Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) A noncontracting hospital shall not bill a patient who is an enrollee of a health care service plan for poststabilization care, except for applicable copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles, unless one of the following conditions are met: (1) The patient or the patient’s spo…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Dementia Training Standards Act of 2001. (b) (1) Any certified nurse assistant employed by a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall have completed at least two hours of initial dementia-specific trainin…

(a) Any health facility licensed under Section 1250 that provides prenatal screening ultrasound to detect congenital heart defects shall require that the ultrasound be performed by a sonographer who is nationally certified in obstetrical ultrasound by the American Registry for Di…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Medical chaperone” means a trained employee of a provider who assists or observes during the portion of a visit that includes a sensitive examination. (2) “Provider” means a general acute care hospital, as de…

The Legislature finds and declares that California has an insufficient number of minority health professionals to meet the health care needs in the state. Greater numbers of minority health professionals are required to meet the special needs of population groups who face cultura…

It is the intent of the Legislature to maintain a Health Professions Career Opportunity Program designed to: (a) Increase the number of ethnic minorities in health professional training. (b) Increase the number of minority health professionals practicing in health manpower shorta…

(a) The department shall maintain a Health Professions Career Opportunity Program that shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) Implementing programs at colleges and universities selected by the department, which may include public and private institutions.…

(a) All equipment for fire protection purposes having couplings or fittings with an inside diameter of three inches or less, purchased by any authorities having charge of public property, shall be equipped with standard threads for fire hose couplings and hydrant fittings designa…

Any fire department maintained by the City and County of San Francisco using fire hydrant outlets with other than two-and-one-half-inch (2 12-inch) threaded fittings shall cause any vehicle used for firefighting purposes and designed to pump water from those hydrants, that is nor…

The State Fire Marshal is authorized to make such changes as may be necessary to standardize all existing fire protective equipment throughout the state. (Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 118.)

The State Fire Marshal shall notify industrial establishments and property owners having equipment for fire protective purposes of the changes necessary to bring their equipment into conformity with, and shall render them such assistance as may be available in converting their eq…

Any person who sells or offers for sale any fire hose, hydrant, fire engine or other equipment with threaded parts, for fire protective purposes, unless it is fitted and equipped with the standard thread for fire hose couplings and hydrant fittings is guilty of a misdemeanor, pun…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Firefighter personal protective equipment” means personal protective equipment covered by the general industry safety orders in Sections 3403 to 3411, inclusive, of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulatio…

(a) As set forth in this article, the State Department of Public Health shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Health Services as they relate to public health, licensing…

The duties, powers, functions, jurisdiction, and responsibilities transferred to the State Department of Public Health shall, pursuant to the act that added this section, include all of the following previously performed by the former State Department of Health Services: (a) Unde…

In implementing the transfer of jurisdiction pursuant to this article, the State Department of Public Health succeeds to and is vested with all the statutory duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Health Services as they rel…

Commencing July 1, 2022, the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, an office within the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement, succeeds to, and is vested with, all the duties and responsibilities of the State Department of Public Health re…

In the event of any conflict between Sections 131050, 131051, and 131052, Section 131052 shall prevail over Section 131051, and Section 131050 shall prevail over Sections 131051 and 131052. (Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 34. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007…

(a) All regulations and orders adopted by the former State Department of Health Services and any of its predecessors in effect immediately preceding the operative date of this section shall remain in effect and shall be fully enforceable unless and until readopted, amended, or re…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 131050, commencing on July 1, 2012, the State Department of Health Care Services shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Health as they relate…

(a) Commencing July 1, 2013, the State Department of Public Health shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs as they relate to the Office of Probl…

The department may commence and maintain all proper and necessary actions and proceedings for any or all of the following purposes: (a) To enforce its regulations. (b) To enjoin and abate nuisances dangerous to health. (c) To compel the performance of any act specifically enjoine…

