---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ff–134"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ff–134"
heading: "Procedures for notification of exposure"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ff-134"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIV — Hiv Health Care Services Program"
  - "Part G — Notification of Possible Exposure to Infectious Diseases"
---

# §300ff–134. Procedures for notification of exposure

- (a) **Contents of notification to officer—** In making a notification required under [section 300ff–132 of this title](/usc/42/300ff–132.md) or [section 300ff–133(d)(2) of this title](/usc/42/300ff–133.md?p=d-2), a [medical facility](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=11) shall provide—
  - (1) the name of the infectious disease involved; and
  - (2) the date on which the victim of the emergency involved was transported by emergency response [employees](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5) to the [medical facility](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=11) involved.
- (b) **Manner of notification—** If a notification under [section 300ff–132 of this title](/usc/42/300ff–132.md) or [section 300ff–133(d)(2) of this title](/usc/42/300ff–133.md?p=d-2) is mailed or otherwise indirectly made—
  - (1) the [medical facility](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=11) sending the notification shall, upon sending the notification, inform the designated officer to whom the notification is sent of the fact that the notification has been sent; and
  - (2) such designated officer shall, not later than 10 days after being informed by the [medical facility](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=11) that the notification has been sent, inform such [medical facility](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=11) whether the designated officer has received the notification.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, § 2695C, as added Pub. L. 111–87, § 13, Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2901.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective as if enacted on Sept. 30, 2009, see section 2(a)(3)(B) of Pub. L. 111–87, set out as an Effective Date of 2009 Amendment; Revival of Section note under section 300ff–11 of this title.