Chapter 583 Oregon Laws 2009

AN ACT

HB 3234

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) Not sooner than seven days after receiving a request from a patient for the results of any test, examination or analysis of a specimen submitted by the patient, a clinical laboratory shall provide the results in writing to the patient.]

(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.

Approved by the Governor June 25, 2009

Filed in the office of Secretary of State June 25, 2009

Effective date January 1, 2010

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