Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Federal, state, and local governments have the responsibility and the expressed intent to provide and ensure the accessibility of alcohol and other drug treatment, recovery, intervention, and prevention services to all …

The department shall provide direction to counties and to public and private organizations serving the target populations to increase access to alcohol and other drug use prevention and recovery programs in all of the following ways: (a) Assume responsibility to increase the know…

(a) (1) Of the amounts appropriated in Schedule (3) of Item 4260-101-0001 of the Budget Act of 2022 for this purpose, twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) is available for encumbrance and expenditure until June 30, 2028, to establish the Los Angeles County Abortion Access Safe Ha…

(a) Dental services, as defined in the Dental Practice Act, may be provided to a patient in a health facility licensed under this chapter. Those services shall be provided by a person licensed by the State of California pursuant to Section 1611 of the Business and Professions Cod…

(a) The rules of a health facility shall include provisions for use of the facility by, and staff privileges for, duly licensed podiatrists within the scope of their respective licensure, subject to rules and regulations governing such use or privileges established by the health …

(a) (1) Each health facility owned and operated by the state offering care or services within the scope of practice of a psychologist shall establish rules and medical staff bylaws that include provisions for medical staff membership and clinical privileges for clinical psycholog…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the exercise of privileges in any health facility may be limited, restricted, or revoked for the violation of such health facility’s rules, regulations, or procedures which are applied, in good faith, in a nondiscriminatory man…

(a) An adult patient who receives primary care services in a facility, clinic, unlicensed clinic, center, office, or other setting where primary care services are provided, shall be offered a hepatitis B screening test and a hepatitis C screening test, to the extent these service…

(a) Emergency services and care shall be provided to any person requesting the services or care, or for whom services or care is requested, for any condition in which the person is in danger of loss of life, or serious injury or illness, at any health facility licensed under this…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall control the construction of this article and Section 1371.4: (a) (1) “Emergency services and care” means medical screening, examination, and evaluation by a physician and surgeon, or, to the extent permitted b…

Notwithstanding Sections 1317 and 1317.2, Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford shall be treated as a single licensed facility for purposes of providing emergency services and care to patients with conditions related to active labor pres…

A person needing emergency services and care shall not be transferred from a hospital to another hospital for any nonmedical reason (such as the person’s inability to pay for any emergency service or care) unless each of the following conditions are met: (a) The person is examine…

(a) A hospital that has a legal obligation, whether imposed by statute or by contract, to the extent of that contractual obligation, to any third-party payer, including, but not limited to, a health maintenance organization, health care service plan, nonprofit hospital service pl…

(a) As a condition of licensure, each hospital shall adopt, in consultation with the medical staff, policies and transfer protocols consistent with this article and regulations adopted hereunder. (b) As a condition of licensure, each hospital shall adopt a policy prohibiting disc…

(a) All hospitals shall maintain records of each transfer made or received, including the “Memorandum of Transfer” described in subdivision (f) of Section 1317.2, for a period of three years. (b) All hospitals making or receiving transfers shall file with the state department ann…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (j) of Section 1317.1, a patient may be transferred for admission to a psychiatric unit within a general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, or an acute psychiatric hospital, as defined in subdivision (b) of Sect…

(a) A psychiatric unit within a general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, a psychiatric health facility of more than 16 beds, as defined in Section 1250.2 and subject to subdivision (d), or an acute psychiatric hospital, as defined in subdivision…

(a) All alleged violations of this article and the regulations adopted hereunder shall be investigated by the state department. The state department, with the agreement of the local EMS agency, may refer violations of this article to the local EMS agency for investigation. The in…

A health facility licensed under this chapter that maintains and operates an emergency department may post a notice in a conspicuous place in the emergency department stating substantially the following: WE WILL NOT TOLERATE any form of threatening or aggressive behavior toward o…

(a) Hospitals found by the state department to have committed or to be responsible for a violation of this article or the regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall be subject to a civil penalty by the state department in an amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,…

(a) This article does not preempt any county or any other governmental agency acting within its authority from regulating emergency care or patient transfers, including the imposition of more specific duties, consistent with the requirements of this article and its implementing r…

If any provision of this article is declared unlawful or unconstitutional in any judicial action, the remaining provisions of this chapter shall remain in effect. (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1240, Sec. 11.)

