 
eligible applicants to be used to improve health and health equity,
as provided. 
   This bill would create an advisory committee, with the members
serving terms not to exceed 4 years, and would require the advisory
committee to provide expert input and offer guidance to the
department on the development, implementation, and evaluation of the
fund. The bill would require the department to develop an evaluation
framework, as specified, for all activities funded through the fund.
The bill would require the advisory committee to produce, and
periodically revise, a comprehensive master plan for advancing
chronic disease and injury prevention throughout the state and would
require the advisory committee to submit the master plan and its
revisions to the Legislature triennially.  
   This bill would create the 13-member Community-based Health
Improvement and Innovation Fund Advisory Committee to, among other
things, advise the department with respect to policy development,
integration, and evaluation of community-based chronic disease and
injury prevention activities funded under these provisions, and for
development of a master plan of recommendations and proposed
strategies for the future implementation of those activities. The
bill would require the advisory committee, based on the results of
programs supported by these provisions, to produce a comprehensive
set of recommendations and proposed strategies for advancing chronic
disease and injury prevention throughout the state, to include
implementation strategies in the recommendations for each priority
chronic health condition throughout the state and identification of
areas where innovative solutions are especially needed, and to submit
the recommendations and proposed strategies to the Legislature
triennially. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Part 8 (commencing with Section 106050) is added to
Division 103 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

      PART 8.  Community-based Health Improvement and Innovation Fund



   106050.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
   (a) Over the past century, chronic diseases have emerged as a
predominant challenge to public health. Chronic disease and injury
account for eight of every 10 deaths and affects the quality of life
of 14 million Californians.
   (b) Obesity and diabetes in particular have grown rapidly, posing
a grave threat to health. Today over one-half of California adults
are estimated to have either diabetes or prediabetes. Thirteen
million adults in California, 46 percent of the adult population, are
estimated to have prediabetes or undiagnosed diabetes, while another
2.5 million adults, 9 percent of the adult population, have already
been diagnosed with diabetes.
   (c) The health inequities in this state are stark:
   (1) Ethnic minorities and individuals who have low incomes have
higher rates of diabetes. Nearly one-in-five African Americans and
Latinos in California have diabetes, more than double the rate of
Whites.
   (2) Nearly 12 years of life separate the life expectancy at the
top and at the bottom of neighborhood clusters in California, from a
life expectancy of 87 years in parts of northwest Santa Clara County
to 75.3 years in the City of Twentynine Palms and the City of Barstow
in the County of San Bernardino.
   (3) Economically disadvantaged children are far less likely to
complete the fitness requirements of the physical fitness test
offered to students in grade school.
   (4) Adolescents covered by Medi-Cal reported significantly higher
rates of drinking sugar-sweetened beverages and less daily
consumption of vegetables than the general California adolescent
population and were significantly more likely to be obese.
   (d) The following short list of risk factors is responsible for
much of the burden of chronic disease: tobacco use, physical
inactivity, unhealthful diet, excessive consumption of alcohol,
hyperlipidemia, and uncontrolled high blood pressure. These risk
factors and chronic conditions are largely  preventable and
inequitably distributed.   preventable, inequitably
distributed, and significantly influenced by the social determinants
of health. 
   (e) The State Department of Public Health estimates that as much
as 80 percent of heart disease, stroke, and type II diabetes and more
than 30 percent of cancers can be prevented by eliminating the
underlying risk factors.
   (f) The economic burden of chronic disease in California weighs
heavily on families, employers, and all levels of government.
Approximately $98 billion, or 42 percent of all health care
expenditures in the state, was spent on treating just six common
chronic health conditions (arthritis, asthma, cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, cancer, and depression) in 2010.
   (g) The indirect costs associated with chronic disease in
California are also high. According to the Economic Burden of Chronic
Disease (EBCD) Index, the projected impact of lower productivity and
lost workdays for individuals with chronic conditions and their
caregiving family members in California was estimated to be $51
billion in 2010.
