---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ff–137"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ff–137"
heading: "Limitation with respect to duties of medical facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ff-137"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIV — Hiv Health Care Services Program"
  - "Part G — Notification of Possible Exposure to Infectious Diseases"
---

# §300ff–137. Limitation with respect to duties of medical facilities


The duties established in this part for a [medical facility](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=11)—

- (1) shall apply only to medical information possessed by the facility during the period in which the facility is treating the victim for conditions arising from the emergency, or during the 60-day period beginning on the date on which the victim is transported by emergency response [employees](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5) to the facility, whichever period expires first; and
- (2) shall not apply to any extent after the expiration of the 30-day period beginning on the expiration of the applicable period referred to in [paragraph (1)](#1), except that such duties shall apply with respect to any request under [section 300ff–133(c) of this title](/usc/42/300ff–133.md?p=c) received by a [medical facility](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=11) before the expiration of such 30-day period.

## Source credit

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