A. A victim of a criminal offense or an alleged criminal offense who receives information pursuant to Section 24-1-9.1 or 24-1-9.2 NMSA 1978 may disclose the offender's or alleged offender's test results to the victim's health care provider as is reasonably necessary to protect the victim's health and safety or the health and safety of the victim's family or sexual partner.
B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a person who has been tested from disclosing in any way to any other person that person's own test results.
History: 1978 Comp., § 24-1-9.6, enacted by Laws 1996, ch. 80, § 5; 2017, ch. 87, § 14.
The 2017 amendment, effective June, 16, 2017, authorized certain disclosures when a person convicted of a criminal offense or alleged to have committed a criminal offense has been tested for sexually transmitted infections; in the catchline, deleted "diseases" and added "infections"; designated the formerly undesignated first paragraph as Subsection A; in Subsection A, after "victim of", added "a criminal offense or", after "Section", added "24-1-9.1 or", after "may disclose the", added "offender's or alleged offender's", after "test results", added "to the victim's health care provider", after "necessary to protect", deleted "his" and added "the victim's", and after "health and safety of", deleted "his" and added "the victim's"; and added Subsection B.
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