Bill Text: CA AB990 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Political Reform Act of 1974: advertisement disclosures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 747, Statutes of 2015. [AB990 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB990-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 990	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 138.6 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 990, as amended, Bonilla. Women's health.
    Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to
develop a coordinated state strategy for addressing the
health-related needs of women, including implementation of goals and
objectives for women's health. Existing law establishes the Office of
Health Equity within the department to, among other things,
communicate and disseminate information within the department and to
other state departments to assist in developing strategies to improve
the health and mental health status of specified persons, including
women. Existing law requires the department to include prescribed
information in any literature that it produces regarding breast
cancer, including the factors that increase the risk that younger
women will develop breast cancer. Existing law describes these risk
factors as including, but not limited to, family history of the
disease.
   This bill would require any literature  regarding breast
cancer information  produced  or updated  by the
department  on or after January 1, 2016,  to include the
increased risk for breast cancer associated with obesity.  The
bill would provide that the department is not required to dispose of
or refrain from disseminating existing published material solely for
the purpose of complying with the requirement that the literature
include that prescribed information. 
   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.  Section 138.6 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   138.6.  (a)  The   Literature regarding
breast cancer information produced or updated by the  State
Department of Public Health  on or after January 1, 2016, 
shall  include in any literature that it produces regarding
breast cancer information that shall  include, but not be
limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Summarized information on risk factors for breast cancer in
younger women, including, but not limited to, information on the
increased risk associated with a family history of the disease, and
increased risk associated with obesity.
   (2) Summarized information regarding detection alternatives to
mammography that may be available and more effective for at-risk
women between the ages of 25 and 40 years.
   (3) Information on Internet Web sites of relevant organizations,
government agencies, and research institutions where information on
mammography alternatives may be obtained.
   (b)  (1)    The information required by
subdivision (a) shall be produced consistent with the department's
protocols and procedures regarding the production and dissemination
of information on breast cancer, including, but not limited to, the
following factors: 
   (1) 
    (A)  Restrictions imposed by space limitation on
materials currently produced and distributed by the department.

   (2) 
    (B)  Future regular production and replacement
schedules. 
   (3) 
    (C)  Translation standards governing the number of
languages and literacy levels. 
   (4) 
    (D)  The nature, content, and purpose of the material
into which this new information will be incorporated. 
   (2) This section does not require the department to dispose of or
refrain from disseminating existing published literature solely for
the purpose of complying with subdivision (a). 
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that subdivisions (a) and
(b) apply to information that is distributed by any branch of the
department, including, but not limited to, the Cancer Detection
Section and the Office of Health Equity.