BS
Boise Standard
Treasure Valley · AI Directory
42 U.S.C. · The Public Health and Welfare
42 U.S.C. § 1397j1

General provisions

Ch. 7 — SOCIAL SECURITY
Title 42 U.S.C. ● ACTIVE Primary Source Ch. 7
Statutory Text

42 U.S.C. § 1397j1 — General provisions

U.S.C. Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE 42 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 7 - SOCIAL SECURITY SUBCHAPTER XX - BLOCK GRANTS AND PROGRAMS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND ELDER JUSTICE Division B - Elder Justice Sec. 1397j-1 - General provisions From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§1397j–1. General provisions

(a) Protection of privacy In pursuing activities under this division, the Secretary shall ensure the protection of individual health privacy consistent with the regulations promulgated under section 264(c) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and applicable State and local privacy regulations. (b) Rule of construction Nothing in this division shall be construed to interfere with or abridge an elder's right to practice his or her religion through reliance on prayer alone for healing when this choice— (1) is contemporaneously expressed, either orally or in writing, with respect to a specific illness or injury which the elder has at the time of the decision by an elder who is competent at the time of the decision; (2) is previously set forth in a living will, health care proxy, or other advance directive document that is validly executed and applied under State law; or (3) may be unambiguously deduced from the elder's life history.

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XX, §2012, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title VI, §6703(a)(1)(C), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 785.)

Editorial Notes

References in Text Section 264(c) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, referred to in subsec. (a), is section 264(c) of Pub. L. 104–191, which is set out as a note under section 1320d–2 of this title.

Source: uscode.house.gov — public domain Official Source ↗
Root-LD Entity Data
◈ Machine-Readable Provenance Record Root-LD v1.0 · boisestandard.org
Federation ID
BS-USC42-SEC-913E11
Entity Class
STATUTE / FEDERAL-CODE-SECTION
Domain Signature
boisestandard.org
Citation
42 U.S.C. § 1397j1
Jurisdiction
Federal — United States
Status
✓ ACTIVE
Source
PRIMARY-SOURCE
Source Verified
✓ TRUE
Content Hash
c9ffb683a4271cd5...
Semantic Edges
Pending — corpus passes queued
The statutory text of 42 U.S.C. § 1397j1 is reproduced from the official United States Code as published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives (uscode.house.gov).
Navigate Corpus — Title 42
← 42 U.S.C. § 1397j 42 U.S.C. § 1397k →
Ch. 7 — SOCIAL SECURITY
42 U.S.C. § 30142 U.S.C. § 30242 U.S.C. § 30342 U.S.C. § 30442 U.S.C. § 30542 U.S.C. § 30642 U.S.C. § 40142 U.S.C. § 401a42 U.S.C. § 40242 U.S.C. § 40342 U.S.C. § 40442 U.S.C. § 40542 U.S.C. § 405a42 U.S.C. § 405b42 U.S.C. § 40642 U.S.C. § 40742 U.S.C. § 40842 U.S.C. § 40942 U.S.C. § 41042 U.S.C. § 410a42 U.S.C. § 41142 U.S.C. § 41242 U.S.C. § 41342 U.S.C. § 41442 U.S.C. § 41542 U.S.C. § 41642 U.S.C. § 41742 U.S.C. § 41842 U.S.C. § 418a42 U.S.C. § 419
42 U.S.C. — public domain ← All Legislation
◈ Provenance
boisestandard.org → United States → Law → U.S. Code → Title 42 → 42 U.S.C. § 1397j1