CA SB1099

Requires the State Department of Public Health to generate annual reports starting July 1, 2026, including data on residual screening specimens stored, inheritable conditions identified, research projects utilizing specimens, and published studies using biospecimens.

Mandates reports be submitted to the Legislature for five consecutive years and made publicly available on the department's website, with continued posting after the fifth report.

Adds reporting costs to fee guidelines that researchers must pay to cover data linkage, retrieval, processing, and other administrative expenses associated with research activities.

Creates the Cord Blood Banking Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury to receive fees from approved researchers for umbilical cord blood samples and pregnancy/newborn blood samples used in research.

Allows fees collected from researchers to be used for reporting, data management, blood collection, storage, retrieval, processing, inventory, and shipping of blood samples.