(a) The health officer of the participating jurisdiction shall present, annually at an open meeting of the board of supervisors or city council, a report detailing the status of clean needle and syringe exchange programs, including, but not limited to, relevant statistics on bloodborne infections associated with needle sharing activity and the use of public funds for these programs. Law enforcement, administrators of alcohol and drug treatment programs, other stakeholders, and the public shall be afforded ample opportunity to comment at this annual meeting. The notice to the public shall be sufficient to ensure adequate participation in the meeting by the public. This meeting shall be noticed in accordance with all state and local open meeting laws and ordinances, and as local officials deem appropriate.
(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2019.
(Repealed (in Sec. 4) and added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 744, Sec. 5. (AB 604) Effective January 1, 2012. Section operative January 1, 2019, by its own provisions.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018