§ 15186. Unified Program Data Standards.

(a) The Secretary shall establish and maintain a Unified Program Data Dictionary, located at title 27, division 3, subdivision 1, that lists, organizes, and describes the data to be collected and submitted by CUPAs in administering the programs listed in Health and Safety Code chapter 6.11. It shall contain:

(1) a listing of the data elements and the submittal elements reported by a regulated business to a CUPA.

(2) a listing of the data elements a CUPA reports to the state.

(3) a listing of the data elements required for electronic data exchange.

(b) The Secretary shall review and amend, if necessary, the Unified Program Data Dictionary, located at title 27, division 3, subdivision 1, every two years in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.

(c) The state agency with assigned program responsibility shall identify and specify Unified Program Data Dictionary submittal options for data that cannot be divided into discrete data elements.

(d) If a Unified Program reporting requirement is created by new statute or regulation that is not covered by the Unified Program Data Dictionary as defined in subdivision (a), the state agency with assigned program responsibility, in consultation with the Secretary, may develop and maintain a standard form that requires the statutory or regulatory information in a format that can be electronically uploaded to CERS, a local information management system, or a local reporting portal until such time that the new reporting requirement is integrated into the Unified Program Data Dictionary, CERS, local information management systems, and local reporting portals.

HISTORY

1. New section filed 1-8-99 as an emergency; operative 1-8-99 (Register 99, No. 2). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 5-10-99 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.

2. Certificate of Compliance as to 1-8-99 order transmitted to OAL 4-2-99 and filed 5-14-99 (Register 99, No. 20).

3. Repealer and new section filed 4-13-2007; operative 5-13-2007 (Register 2007, No. 15).

4. Change without regulatory effect amending subsections (b)(4)-(6), adding subsection (b)(7) and relettering subsections filed 3-21-2008 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2008, No. 12).

5. Amendment of section heading and repealer and new section filed 12-17-2013; operative 12-17-2013 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2013, No. 51).

Note

Note: Authority cited: Sections 25404(b), (c), (d) and (e) and 25404.6(c), Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 25503.3 and 25505, Health and Safety Code.