A person participating in good faith in the making of a report, photographs, or X rays, or in the performance of a medically relevant test pursuant to this chapter, or aiding and assisting in an investigation of a child abuse report pursuant to section 232.71, shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, which might otherwise be incurred or imposed. The person shall have the same immunity with respect to participation in good faith in any judicial proceeding resulting from the report or relating to the subject matter of the report.
As used in this section and section 232.77, "medically relevant test" means a test that produces reliable results of exposure to cocaine, heroin, amphetamine, methamphetamine, or other illegal drugs, or combinations or derivatives thereof, including a drug urine screen test. The Iowa department of public health, in consultation with the department of human services and the council on chemically exposed infants and children created in chapter 235C, shall adopt rules specifying minimum standards for reliable results of medically relevant tests. The rules shall include but are not limited to standards which minimize the incidence of false positive test results. The Iowa department of public health shall maintain a list of laboratories which are approved to perform medically relevant tests in accordance with the standards adopted in administrative rules.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 235A.7; C79, 81, § 232.73]
83 Acts, ch 88, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1264, § 28; 95 Acts, ch 182, § 8
Referred to in § 232.2, 232.68, 232.71, 232.77, 232.106
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