Bill Text: OR HB2967 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to clinical laboratories.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2967 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB2967-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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LC 3042

                         House Bill 2967

Sponsored by Representative JENSON (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires clinical laboratory to provide results of test to
patient immediately upon patient's request.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to clinical laboratories; amending ORS 438.430.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 438.430 is amended to read:
  438.430. (1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 438.010 to
438.510, a clinical laboratory shall examine specimens only at
the request of a physician, dentist, or other person authorized
by law to use the findings of laboratory examinations.
  (2) A person may not report the result of any test,
examination, or analysis of a specimen submitted for evidence of
human disease except to:
  (a) The patient; and
  (b) A physician, dentist, their agents, or other person
authorized by law to employ the results thereof in the conduct of
a practice or in the fulfillment of official duties.
  (3) A clinical laboratory shall provide the results of a test,
examination or analysis of a specimen submitted by a patient in
writing to the patient  { - : - }
    { - (a) Not sooner than seven days after receiving a request
for the results from the patient; or - }
    { - (b) Immediately upon receiving authorization from the
doctor, dentist or other person who requested the test,
examination or analysis to provide the results to the patient - }
 { +  immediately upon the patient's request + }.
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