Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2013, a general acute care hospital that has a licensed perinatal service shall offer to parents of a newborn, prior to discharge, a pulse oximetry test for the identification of CCHD. (2) The State Department of Health Care Services shall issue guidance…

(a) (1) The state board shall impose a three dollar ($3.00) per gallon fee on every manufacturer of percholorethylene in the state and on every person that imports perchloroethylene into the state for use in dry cleaning. (2) The amount of the fee imposed pursuant to paragraph (1…

(a) The state board shall develop and establish a grant program that provides incentives for dry cleaners in the state that utilize perchloroethylene in their operations to transition to utilizing dry cleaning systems determined by the state board, in consultation with the Office…

As used in this article the following terms apply: (a) “Consumer” or “client” means an individual who has been determined by a regional center to meet the eligibility criteria of Section 4512 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and applicable regulations and for whom the regiona…

(a) Each enhanced behavioral supports home shall be licensed as an adult residential facility or a group home and certified by the State Department of Developmental Services. (b) A certificate of program approval issued by the State Department of Developmental Services shall be a…

The license applicant shall submit a facility program plan to the State Department of Developmental Services for approval and submit the approved plan to the State Department of Social Services as part of the facility plan of operation. The plan of operation shall be approved by …

The State Department of Social Services shall adopt regulations to address, at a minimum, staffing structure, staff qualifications, and training. Training requirements shall include a minimum of 16 hours of emergency intervention training. “Emergency intervention training” means …

If the State Department of Social Services determines that urgent action is necessary to protect a consumer residing in an enhanced behavioral supports home from physical or mental abuse, abandonment, or any other substantial threat to their health and safety, the State Departmen…

An enhanced behavioral supports home employing secured perimeters shall comply with Section 1531.15 and applicable regulations. (Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 30, Sec. 6. (SB 856) Effective June 20, 2014.)

(a) The State Department of Social Services shall revoke the enhanced behavioral supports home’s facility license if the State Department of Developmental Services has decertified an enhanced behavioral supports home program certification pursuant to Article 3.6 (commencing with …

(a) A license shall not be issued pursuant to this article before emergency regulations for this article filed by the State Department of Developmental Services have been published. (b) Emergency regulations to implement this article may be adopted by the director of the State De…

This article does not interfere with the authority of the State Department of Social Services to temporarily suspend or revoke the license of an enhanced behavioral supports home pursuant to Section 1550. (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 277. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2…

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Consumer” or “client” means an individual who has been determined by a regional center to meet the eligibility criteria of Section 4512 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and applicable regulations, and for…

(a) (1) Each community crisis home shall be licensed as an adult residential facility or a group home, pursuant to this article, and certified by the State Department of Developmental Services, pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 4698) of Chapter 6 of Division 4.5 of t…

The State Department of Social Services’ regulations shall address at least both of the following: (a) Staffing structure, staff qualifications, and training. (b) Training requirements shall include a minimum of 16 hours of emergency intervention training. “Emergency intervention…

(a) When the State Department of Social Services determines that urgent action is necessary to protect consumers residing in a community crisis home from physical or mental abuse, abandonment, or any other substantial threat to their health and safety, the State Department of Soc…

The licensee shall submit the facility program plan approved by the State Department of Developmental Services, pursuant to Section 4698 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to the State Department of Social Services as part of the facility plan of operation. The plan of operati…

If applicable, a community crisis home shall be in compliance with Section 1531.15 and the applicable regulations. (Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 30, Sec. 7. (SB 856) Effective June 20, 2014.)

(a) The State Department of Social Services shall revoke the community crisis home’s facility license if the State Department of Developmental Services has rescinded a community crisis home’s certificate of program approval. (b) The State Department of Developmental Services and …

(a) A license shall not be issued pursuant to this article until the publication in Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations of emergency regulations filed by the State Department of Developmental Services pursuant to Section 4698.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (b)…

(a) This article does not require a facility to accept, store, or retain firearms or ammunition. (b) The department shall promulgate regulations to implement this article. (c) Until regulations are adopted, the department may implement and administer the provisions of this articl…

As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Firearm” means a device, designed to be used as a weapon, from which is expelled through a barrel, a projectile by the force of an explosion or other form of combustion, including the frame or receiver…

A licensee that permits clients to possess firearms on the facility premises shall do all of the following: (a) Accept and centrally store a client’s firearm, ammunition, or both. (b) Retain and centrally store a licensee’s firearm, ammunition, or both. (c) Clients’ and licensees…

(a) A licensee shall not accept, retain, or store any deadly weapon, as defined in Section 1567.91, of a client or licensee. (b) A licensee shall not accept, retain, or store any of the following firearms owned or possessed by a client or licensee: (1) A firearm regulated pursuan…

The acceptance or storage of a client’s firearm by a licensee at a facility in accordance with this article, or the retention and storage of a client’s firearm, shall not constitute a loan, sale, receipt, or transfer of a firearm within the meaning of Sections 26500, 27545, or su…

The board may, by ordinance, develop a master plan for health care in the county. (Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 514, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2007.)

