California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 7 - Mandated Blood Testing and Confidentiality to Protect Public Health

• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 120985.
  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 120980, the results of an HIV test that identifies or provides identifying characteristics of the person to whom the test results apply...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 120995.
  Actions taken pursuant to Section 1768.9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall not be subject to subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, of Section 120980....
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 121010.
  Notwithstanding Section 120975 or 120980, the results of an HIV test, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 120775, to detect antibodies to the probable...
• Section 121015.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 120980 or any other provision of law, no physician and surgeon who has the results of a confirmed positive test to detect HIV...
• Section 121020.
  (a) (1) When the subject of an HIV test is not competent to give consent for the test to be performed, written consent for the test may...
• Section 121022.
  (a) To ensure knowledge of current trends in the HIV epidemic and to ensure that California remains competitive for federal HIV and AIDS funding, health care...
• Section 121023.
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), each clinical laboratory, as defined in Section 1206 of the Business and Professions Code, shall report all CD4+ T-Cell test results...

Last modified: October 22, 2018