Bill Text: CA AB774 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health facilities: reporting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2020-01-21 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB774 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB774-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
July 09, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Senate
June 26, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 01, 2019 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Reyes |
February 19, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 128735 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:128735.
An organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility, and the officers thereof, shall make and file with the office, at the times as the office shall require, all of the following reports on forms specified by the office that shall be in accord, if applicable, with the systems of accounting and uniform reporting required by this part, except that the reports required pursuant to subdivision (g) shall be limited to hospitals:SEC. 2.
Section 128736 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:128736.
(a) Each hospital shall file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department. The Emergency Care Data Record shall include all of the following:(A)Psychiatric health facility.
(B)Acute psychiatric facility.
(C)Psychiatric emergency services.
(D)Crisis stabilization unit.
(E)Distinct psychiatric unit or part of a hospital.
(F)Any other psychiatric care
facility.
(e)This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2027, and as of that date is repealed.
(a)Each hospital shall file an Emergency Care Data Record for each patient encounter in a hospital emergency department. The Emergency Care Data Record shall include all of the following:
(1)Date of birth.
(2)Sex.
(3)Race.
(4)Ethnicity.
(5)Preferred language spoken.
(6)ZIP Code.
(7)Patient social
security number, if it is contained in the patient’s medical record.
(8)Service date.
(9)Principal diagnosis.
(10)Other diagnoses.
(11)External causes of morbidity.
(12)Principal procedure.
(13)Other procedures.
(14)Disposition of patient.
(15)Expected source of payment.
(16)Elements added pursuant to Section 128738.
(b)It is the expressed intent of the Legislature that the patient’s rights of confidentiality shall not be violated in any manner. Patient social security numbers and any other data elements that the office believes could be used to determine the identity of an individual patient shall be exempt from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code).
(c)No person reporting data pursuant to this section shall be liable for damages in any action based on the use or misuse of patient-identifiable data that has been mailed or otherwise transmitted to the office pursuant to the requirements of subdivision (a).
(d)Data
reporting requirements established by the office shall be consistent with national standards as applicable.
(e)This section shall become operative on January 1, 2027.