Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

The State Department of Health Services succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Health as they relate to public health, licensing and certification of health facilities, except community care f…

The department may use the unexpended balance of funds available for use in connection with the performance of the functions of the State Department of Health to which the department has succeeded pursuant to Section 100150.

All officers and employees of the State Department of Health heretofore performing any duty, power, purpose, responsibility, or jurisdiction to which the department has succeeded, who, on July 1, 1978, are serving in the state civil service, other than as temporary employees, and…

The department shall have possession and control of all records, papers, officers, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land or other property, real or personal, held for the benefit or use of any state agency whose functions are vested in the department by Section…

(a) The department may commence and maintain all proper and necessary actions and proceedings for any or all of the following purposes: (1) To enforce its regulations. (2) To compel the performance of any act specifically enjoined upon any person, officer, or board, by any law of…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the department is authorized or required by statute, regulation, due process (Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; subdivision (a) of Section 7 of Article I of the California Constitution), or a contract, to …

(a) When a letter or order of denial of continued enrollment or suspension of any type or duration, based upon fraud or abuse, or a suspension of payments pursuant to Section 14107.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, is issued by the department to a provider, the director sh…

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 department shall annually reimburse the Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan for claim payments that exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) made by the plan on behalf of an eligible employee or dependent for a single episode of care on or after September 1, 2016. …

(a) Within 60 days of enactment of the Budget Act, the department shall advance to a local health department 25 percent of the annual General Fund allocation, subvention, or reimbursement required by a local health department for the delivery of services specified in subdivision …

(a) This article shall be known, and may be cited as, the “Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Clinical Research Act.” (b) For purposes of this article, the following definitions and descriptions shall apply: (1) “Grantee” means any qualified public, private, or nonprofit agency…

(a) In conducting or supporting a project of clinical research, a grantee shall, except as provided in subdivision (b) or (e), do all of the following: (1) Ensure that women, including, but not limited to, women over the age of 40 years, are included as subjects in each research …

(a) Pursuant to Section 439.904, state agencies shall, and it is the intent of the Legislature that the University of California, include, in appropriate periodic progress reports required under existing law, data on the extent to which state funds administered by those agencies …

The department shall maintain a laboratory and branch laboratories as may be necessary to perform the microbiological, physical and chemical analyses required to meet the responsibilities of the department.

The department may prepare or purchase biological products and distribute them at cost.

(a) The department may adopt and enforce regulations for the execution of its duties. (b) All regulations heretofore adopted by the department or its predecessors relating to public health, the licensing and certification of health facilities, except the licensing of community ca…

(a) The director shall adopt emergency regulations pursuant to Section 1267.7 implementing Chapter 327 of the Statutes of 1982, effective July 1, 1983, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code. The ad…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 11346.1 of the Government Code regarding the duration of emergency regulations, any regulations adopted by the director pursuant to Section 100280 and in effect on June 27, 1984, shall remain in effect until emergency regulations adopted pursuant to su…

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…

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

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. The department may by reg…

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) The department and as applicable, the California Department of Aging, the State Department of Public Health, and the State Department of Social Services, may grant to a PACE program, as defined in Chapter 8.75 (commencing with Section 14591) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Wel…

The department shall cause special investigations of the sources of morbidity and mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health and the department shall perform other duties as may be required in procuring information for …

All records of interviews, written reports, and statements procured by the department or by any other person, agency, or organization acting jointly with the department, in connection with special morbidity and mortality studies shall be confidential insofar as the identity of th…

(a) The department shall annually compile and publish the laws relating to the use, handling, transportation, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials, including, but not limited to, hazardous wastes, flammable materials, corrosives, explosives, pesticides, and radioactive ma…

The department may do all of the following activities: (1) Make a continuing study of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, in order to provide a continuing analysis of trends to state agencies and to the Legislature. (2) Request and receive demographic and population data fro…

The board of supervisors of each county shall take measures as may be necessary to preserve and protect the public health in the unincorporated territory of the county, including, if indicated, the adoption of ordinances, regulations and orders not in conflict with general laws, …

The sheriff of each county, or city and county, may enforce within the county, or the city and county, all orders of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. Every peace officer of every polit…

The county health officer shall enforce and observe in the unincorporated territory of the county, all of the following: (a) Orders and ordinances of the board of supervisors, pertaining to the public health and sanitary matters. (b) Orders, including quarantine and other regulat…

The county health officer shall advise on medical matters any board or body vested with the management of any county pension or retirement system and shall attend the meetings of the board or body when requested by the board or body.

