SB 2675

Present law prohibits a healthcare provider or any other person to knowingly take any of the following actions with regard to a minor without first obtaining the consent of a parent of the minor:  Treat, profess to diagnose, operate on, or prescribe for any physical ailment, physical injury, or deformity.  Prescribe, dispense, deliver, or administer any drug or medication.  Render psychological services.  Render counseling services. However, t his prohibition does not apply in the following situations:  A parent of the minor has given blanket consent authorizing the person or entity to perform an activity listed above.  A government entity, healthcare provider, or any other person reasonably relies in good faith on an individual's representations that the individual is the parent of a minor or has otherwise been granted authority to make decisions regarding a minor's health care under state law.  A licensed physician performs emergency medical or surgical treatment.  Licensed personnel render appropriate emergency medical care and provide emergency medical services.  A person, including a law enforcement officer, participates or assists in rendering emergency care.  An employee of a local education agency acts to control bleeding using a bleeding control kit.  A person acts reasonably to render appropriate, non-emergency first aid to a minor appearing or represented to be sick or injured. Such non-emergency first aid includes dressing minor wounds, applying topical agents, providing fluids or ice, and performing checks to identify minor illnesses.  A healthcare provider, using reasonable medical judgment, based upon the facts known to the healthcare provider at the time, performs a screening of a minor who the healthcare provider reasonably believes is a trafficked person or a victim of brutality, neglect, or abuse in order to determine whether the healthcare provider must make a report.  A school counselor or school psychologist, licensed by the state board of education, who provides preventative and developmental counseling. This bill includes a school social worker, licensed by the state board of education, who provides preventative and developmental counseling to the list in which the prohibition does not apply.