California

Health and Safety Code - HSC

17,661 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 120185 — In the case of a local epidemic of disease, the health officer shall report at those times as are requested by the department all facts concerning the disease, and the measures taken to abate and prev
• § 120190 — Each health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting by the depa
• § 120195 — Each health officer shall enforce all orders, rules, and regulations concerning quarantine or isolation prescribed or directed by the department.
• § 1202 — “Special permit” means a permit issued in addition to a license authorizing the clinic to offer one or more special services, as defined in Section 1203 or regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
• § 12020 — The chief and the issuing authority, as defined in Sections 12003 and 12007, respectively, shall in their areas of jurisdiction enforce the provisions of this part and the regulations adopted by the S
• § 120200 — Each health officer, whenever required by the department, shall establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation that shall be subject to the special directions of the department.
• § 120205 — No quarantine shall be established by a county or city against another county or city without the written consent of the department.
• § 120210 — Whenever in the judgment of the department it is necessary for the protection or preservation of the public health, each health officer shall, when directed by the department, do the following: (a) Qu
• § 120215 — Upon receiving information of the existence of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease for which the department may from time to time declare the need for strict isolation or quarantine, each
• § 120220 — When quarantine or isolation, either strict or modified, is established by a health officer, all persons shall obey his or her rules, orders, and regulations.
• § 120225 — A person subject to quarantine or strict isolation, residing or in a quarantined building, house, structure, or other shelter, shall not go beyond the lot where the building, house, structure, or othe
• § 120230 — No instructor, teacher, pupil, or child who resides where any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease exists or has recently existed, that is subject to strict isolation or quarantine of conta
• § 120235 — No quarantine shall be raised until every exposed room, together with all personal property in the room, has been adequately treated, or, if necessary, destroyed, under the direction of the health off
• § 120240 — If, pursuant to Section 120130, a modified isolation order is issued, and the order is not complied with, the local health officer may, in that instance, issue a strict isolation order.
• § 120245 — Each health officer, other than a county health officer, in the county shall transmit to the county health officer at least weekly in writing a report showing the number and character of infectious, c
• § 120250 — All physicians, nurses, clergymen, attendants, owners, proprietors, managers, employees, and persons living with, or visiting any sick person, in any hotel, lodginghouse, house, building, office, stru
• § 120255 — (a) Any electronic tool used by a health officer, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 2500 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, for the purpose of reporting cases of communicable di
• § 120260 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Early knowledge of infection with communicable disease is important in order to permit exposed persons to make informed health care dec
• § 120260.5 — The communicable disease testing and notification procedures provided for in this chapter are in addition to the notification to which prehospital emergency medical care persons or personnel are entit
• § 120261 — For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Attending physician of the source patient” means any physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Secti
• § 120262 — Notwithstanding Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 120975) or any other law, the blood or other tissue or material of a source patient may be tested, and an exposed individual may be informed whether
• § 120263 — (a) No health care provider, as defined in this chapter, shall be subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for performing tests for a communicable disease on the avai
• § 120275 — Any person who, after notice, violates, or who, upon the demand of any health officer, refuses or neglects to conform to, any rule, order, or regulation prescribed by the department respecting a quara
• § 120280 — Inasmuch as the orders provided for by Section 121365 are for the protection of the public health, any person who, after service upon him or her of an order of a local health officer as provided in Se
• § 120285 — Upon any subsequent conviction under the provisions of Section 120280, the court may order the person confined for a period not exceeding one year for the subsequent conviction, or other penalty as pr
• § 120290 — (a) (1) A defendant is guilty of intentional transmission of an infectious or communicable disease if all of the following apply: (A) The defendant knows that he or she or a third party is afflicted w
• § 120295 — Any person who violates Section 120130 or any section in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 120175, but excluding Section 120195), is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than fif
• § 1203 — “Special service” means a functional division, department, or unit of a clinic, or a clinic that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific type or types of care which have been identif
• § 120300 — The district attorney of the county where a violation of Sections 121365 and 120280 may be committed, shall prosecute all those violations and, upon the request of a health officer, shall prosecute, a
• § 120305 — Every person who possesses any intoxicating liquor in or on any public hospital or sanatorium providing for the treatment of tuberculosis or within the boundaries of the grounds belonging thereto is g
• § 120325 — In enacting this chapter, but excluding Section 120380, and in enacting Sections 120400, 120405, 120410, and 120415, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide: (a) A means for the eventual achiev
• § 120330 — The department, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall adopt and enforce all regulations necessary to carry out Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 120325, but excluding Section 120380
• § 120335 — (a) As used in this chapter, “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 cont
• § 120336 — (a) Pupils in the state are advised, as described in subdivision (b), to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the fed
• § 120338 — Notwithstanding Sections 120325 and 120335, any immunizations deemed appropriate by the department pursuant to paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 120325 or paragraph (11) of subdivision (b)
• § 120340 — A person who has not been fully immunized against one or more of the diseases listed in Section 120335 may be admitted by the governing authority on condition that within time periods designated by re
• § 120341 — (a) The governing authority shall admit a foster child, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 48853.
