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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>359680</law_id><section_number>32.1-69</section_number><catch_line>Records confidential; disclosure of results of screening</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="75" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="2">Disease Prevention and Control</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="9" identifier="8">Voluntary Program for Control of Genetic and Metabolic Diseases</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The results of any particular screening program shall be sent to the physician of the <span class="dictionary">person</span> tested, if known, and either to the parents when the <span class="dictionary">person</span> screened is under the age of eighteen or to the <span class="dictionary">person</span> if he is eighteen years of age or over. The results of a screening program may be used for research and collective statistical purposes. Except as hereinabove provided, all records maintained as part of any screening program shall be strictly confidential and shall be accessible only to the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> or his agents or to the local health director who is conducting the screening program except by explicit permission of the <span class="dictionary">person</span> who has been screened if such <span class="dictionary">person</span> is eighteen years of age or over or of such <span class="dictionary">person</span>&#x2019;s parent or guardian if he is under age eighteen.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-112.23; 1973, c. 212; 1979, c. 711.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
