California Code
DIVISION 106 - PERSONAL HEALTH CARE (INCLUDING MATERNAL, CHILD, AND ADOLESCENT)
PART 2 - MATERNAL, CHILD, AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

ARTICLE 1 - Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health

Section 123225. - 123225. The department shall maintain a program of maternal and...

Section 123230. - 123230. The department may investigate, and disseminate educational information relating...

Section 123232. - 123232. (a) The department shall develop or obtain a brochure...

Section 123235. - 123235. The program may include the provision of educational, preventative,...

Section 123240. - 123240. (a) The Maternal and Child Health Branch of the...

Section 123245. - 123245. The Maternal and Child Health Program Act (Section 27)...

Section 123250. - 123250. Upon request the department shall advise all public officers,...

Section 123255. - 123255. (a) The department may maintain a maternal and child...

Section 123259. - 123259. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there continues...

Section 123260. - 123260. (a) Subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget...

ARTICLE 2 - Women, Infants, and Children s Nutrition

Section 123275. - 123275. The Legislature finds that medical, educational and psychological evidence...

Section 123279. - 123279. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in...

Section 123280. - 123280. (a) The department may conduct a statewide program for...

Section 123285. - 123285. As used in this article, the following definitions shall...

Section 123290. - 123290. The department, under any program established pursuant to this...

Section 123295. - 123295. Nutrition coupons in an amount sufficient to meet the...

Section 123300. - 123300. The department may, under any program established pursuant to...

Section 123302. - 123302. (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the department may...

Section 123305. - 123305. The department, under any program established pursuant to this...

Section 123310. - 123310. The department, under any program established pursuant to this...

Section 123312. - 123312. (a) The department shall specify the criteria the department...

Section 123315. - 123315. (a) The department, under any program established pursuant to...

Section 123320. - 123320. (a) The department shall inform the retail food vendors...

Section 123322. - 123322. (a) In order to effectively manage and administer the...

Section 123325. - 123325. A retail food vendor or any other person who...

Section 123327. - 123327. (a) The department shall provide written notice to a...

Section 123330. - 123330. Any person or persons who have embezzled, willfully misapplied,...

Section 123335. - 123335. Any officer, employee, or agent of the department may...

Section 123340. - 123340. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), if any...

Section 123345. - 123345. An abstract of judgment obtained pursuant to subdivisions (a)...

Section 123350. - 123350. The department shall arrange for the conduct of periodic...

Section 123355. - 123355. The department shall provide a hearing procedure whereby any...

ARTICLE 3 - Breast Feeding

Section 123360. - 123360. (a) The State Department of Public Health shall include...

Section 123361. - 123361. To the extent that non-United States Department of Agriculture...

Section 123365. - 123365. (a) All general acute care hospitals, as defined in...

Section 123366. - 123366. (a) This section shall be known, and may be...

Section 123367. - 123367. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following...

ARTICLE 4 - Cord Blood Banking Education

Section 123370. - 123370. The department shall conduct the Umbilical Cord Blood Community...

Section 123371. - 123371. (a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall...

CHAPTER 2 - Maternal Health

ARTICLE 1 - Determination of Pregnancy

Section 123375. - 123375. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), no...

Section 123380. - 123380. Local public health agencies shall make pregnancy testing services...

Section 123385. - 123385. It is the intent of the Legislature that the...

Section 123418. - 123418. Subject to all other provisions of this article, all...

ARTICLE 2 - Abortion

Section 123420. - 123420. (a) No employer or other person shall require a...

Section 123425. - 123425. The refusal of any person to submit to an...

Section 123430. - 123430. (a) (1) To ensure people have accurate and comprehensive...

Section 123435. - 123435. The rights to medical treatment of an infant prematurely...

Section 123440. - 123440. (a) It is unlawful for any person to use...

Section 123445. - 123445. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), at the...

Section 123450. - 123450. (a) Except in a medical emergency requiring immediate medical...

