The department shall require reporting by clinical laboratories of evidence of such infectious diseases as the department may specify and shall furnish forms for such reporting. No clinical laboratory making reports shall be held liable for having violated a trust or confidential relationship. The reports submitted shall be deemed confidential and not subject to public inspection.
History. Ga. L. 1970, p. 531, § 6; Ga. L. 2021, p. 472, § 1/HB 93.
The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, deleted the subsection (a) designation, and deleted former subsection (b), which read: “Every director of a clinical laboratory shall report to the department such information regarding the operation of the clinical laboratory as the department by its rules and regulations may require in order to aid in the proper administration of this chapter.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories
§ 31-22-2. Certification of Clinical Laboratories
§ 31-22-6. Power of Board to Promulgate Rules and Regulations
§ 31-22-7. Reports to Department
§ 31-22-9.1. Hiv Tests; Who May Perform Test
§ 31-22-11. Effect of This Chapter on Chapter 34 of Title 43
§ 31-22-12. Injunction of Operation of Clinical Laboratories Not Certified