Bill Text: FL S1424 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Epidemiological Monitoring Systems [SPSC]

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages [S1424 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1424-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1424 
 
By Senator Garcia 
40-01299B-10                                          20101424__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to epidemiological monitoring systems; 
3         amending s. 395.3025, F.S.; authorizing the Department 
4         of Health to collaborate with and disclose certain 
5         information to the United States Centers for Disease 
6         Control and Prevention for specified purposes; 
7         providing an effective date. 
8 
9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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11         Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 395.3025, Florida 
12  Statutes, is amended to read: 
13         395.3025 Patient and personnel records; copies; 
14  examination.— 
15         (5) The Department of Health may examine patient records of 
16  a licensed facility, whether held by the facility or the Agency 
17  for Health Care Administration, for the purpose of 
18  epidemiological investigations. The unauthorized release of 
19  information by agents of the department which would identify an 
20  individual patient is a misdemeanor of the first degree, 
21  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. The 
22  department may collaborate with, and disclose such information 
23  to, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
24  as part of the epidemiological monitoring systems to which both 
25  the department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
26  staff have access, as long as the systems meet federal standards 
27  for the protection of personal health information. 
28         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.