(a) In general 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) Definitions For purposes of this section:
(1) Spouse
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) HIV-infected patient
The term HIV-infected patient means any individual who has been diagnosed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
(3) State
The term State means any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, or any territory of the United States.