• § 120345 — The immunizations required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 120325, but excluding Section 120380) and required by Sections 120400, 120405, 120410, and 120415 may be obtained from any private or p
• § 120350 — The county health officer of each county shall organize and maintain a program to make immunizations available to all persons required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 120325, but excluding Secti
• § 120355 — Any person or organization administering immunizations shall furnish each person immunized, or his or her parent or guardian, with a written record of immunization given in a form prescribed by the de
• § 120360 — The requirements of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 120325, but excluding Section 120380) and of Sections 120400, 120405, 120410, and 120415 shall not apply to any person 18 years of age or older,
• § 120370 — (a) (1) Prior to January 1, 2021, if the parent or guardian files with the governing authority a written statement by a licensed physician and surgeon to the effect that the physical condition of the
• § 120372 — (a) (1) By January 1, 2021, the department shall develop and make available for use by licensed physicians and surgeons an electronic, standardized, statewide medical exemption certification form that
• § 120372.05 — (a) A medical exemption revoked pursuant to Section 120372 may be appealed by a parent or guardian to the Secretary of California Health and Human Services.
• § 120375 — (a) The governing authority of each school or institution included in Section 120335 shall require documentary proof of each entrant’s immunization status.
• § 120380 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the administration of immunizing agents by registered nurses in school immunization programs under the direction of a supervising physician and surgeon as prov
• § 120381 — (a) The State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, local public health agencies, and postsecondary educational institutions, shall develop a Meningoco
• § 120390 — The department, in consultation with the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as a
• § 120390.5 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), on or after January 1, 2000, the Trustees of the California State University, and the Regents of the University of California shall require th
• § 120390.6 — (a) It is the public policy of the state that pupils who are 26 years of age or younger are advised to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as recommended by the department, in accordance with S
• § 120390.7 — No provision of this chapter shall apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make that provision applicabl
• § 120392 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Health care facility” means a skilled nursing facility as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1250, an intermediate care facility
• § 120392.2 — (a) Each year, commencing October 1 to the following April 1, inclusive, every health care facility, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 120392, shall offer, pursuant to Section 120392.
• § 120392.3 — (a) The department shall provide appropriate flu vaccine to local governmental or private, nonprofit agencies at no charge in order that the agencies may provide the vaccine, at a minimal cost, at acc
• § 120392.4 — (a) A resident who receives services at a health care facility during the period of October 1 to April 1 shall have his or her status for influenza and pneumococcal immunization determined by his or h
• § 120392.6 — No person who has been offered the vaccine as required under this chapter may receive either an influenza vaccine or pneumococcal vaccine pursuant to this chapter if any of the following conditions ex
• § 120392.8 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a health care facility shall not be required to offer immunizations for influenza and pneumococcal disease under either of the following circum
• § 120392.9 — Pursuant to its standardized procedures and if it has the vaccine in its possession, each year, commencing October 1 to the following April 1, inclusive, a general acute care hospital, as defined in s
• § 120393 — (a) The State Department of Public Health shall post educational information, in accordance with the latest recommendations adopted pursuant to Section 120164, regarding influenza disease and the avai
• § 120395 — (a) The State Department of Public Health shall, no later than April 1, 2010, develop information about meningococcal disease, including information pertaining to children who are between 11 and 18 ye
• § 120396 — Each degree-granting public postsecondary educational institution that provides on-campus housing in the state shall, beginning with the 2002–03 school year, do all of the following: (a) Provide infor
• § 120397 — Each degree-granting private postsecondary educational institution that provides on-campus housing in the state shall adopt a policy to notify all incoming students about meningococcal disease and the
• § 120398 — Each public and private postsecondary educational institution shall maintain the confidentiality of information obtained pursuant to Section 120396 or 120397 in the same manner as other confidential s
• § 120399 — No provision of this chapter shall apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make applicable the provision
• § 1204 — Clinics eligible for licensure pursuant to this chapter are primary care clinics and specialty clinics.
