2005 California Health and Safety Code Sections 115340-115342 RADIOACTIVE IODINE IN NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES

115340.  (a) The State Department of Health Services shall work with
the KI working group, which is coordinated by the Office of
Emergency Services, to establish and implement a program to oversee
the distribution of potassium iodide (KI) tablets to all persons who
reside, work, visit, or attend school within the state-designated
emergency planning zone of an operational nuclear powerplant, in
order to provide protection to members of the public in the event of
an accident causing leakage of radioactive iodine, pursuant to the
offer of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide the state with
a supply of KI tablets.
   (b) In order to implement the program required by subdivision (a),
the department, in consultation with local health departments and
local emergency management agencies, shall develop and implement a
plan for both of the following:
   (1) The prompt distribution of the tablets to persons at risk in
the event of a nuclear emergency, in a manner to best protect the
public health.
   (2) The dissemination of instructions on the use of the tablets,
including the possible need for medical consultation, if indicated.
   (c) The department shall work with the KI working group described
in subdivision (a) to develop and implement a plan and method for the
efficient storage of KI tablets.
   (d) The department, in consultation with the KI working group,
shall evaluate areas in the state, other than those described in
subdivision (a), in which leakage of radioactive iodine is possible,
and evaluate the need to store quantities of KI tablets in those
areas.
   (e) No later than July 1, 2004, the department shall submit a plan
to the Governor and the Legislature on the establishment and
implementation of the program required pursuant to subdivisions (a)
and (b), and on the development and implementation of the plan and
method required in subdivision (c).  No later than July 1, 2004, the
department shall also submit to the Governor and the Legislature the
evaluation required in subdivision (d).
115342.  This chapter shall be implemented only to the extent that
funds are appropriated for the purposes of this chapter in the annual
Budget Act or another measure.