Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the state board shall identify toxic air contaminants which are emitted into the ambient air of the state using the procedures and following the requirements prescribed by Article 3 (commencing with Section 39660). (b) The state board sh…

The state board shall establish airborne toxic control measures for toxic air contaminants in accordance with all of the following: (a) If a substance is identified as a toxic air contaminant pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 39660), the airborne toxic control measur…

(a) The state board and the districts may adopt regulations which do both of the following: (1) Impose monitoring requirements, establish procedures for issuing, reissuing, and enforcing permits, and take any other action that may be necessary to establish, implement, and enforce…

The Legislature finds and declares that certain toxic air contaminants may pose risks that cause infants and children to be especially susceptible to illness and that certain actions are necessary to ensure their safety from toxic air contaminants. (a) By July 1, 2001, the follow…

Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, beginning with the first quarter of 2021, the Department of Pesticide Regulation shall prepare and submit quarterly reports, due 60 days after the end of each quarter, to the Senate Committee on Health, the Senate Committee …

(a) A retailer shall not sell or offer for sale after the expiration date an over-the-counter drug. (b) Notwithstanding Section 111825, any retailer who violates this section is guilty of an infraction, punishable by a fine of not more than ten dollars ($10) per day for each item…

The department, with the approval of the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency, may contract with any public or private agency for the performance of any of the functions vested in the department by this chapter. Any department of the state is authorized to enter into…

(a) The department shall be a central information resource on alcohol and other drug use prevention and treatment programs and on research projects with respect to alcohol and other drug use. (b) The department shall collect, and act as an information exchange for, information on…

The department, at the request of the county alcohol and drug program administrator, may assist local community organizations in initiating effective programs to prevent and treat alcohol and other drug use. The department may charge a fee for this assistance. (Amended by Stats. …

The department may develop and implement a mass media alcohol and other drug education program involving newspapers, radio, and television in order to provide community education, develop public awareness, and motivate community action in alcohol and other drug use prevention, tr…

(a) The department, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, shall distribute informational materials on the care and treatment of infants under the age of six months who have been exposed to alcohol and other drugs. The informational materials shall include, b…

The department may develop an objective program evaluation device or methodology and evaluate state-supported alcohol and other drug use prevention and treatment programs. (Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 847, Sec. 19. (AB 2995) Effective January 1, 2025.)

The department shall, in consultation with the State Department of Education, screen and evaluate books, pamphlets, literature, movies, and other audiovisual aids related to the misuse of substances, including substance use disorders, and may prepare and disseminate lists of reco…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Public Health and stakeholders in the medical and treatment provider communities, work to identify methods for better informing medical doctors and other health professionals of…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Early knowledge of infection with communicable disease is important in order to permit exposed persons to make informed health care decisions as well as to take measures to reduce the likelihood of transmitting the …

The communicable disease testing and notification procedures provided for in this chapter are in addition to the notification to which prehospital emergency medical care persons or personnel are entitled under Section 1797.188. (Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 102, Sec. 2. Effective Ja…

For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Attending physician of the source patient” means any physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code and any person licen…

Notwithstanding Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 120975) or any other law, the blood or other tissue or material of a source patient may be tested, and an exposed individual may be informed whether the patient has tested positive or negative for a communicable disease if the ex…

(a) No health care provider, as defined in this chapter, shall be subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for performing tests for a communicable disease on the available blood or patient sample of a source patient, or for disclosing the communi…

(a) The State Department of Public Health, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services, shall implement public awareness strategies to assist in the implementation of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (Article 6.3 (commencing with Section 53123.1) of Chapter…

The State Architect shall adopt guidelines applicable to substandard conditions of school buildings, as defined in Section 17283 of the Education Code, which guidelines shall take into consideration the unique design, use, safety needs, and construction of the school buildings. (…

(a) (1) If, upon inspection, the enforcement agency determines that a mobilehome park is in violation of any provision of this part, or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, the enforcement agency shall promptly, but not later than 10 days, excluding Saturday, Sunday, …

