Title 26B, Title 26B: Utah Health and Human Services Code

26B-7-106. Down syndrome diagnosis -- Information and support. (1) The department shall provide contact information for state and national Down syndrome organizations that are nonprofit and that provide information and support services for parents, including first-call programs a…

26B-7-107. Lead exposure public education and testing. (1) The department shall establish a child blood lead epidemiology and surveillance program to: encourage pediatric health care providers to include a lead test in accordance with the department's recommendations under Subsec…

26B-7-108. Rules for sale of drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices. (1) The department shall make rules, in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, and enforce the rules for the sale or distribution of human drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.…

26B-7-109. Director of community health nursing appointed by executive director. The executive director shall appoint a director of community health nursing who shall develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate community health nursing standards and services and participate in the …

26B-7-110. Duty to establish program to reduce deaths and other harm from prescription opiates used for chronic noncancer pain. (1) As used in this section, "opiate" means any drug or other substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphin…

26B-7-111. Local health emergency assistance program. (1) As used in this section: "Local health department" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 26A-1-102 "Local health emergency" means an unusual event or series of events causing or resulting in a substantial risk…

26B-7-112. Health care grant requests and funding. (1) Any time the United States Department of Health and Human Services accepts grant applications, the department shall apply for a grant under Title X of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 300 et seq. (2) As part of t…

26B-7-113. Identification of major risk factors by department -- Education of public -- Establishment of programs. The department shall identify the major risk factors contributing to injury, sickness, death, and disability within the state and where it determines that a need exi…

26B-7-114. Office of Health Equity -- Duties. (1) As used in this section: "Multicultural or minority health issue" means a health issue, including a mental and oral health issue, of particular interest to cultural, ethnic, racial, or other subpopulations, including: disparities …

26B-7-115. Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. (1) As used in this section, "URADD" means the Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. (2) The department may enter into an agreement with: the University of Utah or another person for the operatio…

26B-7-116. Radon awareness campaign. The department shall, in consultation with the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control, develop a statewide electronic awareness campaign to educate the public regarding: (1) the existence and prevalence of radon gas in buildings an…

26B-7-117. Syringe exchange and education. (1) As used in this section, "government entity" means the state or any county, municipality, special district, special service district, or other political subdivision or administrative unit of the state, an institution of higher educat…

26B-7-118. Online public health education module for vaccine-preventable diseases. (1) As used in this section: "Health care provider" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 78B-3-403 "Nonimmune" means that a child or an individual: has not received each vaccine requi…

26B-7-119. Hepatitis C Outreach Pilot Program. (1) As used in this section, "Hepatitis C outreach organization" means a private nonprofit organization that: has an established relationship with individuals who are at risk of acquiring acute Hepatitis C; helps individuals who need…

26B-7-122. Communication Habits to reduce Adolescent Threats Pilot Program. (1) As used in this section: "Campaign" means a multimedia marketing strategy. "CHAT" means the Communication Habits to reduce Adolescent Threats Pilot Program created in this section. (2) There is create…

26B-7-123. Report on CHAT campaign. (1) The department shall determine metrics to measure the success of the CHAT campaign and regularly reevaluate those metrics. (2) No later than September 1, 2028, the department shall create a report on: the implementation of the CHAT campaign…

26B-7-124. Rules for public cold baths. (1) As used in this section, "public cold bath" means a tub or tank that: is used by: the general public, regardless of whether there is a charge or payment for use; and one bather at a time; contains chilled water that is: maintained at a …

26B-7-125. Diapering supplies grant program -- Rulemaking -- Reporting. (1) As used in this section: "Diaper distribution center" means a community-based diaper bank or distribution center, a public health agency, or a nonprofit organization with a minimum of ten years' experienc…

26B-7-126. Psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans clinical study -- Funding -- Reports. (1) As used in this section: "Clinical study" means the safety and feasibility study authorized in this section. "Controlled substance" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 58…

26B-7-127. Recovery ready workplace certification program. (1) As used in this section: "Employee" means a person who performs a service for wages or other remuneration under a contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied. "Employer" means a person who has one or more em…

26B-7-201. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) "Ambulatory surgical center" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 26B-2-201 (2) "Carrier" means an infected individual or animal who harbors a specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible clinical disease …

26B-7-202. Authority to investigate and control epidemic infections and communicable disease. (1) Subject to the restrictions in this title, the department has authority to investigate and control the causes of epidemic infections and communicable disease, and shall provide for t…

26B-7-203. Reporting AIDS and HIV infection -- Anonymous testing. (1) Because of the nature and consequences of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection, the department shall: require reporting of those conditions; and utilize contact tracing …

26B-7-205. Willful introduction of communicable disease a misdemeanor. Any person who willfully or knowingly introduces any communicable or infectious disease into any county, municipality, or community is guilty of a class A misdemeanor, except as provided in Section.

