HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 897        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2043

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to HLTV 111 Tests..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 70F of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is herby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

Notwithstanding the above, if the person’s blood has come in contact with another person who may be infected thereby, such tests shall be performed and the result made known to the person who may have been infected despite the inability or refusal of the person to give written consent.