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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 141.23, subsection 1, Code 1995, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  k.  The parents and the physician named by
  1  4 the parents of a newly born infant if an HIV-related test is
  1  5 performed on a newly born infant pursuant to section 141.23A.
  1  6    Sec. 2.  Section 141.23A, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  1  7 follows:
  1  8    141.23A  HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS EPIDEMIOLOGICAL
  1  9 STUDIES &endash; BLINDED STUDIES PROHIBITED.
  1 10    1.  The department with the approval of the state board of
  1 11 health may conduct epidemiological blinded and nonblinded
  1 12 studies to determine the incidence and prevalence of the human
  1 13 immunodeficiency virus infection.  Initiation of any new
  1 14 epidemiological studies shall be contingent upon the receipt
  1 15 of funding sufficient to cover all the costs associated with
  1 16 the studies.
  1 17    2.  In blinded studies personal identifiers shall be
  1 18 permanently stripped from the specimens selected prior to
  1 19 testing for the human immunodeficiency virus infection.  The
  1 20 informed consent and reporting and counseling requirements of
  1 21 sections 141.8 and 141.22 do not apply.  The department shall
  1 22 not conduct blinded epidemiological studies.
  1 23    For the purposes of this section, "blinded epidemiological
  1 24 studies" means studies in which specimens which were collected
  1 25 for other purposes are selected according to established
  1 26 criteria, are permanently stripped of personal identifiers,
  1 27 and are then tested.
  1 28    For the purposes of this section, "nonblinded
  1 29 epidemiological studies" means studies in which specimens are
  1 30 collected for the express purpose of testing for the human
  1 31 immunodeficiency virus infection and persons included in the
  1 32 nonblinded study are selected according to established
  1 33 criteria.  Sections 141.8 and 141.22 apply to nonblinded
  1 34 epidemiological studies.  
  1 35                           EXPLANATION
  2  1    This bill prohibits the conducting of blinded human
  2  2 immunodeficiency virus epidemiological studies by the Iowa
  2  3 department of public health.  The bill also requires that if a
  2  4 human immunodeficiency HIV-related test is conducted on a
  2  5 newly born infant, the test results are to be released to the
  2  6 parents of the infant and to the physician named by the
  2  7 parents of the infant.  The bill provides an exemption to the
  2  8 confidentiality requirements relating to HIV-related testing
  2  9 in order to allow for release of test results to the parents
  2 10 and physician of the newly born infant.  
  2 11 LSB 1117XS 76
  2 12 pf/sc/14.1
     
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