Amended  IN  Assembly  July 27, 2020
Amended  IN  Senate  June 18, 2020
Amended  IN  Senate  May 19, 2020
Amended  IN  Senate  May 05, 2020

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 932

Introduced by Senator Wiener
(Coauthors: Senators Atkins and Galgiani)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Cervantes, Chiu, Eggman, Gloria, and Low)

February 05, 2020

An act to add Section 120165 120117 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to communicable diseases, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 932, as amended, Wiener. Communicable diseases: COVID-19: data collection.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and to specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition, and the mechanisms required for, and the contents to be included in, a report.
This bill would require any electronic tool used by local health officers for the purpose of reporting cases of communicable diseases to the State Department of Public Health, department, as specified, to include the capacity to collect and report data relating to the sexual orientation and gender identity of individuals who are diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). identity. The bill would also require a health care provider that knows of, or is in attendance on, a case or a suspected case of COVID-19 that knows of or is in attendance on a case or suspected case of any specified communicable disease to report to the local health officer for the jurisdiction in which the patient resides, the patient’s sexual orientation and gender identity, if known because the patient self-reports this information. By imposing new duties on local health officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.Section 120165 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
120165.

SECTION 1.

 Section 120117 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

120117.
 (a) Any electronic tool used by local health officers for the purpose of reporting cases of communicable disease to the State Department of Public Health, as required by Sections 2500 and 2502 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, shall include the capacity to collect and report data relating to the sexual orientation and gender identity of individuals who are diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). identity as reported pursuant to subdivision (b).
(b) In addition to the information required to be reported pursuant to Section 2500 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, a health care provider, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 2500 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, that knows of, or is in attendance on, a case or a suspected case of COVID-19 that knows of or is in attendance on a case or suspected case of any of the diseases or conditions listed in subdivision (j) of Section 2500 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations shall report to the local health officer for the jurisdiction in which the patient resides, the patient’s sexual orientation and gender identity, if known. known because the patient self-reports this information.

SEC. 2.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

SEC. 3.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
To ensure public health officials efficiently and timely collect and report data relating to the sexual orientation and gender identity of individuals diagnosed with COVID-19, certain communicable diseases and because new studies show that the LGBTQ community is uniquely susceptible to the economic and health impacts of communicable diseases, such as COVID-19, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.