Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

The Legislature recognizes the need for increased potential for coordination between county alcohol programs and local health system agencies established pursuant to Public Law 93-641. Therefore, the Legislature encourages a harmonious working relationship between local health sy…

This article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 118920) shall be known and may be cited as the California Indoor Clean Air Act of 1976.

The Legislature finds and declares that tobacco smoke is a hazard to the health of the general public.

Within indoor rooms, indoor chambers, or indoor places of public assembly in publicly owned buildings in which public business is conducted requiring or providing direct participation or observation by the general public there shall be a contiguous area of not less than 50 percen…

Every health facility, as defined in Section 1250, and clinic, as defined in Section 1200, shall comply with the following: (a) Shall make every reasonable effort to assign patients to rooms according to the patient’s individual nonsmoking or smoking preference. (b) Shall designa…

Within every publicly owned building open to the general public for the primary purpose of exhibiting any motion picture, stage drama, music recital, or any other performance, with the exception of any indoor sporting event, signs shall be posted in sufficient number and in locat…

Within every restaurant in a publicly owned building serving food or alcoholic beverages in rooms whose occupied capacity is 50 or more persons there shall be designated and posted by signs of sufficient number and posted in locations as to be readily seen by persons within the a…

Any person may apply for a writ of mandate to compel compliance by any public entity that has not complied with the requirements of this article and Article 3 (commencing with Section 118920) for the designating or posting of nonsmoking areas or areas where the smoking of tobacco…

(a) The Legislature declares its intent not to preempt the field of regulation of the smoking of tobacco products. A local governing body may ban completely the smoking of tobacco products, or may regulate smoking of tobacco products in any manner not inconsistent with this artic…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person shall smoke any tobacco product in any retail food production and marketing establishment, as defined in Section 28802, during the hours the establishment is open to the public. (b) The provisions of subdivision (a) shall not a…

(a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the use of smokeless tobacco products by professional baseball players is a matter of statewide interest and concern. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to prohibit the use of smokeless tobacco products by …

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the United States Surgeon General’s 1986 Report on the Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking conclude all of the following: (1) Involuntary smoking is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers. (2) The…

(a) (1) It is unlawful for any person to smoke a tobacco product in any vehicle of a passenger stage corporation, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) except to the extent permitted by federal law, in any aircraft except to the extent permitted by federal law, on …

A notice prohibiting smoking, displayed as a symbol and in English, shall be posted in each vehicle or aircraft subject to this article.

(a) Every person and public agency providing transportation services for compensation, including, but not limited to, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) to the extent permitted by federal law, passenger stage corporations, and local agencies that own or operate …

This article does not preempt any local ordinance on the same subject where a local ordinance is more restrictive to the benefit of the nonsmoker.

Any violation of this article is an infraction punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for a first violation, by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200) for a second violation within one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) fo…

This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Marco Firebaugh Memorial Children’s Health and Safety Act of 2007.

(a) It is unlawful for a person to smoke a tobacco product in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, in which there is a minor. (b) For purposes of this section, “smoke” has the same meaning as in subdivision (c) of Section 22950.5 of the Business and Professions Code. (c…

A law enforcement officer shall not stop a vehicle for the sole purpose of determining whether the driver is in violation of this article.

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) Smoking is the single most important source of preventable disease and premature death in California. (2) Smoking is responsible for one-quarter of all death caused by fire. (3) Tobacco-related disease places a trem…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood is a problem with significant social, medical, educational, and economic consequences to the teen parent and child, her family, and the State of California. (b) In an attempt to address the pr…

(a) The department may conduct the Adolescent Family Life Program to assure that pregnant adolescents receive comprehensive continuous prenatal care in order to deliver healthy babies; to establish networks within regions to provide to pregnant and parenting teens and their child…

(a) The department, through its program of maternal and child health, shall award contract augmentations to four Adolescent Family Life Programs that meet the requirements of this section and develop plans for a comprehensive coordinated substance abuse prevention, intervention, …

A comprehensive coordinated substance abuse prevention, intervention, and counseling program, as used in Section 124185, shall include, but not be limited to, programs that: (a) Have demonstrated a capacity for developing interagency cooperative approaches to reduce the incidence…

The department shall require reports to be prepared by all programs funded pursuant to this article.

