42 U.S.C. § 1396f — Observance of religious beliefs
submitted 91 years ago by Pub. L. 90-248 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 93 words · no verdicts yet
A State with a plan approved under this subchapter may not force a person to undergo medical screening, examination, diagnosis, or treatment, or to accept other health care or services under the plan, when the person objects on religious grounds. This protection does not apply when the purpose is discovering or preventing infection or contagious disease or protecting environmental health.
Nothing in this subchapter should be read to require a State* with an approved plan to force a person* to undergo medical screening, examination, diagnosis, or treatment*, or to accept any other health care or services provided under the plan, for any purpose when the person objects on religious grounds. If the person is a child, the child’s parent* or guardian may make the objection. The protection does not apply when the purpose is discovering or preventing the spread of infection or contagious disease, or protecting environmental health. This section does not define “religious grounds,” “infection,” “contagious disease,” or “environmental health.”
Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to require any State* which has a plan approved under this subchapter to compel any person* to undergo any medical screening, examination, diagnosis, or treatment* or to accept any other health care or services provided under such plan for any purpose (other than for the purpose of discovering and preventing the spread of infection or contagious disease or for the purpose of protecting environmental health), if such person objects (or, in case such person is a child, his parent* or guardian objects) thereto on religious grounds.
Source credit: (Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XIX, § 1907, as added Pub. L. 90–248, title II, § 232, Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 905.)
- 1935Enacted · Pub. L. 90-248 · 81 Stat. 905
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