Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§300ff–27a Spousal Notification
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Title 42, §300ff–27a
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(a)The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not make a grant under part B of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff–21 et seq.) to any State unless such State takes administrative or legislative action to require that a good faith effort be made to notify a spouse of a known HIV-infected patient that such spouse may have been exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus and should seek testing.
(b)For purposes of this section:
(1)The term “spouse” means any individual who is the marriage partner of an HIV-infected patient, or who has been the marriage partner of that patient at any time within the 10-year period prior to the diagnosis of HIV infection.
(2)The term “HIV-infected patient” means any individual who has been diagnosed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
(3)The term “State” means any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, or any territory of the United States.
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The Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, 58 Stat. 682. Part B of title XXVI of the Act is classified generally to this part. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 201 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Ryan White CARE Act
Amendments
of 1996, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 13 of Pub. L. 104–146, set out as an
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of 1996 Amendment note under section 300ff–11 of this title.
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42 U.S.C. § 300ff–27a
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
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