California Health and Safety Code

§ 1179.50

HSC § 1179.50Div. 1 · Part 6.1 · Ch. 1

Statute text

(a)This part shall be known and may be cited as the Children’s Hospital Bond Act of 2008.

(b)California’s network of regional children’s hospitals provide vital health care services to children facing life-threatening illness or injury. Over one million times each year, children are cared for at these hospitals without regard to their family’s ability to pay.

(c)Children’s hospitals also provide specialized treatment and care that has increased the survival of children suffering from serious diseases and illnesses such as childhood leukemia, cancer, heart defects, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and cystic fibrosis.

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Legislative history

Added November 4, 2008, by initiative Proposition 3.