Richard Pan
- Democratic
Author
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health to implement various programs throughout the state relating to public health, including licensing and regulating health facilities and control of infectious diseases. Existing law requires the department to examine the causes of communicable disease in humans and domestic animals occurring, or likely to occur, in the state, and to establish a list of reportable diseases and the mechanism and timeline requirements for that reporting. Existing law requires local health departments to have available the services of a public health laboratory for the examination of specimens from suspected cases of infectious and environmental diseases. Existing law requires the laboratory to provide the analyses required to assist in community disease surveillance. This bill, no later than January 1, 2024, would require the department to complete an evaluation of the effectiveness of the state's viral surveillance capacity, including a comprehensive list of all public health laboratories and private clinical laboratories that conduct viral surveillance and genomic sequencing, as specified, and recommendations on how to optimize the state's viral surveillance capabilities. The bill, no later than January 1, 2025, would require the department to establish the "Viral Surveillance Hub" (VSH) that would be responsible for timely communication with any laboratory that conducts viral surveillance and identifies a potential novel virus or variant. The bill, beginning January 1, 2025, would require a laboratory conducting viral surveillance to report within appropriate timeframes established by the department to VSH the identification of a potential novel virus or variant strongly suspected to be a pathogen as well as to submit within appropriate timeframes established by the department samples of each potential novel virus or variant strongly suspected to be a pathogen to VSH, as specified. The bill would require VSH to conduct next-generation sequencing of any samples, as specified, submitted by a viral surveillance facility and would allow VSH to contract with an outside entity to conduct this sequencing. The bill would require the department to have the results from viral sequences published on an internet website designed to hold sequence data, such as GISAID, with a hyperlink to the results on the department's internet website. The bill would require VSH to notify local health departments and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention upon a confirmed detection of a new virus or variant in the population.
In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Vetoed by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 6013.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 11).
August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3873.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3791.) (May 19).
Set for hearing May 19.
May 2 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 2.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3462.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Set for hearing April 20.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
From printer.
Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB1296 | HTML |
| 02/18/22 - Introduced | |
| 03/14/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/06/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/25/22 - Enrolled |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/18/22- Senate Health | |
| 04/29/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/21/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/24/22- Assembly Health | |
| 08/01/22- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/17/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 10/11/22- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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