California Health and Safety Code

§ 125286.15

HSC § 125286.15 Effective Jan 1, 2013Div. 106 · Part 5 · Ch. 2 · Art. 5

Statute text

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Hemophilia is a rare, hereditary, bleeding disorder affecting at least 4,000 persons in California and is a chronic, lifelong, and incurable, but treatable, disease.

(b)Von Willebrand disease is a human bleeding disorder caused by a hereditary deficiency or abnormality of the von Willebrand factor in human blood, which is a protein that helps clot blood. Von Willebrand disease is a chronic, lifelong, incurable, but treatable, disease affecting at least 360,000 Californians.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 75, Sec. 1. (AB 389) Effective January 1, 2013.