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ID S1012
Bill
Status
1/16/2013
Primary Sponsor
Health and Welfare Committee
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AI Summary
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Expands the immunization registry to include both adults and children, replacing previous language that limited it to children against childhood vaccine preventable diseases.
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Maintains the registry as voluntary, allowing individuals or parents/guardians to opt out by providing a specified written statement that cannot be part of a general authorization.
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Adds health data exchanges operating under federal HIPAA guidelines as authorized recipients of registry information, in addition to existing authorized recipients like health districts, schools, daycare facilities, and healthcare providers.
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Requires the Department of Health and Welfare to remove all vaccination information from the registry and any databases where it has been disclosed upon written request of an individual or parent/guardian.
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Establishes that all registry information is confidential and cannot be sold; unauthorized disclosure is a misdemeanor with civil liability of $100 per violation.
Legislative Description
Amends existing law to revise terminology, to provide for both adults and children in the immunization registry, to provide for a health data exchange in disclosure of information, to revise a provision relating to removal of information from the registry and to revise a provision relating to disclosure of confidential information.
IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY
Last Action
Reported Printed; referred to Health & Welfare
1/17/2013