GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	2 

SENATE BILL 756
Human Resources Committee Substitute Adopted 5/14/91

Short Title:  AIDS Testing.	(Public)
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April 24, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW TESTING FOR AIDS WHERE APPROPRIATE FOR PATIENT CARE AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130A-148(h) reads as rewritten:
	"(h)  The Commission may authorize or require laboratory tests for AIDS virus infection when necessary to protect the public health.  A physician licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina who is rendering medical services to a person pursuant to consent otherwise adequate under law may order a test for AIDS virus infection without the necessity of separate consent when, in the reasonable medical judgment of the physician, the test is appropriate for treatment of the person or protection of health care workers; however, the person shall receive notification that a test may be performed and information on the test results.
An unemancipated minor may be tested for AIDS virus infection without the consent of the parent or legal guardian of the minor when the parent or guardian has refused to consent to such testing and there is reasonable suspicion that the minor has AIDS virus or HIV infection or that the child has been sexually abused."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.