LRB-2577/1
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1997 - 1998 LEGISLATURE
April 11, 1997 - Introduced by Representatives Wasserman, Walker, Freese, Krug,
La Fave, Albers, Brandemuehl, Duff, Goetsch, Gunderson, Handrick, Hahn,
Hasenohrl, Kedzie, Ladwig, Lazich, F. Lasee, Meyer, Musser, Ryba, Seratti,
Skindrud, Springer and
Vrakas, cosponsored by Senators Rosenzweig, Rude,
Panzer, Huelsman, Weeden, Farrow, Welch, Schultz and Fitzgerald.
Referred to Committee on Health.
AB280,1,2
1An Act to amend 252.15 (5) (a) 14. of the statutes;
relating to: disclosure of
2human immunodeficiency virus test results by attending physicians.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, if a person is tested for HIV (the virus that causes acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome,which is otherwise known as AIDS), the results of that
test are confidential. The subject of the test may disclose the results to anyone, but
unless the subject or his or her health care agent has authorized further disclosure,
it may not be made except by certain persons or in certain circumstances. One of
these exceptions applies if the test subject is deceased and his or her test results were
positive; in that instance, the subject's attending physician may notify persons, if
they are known to the physician, with whom the test subject has had sexual contact
or has shared intravenous paraphernalia.
This bill changes current law to permit the attending physician of a person who
has tested positive for the presence of HIV to disclose the test results to the person's
spouse, if any, and, if the physician knows of them, to other persons with whom the
person has had sexual contact or has shared intravenous paraphernalia. The bill
eliminates the requirement that the test subject be deceased before the attending
physician may make these disclosures.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB280, s. 1
1Section
1. 252.15 (5) (a) 14. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB280,2,62
252.15
(5) (a) 14. If the test results of a test administered to an individual are
3positive
and the individual is deceased, by the individual's attending physician, to
4persons
, if known to the physician, with whom the individual has had sexual contact
5or has shared intravenous drug use paraphernalia
, if known to the physician, and
6to the individual's spouse, if any.
