For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(a)“Designated health care services” means gender-affirming health care services or reproductive health care services.
(b)“Designated health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient” means a gender-affirming health care or a gender-affirming mental health care provider, employee, volunteer, or patient, or a reproductive health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient.
(c)“Designated health care services facility” means a gender-affirming health care
services facility or a reproductive health care services facility.
(d)“Gender-affirming health care” and “gender-affirming mental health care” shall have the same meaning as provided in Section 16010.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(a)
“Designated health care services” means gender-affirming health care services or reproductive health care services.
(b)
“Designated health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient” means a gender-affirming health care or a gender-affirming mental health care provider, employee, volunteer, or patient, or a reproductive health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient.
(c)
“Designated health care services facility” means a gender-affirming health care
services facility or a reproductive health care services facility.
(d)
“Gender-affirming health care” and “gender-affirming mental health care” shall have the same meaning as provided in Section 16010.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(e)
“Gender-affirming health care and gender-affirming mental health care provider, employee, volunteer, or patient” means a person who obtains, provides, or assists, at the request of another person, in obtaining or providing gender-affirming health care services, or a person who owns or operates a gender-affirming health care services facility.
(f)
“Gender-affirming health care services facility” includes a hospital, an office operated by a licensed physician and surgeon, a
licensed clinic, or other licensed health care facility that provides gender-affirming health care services and includes only the building or structure in which the gender-affirming health care services are actually provided.
(g)
“Image” includes, but is not limited to, a photograph, video footage, sketch, or computer-generated image that provides a means to visually identify the person depicted.
(h)
“Personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with a reproductive health care services patient, provider, or assistant, including, but not limited to, their name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state
identification card number, license plate number, employment, employment history, and financial information.
(i)
“Publicly post” or “publicly display” means to intentionally communicate or otherwise make available to the general public.
(j)
“Reproductive health care services” means health care services relating to the termination of a pregnancy in a reproductive health care services facility.
(k)
“Reproductive health care services patient, provider, or assistant” means a person or entity, including, but not limited to, employees, staff, volunteers, and third-party vendors, that is or was involved in obtaining, seeking to obtain, providing, seeking to provide, or assisting or seeking to assist another person, at that
person’s request, to obtain or provide any services in a reproductive health care services facility, or a person or entity that is or was involved in owning or operating or seeking to own or operate a reproductive health care services facility.
(l)
“Reproductive health care services facility” includes a hospital, clinic, physician’s office, or other facility that provides or seeks to provide reproductive health care services and includes the building or structure in which the facility is located.
(m)
“Social media” means an electronic service or account, or electronic content, including, but not limited to, videos or still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages, email, online services or accounts, or internet website profiles or
locations.