   (h) The cost of health care continues to surpass the rate of
inflation, causing increasing strain on the budgets of families,
employers, and the government.  Yet the ability of healthcare
alone to solve health problems that arise in the community is
limited. 
   (i) Despite the fact that chronic disease results in decreased
quality of life, premature death, and exorbitant medical costs,
investments in measures that prevent chronic disease have been
minimal.
   (j) The United States spends only 2.6 percent of health care
dollars on all public health, yet 75 percent of health care costs are
attributable to preventable health conditions.
   (k) Paying for prevention works and upstream strategies have a
remarkable history of success, measured in both cost avoidance and
health improvement. In the County of Los Angeles, smoking amongst
high school students fell from 27 percent to 7 percent between 1997
and 2013, thanks to investment in policy and environmental changes as
well as education.
   (l) Childhood obesity amongst Los Angeles Unified School District
5th graders decreased by 10.6 percent (from 31.2 percent to 27.9
percent) between 2010 and 2013, and leveled off among 7th and 9th
graders, after nine years of steady increases, reflecting investments
to reduce the consumption of  sugar-sweetened  
sugar-sweetened  beverages, promote healthier eating, and
increase physical activity.
   (m) The California Health and Human Services Agency, in
partnership with the State Department of Public Health, has defined
ambitious health improvement goals for the state through the "Let's
Get Healthy California" initiative, including making California the
healthiest state in the nation by 2022, reducing health disparities,
and achieving better health at lower cost. These goals cannot be met
by improvements in health care or on an individual basis alone.
Meeting these goals requires urgent and substantial investment in
community-based prevention of chronic  disease. 
 disease and injuries.  
   (n) The Health in All Policies Task Force was established by
Executive Order No. S-04-10 on February 23, 2010, under the auspices
of the Strategic Growth Council (SGC), in order to foster
multi-agency collaboration to identify priority programs, policies,
and strategies to improve the health of Californians while advancing
the SGC's goals of improving air and water quality, protecting
natural resources and agricultural lands, increasing the availability
of affordable housing, improving infrastructure systems, promoting
public health, planning sustainable communities, and meeting the
state's climate change goals.  
   (o) Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 47 (Resolution Chapter 56 of
the Statutes of 2012) affirms the work of the Health in All Policies
Task Force by encouraging public officials in all sectors and levels
of government to recognize that health is influenced by policies
related to air and water quality, natural resources and agricultural
land, affordable housing, infrastructure systems, public health,
sustainable communities, and climate change, and to consider health
when formulating policy, and by encouraging interdepartmental
collaboration with an emphasis on the complex environmental factors
that contribute to poor health and inequities when developing
policies in a wide variety of areas, including, but not limited to,
housing, transportation, education, air quality, parks, criminal
justice, and employment.  
   (p) The Office of Health Equity was established in Section
131019.5 of the Health and Safety Code in order to achieve the
highest level of health and mental health for all people, with
special attention focused on those who have experienced socioeconomic
disadvantage and historical injustice, and it directs the Office of
Health Equity to work collaboratively with the Health in All Policies
Task Force to promote work to prevent injury and illness through
improved social and environmental factors that promote health and
mental health.  
   (n) 
    (q)  The existing limited resources of funding for
chronic disease prevention are threatened, declining from past
levels, and subject to significant restrictions. 
   (o) 
    (r)  Strategic investment in upstream prevention will
protect, not deplete, the coffers of government. Investment in
prevention has a strong evidence base of positive return on
investment through reducing health care costs on a long-term basis.
   106051.  For purposes of this part, the following terms have the
following definitions: 
   (a) "Community food projects" means those established in the
federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. Sec. 2011 et seq.)
and the federal Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C.
Sec. 8701 et seq.) that are designed to increase food security,
including access to a healthy diet in communities. They may bring
representatives from the community, food, and public health systems
together to assess strengths, establish linkages, and create
projects, non-profit enterprises, or both, that improve access and
self-reliance of community members over their food needs. These may
also include urban or peri-urban farms and gardens that dedicate
production to low-income communities, food hubs, farm stands, farmers
markets, mobile vendors, and community-supported agriculture
projects that provide distribution systems, and community-owned and
managed enterprises that make healthy food more accessible to
low-income families.  
