Registration for the 2018 CHEAC Annual Meeting is now open! This year’s annual meeting will be held from October 17 – October 19 at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento and will provide local health department professionals representing a wide variety of disciplines throughout California with networking and learning opportunities. We are pleased to offer expanded keynote…
Read More »Today, Governor Brown and Legislative Leaders announced they had reached an agreement on the 2018-19 Budget. Recall, the Budget Conference Committee had convened for just over a week to hear issues and reconcile differences between the two houses. The budget agreement prioritizes investments in education, the Rainy Day Fund, child care and combatting homeless, and…
Read More »This week, the California State Legislature resumed committee hearings after last week’s floor-only session and deadline for measures to be advanced out of their house of origin. June is expected to be a very busy month with a significant number of committee hearings prior to the summer recess in July. Notably this week, Senate President…
Read More »The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) will be hosting its next Let’s Talk Cannabis health information initiative webinar on Thursday, June 21 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am. The webinar will feature a presentation from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Office of Communications and Public Affairs. The webinar will be available…
Read More »This week, California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith issued a standing order for naloxone. The standing order expands access to naloxone for California residents and allows organizations that cannot prescribe naloxone to distribute it to those who are at risk of experiencing an opioid-related overdose and those…
Read More »This month’s Vital Signs report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that suicide rates have been increasing in nearly every state between 1999 and 2016. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. and is one of three leading causes that are on the rise. In 2016…
Read More »Today marks the deadline for the California Legislature to pass all bills out of their house of origin. Both houses maintained a significant bill load, working their way through over 80 bills each day this week. While some bills met their fate in their house of origin this week, many more were advanced onto the…
Read More »AB 626 (E. Garcia) has been set for hearing on Wednesday, June 13 in the Senate Health Committee. The measure seeks to create a new type of food facility defined as “microenterprise home kitchens” in the California Retail Food Code and allow the sale of potentially hazardous foods directly to consumers in private homes. The…
Read More »On Tuesday evening, the full Assembly Budget Committee convened a hearing to discuss and adopt their 2018-19 Budget. In his opening statements Assembly Member Philip Ting, chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, noted their inclusion of $144 billion in revenues and $140 billion in expenditures. He further highlighted major investments by the Assembly, which include:…
Read More »The work of the Budget Conference Committees began this week with an overview hearing to discuss differences between the two houses and Administration. Assembly Member Philip Ting, chair of the Budget Conference Committee, provided highlights of the Assembly Budget during his opening comments and announced the Committee’s intent to reconcile the differences by the end…
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