§300ff–27a — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services must not give a federal HIV grant to a State unless the State requires a honest effort to tell the spouse of a person diagnosed with HIV that they may have been exposed and should get tested. Spouse means a marriage partner now or at any time within the 10-year period before the HIV diagnosis. HIV-infected patient means someone diagnosed with HIV. State means any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, or a United States territory.

Title 42, §300ff–27a

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(a)The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not make a grant under part B of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff–21 et seq.) to any State unless such State takes administrative or legislative action to require that a good faith effort be made to notify a spouse of a known HIV-infected patient that such spouse may have been exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus and should seek testing.

(b)For purposes of this section:

(1)The term “spouse” means any individual who is the marriage partner of an HIV-infected patient, or who has been the marriage partner of that patient at any time within the 10-year period prior to the diagnosis of HIV infection.

(2)The term “HIV-infected patient” means any individual who has been diagnosed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.

(3)The term “State” means any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, or any territory of the United States.

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The Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, 58 Stat. 682. Part B of title XXVI of the Act is classified generally to this part. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 201 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Ryan White CARE Act

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of 1996, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

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Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 13 of Pub. L. 104–146, set out as an

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of 1996 Amendment note under section 300ff–11 of this title.

§300ff–27a Spousal notification

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