Title 18 — Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender
43 chapters · 1,022 sections in this title.
AS 18.08.085 Trauma care fund; creation.
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(a) The trauma care fund is created. The purpose of the fund is to compensate certified trauma centers in the state that receive a special designation under AS 18.08.082(c) and that achieve or maintain the highest appropriate level of trauma care designation. (b) The fund consist…
AS 18.08.086 Immunity from liability.
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(a) A person certified or licensed under AS 18.08.082 who administers emergency medical services to an injured or sick person, a person or public agency that employs, sponsors, directs, or controls the activities of persons certified or licensed under AS 18.08.082 who administer …
AS 18.08.087 Disclosure of medical records.
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When requested for the purpose of evaluating the performance of an emergency medical technician, mobile intensive care paramedic, or physician who provided emergency medical care or other assistance to a sick or injured person, a licensed physician, advanced practice registered n…
AS 18.08.088 Penalty.
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A person who violates a provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by both. Each violation is a separate offense.
AS 18.08.089 Authority to pronounce death.
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(a) A mobile intensive care paramedic licensed under this chapter, a physician assistant registered or licensed under AS 08.64.107, or an emergency medical technician certified under this chapter may make a determination and pronouncement of death of a person under the following …
AS 18.08.090 [Renumbered as AS 18.08.200.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 18.08.095 Air ambulance service.
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An air ambulance service provider that provides air ambulance services to an individual covered under an air ambulance membership agreement with the provider may not deny emergency medical services to any person on the basis that the person is not covered under an air ambulance m…
AS 18.08.100 Telehealth.
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(a) An individual certified or licensed under this chapter may practice within the individual's authorized scope of practice under this chapter through telehealth with a patient in this state if the individual's certification or license is in good standing. (b) If an individual c…
AS 18.08.200 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “advanced life support” means emergency care techniques provided under the written or oral orders of a physician that include manual electric cardiac defibrillation, administration of antiarrhythmic agents, intravenous therapy, intramuscular therapy, or use o…
AS 18.09.010 Alaska Health Care Commission.
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The Alaska Health Care Commission is established in the Department of Health. The purpose of the commission is to provide recommendations for and foster the development of a statewide plan to address the quality, accessibility, and availability of health care for all citizens of …
AS 18.09.020 Composition; chair.
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The commission consists of 14 members as follows: (1) 11 voting members appointed by the governor as follows: (A) the state officer assigned the duties of medical director for the department, who shall serve as chair; (B) one member who represents the tribal health community in t…
AS 18.09.030 Public members' terms of office.
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(a) Public members of the commission serve for staggered terms of three years or until a successor is appointed. (b) If a vacancy occurs in a public member's seat on the commission, the governor shall make an appointment for the unexpired portion of that member's term. (c) A publ…
AS 18.09.040 Executive director.
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The commission may employ an executive director, who may not be a member of the commission and who may be current staff of the department. The executive director serves at the pleasure of the commission. The commission shall establish the duties of the executive director. The exe…
AS 18.09.050 Staff.
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The department may assign employees of the department to serve as staff to the commission. The commission shall prescribe the duties of the commission staff.
AS 18.09.060 Bylaws.
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The commission, on approval of a majority of its membership and consistent with state law, shall adopt and amend bylaws governing proceedings and other activities, including provisions concerning (1) a quorum to transact commission business and other aspects of procedure; (2) fre…
AS 18.09.070 Duties of the commission.
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(a) The commission shall serve as the state health planning and coordinating body. Consistent with state and federal law, the commission shall provide recommendations for and foster the development of a statewide health plan containing the following: (1) a comprehensive statewide…
AS 18.09.080 Compensation, per diem, and expenses.
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Article 2. Statewide Immunization Program. A member appointed to the commission under AS 18.09.020(1) is entitled to per diem, reimbursement for travel, and other expenses authorized by law for boards and commissions under AS 39.20.180.
AS 18.09.200 Statewide immunization program established; commissioner's duties.
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(a) In addition to health promotion and vaccine registration activities of the department, a statewide immunization program is established in the department for the purpose of monitoring, purchasing, and distributing included vaccines to providers approved by the department who a…
AS 18.09.210 State Vaccine Assessment Council; members; duties.
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(a) The State Vaccine Assessment Council is established in the department for the purpose of determining the amount of vaccine assessments made by the commissioner to be paid by assessable entities and other program participants in the state under procedures established by the co…
AS 18.09.220 Vaccine assessment and reporting requirements.
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(a) An assessable entity and other program participant shall (1) pay to the department the annual combined vaccine assessments as determined under the program for the included vaccines covered by the assessable entity or other program participant for each covered individual on a …
AS 18.09.225 Other program participants.
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(a) A health care provider or group of providers may opt into the program if approved by the commissioner under regulations adopted by the department. (b) An assessable entity may not deny a claim for coverage by a health care provider of vaccines not distributed under the progra…
AS 18.09.230 Vaccine Assessment Fund.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 18.09.240 Penalties.
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An assessable entity or other program participant that fails to pay a required annual vaccine assessment after notification of the assessment or fails to comply with a request for information necessary for determination of the assessment may be assessed an additional noncomplianc…
AS 18.09.300 Dementia awareness and dementia care capacity.
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Article 4. General Provisions. (a) The department shall develop and implement an evidence-based, data-informed statewide dementia awareness campaign. The statewide dementia awareness campaign must include promotion of screening, early diagnosis, and treatment of dementia and asse…
AS 18.09.900 Regulations.
