§ 150704

(a) The department shall award grants to partnerships of two separate community-based organizations to establish and deploy virtual health hubs. However, the department may award both components of a virtual health hub to a single community-based organization if it determines that doing so is necessary to ensure program effectiveness, administrative efficiency, or adequate service coverage in a particular community or region.

(b) Grant recipients shall deploy virtual health hubs in two rural communities based on farmworker population and access to health care.

(c) The grant recipients shall make space available in or around virtual health hubs that can be used for visits by professionals, including, but not limited to, medical teams, educators, and volunteers, who bring additional programming onsite to rural farms.

(d) The grant recipients shall report the information outlined in subdivision (b) of Section 150705 to the department upon request and in the manner prescribed by the department.

(Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 311, Sec. 2. (SB 338) Effective January 1, 2026. Conditionally inoperative December 31, 2030, pursuant to Section 150706.)