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  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 42USC300ff-88]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
            SUBCHAPTER XXIV--HIV HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROGRAM
 
                  Part E--Emergency Response Employees
 
  subpart ii--notifications of possible exposure to infectious diseases
 
Sec. 300ff-88. Rules of construction


(a) Liability of medical facilities and designated officers

    This subpart may not be construed to authorize any cause of action 
for damages or any civil penalty against any medical facility, or any 
designated officer, for failure to comply with the duties established in 
this subpart.

(b) Testing

    This subpart may not, with respect to victims of emergencies, be 
construed to authorize or require a medical facility to test any such 
victim for any infectious disease.

(c) Confidentiality

    This subpart may not be construed to authorize or require any 
medical facility, any designated officer of emergency response 
employees, or any such employee, to disclose identifying information 
with respect to a victim of an emergency or with respect to an emergency 
response employee.

(d) Failure to provide emergency services

    This subpart may not be construed to authorize any emergency 
response employee to fail to respond, or to deny services, to any victim 
of an emergency.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, Sec. 2688, as added Pub. L. 101-381, 
title IV, Sec. 411(a), Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 627.)
