Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) An identification card shall be valid for a period of one year. (b) Upon annual renewal of an identification card, the county health department or its designee shall verify all new information and may verify any other information that has not changed. (c) The county health de…

(a) Each county health department or the county’s designee may charge a fee for all costs incurred by the county or the county’s designee for administering the program pursuant to this article. (b) In no event shall the amount of the fee charged by a county health department exce…

(a) A person who possesses an identification card shall: (1) Within seven days, notify the county health department or the county’s designee of any change in the person’s attending physician or designated primary caregiver, if any. (2) Annually submit to the county health departm…

(a) Subject to the requirements of this article, the individuals specified in subdivision (b) shall not be subject, on that sole basis, to criminal liability under Section 11357, 11358, 11359, 11360, 11366, 11366.5, or 11570. This section does not authorize the individual to smok…

(a) This section shall apply to individuals specified in subdivision (b) of Section 11362.765. (b) No medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider who possesses, cultivates, or distributes medicinal cannabis pursuant to this article…

Indoor and outdoor medical cannabis cultivation shall be conducted in accordance with state and local laws. State agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Food and Agriculture, the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Department of Fish and Wildlife,…

(a) A qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess no more than eight ounces of dried cannabis per qualified patient. In addition, a qualified patient or primary caregiver may also maintain no more than six mature or 12 immature cannabis plants per qualified patient. (b) If…

A state or local law enforcement agency or officer shall not refuse to accept an identification card issued pursuant to this article unless the state or local law enforcement agency or officer has probable cause to believe that the information contained in the card is false or fr…

(a) Nothing in this article shall require any accommodation of medicinal use of cannabis on the property or premises of a place of employment or during the hours of employment or on the property or premises of a jail, correctional facility, or other type of penal institution in w…

This article does not authorize a qualified patient or person with an identification card to engage in the smoking of medicinal cannabis under any of the following circumstances: (a) In a place where smoking is prohibited by law. (b) In or within 1,000 feet of the grounds of a sc…

(a) (1) Any criminal defendant who is eligible to use cannabis pursuant to Section 11362.5 may request that the court confirm that he or she is allowed to use medicinal cannabis while he or she is on probation or released on bail. (2) The court’s decision and the reasons for the …

A professional licensing board shall not impose a civil penalty or take other disciplinary action against a licensee based solely on the fact that the licensee has performed acts that are necessary or appropriate to carry out the licensee’s role as a designated primary caregiver …

(a) A person specified in subdivision (b) shall be subject to the following penalties: (1) For the first offense, imprisonment in the county jail for no more than six months or a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. (2) For a second or subsequent offense, im…

If any section, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this article is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, that portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct, and independent provision, and that holding shall not af…

Nothing in this article shall prevent a city or other local governing body from adopting and enforcing any of the following: (a) Adopting local ordinances that regulate the location, operation, or establishment of a medicinal cannabis cooperative or collective. (b) The civil and …

The status and conduct of a qualified patient who acts in accordance with the Compassionate Use Act shall not, by itself, be used to restrict or abridge custodial or parental rights to minor children in any action or proceeding under the jurisdiction of family or juvenile court. …

Upon a determination by the California Attorney General that the federal schedule of controlled substances has been amended to reclassify or declassify cannabis, the Legislature may amend or repeal the provisions of this code, as necessary, to conform state law to such changes in…

Except where the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this article: (a) “Trauma case” means any injured person who has been evaluated by prehospital personnel according to policies and procedures established by the local EMS agency purs…

(a) The authority shall submit draft regulations specifying minimum standards for the implementation of trauma care systems to the commission on or before July 1, 1984, and shall adopt the regulations on or before July 1, 1985. These regulations shall provide specific requirement…

(a) A local emergency medical services agency may implement a trauma care system only if the system meets the minimum standards set forth in the regulations for implementation established by the authority and the plan required by Section 1797.257 has been submitted to, and approv…

A local emergency medical services agency implementing a trauma care system shall establish policies and procedures which are concordant and consistent with the minimum standards set forth in the regulations adopted by the authority. This section does not preclude a local EMS age…

(a) A local emergency medical services agency may charge a fee to an applicant seeking initial or continuing designation as a trauma facility in an amount sufficient to cover the costs directly related to the designation of trauma facilities pursuant to Section 1798.165 and to th…

(a) Local emergency medical services agencies may designate trauma facilities as part of their trauma care system pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the authority. (b) The health facility shall only be designated to provide the level of trauma care and service for which i…

A local emergency medical services agency which elects to implement a trauma care system on or after January 1, 1984, shall develop and submit a plan to the authority according to the regulations established prior to the implementation. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1067, Sec. 2.)

