---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ff–136"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ff–136"
heading: "Selection of designated officers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ff-136"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIV — Hiv Health Care Services Program"
  - "Part G — Notification of Possible Exposure to Infectious Diseases"
---

# §300ff–136. Selection of designated officers

- (a) **In general—** For the purposes of receiving notifications and responses and making requests under this part on behalf of emergency response [employees](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5), the public health officer of each [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) shall designate 1 official or officer of each [employer](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-6) of emergency response [employees](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5) in the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f).
- (b) **Preference in making designations—** In making the designations required in [subsection (a)](#a), a public health officer shall give preference to individuals who are trained in the provision of health care or in the control of infectious diseases.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, § 2695E, 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.