• § 1204.1 — In addition to the primary care clinics and specialty clinics specified in Section 1204, clinics eligible for licensure pursuant to this chapter include psychology clinics.
• § 1204.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and except as provided in subdivision (c), a primary care clinic described in subdivision (a) of Section 1204 that is licensed pursuant to this chapter shall not be
• § 1204.3 — (a) An alternative birth center that is licensed as an alternative birth center specialty clinic pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204 shall, as a condition of licensure, and a
• § 1204.4 — The State Department of Health Services shall provide information to the California Health Facilities Financing Authority with respect to primary care clinic grant applicants for capital outlay projec
• § 1204.5 — A primary care clinic may submit verification of certification from the Joint Commission, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), or any other accrediting organization recogn
• § 120400 — The department may establish an immunization outreach program.
• § 120405 — (a) A local health officer, or consortium of local health officers, may establish permanent, temporary, or mobile sites and programs, for the purpose of immunizing children, or performing outreach to
• § 120410 — The population to be targeted by the program shall include children who do not receive immunizations through private third-party sources or other public sources with priority given to infants and chil
• § 120415 — The Health and Welfare Agency may waive state administrative, eligibility, and billing requirements that apply to other public assistance programs through which immunization and comprehensive health s
• § 120420 — The department shall provide financial assistance to county and areawide immunization campaigns under the direction of local health officers for the prevention of rubella.
• § 120425 — All moneys appropriated to the department for the purposes of this section and Section 120420 shall be made available to local health departments, as defined in Section 101185, or to areawide associat
• § 120430 — (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.
• § 120435 — 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 de
• § 120440 — (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Health care provider” means any person licensed pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) of the Business a
• § 120455 — (a) A person shall not be liable for any injury caused by an act or omission in the administration of a vaccine or other immunizing agent to a minor, including the residual effects of the vaccine or i
• § 120475 — On or before March 15 on a biennial basis, the department shall submit a report to the Legislature on all of the following issues: (a) The immunization status of young children in the state, based on
• § 120480 — (a) Funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 1998, and any other appropriations, to the State Department of Health Services for the purpose of valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) vaccine research shall b
• § 1205 — Except as provided in Section 1206, no person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or public agency shall operate, establish, manage, conduct or maintain a clinic in this state without first
• § 1205.5 — A clinic that has been verified by the Licensing and Certification Division of the State Department of Health Services and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development as having (1) provide
• § 120500 — As used in the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act (Section 27) “venereal diseases” means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphopathia venereum, granuloma inguinale, and chlamydia.
• § 120505 — The department shall develop and review plans and provide leadership and consultation for, and participate in, a program for the prevention and control of venereal disease.
• § 120510 — The department shall cooperate in the prevention, control, and cure of venereal diseases with physicians and surgeons; medical schools; public and private hospitals, dispensaries, and clinics; public
• § 120511 — (a) The department shall allocate funds to local health jurisdictions for sexually transmitted disease prevention and control activities in accordance, to the extent possible, with the following: (1)
• § 120515 — The department shall investigate conditions affecting the prevention and control of venereal diseases and approved procedures for prevention and control, and shall disseminate educational information
• § 120520 — The department shall conduct educational and publicity work as it may deem necessary; and, from time to time, shall cause to be issued, free of charge, copies of regulations, pamphlets, and other lite
• § 120525 — The department may provide medical, advisory, financial, or other assistance to organizations funded pursuant to Section 120511.
