Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

Pursuant to this article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the Director of the Department of Health Care Access and Information shall do all of the following: (a) Develop application and contract criteria based on health care workforce needs and priorities. (b) Dete…

(a) The terms used in this article have the same meaning as in Section 128205. (b) There is hereby created a California Health Workforce Education and Training Council that shall be responsible for helping coordinate California’s health workforce education and training to develop…

The members of the council, other than state employees, shall receive compensation of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day’s attendance at a council meeting, in addition to actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the course of attendance at a council meeting.

(a) The council shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Develop graduate medical education and workforce training and development priorities for the state. (2) Discuss…

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Midwifery Workforce Training Act.

The Legislature finds and declares that maternity care providers are in short supply and maldistributed around the state, resulting in what the March of Dimes defines as “maternity care deserts” and “limited-access maternity care areas.” Many major counties are on track to have a…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Certified nurse-midwife” means an advanced practice nurse with training in midwifery, as specified in, and a certificate issued pursuant to, Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2746) of Chapter 6 of Division 2 o…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for a program designed primarily to increase the number of students receiving quality education and training as a certified nurse-midwife or a licensed midwife in accordance with the global standards for midwifery education and t…

This article shall become operative on January 1, 2022.

(a) Upon appropriation from the Legislature, the Department of Health Care Access and Information shall administer funding for a statewide study on midwifery education. The study shall be conducted by an outside consultant familiar with the health care and midwifery landscapes an…

The officer, board or commission abating the nuisance shall keep an account of the cost of abatement in front of or on each separate parcel of land and shall render an itemized report in writing to the board of supervisors showing the cost of removing the weeds on or in front of …

Before the report is submitted to the board of supervisors, a copy of it shall be posted for at least three days on or near the chamber door of the board with a notice of the time when the report will be submitted to the board for confirmation.

At the time fixed for receiving and considering the report, the board shall hear it and any objections of any of the property owners liable to be assessed for the work of abatement. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Thereupon the board may make such modifications in the report as it deems necessary, after which, by order or resolution, the report shall be confirmed. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The amount of the costs for abating the nuisance in front of or upon the various parcels of the land mentioned in the report as confirmed and the amount of the costs incurred by the responsible agency in enforcing abatement upon the parcels, including investigation, boundary dete…

A copy of the report, as confirmed, shall be turned over to the auditor of the county, on or before the tenth day of August following such confirmation, and the auditor shall enter the amounts of the respective assessments against the respective parcels of land as they appear on …

The tax collector shall include the amount of the assessment on bills for taxes levied against the respective lots and parcels of land. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Thereafter the amounts of the assessments shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes are collected, and are subject to the same penalties and the same procedure and sale in case of delinquency as provided for ordinary county taxes. (Enacted by Stat…

All laws applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of county taxes are applicable to such special assessment taxes. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The county tax collector may, in his discretion, issue separate bills for such special assessment taxes and separate receipts for collection on account of such assessments. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

All or any portion of any such special assessment, penalty or costs heretofore or hereafter entered, shall on order of the board of supervisors be canceled by the auditor if uncollected, or, except in the case provided for in subdivision (e) hereof, refunded by the county treasur…

No order for a refund under the foregoing section shall be made except on a claim: (a) Verified by the person who paid the special assessment, his guardian, executor, or administrator; (b) Filed within three years after making of the payment sought to be refunded. The provisions …

The lien, whether bonds issued to represent the assessment or otherwise, shall be subordinate to all fixed special assessment liens previously imposed upon the same property, but it shall have priority over all fixed special assessment liens which may thereafter be created agains…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.

“Biologics” includes the following products which are offered for sale or distribution for the prevention or treatment of disease, except biologics which are registered pursuant to Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 9201), Part 1, Division 5 of the Food and Agricultural Code: (…

“Blood bank” means any place where human whole blood, and human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation, are collected, prepared, tested, processed, or stored, or from which human whole blood or human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation are distributed.