   (a) 
    (b)  "Department" means the State Department of Public
Health. 
   (b) 
    (c)  "Fund" means the Community-based Health Improvement
and Innovation Fund. 
   (d) "Health equity" means efforts to ensure that all people have
full and equal access to opportunities that enable them to lead
healthy lives.  
   (c) 
    (e)  "Health equity priority population" means, for each
condition, populations that exhibit significant disparities with
respect to prevalence of a priority chronic health condition or
injury or worse outcomes such as higher hospitalization or death
rates. Priority populations may be defined based on race, ethnicity,
geography, socioeconomic status, including income or education, other
factors as defined by the department, or current findings and
recommendations of research, including assessments of innovations
funded by the fund. 
   (d) 
    (f)   "Local health jurisdiction" means a county health
department or a combined health department in the case of counties
acting jointly or a city health department within the meaning of
Section 101185. 
   (e) 
    (g)  "Priority chronic health conditions" means asthma,
type II diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, cancer,
dental disease, obesity, and other chronic conditions and injuries
that are prevalent, largely preventable, and associated with high
health care costs, as defined by the department. High-burden
conditions whose prevention is not adequately supported by other
funding streams shall be prioritized.
   106052.  (a) (1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
Community-based Health Improvement and Innovation Fund. The fund
shall consist of any revenues deposited therein, including any fine
or penalty revenue allocated to the fund, any revenue from
appropriations specifically designated to be credited to the fund,
any funds from public or private gifts, grants, or donations, any
interest earned on that revenue, and any funds provided from any
other source.
   (2) A target level of annual statewide investment from the fund
shall be established as a set dollar amount per capita, to be
allocated for the purposes described in subdivision (b) and as
described in Section 106053.
   (b) (1) Moneys in the fund shall be available, upon appropriation
by the Legislature, for any of the following purposes:
   (A) Reducing health inequity and disparities in the rates and
outcomes of priority chronic health  conditions. 
 conditions and injuries. 
   (B) Preventing the onset of priority chronic health conditions
using community-based strategies in communities statewide and with
particular focus on health equity priority populations.
   (C) Strengthening  local and regional  
local, regional, and state level  collaborations between
 local  public health jurisdictions and health care
providers, and across government agencies and community partners to
create healthier communities, using a health-in-all-policies
approach. 
   (D) Supporting collaboration between public health entities and
nonhealth organizations and agencies in fields such as, but not
limited to, housing, transportation, land use planning, natural
resources, parks, food access, education, economic development,
community development, and employment, to promote community
environments that support healthy communities and families, and that
reduce inequities in disease and injury using a
health-in-all-policies approach.  
   (D) 
    (E)  Contributing to a stronger evidence base of
effective community-based prevention strategies for priority chronic
health conditions. 
   (E) Evaluating effectiveness 
    (F)     Evaluating the effectiveness 
and cost-effectiveness of innovative community-based prevention
strategies for priority chronic health conditions, as a basis for
future decisions about investment in those strategies in order to
reduce the costs of providing health care services and to improve
population health status.
   (2) Moneys in the fund shall be used to address social,
environmental, and behavioral determinants of chronic disease and
injury at any phase of the life cycle, including, but not limited to,
all of the following:
   (A) Promotion of healthy  diets and   diets,
improved access to healthy foods, and healthy  food
environments.
   (B) Promotion of physical activity and of a safe, physical
activity-promoting environment.
   (C) Prevention of unintentional and intentional injury. 
   (D) Building partnerships to address social determinants of
chronic disease. 
   (3) In expending moneys from the fund, policy, systems, and
environmental change approaches are to be emphasized, although funds
can support implementation of community-based programs.
   (4) Moneys in the fund shall not be used for clinical services.

   (c) 
    (5)  Revenues deposited in the fund that are unexpended
at the end of a fiscal year shall remain in the fund and not revert
to the General Fund. 
