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§300ff–137 Limitation with Respect to Duties of Medical Facilities

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Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Medical facilities must follow these rules only for medical information they have while treating a victim for emergency-related injuries, or for 60 days starting when emergency responders bring the victim to the facility, whichever ends first. After that, the rules stop once 30 more days pass, except the rules still apply to any qualifying request the facility gets before that 30-day window closes.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §300ff–137

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The duties established in this part for a medical facility—

(1)shall apply only to medical information possessed by the facility during the period in which the facility is treating the victim for conditions arising from the emergency, or during the 60-day period beginning on the date on which the victim is transported by emergency response employees to the facility, whichever period expires first; and

(2)shall not apply to any extent after the expiration of the 30-day period beginning on the expiration of the applicable period referred to in paragraph (1), except that such duties shall apply with respect to any request under section 300ff–133(c) of this title received by a medical facility before the expiration of such 30-day period.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective as if enacted on Sept. 30, 2009, see section 2(a)(3)(B) of Pub. L. 111–87, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2009 Amendment; Revival of Section note under section 300ff–11 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

42 U.S.C. § 300ff–137

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102