• § 120530 — The department may furnish treatment for a case or for a group of cases in rural counties or cities upon the recommendation of the local health officer if adequate facilities for the treatment are not
• § 120535 — Any state agency conducting a public hospital shall admit acute venereal disease cases, when, in the opinion of the department or the local health officer having jurisdiction, persons infected with ve
• § 120540 — The department may require any physician in attendance on a person infected or suspected of being infected with a venereal disease infection to submit specimens as may be designated for examination, w
• § 120545 — The examination may be made in the state laboratory or in a local public health laboratory designated by the department or in a clinical laboratory that is under the immediate supervision and directio
• § 120550 — Nothing in this chapter limits any person’s freedom to have additional examinations made elsewhere than specified in this chapter.
• § 120555 — Every diseased person shall give all information required by this chapter, including the name and address of any person from whom the disease may have been contracted and to whom the disease may have
• § 120560 — Every diseased person shall from time to time submit to approved examinations to determine the condition of the disease.
• § 120565 — If any person subject to proper venereal disease control measures discontinues any control procedure required by this chapter, the agency administering the procedure prior to the discontinuance shall
• § 120570 — If it appears reasonably likely that the person is not complying with the procedure elsewhere, the agency that was administering the procedure prior to the discontinuance shall make all reasonable eff
• § 120575 — It is the duty of the local health officers to use every available means to ascertain the existence of cases of infectious venereal diseases within their respective jurisdictions, to investigate all c
• § 120580 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person employed by a public health department may perform venipuncture or skin puncture for the purpose of withdrawing blood for test purposes, upon speci
• § 120582 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a physician and surgeon who diagnoses a sexually transmitted chlamydia, gonorrhea, or other sexually transmitted infection, as determined by the department, or recom
• § 120585 — Local health officers may inspect and quarantine any place or person when the procedure is necessary to enforce the regulations of the board or the department.
• § 120590 — It is the duty of the district attorney of the county where a violation of this chapter may occur to prosecute the person accused of the violation.
• § 120595 — In any prosecution for a violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation of the board made pursuant to this chapter, or in any quarantine proceeding authorized by this chapter, o
• § 1206 — This chapter does not apply to the following: (a) Except with respect to the option provided with regard to surgical clinics in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204 and, further, with resp
• § 1206.1 — The provisions of this chapter do not require licensure of any place or establishment owned or leased and operated as a clinic or office by one or more licensed psychologists and used as an office for
• § 120600 — Any person who refuses to give any information to make any report, to comply with any proper control measure or examination, or to perform any other duty or act required by this chapter, or who violat
• § 120605 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with the freedom of any adherent of teachings of any well-recognized religious sect, denomination, or organization to depend exclusively upon pr
• § 120675 — “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.
• § 120680 — “Standard laboratory blood test” as used in this chapter means a test for syphilis approved by the department.
• § 120685 — (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
• § 120690 — The blood specimen thus obtained shall be submitted to an approved laboratory for a standard laboratory test for syphilis.
• § 120695 — In submitting a specimen to a laboratory the physician shall designate it as a prenatal test or a test following recent delivery.
• § 1207 — The state department shall inspect and license clinics, and shall inspect and approve clinics to offer special services.
• § 120700 — The laboratory shall submit the laboratory reports of records to the department as are required by regulation of the department.
• § 120705 — All laboratory reports are confidential, and are not open to public inspection.
• § 120710 — 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.
• § 120715 — 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
• § 120750 — The department shall develop and prepare posters and leaflets that inform the public of venereal disease and make the posters and leaflets available to the California State Board of Pharmacy for distr
• § 120775 — As used in this code: (a) “AIDS” means acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
• § 120780 — For purposes of this chapter, “public entity” includes the state, a county, city, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the state.
• § 120780.1 — A public entity that receives General Fund money from the State Department of Public Health for HIV prevention and education may use that money to support clean needle and syringe exchange programs au
• § 120780.2 — In order to reduce the spread of HIV, hepatitis C, and other potentially deadly bloodborne pathogens, the State Department of Public Health may purchase sterile hypodermic needles and syringes, and ot
• § 120780.5 — (a) Upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, the State Department of Public Health shall award funding, on a competitive basis, to community-based organizations or local health jurisdictions to
• § 1208 — The state department may provide consulting services upon request to any clinic to assist in the identification or correction of deficiencies or the upgrading of the quality of care provided by the cl
• § 12080 — (a) No person shall sell, give away, or transport any explosive which has not been classified as provided in Section 12000.
