Report 2018-116 Recommendation Responses
Report 2018-116: San Diego's Hepatitis A Outbreak: By Acting More Quickly, the County and City of San Diego Might Have Reduced the Spread of the Disease (Release Date: December 2018)
Recommendation for Legislative Action
To better ensure that local health officers can promptly respond to disease outbreaks, the Legislature should clarify existing state law to specify that the local health officer for each geographic jurisdiction may issue directives to other governmental entities within that jurisdiction to take action as the officer deems necessary to control the spread of communicable diseases.
Description of Legislative Action
AB 262 (Chapter 798, Statutes of 2019) authorizes the local health officer to issue orders to other governmental entities within the local health officer's jurisdiction to take any action the local health officer deems necessary to control the spread of the communicable disease.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: December 2019
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Legislation Enacted
Description of Legislative Action
AB 262 (Gloria) would require a local health officer, during an outbreak of a communicable disease or upon the imminent and proximate threat of a communicable disease outbreak or epidemic that threatens the public's health, to notify and update governmental entities within the health officer's jurisdiction about certain communicable diseases that may affect them, if, in the opinion of the local health officer, action or inaction on the part of the governmental entity might affect outbreak response efforts.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: June 2019
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Legislation Introduced
Description of Legislative Action
Assembly Bill (AB) 262 (Gloria) would authorize the local public health officer to issue directives to other governmental entities within the health officer's jurisdiction to take any action the health officer deems necessary to control the spread of the communicable disease.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: March 2019