252.12(3) (3)Confidentiality of information. The results of any test performed under sub. (2) (a) 5. are confidential and may be disclosed only to the individual who receives a test or to other persons with the informed consent of the test subject. Information other than that released to the test subject, if released under sub. (2) (a) 5., may not identify the test subject.
252.12 History History: 1987 a. 27, 70, 399; 1989 a. 31, 201, 336; 1991 a. 39, 80; 1993 a. 16; 1993 a. 27 ss. 318, 319, 321, 323; Stats. 1993 s. 252.12; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 27, 79.
252.13 252.13 Blood tests for HIV.
252.13(1)(1) In this section, "autologous transfusion" means the receipt by an individual, by transfusion, of whole blood, blood plasma, a blood product or a blood derivative, which the individual has previously had withdrawn from himself or herself for his or her own use.
252.13(1m) (1m) Except as provided under sub. (3), any blood bank, blood center or plasma center in this state that purchases or receives whole blood, blood plasma, a blood product or a blood derivative shall, prior to its distribution or use and with informed consent under the requirements of s. 252.15 (2) (b), subject that blood, plasma, product or derivative to a test or series of tests that the state epidemiologist finds medically significant and sufficiently reliable under sub. (1r) (a) to detect the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV. This subsection does not apply to a blood bank that purchases or receives whole blood, blood plasma, a blood product or a blood derivative from a blood bank, blood center or plasma center in this state if the whole blood, blood plasma, blood product or blood derivative has previously been subjected to a test or series of tests that the state epidemiologist finds medically significant and sufficiently reliable under sub. (1r) (a) to detect the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV.
252.13(1r) (1r) For the purposes of this section, the state epidemiologist shall make separate findings of medical significance and sufficient reliability for a test or a series of tests to detect the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV for each of the following purposes:
252.13(1r)(a) (a) Subjecting whole blood, blood plasma, a blood product or a blood derivative to a test prior to distribution or use of the whole blood, blood plasma, blood product or blood derivative.
252.13(1r)(b) (b) Providing disclosure of test results to the subject of the test.
252.13(2) (2) If performance of a test under sub. (1m) yields a validated test result positive for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV, the whole blood, blood plasma, blood product or blood derivative so tested with this result may not be distributed or used except for purposes of research or as provided under sub. (5).
252.13(3) (3) If a medical emergency, including a threat to the preservation of life of a potential donee, exists under which whole blood, blood plasma, a blood product or a blood derivative that has been subjected to testing under sub. (1m) is unavailable, the requirement of sub. (1m) shall not apply.
252.13(4) (4)Subsections (1m) and (2) do not apply to the extent that federal law or regulations require that a blood bank, blood center or plasma center test whole blood, blood plasma, a blood product or a blood derivative.
252.13(5) (5) Whole blood, blood plasma, a blood product or a blood derivative described under sub. (2) that is voluntarily donated solely for the purpose of an autologous transfusion may be distributed to or used by the person who has donated the whole blood, blood plasma, blood product or blood derivative. No person other than the person who has donated the whole blood, blood plasma, blood product or blood derivative may receive or use the whole blood, blood plasma, blood product or blood derivative unless it has been subjected to a test under sub. (1m) and the test has yielded a negative result for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV.
252.13 History History: 1985 a. 73; 1987 a. 70; 1989 a. 201 ss. 9, 36; 1993 a. 27 ss. 325, 473; Stats. 1993 s. 252.13.
252.14 252.14 Discrimination related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
252.14(1)(1) In this section:
252.14(1)(ad) (ad) "Correctional officer" has the meaning given in s. 301.28 (1).
252.14(1)(am) (am) "Fire fighter" has the meaning given in s. 102.475 (8) (b).
252.14(1)(ar) (ar) "Health care provider" means any of the following:
252.14(1)(ar)1. 1. A nurse licensed under ch. 441.
252.14(1)(ar)2. 2. A chiropractor licensed under ch. 446.
252.14(1)(ar)3. 3. A dentist licensed under ch. 447.
252.14(1)(ar)4. 4. A physician, podiatrist or physical therapist licensed or an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant certified under ch. 448.
252.14(1)(ar)4m. 4m. A dietitian certified under subch. V of ch. 448.
252.14 Note NOTE: Subd. 4m. is shown as affected by two acts of the 1997 legislature and as merged by the revisor under s. 13.93 (2) (c).
252.14(1)(ar)5. 5. An optometrist licensed under ch. 449.
252.14(1)(ar)6. 6. A psychologist licensed under ch. 455.
