Section 1179.50 Of Chapter 1. General Provisions From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 1. >> Part 6.1. >> Chapter 1.
1179.50
. (a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the
Children's Hospital Bond Act of 2008.
(b) California's network of regional children's hospitals provide
vital health care services to children facing life-threatening
illness or injury. Over one million times each year, children are
cared for at these hospitals without regard to their family's ability
to pay.
(c) Children's hospitals also provide specialized treatment and
care that has increased the survival of children suffering from
serious diseases and illnesses such as childhood leukemia, cancer,
heart defects, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and cystic fibrosis.
(d) Children's hospitals also provide essential training for
pediatricians, pediatric specialists and others who treat children,
and they conduct critically important medical research that benefits
all of California's children.
(e) However, the burden of providing uncompensated care and the
increasing costs of health care seriously impair our children's
hospitals' ability to modernize and expand their facilities and to
purchase the latest medical technologies and special medical
equipment necessary to take care of sick children.
(f) Therefore, the people desire to provide a steady and ready
source of funds for capital improvement programs for children's
hospitals to improve the health, welfare, and safety of California's
children.