   (6) The award of contracts, grants, or funding allocations
provided through this part shall be exempt from Part 2 (commencing
with Section 10100) of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code. 
   106053.  (a) The department shall be allocated an amount not
greater than 20 percent of the annual appropriation from the fund for
all of the following activities:
   (1) Mandatory activities for which the funds shall be used are as
follows:
   (A) Statewide media and communications campaigns, which shall be
allocated 9 percent of total funds. 
   (B) Evaluation of program activities, which shall be allocated at
least 5 percent of total funds.  
   (B) Evaluation of all program activities supported through the
fund, including the creation of a robust evaluation framework, which
shall be allocated at least 5 percent of those funds. This evaluation
framework shall include all of the following:  
   (i) Regular monitoring of local health jurisdiction awards to
ensure activities are conducted pursuant to approved plans and
consistent with all requirements of this part.  
   (ii) Measures to ensure funding provided pursuant to this part
supplements and does not supplant existing funding or efforts. 

   (iii) Data collection and reporting requirements for grant
awardees sufficient to assess impact and monitor compliance with this
part.  
   (iv) A plan to analyze the impact of this part on process measures
relevant to community health promotion and, if practicable, on
outcome measures. 
   (C) Other activities, which shall be allocated no more than 6
percent of total funds, as follows:
   (i) Overall program implementation and oversight, including review
and approval of local health improvement plans, and granting of and
monitoring the implementation of local health jurisdiction awards and
competitive grant awards.
   (ii) The definition of criteria for evidence-based and innovative
approaches to improving health and health equity, with evaluation
criteria appropriate to each type of approach. Criteria for
evidence-based projects shall include cost-effectiveness or
projections of return on investment to the state.
   (iii) The definition of priority chronic health conditions and
health equity priority populations based on public health data.
   (iv) The definition of criteria for participation of community
partners in local health jurisdiction funding.
   (v) The development of tools that can be used by the state and by
grantees to monitor progress towards improving health and health
equity, including establishment of a health equity  index.
  index and progress towards "Let's Get Healthy
California" goals.
   (2) Discretionary activities, as may be appropriate to support
community-based prevention of priority chronic health conditions
throughout the state, for which the funds may be used, include, but
are not limited to, any of the following:
   (A) Research, development, and dissemination of best practices,
including training and technical assistance for grantees.
   (B) Development of infrastructure, including, but not limited to,
data resources or information technology resources to be shared
statewide.
   (C) Coordination of local efforts.
   (D) Development and promotion of statewide initiatives. 
   (E) Grants or contracts to nonprofit organizations at the state
level to provide technical assistance, resource development, or other
support to the department, local health jurisdictions, and other
grantees directly serving communities.  
   (3) The department, in consultation with the advisory committee
established pursuant to Section 106054, may define state priorities
and require activities supported by the fund to align with those
priorities in a manner that is consistent with the intent of this
part. The department may narrow the list of priority chronic health
conditions, if necessary, to ensure an effective program.  
   (4) The department shall require activities pursuant to this part
to be conducted in a manner consistent with principles of
effectiveness, cost efficiency, relevance to community needs, maximal
impact to improve community health, and sustainability of impact
over time. 
   (b) The department shall award at least 80 percent of total moneys
made available in the annual appropriation from the fund to eligible
applicants to be used consistent with the purposes described in
subdivision (b) of Section 106052. Moneys from the fund shall be
distributed and awarded according to the following criteria:
   (1) (A) At least  50   47  percent of
total funds shall be awarded to local health jurisdictions and shall
be allocated on a formula basis to local health jurisdictions, or
their nonprofit designee, with approved applications for three-year
funding cycles.
   (B) Each local health jurisdiction shall submit an application for
a three-year funding cycle, to be reviewed and approved by the
department, that includes all of the following information:
   (i) A detailed assessment of community health needs  and
factors contributing to those conditions  within the local
health jurisdiction with respect to priority chronic health
conditions and health equity priority populations.
