California Health and Safety Code

§ 121200

HSC § 121200 Effective Aug 18, 1997Div. 105 · Part 4 · Ch. 12

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Over the past five years AIDS has reached an epidemic stage and is estimated to affect 30,000 Californians by 1990.

(b)The estimated cost of medical care alone for the 4,000 AIDS cases that have occurred to date in California totals approximately two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000). By the end of 1990, medical care is projected to approach three billion five hundred million dollars ($3,500,000,000) and the total public health and medical care expenditures are expected to exceed five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000).

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 294, Sec. 18. Effective August 18, 1997.