Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that 1990 marks one of the worst measles epidemics in recent history and that this epidemic threatens the health and safety of our schoolaged children. The Legislature finds and declares that, according to the Center for Disease Control and …

The department shall purchase or prepare, and distribute free of cost, under any regulations as may be necessary, anti-rabic virus to be used in the treatment of persons exposed to rabies when they declare that it would be a hardship for them to pay for anti-rabic treatment. (Add…

“Approved laboratory” as used in this chapter means a laboratory approved by the department, or any other laboratory whose director is licensed by the department according to law. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

“Standard laboratory blood test” as used in this chapter means a test for syphilis approved by the department. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) Every licensed health care professional engaged in providing prenatal care or attending a birthing patient at the time of delivery, shall provide syphilis screening and testing as outlined in the most recent guidelines published by the State Department of Public Health. (b) T…

The blood specimen thus obtained shall be submitted to an approved laboratory for a standard laboratory test for syphilis. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

In submitting a specimen to a laboratory the physician shall designate it as a prenatal test or a test following recent delivery. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The laboratory shall submit the laboratory reports of records to the department as are required by regulation of the department. The health officer may destroy any copies of reports that have been retained by him or her pursuant to this section for a period of two years. (Added b…

All laboratory reports are confidential, and are not open to public inspection. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

In case of question concerning the accuracy of a test required by this chapter, it is mandatory upon the department to accept specimens for checking purposes from any district in the state. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Any licensed physician and surgeon, or other person engaged in attendance upon a pregnant woman or a recently delivered woman, or any representative of a laboratory who violates any provision of this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor. However, a licensed physician and surgeon, …

The intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter is as follows: (a) To fund specified pilot AIDS education programs. (b) To fund pilot projects to demonstrate the value of noninstitutional health care services such as hospice, home health, and attendant care in controlling …

(a) The department shall: (1) Additionally, use funds appropriated by Section 6 of Chapter 23 of the Statutes of 1985 for purposes of making reimbursements to counties pursuant to Section 120895, for preventive education for individuals who are seropositive as a result of antibod…

(a) The department may provide supplemental funding to residential AIDS shelters in accordance with Section 120810, as long as that section is operative, and to residential care facilities for persons with a chronic, life-threatening illness, that are licensed in accordance with …

(a) Personal data in any investigations, reports, and information relating thereto shall be kept confidential and be afforded protections provided by Section 100330, except as provided by Section 1603.1 or 1603.3. (b) If patient-identifying information is subpoenaed from the depa…

The director shall: (a) Be prepared to report to the Legislature on the amounts and recipients of contracts or block grant awards, and needs assessments conducted by the department. (b) Issue once each month a public information release to the state contractors, local health depa…

(a) Pilot projects to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of home health, attendant, or hospice care shall be initiated through a block grant program, as described in this section. (b) The state director shall designate the contractors and the amounts that contractors will receive…

(a) The department shall amend the home health, hospice, and attendant care pilot projects funded pursuant to this chapter, to include, to the extent that it is cost-effective to the Medi-Cal program or the General Fund, the payment of private health insurance premiums for partic…

The State Department of Health Care Services shall establish an AIDS mental health project, as described in this section. (a) The program should include, but need not be limited to, the following: (1) The conduct of a statewide needs assessment of AIDS-related mental health issue…

Pilot programs to reduce the spread of AIDS through residential detoxification and outpatient detoxification and treatment services for intravenous drug users, as described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 120805, shall be initiated through local agency operated AID…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to increase the capacity of HIV test sites to screen more individuals by streamlining test site services. (b) Publicly funded HIV test sites shall be permitted to do all of the following: (1) Advise a person who has been tested before and i…

The amount of two million three hundred thousand dollars ($2,300,000), appropriated pursuant to Section 2 of Chapter 767 of the Statutes of 1985, shall be allocated to the University of California for research into AIDS. When expending these funds, the university shall solicit an…

(a) The department may use funds appropriated to it to pay the costs, including reimbursements to contractors for administrative costs, of providing home and community-based services to eligible persons with a diagnosis of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS relate…