If the owner or operator of the mobilehome park or the registered owner of the manufactured home or mobilehome disputes a determination by the enforcement agency regarding the alleged violation, the alleged failure to correct the violation in the required timeframe, or the reason…

The remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative, and shall not be construed to supersede other provisions of law providing sanctions for violators of this part, including, but not limited to, Sections 18510 and 18700. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict an…

This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed. (Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 387, Sec. 3. (AB 2247) Effective January 1, 2025. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, by its own provisions. Repeal affects Chapter 3.5, commencing with Secti…

For the purposes of this chapter, “excited delirium” means a term used to describe a person’s state of agitation, excitability, paranoia, extreme aggression, physical violence, and apparent immunity to pain that is not listed in the most current version of the Diagnostic and Stat…

(a) Excited delirium shall not be recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in this state. (b) A state or local government entity, or employee or contractor of a state or local government entity, shall not document, testify to, or otherwise use in any official cap…

A peace officer shall not use the term excited delirium to describe an individual in an incident report completed by a peace officer. A peace officer may describe the characteristics of an individual’s conduct, but shall not generally describe the individual’s demeanor, conduct, …

Pursuant to Section 1156.5 of the Evidence Code, evidence that a person suffered or experienced excited delirium is inadmissible in any civil action. A party or witness may describe the factual circumstances surrounding the case, including a person’s demeanor, conduct, and physic…

No community may establish a new redevelopment agency if its former redevelopment agency has been dissolved pursuant to Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170) until the successor entity has retired all existing enforceable obligations and debts of the former redevelopment agen…

(a) Large numbers of Californians face excessive housing costs and live in overcrowded or substandard housing units. In order to facilitate an increase in the supply of housing, the state has created and funded several predevelopment loan programs, the purposes of which have been…

As used in this chapter: (a) “Housing” includes, but is not limited to, manufactured housing. (b) “Predevelopment loan” means a loan for required expenses, other than administrative and construction, that are incurred by eligible sponsors in the process of, and prior to, securing…

(a) The Urban Predevelopment Loan Fund is hereby renamed the Predevelopment Loan Fund. (b) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all money in the fund, including any interest on loans made from the fund, is hereby continuously appropriated to the department for ca…

The fund shall be administered by the director and any persons within the department designated by the director, in accordance with all of the following requirements: (a) The department shall not commit more than 20 percent of the total moneys appropriated to the fund to any sing…

This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 629, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008.)

(a) As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Adult” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age. (2) “Agent” means an individual who meets either of the following criteria: (A) He or she is authorized to make health care decisions on …

Subject to Section 7150.35, an anatomical gift of a donor’s body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education in the manner provided in Section 7150.20 by any of the following individuals: (a) The donor, if t…

(a) A donor may make an anatomical gift through any of the following: (1) By authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be imprinted on the donor’s driver’s license or identification card and included on a donor database registry. (…

(a) Subject to Section 7150.35, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 7150.15 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift by either of the following: (1) A record signed by any of the following and recorded in a donor registry database: (A) The do…

(a) An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual’s body or part by any of the following: (1) A record signed by either of the following: (A) The individual. (B) Subject to subdivision (b), another individual acting at the direction of the individual if th…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (g) and subject to subdivision (f), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person other than the donor is barred from making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift of a donor’s body or part if the donor…

(a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), and unless barred by Section 7150.30 or 7150.35, an anatomical gift of a decedent’s body or part for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education may be made by any member of the following classes of persons who is reaso…

(a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 7150.40 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or by that person’s oral communication that is electronically recorded or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and s…

(a) An anatomical gift may be made to any of the following persons named in the document of gift: (1) A hospital, accredited medical school, dental school, college, university, or organ procurement organization, for research or education. (2) Subject to subdivision (b), an indivi…

(a) All of the following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal: (1) A law enforcemen…

(a) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor’s lifetime to be effective. (b) Upon or after an individual’s death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copyi…