ARTICLE 2.3 - Abortion Practical Support Fund

Section 123451. - 123451. (a) As used in this article, the following definitions...

Section 123452. - 123452. (a) The department, or its contracted vendor, shall use...

Section 123452.5. - 123452.5. The department shall conduct an evaluation of the grant...

Section 123453. - 123453. This article shall be construed to effectuate its legislative...

ARTICLE 2.5 - Reproductive Privacy Act

Section 123460. - 123460. This article shall be known and may be cited...

Section 123462. - 123462. The Legislature finds and declares that every individual possesses...

Section 123464. - 123464. The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this...

Section 123466. - 123466. (a) The state shall not deny or interfere with...

Section 123467. - 123467. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person shall not...

Section 123467.5. - 123467.5. (a) A law of another state that authorizes a...

Section 123468. - 123468. The performance of an abortion is unauthorized if performed...

Section 123469. - 123469. (a) A party whose reproductive rights are protected by...

ARTICLE 2.7 - Reproductive FACT Act

Section 123470. - 123470. This article shall be known and may be cited...

Section 123471. - 123471. (a) For purposes of this article, and except as...

Section 123472. - 123472. (a) A licensed covered facility shall disseminate to clients...

Section 123473. - 123473. (a) Covered facilities that fail to comply with the...

ARTICLE 3 - Community-Based Perinatal System

Section 123475. - 123475. The Legislature finds that a community-based system of comprehensive...

Section 123480. - 123480. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting...

Section 123485. - 123485. The following definitions shall govern the construction of this...

Section 123490. - 123490. (a) The department shall develop and maintain a statewide...

Section 123491. - 123491. (a) There is hereby established a voluntary nurse home...

Section 123492. - 123492. The department shall develop a grant application and award...

Section 123493. - 123493. (a) The department may accept voluntary contributions, in cash...

Section 123495. - 123495. (a) The department shall seek any federal waiver or...

Section 123500. - 123500. The department shall monitor the delivery of services under...

Section 123505. - 123505. The goals of the community-based comprehensive perinatal health care...

Section 123510. - 123510. The program objectives of the community-based comprehensive perinatal health...

Section 123515. - 123515. In processing and awarding contracts, grants, or agreements pursuant...

Section 123516. - 123516. (a) The department, in consultation with the program administrators,...

Section 123520. - 123520. (a) In developing a comprehensive system, health care providers...

Section 123525. - 123525. The provisions contained in this article shall be subject...

ARTICLE 4 - Perinatal Health Care

Section 123550. - 123550. The Legislature finds and declares that prenatal care, delivery...

Section 123555. - 123555. The department shall develop and implement a uniform sliding...

Section 123560. - 123560. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 123565. - 123565. The department shall maintain a program that addresses the...

Section 123570. - 123570. (a) In assisting in the development of the regionalized...

Section 123575. - 123575. It is the intent of the Legislature that the...

Section 123576. - 123576. (a) Subject to an appropriation of funds by the...

Section 123600. - 123600. By July 1, 1991, the Health and Welfare Agency...

Section 123605. - 123605. (a) Each county shall establish protocols between county health...

Section 123610. - 123610. It is the intent of the Legislature that funding...

ARTICLE 4.2 - Maternal Mental Health

Section 123615. - 123615. This article shall be known, and may be cited,...

Section 123615.5. - 123615.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the...

Section 123616. - 123616. For the purposes of this article, the following terms...

Section 123616.5. - 123616.5. A general acute care hospital or special hospital, as...

Section 123617. - 123617. The program developed pursuant to this article shall include...

ARTICLE 4.5 - Fetal Ultrasound

Section 123620. - 123620. A person or facility that offers fetal ultrasound, or...

ARTICLE 4.6 - California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act

Section 123630. - 123630. This article shall be known, and may be cited,...

Section 123630.1. - 123630.1. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the...

Section 123630.2. - 123630.2. For the purposes of this article, the following terms...

Section 123630.3. - 123630.3. (a) A hospital as defined in subdivision (a) or...

