101225-101265
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
SECTION 101225-101265
101225. Provisional approval may be given by the department to a
county health department that meets minimum standards as specified in
this chapter, Section 100295, and Part 3 (commencing with Section
124300) of Division 106, but that does not serve all cities of less
than 50,000 population within the county.
101230. From the appropriation made for the purposes of this
article, allocation shall be made to the administrative bodies of
qualifying local health jurisdictions described as public health
administrative organizations in Section 101185 in the following
manner:
(a) A basic allotment as follows:
To the administrative bodies of local health jurisdictions, a
basic allotment of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per local
health jurisdiction or $0.212426630 per capita, whichever is greater,
subject to the availability of funds appropriated in the annual
Budget Act or some other act.
The population estimates used for the calculation of the per
capita allotment shall be based on the Department of Finance's E-1
Report, "City/County Population Estimates with Annual Percentage
Changes" as of January 1 of the previous fiscal year. However, if
within a county there are one or more city health jurisdictions, the
county shall subtract the population of the city or cities from the
county total population for purposes of calculating the per capita
total. If the amounts appropriated are insufficient to fully fund the
allocations specified in this subdivision, the state department
shall prorate and adjust each local health jurisdiction's allocation
using the same percentage that each local health jurisdiction's
allocation represents to the total appropriation under the allocation
methodology specified in this subdivision.
(b) A per capita allotment, determined as follows:
After deducting the amounts allowed for the basic allotment as
provided in subdivision (a), the balance of the appropriation, if
any, shall be allotted on a per capita basis to the administrative
body of each local health jurisdiction in the proportion that the
population of that local health jurisdiction bears to the population
of all qualified local health jurisdictions of the state.
(c) Beginning in the 1998-99 fiscal year, funds appropriated for
the purposes of this article shall be used to supplement existing
levels of the services described in subdivision (d) provided by
qualifying participating local health jurisdictions. As part of a
county's or city's annual realignment trust fund report to the
Controller, a participating county or city shall annually certify to
the Controller that it has deposited county or city funds equal to or
exceeding the amount described in subdivisions (a) and (b) of
Section 17608.10 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The county or
city shall not be required to submit any additional reports or
modifications to existing reports to document compliance with this
subdivision. Funds shall be disbursed quarterly in advance to local
health jurisdictions beginning July 1, 1998. If a county or city does
not accept its allocation, any unallocated funds provided under this
section shall be redistributed according to subdivision (b) to the
participating counties and cities that remain.
(d) Funds shall be used for the following:
(1) Communicable disease control activities. Communicable disease
control activities shall include, but not be limited to, communicable
disease prevention, epidemiologic services, public health laboratory
identification, surveillance, immunizations, followup care for
sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis control, and support
services. Communicable disease control activities may include:
(A) Training of local public health, laboratory, environmental,
and emergency medical services staff, including first responders, and
the local medical community.
(B) Acquisition of communication and data systems necessary for
effective disease tracking.
(C) Acquisition of protective equipment and other equipment and
materials essential for communicable disease control activities.
(2) Community and public health surveillance activities. These
activities shall include, but not be limited to, epidemiological
analyses, and investigating, monitoring, and controlling illnesses
due to natural or intentional biological, chemical, or other health
threats.
(e) Funds also may be used for activities that increase the
capacity of local public health jurisdictions to respond to potential
biological and chemical terrorist threats, in the areas of
communicable disease surveillance and control, public health
laboratories, environmental health, and linkages to emergency medical
services agencies.
(f) Funds shall not be used for medical care services, including
jail medical care treatment, except as necessary for purposes of
subdivision (d).
101235. The department succeeds to and is vested with the duties,
purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction heretofore exercised by
the State Department of Benefit Payments with respect to the
processing, audit, and payment of funds appropriated for the purposes
of this article to the administrative bodies of qualifying local
health departments.
101240. The department shall have possession and control of all
records, papers, equipment, and supplies held for the benefit or use
of the Director of Benefit Payments in the performance of his or her
duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction that are
vested in the department by Section 101235.
101245. All officers and employees of the Director of Benefit
Payments who are serving in the state civil service, other than as
temporary employees, on July 1, 1978, and who are engaged in the
performance of a function vested in the department by Section 101235
shall be transferred to the department. The status, positions, and
rights of these persons shall not be affected by the transfer and
shall be retained by them as officers and employees of the department
pursuant to the State Civil Service Act, except for positions exempt
from civil service.
101250. After determining the total amounts available to each area,
the department shall notify the governing body of each local health
department of that amount, and of the conditions governing its
availability.
101255. No funds appropriated for the purposes of this article
shall be allocated to any local health department unless the
governing body of the local health department has appropriated an
amount equal to at least twice the per capita allotment provided in
subdivision (b) of Section 101230 for the same period from local
funds for the support of the local health department. These local
funds shall be wholly exclusive of any state or federal funds
received or receivable. Actual expenditures of local funds, exclusive
of state or federal funds received, shall be not less than the
proportion of total expenditures.
101260. No funds appropriated for the purposes of this article
shall be allocated to any local health department whose professional
and technical personnel and whose organization and program do not
meet the minimum standards established by the department.
101265. The basic and per capita allotments shall be paid quarterly
to the administrative body of each qualifying local health
department. Each quarterly payment may be adjusted on a basis of the
actual expenditures during the previous quarter, if the adjustment is
necessary to maintain the minimum proportional relationship of state
and local expenditures as outlined in Section 101255. The department
shall certify the amounts to be paid to each local health department
each quarter to the Controller, who shall thereupon draw the
necessary warrants, and the State Treasurer shall pay to the
administrative body of each local health department the certified
amount. Any payments may be withheld by the department if a local
health department fails to continue to meet the minimum standards
established, provided that not less than 45 days' advance notice of
intention to withhold payments, and the reasons therefor, shall be
given to the governing body of the local health department.