   (ii) A health improvement and evaluation plan that includes
initiatives focused on health equity priority populations.
   (iii) The level of local funds, including in-kind resources, for
community-based prevention activities that was provided in the most
recently completed fiscal year.
   (iv) Documentation of the existence and activities of a community
health partnership  pursuant to subparagraph (D) of paragraph (1)
of subdivision (b) of Section 106052  , which includes leading
health care providers, local health jurisdictions, community
partners, including those serving health equity priority populations,
businesses, and other relevant local government agencies and
community  leaders.   leaders and their
commitments to support the efforts. 
   (v) How funds will be used in a manner consistent with principles
of effectiveness, cost efficiency, relevance to community needs,
maximal impact to improve community health,  and 
sustainability of impact over time.   time, and
projections of return on investment to the state.
   (C) Each local health jurisdiction with an approved application
shall receive a base award of two hundred fifty thousand dollars
($250,000) for a three-year funding cycle. The balance of the funds
shall be awarded to local health jurisdictions proportional to the
number of residents living below the federal poverty level.
   (D) Health improvement and evaluation plans shall emphasize
sustainable policy, systems, and environmental change approaches to
creating healthier communities.
   (E) Local health jurisdictions may come together if they so desire
to submit combined regional applications.
   (F) No single recipient may receive more than 30 percent of the
funding allocated to local health jurisdictions on a formula basis.
   (G) Recipients of funds pursuant to this paragraph shall maintain
the level of local funds, including in-kind resources, for
community-based prevention activities that were provided in the most
recently completed fiscal year prior to July 2016. Funds provided
pursuant to this paragraph shall supplement and not supplant existing
funding for community-based prevention activities of priority
chronic health conditions.
   (H) Local health jurisdiction investments shall prioritize
communities in the third and fourth quartiles of the California
Health Disadvantage Index or other criteria of health equity priority
populations subsequently adopted by the department.
   (I) The initial year of funding may be used for needs assessment,
planning, and development.
   (2) At least  30   33  percent of total
funds shall be allocated for competitive grants as follows:
   (A) (i) Competitive grants shall be awarded to local or regional
level entities or statewide nonprofit organizations. Funds provided
pursuant to this paragraph shall supplement and not supplant existing
funding for community-based prevention activities of priority
chronic health conditions.
   (ii)  Local or regional level entities include
community-based organizations or local public agencies, 
 Local, regional, and state level entities, including nonprofit
and community-based organizations  in partnership with other
entities, including, but not limited to, other  nonprofit and
 community-based organizations, other local public agencies,
schools, religious organizations, businesses, labor unions, health
care plans, hospitals, clinics, other health care providers, or other
community-based entities.
   (iii) Each participating health care plan or hospital shall
identify monetary, in-kind, or both, contributions to projects.
   (iv) Local or regional projects shall prioritize investments that
serve communities in the third and fourth quartiles of the California
Health Disadvantage Index or other criteria of health equity
priority populations subsequently adopted by the department.
   (v) At least 10 percent of the funds awarded as
competitive grants   total funds  shall be used for
statewide nonprofit  organizations.  
organizations to support activities conducted regionally or at the
state level.  
   (vi) At least 5 percent of total funds shall be used for a
competitive grant program administered by the department to support
healthy food incentives for low-income Californians, support
community food projects, as defined under Section 106051, and aid
community food producers or socially disadvantaged, beginning,
military veteran, or limited resource specialty crop producers that
improve the health and resilience of their communities by increasing
access to any variety of fresh, canned, dried, or frozen whole or cut
fruits and vegetables without added sugars, fats or oils, and salt.
The department shall coordinate, as necessary, with the Department of
Food and Agriculture to implement this clause.  
   (vi) 
    (vii)  Organizations receiving competitive grants shall
coordinate efforts with  the department and  any local
health jurisdictions where they are carrying out activities.
   (B) (i) Competitive grant applicants shall identify projects as
either an evidence-based or an innovative project. 
