Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

The duties, powers, functions, jurisdiction, and responsibilities transferred to the State Department of Public Health shall, pursuant to the act that added this section, include all of the following previously performed by the former State Department of Health Services: (a) Unde…

In implementing the transfer of jurisdiction pursuant to this article, the State Department of Public Health succeeds to and is vested with all the statutory duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Health Services as they rel…

Commencing July 1, 2022, the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, an office within the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement, succeeds to, and is vested with, all the duties and responsibilities of the State Department of Public Health re…

In the event of any conflict between Sections 131050, 131051, and 131052, Section 131052 shall prevail over Section 131051, and Section 131050 shall prevail over Sections 131051 and 131052.

(a) All regulations and orders adopted by the former State Department of Health Services and any of its predecessors in effect immediately preceding the operative date of this section shall remain in effect and shall be fully enforceable unless and until readopted, amended, or re…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 131050, commencing on July 1, 2012, the State Department of Health Care Services shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Health as they relate…

(a) Commencing July 1, 2013, the State Department of Public Health shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs as they relate to the Office of Probl…

The department may commence and maintain all proper and necessary actions and proceedings for any or all of the following purposes: (a) To enforce its regulations. (b) To enjoin and abate nuisances dangerous to health. (c) To compel the performance of any act specifically enjoine…

With the approval of the Department of Finance, and for use in the furtherance of the work of the department, the director may accept (a) grants of interest in real property, and (b) gifts of money from public agencies or from organizations or associations organized for scientifi…

(a) The State Department of Public Health shall investigate and apply for federal funding opportunities regarding promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity, including, but not limited to, those available under the federal Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public L…

The State Department of Public Health may investigate, apply for, and enter into agreements to secure federal or nongovernmental funding opportunities for the purposes of advancing public health, subject to the provisions of Section 13326 of the Government Code for federal fundin…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the department is authorized or required by statute, regulation, the due process provisions of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution, and of subdivision (a) of Section 7 of Article I of the California Constitutio…

The department may enjoin and abate public nuisances.

The department may advise all local health authorities, and, when in its judgment the public health is menaced, it shall control and regulate their action.

Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the laws of this state relating to the preservation of the public health, who willfully neglects or refuses to perform the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(a) The department may perform any of the following activities relating to the protection, preservation, and advancement of public health: (1) Studies. (2) Demonstrations of innovative methods. (3) Evaluations of existing projects. (4) Provision of training programs. (5) Dissemin…

(a) The department, in the licensing and certification of health professions in accordance with this chapter, shall not prohibit earn and learn programs for training of personnel. The department shall use licensing and certification standards that authorize the use of earn and le…

The department may provide for consultant and advisory services and for the training of technical and professional personnel in educational institutions and field training centers approved by the department, and for the establishment and maintenance of field training centers in l…

The department shall cause special investigation of the preparation and sale of drugs and food and their adulteration.

The department shall perform duties as required by law for the detection and prevention of the adulteration of articles used for food and drink, and for the punishment of persons guilty of violation of any law providing against their adulteration.

The department shall examine and may prevent the pollution of sources of public domestic water and ice supply.

(a) The department shall maintain a program of Environmental Management. (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014.

The department may maintain a mental health service that shall advise and assist local departments of health and education in the establishment of mental health services, particularly in connection with maternal and child health conferences and in the schools of the state. The de…

The department shall enforce Section 383b of the Penal Code.

(a) Any person who willfully sells, keeps for sale, or offers for sale any food, drug, device, or cosmetic knowing, after a written notice from either (1) a manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, or importer, or (2) the department or a local health officer that the product linked…

Whenever any person violates any provision of Section 131130, the court may, as a condition of probation, order the defendant to pay, in lieu of any fine, any expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred by a local health department or the department in monitoring compliance with…

Before a person who is required to register as a sex offender under Section 290 of the Penal Code is released into a long-term health care facility, as defined in Section 1418, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State Department of State Hospitals, or any other…

The department may adopt and enforce regulations for the execution of its duties.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall submit all of its regulations on matters related to statutory responsibilities delegated to or enforced by local health departments, except emergency regulations, to the California Conference of Local Health Officer…