Funding for the purpose of this article shall be provided through funds appropriated to the department through the annual Budget Act.

(a) The Legislature finds that recent responsibilities for assessing and treating the mental disorders of children and adolescents have been required of county mental health programs creating an unmet need for personnel in the field of mental health who have expertise in preventi…

It is the purpose of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to encourage the Regents of the University of California to augment the academic child and adolescent programs at the medical schools of the University of California. The programs shall include, but not be limited to…

(a) A youth sports organization that elects to offer an athletic program shall comply with all of the following: (1) (A) An athlete who is suspected of sustaining a concussion or other head injury, or who has passed out or fainted, in an athletic activity shall be immediately rem…

(a) A youth sports organization, as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 124235, that elects to offer an athletic program shall annually give the Opioid Factsheet for Patients published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to each athlete. The athle…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Coach” means a person appointed by the youth sports organization to supervise or instruct a participant in a sport. (b) “Official practice or match” means a sport session in which live action or one or more drill…

(a) Commencing January 1, 2028, a youth sports organization that elects to offer an athletic program shall ensure that its athletes have access to an automated external defibrillator (AED) during any official practice or match, subject to subdivisions (b) and (c). (b) Commencing …

(a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Youth Football Act. (b) As used in this article: (1) “Coach” means a person appointed by a youth sports organization to supervise or instruct a participant in the sport of youth tackle football. (2) “Full-contac…

On and after January 1, 2021, a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program shall comply with all of the following requirements: (a) A tackle football team shall not conduct more than two full-contact practices per week during the preseason and regular seaso…

On and after January 1, 2021, a youth tackle football league shall comply with both of the following: (a) Establish youth tackle football participant divisions that are organized by relative age or weight or by both age and weight. (b) Retain information from which the names of i…

Nothing in this article shall prohibit any youth sports organization or youth tackle football league from adopting and enforcing rules intended to provide a higher standard of safety for youth tackle football participants than the requirements established under this article.

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Youth Sports for All Act.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Centralized entity” means a department, commission, board, council, or their equivalent. (b) “Commission” means the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Development of a California Department of Youth Sports or an Equiv…

(a) (1) The State Public Health Officer shall, on or before July 1, 2026, or six months after implementation of this article commences pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 124256, whichever is later, establish and convene the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Development of a Calif…

(a) The commission shall conduct a study of issues in youth sports that includes all of the following: (1) An assessment of the need and potential for a centralized entity to improve access to and involvement in sports for all youth, regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, g…

(a) The implementation of this article is contingent upon either of the following: (1) An appropriation for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute. (2) Sufficient funds being obtained by the department from federal, nonprofit, or private sources for the purposes…

(a) As used in this section: (1) “Mental health treatment or counseling services” means the provision of outpatient mental health treatment or counseling by a professional person, as defined in paragraph (2). (2) “Professional person” means any of the following: (A) A person desi…

As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Children and youth” means individuals up to 26 years of age. (b) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health. (c) “Social media” means a social media platform, as defined in Section 22675 of the Business …

(a) The department, in consultation with the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, shall report to the Senate and Assembly Committees on Health, the Senate Committee on Judiciary, the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, and other r…

This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.

(a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act. (b) (1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that physicians engaged in family medicine are in very short supply in California. The current emphasis placed on specializatio…

As used in this article, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Family physician” means a primary care physician and surgeon who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services…

There is hereby created a state medical contract program with accredited medical schools, hospitals and other health care delivery systems, teaching health centers, programs that train postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants, programs that train primary care physician’s …

When funding primary care and family medicine programs or departments, primary care and family medicine residencies, and programs for the training of postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants, primary care physician assistants, postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners…