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Bills

AB 1880: Valley Fever reporting.

  • Session Year: 2017-2018
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2018-03-01
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Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition. Existing law also supports research into the development of a vaccine to protect against coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley Fever.

This bill would clarify that cases of both communicable and noncommunicable diseases are to be timely reported by a health care provider to a local health officer, and by a local health officer to the department. The bill would require a health care provider with a duty to report a case or suspected case of a communicable or noncommunicable disease to complete a one-time mandatory training course on that duty, as specified.

This bill would require the department to collect data on coccidioidomycosis cases on or before April 1 each year, as specified. The bill would require the department, if it collects data on coccidioidomycosis cases and alters that data, removes discrepant data from its internal data set, to timely report sufficient information about its removal of discrepant data to a local health officer how and why it altered the data reported by in order that the local health officer. officer may remove discrepant data from the countys data set. The bill would also require the department, if it publishes provisional data on coccidioidomycosis cases, to publish an explanation of data changes likely to occur and of discrepancies between data reported by a local health officer and data reported by the department. The bill would require the department to publish the date range of a data set and the date on which the data set was updated if the department publishes data on coccidioidomycosis cases.

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