Public Act 097-1046
 
SB3673 EnrolledLRB097 17709 RLC 62923 b

    AN ACT concerning human immunodeficiency virus.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The AIDS Confidentiality Act is amended by
changing Section 9 as follows:
 
    (410 ILCS 305/9)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7309)
    Sec. 9. No person may disclose or be compelled to disclose
the identity of any person upon whom a test is performed, or
the results of such a test in a manner which permits
identification of the subject of the test, except to the
following persons:
    (a) The subject of the test or the subject's legally
authorized representative. A physician may notify the spouse of
the test subject, if the test result is positive and has been
confirmed pursuant to rules adopted by the Department, provided
that the physician has first sought unsuccessfully to persuade
the patient to notify the spouse or that, a reasonable time
after the patient has agreed to make the notification, the
physician has reason to believe that the patient has not
provided the notification. This paragraph shall not create a
duty or obligation under which a physician must notify the
spouse of the test results, nor shall such duty or obligation
be implied. No civil liability or criminal sanction under this
Act shall be imposed for any disclosure or non-disclosure of a
test result to a spouse by a physician acting in good faith
under this paragraph. For the purpose of any proceedings, civil
or criminal, the good faith of any physician acting under this
paragraph shall be presumed.
    (b) Any person designated in a legally effective release of
the test results executed by the subject of the test or the
subject's legally authorized representative.
    (c) An authorized agent or employee of a health facility or
health care provider if the health facility or health care
provider itself is authorized to obtain the test results, the
agent or employee provides patient care or handles or processes
specimens of body fluids or tissues, and the agent or employee
has a need to know such information.
    (d) The Department and local health authorities serving a
population of over 1,000,000 residents or other local health
authorities as designated by the Department, in accordance with
rules for reporting and controlling the spread of disease, as
otherwise provided by State law. The Department, local health
authorities, and authorized representatives shall not disclose
information and records held by them relating to known or
suspected cases of AIDS or HIV infection, publicly or in any
action of any kind in any court or before any tribunal, board,
or agency. AIDS and HIV infection data shall be protected from
disclosure in accordance with the provisions of Sections 8-2101
through 8-2105 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
    (e) A health facility or health care provider which
procures, processes, distributes or uses: (i) a human body part
from a deceased person with respect to medical information
regarding that person; or (ii) semen provided prior to the
effective date of this Act for the purpose of artificial
insemination.
    (f) Health facility staff committees for the purposes of
conducting program monitoring, program evaluation or service
reviews.
    (f-5) A court in accordance with the provisions of Section
12-5.01 of the Criminal Code of 1961.
    (g) (Blank).
    (h) Any health care provider or employee of a health
facility, and any firefighter or EMT-A, EMT-P, or EMT-I,
involved in an accidental direct skin or mucous membrane
contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an individual which
is of a nature that may transmit HIV, as determined by a
physician in his medical judgment.
    (i) Any law enforcement officer, as defined in subsection
(c) of Section 7, involved in the line of duty in a direct skin
or mucous membrane contact with the blood or bodily fluids of
an individual which is of a nature that may transmit HIV, as
determined by a physician in his medical judgment.
    (j) A temporary caretaker of a child taken into temporary
protective custody by the Department of Children and Family
Services pursuant to Section 5 of the Abused and Neglected
Child Reporting Act, as now or hereafter amended.
    (k) In the case of a minor under 18 years of age whose test
result is positive and has been confirmed pursuant to rules
adopted by the Department, the health care provider who ordered
the test shall make a reasonable effort to notify the minor's
parent or legal guardian if, in the professional judgment of
the health care provider, notification would be in the best
interest of the child and the health care provider has first
sought unsuccessfully to persuade the minor to notify the
parent or legal guardian or a reasonable time after the minor
has agreed to notify the parent or legal guardian, the health
care provider has reason to believe that the minor has not made
the notification. This subsection shall not create a duty or
obligation under which a health care provider must notify the
minor's parent or legal guardian of the test results, nor shall
a duty or obligation be implied. No civil liability or criminal
sanction under this Act shall be imposed for any notification
or non-notification of a minor's test result by a health care
provider acting in good faith under this subsection. For the
purpose of any proceeding, civil or criminal, the good faith of
any health care provider acting under this subsection shall be
presumed.
(Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)
 
    Section 10. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
changing Section 12-5.01 as follows:
 
    (720 ILCS 5/12-5.01)  (was 720 ILCS 5/12-16.2)
    Sec. 12-5.01. Criminal transmission of HIV.
    (a) A person commits criminal transmission of HIV when he
or she, with the specific intent to commit the offense knowing
that he or she is infected with HIV:
        (1) engages in sexual activity with another without the
    use of a condom knowing that he or she is infected with HIV
    intimate contact with another;
        (2) transfers, donates, or provides his or her blood,
    tissue, semen, organs, or other potentially infectious
    body fluids for transfusion, transplantation,
    insemination, or other administration to another knowing
    that he or she is infected with HIV; or
        (3) dispenses, delivers, exchanges, sells, or in any
    other way transfers to another any nonsterile intravenous
    or intramuscular drug paraphernalia knowing that he or she
    is infected with HIV.
    (b) For purposes of this Section:
    "HIV" means the human immunodeficiency virus or any other
identified causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome.
    "Sexual activity" means the insertive vaginal or anal
intercourse on the part of an infected male, receptive
consensual vaginal intercourse on the part of an infected woman
with a male partner, or receptive consensual anal intercourse
on the part of an infected man or woman with a male partner.
    "Intimate contact with another" means the exposure of the
body of one person to a bodily fluid of another person in a
manner that could result in the transmission of HIV.
    "Intravenous or intramuscular drug paraphernalia" means
any equipment, product, or material of any kind which is
peculiar to and marketed for use in injecting a substance into
the human body.
    (c) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require
that an infection with HIV has occurred in order for a person
to have committed criminal transmission of HIV.
    (d) It shall be an affirmative defense that the person
exposed knew that the infected person was infected with HIV,
knew that the action could result in infection with HIV, and
consented to the action with that knowledge.
    (d-5) A court, upon a finding of reasonable suspicion that
an individual has committed the crime of criminal transmission
of HIV, shall order the production of records of a person
accused of the offense of criminal transmission of HIV or the
attendance of a person with relevant knowledge thereof so long
as the return of the records or attendance of the person
pursuant to the subpoena is submitted initially to the court
for an in camera inspection. Only upon a finding by the court
that the records or proffered testimony are relevant to the
pending offense, the information produced pursuant to the
court's order shall be disclosed to the prosecuting entity and
admissible if otherwise permitted by law.
    (e) A person who commits criminal transmission of HIV
commits a Class 2 felony.
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.