<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 34-22-12.1 - Confidentiality of reports--Exceptions. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2057052Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2057052SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2057052CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2057052Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2057052DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2057052Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2057052000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2057052SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2057052SCL-000003 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=34-22-12.1"><span class="s2057052SENU">34-22-12.1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057052SENU">. </span><span class="s2057052CL">Confidentiality of reports--Exceptions.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal-000000"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">Any report required to be submitted pursuant to § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=34-22-12"><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">34-22-12</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont"> is strictly confidential medical information. No report may be released, shared with any agency or institution, or made public, upon subpoena, search warrant, discovery proceedings, or otherwise. No report is admissible as evidence in any action of any kind in any court or before any tribunal, board, agency, or person. However, the Department of Health may release medical or epidemiological information under any of the following circumstances:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal-000001"><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    For statistical purposes in such a manner that no person can be identified;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal-000001"><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    With the written consent of the person identified in the information released;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal-000001"><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    To the extent necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter and rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter concerning the prevention, treatment, control, and investigation of communicable diseases;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal-000001"><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    To the extent necessary to protect the health or life of a named person;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    To the extent necessary to comply with a proper judicial order requiring release of human immunodeficiency virus test results and related information to a prosecutor for an investigation of a violation of § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-18-31"><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">22-18-31</span></a><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">; and</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">(6)    To the attorney general or an appropriate state's attorney if the secretary of the Department of Health has reasonable cause to suspect that a person violated § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-18-31"><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">22-18-31</span></a><span class="s2057052DefaultParagraphFont">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057052000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057052Normal"><span class="s2057052SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057052SCL-000003"> SL 1989, ch 296, § 1; SL 2003, ch 184, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html>