CHAPTER NUMBER: 580
File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Hollinger (Chairman, Health Subcommittee) and Senators
Craig, Pinsky, Sfikas, Teitelbaum, and Roesser
- Entitled:
-
Medical Records - Maintenance, Disclosure, and Confidentiality
Specifying a time frame for the disclosure of medical records by
health care providers; prohibiting health care providers from refusing
to disclose a medical record under specified circumstances; altering
penalties; requiring specified individuals to take specified actions
before the destruction or transfer of medical records; making
specified individuals who violate specified provisions of law liable
for actual damages; and altering a specified definition.
Senate Action
- 1/24
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 1/29
- Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/7
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/6
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/22
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 580
House Action
- 3/10
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 3/12
- Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 4/1
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/3
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator David R. Craig, District 34
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Jean W. Roesser, District 15
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DISCLOSURE
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- PATIENTS
- PENALTIES
- PRIVACY
- RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
4-301 ,
4-309 ,
4-403
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 564505/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 5, 1997 at: 10:29
Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 189379/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 5, 1997 at: 16:32
Status: Adopted
