California Health and Safety Code

§ 120260

HSC § 120260 Effective Jan 1, 2003Div. 105 · Part 1 · Ch. 3.5

Statute text

(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 decisions as well as to take measures to reduce the likelihood of transmitting the infection to others.

(2)Individual health care providers, agents and employees of health care facilities and individual health care providers, and first responders, including police, firefighters, rescue personnel, and other persons who provide the first response to emergencies, frequently come into contact with the blood and other potentially infectious materials of individuals whose communicable disease infection status is not known.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 342, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.