(a)
(1) Consent is not required for a health care provider or health care facility to test an individual for an airborne or blood-borne disease when a health care provider or an employee of a health care facility has a type of contact with an individual that may transmit an airborne or blood-borne disease, as determined by a physician in his or her medical judgment.
(2) The results of the tests authorized under subdivision (a)(1) of this section shall be provided by the physician ordering the tests to the affected health care provider's physician or the employee's physician and to the physician of the individual who was tested.
(b)
(1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a person who performs a test under subsection (a) of this section shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability for doing so.
(2) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a person who discloses a test result in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability.
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