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The department may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
AS 18.09.990 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “assessable entity” means (A) a health care insurer as defined in AS 21.54.500; (B) an entity that provides the state health care plan described in AS 39.30.090 and 39.30.091; (C) a public or private entity that offers a publicly funded plan in the state, to …
AS 18.10.010 Local health unit and health board.
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Each community or settlement outside an incorporated city is a health unit. In each health unit there shall be a board of health composed of the president of the school board and two citizens of the unit selected by the school board. At least one of the members of the health boar…
AS 18.10.020 Health unit in incorporated city.
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AS 18.10.010 applies to an incorporated city unless the city otherwise provides for the establishment and maintenance of a local board of health or a health officer.
AS 18.10.030 Health units in Native villages and communities.
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In a Native village, or community composed largely of Natives, where the formation of a board of health is impracticable, the commissioner may delegate to a representative of the Alaska Native Service the authority granted to the local boards of health.
AS 18.10.040 Health districts.
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Two or more contiguous health units of two or more local boards of health for contiguous incorporated cities may be constituted a health district by the department. Members of the board of health for this type of health district shall be appointed by the department from residents…
AS 18.10.050 Commissioner to supervise local health boards.
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Each local board of health whether inside or outside incorporated cities, and each representative of the Alaska Native Service acting in the capacity of health officer is responsible to and under the supervision of the commissioner.
AS 18.10.060 Secs. 18.10.060 — 18.10.250. Consolidated Health Districts. [Repealed, § 39 ch 69 SLA 1970.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 18.10.260 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of health; (2) “department” means the Department of Health.
AS 18.12.010 Secs. 18.12.010 — 18.12.100. Living Wills and Do Not Resuscitate Orders. [Repealed, § 15 ch 83 SLA 2004. For current provisions see AS 13.52.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 18.13.010 Genetic testing.
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(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, (1) a person may not collect a DNA sample from a person, perform a DNA analysis on a sample, retain a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or disclose the results of a DNA analysis unless the person has first obtained the inf…
AS 18.13.020 Private right of action.
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A person may bring a civil action against a person who collects a DNA sample from the person, performs a DNA analysis on a sample, retains a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or discloses the results of a DNA analysis in violation of this chapter. In addition to the ac…
AS 18.13.030 Criminal penalty.
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(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful DNA collection, analysis, retention, or disclosure if the person knowingly collects a DNA sample from a person, performs a DNA analysis on a sample, retains a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or discloses the results of a DNA…
AS 18.13.100 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “DNA” means deoxyribonucleic acid, including mitochondrial DNA, complementary DNA, and DNA derived from ribonucleic acid; (2) “DNA analysis” means DNA or genetic typing and testing to determine the presence or absence of genetic characteristics in an individu…
AS 18.15.010 Secs. 18.15.010 — 18.15.050. Infectious and contagious diseases. [Repealed, § 2 ch 63 SLA 1972.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 18.15.060 Secs. 18.15.060 — 18.15.110. Physical examination of nonresident employees. [Repealed, § 1 ch 130 SLA 1976.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 18.15.120 Secs. 18.15.120 — 18.15.137. Tuberculosis. [Repealed, § 12 ch 54 SLA 2005.]
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AS 18.15.138 Penalty. [Repealed, § 13 ch 73 SLA 1995.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 18.15.139 Secs. 18.15.139 — 18.15.149. Court authorization of detention; title to and inventory of equipment allotted to private institutions; religious treatment for tuberculosis; screening of school employees; limited immunity; definitions. [Repealed, § 12 ch 54 SLA 2005.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 18.15.150 Taking of blood sample.
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Each licensed physician and in the absence of a licensed physician each licensed graduate nurse who attends a pregnant woman for conditions relating to the pregnancy during the period of gestation or at delivery shall take, or have taken, a sample of the blood of the woman at the…
AS 18.15.160 Test for syphilis.
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For the purposes of AS 18.15.150 — 18.15.180 a standard serological test is a test for syphilis approved by the department and shall be performed in a laboratory or clinic approved by the department. On request the laboratory test required by AS 18.15.150 — 18.15.180 shall be per…
AS 18.15.170 Report of birth.
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In reporting a birth and stillbirth, the physician and other person required to make the report shall state on the certificate whether a serological test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child and the approximate date when the …
AS 18.15.180 Penalty.
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A licensed physician or licensed nurse attending a pregnant woman during the period of gestation or at delivery, or a representative of a laboratory or clinic who violates AS 18.15.150 — 18.15.180 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, is punishable by a fine of not mor…
AS 18.15.190 [Renumbered as AS 18.15.900.]
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Article 2. Phenylketonuria (PKU) and Other Heritable Diseases.
AS 18.15.200 Screening for phenylketonuria.
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(a) A physician who attends a newborn child shall cause this child to be tested for phenylketonuria (PKU). If the mother is delivered in the absence of a physician, the nurse who first visits the child shall cause this test to be performed. (b) The department shall adopt regulati…
AS 18.15.205 Screening for congenital heart disease.
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(a) A provider of birthing services who attends a birth in the state shall ensure that, as close to 24 hours after the birth as feasible, screening for congenital heart defects through pulse oximetry equipment and methods appropriate for use on a newborn is performed on the newbo…