The department, after consultation with and approval by the Conference of Local Health Officers, shall by regulation establish standards of education and experience for professional and technical personnel employed in local health departments and for the organization and operatio…

(a) When a dispute arises as to the interpretation or enforcement of regulations of the department that are being enforced by a city, county, city and county, or district, a request for clarification or interpretation may be submitted to the department. The department shall make …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but to the extent consistent with applicable federal law or regulation, the director may, after a request by a board of supervisors of an affected county and after a public hearing held in accordance with Section 11346 of the Government…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department by regulation may provide for the issuance and renewal on a two-year basis of licenses, certificates of registration, or other indicia of authority issued pursuant to this code by the department. (b) The department ma…

(a) To the extent that funding is appropriated by the Legislature or available through private funds in each fiscal year, the department shall establish and maintain the California Electronic Violent Death Reporting System. (b) The department shall collect data on violent deaths …

For purposes of this article, “violent death” means a death resulting from the use of physical force or power against oneself, another person, or a group or community, and includes, but is not limited to, homicide, suicide, legal intervention deaths, unintentional firearm deaths,…

(a) On or after January 1, 2028, the State Department of Public Health, whenever collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of California residents for a report that includes rates for major diseases, leading causes of death per demographic, subcategories for…

(a) Dental services, as defined in the Dental Practice Act, may be provided to a patient in a health facility licensed under this chapter. Those services shall be provided by a person licensed by the State of California pursuant to Section 1611 of the Business and Professions Cod…

(a) The rules of a health facility shall include provisions for use of the facility by, and staff privileges for, duly licensed podiatrists within the scope of their respective licensure, subject to rules and regulations governing such use or privileges established by the health …

(a) (1) Each health facility owned and operated by the state offering care or services within the scope of practice of a psychologist shall establish rules and medical staff bylaws that include provisions for medical staff membership and clinical privileges for clinical psycholog…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the exercise of privileges in any health facility may be limited, restricted, or revoked for the violation of such health facility’s rules, regulations, or procedures which are applied, in good faith, in a nondiscriminatory man…

(a) An adult patient who receives primary care services in a facility, clinic, unlicensed clinic, center, office, or other setting where primary care services are provided, shall be offered a hepatitis B screening test and a hepatitis C screening test, to the extent these service…

(a) Emergency services and care shall be provided to any person requesting the services or care, or for whom services or care is requested, for any condition in which the person is in danger of loss of life, or serious injury or illness, at any health facility licensed under this…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall control the construction of this article and Section 1371.4: (a) (1) “Emergency services and care” means medical screening, examination, and evaluation by a physician and surgeon, or, to the extent permitted b…

Notwithstanding Sections 1317 and 1317.2, Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford shall be treated as a single licensed facility for purposes of providing emergency services and care to patients with conditions related to active labor pres…

A person needing emergency services and care shall not be transferred from a hospital to another hospital for any nonmedical reason (such as the person’s inability to pay for any emergency service or care) unless each of the following conditions are met: (a) The person is examine…

(a) A hospital that has a legal obligation, whether imposed by statute or by contract, to the extent of that contractual obligation, to any third-party payer, including, but not limited to, a health maintenance organization, health care service plan, nonprofit hospital service pl…

(a) As a condition of licensure, each hospital shall adopt, in consultation with the medical staff, policies and transfer protocols consistent with this article and regulations adopted hereunder. (b) As a condition of licensure, each hospital shall adopt a policy prohibiting disc…

(a) All hospitals shall maintain records of each transfer made or received, including the “Memorandum of Transfer” described in subdivision (f) of Section 1317.2, for a period of three years. (b) All hospitals making or receiving transfers shall file with the state department ann…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (j) of Section 1317.1, a patient may be transferred for admission to a psychiatric unit within a general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, or an acute psychiatric hospital, as defined in subdivision (b) of Sect…

(a) A psychiatric unit within a general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, a psychiatric health facility of more than 16 beds, as defined in Section 1250.2 and subject to subdivision (d), or an acute psychiatric hospital, as defined in subdivision…