FIRST REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES YATES AND LAGER (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time March 12, 2003, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 578.350 and 578.353, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the reporting of certain types of wounds.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 578.350 and 578.353, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 578.350 and 578.353, to read as follows:
578.350. 1. Any person licensed under chapter 334 or 335, RSMo, who treats a person for a wound inflicted by gunshot, knife, or explosive weapon as defined in section 571.010, RSMo, shall immediately report to a local law enforcement official the name and address of the person, if known, and if unknown, a description of the person, together with an explanation of the nature of the wound and the circumstances under which the treatment was rendered.
2. Any person licensed under chapter 334 or 335, RSMo, who knowingly fails to report the injuries described in this section is guilty of the offense of medical deception.
3. Medical deception is an infraction.
578.353. Any person licensed under chapter 334 or 335, RSMo, who, in good faith, makes a report pursuant to section 578.350 shall have immunity from civil liability that otherwise might result from such report and shall have the same immunity with respect to any good faith participation in any judicial proceeding in which the reported gunshot, knife, or explosive weapon wound is an issue. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (5) of section 491.060, RSMo, the existence of a physician-patient relationship shall not prevent a physician from submitting the report required in section 578.350, or testifying regarding information acquired from a patient treated for a gunshot, knife, or explosive weapon wound if such testimony is otherwise admissible.