No person to whom the results of a test have been disclosed may disclose the test results to another person except as authorized by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Test Act. Whenever disclosure is made pursuant to that act, it shall be accompanied by a statement in writing that includes the following or substantially similar language: "This information has been disclosed to you from records whose confidentiality is protected by state law. State law prohibits you from making any further disclosure of such information without the specific written consent of the person to whom such information pertains, or as otherwise permitted by state law. A person who makes an unauthorized disclosure of this information is guilty of a petty misdemeanor and shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for a definite term not to exceed six months or the payment of a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or both."
History: Laws 1989, ch. 227, § 7; 1996, ch. 80, § 9.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1996 amendment, effective July 1, 1996, added the second sentence to the quoted language and made a stylistic change in the second sentence.
Law reviews. — For comment, "Sex, Lies, and Lawsuits: A New Mexico Physician's Duty to Warn Third Parties Who Unknowingly May Be At Risk of Contracting HIV From a Patient," see 26 N.M.L. Rev. 481 (1996).