• § 120800 — The intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter is as follows: (a) To fund specified pilot AIDS education programs.
• § 120805 — (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
• § 12081 — Except as limited by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 140) of Division 1 of the Labor Code and Section 18930, the State Fire Marshal shall prepare and adopt, in accordance with Chapter 3.
• § 120815 — (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
• § 12082 — No explosives shall be sold, furnished, or given away to any person under 21 years of age, whether such person is acting for himself or for another person, nor shall any such person be eligible to obt
• § 120820 — (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
• § 120825 — 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.
• § 12083 — With the exception of the chief, the owner, a person authorized to enter by the owner, or the owner’s agent, no person shall enter any explosive manufacturing plant, magazine, or vehicle containing ex
• § 120830 — (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.
• § 120835 — (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
• § 12084 — No person shall willfully discharge any firearm within 500 feet of any magazine or any explosive manufacturing plant.
• § 120840 — The State Department of Health Care Services shall establish an AIDS mental health project, as described in this section.
• § 120845 — 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 subdivi
• § 120846 — (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.
• § 12085 — No person shall make, possess, or transport any explosive in a manner prohibited by this part or prohibited by any ordinance of a city, county, or city and county, or prohibited by the laws or regulat
• § 120850 — 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
• § 120855 — (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 perso
• § 12086 — Any theft or loss of explosives, whether from a storage magazine, a vehicle in which they are being transported, or from a site on which they are being used, or from any other location, shall immediat
• § 120860 — (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
• § 12087 — No person shall abandon or otherwise dispose of any explosives in any manner which might, as the result of such abandonment or disposal, create any danger or threat of danger to life or property.
• § 120870 — (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
• § 120871 — (a) The department shall authorize the establishment of training programs throughout the state for counselors for publicly funded HIV testing programs.
• § 120875 — The State Department of Education shall provide information to school districts on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), on AIDS-related conditions, and on Hepatitis B.
• § 12088 — The contents of a package containing explosives shall be plainly marked on the outside of the package at the time the package is delivered for transportation.
• § 120880 — School districts shall inform their employees annually, or if there is new information, more frequently, of the information compiled by the State Department of Education pursuant to Section 120875.
• § 120885 — The Legislature finds and declares it is of great benefit to the public health and essential to the protection of safe blood and blood components available for transfusion to provide testing for the p
• § 12089 — Except when transporting explosives received under Section 12102 of this code, every motor vehicle used in the transportation of explosives and which is subject to this part, shall have displayed ther
• § 120890 — The director shall, in order to protect the public health and in order to make blood and blood components safe for transfusion, designate counties that shall establish alternative testing sites, withi
• § 120895 — (a) Each county, designated by the director, shall make the test available within its jurisdiction without charge, in an accessible manner and the tests shall be made available by the county on an ano
• § 1209 — This chapter does not authorize any person other than a licensed practitioner of a healing art, or any corporation except charitable or professional corporations as expressly provided in this chapter,
• § 12090 — There shall not be included in any cargo of explosives any flammable or combustible liquids, acids, or corrosive liquids, oxidizers, or combustible materials, other than the explosives themselves, whi
• § 120900 — (a) The director shall award contracts to early intervention projects to provide long-term services to persons infected with HIV.
• § 120905 — (a) The director shall commence awarding contracts to projects on or before July 1, 1990.
• § 12091 — Blasting caps or similar primary explosive initiation devices shall not be transported upon any vehicle equipped with a radio transmitter or other device which may cause detonation of such primary ini
• § 120910 — (a) The department shall collect data from the early intervention projects, assess the effectiveness of the different models of early intervention projects.
• § 120915 — (a) The department shall establish a reimbursement schedule for all of the services detailed in subdivision (b) of Section 120900.
