§ 1128. Access to health services and testing
(a) No health care provider or facility shall request or require any applicant for care or services or any client or patient to have an HIV-related blood test as a condition for receiving unrelated treatment or service nor shall any such provider or facility discriminate against any applicant, client, or patient on the basis of a person’s having a positive test result from an HIV-related blood test. Nothing in this section shall preclude health care providers or facilities from recommending testing for medically appropriate diagnostic purposes or from administering to clients or patients who consent to have an HIV-related blood test.
(b) Failure of a health care provider to comply with any provision of this section shall constitute grounds for disciplinary action or any other regulatory action authorized by law. Failure of a health care facility to comply with any provision of this section shall constitute grounds for modification, suspension, or revocation of the facility’s license, authority to operate, or any other regulatory action authorized by law. Any such regulatory action shall be taken in accordance with the disciplinary, licensing, or other procedures established by law for the board or agency having jurisdiction over the health care provider or facility.
(c) A person aggrieved by a violation of this section or the Attorney General on behalf of such a person may bring an action for injunctive relief and damages in the Superior Court of the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred. The court may award costs and reasonable attorney’s fees to an aggrieved person who prevails in an action brought under this subsection. (Added 1987, No. 176 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases
§ 1001. Reports to Commissioner of Health
§ 1004. Report by physician; quarantine
§ 1007. Quarantined patient leaving hospital, report
§ 1008. Vaccines, antibiotics, antiserums, and other agents; purchase and distribution; penalties
§ 1041. Reports by physicians and certain others
§ 1042. Record of cases; instructions
§ 1043. Investigation; educational campaign, report
§ 1047. Indigent persons with respiratory diseases
§ 1048. Examination; report; treatment
§ 1051. Tuberculosis treatment facilities
§ 1053. Treatment and care of patients
§ 1054. Tuberculosis clinic and treatment program
§ 1055. Tuberculosis; compulsory examinations
§ 1056. Nature of examination; findings
§ 1058. Compulsory medical management
§ 1059. Leaving compulsory medical management
§ 1060. Rights of a person in compulsory medical management
§ 1061. Construction with other laws
§ 1091. Venereal diseases; definitions
§ 1091a. Venereal diseases, control
§ 1092. Treatments, refusal, penalty
§ 1093. Examination and report
§ 1095. Treatment of partner of patient diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease
§ 1098. Examination and treatment by Board
§ 1099. Reports and records confidential
§ 1101. Reports by public institutions
§ 1103. Birth certificate; serological test
§ 1104. Serological test, definition
§ 1105. Marrying when infected with venereal disease
§ 1106. Sexual intercourse when infected with venereal disease
§ 1121. Immunizations required prior to attending school and child care facilities
§ 1124. Access to and reporting of immunization records
§ 1125. Quality improvement measures
§ 1127. Discrimination and testing prohibited
§ 1128. Access to health services and testing
§ 1131. Vermont Immunization Advisory Council