With the approval of the Department of Finance, and for use in the furtherance of the work of the department, the director may accept (a) grants of interest in real property, and (b) gifts of money from public agencies or from organizations or associations organized for scientifi…

(a) The State Department of Public Health shall investigate and apply for federal funding opportunities regarding promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity, including, but not limited to, those available under the federal Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public L…

The State Department of Public Health may investigate, apply for, and enter into agreements to secure federal or nongovernmental funding opportunities for the purposes of advancing public health, subject to the provisions of Section 13326 of the Government Code for federal fundin…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the department is authorized or required by statute, regulation, the due process provisions of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution, and of subdivision (a) of Section 7 of Article I of the California Constitutio…

The department may enjoin and abate public nuisances. (Added by renumbering Section 100175 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 19. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)

The department may advise all local health authorities, and, when in its judgment the public health is menaced, it shall control and regulate their action. (Added by renumbering Section 100180 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 20. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by…

Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the laws of this state relating to the preservation of the public health, who willfully neglects or refuses to perform the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by renumbering Section 100182 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, S…

(a) The department may perform any of the following activities relating to the protection, preservation, and advancement of public health: (1) Studies. (2) Demonstrations of innovative methods. (3) Evaluations of existing projects. (4) Provision of training programs. (5) Dissemin…

(a) The department, in the licensing and certification of health professions in accordance with this chapter, shall not prohibit earn and learn programs for training of personnel. The department shall use licensing and certification standards that authorize the use of earn and le…

The department may provide for consultant and advisory services and for the training of technical and professional personnel in educational institutions and field training centers approved by the department, and for the establishment and maintenance of field training centers in l…

The department shall cause special investigation of the preparation and sale of drugs and food and their adulteration. (Added by renumbering Section 100195 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 24. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)

The department shall perform duties as required by law for the detection and prevention of the adulteration of articles used for food and drink, and for the punishment of persons guilty of violation of any law providing against their adulteration. (Added by renumbering Section 10…

The department shall examine and may prevent the pollution of sources of public domestic water and ice supply. (Added by renumbering Section 100205 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 26. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)

(a) The department shall maintain a program of Environmental Management. (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014. (Repealed (in Sec. 126) and added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 35, Sec. 127. (SB 861) Effective June 20, 2014. Section operative July 1, 2014, by its own provi…

The department may maintain a mental health service that shall advise and assist local departments of health and education in the establishment of mental health services, particularly in connection with maternal and child health conferences and in the schools of the state. The de…

The department shall enforce Section 383b of the Penal Code. (Added by renumbering Section 100225 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 29. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)

(a) Any person who willfully sells, keeps for sale, or offers for sale any food, drug, device, or cosmetic knowing, after a written notice from either (1) a manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, or importer, or (2) the department or a local health officer that the product linked…

Whenever any person violates any provision of Section 131130, the court may, as a condition of probation, order the defendant to pay, in lieu of any fine, any expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred by a local health department or the department in monitoring compliance with…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Essential Services Buildings Seismic Safety Act of 1986. (Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1521, Sec. 1.)

It is the intent of the Legislature that essential services buildings, which shall be capable of providing essential services to the public after a disaster, shall be designed and constructed to minimize fire hazards and to resist, insofar as practical, the forces generated by ea…

There is continued in existence in the Government Operations Agency a California Building Standards Commission consisting of the Secretary of Government Operations and 10 members appointed by the Governor subject to confirmation by the Senate. (Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 352, Se…

(a) The appointed members of the commission shall be selected from, and represent the public, design professions, the building and construction industry, local government building officials, fire and safety officials, and labor in accordance with the following: (b) Four members s…

The Secretary of Government Operations or the secretary’s representative shall serve as the chair of the commission. The commission shall elect a vice chair annually from among its members. (Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 352, Sec. 346. (AB 1317) Effective September 26, 2013. Operat…

(a) The term of office of members of the commission shall be four years and they shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of their successors, not to exceed 180 days after the term is expired. (b) The terms of members of the commission shall be staggered based on…