Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

If any state agency, including a constitutional corporation, transfers to a private corporation assets for the operation of a hospital by that corporation and the value of the assets is not less than fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), the corporation shall be subject to the pro…

For the purposes of this chapter, the primary public benefit purpose of the corporation is as stated in its articles of incorporation or bylaws of the corporation.

Meetings of the corporation shall be open and public, and all persons shall be permitted to attend, except as otherwise provided in this article.

(a) As used in this article, “action taken” means a collective decision made at a meeting, including a decision upon a motion or resolution. Actions shall be taken by rollcall vote. (b) For the purposes of this article, “meeting” means any meeting of a majority of the board of di…

(a) Agendas of the meetings shall be posted not less than 72 hours in advance of the meetings in a place freely accessible to the public. Agendas of meetings and any other writings, when distributed to all, or a majority of all, of the directors or committee members for considera…

Closed sessions of meetings may be conducted to consider, discuss, and act upon matters relating to any of the following: (a) Collective bargaining or contract negotiations with represented and unrepresented employees, including discussion of the corporation’s available funds and…

(a) Prior to holding any closed session, the agenda item or items to be discussed in the closed session shall be publicly identified. An item may be identified by reference to the item or items as they are listed by number or letter on the agenda. In a closed session, only those …

Announcements that are required to be made pursuant to this article may be made orally or in writing. Any contracts, settlement agreements, or other documents that are finally approved or adopted in the closed session and are subject to an announcement pursuant to this article sh…

(a) Any interested person may institute proceedings for injunctive or declaratory relief or writ of mandate in any court of competent jurisdiction for the purpose of stopping or preventing violations or threatened violations of Article 2 (commencing with Section 101861) by the co…

For the purposes of this article: (a) “Person” includes any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. (b) “Records” includes any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the corporation’s business prepared, owned, …

(a) Records of the corporation shall be available to the public for inspection or copying upon a request in writing, submitted to the principal office of the corporation, which reasonably identifies the particular records sought to be disclosed, unless it is impracticable for an …

Nothing in this article shall be construed to require disclosure of any of the following: (a) Contracts, business and marketing strategies, financial information, and any other competitive and strategic information, disclosure of which would impair the corporation’s ability to ac…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever at least one member of the members of the corporation is itself a state agency, including a constitutional corporation, the obligations of that member of the corporation to make records available to the public shall, with respe…

(a) Any person may institute proceedings for injunctive or declarative relief or writ of mandate in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce his or her right to inspect or to receive a copy of any record or class of records under this chapter. In addition, the corporation m…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this chapter shall apply retroactively to all of the records of any corporation to which this chapter applies, as of the effective date of this chapter, notwithstanding that this chapter was not in effect at the time the …

It is also the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this chapter regarding the holding of meetings of a corporation shall apply prospectively, so that any meetings held by the corporation prior to the effective date hereof shall not be deemed to have been in contraven…

The Legislature finds and declares that a corporation subject to this chapter shall continue to be private, notwithstanding this chapter, and in any event, shall not be subject to the provisions of the Government Code or the Education Code made applicable to any public agency, or…

This chapter shall be inapplicable to any corporation in a county of the 2nd class.

Each death shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was found, within eight calendar days after death and prior to any disposition of the human remains.

(a) On or before January 1, 2005, the department shall implement an Internet-based electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer of death registration information. (b) The electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to this section sha…

A funeral director, or person acting in lieu thereof, shall prepare the certificate and register it with the local registrar.

The State Registrar, at his or her discretion, may incorporate computer or telephone facsimile technology, or both, in the statewide program of death and fetal death registration, including, but not limited to, the issuing of permits for disposition of human remains. Nothing in t…

The funeral director shall obtain the required information other than medical and health section data from the person or source best qualified to supply this information.

(a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to compile a report on veteran suicide in California. The report shall include, but may not be limited to, information on the age…

(a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to compile a report on veteran drug overdose deaths in California. The report shall include, but may not be limited to, informati…

(a) The medical and health section data and the time of death shall be completed and attested to by the physician and surgeon or nurse practitioner last in attendance. (b) In the case of a patient in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility at the time of death, the medica…

(a) The medical and health section data and the physician’s, nurse practitioner’s, or coroner’s certification shall be completed by the attending physician or nurse practitioner within 15 hours after the death or by the coroner within three days after examination of the body. (b)…

An embalmer may authorize his or her signature to be affixed to the certificate after he or she has embalmed a body, as required by this chapter, by a written special power of attorney that shall be retained for a period of one year.