   (ii) Applications for evidence-based projects shall provide
evidence of cost-effectiveness or projections of return on investment
to the state.  
   (ii) Applications for evidence-based projects shall demonstrate
how funds will be used in a manner consistent with principles of
effectiveness, cost efficiency, relevance to community needs, maximal
impact to improve community health, and sustainability of impact
over time. 
   (iii) At least 10 percent of the funding for competitive grants
shall be set aside for innovative projects that test previously
untested strategies in order to improve the evidence base of
effective community-based prevention strategies for priority chronic
health  conditions.   conditions and injuries.

   (iv) Applications for innovative projects shall provide a
rationale for the defined approach and any evidence that suggests the
innovative project will be effective, as well as a plan and resource
allocation for the evaluation.
   (v) Competitive grants may be used by organizations for policy
systems or environmental change efforts, direct program delivery, or
for technical assistance to other grantees. 
   106054.  (a) (1) An advisory committee, with the members serving
terms not to exceed four years, shall provide expert input and offer
guidance to the department on the development, implementation, and
evaluation of the fund.
   (2) The advisory committee shall include, at a minimum, experts on
priority chronic health conditions, effective nonclinical prevention
strategies, policy strategies for chronic disease prevention, and
the unique needs of health equity priority populations.
   (3) The advisory committee shall include representatives from the
State Department of Health Care Services, the Health in All Policies
Task Force, the California Health and Human Services Agency, the
California Conference of Local Health Officers, and the California
Public Employees' Retirement System.
   (b) The department shall develop a robust evaluation framework for
all activities funded through the fund. This evaluation framework
shall include all of the following:
   (1) Regular monitoring of local health jurisdiction awards to
ensure activities are conducted pursuant to approved plans and
consistent with all requirements of this part.
   (2) Measures to ensure funding provided pursuant to this part
supplement and do not supplant existing funding or effort.
   (3) Data collection and reporting requirements for grant awardees
sufficient to assess impact and monitor compliance with this part.
   (4) A plan to analyze the impact of this part on process measures
relevant to community health promotion and, if practicable, on
outcome measures.
   (c) The department may define state priorities and require
activities funded by the fund to align with those priorities in a
manner that is consistent with the intent of this part. The
department may narrow the list of priority chronic health conditions
if necessary to ensure an effective program.
   (d) The department shall require activities pursuant to this part
to be conducted in a manner consistent with principles of
effectiveness, cost efficiency, relevance to community needs, maximal
impact to improve community health, and sustainability of impact
over time.
   (e) (1) Based on the results of programs supported by this part
and any other proven methodologies available to the advisory
committee, the advisory committee shall produce a comprehensive
master plan for advancing chronic disease and injury prevention
throughout the state.
   (2) The master plan shall include recommended implementation
strategies for each priority chronic health condition throughout the
state and identify areas where innovative solutions are especially
needed.
   (3) The advisory committee shall submit the master plan, and
revisions to the master plan, to the Legislature triennially.
   (4) The master plan and its revisions shall include
recommendations on specific goals for reduction of the burden of
preventable chronic conditions and injuries by 2030, administrative
arrangements, funding priorities, integration and coordination of
approaches by the department, the University of California, the
Health in All Policies Task Force, and their support systems, and
progress reports relating to each health equity priority population.
   (5) A report submitted pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
 
   106054.  (a) There is hereby created the Community-based Health
Improvement and Innovation Fund Advisory Committee in state
government that shall advise the department with respect to policy
development, integration, and evaluation of community-based chronic
disease and injury prevention activities funded under this part, and
for development of a master plan of recommendations and proposed
strategies for the future implementation of those activities.
   (b) The advisory committee shall include, at a minimum, experts on
priority chronic health conditions, effective nonclinical prevention
strategies, policy strategies for chronic disease prevention, and
the unique needs of health equity priority populations.
   (c) The advisory committee shall be composed of 13 members to be
appointed as follows:
   (1) One member representing voluntary health organizations
dedicated to the reduction of chronic disease, injuries, or health
inequities appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.
