A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT permitting physicians to notify the parent or guardian of a minor after treating the minor for venereal disease, pregnancy, abuse of controlled substances or alcohol, or emotional disturbance.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 90‑21.4 reads as rewritten:
"§ 90‑21.4.  Responsibility, liability and immunity of physicians.
(a)	Any physician licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina providing health services to a minor under the terms, conditions and circumstances of this Article shall not be held liable in any civil or criminal action for providing such services without having obtained permission from the minor's parent, legal guardian, person standing in loco parentis, or a legal custodian other than a parent when granted specific authority in a custody order to consent to medical or psychiatric treatment. The physician shall not be relieved on the basis of this Article from liability for negligence in the diagnosis and treatment of a minor.
(b)	The physician may notify a parent, legal guardian, person standing in loco parentis, or a legal custodian other than a parent  without the permission of the minor, concerning the medical health services set out in G.S. 90‑21.5(a) after treating the minor, unless notification would, in the opinion of the attending  physician, pose a serious risk to the life or physical health of the minor. If a parent, legal guardian, person standing in loco parentis, or a legal custodian other than a parent when granted specific authority in a custody order to consent to medical or psychiatric treatment contacts the physician concerning the treatment or medical services being provided to the minor, the physician may give information."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2007.