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PART 2. IMMUNIZATIONS [120325. - 120480.]

Part 2 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7.

§§ 120325–120480 · 46 sections

  1. CHAPTER 1. Educational and Child Care Facility Immunization Requirements §§ 120325–120380 · 16 sections
    • § 120325 In enacting this chapter, but excluding Section 120380, and in enacting Sections 120400, 120405, 120410, and 120415, it is the intent of the Legislature to…
    • § 120330 The department, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall adopt and enforce all regulations necessary to carry out Chapter 1 (commencing with…
    • § 120335 (a) As used in this chapter, “governing authority” means the governing board of each school district or the authority of each other private or public…
    • § 120336 (a) Pupils in the state are advised, as described in subdivision (b), to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as recommended by the State Department of…
    • § 120338 Notwithstanding Sections 120325 and 120335, any immunizations deemed appropriate by the department pursuant to paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section…
    • § 120340 A person who has not been fully immunized against one or more of the diseases listed in Section 120335 may be admitted by the governing authority on condition…
    • § 120341 (a) The governing authority shall admit a foster child, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 48853.5 of the Education Code, whose immunization records are…
    • § 120345 The immunizations required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 120325, but excluding Section 120380) and required by Sections 120400, 120405, 120410, and…
    • § 120350 The county health officer of each county shall organize and maintain a program to make immunizations available to all persons required by Chapter 1 (commencing…
    • § 120355 Any person or organization administering immunizations shall furnish each person immunized, or his or her parent or guardian, with a written record of…
    • § 120360 The requirements of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 120325, but excluding Section 120380) and of Sections 120400, 120405, 120410, and 120415 shall not apply…
    • § 120370 (a) (1) Prior to January 1, 2021, if the parent or guardian files with the governing authority a written statement by a licensed physician and surgeon to the…
    • § 120372 (a) (1) By January 1, 2021, the department shall develop and make available for use by licensed physicians and surgeons an electronic, standardized, statewide…
    • § 120372.05 (a) A medical exemption revoked pursuant to Section 120372 may be appealed by a parent or guardian to the Secretary of California Health and Human Services.…
    • § 120375 (a) The governing authority of each school or institution included in Section 120335 shall require documentary proof of each entrant’s immunization status. The…
    • § 120380 It is the intent of the Legislature that the administration of immunizing agents by registered nurses in school immunization programs under the direction of a…
  2. CHAPTER 1.1. Meningococcal Disease Strategic Prevention Act of 2001 § 120381 · 1 section
    • § 120381 (a) The State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, local public health agencies, and postsecondary…
  3. CHAPTER 1.5. Immunization of College-Age Students §§ 120390–120390.7 · 4 sections
    • § 120390 The department, in consultation with the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the Board of Governors…
    • § 120390.5 (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), on or after January 1, 2000, the Trustees of the California State University, and the Regents of the…
    • § 120390.6 (a) It is the public policy of the state that pupils who are 26 years of age or younger are advised to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as…
    • § 120390.7 No provision of this chapter shall apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate…
  4. CHAPTER 1.6. Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunizations §§ 120392–120393 · 8 sections
    • § 120392 For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Health care facility” means a skilled nursing facility as defined in subdivision (c) of…
    • § 120392.2 (a) Each year, commencing October 1 to the following April 1, inclusive, every health care facility, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 120392, shall…
    • § 120392.3 (a) The department shall provide appropriate flu vaccine to local governmental or private, nonprofit agencies at no charge in order that the agencies may…
    • § 120392.4 (a) A resident who receives services at a health care facility during the period of October 1 to April 1 shall have his or her status for influenza and…
    • § 120392.6 No person who has been offered the vaccine as required under this chapter may receive either an influenza vaccine or pneumococcal vaccine pursuant to this…
    • § 120392.8 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a health care facility shall not be required to offer immunizations for influenza and pneumococcal…
    • § 120392.9 Pursuant to its standardized procedures and if it has the vaccine in its possession, each year, commencing October 1 to the following April 1, inclusive, a…
    • § 120393 (a) The State Department of Public Health shall post educational information, in accordance with the latest recommendations adopted pursuant to Section 120164,…
  5. CHAPTER 1.7. Meningococcal Immunization §§ 120395–120399 · 5 sections
    • § 120395 (a) The State Department of Public Health shall, no later than April 1, 2010, develop information about meningococcal disease, including information pertaining…
    • § 120396 Each degree-granting public postsecondary educational institution that provides on-campus housing in the state shall, beginning with the 2002–03 school year,…
    • § 120397 Each degree-granting private postsecondary educational institution that provides on-campus housing in the state shall adopt a policy to notify all incoming…
    • § 120398 Each public and private postsecondary educational institution shall maintain the confidentiality of information obtained pursuant to Section 120396 or 120397…
    • § 120399 No provision of this chapter shall apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate…
  6. CHAPTER 2. Department of Health Services Provision of Funds, Immunibiologics, and Access to Immunibiologics §§ 120400–120435 · 8 sections
    • § 120400 The department may establish an immunization outreach program.
    • § 120405 (a) A local health officer, or consortium of local health officers, may establish permanent, temporary, or mobile sites and programs, for the purpose of…
    • § 120410 The population to be targeted by the program shall include children who do not receive immunizations through private third-party sources or other public…
    • § 120415 The Health and Welfare Agency may waive state administrative, eligibility, and billing requirements that apply to other public assistance programs through…
    • § 120420 The department shall provide financial assistance to county and areawide immunization campaigns under the direction of local health officers for the prevention…
    • § 120425 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…
    • § 120430 (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…
    • § 120435 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…
  7. CHAPTER 2.5. Disclosure of Immunization Status § 120440 · 1 section
    • § 120440 (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Health care provider” means any person licensed pursuant to Division 2…
  8. CHAPTER 3. Immunization Reactions § 120455 · 1 section
    • § 120455 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person shall not be liable for any injury caused by an act or omission in prescribing, dispensing, ordering, furnishing,…
  9. CHAPTER 4. Reports § 120475 · 1 section
    • § 120475 On or before March 15 on a biennial basis, the department shall submit a report to the Legislature on all of the following issues: (a) The immunization status…
  10. CHAPTER 5. Vaccine Development § 120480 · 1 section
    • § 120480 (a) Funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 1998, and any other appropriations, to the State Department of Health Services for the purpose of valley fever…