Section 123630.4. - 123630.4. (a) The State Department of Public Health shall track...

Section 123630.5. - 123630.5. (a) A hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of...

ARTICLE 4.7 - California Pregnancy-Associated Review Committee

Section 123635. - 123635. For the purposes of this section, the following terms...

Section 123636. - 123636. (a) The California Pregnancy-Associated Review Committee is hereby established...

Section 123637. - 123637. This article is operative on August 1, 2022. (Added...

ARTICLE 6 - Maternal Mental Health

Section 123640. - 123640. (a) A licensed health care practitioner who provides prenatal,...

ARTICLE 7 - Los Angeles County Abortion Access Safe Haven Pilot Program

Section 123641. - 123641. (a) (1) Of the amounts appropriated in Schedule (3)...

CHAPTER 3 - Child Health

ARTICLE 1 - Infant Mortality and Morbidity Prevention

Section 123650. - 123650. (a) The department shall develop a plan to identify...

Section 123655. - 123655. The study plan shall incorporate in its design the...

Section 123660. - 123660. (a) The Legislature finds that the Fetal and Infant...

ARTICLE 2.5 - Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program

Section 123700. - 123700. (a) Infant botulism is an acute, life-threatening paralytic disease...

Section 123702. - 123702. (a) The State Department of Health Services shall establish...

Section 123704. - 123704. The Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Unit shall provide...

Section 123705. - 123705. It is the intent of the Legislature that the...

Section 123707. - 123707. (a) The State Department of Health Services may manufacture,...

Section 123709. - 123709. The Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Fund is hereby...

ARTICLE 3 - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Section 123725. - 123725. (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions...

Section 123730. - 123730. The department shall keep each county health officer advised...

Section 123735. - 123735. (a) As used in this section, “SIDS” means sudden...

Section 123740. - 123740. (a) For purposes of this section the following definitions...

Section 123745. - 123745. The department shall monitor, or contract with a person...

ARTICLE 4 - Infant Medical Dispatch Centers

Section 123750. - 123750. The Legislature finds that intensive care nurseries for at-risk...

Section 123753. - 123753. The department shall establish two dispatch centers, each to...

Section 123755. - 123755. One of the centers established pursuant to Section 123750...

Section 123760. - 123760. The centers shall locate bedspace for critically ill newborn...

Section 123765. - 123765. Funds appropriated to carry out the purposes of this...

Section 123770. - 123770. Public and private nonprofit health facilities, organizations, and educational...

Section 123775. - 123775. Each infant medical dispatch center established pursuant to this...

ARTICLE 5 - California Children s Services

Section 123800. - 123800. This article shall be known and may be cited...

Section 123805. - 123805. The department shall establish and administer a program of...

Section 123810. - 123810. The department succeeds to and is vested with the...

Section 123815. - 123815. The department shall have possession and control of all...

Section 123820. - 123820. All officers and employees of the Director of Benefit...

Section 123822. - 123822. All claims for services provided under this article shall...

Section 123825. - 123825. It is the intent of the Legislature through this...

Section 123830. - 123830. “Handicapped child,” as used in this article, means a...

Section 123835. - 123835. (a) The department shall keep the California Children’s Services...

Section 123840. - 123840. “Services,” as used in this article, means any or...

Section 123845. - 123845. “California Children’s Services Program,” as used in this article,...

Section 123850. - 123850. (a) The board of supervisors of each county shall...

Section 123853. - 123853. (a) The department may enter into contracts with one...

Section 123855. - 123855. The department or designated county agency shall cooperate with,...

Section 123860. - 123860. In accordance with applicable regulations of the United States...

Section 123865. - 123865. If the parents or estate of a handicapped child...

Section 123870. - 123870. (a) The department shall establish standards of financial eligibility...

Section 123872. - 123872. In addition to the other eligibility requirements set forth...

Section 123875. - 123875. If the California Children’s Service medical therapy unit conference...

