Federal funding: supplemental appropriations: pandemic influenza.

Existing law establishes procedures and requirements to govern the allocation to, and expenditure by, local health jurisdictions of federal funding received for the prevention of, and response to, bioterrorist attacks and other public health emergencies. Existing law provides that these procedures apply only when local health jurisdictions are designated by a federal or state agency to manage the funds for public health preparedness and response to bioterrorist attacks and other public health emergencies, pursuant to a specified federally approved plan. Existing law repeals these provisions as of January 1, 2011, as specified. This bill would extend the repeal date to January 1, 2013, and would provide that federal funding received pursuant to the federal 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act for pandemic influenza for purposes of state and local public health and emergency response infrastructure would be subject to appropriation by the Legislature for allocation by the State Department of Public Health, as prescribed and would modify the methodology for allocation of those funds. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.