252.14(1)(ar)7. 7. A social worker, marriage and family therapist or professional counselor certified under ch. 457.
252.14(1)(ar)8. 8. A speech-language pathologist or audiologist licensed under subch. II of ch. 459 or a speech and language pathologist licensed by the department of public instruction.
252.14(1)(ar)9. 9. An employe or agent of any provider specified under subds. 1. to 8.
252.14(1)(ar)10. 10. A partnership of any provider specified under subds. 1. to 8.
252.14(1)(ar)11. 11. A corporation of any provider specified under subds. 1. to 8. that provides health care services.
252.14(1)(ar)12. 12. An operational cooperative sickness care plan organized under ss. 185.981 to 185.985 that directly provides services through salaried employes in its own facility.
252.14(1)(ar)13. 13. An emergency medical technician licensed under s. 146.50 (5).
252.14(1)(ar)14. 14. A physician assistant licensed under ch. 448.
Effective date note NOTE: Subd. 14. is shown as amended eff. 2-1-99 by 1997 Wis. Act 67. Prior to 2-1-99 it reads:
Effective date text 14. A physician assistant certified under ch. 448.
252.14(1)(ar)15. 15. A first responder.
252.14(1)(c) (c) "Home health agency" has the meaning specified in s. 50.49 (1) (a).
252.14(1)(d) (d) "Inpatient health care facility" means a hospital, nursing home, community-based residential facility, county home, county mental health complex, tuberculosis sanatorium or other place licensed or approved by the department under ss. 49.70, 49.71, 49.72, 50.02, 50.03, 50.35, 51.08, 51.09, 58.06, 252.073 and 252.076 or a facility under s. 45.365, 48.62, 51.05, 51.06, 233.40, 233.41, 233.42 or 252.10.
252.14(2) (2) No health care provider, peace officer, fire fighter, correctional officer, state patrol officer, jailer or keeper of a jail or person designated with custodial authority by the jailer or keeper, home health agency, inpatient health care facility or person who has access to a validated test result may do any of the following with respect to an individual who has acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or has a positive test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV, solely because the individual has HIV infection or an illness or medical condition that is caused by, arises from or is related to HIV infection:
252.14(2)(a) (a) Refuse to treat the individual, if his or her condition is within the scope of licensure or certification of the health care provider, home health agency or inpatient health care facility.
252.14(2)(am) (am) If a peace officer, fire fighter, correctional officer, state patrol officer, jailer or keeper of a jail or person designated with custodial authority by the jailer or keeper, refuse to provide services to the individual.
252.14(2)(b) (b) Provide care to the individual at a standard that is lower than that provided other individuals with like medical needs.
252.14(2)(bm) (bm) If a peace officer, fire fighter, correctional officer, state patrol officer, jailer or keeper of a jail or person designated with custodial authority by the jailer or keeper, provide services to the individual at a standard that is lower than that provided other individuals with like service needs.
252.14(2)(c) (c) Isolate the individual unless medically necessary.
252.14(2)(d) (d) Subject the individual to indignity, including humiliating, degrading or abusive treatment.
252.14(3) (3) A health care provider, home health agency or inpatient health care facility that tests an individual for HIV infection shall provide counseling about HIV and referral for appropriate health care and support services as necessary. A health care provider, home health agency or inpatient health care facility that treats an individual who has an HIV infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome shall develop and follow procedures that shall ensure continuity of care for the individual in the event that his or her condition exceeds the scope of licensure or certification of the provider, agency or facility.
252.14(4) (4) Any person violating sub. (2) is liable to the patient for actual damages and costs, plus exemplary damages of up to $5,000 for an intentional violation. In determining the amount of exemplary damages, a court shall consider the ability of a health care provider who is an individual to pay exemplary damages.
252.14 History History: 1989 a. 201; 1991 a. 32, 39, 160, 189, 269, 315; 1993 a. 27 ss. 326 to 331; Stats. 1993 s. 252.14; 1993 a. 105, 190, 252, 443; 1993 a. 490 s. 143; 1993 a. 491, 495; 1995 a. 27 ss. 6322, 9145 (1); 1997 a. 27, 35, 67, 75, 175; s. 13.93 (2) (c).
252.15 252.15 Restrictions on use of a test for HIV.
