HEALTH Clinical Laboratories: Amend Provisions for the Disclosure of AIDS Confidential Information and for the Ordering of HIV Tests

The Act creates a new exception to nondisclosure of AIDS confidential information by providing for disclosure of such information in certain proceedings pertaining to incapacitated adults and the mentally ill, mentally retarded, alcoholic or drug dependent person. Also, the Act provides for additional conditions under which an HIV test may be administered without the patient's consent.