• § 120917 — (a) An HIV counselor who meets the requirements of subdivision (f) may do all of the following: (1) Perform any HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), or other sexually transmitted disease (STD) test that is c
• § 12092 — Any person who violates any of the requirements prescribed by regulation adopted pursuant to Section 12081 or 12151 shall be assessed a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each vi
• § 120920 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that people with HIV infection may not avail themselves of early intervention services unless they are aware of the availability of the services and the effic
• § 120925 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The drug azidothymidine (AZT) improves and prolongs the quality of life for those suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome
• § 120930 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the State of California continue to provide temporary funding for the program to ensure that those whose health depends on obtaining access to AZT and who are
• § 120935 — The department shall continue through June 1989, the AZT subsidy program established in 1987 with federal funds.
• § 120950 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) State-of-art knowledge regarding treatment of people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) indicates that active HIV
• § 120955 — (a) (1) To the extent that state and federal funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act for these purposes, the director shall establish and may administer a program to provide drug treatments to
• § 120956 — (a) The AIDS Drug Assistance Program Rebate Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury.
• § 120960 — (a) The department shall establish uniform standards of financial eligibility for the drugs under the program established under this chapter.
• § 120962 — (a) (1) For the purpose of verifying financial eligibility pursuant to Section 120960 and the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 (42 U.
• § 120966 — (a) (1) The program established under this chapter shall make available to any eligible person under this chapter any antiviral drug that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for tr
• § 120968 — The Office of AIDS shall report to the Legislature no later than October 1, 2000, the status of consumer protections for the AIDS drug program established pursuant to this chapter, including a report
• § 120970 — If the department utilizes a contractor or subcontractor to administer any aspect of the program provided for under this chapter, the following additional client assistance provisions shall apply: (a)
• § 120971 — (a) In the event state expenditures for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) are identified by California to be used as a certified public expenditure for the purpose of obtaining federal financial
• § 120972 — (a) To the extent that funds are available for these purposes, the director may establish and administer a program within the department’s Office of AIDS to subsidize certain costs of medications for
• § 120972.1 — (a) To the extent that funds are available for these purposes, the State Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS may allocate funds to local health departments and community-based organizations to
• § 120972.2 — (a) The State Department of Public Health’s Office of AIDS may expend moneys from the AIDS Drug Assistance Program Rebate Fund to support prevention services for individuals most vulnerable to HIV, in
• § 120973 — The following definitions apply for purposes of this chapter: (a) “ADAP” means the AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
• § 120973.5 — The State Department of Public Health shall apply the same financial eligibility requirements for the purposes of administering the HIV Care Program as those set forth for the ADAP in Section 120960.
• § 120974 — This chapter shall become operative on April 1, 2020.
• § 120975 — To protect the privacy of individuals who are the subject of testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the following shall apply: Except as provided in Section 1603.
• § 120980 — (a) Any person who negligently discloses results of an HIV test, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 120775, to any third party, in a manner that identifies or provides identifying characteristic
• § 120985 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 120980, the results of an HIV test that identifies or provides identifying characteristics of the person to whom the test results apply may be recorded by the physician
• § 120990 — (a) Prior to ordering a test that identifies infection of a patient with HIV, a medical care provider shall inform the patient that the test is planned, provide information about the test, inform the
• § 120991 — (a) Each patient who has blood drawn at a primary care clinic and who has consented to the HIV test pursuant to Section 120990 shall be offered an HIV test.
• § 120992 — (a) There is hereby created a pilot project, to be administered by the department, in order to assess and make recommendations regarding the effectiveness of the routine offering of an HIV test in the
• § 120995 — Actions taken pursuant to Section 1768.
• § 1210 — (a) A chronic dialysis clinic shall not steer, direct, or advise a patient regarding any specific coverage program option or health care service plan contract.
• § 121000 — Actions taken pursuant to Title 8 (commencing with Section 7500) of Part 3 of the Penal Code shall not be subject to subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, of Section 120980.
• § 121005 — Neither the department nor any blood bank or plasma center, including a blood bank or plasma center owned or operated by a public entity, shall be held liable for any damages resulting from the notifi
• § 12101 — (a) No person shall do any one of the following without first having made application for and received a permit in accordance with this section: (1) Manufacture explosives.
• § 12101.5 — This chapter does not apply to any possession or use by a person licensed as a pyrotechnic operator—special effects first class of 20 pounds or less of smokeless powder, or five pounds or less of blac