PRINTER'S NO. 1438
No. 1166 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY PETERSON, WILLIAMS, GREENWOOD, AFFLERBACH, HOPPER,
O'PAKE, SHUMAKER, REIBMAN, PUNT, STEWART, STOUT, DAWIDA,
BRIGHTBILL, SALVATORE, FUMO, CORMAN, REGOLI, JONES, MADIGAN,
WILT, GREENLEAF, HELFRICK, ROCKS, BAKER, FATTAH, PECORA,
MELLOW AND LOEPER, JULY 7, 1989
REFERRED TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, JULY 7, 1989
AN ACT
1 Providing for the recording and reporting of certain laboratory
2 tests; and imposing additional powers and duties on the
3 Secretary of Health.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Short title.
7 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Human
8 Immunodeficiency Virus Reporting Act.
9 Section 2. Laboratory recording.
10 All laboratories in this Commonwealth performing serologic
11 testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) shall routinely
12 record the number of preliminary HIV tests performed, the number
13 of confirmatory HIV tests performed, and the number of
14 confirmatory HIV tests showing positive results. These records
15 shall not contain information identifying the person whose blood
16 has been tested.
17 Section 3. Laboratory reporting.
1 All records required by section 2 shall be reported to the
2 Department of Health periodically as determined by the Secretary
3 of Health, but no less than once a year.
4 Section 4. Rules and regulations.
5 The Department of Health shall promulgate rules and
6 regulations to carry out the provisions of this act.
7 Section 5. Powers and duties.
8 The Secretary of Health shall correlate the information
9 contained in the reports required under section 3 and report to
10 the General Assembly annually.
11 Section 6. Effective date.
12 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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