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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a)(1) The State Department of Public Health (department) shall prepare an annual report, in accordance with subdivision (c), concerning sexual orientation, gender identity, and variations in sex characteristics/intersex status (SOGISC) data collected by the department.
(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the reports be utilized for the purpose of advancing both of the following objectives:
(A) Use of SOGISC data by different branches of the department in order to identify and address disparities in health outcomes.
(B) The department's use of an efficient mechanism to comply with its reporting requirements for SOGISC data.
(b) The department shall annually post and make available the corresponding report prepared pursuant to this section on the department's internet website. The department shall annually submit the corresponding report to the Legislature in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code. The annual report shall exclude any personally identifiable information.
(c) The annual report described in subdivision (a) shall include all of the following information:
(1) The department's efforts to collect, analyze, and report SOGISC data, including a comprehensive list of forms through which the collection of SOGISC data is required under existing law, the level of compliance with SOGISC data collection requirements through those forms, the forms exempt from those requirements, and the reasons for those exemptions.
(2) The status of any improvement or replacement of the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE), the department's statewide database and surveillance system for reporting communicable diseases.
(3) The outcomes of data analyses that the department has performed, or has allowed other qualified researchers to perform, using SOGISC data that the department has collected.
(4) The steps that the department has taken, or has caused to be taken, to improve services or program outcomes for underserved lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex, plus (LGBTQI+) populations.
(5) Until fully implemented, the progress that the department has made in implementing recommendations set forth in a report by the California State Auditor's Office, dated April 27, 2023, and numbered 2022-102.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - California Code, Health and Safety Code - HSC § 152000 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/health-and-safety-code/hsc-sect-152000/
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