Legislation

• 2008 Maryland House Bill 991
  Alters requirements for health care providers to obtain informed consent for HIV testing; establishes procedures for referral for treatment and supportive services for individuals who test positive; requires specified health care providers to notify pregnant women that they will be tested for HIV infection as part of routine tests; requires specified health care providers to test specified patients; makes an exception.
  • MD HB 991 Fiscal Note
  • Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Memo
  • MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society, the OB-GYN Society of Maryland, and the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Support
    

• 2009 Connecticut House Bill 6391
  Relates to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) testing consent law; provides that a person who has provided general consent for medical procedures is not required to also sign a specific informed consent form for HIV tests; provides that general consent may include counseling and the patient can choose not to be tested; provides exception from liability for ordering such test without specific informed consent; provides for documentation in the medical record if a patient declines HIV testing.
   
• 2009 Delaware Senate Bill 86
  This Bill removes the stigma of HIV testing for pregnant women by including it in the standard battery of tests administered for all pregnant women. It will have the added beneficial effect of decreasing the rate of neonatal infection of HIV. It preserves the right of a pregnant woman to opt out of receiving the test.