252.15(1) (1)Definitions. In this section:
252.15(1)(ab) (ab) "Affected person" means an emergency medical technician, first responder, fire fighter, peace officer, correctional officer, person who is employed at a secured correctional facility, as defined in s. 938.02 (15m), or at a secured child caring institution, as defined in s. 938.02 (15g), state patrol officer, jailer or keeper of a jail or person designated with custodial authority by the jailer or keeper, health care provider, employe of a health care provider or staff member of a state crime laboratory.
252.15(1)(ad) (ad) "Correctional officer" has the meaning given in s. 301.28 (1).
252.15(1)(af) (af) "Emergency medical technician" has the meaning given in s. 146.50 (1) (e).
252.15(1)(aj) (aj) "Fire fighter" has the meaning given in s. 102.475 (8) (b).
252.15(1)(am) (am) "Health care professional" means a physician who is licensed under ch. 448 or a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse who is licensed under ch. 441.
252.15(1)(ar) (ar) "Health care provider" means any of the following:
252.15(1)(ar)1. 1. A person or entity that is specified in s. 146.81 (1), but does not include a massage therapist or bodyworker issued a license of registration under subch. X [XI] of ch. 440.
Effective date note NOTE: Subd. 1. is shown as amended eff. 2-1-99 by 1997 Wis. Act 156. The bracketed language indicates the correct cross-references as renumbered by the revisor under s. 13.93 (1) (b). Prior to 2-1-99 it reads:
Effective date text 1. A person or entity that is specified in s. 146.81 (1).
252.15(1)(ar)2. 2. A home health agency.
252.15(1)(ar)3. 3. An employe of the Mendota mental health institute or the Winnebago mental health institute.
252.15(1)(cm) (cm) "Home health agency" has the meaning given in s. 50.49 (1) (a).
252.15(1)(d) (d) "Informed consent for testing or disclosure" means consent in writing on an informed consent for testing or disclosure form by a person to the administration of a test to him or her for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV or to the disclosure to another specified person of the results of a test administered to the person consenting.
252.15(1)(e) (e) "Informed consent for testing or disclosure form" means a printed document on which a person may signify his or her informed consent for testing for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV or authorize the disclosure of any test results obtained.
252.15(1)(eg) (eg) "Relative" means a spouse, parent, grandparent, stepparent, brother, sister, first cousin, nephew or niece; or uncle or aunt within the 3rd degree of kinship as computed under s. 852.03 (2), 1995 stats. This relationship may be by consanguinity or direct affinity.
252.15 Note NOTE: Section 852.03 (2), 1995 stats., is printed in a note following s. 852.03.
252.15(1)(em) (em) "Significantly exposed" means sustained a contact which carries a potential for a transmission of HIV, by one or more of the following:
252.15(1)(em)1. 1. Transmission, into a body orifice or onto mucous membrane, of blood; semen; vaginal secretions; cerebrospinal, synovial, pleural, peritoneal, pericardial or amniotic fluid; or other body fluid that is visibly contaminated with blood.
252.15(1)(em)2. 2. Exchange, during the accidental or intentional infliction of a penetrating wound, including a needle puncture, of blood; semen; vaginal secretions; cerebrospinal, synovial, pleural, peritoneal, pericardial or amniotic fluid; or other body fluid that is visibly contaminated with blood.
252.15(1)(em)3. 3. Exchange, into an eye, an open wound, an oozing lesion, or where a significant breakdown in the epidermal barrier has occurred, of blood; semen; vaginal secretions; cerebrospinal, synovial, pleural, peritoneal, pericardial or amniotic fluid; or other body fluid that is visibly contaminated with blood.
252.15(1)(em)6. 6. Other routes of exposure, defined as significant in rules promulgated by the department. The department in promulgating the rules shall consider all potential routes of transmission of HIV identified by the centers for disease control of the federal public health service.
252.15(1)(fm) (fm) "Universal precautions" means measures that a health care provider, an employe of a health care provider or other individual takes in accordance with recommendations of the federal centers for disease control for the health care provider, employe or other individual for prevention of HIV transmission in health-care settings.
252.15(2) (2)Informed consent for testing or disclosure.
252.15(2)(a)(a) No health care provider, blood bank, blood center or plasma center may subject a person to a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV unless the subject of the test first provides informed consent for testing or disclosure as specified under par. (b), except that consent to testing is not required for any of the following:
252.15(2)(a)1. 1. Except as provided in subd. 1g., a health care provider who procures, processes, distributes or uses a human body part or human tissue donated as specified under s. 157.06 (6) (a) or (b) shall, without obtaining consent to the testing, test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV in order to assure medical acceptability of the gift for the purpose intended. The health care provider shall use as a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV a test or series of tests that the state epidemiologist finds medically significant and sufficiently reliable to detect the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV. If the validated test result of the donor from the test or series of tests performed is positive, the human body part or human tissue donated for use or proposed for donation may not be used.
