CHAPTER 5. IMPAIRED VETERINARY HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

IC 25-38.1-5
    Chapter 5. Impaired Veterinary Health Care Providers

IC 25-38.1-5-1
Rehabilitation of impaired veterinary health care providers
    Sec. 1. (a) The board shall assist in the rehabilitation of animpaired veterinary health care provider.
    (b) The board may do the following:
        (1) Enter into agreements, provide grants, and make otherarrangements with statewide nonprofit professionalassociations, foundations, or other entities specifically devotedto the rehabilitation of impaired health care professionals toidentify and assist impaired veterinary health care providers.
        (2) Accept and designate grants and public and private financialassistance to fund programs under subdivision (1) to assistimpaired veterinary health care providers.
As added by P.L.58-2008, SEC.49.

IC 25-38.1-5-2
Confidential information
    Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in section 3 of this chapter, all:
        (1) information furnished to a nonprofit professionalassociation, foundation, or other entity specifically devoted tothe rehabilitation of impaired health care professionals,including interviews, reports, statements, and memoranda; and
        (2) findings, conclusions, or recommendations that result froma proceeding of the professional association, foundation, orother entity specifically devoted to the rehabilitation ofimpaired health care professionals;
are privileged and confidential.
    (b) The records of a proceeding under subsection (a)(2) may beused only in the exercise of proper functions of the board, and maynot become public records or subject to a subpoena or discoveryproceeding.
As added by P.L.58-2008, SEC.49.

IC 25-38.1-5-3
Use of noncompliance information
    Sec. 3. Information received by the board from the boarddesignated rehabilitation program for noncompliance by the impairedveterinary health care provider may be used by the board in adisciplinary or criminal proceeding instituted against the impairedveterinary health care provider.
As added by P.L.58-2008, SEC.49.

IC 25-38.1-5-4
Rehabilitation program responsibilities
    Sec. 4. The board designated rehabilitation program shall:
        (1) immediately report to the board the name and results of anycontact or investigation concerning an impaired veterinary

health care provider whom the program believes constitutes acertain, immediate, and impending danger to either the publicor the impaired veterinary health care provider; and
        (2) in a timely fashion report to the board an impairedveterinary health care provider:
            (A) who refuses to cooperate with the program;
            (B) who refuses to submit to treatment; or
            (C) whose impairment is not substantially or significantlyalleviated through treatment, as determined by acceptedmedical standards.
As added by P.L.58-2008, SEC.49.

IC 25-38.1-5-5
Impaired veterinary health care provider fund
    Sec. 5. (a) The impaired veterinary health care provider fund isestablished to provide money for rehabilitation of impairedveterinary health care providers under this chapter. The agency shalladminister the fund.
    (b) Expenses of administering the fund shall be paid from moneyin the fund. The fund consists of any grants or public and privatefinancial assistance designated for the fund.
    (c) The treasurer of state shall invest the money in the fund notcurrently needed to meet the obligations of the fund in the samemanner as other public money may be invested.
    (d) Money in the fund at the end of a state fiscal year does notrevert to the state general fund.
    (e) Money in the fund is appropriated to the board for the purposestated in subsection (a).
As added by P.L.58-2008, SEC.49.