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[CITE: 42USC300ff-76]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
            SUBCHAPTER XXIV--HIV HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROGRAM
 
                       Part D--General Provisions
 
Sec. 300ff-76. Definitions

    For purposes of this subchapter:

                           (1) Counseling

        The term ``counseling'' means such counseling provided by an 
    individual trained to provide such counseling.

       (2) Designated officer of emergency response employees

        The term ``designated officer of emergency response employees'' 
    means an individual designated under section 300ff-86 of this title 
    by the public health officer of the State involved.

                            (3) Emergency

        The term ``emergency'' means an emergency involving injury or 
    illness.

                  (4) Emergency response employees

        The term ``emergency response employees'' means firefighters, 
    law enforcement officers, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, 
    funeral-service practitioners, and other individuals (including 
    employees of legally organized and recognized volunteer 
    organizations, without regard to whether such employees receive 
    nominal compensation) who, in the course of professional duties, 
    respond to emergencies in the geographic area involved.

            (5) Employer of emergency response employees

        The term ``employer of emergency response employees'' means an 
    organization that, in the course of professional duties, responds to 
    emergencies in the geographic area involved.

                             (6) Exposed

        The term ``exposed'', with respect to HIV disease or any other 
    infectious disease, means to be in circumstances in which there is a 
    significant risk of becoming infected with the etiologic agent for 
    the disease involved.

                    (7) Families with HIV disease

        The term ``families with HIV disease'' means families in which 
    one or more members have HIV disease.

                               (8) HIV

        The term ``HIV'' means infection with the etiologic agent for 
    acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

                           (9) HIV disease

        The term ``HIV disease'' means infection with the etiologic 
    agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and includes any 
    condition arising from such syndrome.

                     (10) Official poverty line

        The term ``official poverty line'' means the poverty line 
    established by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
    and revised by the Secretary in accordance with section 9902(2) of 
    this title.

                             (11) Person

        The term ``person'' includes one or more individuals, 
    governments (including the Federal Government and the governments of 
    the States), governmental agencies, political subdivisions, labor 
    unions, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal 
    representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, 
    unincorporated organizations, receivers, trustees, and trustees in 
    cases under title 11.

                             (12) State

        The term ``State'', except as otherwise specifically provided, 
    means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin 
    Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
    Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Republic of the Marshall 
    Islands.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, Sec. 2676, as added Pub. L. 101-381, 
title IV, Sec. 401, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 620; amended Pub. L. 104-
146, Sec. 12(a), (c)(8), May 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1373, 1374.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Par. (2). Pub. L. 104-146, Sec. 12(c)(8)(A), substituted 
``section 300ff-86 of this title by the'' for ``section'' and all that 
followed through ``by the''.
    Par. (4). Pub. L. 104-146, Sec. 12(a), inserted ``funeral-service 
practitioners,'' after ``emergency medical technicians,''.
    Par. (10). Pub. L. 104-146, Sec. 12(c)(8)(B), substituted ``section 
9902(2)'' for ``section 9902(a)''.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-146 effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 13 
of Pub. L. 104-146, set out as a note under section 300ff-11 of this 
title.
