0001|                            HOUSE BILL 265
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          WILLIAM E. PORTER
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY; AMENDING THE HUMAN
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0012|     IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TEST ACT TO ALLOW EMERGENCY PERSONNEL TO
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0013|     HAVE PATIENTS TESTED WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT UNDER CERTAIN
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0014|     CONDITIONS.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  Section 24-2B-5 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1989,
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0018|     Chapter 227, Section 5) is amended to read:
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0019|          "24-2B-5.  INFORMED CONSENT NOT REQUIRED.--Informed
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0020|     consent for testing is not required and the provisions of
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0021|     Section <s>[1 of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Test Act]</s> <u>24-
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<u></u>0022| <u>    2B-2 NMSA 1978</u> do not apply for:
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0023|               A.  a health care provider or health facility
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0024|     performing a test on the donor or recipient when the health
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0025|     care provider or health facility procures, processes,
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0001|     distributes or uses a human body part, including tissue and
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0002|     blood or blood products, donated for a purpose specified under
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0003|     the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act or for transplant recipients or
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0004|     semen provided for the purpose of artificial insemination and
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0005|     such test is necessary to assure medical acceptability of a
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0006|     recipient or such gift or semen for the purposes intended;
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0007|               B.  the performance of a test in bona fide medical
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0008|     emergencies when the subject of the test is unable to grant or
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0009|     withhold consent and the test results are necessary for medical
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0010|     diagnostic purposes to provide appropriate emergency care or
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0011|     treatment, except that post-test counseling or referral for
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0012|     counseling shall nonetheless be required when the individual is
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0013|     able to receive that post-test counseling.  Necessary treatment
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0014|     shall not be withheld pending test results;
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0015|               C.  the performance of a test for the purpose of
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0016|     research if the testing is performed in a manner by which the
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0017|     identity of the test subject is not known and may not be
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0018|     retrieved by the researcher;
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0019|               D.  the performance of a test in order to provide
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0020|     appropriate care or treatment to a health care worker who may
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0021|     have been exposed to excessive amounts of blood or bodily
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0022|     fluids when the <s>[subject of the test is unable to grant or
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<s></s>0023| <s>    withhold consent and the]</s> test results are necessary for
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0024|     medical diagnostic purposes; or
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0025|               E.  the performance of a test done in a setting
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0001|     where the identity of the test subject is not known, such as in
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0002|     public health testing programs and sexually transmitted disease
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0003|     clinics."
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