RESTRICTION ON TESTING FOR INFECTION WITH THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS.

SEC. 124. RESTRICTION ON TESTING FOR INFECTION WITH THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS. (a) General Rule.— Except as provided in subsection (b), the Administrator may not during any fiscal year conduct a widespread testing program to determine infection of humans with the human immunodeficiency virus unless funds have been appropriated to the Veterans’ Administration specifically for such a program during that fiscal year. (b) Voluntary Testing.— (1) The Administrator shall provide for a program under which the Veteran’ Administration offers each patient to whom the Veterans’ Administration is furnishing health care or services and who is described in paragraph (2) the opportunity to be tested to determine whether such patient is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. (2) Patients referred to in paragraph (1) are— (A) patients who are receiving treatment for intravenous drug abuse, (B) patients who are receiving treatment for a disease associated with the human immunodeficiency virus, and (C) patients who are otherwise at high risk for infection with such virus. (3) Subject to the consent requirement in paragraph (4) and unless medically contraindicated, the test shall be administered to each patient requesting to be tested for infection with such virus. 102 STAT. 506 (4) A test may not be conducted under this subsection without the prior informed and separate written consent of the patient tested. The Administrator shall provide pre- and poet-test counseling regarding the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the test to each patient who is administered the test.