California Health and Safety Code

§ 24177.5

HSC § 24177.5 Effective Jan 1, 2014Div. 20 · Ch. 1.3

Statute text

(a)This chapter does not apply to a medical experimental treatment that benefits a patient subject to a life-threatening emergency if all of the following conditions are met:

(1)Care is provided in accordance with the procedures and the additional protections of the rights and welfare of the patient set forth in Part 50 of Title 21 of, and Part 46 of Title 45 of, the Code of Federal Regulations, in effect on April 1, 2012.

(2)The patient is in a life-threatening emergency necessitating urgent intervention and available treatments are unproven or unsatisfactory.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 547, Sec. 1. (AB 58) Effective January 1, 2014.