Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that authorizes oral, written, electronic, or telephonic consent for contact tracing of contagious diseases.

Highlights:

• Authorizes the governor to adopt an order to trace and monitor contacts of individuals infected with a contagious disease, subject to voluntary participation requiring oral, written, electronic, or telephonic consent (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that if a department, division, board of health, or a person or government entity under contract with any of the foregoing, including a health care facility, engages in efforts to trace and monitor the contacts of individuals infected with a contagious disease, all of the following apply (Sec. 1):

• No individual will be required to comply with tracing and monitoring efforts;

• Each individual contacted for participation in tracing and monitoring efforts must provide oral, written, electronic, or telephonic consent before the next step in the process may proceed;

• No penalty will be imposed on an individual for refusing to participate in the tracing and monitoring process, including withholding medical treatment from the individual based on the refusal; and

• Any record created during the tracing and monitoring process is not a public record.

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