§ 300ff–27a. Spousal notification

• (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not make a grant under part B of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300ff–21 et seq.) to any State unless such State takes administrative or legislative action to require that a good faith effort be made to notify a spouse of a known HIV-infected patient that such spouse may have been exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus and should seek testing.
• (b) For purposes of this section:
  • (1) The term “spouse” means any individual who is the marriage partner of an HIV-infected patient, or who has been the marriage partner of that patient at any time within the 10-year period prior to the diagnosis of HIV infection.
  • (2) The term “HIV-infected patient” means any individual who has been diagnosed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
  • (3) The term “State” means any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, or any territory of the United States.