26B-7-206. Duty to report individual suspected of having communicable disease. The following shall report to the department or the local health department regarding any individual suffering from or suspected of having a disease that is communicable, as required by department rule…

26B-7-207. Designation of communicable diseases by department -- Establishment of rules for detection, reporting, investigation, prevention, and control. The department may designate those diseases which are communicable, of concern to the public health, and reportable; and estab…

26B-7-208. Tuberculosis -- Duty of department to investigate, control, and monitor. (1) The department shall conduct or oversee the investigation, control, and monitoring of suspected or confirmed tuberculosis infection and disease within the state. Local health departments shall…

26B-7-209. Tuberculosis -- Testing of high risk individuals. Individuals at high risk for tuberculosis shall be tested as required by department rule, which: (1) shall establish criteria to identify individuals who are at high risk for tuberculosis; and (2) may establish who is r…

26B-7-210. Rabies or other animal disease -- Investigation and order of quarantine. (1) As used in this section, "quarantine" means strict confinement upon the private premises of the owners, under restraint by leash, closed cage or paddock of all animals specified by the order. …

26B-7-211. Rabies or other animal disease -- Possession of animal in violation of part a misdemeanor. Any person in possession of any animal being held in violation of Sectionsthroughis guilty of a class C misdemeanor.

26B-7-212. Sexually transmitted infections declared dangerous to public health. Syphilis, gonorrhea, lymphogranuloma inguinale (venereum) and chancroid are hereby declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable and dangerous to the public health.

26B-7-213. Sexually transmitted infections -- Examinations by authorities -- Treatment of infected persons. State, county, and municipal health officers within their respective jurisdictions may make examinations of persons reasonably suspected of being infected with sexually tra…

26B-7-214. Sexually transmitted infections -- Consent of minor to treatment. (1) A consent to medical care or services by a hospital or public clinic or the performance of medical care or services by a licensed physician or physician assistant executed by a minor who is or profes…

26B-7-215. Sexually transmitted infections -- Examination and treatment of persons in prison or jail. (1) All persons confined in any state, county, or city prison or jail shall be examined, and if infected, treated for sexually transmitted infections by the health authorities. T…

26B-7-216. Serological testing of pregnant or recently delivered women. (1) As used in this section, a "standard serological test" means a test for syphilis approved by the department and made at an approved laboratory. (2) Every licensed physician, surgeon, or physician assistan…

26B-7-217. Information regarding communicable or reportable diseases confidentiality -- Exceptions. (1) Information collected under Sectionsthroughin the possession of the department or local health departments relating to an individual who has or is suspected of having a disease…

26B-7-218. Protection from examination in legal proceedings -- Exceptions. (1) Except as provided in Subsection, an officer or employee of the department or of a local health department may not be examined in a legal proceeding of any kind or character as to the existence or cont…

26B-7-219. Violation -- Penalty. (1) Any individual or entity entitled to receive confidential information from the department or a local health department under Sectionsthrough, other than the individual identified in that information, who violates Sectionsthroughby releasing or…

26B-7-220. Exclusions from confidentiality requirements. (1) The provisions of Sectionsthroughdo not apply to: 26B-7-201 26B-7-223 information that relates to an individual who is in the custody of the Department of Corrections, a county jail, or the Division of Juvenile Justice …

26B-7-221. Public reporting of health care associated infections. (1) An ambulatory surgical facility, a general acute hospital, a specialty hospital, an end stage renal disease facility, and other facilities as required by rules of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services s…

26B-7-222. Testing for COVID-19 for high-risk individuals at care facilities -- Collection and release of information regarding risk factors and comorbidities for COVID-19. (1) As used in this section: "Care facility" means a facility described in Subsectionsthrough. 26B-7-206(2)…

26B-7-223. Department support for local education agency test to stay programs -- Department guidance for local education agencies. (1) As used in this section: "Case threshold" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 53G-9-210 "COVID-19" means the same as that term is…

26B-7-227. Chronic disease control -- Establishing a prevention program -- Detection, monitoring, and community education. (1) As used in this section, "chronic disease" means an impairment or deviation from the normal functioning of the human body having one or more of the follo…

26B-7-301. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) "Bioterrorism" means: the intentional use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product to cause death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism…

26B-7-302. Executive director -- Power to order abatement of public health hazard -- Limitation on power to control local food. (1) If the executive director finds that a condition of filth, sanitation, or other health hazard exists which creates a clear present hazard to the pub…

26B-7-303. Applicability -- Administrative procedures. (1) Sectionsthroughapply to involuntary orders of restriction applied to an individual by the department or a local health department. 26B-7-304 26B-7-315 (2) The provisions of Sectionsthroughsupersede the provisions of. 26B-…