(a) The physician and surgeon or nurse practitioner last in attendance, or in the case of a patient in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility at the time of death, the physician and surgeon or nurse practitioner last in attendance or a licensed physician assistant under …

(a) A physician and surgeon, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, funeral director, or other person shall immediately notify the coroner if they have knowledge of a death that occurred or have charge of a body in which death occurred under any of the following circumstances: …

The coroner whose duty it is to investigate such deaths shall ascertain as many as possible of the facts required by this chapter.

The coroner shall state on the certificate of death the disease or condition directly leading to death, antecedent causes, other significant conditions contributing to death and other medical and health section data as may be required on the certificate, and the hour and day on w…

In any case involving an infant under the age of one year where the gross autopsy results in a presumed diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome, the coroner shall, within 24 hours of the gross autopsy, notify the local health officer, as defined in Section 123740.

(a) In deaths investigated by the coroner or medical examiner where he or she is unable to establish the identity of the body or human remains by visual means, fingerprints, or other identifying data, the coroner or medical examiner may have a qualified dentist, as determined by …

The certificate of death shall be divided into two sections: (a) The first section shall contain those items necessary to establish the fact of the death, including all of the following and those other items as the State Registrar may designate: (1) (A) Personal data of the deced…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Birth and death certificate-linking studies done by the department in 1974 and repeated in 1984, show unacceptably high rates of error in the completion of death certificate information recording ethnicity for American …

(a) The Rural Health Division of the department shall cause to be undertaken a three-year study for the purpose of establishing more valid statistics regarding American Indian death rates, including rates for the 10 leading causes of death for American Indians within the 37 desig…

For the purpose of conducting the three-year study required pursuant to Section 102905, the department is hereby encouraged to contract with a federally recognized tribe or tribal organization or an American Indian-controlled health care corporation or research institution having…

The study shall be conducted in three phases, as follows: (a) Phase one of the study shall include research design and data acquisition, including funds for the purchase of data from tribal, federal, state, and county sources and the encoding of this data to a computer-readable f…

The state department shall begin to implement the activities referred to in Sections 102905, 102910, 102915, and 102920 only upon an appropriation for the specific purpose of funding the activities.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a lack of understanding about the relationship between risk of violent death, such as suicide or homicide, and an individual’s sexual orientation and gender identity. This is because, unlike veteran status or e…

(a) The department shall establish a three-year pilot program in up to six counties that agree to participate, for the identification and collection by coroners and medical examiners of gender identity and sexual orientation in cases of violent death. (b) The department shall sel…

(a) The coroner or medical examiner shall begin data collection upon completion of the training. For each year of the pilot program, the data shall be aggregated, deidentified, and reported to the board of supervisors and the department. (b) For each year of the pilot program, th…

This article shall become inoperative on the date the State Public Health Officer certifies that the final year of data from the pilot program has been submitted to the California Violent Death Reporting System as required under subdivision (b) of Section 102937, and on the Janua…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “California Poison Prevention Packaging Act.”

Unless the provisions or the context otherwise requires, these definitions, rules of construction, and general provisions shall govern the construction of this chapter. As used in this chapter: (a) “Department” means the State Department of Health. (b) “Household substance” means…

The department shall, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, adopt regulations establishing standards for the special packaging of any household substance in accordance with this chapter if the regulation…

In establishing a standard under Section 108685, the department shall consider all of the following: (a) The reasonableness of the standard. (b) Available scientific, medical, and engineering data concerning special packaging and concerning childhood accidental ingestions, illnes…

To the extent that the requirements of this chapter are identical with the federal act, all regulations and any amendments to the regulations adopted pursuant to the federal act, that are in effect on January 1, 1978, or that are adopted on or after that date, shall be the poison…

Any federal regulation adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter shall take effect in this state 30 days after it becomes effective as a federal regulation. Any person who would be adversely affected by adoption of the federal regulation in this state may, within the 30 …