California Penal Code

§ 7501

PEN § 7501 Effective Jan 1, 2008Title 8 · Part 3 · Ch. 1

Statute text

In order to address the public health crisis described in Section 7500, it is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following:

(a)Establish a procedure through which custodial and law enforcement personnel are required to report certain situations and may request and be granted a confidential test for HIV or for hepatitis B or C of an inmate convicted of a crime, or a person arrested or taken into custody, if the custodial or law enforcement officer has reason to believe that he or she has come into contact with the blood or semen of an inmate or in any other manner has come into contact with the inmate in a way that could result in HIV infection, or the transmission of hepatitis B or C, based on the latest determinations and conclusions by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the State Department of Public Health on means for the transmission of AIDS or hepatitis B and C, and if appropriate medical authorities, as provided in this title, reasonably believe there is good medical reason for the test.

(b)Permit inmates to file similar requests stemming from contacts with other inmates.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 483, Sec. 44. Effective January 1, 2008.