(a) The department shall, in coordination with the State Department of Health Care Services, develop a plan that assesses the need for, a program of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) primary prevention, health education, testing, and counseling, specifically designed for…

(a) Every person who sells alkyl nitrites shall at the point of sale of the alkyl nitrites, post a sign measuring no less than five by seven inches to read as follows: “Warning: These products contain alkyl nitrites (‛poppers’). Inhaling or swallowing alkyl nitrites may be harmfu…

(a) The department shall authorize the establishment of training programs throughout the state for counselors for publicly funded HIV testing programs. These training programs shall be conducted by community-based, nonprofit organizations with demonstrated expertise in providing …

In enacting this chapter, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide: (a) A means for the eventual elimination of tuberculosis. (b) Persons required to be tested for tuberculosis under this chapter may obtain testing from whatever medical source they desire, subject only to t…

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Governing authority” means the governing board of each school district or the authority of each other private or public institution responsible for the operation and control of the institution or…

(a) If the local health officer determines that persons seeking first admission to any private or public elementary or secondary school or institution are reasonably suspected of having tuberculosis and further determines that the examination of the persons for tuberculosis is ne…

The examination shall consist of either an approved intradermal tuberculin skin test or any other test for tuberculosis infection that has been recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and licensed by the federal Food and Drug Administration, that, if…

(a) A person subject to an order made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 121485 who does not have on file the certificate required by this chapter may be admitted by the governing authority on condition that within time periods designated by regulations of the department, he …

The examinations required by this chapter may be administered by any private or public source desired. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The certificate shall not be required for a person who is subject to an order made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 121485, if the parent, guardian, or other adult who has assumed responsibility for his or her care and custody in case of a minor, or the person seeking admis…

Any person or organization administering tuberculosis examinations shall furnish each person examined, or his or her parent or guardian, as appropriate, with a certificate of the examination results given in a form prescribed by the department. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec…

The governing authority shall cooperate with the local health officer in carrying out any programs ordered by the local health officer for the tuberculosis examinations of persons applying for first admission to any school or institution under its jurisdiction. The governing boar…

The department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, shall adopt and enforce all rules and regulations necessary to carry out this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 444. Effective January 1, 2007.)

(a) Whenever the director finds that psittacosis, or any other diseases transmissible to man from pet birds, have become a public health hazard to the extent that control measures are necessary or desirable, the department shall adopt additional regulations as it deems necessary …

The violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

This chapter shall apply to all shell parakeets or budgerigars. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The board of supervisors may authorize the destruction or the disposition to a public or private medical library of any X-ray photographs and case records that are more than five years old and that were taken by the county health officer in the performance of his or her duties wi…

The board of supervisors of any county, in addition to its other powers and duties may acquire or construct exhibits and displays depicting all or parts of the human body and functions thereof for the purpose of educating the public with regard to human health, and maintain, oper…

The following definitions apply to this chapter: (a) “Alternate method of oocyte retrieval” means a method of oocyte retrieval that does not involve the pharmaceutically induced manipulation of oocyte production. (b) “Assisted oocyte production” or “AOP” means surgical extraction…

(a) As used in this chapter, “Research Participants Undergoing Oocyte Retrieval for Medical Research Purposes Bill of Rights” means a list of the rights of a research participant providing human oocytes for the purposes of medical research. The list of rights shall be written in …

(a) Prior to obtaining informed consent from a subject for AOP or any alternative method of ovarian retrieval on a subject for the purpose of procuring oocytes for research or the development of medical therapies, a physician and surgeon shall provide to the subject a standardize…

(a) Prior to providing AOP or any alternative method of ovarian retrieval to a research participant for the purposes of medical research or development of medical therapies, a physician and surgeon shall obtain written and oral informed consent for the procedure from the research…

An institutional review board (IRB) that reviews and approves medical and scientific research shall require all of the following of any research program or project that comes under its review that involves AOP or any alternative method of oocyte retrieval: (a) That it include a w…