Section 123880. - 123880. The department and designated agencies shall not deny eligibility...

Section 123885. - 123885. Panel members as set forth in Section 123880 shall...

Section 123890. - 123890. (a) The state department shall not deny a hospital’s...

Section 123895. - 123895. The designated agency shall determine the financial eligibility of...

Section 123900. - 123900. (a) Beginning September 1, 1991, in addition to any...

Section 123905. - 123905. A county of under 200,000 population, administering its county...

Section 123910. - 123910. The department may, without the possession of a county...

Section 123915. - 123915. When the department provides, or arranges for the provision...

Section 123920. - 123920. Upon the request of another state or of a...

Section 123925. - 123925. The department and designated agencies shall maintain surveillance and...

Section 123929. - 123929. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and...

Section 123930. - 123930. This article does not authorize any treatment service without...

Section 123935. - 123935. A handicapped child shall not be denied services pursuant...

Section 123940. - 123940. (a) (1) Annually, the board of supervisors shall appropriate...

Section 123945. - 123945. For those counties with a total appropriation of county...

Section 123950. - 123950. The designated county agency shall administer the medical-therapy program...

Section 123955. - 123955. (a) The state and the counties shall share in...

Section 123960. - 123960. The department shall require of participating local governments the...

Section 123965. - 123965. A handicapped child placed for adoption, determined to be...

Section 123970. - 123970. The department and the placing adoption agency at the...

Section 123975. - 123975. (a) The department, in consultation with selected representatives of...

Section 123980. - 123980. If the recipient of services provided by the California...

Section 123982. - 123982. Except as otherwise provided by law, the amount of...

Section 123985. - 123985. (a) A bone marrow transplant for the treatment of...

Section 123990. - 123990. The department shall adopt regulations to implement the amendments...

Section 123995. - 123995. (a) The department shall require all applicants to the...

ARTICLE 5.5 - Assistance To Children At Home Demonstration Project

Section 124010. - 124010. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to...

Section 124011. - 124011. There is hereby established demonstration projects to provide a...

Section 124012. - 124012. The department shall award funding appropriated for purposes of...

Section 124013. - 124013. The demonstration projects shall provide care management services to...

Section 124014. - 124014. In order to most effectively assist children enrolled in...

Section 124015. - 124015. (a) The hospital receiving funding under this article shall...

ARTICLE 6 - Child Health And Disability Prevention Program

Section 124024. - 124024. (a) Before July 1, 2024, the department shall take...

Section 124025. - 124025. The Legislature finds and declares that many physical and...

Section 124030. - 124030. As used in this article and Section 120475: (a)...

Section 124033. - 124033. (a) Commencing July 1, 2003, all applications for services...

Section 124035. - 124035. The department shall administer this article and Section 120475...

Section 124040. - 124040. (a) The governing body of each county or counties...

Section 124045. - 124045. A city that operates an independent health agency may...

Section 124050. - 124050. Each community child health and disability program shall have...

Section 124055. - 124055. Any community child health and disability prevention program may...

Section 124060. - 124060. (a) On or before September 15 of each year,...

Section 124065. - 124065. Counties shall be reimbursed for the amount required by...

Section 124070. - 124070. Counties shall be reimbursed for the amount required by...

Section 124075. - 124075. (a) In order to ensure the maximum utilization of...

Section 124080. - 124080. The department may contract with a private entity for...

Section 124085. - 124085. On and after July 1, 1976, each child eligible...

Section 124090. - 124090. Any child between birth and 90 days after entrance...

Section 124095. - 124095. Each community child health and disability prevention program shall...

Section 124100. - 124100. (a) In cooperation with the county child health and...

Section 124105. - 124105. (a) This section shall be known and may be...

Section 124110. - 124110. All information and results of the health screening and...

Section 124110.5. - 124110.5. This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 2024,...

ARTICLE 6.4 - Newborn Eye Pathology Screening

Section 124111. - 124111. (a) The Newborn Eye Pathology Screening Task Force is...

