Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 99 amends the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act to require a hospital, in a case of accidental exposure of a health care worker to blood or other body fluids of a patient in a licensed hospital and following a report of the exposure incident, to take reasonable steps to test the patient for hepatitis B or hepatitis C. The test may be performed without the patient's specific consent. The act requires a facility to have a policy concerning the disclosure of the result of the testing as authorized or required by law and to abide by patient confidentiality standards.