104324. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish an
Environmental Health Surveillance System (EHSS) in accordance with
this chapter. The purpose of the EHSS shall be to establish ongoing
surveillance of the environmental exposures and diseases affecting
Californians, with a focus on prevalence and determinants of chronic
diseases. The Regents of the University of California are requested
to cooperate with the division and the office in establishing the
EHSS.
(b) The objectives of the EHSS are as follows:
(1) To track and evaluate a variety of chronic diseases in
relation to environmental exposures.
(2) To allow both government and university investigators and
public health officials to assess the impact of environmental
contaminants on the human body.
(3) To provide information to the relevant board, department, or
office within the California Environmental Protection Agency and to
the relevant branch or division within the State Department of Health
Services for the development of appropriate preventive strategies.
104324.2. (a) On or before July 1, 2002, the Division of
Environmental and Occupational Disease Control in the State
Department of Health Services, in consultation with the Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, shall create a working group
of technical experts, including experts who have knowledge of the
sensitivity and exposure of children, women of childbearing age,
seniors, and disparately affected populations to environmental
hazards, to do all of the following:
(1) Develop possible approaches to establishing the EHSS,
including an estimated cost for each approach.
(2) Prepare and submit a report to the State Department of Health
Services, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and
appropriate legislative committees, by July 1, 2003, on the possible
approaches to establishing the EHSS, including an estimated cost of
each approach, and the recommended approach to establishing an EHSS
for California.
(3) Develop the health and environmental measurements needed to do
both of the following:
(A) Obtain an ongoing picture of the health of Californians.
(B) Establish a database that may facilitate the examination of
the relationship between chronic diseases, including birth defects,
and the environment.
(b) The Regents of the University of California are requested to
cooperate with the division and the office in creating the work group
described in this section.
104324.25. (a) On or before July 1, 2004, the State Department of
Health Services, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and
the University of California shall jointly develop and sign a
memorandum of understanding to assess the feasibility of both of the
following:
(1) Integrating existing environmental hazard, exposure, and
health outcome data.
(2) Describing how these data correspond to recommendations in the
final report of the expert working group established under this
chapter regarding the establishment of an environmental health
tracking system.
(b) The California Environmental Health Tracking Program in the
Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control of the
department shall obtain all the following information:
(1) A description of the relevant laws, regulations, and policies
that authorize or mandate environmental hazard and disease
surveillance.
(2) A comprehensive description of California's public health
surveillance and environmental hazard, exposure, and health outcome
monitoring information systems, including, but not limited to, the
purpose, scope, contents, and capabilities of each system.
(3) A description of the current sources of financial support for
public health surveillance, environmental hazard, exposure, and
health outcome monitoring information systems, and related funds.
(c) The California Environmental Health Tracking Program may
collect any relevant information, including information related to
other priority data systems identified by the working group
established under this chapter, from any state agency, board,
department, or office.
(d) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the activities
requested under subdivisions (a) and (b) are within the scope of
existing contracts and funding from the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention to the State Department of Health Services and
the University of California, and are provided to support the
planning and development of an environmental health tracking system
in California.
(2) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be implemented only to the
extent that federal funds remain available for the activities
specified in those subdivisions. No General Fund moneys shall be used
to implement subdivisions (a) and (b).
104324.3. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would require the adoption and implementation, by specified
dates, of one of the approaches recommended by the working group
pursuant to Section 104324.2.
104324.5. This chapter shall only apply to the University of
California to the extent that the Regents of the University of
California make it applicable by appropriate resolution.
104324. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish an
Environmental Health Surveillance System (EHSS) in accordance with
this chapter. The purpose of the EHSS shall be to establish ongoing
surveillance of the environmental exposures and diseases affecting
Californians, with a focus on prevalence and determinants of chronic
diseases. The Regents of the University of California are requested
to cooperate with the division and the office in establishing the
EHSS.
(b) The objectives of the EHSS are as follows:
(1) To track and evaluate a variety of chronic diseases in
relation to environmental exposures.
(2) To allow both government and university investigators and
public health officials to assess the impact of environmental
contaminants on the human body.
(3) To provide information to the relevant board, department, or
office within the California Environmental Protection Agency and to
the relevant branch or division within the State Department of Health
Services for the development of appropriate preventive strategies.
104324.2. (a) On or before July 1, 2002, the Division of
Environmental and Occupational Disease Control in the State
Department of Health Services, in consultation with the Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, shall create a working group
of technical experts, including experts who have knowledge of the
sensitivity and exposure of children, women of childbearing age,
seniors, and disparately affected populations to environmental
hazards, to do all of the following:
(1) Develop possible approaches to establishing the EHSS,
including an estimated cost for each approach.
(2) Prepare and submit a report to the State Department of Health
Services, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and
appropriate legislative committees, by July 1, 2003, on the possible
approaches to establishing the EHSS, including an estimated cost of
each approach, and the recommended approach to establishing an EHSS
for California.
(3) Develop the health and environmental measurements needed to do
both of the following:
(A) Obtain an ongoing picture of the health of Californians.
(B) Establish a database that may facilitate the examination of
the relationship between chronic diseases, including birth defects,
and the environment.
(b) The Regents of the University of California are requested to
cooperate with the division and the office in creating the work group
described in this section.
