Minnesota Session Laws - 1992, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1992 

                        CHAPTER 425-H.F.No. 2034 
           An act relating to health; allowing persons who 
          voluntarily provide assistance at the scene of an 
          accident to obtain test results to determine whether 
          they have been exposed to HIV or hepatitis B; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 144.761, subdivision 
          5. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 144.761, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 5.  [EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL.] 
"Emergency medical services personnel" means: 
    (1) individuals employed to provide prehospital emergency 
medical services; 
    (2) persons employed as licensed police officers under 
section 626.84, subdivision 1, who experience a significant 
exposure in the performance of their duties; 
    (3) firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical 
technicians, licensed nurses, rescue squad personnel, or other 
individuals who serve as employees or volunteers of an ambulance 
service as defined by sections 144.801 to 144.8091, who provide 
prehospital emergency medical services; 
    (4) crime lab personnel receiving a significant exposure 
while involved in a criminal investigation; and 
    (5) correctional guards, including security guards at the 
Minnesota security hospital, employed by the state or a local 
unit of government who experience a significant exposure to an 
inmate who is transported to a facility for emergency medical 
care; and 
    (6) other persons who render emergency care or assistance 
at the scene of an emergency, or while an injured person is 
being transported to receive medical care, and who would qualify 
for immunity from liability under the good samaritan law, 
section 604.05. 
    Presented to the governor April 6, 1992 
    Signed by the governor April 8, 1992, 5:08 p.m.