Sec. 4. Informed consent.
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Sec. 4. Informed consent. No person may order an HIV test without first providing pre-test information, as defined under subsection (w-5) of Section 3 of this Act, and receiving the informed consent of the subject of the test or the subject's legally authorized representative in accordance with paragraph
(1)or
(2)of subsection
(q)of Section 3 of this Act.
A health care provider, health care professional, or health care facility conducting opt-in testing and obtaining informed consent pursuant to paragraph
(1)of subsection
(q)of Section 3 shall document verbal or written consent in the general consent for medical care, a separate consent form, or elsewhere in the medical record.
A health care provider, health care professional, or health care facility conducting opt-out testing pursuant to paragraph
(2)of subsection
(q)of Section 3 shall document the subject's or the subject's legally authorized representative's declination of the test in the medical record. Individual documentation of the provision of pre-test information to each test subject is not required. A health care provider, health care professional, or health facility conducting opt-out testing and shall establish and implement a written procedure for conducting opt-out testing pursuant to paragraph
(2)of subsection
(q)of Section 3 and for providing pre-test information, as that term is defined under subsection (w-5) of Section 3 of this Act.