Bill Text: IN SB0223 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Department of health matters.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-03-19 - Signed by the Governor [SB0223 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-SB0223-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 16-38; IC 16-46.
Synopsis: State department of health matters. Allows the state
department of health (department) to adopt rules concerning who may
input and retrieve data from the immunization data registry (registry).
Allows an individual to file a registry exemption with the department.
Allows the state health commissioner to approve persons to whom
information from the registry may be released. Removes language that
requires the department to convene a panel concerning expanding
access to the registry. Removes a requirement that a health care
professional work at least one year in a shortage area or at other
specified health centers in order to be eligible for the loan repayment
program. Requires that the health care professional agree to practice in
the shortage area for at least one year. Allows the Indiana health care
professional recruitment and retention fund to be used to encourage
delivery of health care in shortage areas on a full-time or less than
full-time basis.
Effective: July 1, 2012.
January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider
Services.
January 12, 2012, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
January 23, 2012, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
January 24, 2012, engrossed.
January 26, 2012, returned to second reading.
January 30, 2012, re-read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
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(b) Data in the immunization registry may be used only for the following purposes:
(1) To assure that necessary immunizations are provided and overimmunization is avoided.
(2) To assess immunization coverage rates.
(3) To determine areas of underimmunization and other epidemiological research for disease control purposes.
(4) To document that required immunizations have been provided as required for school or child care admission.
(5) To accomplish other public health purposes as determined by the state department.
(c) The state department may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 concerning who may input and retrieve information from the
immunization data registry.
(b) An exemption from the immunization registry shall be granted if:
(1) the patient; or
(2) the patient's parent or guardian, if the patient is less than eighteen (18) years of age;
has completed and filed
(1) providers who are:
(A) licensed under IC 25; and
(B) authorized within the provider's scope of practice to administer immunizations; and
(2) individuals;
who request the form.
(1) That the provider may report immunization data to the immunization data registry.
(2) That the patient or the patient's parent or guardian, if the patient is less than eighteen (18) years of age, has a right to exempt disclosure of immunization data to the registry and may prevent disclosure by signing an immunization data exemption form.
(3) That the patient or the patient's parent or guardian, if the patient is less than eighteen (18) years of age, may have the individual's information removed from the immunization data registry.
(4) Instructions on how to have the information removed.
SECTION 2, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
JULY 1, 2012]: Sec. 3. (a) Records maintained as part of the
immunization data registry are confidential.
(b) The state department may release an individual's confidential
information from the immunization data registry to the individual or
to the individual's parent or guardian if the individual is less than
eighteen (18) years of age.
(c) Subject to subsection (d), the state department may release
information in the immunization data registry concerning an individual
to the following persons or entities:
(1) The immunization data registry of another state.
(2) A provider or a provider's designee.
(3) A local health department.
(4) An elementary or secondary school that is attended by the
individual.
(5) A child care center that is licensed under IC 12-17.2-4 in
which the individual is enrolled.
(6) The office of Medicaid policy and planning or a contractor of
the office of Medicaid policy and planning.
(7) A child placing agency licensed under IC 31-27.
(8) A college or university (as defined in IC 21-7-13-10) that is
attended by the individual.
(9) As needed, individuals or entities approved by the state
health commissioner.
(d) Before immunization data may be released to an entity, the entity
must enter into an a data use agreement with the state department that
provides that information that identifies a patient will not be released
to any other person without the written consent of the patient.
(e) The state department may release summary statistics regarding
information in the immunization data registry if the summary statistics
do not reveal the identity of an individual. to an entity that has
entered into a data use agreement with the state department.
(f) The state department shall convene a panel to discuss expanding
access to the immunization data registry. The panel must include at
least one (1) representative of an insurance organization and at least
one (1) member of a health maintenance organization. The state
department shall submit the recommendations of the panel to the
legislative council by October 1, 2009, in an electronic format under
IC 5-14-6.
The purpose of the fund is to provide loan repayment for student loans
incurred by health care professionals to encourage the full-time
delivery of health care in shortage areas. The state department shall
administer the fund.
(b) The fund consists of the following:
(1) Appropriations by the general assembly.
(2) Repayments by loan recipients from the Indiana medical and
nursing distribution loan fund under IC 25-22.5-9 (repealed July
1, 1987).
(3) Gifts to the fund.
(4) Grants from public or private sources.
(c) The treasurer of state shall invest the money in the fund not
currently needed to meet the obligations of the fund.
(d) Money in the fund at the end of a state fiscal year does not revert
to the state general fund.
(e) The fund shall be used to do the following:
(1) Provide loan repayment under this chapter.
(2) Pay the costs incurred by the state department in administering
this chapter.
The administrative costs paid from the fund under subdivision (2) may
not exceed thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) per year.
(1) Hold an unlimited license to practice a health care profession in Indiana that has been declared by the state department to be eligible for loan repayment in a specified fiscal year.
(3) Either:
(A) enter into an agreement with the state department; or
(B) provide the state department with a copy of an agreement that the health professional has entered into with a provider in a shortage area;
to practice in the shortage area for at least one (1) year.
(b) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to ensure that a loan repayment provided under this chapter complies with federal law and regulations.