(a) The local health officer may take any preventive measure that may be necessary to protect and preserve the public health from any public health hazard during any “state of war emergency,” “state of emergency,” or “local emergency,” as defined by Section 8558 of the Government…

(a) If the local health officer or their designee is notified of a leak in an active gas pipeline, that is within the jurisdiction of the Geologic Energy Management Division and within a sensitive area, pursuant to Section 3270.6 of the Public Resources Code and the local health …

(a) The county health officer shall, at least annually, investigate health and sanitary conditions in a county jail, publicly operated detention facility in the county, and private work furlough facility and program established pursuant to Section 1208 of the Penal Code. A privat…

(a) The county health officer shall prepare a list of family planning and birth control clinics located in the county for distribution by the county clerk pursuant to Section 26808 of the Government Code. The list shall include information about the availability of pregnancy test…

(a) The county health officer shall furnish all hospitals within the county, and all physicians and surgeons upon request, copies of the list prepared pursuant to Section 101050 in sufficient numbers as they may need for voluntary distribution to patients. (b) This section shall …

The county health officer may designate a nonprofit food distribution agency to coordinate and facilitate the donation of food and food products to nonprofit, charitable corporations, from available sources, including restaurants, grocery stores, or food distributors.

(a) (1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the dispensing or furnishing of drugs requiring a prescription pursuant to Section 11470, a controlled substance as defined in Section 4021 of the Business and Professions Code, or a dangerous drug or a dangerous device as de…

As used in this article: (a) “Hazardous waste” means a waste, or combination of wastes, that because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may do any of the following: (1) Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortalit…

Whenever a release, spill, escape, or entry of waste occurs as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 101075 and the director or the local health officer reasonably determines that the waste is a hazardous waste or medical waste, or that it may become a hazardou…

(a) The local health officer may issue, and first responders may execute, an order authorizing first responders to immediately isolate exposed individuals that may have been exposed to biological, chemical, toxic, or radiological agents that may spread to others. An order issued …

(a) After the declaration of a health emergency or a local health emergency pursuant to Section 101080, the director or local health officer may do any or all of the following: (1) Only in the case of a release, spill, escape, or entry of waste as described in paragraph (2) of su…

(a) For purposes of this section, the terms “handler,” “administering agency,” “hazardous material,” “release,” and “threatened release” shall have the meaning given in Section 25501. (b) After a release or a threatened release of a hazardous material from the premises of a handl…

When requested by the person furnishing the information furnished pursuant to Section 101085, the portions of the information that might disclose trade secrets or secret processes shall not be made available for inspection by the public, but shall be made available to governmenta…

Any person failing or refusing to furnish technical, toxicological, or other information required pursuant to Section 101085, or falsifying any information provided pursuant to Section 101085 is guilty of a misdemeanor and is also subject to any other criminal or civil penalties …

The governing body of a city may employ one or more public health nurses, each of whom shall be a registered nurse possessing qualifications prescribed by the department on the date of his or her employment.

The public health nurse shall attend to matters pertaining to the health and sanitary conditions of the city as the governing body may assign. Compensation for the public health nurse shall be determined by that body.

The board of supervisors in each county may employ one or more public health nurses, each of whom shall be a registered nurse possessing qualifications prescribed by the department on the date of employment.

The public health nurse shall attend to matters pertaining to the health and sanitary conditions of the county as the board of supervisors may assign. Compensation for the public health nurse shall be determined by that board.