Bill Text: IA SF335 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled

Iowa Senate Bill 335 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the release of certain information to a procurement organization. (Formerly SSB 1165.) Effective 7-1-15.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-04-24 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 932. [SF335 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF335-Enrolled.html

Senate File 335 - Enrolled




                              SENATE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
                                  RESOURCES

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                  1165)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                        Senate File 335

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO THE RELEASE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION TO A PROCUREMENT
    ORGANIZATION.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 22.7, subsection 41, Code 2015, is
 amended to read as follows:
    41.  a.  Medical examiner records and reports, including
 preliminary reports, investigative reports, and autopsy
 reports. However, medical examiner
    b.  Notwithstanding paragraph "a", the following shall be
 released as follows:
    (1)  Medical examiner=authored records and reports,
 including preliminary reports, investigative reports, and
 autopsy reports, shall be released to a law enforcement agency
 that is investigating the death, upon the request of the law
 enforcement agency,.
    (2)  Preliminary reports of investigations by the medical
 examiner and autopsy reports for a decedent by whom an
 anatomical gift was made in accordance with chapter 142C shall
 be released to an organ procurement organization as defined
 in section 142C.2, upon the request of such organ procurement
 organization, unless such disclosure would jeopardize an
 investigation or pose a clear and present danger to the public
 safety or the safety of an individual.
    (3)  Autopsy reports shall be released to the decedent's
 immediate next of kin, upon the request of the decedent's
 immediate next of kin, unless disclosure to the decedent's
 immediate next of kin would jeopardize an investigation or pose
 a clear and present danger to the public safety or the safety
 of an individual.
    c.  Information regarding the cause and manner of death
 shall not be kept confidential under this subsection, unless
 disclosure would jeopardize an investigation or pose a clear
 and present danger to the public safety or the safety of an
 individual.
    Sec. 2.  Section 142C.7, Code 2015, is amended to read as
 follows:
    142C.7  Confidential information.
    A hospital, licensed or certified health care professional
 pursuant to chapter 148, 148C, or 152, or medical examiner may
  shall release patient information to a procurement organization
 as part of a referral or retrospective review of the patient
 as a potential donor, unless such disclosure would jeopardize
 an investigation or pose a clear and present danger to the
 public safety or the safety of an individual. Any information
 regarding a patient, including the patient's identity, however,
 constitutes confidential medical information and under any
 other circumstances is prohibited from disclosure without
 the written consent of the patient or the patient's legal
 representative.


                                                             
                               PAM JOCHUM
                               President of the Senate


                                                             
                               KRAIG PAULSEN
                               Speaker of the House
    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
 is known as Senate File 335, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.


                                                             
                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
                               Secretary of the Senate
 Approved                , 2015


                                                             
                               TERRY E. BRANSTAD
                               Governor

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