California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - Birth Defects Monitoring Program

• Section 103825.
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that birth defects, stillbirths, and miscarriages represent problems of public health importance about which too little is known; that...
• Section 103830.
  The director shall maintain a system for the collection of information, necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter. The director shall require health facilities,...
• Section 103835.
  The birth defects monitoring program shall operate statewide. It is the intent of the Legislature that the adequacy of program resources shall be assessed annually,...
• Section 103840.
  The director shall use the information collected pursuant to Section 103830 and information available from other reporting systems and health providers to conduct studies to...
• Section 103845.
  The director shall appoint an advisory committee to advise on the implementation of this chapter. Each of the disciplines of epidemiology, hospital administration, biostatistics, maternal...
• Section 103850.
  (a)  All information collected pursuant to this chapter shall be confidential and shall be used solely for the purposes provided in this chapter. For purposes...
• Section 103855.
  The department may enter into a contract for the establishment and implementation of the birth defects monitoring program. The contract shall include provisions requiring full...

Last modified: October 22, 2018