Section 577A-3 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Providing information(a) Public or private hospitals, public or private clinics, or licensed health care providers may, at the discretion of the treating licensed health care provider, inform the spouse, parent, custodian, or guardian of any minor patient of the provision of medical care and services to the minor or disclose any information pertaining to the medical care and services after consulting with the minor patient to whom the medical care and services have been provided under this chapter.(b) If the minor patient is not diagnosed as being pregnant or having a sexually transmitted infection, the information as well as the application for diagnosis may be disclosed, at the discretion of the treating licensed health care provider, after consulting with the minor patient.Amended by L 2024, c 91,§ 3, eff. 1/1/2025.Amended by L 2017, c 88,§ 11, eff. 7/5/2017.L 1968, c 58, §5; am L 1975, c 171, §1(1); am L 1979, c 230, pt of §1Attorney General Opinions
Att. Gen. Op. 74-02, interpreting section, no longer applicable in view of amendments to section after opinion rendered with respect to disclosure of pregnancy or venereal disease. Att. Gen. Op. 92-01.
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.