(a) This article shall not be construed as altering or repealing Section 2400 of the Business and Professions Code. (b) Nothing in Sections 1317 et seq. and 1798.170 et seq. shall prevent a physician from exercising his or her professional judgment in conflict with any state or l…

(a) The director shall require as a condition precedent to the issuance, or renewal, of any license for a health facility, if the licensee handles or will handle any money of patients within the health facility, that the applicant for the license or the renewal of the license fil…

The rules of a health facility may include provisions that require every member of the medical staff to have professional liability insurance as a condition to being on the medical staff of the health facility. (Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 889.)

A skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall not require patients to purchase drugs, or rent or purchase medical supplies or equipment, from any particular pharmacy or other source. This section shall not preclude a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care …

No health facility shall advertise or represent in any way that it provides occupational therapy services unless such services are provided under the administrative control of the health facility by an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant within the meaning of…

A hospital which contracts with an insurer, nonprofit hospital service plan, or health care service plan shall not determine or condition medical staff membership or clinical privileges upon the basis of a physician and surgeon’s or podiatrist’s participation or nonparticipation …

(a) A health facility, as defined by subdivisions (c) to (g), inclusive, of Section 1250, which has a significant beneficial interest in an ancillary health service provider or which knows that an ancillary health service provider has a significant beneficial interest in the heal…

(a) A general acute care hospital shall notify each patient scheduled for a service in a hospital-based outpatient clinic when that service is available in another location that is not hospital-based. The notification shall be in substantially the following form: The location whe…

The Legislature finds and declares that existing law does not require that any new seismic gas shutoff valve sold by any person in this state shall, prior to sale, be certified by the State Architect. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 268, Sec. 1.)

As used in this article: (a) “Seismic gas shutoff device” means a seismic gas shutoff device installed on customer-owned gas piping certified by the State Architect pursuant to Section 19202. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, “seismic gas shutoff device” does not includ…

The State Architect shall establish a certification procedure for earthquake sensitive gas shutoff devices and shall establish a fee for the certification. Fees imposed pursuant to this section shall be equal to the costs associated with making the certification and are continuou…

The State Architect shall certify seismic gas shutoff devices which, as determined by the State Architect, comply with Chapter 12-23 (commencing with Section 12-23-101) of Part 12 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, and which meet all of the following requirements:…

Any new seismic gas shutoff device sold by any person in this state shall, prior to sale, be certified by the State Architect. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 152, Sec. 9. Effective July 12, 1996.)

This article is limited to the service connections of individual structures to main gas lines and to connections of appliances to gas lines and does not apply to devices within gas lines. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 152, Sec. 10. Effective July 12, 1996.)

The Illegal Drug Lab Cleanup Account is hereby created in the General Fund and the department may expend any money in the account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to carry out the removal actions required by Article 16 (commencing with Section 79350) of Chapter 5 and to im…

No director or officer of any cemetery authority shall directly or indirectly, for himself or as the partner or agent of others, borrow any funds of the corporation or association, nor may he become an indorser or surety for loans to others, nor in any manner be an obligor for mo…

The office of any director or officer who acts or permits action contrary to this article immediately thereupon becomes vacant. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Every director or officer authorizing or consenting to a loan, and the person who receives a loan, in violation of this article are severally guilty of a misdemeanor. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

(a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2026, until January 1, 2029, San Diego County may establish a pilot program for pelvic floor and core conditioning group classes. (2) The classes shall be a combination of yoga and pilates exercises that strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. The class…

The Legislature finds and declares that the transfer trauma which accompanies the abrupt and involuntary transfer of patients from one nursing home to another should be avoided when reasonable alternatives exist. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to pro…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to empower the state department to take quick, effective action to protect the health and safety of residents of long-term health care facilities and to minimize the effects of transfer trauma that accompany the abr…

As used in this article, “long-term health care facility” means any skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled, intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative, intermediate care facility/developmenta…

(a) Whenever circumstances exist indicating that continued management of a long-term health care facility by the current licensee would present a substantial probability or imminent danger of serious physical harm or death to the patients, or there exists in the facility a condit…

The state department shall investigate within 30 days of receipt of a complaint alleging that circumstances permitting a petition for receivership under Section 1327 exist in a long-term health care facility. The result of the investigation shall be documented by the state depart…