Bill Summary

• Amends Minnesota Statutes sections 144.291 and 626.557 to modify data practices and definitions related to health information exchange and vulnerable adult maltreatment investigations.

• Changes classification of data maintained by common entry points from "confidential" to "private" data on individuals, with three-year retention requirement before destruction unless directed otherwise by federal law.

• Allows sharing of confidential investigative data with vulnerable adults or their interested persons if both commissioners of health and human services determine sharing is necessary to protect the vulnerable adult.

• Adds three exceptions allowing disclosure of reporter identity: with reporter consent, upon court finding that report was false and made in bad faith, or when mandated reporter self-discloses to support retaliation claim.

• Reorganizes and renumbers subsections (c) through (j) in the data management section as subsections (d) through (n), maintaining existing provisions for data retention schedules, investigation memorandum requirements, and inter-agency data sharing.