California’s SB 1016: Latino and Indigenous Disparities Reduction Act Signed into Law by Governor Newsom
California’s SB 1016: Latino and Indigenous Disparities Reduction Act Signed into Law by Governor Newsom
On September 28, 2024, Governor Newsom signed SB1016. This bill will require the California Department of Public Health to collect demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of California residents for any report that includes rates for major diseases and leading causes of death, as specified, to use separate collection categories and tabulations for Hispanic or Latino groups using standardized federal race and ethnicity categories from the federal Office of Management and Budgets Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, as specified. The bill would require the department to use separate collection categories and tabulations for each major Latino group and Mesoamerican Indigenous nation, if that group or nation is not included in the standardized federal race and ethnicity categories, as specified. The bill would require the department, when collecting the preferred language of program participants, to include specified languages.