Nothing in this article shall be construed to restrict the authority of a health care facility to provide a service for which it has received a license pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1067, Sec. 2.)

Nothing in this article shall be construed as changing the boundaries of any local emergency medical services agency in existence on January 1, 1984. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1067, Sec. 2.)

Nothing in this article shall be construed as restricting the use of a helicopter of the Department of the California Highway Patrol from performing missions which the department determines are in the best interests of the people of the State of California. (Added by Stats. 1983,…

(a) No person or public agency shall advertise itself as, or hold itself out as, providing emergency medical services, by using in its name or advertising the word “emergency,” or any derivation thereof, or any words which suggest that it is staffed and equipped to provide emerge…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Right to Try Act. (Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 684, Sec. 1. (AB 1668) Effective January 1, 2017.)

For purposes of this article, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Consulting physician” means a physician and surgeon licensed under the Medical Practice Act or an osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed under the Osteopathic Act …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 110280, 111520, or 111550, a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device may make available the manufacturer’s investigational drug, biological product, or device to an eligible patient pursuant to this article. This article …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a state regulatory board shall not revoke, fail to renew, or take any other disciplinary action against a physician’s license based on the physician’s recommendation to an eligible patient regarding, or prescription for or treatment with, an inv…

This article does not create a private cause of action, and actions taken pursuant to this article shall not serve as a basis for a civil, criminal, or disciplinary claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, product liability, medical negligence, or wrongful death, …

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Prostate Cancer Act of 1998. (Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 939, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1999.)

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California has the highest incidence of and death from prostate cancer, and due to the increased public awareness of the disease, the timing is appropriate to establish programs for prostate cancer education and early d…

(a) The Prostate Cancer Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. It is the intent of the Legislature that the fund be funded by an annual appropriation, when funds are available, in the Budget Act. (b) The moneys in the Prostate Cancer Fund shall be expended by the State…

(a) The Prostate Cancer Screening Program shall be established in the State Department of Health Care Services. (b) The program shall apply to both of the following: (1) Uninsured men 50 years of age and older. (2) Uninsured men between 40 and 50 years of age who are at high risk…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) In California, more than 700,000 health care workers and professionals, such as nurses, physicians and surgeons and housekeeping staff, are at risk of infection from bloodborne diseases, including Hepatitis B, He…

(a) The documentation of sharps injuries, as required by Section 5193 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, shall also include the type and brand of device involved in the incident, unless this information is unknown by the health care worker. (b) Documentation, as re…

The Department of Health Services shall maintain a Sharps Injury Control program that shall do all of the following: (a) Maintain a continuously updated list of existing needleless systems and needles with engineered sharps injury protection, which shall be made available to assi…

The Pupil Athletic Access and Safety Program pilot project is hereby established in the State Department of Education for the purpose of providing grants to private statewide nonprofit organizations in two regions to support a partnership to facilitate pupil participation and saf…

(a) One of the pilot projects shall be in southern California. (b) One of the pilot projects shall be in northern California. (Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 553, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2002.)

(a) A pilot project shall use grant funds for all of the following purposes: (1) To provide onsite nationally certified athletic trainers to participating schools. The project may provide a certified athletic trainer, or funds to help pay the costs associated with ensuring that t…

(a) The State Department of Education shall establish a competitive grant process for private, nonprofit organizations that are registered with the Secretary of State to submit a grant application for the development, administration, and implementation of the Pupil Athletic Acces…

By January 1, 2005, the department, or its administering contracting entity, shall submit a report to the Legislature on the evaluation of the pilot projects pursuant to this chapter, including the number of schools and pupils assisted by or participating in the various component…

This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Water Shutoff Protection Act. (Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 891, Sec. 2. (SB 998) Effective January 1, 2019.)