SPONSOR: Phelps
This bill provides that when any health care facility is made aware that a health care worker or law enforcement officer, as those terms are defined in the bill, has sustained an exposure to an infectious disease listed in the bill, such facility must notify the worker or officer as soon as practicable but no later than 48 hours after becoming aware of the exposure.
Any first responder who has transported an individual to a health care facility, who has had contact with such an individual during transport, or who has had contact with such an individual as a result of the event or circumstance that required the transport is permitted to submit a request to the health care facility for information on whether the transported individual tests positive for one of the listed infectious diseases during admission or over the course of treatment.
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