§ 23-1-3. Maintenance of laboratories.
(a) The director of health shall maintain pathological, bacteriological, and chemical
laboratories and shall select in accordance with law qualified persons to conduct
and supervise the pathological, bacteriological, and chemical researches made in those
laboratories.
(b) The director of health is authorized to establish and modify fees by regulation for
all laboratory services provided by the department of health laboratory. The fees
as established by the director shall be related to the costs incurred in operating
the laboratory and may include administrative, personnel, equipment, supplies, overhead,
and other related costs necessary to develop and provide laboratory services. All
fees collected under this section, except those fees in subsections (f) through (h)
shall be deposited as general revenues.
(c) The testing program for clinical tests designated by the director in regulation shall
be a covered benefit and shall be reimbursable by all health insurers, as defined
in § 27-38.2-2(1), providing health insurance coverage in Rhode Island except for supplemental policies
which only provide coverage for specific diseases, hospital indemnity Medicare supplements,
or other supplemental policies. The charges for those testing programs shall be borne
by the hospitals or other licensed health care providers and facilities in the absence
of a third-party payor.
(d) All funds received under chapter 16.2 of this title shall be deposited as general
revenues.
(e) The provisions of §§ 45-13-7 through 45-13-10 shall not apply to this section.
(f) In addition to any other fine, assessment, penalty or forfeiture provided by law,
the traffic tribunal shall collect an assessment of one hundred dollars ($100) from
each defendant who is required to attend a special course on driver retraining, except
from those who are ordered to attend a special course on driving while intoxicated,
described in § 31-27-2, by the traffic tribunal.
(g) In addition to any other fine, assessment, penalty, or forfeiture provided by law,
the court or tribunal shall collect the sum of one hundred and eighteen dollars ($118)
for each drug-related charge from every defendant who is convicted after trial, or
who enters a plea of guilty or of nolo contendere, with respect to violations of the
following chapters and/or sections of the Rhode Island General Laws, which shall include
but not be limited to: chapter 15 of title 7, 11-23-2, 11-23-6, 11-25-23, chapter 28 of title 21, 21-28-4.01, 21-28-4.01.1, 21-28-4.01.2, 21-28-4.02, 21-28-4.03, 21-28-4.04, 21-28-4.05, 21-28-4.06, 21-28-4.07, 21-28-4.07.1, 21-28-4.09, 21-28-4.10, 21-28-4.11, 21-28-4.14, 21-28-4.15, 21-28-4.16, 21-28-4.17, 21-28-4.17.1, 21-28-4.19, 31-27-1.1, 31-27-2.2, 31-27-2.4, 31-27-2.6, chapter 22.2 of title 46, 46-22.2-3, 46-22.2-4, and 46-22.2-5.
(h) In addition to any other fine, assessment, penalty, or forfeiture provided by law,
the court or tribunal shall collect the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each
charge from every defendant who is convicted after trial, or who enters a plea of
guilty or of nolo contendere, with respect to violations of the following chapters
and/or sections of the Rhode Island General Laws, which shall include but not be limited
to: 11-5-1, 11-5-2, 11-5-2.1, 11-5-4, 11-5-5, 11-5-6, 11-5-7, 11-5-8, 11-5-10, 11-5-10.1, 11-5-10.2, 11-5-10.3, 11-5-10.4, 11-5-11, 11-5-14, 11-5-14.1, 11-8-1, 11-8-2.1, 11-8-2.2, 11-8-2.3, 11-8-2.4, 11-8-3, 11-8-4, 11-8-9, 11-23-1, 11-23-2.1, 11-23-3, 11-25-2, 11-25-3, 11-25-4, 11-26-1, 11-26-1.4, 11-29-1, 11-37-2, 11-37-4, 11-37-6, 11-37-8.1, 11-37-8.3, and 11-39-1.
(i) All fees collected in subsections (f) through (h) shall be placed in the general fund.