2005 California Health and Safety Code Sections 120400-120435 IMMUNIBIOLOGICS

120400. The department may establish an immunization outreach
program.
120405.  (a) A local health officer, or consortium of local health
officers, may establish permanent, temporary, or mobile sites and
programs, for the purpose of immunizing children, or performing
outreach to refer parents to other programs that provide
immunizations and comprehensive health services.  These sites for
referral or immunization may include, but are not limited to, the
following:
   (1) Public places where parents of children at high risk of
remaining unimmunized reside, shop, worship, or recreate.
   (2) School grounds, either during regular hours, or evening hours
or on weekends.
   (3) On or adjacent to sites of public- or community-based agencies
or programs that either provide or refer persons to public
assistance programs or services.
   (b) Outreach programs shall, to the extent feasible, include
referral components intended to link immunized children with
available public or private primary care providers, in order to
increase access to continuing pediatric care, including subsequent
immunization services as necessary.
120410.  The population to be targeted by the program shall include
children who do not receive immunizations through private third-party
sources or other public sources with priority given to infants and
children from birth up to age three.  Outreach programs shall include
information to the families of children being immunized about
possible reactions to the vaccine and about followup referral
sources.
120415.  The Health and Welfare Agency may waive state
administrative, eligibility, and billing requirements that apply to
other public assistance programs through which immunization and
comprehensive health services outreach and vaccination are offered,
for counties that establish streamlined administrative, eligibility,
billing, and referral procedures between those public assistance
programs, and the immunization and comprehensive health services
programs established pursuant to Sections 120400 through 120415,
inclusive.
120420.  The department shall provide financial assistance to county
and areawide immunization campaigns under the direction of local
health officers for the prevention of rubella.
120425.  All moneys appropriated to the department for the purposes
of this section and Section 120420 shall be made available to local
health departments, as defined in Section 101185, or to areawide
associations of local health departments.  All moneys received by the
local departments or areawide associations shall be utilized only
for the purchase of rubella vaccines, other necessary supplies and
equipment for rubella immunization campaigns, and promotional costs
of such campaigns.  No moneys appropriated for the purpose of this
section and Section 120420 shall be used by the department or by any
local department or areawide association for administrative purposes,
and no such moneys may be used to supplant or support local health
department clinics and programs already regularly operated by such
the departments, but may be used only for additional county or
areawide rubella immunization campaigns.  All moneys appropriated for
the purposes of this section and Section 120420 shall be expended by
March 31, 1971.
120430.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that 1990 marks one
of the worst measles epidemics in recent history and that this
epidemic threatens the health and safety of our schoolaged children.
   The Legislature finds and declares that, according to the Center
for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics, current
medical technology suggests that in order to be fully immunized
against measles, children should receive two doses of the
immunization agent for measles before the age of seven years.
   It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that all possible
steps are taken to combat the spread of any disease through
California schools.
   (b) The department, in consultation with the State Department of
Education, shall develop and adopt regulations to ensure that every
student in any private or public elementary or secondary school,
child care center, day nursery, nursery school, or development center
shall have access to full immunization against measles, as
determined by the Center for Disease Control, to the extent funds are
available.
   Priority shall be given to children who have not received any type
of measles immunization.
120435.  The department shall purchase or prepare, and distribute
free of cost, under any regulations as may be necessary, anti-rabic
virus to be used in the treatment of persons exposed to rabies when
they declare that it would be a hardship for them to pay for
anti-rabic treatment.