“Blood collection center” means a stationary auxiliary to a blood bank which is designed, equipped, and staffed to procure human whole blood or blood components which are to be transported to the blood bank for processing, storing, and distribution.

“Stationary” means a nonmobile room or building maintained at a fixed address.

“Mobile unit” means a transportable auxiliary to a blood bank designed, equipped, and staffed to procure human whole blood and to transport this blood to the bank for processing, storing, and distribution.

“Blood bank depository” means any place other than a blood bank where human whole blood and human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation are stored and held for transfusion. Such blood bank depositories shall be clinical laboratories, licensed in accordance with the prov…

“Blood component” or “blood derivative” means any product produced from whole blood.

“Distribution” includes sale and exchange.

“Production” includes collection, preparation, testing, processing, storage, and distribution of biologics under a license issued by the department.

“Department” means the State Department of Health Services.

“Carrier donor” means any donor of human whole blood whose blood donation has been found, either by laboratory tests or by the tracing of a transfusion-associated hepatitis case where there was a single donor, to contain viral hepatitis, or any donor of human whole blood who has …

“Possible carrier donor” means any donor of human whole blood whose blood donation was administered where multiple transfusions from multiple donors were administered to a recipient and such transfusions result in a case diagnosed by a physician as transfusion-associated hepatiti…

“Carrier of viral hepatitis” means a person under treatment by a physician who has contracted viral hepatitis which has been confirmed by voluntary laboratory tests or who exhibits symptoms which lead a physician to render a diagnostic opinion that the person has contracted viral…

(a) No person shall engage in the production of human whole blood or human whole blood derivatives unless the person is licensed under this chapter and the human whole blood or human whole blood derivative is collected, prepared, labeled, and stored in accordance with both of the…

(a) No person shall import any human whole blood or human whole blood derivative produced outside the state unless that blood or blood product meets the standards set forth in the latest edition of the “Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services,” as published by the Amer…

(a) Except as provided in this subdivision, no blood or blood components shall be used in vivo for humans in this state, unless the blood or blood components have been tested and found nonreactive for HIV or the blood or blood components are used for research or vaccination progr…

(a) Each blood bank or plasma center shall require as identification either a photographic driver’s license or other photographic identification that is issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, pursuant to Division 6 (commencing with Section 12500) of the Vehicle Code, from al…

(a) Before donation of blood or blood components, a donor shall be notified in writing of, and shall have signed a written statement confirming the notification of, all of the following: (1) That the blood or blood components shall be tested for evidence of antibodies to HIV. (2)…

(a) Notwithstanding Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 120975) of Part 4 of Division 105, or any other provision of law, no public entity or any private blood bank or plasma center shall be liable for an inadvertent, accidental, or otherwise unintentional disclosure of the result…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every person engaged in the production of blood shall, if the product is intended for transfusion, label each container of blood which the person produces with a label, upon which the following designations shall be printed in lette…

The distribution or release for distribution by blood banks of human whole blood, or those human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation, shall be made only to blood bank depositories or to other licensed blood banks.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to provide umbilical cord blood banking storage services, a blood bank shall be licensed pursuant to this chapter. Any additional standards for blood banks to store umbilical cord blood may be implemented by the department …

Establishments which receive human whole blood and human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation and are not subject to license in accordance with this chapter shall be considered as blood bank depositories. Laboratory tests and other procedures with respect to the prepar…

The procurement, processing, distribution, or use of whole blood, plasma, blood products, and blood derivatives for the purpose of injecting or transfusing the same, or any of them, into the human body shall be construed to be, and is declared to be, for all purposes whatsoever, …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, licensed clinical laboratory bioanalysts, licensed clinical laboratory technologists, registered clinical laboratory technologist trainees, licensed vocational nurses, registered nurses, and blood donor phlebotomists, as defined by the American …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who has attained the age of 17 may consent to the donation of his or her blood and to the penetration of tissue which is necessary to accomplish such donation, and a blood bank may accept such donation. (b) Notwithstanding …