NAC441A.305. Duty of health authority to disclose information of personal nature to certain persons; duties of firefighters, police officers and persons providing emergency medical services; limitation on power of health authority to order test or examination.

     1. Pursuant to subsection 10 of NRS 441A.220, the health authority shall disclose information of a personal nature:

     (a) Provided by a person making a report of a case or suspected case or provided by the person having a communicable disease; or

     (b) Determined by investigation of the health authority,

Ê to a firefighter, police officer or person providing emergency medical services if the information relates to a communicable disease significantly related to that occupation. The communicable diseases which are significantly related to the occupation of a firefighter, police officer or person providing emergency medical services are acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV), diphtheria, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis delta, measles, meningococcal disease, plague, rabies and tuberculosis.

     2. Information of a personal nature must not be disclosed to a firefighter, police officer or person providing emergency medical services pursuant to subsection 1 unless the health authority has determined that the person has been exposed, in a manner likely to cause transmission of a communicable disease specified in subsection 1, to blood, semen, vaginal secretions, saliva, urine, feces, respiratory secretions or other body fluids which are known, through laboratory confirmation, or reasonably suspected by the health authority to contain the causative agent of a communicable disease specified in subsection 1.

     3. A firefighter, police officer or person providing emergency medical services shall report to his or her employing agency any exposure to blood, semen, vaginal secretions, saliva, urine, feces, respiratory secretions or other body fluids in a manner likely to have allowed transmission of a communicable disease. Upon receiving the report, the employing agency shall immediately make available to the exposed employee a confidential medical evaluation and follow-up, in accordance with the postexposure evaluation and follow-up described in the relevant portions of 29 C.F.R. 1910.1030(f).

     4. The health authority making a disclosure pursuant to subsection 1 may disclose only that information of a personal nature which is necessary for the protection of the exposed firefighter, police officer or person providing emergency medical services.

     5. The health authority shall not order a medical test or examination solely for the purpose of determining the exposure of a firefighter, police officer or person providing emergency medical services to a carrier of a communicable disease.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 1-24-92; A 10-22-93)