BILL · 2013–14 SESSION
SB 6139: Patient health care info
Concerning the protection of patient health care information in the comprehensive hospital abstract reporting system.
Summary
- A provision applying DOH confidentiality rules to safeguard patient information is supplanted with a statutory directive to DOH and any other subsequent agency that receives CHARS data to maintain patient confidentiality. Public inspection of any patient discharge data that includes both direct and indirect identifiers is prohibited.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 16, 2014
- Out of committeeJan 28, 2014
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Senator (R-2)
- Introduced
- January 16, 2014 in the Senate
- Last action
- February 25, 2014
- Requested by
- State agency
- Companion bill
- HB 2380
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to the protection of patient health care information in the comprehensive hospital abstract reporting system;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Senator (R-2)
2 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- Senate Rules "X" file.
- Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- HLTH - Majority; do pass.
- First reading, referred to Health Care.
SB 6139 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 6139 (2025–26) Rental payments
- SB 6139 (2023–24) Health subsidy/retirees
- SB 6139 (2019–20) Aerospace tech. innovation
- SB 6139 (2017–18) Public records/leg. & courts
- SB 6139 (2015–16) Initiative & referendum sigs
- SB 6139 (2011–12) Large wild carnivores
- SB 6139 (2009–10) Higher education T.O.
- SB 6139 (2007–08) Salmon guides