The Legislature finds and declares it is of great benefit to the public health and essential to the protection of safe blood and blood components available for transfusion to provide testing for the presence of antibodies to the probable causative agent of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a function separate from the donation of blood or blood components.
Source:
Section 120885, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=120885..