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. (a) Any health practitioner employed in a health facility,
clinic, physician's office, local or state public health department,
or a clinic or other type of facility operated by a local or state
public health department who, in his or her professional capacity or
within the scope of his or her employment, provides medical services
for a physical condition to a patient whom he or she knows or
reasonably suspects is a person described as follows, shall
immediately make a report in accordance with subdivision (b):
(1) Any person suffering from any wound or other physical injury
inflicted by his or her own act or inflicted by another where the
injury is by means of a firearm.
(2) Any person suffering from any wound or other physical injury
inflicted upon the person where the injury is the result of
assaultive or abusive conduct.
(b) Any health practitioner employed in a health facility, clinic,
physician's office, local or state public health department, or a
clinic or other type of facility operated by a local or state public
health department shall make a report regarding persons described in
subdivision (a) to a local law enforcement agency as follows:
(1) A report by telephone shall be made immediately or as soon as
practically possible.
(2) A written report shall be prepared on the standard form
developed in compliance with paragraph (4) of this subdivision, and
Section 11160.2, and adopted by the Office of Emergency Services, or
on a form developed and adopted by another state agency that
otherwise fulfills the requirements of the standard form. The
completed form shall be sent to a local law enforcement agency within
two working days of receiving the information regarding the person.
(3) A local law enforcement agency shall be notified and a written
report shall be prepared and sent pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2)
even if the person who suffered the wound, other injury, or
assaultive or abusive conduct has expired, regardless of whether or
not the wound, other injury, or assaultive or abusive conduct was a
factor contributing to the death, and even if the evidence of the
conduct of the perpetrator of the wound, other injury, or assaultive
or abusive conduct was discovered during an autopsy.
(4) The report shall include, but shall not be limited to, the
following:
(A) The name of the injured person, if known.
(B) The injured person's whereabouts.
(C) The character and extent of the person's injuries.
(D) The identity of any person the injured person alleges
inflicted the wound, other injury, or assaultive or abusive conduct
upon the injured person.
(c) For the purposes of this section, "injury" shall not include
any psychological or physical condition brought about solely through
the voluntary administration of a narcotic or restricted dangerous
drug.
(d) For the purposes of this section, "assaultive or abusive
conduct" shall include any of the following offenses:
(1) Murder, in violation of Section 187.
(2) Manslaughter, in violation of Section 192 or 192.5.
(3) Mayhem, in violation of Section 203.
(4) Aggravated mayhem, in violation of Section 205.
(5) Torture, in violation of Section 206.
(6) Assault with intent to commit mayhem, rape, sodomy, or oral
copulation, in violation of Section 220.
(7) Administering controlled substances or anesthetic to aid in
commission of a felony, in violation of Section 222.
(8) Battery, in violation of Section 242.
(9) Sexual battery, in violation of Section 243.4.
(10) Incest, in violation of Section 285.
(11) Throwing any vitriol, corrosive acid, or caustic chemical
with intent to injure or disfigure, in violation of Section 244.
(12) Assault with a stun gun or taser, in violation of Section
244.5.
(13) Assault with a deadly weapon, firearm, assault weapon, or
machinegun, or by means likely to produce great bodily injury, in
violation of Section 245.
(14) Rape, in violation of Section 261.
(15) Spousal rape, in violation of Section 262.
(16) Procuring any female to have sex with another man, in
violation of Section 266, 266a, 266b, or 266c.
(17) Child abuse or endangerment, in violation of Section 273a or
273d.
(18) Abuse of spouse or cohabitant, in violation of Section 273.5.
(19) Sodomy, in violation of Section 286.
(20) Lewd and lascivious acts with a child, in violation of
Section 288.
(21) Oral copulation, in violation of Section 288a.
(22) Sexual penetration, in violation of Section 289.
(23) Elder abuse, in violation of Section 368.
(24) An attempt to commit any crime specified in paragraphs (1) to
(23), inclusive.
(e) When two or more persons who are required to report are
present and jointly have knowledge of a known or suspected instance
of violence that is required to be reported pursuant to this section,
and when there is an agreement among these persons to report as a
team, the team may select by mutual agreement a member of the team to
make a report by telephone and a single written report, as required
by subdivision (b). The written report shall be signed by the
selected member of the reporting team. Any member who has knowledge
that the member designated to report has failed to do so shall
thereafter make the report.
(f) The reporting duties under this section are individual, except
as provided in subdivision (e).
(g) No supervisor or administrator shall impede or inhibit the
reporting duties required under this section and no person making a
report pursuant to this section shall be subject to any sanction for
making the report. However, internal procedures to facilitate
reporting and apprise supervisors and administrators of reports may
be established, except that these procedures shall not be
inconsistent with this article. The internal procedures shall not
require any employee required to make a report under this article to
disclose his or her identity to the employer.
(h) For the purposes of this section, it is the Legislature's
intent to avoid duplication of information.