A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to AMEND PUBLIC HEALTH‑RELATED LAWS TO clarify PROCEDURES FOR INVESTIGATING AND CONTROLLING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 15A‑534.3 reads as rewritten:
"§ 15A‑534.3.  Detention for communicable diseases.
If a judicial official conducting an initial appearance or first appearance hearing finds probable cause that an individual had a nonsexual exposure to the defendant in a manner that poses a significant risk of transmission of the AIDS virus or Hepatitis B by such defendant, the judicial official shall order the defendant to be detained for a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 24 hours, for investigation by public health officials and for testing for AIDS virus infection and Hepatitis B infection if required by public health officials pursuant to G.S. 130A‑144 and G.S. 130A‑148."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 130A‑144(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Physicians, persons in charge of medical facilities or laboratories, and other persons shall, upon request and proper identification, permit a local health director or the State Health Director to examine, review, and obtain a copy of medical or other records in their possession or under their control which the State Health Director or a local health director determines pertain to the (i) diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a communicable disease or communicable condition for a person infected, exposed, or reasonably suspected of being infected or exposed to such a disease or condition, or (ii) the investigation of a known or reasonably suspected outbreak of a communicable disease or communicable condition."
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.