Tuberculosis Control Act

The Tuberculosis Control Act governs a state's public health response to tuberculosis, creating a dedicated tuberculosis control division with rulemaking authority and the power to run field treatment clinics and hospitals, acquire and dispose of property, enter contracts, hire hospital administrative staff, and keep records and data. It sets the financial terms of that system, classifying expenditures, addressing billing and free treatment, making hospitalization broadly available, and structuring fiscal policy so the program qualifies for federal and other outside aid. It also supplies the compulsory machinery: reporting of persons known or suspected to be infected, with immunity for those who report; examination and quarantine of suspected cases under defined standards for when quarantine begins and ends; detention facilities and incarceration of those who violate quarantine, subject to a stated procedure and a right of appeal; and release into voluntary hospital treatment with the possibility of recommitment.

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