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Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session

SB 547

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informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases.

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, with some specific exceptions, a patient's health care

records, as well as the results of a test for the presence of HIV, are released only with

the patient's or test subject's consent. One exception is the release of a prisoner's

health care records to the prisoner's health care provider, the medical staff in the

prison or jail, or a person maintaining prisoner medical records. This bill permits

health care disclosures about a prisoner to persons designated to have custodial

authority over the prisoner or who are responsible for transferring a prisoner to or

from a prison or jail if both of the following apply: 1) the prisoner is found to have

a communicable disease or an HIV test conducted on the prisoner was positive for

the presence of HIV; and 2) the disclosure is necessary for the health and safety of

the prisoner, other prisoners, the person having custodial authority, the person

responsible for transferring the prisoner, or an employee of the prison or jail.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Lasee (R) , Cowles (R) , Darling (R) , Hopper (R) , Leibham (R) , Olsen (R) , Schultz (R)

15 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Bies (R) , Brooks (R) , Gunderson (R) , Hraychuck (D) , J. Fitzgerald (R) , Kapanke (R) , Knodl (R) , Montgomery (R) , Murtha (R) , Nerison (R) , Ripp (R) , Spanbauer (R) , Suder (R) , Vos (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by committee on Public Health, Senior Issues, Long-Term Care, and Job Creation, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Apr 6, 2010 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Feb 18, 2010 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Hopper, Cowles, Schultz, A. Lasee, Darling, Leibham and Olsen;Cosponsored by Representatives Suder, Spanbauer, Ripp, Hraychuck, J. Fitzgerald, Montgomery, Brooks, Murtha, Vos, Ballweg, Knodl, Gunderson, Bies and Nerison

  2. Feb 18, 2010 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Public Health, Senior Issues, Long-Term Care, and Job Creation

  3. Mar 25, 2010 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 31, 2010 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Apr 6, 2010 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Apr 6, 2010 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by committee on Public Health, Senior Issues, Long-Term Care, and Job Creation, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Apr 6, 2010 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Apr 8, 2010 · Senate

    Senator Kapanke added as a coauthor

  9. Apr 28, 2010 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1