The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Senator Grooms’ SB 333 regarding orifice searches and blood draws. This bill establishes a procedure authorizing licensed medical personnel to obtain a bodily fluid sample or to retrieve contraband from the bodily orifice of an individual as part of a criminal investigation, and grants immunity to the medical personnel.
An amendment was taken by consent making several grammatical changes, adding immunity from civil and criminal liability, eliminating the physician-patient relationship for blood draws and body cavity searches, and adding the constitutionally required search warrant for a body or cavity search. The Indiana Hospitals Association testified in favor of the bill.
The amended bill passed 8-3.
Read the bill at http://www.iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/senate/333.