SB3512 Summary: Disease Testing for Public Safety Officials and Volunteers Act

• Allows emergency services providers (law enforcement, firefighters, EMS personnel) and first aid volunteers to request or petition circuit court for mandatory communicable disease testing of persons they were significantly exposed to during duty.

• Defines significant exposure as percutaneous injury (needle sticks, cuts, bites), contact with open wounds or mucous membranes, or other transmission methods as defined by the Department of Public Health.

• Requires circuit court to hold hearing within 10 days with 72 hours notice; court may order testing if probable cause found that petitioner was significantly exposed during performance of duties or emergency assistance.

• Mandates test results remain confidential and shared only with petitioner and subject; violating confidentiality is a Class B misdemeanor.

• Assigns costs to petitioner or petitioner's employer for emergency services providers; incarcerating authorities must collect specimens or pay collection costs if subject is incarcerated.