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E. Laboratories operated and maintained for research and
teaching purposes which that are recognized by the
department or involve no patient or public health service;

 
F. The practice of radiology by a radiologist; and

 
G. Laboratory services performing health screening tests as
defined and regulated by rule adopted by the department.
Services exempted under this paragraph include, but are not
limited to, the performance of screening tests for
cholesterol and colon cancer.

 
Sec. 22. 22 MRSA §2013-A, sub-§3 is enacted to read:

 
3.__Public health reporting requirements.__Notwithstanding
subsection 1, any facility, regardless of location, that
receives, forwards or analyzes specimens of material from the
human body or referred cultures of specimens from the human body
and reports the results to health care providers who use the data
for purposes of patient care must comply with chapter 250.

 
Sec. 23. 26 MRSA c. 7, sub-c. 10 is enacted to read:

 
SUBCHAPTER 10

 
EMPLOYMENT DURING EXTREME PUBLIC

 
HEALTH EMERGENCY

 
§875.__Employment leaves for caregivers and persons affected by

 
extreme public health emergency

 
1.__Required leave.__An employer shall grant reasonable and
necessary leave from work, with or without pay, for an employee
for the following reasons related to an extreme public health
emergency:

 
A.__The employee is unable to work because the employee is
under individual public health investigation, supervision or
treatment related to an extreme public health emergency;

 
B.__The employee is unable to work because the employee is
acting in accordance with an extreme public health emergency
order;

 
C.__The employee is unable to work because the employee is
in quarantine or isolation or is subject to a control
measure in accordance with extreme public health emergency
information or directions issued to the public, a part of
the public or one or more individuals;


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