(1) Whenever a physician diagnoses a case of tuberculosis, they must ensure that a specimen or culture from the tuberculosis case is sent to the department's public health laboratory for confirmation of the results, drug susceptibility testing, and genotyping.

(2) Whenever a laboratory finds a specimen or culture is positive for M. tuberculosis, the laboratory must submit the specimen or culture to the department's public health laboratory for confirmation of the results, drug susceptibility testing, and genotyping.