Section 124112. - 124112. (a) On or before June 30, 2002, the department...

ARTICLE 6.5 - Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening, Tracking, and Intervention Program

Section 124115. - 124115. This article shall be known, and may be cited...

Section 124115.5. - 124115.5. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the...

Section 124116. - 124116. As used in this article: (a) “Birth admission” means...

Section 124116.5. - 124116.5. (a) (1) Every general acute care hospital with licensed...

Section 124117. - 124117. The department or its designee shall approve hospitals for...

Section 124118. - 124118. The department or its designee shall provide every general...

Section 124118.5. - 124118.5. (a) The department shall establish a system of early...

Section 124119. - 124119. (a) The department shall develop and implement a reporting...

Section 124119.5. - 124119.5. Parents of all newborns and infants diagnosed with a...

Section 124120. - 124120. The department may conduct a community outreach and awareness...

Section 124120.5. - 124120.5. A newborn hearing screening test shall not be performed...

ARTICLE 6.6 - Newborn Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening Program

Section 124121. - 124121. For purposes of this article, “CCHD” means critical congenital...

Section 124122. - 124122. (a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2013, a general acute...

ARTICLE 7 - Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act

Section 124125. - 124125. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that childhood...

Section 124130. - 124130. (a) A laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis...

Section 124150. - 124150. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the activities...

Section 124151. - 124151. The department shall use an electronic database consistent with...

Section 124155. - 124155. (a) The department shall design and implement a screening...

Section 124160. - 124160. The department shall continue to direct the Childhood Lead...

Section 124165. - 124165. After January 1, 1993, the department, through the Childhood...

ARTICLE 8 - Female Genital Mutilation Prevention

Section 124170. - 124170. The State Department of Health Services, in consultation with...

ARTICLE 9 - Mercury-containing Vaccines

Section 124172. - 124172. (a) Except for an influenza vaccine described in subdivision...

ARTICLE 10 - Public School Health Center Support Program

Section 124174. - 124174. The following definitions shall govern the construction of this...

Section 124174.2. - 124174.2. (a) The department, in cooperation with the State Department...

Section 124174.3. - 124174.3. (a) The department shall establish standardized data collection procedures...

Section 124174.4. - 124174.4. The State Department of Education, in collaboration with the...

Section 124174.5. - 124174.5. The program, in collaboration with the State Department of...

Section 124174.6. - 124174.6. The department shall establish a grant program within the...

CHAPTER 4 - Adolescent Health

ARTICLE 1 - California Adolescent Family Life Act of 988

Section 124175. - 124175. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) Adolescent...

Section 124180. - 124180. (a) The department may conduct the Adolescent Family Life...

Section 124185. - 124185. (a) The department, through its program of maternal and...

Section 124190. - 124190. A comprehensive coordinated substance abuse prevention, intervention, and counseling...

Section 124195. - 124195. The department shall require reports to be prepared by...

Section 124200. - 124200. Funding for the purpose of this article shall be...

ARTICLE 2 - Child and Adolescent Resource Program

Section 124225. - 124225. (a) The Legislature finds that recent responsibilities for assessing...

Section 124230. - 124230. It is the purpose of the Legislature, in enacting...

ARTICLE 2.5 - Youth Sports Concussion and Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Protocols

Section 124235. - 124235. (a) A youth sports organization that elects to offer...

Section 124236. - 124236. (a) A youth sports organization, as defined in paragraph...

ARTICLE 2.7 - California Youth Football Act

Section 124240. - 124240. (a) This article shall be known, and may be...

Section 124241. - 124241. On and after January 1, 2021, a youth sports...

Section 124242. - 124242. On and after January 1, 2021, a youth tackle...

Section 124243. - 124243. Nothing in this article shall prohibit any youth sports...

ARTICLE 3 - Mental Health Services for Minors

Section 124260. - 124260. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Mental health...

CHAPTER 6 - Domestic Violence

Section 124250. - 124250. (a) The following definitions shall apply for purposes of...