252.15(2)(a)1g. 1g. If a medical emergency, as determined by the attending physician of a potential donee and including a threat to the preservation of life of the potential donee, exists under which a human body part or human tissue that has been subjected to testing under subd. 1. is unavailable, the requirement of subd. 1. does not apply.
252.15(2)(a)2. 2. The department, a laboratory certified under 42 USC 263a or a health care provider, blood bank, blood center or plasma center may, for the purpose of research and without first obtaining written consent to the testing, subject any body fluids or tissues to a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV if the testing is performed in a manner by which the identity of the test subject is not known and may not be retrieved by the researcher.
252.15(2)(a)3. 3. The medical director of a center for the developmentally disabled, as defined in s. 51.01 (3), or a mental health institute, as defined in s. 51.01 (12), may, without obtaining consent to the testing, subject a resident or patient of the center or institute to a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV if he or she determines that the conduct of the resident or patient poses a significant risk of transmitting HIV to another resident or patient of the center or institute.
252.15(2)(a)4. 4. A health care provider may subject an individual to a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV, without obtaining consent to the testing from the individual, if all of the following apply:
252.15(2)(a)4.a. a. The individual has been adjudicated incompetent under ch. 880, is under 14 years of age or is unable to give consent because he or she is unable to communicate due to a medical condition.
252.15(2)(a)4.b. b. The health care provider obtains consent for the testing from the individual's guardian, if the individual is adjudicated incompetent under ch. 880; from the individual's parent or guardian, if the individual is under 14 years of age; or from the individual's closest living relative or another with whom the individual has a meaningful social and emotional relationship if the individual is not a minor nor adjudicated incompetent.
252.15(2)(a)6. 6. A health care professional acting under an order of the court under subd. 7. or s. 938.296 (4) or 968.38 (4) may, without first obtaining consent to the testing, subject an individual to a test or a series of tests to detect the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV. No sample used for laboratory test purposes under this subdivision may disclose the name of the test subject, and, notwithstanding sub. (4) (c), the test results may not be made part of the individual's permanent medical record.
252.15(2)(a)7.a.a. If all of the conditions under subd. 7. ai. to c. are met, an emergency medical technician, first responder, fire fighter, peace officer, correctional officer, person who is employed at a secured correctional facility, as defined in s. 938.02 (15m), or at a secured child caring institution, as defined in s. 938.02 (15g), state patrol officer, jailer or keeper of a jail or person designated with custodial authority by the jailer or keeper who, during the course of providing care or services to an individual; or a peace officer, correctional officer, state patrol officer, jailer or keeper of a jail or person designated with custodial authority by the jailer or keeper who, while searching or arresting an individual or while controlling or transferring an individual in custody; or a health care provider or an employe of a health care provider who, during the course of providing care or treatment to an individual or handling or processing specimens of body fluids or tissues of an individual; or a staff member of a state crime laboratory who, during the course of handling or processing specimens of body fluids or tissues of an individual; is significantly exposed to the individual may subject the individual's blood to a test or a series of tests for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV and may receive disclosure of the results.
252.15(2)(a)7.ai. ai. The affected person uses universal precautions, if any, against significant exposure, and was using universal precautions at the time that he or she was significantly exposed, except in those emergency circumstances in which the time necessary for use of the universal precautions would endanger the life of the individual.
252.15(2)(a)7.ak. ak. A physician, based on information provided to the physician, determines and certifies in writing that the affected person has been significantly exposed. The certification shall accompany the request for testing and disclosure. If the affected person who is significantly exposed is a physician, he or she may not make this determination or certification. The information that is provided to a physician to document the occurrence of a significant exposure and the physician's certification that an affected person has been significantly exposed, under this subd. 7. ak., shall be provided on a report form that is developed by the department of commerce under s. 101.02 (19) (a) or on a report form that the department of commerce determines, under s. 101.02 (19) (b), is substantially equivalent to the report form that is developed under s. 101.02 (19) (a).
252.15(2)(a)7.am. am. The affected person submits to a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV, as soon as feasible or within a time period established by the department after consulting guidelines of the centers for disease control of the federal public health service, whichever is earlier.
252.15(2)(a)7.ap. ap. Except as provided in subd. 7. av. to c., the test is performed on blood that is drawn for a purpose other than testing for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV.
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