California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 13 - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Immunization

• Section 121250.
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a)  The rapidly spreading AIDS epidemic poses an unprecedented major public health crisis in California, and threatens,...
• Section 121255.
  The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following:(a)  Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the virus human T-cell lymphotropic virus, type...
• Section 121260.
  The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following:(a)  The average cost per patient in the treatment of AIDS until death is now one...
• Section 121265.
  “State,” as used in this chapter, has the same meaning as set forth in Section 900.6 of the Government Code.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415,...
• Section 121270.
  (a) There is hereby created the AIDS Vaccine Victims Compensation Fund.(b) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) “AIDS vaccine” means a vaccine that (A)...
• Section 121275.
  (a) Because the development of a vaccine now costs somewhere between twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) and forty million dollars ($40,000,000), and because the last vaccine produced...
• Section 121280.
  (a)  In enacting this section the Legislature finds and declares: (1)  It is in the interest of the people of California to develop a vaccine...
• Section 121281.
  In order to assist pharmacists and pharmacy personnel in the education of consumers who are at risk of bloodborne infections regarding methods and opportunities for...

Last modified: October 22, 2018