The board may assemble a task force to develop a master plan for health care that is based on a long-range planning and policy analysis for the county department of health services, and report the plan to the board according to a schedule adopted by the board. (Added by Stats. 20…

The task force may do all of the following: (a) Evaluate the strategic priorities for Los Angeles County as they relate to the financing, operation, clinical focus, and administration of the health care delivery system for low-income people in Los Angeles County. (b) Take into ac…

In developing the plan under Section 101963, the task force shall address all of the following issues: (a) The following factors regarding the current health of the population of the county: (1) The population served. (2) The health status of each population. (3) Key health condi…

The task force may make recommendations on the following to the board pursuant to the planning and policy analysis conducted under this part: (a) Priorities for clinical operations. (b) Systemwide issues. (c) The spectrum of care delivery. (d) Gaps in the current system. (e) Dise…

(a) Every physician and surgeon shall report immediately to the local health officer in writing, the name, date of birth, and address of every patient at least 14 years of age or older whom the physician and surgeon has diagnosed as having a case of a disorder characterized by la…

(a) Statements, writings, or benevolent gestures expressing sympathy, regret, a general sense of benevolence, or suggesting, reflecting, or accepting fault relating to the pain, suffering, or death of a person, or to an adverse patient safety event or unexpected health care outco…

Any physician and surgeon who knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that a patient is suffering from pesticide poisoning or any disease or condition caused by a pesticide shall promptly report that fact to the local health officer by telephone within 24 hours and by a copy o…

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment shall develop and implement, in cooperation with local health officers and state and local medical associations, a program of medical education to alert physicians and other health care professionals to the symptoms, diagnosis,…

(a) In order for an employer to satisfy their responsibilities for medical supervision of their employees who regularly handle pesticides pursuant to Section 6728 of Title 3 of the California Code of Regulations, the employer shall contract with a medical supervisor registered wi…

After consultation with the county agricultural commissioner or the Director of Agriculture, the local health officer may, upon his determination that pesticide poisoning is serious and that an outbreak in pesticide poisoning or any disease or condition caused by pesticide poison…

(a) Any public employee, as defined in Section 811.4 of the Government Code, whose responsibilities include matters relating to health and safety, protection of the environment, or the use or transportation of any pesticide and who knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that …

The Director of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment shall maintain a file of all the reporting forms received from local health officers pursuant to Section 105215 at the repository of current data on toxic materials established pursuant to Section 147.2 of the Labor Code. The…

Each public employer of a public employee subject to Section 105215 shall post in one or more prominent places frequented by such employee a notice informing such employee of the responsibility imposed by Section 105215. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 5. Effective January 1…

(a) The chief and those inspectors of the Food and Drug Section as he or she may designate, are peace officers for the purpose only of carrying out the duties of their employment. The authority of the peace officer shall extend to any place in the state as to any public offense c…

No dealer shall be prosecuted under this part for a violation concerning any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is contained in an original, unbroken, and undamaged package that bears the original labeling if all of the following requirements are satisfied: (a) He or she has us…

The guarantee shall be dated prior to the date of sale of the food, drug, device, or cosmetic and it shall be signed by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer, or other person located or residing in this state from whom the dealer received the food, drug, device, or cosmetic in goo…

A guarantee may be either a general guarantee or a special guarantee and shall be produced prior to the time of reporting an alleged violation to the Attorney General, the district attorney, or a city attorney for prosecution. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective Jan…

A general guarantee shall guarantee without condition or restriction any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is produced, prepared, compounded, packed, distributed, or sold by the guarantor as not adulterated, mislabeled, misbranded, falsely advertised, or that the article is no…

A special guarantee shall guarantee in the same manner as a general guarantee the particular food, drug, device, or cosmetic listed in an invoice of the food, drug, device, or cosmetic, and shall be attached to, or shall fully identify, the invoice. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415…

All guarantees shall contain the name and address of the guarantor making the sale of food, drug, device, or cosmetic. A guarantee shall protect the person only when the food, drug, device, or cosmetic covered by the guarantee remains identical, both as to composition and labelin…