Chapter 2. Department Of Health Services Provision Of Funds, Immunibiologics, And Access To Immunibiologics of California Health And Safety Code >> Division 105. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2.

The department may establish an immunization outreach program.

(a) A local health officer, or consortium of local health officers, may establish permanent, temporary, or mobile sites and programs, for the purpose of immunizing children, or performing outreach to refer parents to other programs that provide immunizations and comprehensive health services. These sites for referral or immunization may include, but are not limited to, the following:
  (1) Public places where parents of children at high risk of remaining unimmunized reside, shop, worship, or recreate.
  (2) School grounds, either during regular hours, or evening hours or on weekends.
  (3) On or adjacent to sites of public- or community-based agencies or programs that either provide or refer persons to public assistance programs or services.
  (b) Outreach programs shall, to the extent feasible, include referral components intended to link immunized children with available public or private primary care providers, in order to increase access to continuing pediatric care, including subsequent immunization services as necessary.

The population to be targeted by the program shall include children who do not receive immunizations through private third-party sources or other public sources with priority given to infants and children from birth up to age three. Outreach programs shall include information to the families of children being immunized about possible reactions to the vaccine and about followup referral sources.

The Health and Welfare Agency may waive state administrative, eligibility, and billing requirements that apply to other public assistance programs through which immunization and comprehensive health services outreach and vaccination are offered, for counties that establish streamlined administrative, eligibility, billing, and referral procedures between those public assistance programs, and the immunization and comprehensive health services programs established pursuant to Sections 120400 through 120415, inclusive.

The department shall provide financial assistance to county and areawide immunization campaigns under the direction of local health officers for the prevention of rubella.

All moneys appropriated to the department for the purposes of this section and Section 120420 shall be made available to local health departments, as defined in Section 101185, or to areawide associations of local health departments. All moneys received by the local departments or areawide associations shall be utilized only for the purchase of rubella vaccines, other necessary supplies and equipment for rubella immunization campaigns, and promotional costs of these campaigns. No moneys appropriated for the purpose of this section and Section 120420 shall be used by the department or by any local department or areawide association for administrative purposes, and these moneys may not be used to supplant or support local health department clinics and programs already regularly operated by the departments, but may be used only for additional county or areawide rubella immunization campaigns. All moneys appropriated for the purposes of this section and Section 120420 shall be expended by March 31, 1971.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that 1990 marks one of the worst measles epidemics in recent history and that this epidemic threatens the health and safety of our schoolaged children. The Legislature finds and declares that, according to the Center for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics, current medical technology suggests that in order to be fully immunized against measles, children should receive two doses of the immunization agent for measles before the age of seven years. It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that all possible steps are taken to combat the spread of any disease through California schools.
  (b) The department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, shall develop and adopt regulations to ensure that every student in any private or public elementary or secondary school, child care center, day nursery, nursery school, or development center shall have access to full immunization against measles, as determined by the Center for Disease Control, to the extent funds are available. Priority shall be given to children who have not received any type of measles immunization.

The department shall purchase or prepare, and distribute free of cost, under any regulations as may be necessary, anti-rabic virus to be used in the treatment of persons exposed to rabies when they declare that it would be a hardship for them to pay for anti-rabic treatment.