Public Act No. 18-168 Summary

• Changes the definition of "health care provider" to reference chapter 384d instead of 368d for licensing purposes

• Expands restrictions on disclosure of patient medical and personnel records obtained during health department investigations, making them confidential under public records law

• Modifies school-based health center advisory committee composition by increasing commissioner-appointed members from one to three and adding the Commissioner of Children and Families as a voting member

• Transfers administration of asthma screening monitoring system from a comprehensive pilot program to a simplified system based on school screening data reported triennially to the Department of Public Health

• Makes numerous technical corrections and modernizations to public health statutes, including replacing outdated terminology ("venereal disease" with "sexually transmitted disease"), updating regulatory references, and clarifying licensing and certification requirements across multiple health professions