Relating to public safety; establishing procedures to secure blood testing of individuals with bodily fluids coming in contact with peace officers, authorizing peace officers and law enforcement agencies to request hospitals or emergency medical care facilities to follow the procedures for peace officers possibly experiencing significant exposure to source individuals; requiring the facilities to follow the procedures under certain specified conditions and providing for location of source individuals; requiring information relating to confidentiality to be given to source individuals before seeking consent and to peace officers before disclosure of information; providing for disclosure of positive bloodborne pathogen test results and providing general procedures for the obtaining of consent; prescribing procedures for the collection and testing of blood samples with or without consent; prohibiting medical facilities from basing admission or care or treatment decisions on source individuals consent requirements; restricting the use of bloodborne pathogen test results to diagnostic and treatment need purposes, prohibiting use of the results as evidence in criminal or civil proceedings; providing for the confidentiality of test information and prescribing penalties for unauthorized release of information; establishing responsibility for testing and treatment costs; specifying certain bloodborne pathogens exposure protocol requirements for law enforcement agencies and medical facilities; prescribing a criminal penalty for willful violations and providing liability immunity against civil, administrative or criminal actions for facilities, licensed physicians and designated health care personnel relating to the disclosure of test results to peace officers or law enforcement agencies and to the testing of blood samples from source individuals for good faith compliance efforts
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