104324.25. (a) On or before July 1, 2004, the State Department of
Health Services, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and
the University of California shall jointly develop and sign a
memorandum of understanding to assess the feasibility of both of the
following:
(1) Integrating existing environmental hazard, exposure, and
health outcome data.
(2) Describing how these data correspond to recommendations in the
final report of the expert working group established under this
chapter regarding the establishment of an environmental health
tracking system.
(b) The California Environmental Health Tracking Program in the
Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control of the
department shall obtain all the following information:
(1) A description of the relevant laws, regulations, and policies
that authorize or mandate environmental hazard and disease
surveillance.
(2) A comprehensive description of California's public health
surveillance and environmental hazard, exposure, and health outcome
monitoring information systems, including, but not limited to, the
purpose, scope, contents, and capabilities of each system.
(3) A description of the current sources of financial support for
public health surveillance, environmental hazard, exposure, and
health outcome monitoring information systems, and related funds.
(c) The California Environmental Health Tracking Program may
collect any relevant information, including information related to
other priority data systems identified by the working group
established under this chapter, from any state agency, board,
department, or office.
(d) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the activities
requested under subdivisions (a) and (b) are within the scope of
existing contracts and funding from the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention to the State Department of Health Services and
the University of California, and are provided to support the
planning and development of an environmental health tracking system
in California.
(2) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be implemented only to the
extent that federal funds remain available for the activities
specified in those subdivisions. No General Fund moneys shall be used
to implement subdivisions (a) and (b).
104324.3. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would require the adoption and implementation, by specified
dates, of one of the approaches recommended by the working group
pursuant to Section 104324.2.
104324.5. This chapter shall only apply to the University of
California to the extent that the Regents of the University of
California make it applicable by appropriate resolution.
104324. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish an
Environmental Health Surveillance System (EHSS) in accordance with
this chapter. The purpose of the EHSS shall be to establish ongoing
surveillance of the environmental exposures and diseases affecting
Californians, with a focus on prevalence and determinants of chronic
diseases. The Regents of the University of California are requested
to cooperate with the division and the office in establishing the
EHSS.
(b) The objectives of the EHSS are as follows:
(1) To track and evaluate a variety of chronic diseases in
relation to environmental exposures.
(2) To allow both government and university investigators and
public health officials to assess the impact of environmental
contaminants on the human body.
(3) To provide information to the relevant board, department, or
office within the California Environmental Protection Agency and to
the relevant branch or division within the State Department of Health
Services for the development of appropriate preventive strategies.
104324.2. (a) On or before July 1, 2002, the Division of
Environmental and Occupational Disease Control in the State
Department of Health Services, in consultation with the Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, shall create a working group
of technical experts, including experts who have knowledge of the
sensitivity and exposure of children, women of childbearing age,
seniors, and disparately affected populations to environmental
hazards, to do all of the following:
(1) Develop possible approaches to establishing the EHSS,
including an estimated cost for each approach.
(2) Prepare and submit a report to the State Department of Health
Services, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and
appropriate legislative committees, by July 1, 2003, on the possible
approaches to establishing the EHSS, including an estimated cost of
each approach, and the recommended approach to establishing an EHSS
for California.
(3) Develop the health and environmental measurements needed to do
both of the following:
(A) Obtain an ongoing picture of the health of Californians.
(B) Establish a database that may facilitate the examination of
the relationship between chronic diseases, including birth defects,
and the environment.
(b) The Regents of the University of California are requested to
cooperate with the division and the office in creating the work group
described in this section.
104324.25. (a) On or before July 1, 2004, the State Department of
Health Services, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and
the University of California shall jointly develop and sign a
memorandum of understanding to assess the feasibility of both of the
following:
(1) Integrating existing environmental hazard, exposure, and
health outcome data.
(2) Describing how these data correspond to recommendations in the
final report of the expert working group established under this
chapter regarding the establishment of an environmental health
tracking system.
(b) The California Environmental Health Tracking Program in the
Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control of the
department shall obtain all the following information:
(1) A description of the relevant laws, regulations, and policies
that authorize or mandate environmental hazard and disease
surveillance.
(2) A comprehensive description of California's public health
surveillance and environmental hazard, exposure, and health outcome
monitoring information systems, including, but not limited to, the
purpose, scope, contents, and capabilities of each system.
(3) A description of the current sources of financial support for
public health surveillance, environmental hazard, exposure, and
health outcome monitoring information systems, and related funds.
(c) The California Environmental Health Tracking Program may
collect any relevant information, including information related to
other priority data systems identified by the working group
established under this chapter, from any state agency, board,
department, or office.
(d) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the activities
requested under subdivisions (a) and (b) are within the scope of
existing contracts and funding from the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention to the State Department of Health Services and
the University of California, and are provided to support the
planning and development of an environmental health tracking system
in California.
(2) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be implemented only to the
extent that federal funds remain available for the activities
specified in those subdivisions. No General Fund moneys shall be used
to implement subdivisions (a) and (b).
104324.3. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would require the adoption and implementation, by specified
dates, of one of the approaches recommended by the working group
pursuant to Section 104324.2.
104324.5. This chapter shall only apply to the University of
California to the extent that the Regents of the University of
California make it applicable by appropriate resolution.
