Phlebotomy law

Thanks to the work of the Tennessee General Assembly we now have a law that allows the phlebotomist who draws our blood when we have a physical to draw the blood of the impaired driver. Prior to the passage of Public Chapter 666, only specially trained phlebotomists on a national registry were permitted to draw blood in DUI cases.
The Tennessee Medical Association saw the conflict in the law, as this was the only area of the law that required a phlebotomist to be nationally certified in order to withdraw a blood sample. The Association drafted the bill that has now passed. Sponsors were Representative Debra Maggert and Senator Brian Kelsey. The law also protects the phlebotomist from civil and criminal liabiltity, if they act at the written request of a law enforcement officer. Read the new law, which took effect April 4th, 2012 at:
http://www.tn.gov/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0666.pdf