   (2) One member representing an organization that represents health
care employees appointed by the Senate Rules Committee.
   (3) One member representing a statewide nonprofit health
organization dedicated to the improvement of public health appointed
by the Governor.
   (4) One member representing a community-based organization with a
demonstrated track record implementing community prevention programs
appointed by the Governor.
   (5) One representative of a university with expertise in programs
intended to reduce chronic disease appointed by the Governor.
   (6) Two representatives of a population group with priority health
conditions appointed by the Governor.
   (7) One representative of the Health and Human Services Agency
appointed by the Governor.
   (8) One representative of the Department of Food and Agriculture
appointed by the Governor.
   (9) One representative of the Health in All Policies Task Force
appointed by the Strategic Growth Council.
   (10) One member representing the interests of the general public
appointed by the Governor.
   (11) One representative of the California Conference of Local
Health Officers.
   (12) One representative from the California Health Benefit
Exchange appointed by the executive board of the exchange.
   (d) Members of the advisory committee shall serve for a term of
two years, renewable at the option of the appointing authority. The
initial appointments of members shall be for two or three years, to
be drawn by random lot at the first meeting. The committee shall be
staffed by the department's coordinator of the program as described
in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 106053.
   (e) The committee shall meet as often as it deems necessary, but
shall meet not less than four times per year.
   (f) The members of the committee shall serve without compensation,
but shall be reimbursed for necessary travel expenses incurred in
the performance of the duties of the committee.
   (g) The committee shall be advisory to the department, the
Department of Food and Agriculture, and the Health and Human Services
Agency, for all of the following purposes:
   (1) Evaluation of research on community-based policies, practices,
and programs funded under this part as necessary in order to assess
the overall effectiveness of efforts made by the programs to reduce
the occurrence of preventable chronic disease and injuries.
   (2) Facilitation of programs directed at reducing and eliminating
preventable chronic disease and injury that are operated jointly by
more than one agency or entity. The committee shall propose
strategies for the coordination of proposed programs administered by
the department, the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Health
and Human Services Agency in general, and the efforts of the other
members, such as the Health in All Policies Task Force, in order to
maximize the public benefit of the programs.
   (3) Making recommendations to the department, the Department of
Food and Agriculture, and the Health and Human Services Agency
regarding the most appropriate criteria for the selection of,
standards of operation of, and types of activities to be funded under
this part.
   (4) Reporting to the Legislature on or before January 1 of each
year on the number and amount of chronic disease and injury
prevention activities funded by the Community-based Health
Improvement and Innovation Fund, the amount of money in the fund, any
moneys previously appropriated to the department, but unspent by the
department, a description and assessment of all programs funded
under this part, and recommendations for any necessary policy changes
or improvements.
   (5) Ensuring that the most current research findings regarding
chronic disease and injury prevention are applied in designing the
Community-based Health Improvement and Innovation Fund activities
administered by the department. The department shall apply the most
current findings and recommendations of research, including
assessments of innovations funded by the fund.
   (h) (1) Based on the results of programs supported by this part
and any other proven methodologies available to the advisory
committee, the advisory committee shall produce a comprehensive set
of recommendations and proposed strategies for advancing chronic
disease and injury prevention throughout the state.
   (2) The recommendations shall include implementation strategies
for each priority chronic health condition throughout the state and
identification of areas where innovative solutions are especially
needed.
   (3) The advisory committee shall submit the recommendations and
proposed strategies to the Legislature triennially.
   (4) The advisory committee recommendations shall include specific
goals for reduction of the burden of preventable chronic conditions
and injuries by 2030, administrative arrangements, funding
priorities, integration and coordination of approaches by the
department, the Department of Food and Agriculture, local health
jurisdictions, non-profit and community-based organizations, the
University of California, the Health in All Policies Task Force, and
their support systems, and progress reports relating to each health
equity priority population.
   (i) A report submitted pursuant to section shall be submitted in
compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code. 
   106055.  Implementation of this part shall be contingent on an
appropriation provided for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or
other measure.