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SF 1241 Senate Long Description

Relating to health; establishing protocol for occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens in correctional facilities, defining bloodborne pathogens and certain other terms; authorizing corrections employees to request a facility to follow the procedures upon experiencing a significant exposure to bloodborne pathogens and specifying conditions for applicability of the procedures to correctional facilities; specifying certain information required to be given to the inmate and to the employee; providing for disclosure of positive bloodborne pathogen test results; specifying procedures for consent to testing and providing for the testing of available blood with and without consent, specifying certain follow-up information provision requirements; providing for the collection of blood samples with and without consent; prohibiting facility withholding of care or treatment based on inmate consent to testing; limiting the use of test results to diagnostic purposes and prohibiting use in criminal proceedings; providing for the confidentiality of test information and imposing a penalty for unauthorized release; specifying facility protocol requirements for exposure to bloodborne pathogens; facility and health care personnel liability immunity provision (ra)