California Business and Professions Code

§ 1241

BPC § 1241 Effective Aug 22, 2014Div. 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)This chapter applies to all clinical laboratories in California or receiving biological specimens originating in California for the purpose of performing a clinical laboratory test or examination, and to all persons performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations or engaging in clinical laboratory practice in California or on biological specimens originating in California, except as provided in subdivision (b).

(b)This chapter shall not apply to any of the following clinical laboratories, or to persons performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations in any of the following clinical laboratories:

(1)Those owned and operated by the United States of America, or any department, agency, or official thereof acting in his or her official capacity to the extent that the Secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services has modified the application of CLIA requirements to those laboratories.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 269, Sec. 1. (AB 2143) Effective August 22, 2014.