14139. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023, Sec. 479.)

(a) The department shall expend, upon appropriation, any savings accrued from the establishment and implementation of a bulk purchase vaccine program to increase the participation of physicians and surgeons, public and community-based health clinics, and health care facilities as immunization providers under the Medi-Cal program and under the child health and disability prevention programs established pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 124025) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 106 of the Health and Safety Code and to increase access to, and the quality of, immunization services for publicly insured and uninsured children, and to provide funding to counties to assist in the administration of local immunization programs. These funds shall supplement, not supplant, existing state and local funds.