2014 US Code
Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare (Sections 1 - 18445)
Chapter 6A - Public Health Service (Sections 201 - 300mm-61)
Subchapter XXIV - HIV Health Care Services Program (Sections 300ff - 300ff-140)
Part B - Care Grant Program (Sections 300ff-21 - 300ff-38)
Subpart i - General Grant Provisions (Sections 300ff-21 - 300ff-31b)
Sec. 300ff-27a - Spousal notification
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 6A - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SUBCHAPTER XXIV - HIV HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROGRAM Part B - Care Grant Program subpart i - general grant provisions Sec. 300ff-27a - Spousal notification |
Contains | section 300ff-27a |
Date | 2014 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 104-146, §8, May 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1372. |
Statutes at Large References | 58 Stat. 682 110 Stat. 1372 |
Public and Private Laws | Public Law 104-146 |
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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) DefinitionsFor purposes of this section:
(1) SpouseThe 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) HIV-infected patientThe term "HIV-infected patient" means any individual who has been diagnosed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
(3) StateThe term "State" means any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, or any territory of the United States.
(Pub. L. 104–146, §8, May 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1372.)
REFERENCES IN TEXTThe Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, 58 Stat. 682, as amended. 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.
CODIFICATIONSection 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.
EFFECTIVE DATESection effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 13 of Pub. L. 104–146, set out as an Effective Date of 1996 Amendment note under section 300ff–11 of this title.
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