Bill Text: CT HB06593 | 2013 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Connecticut Health Information Network.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-06 - Referred to Joint Committee on Public Health [HB06593 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-HB06593-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 6593
January Session, 2013		LCO No. 4123
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONNECTICUT HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 19a-25f of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2013):

Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or chapter 14, 319, 319b, 319o, 319t, 319v, [or] 368z or 567, or any regulation adopted pursuant to said chapters, the state agencies that participate in the Connecticut Health Information Network, subject to federal restrictions on disclosure or redisclosure of information, may disclose personally identifiable information held in agency databases to the administrator of the Connecticut Health Information Network and its subcontractors for the purposes of (1) network development and verification, and (2) data integration and aggregation to enable response to network queries. No state agency that participates in the Connecticut Health Information Network shall disclose personally identifiable information to the Connecticut Health Information Network if such disclosure would constitute a violation of federal law, including, but not limited to, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-191) (HIPAA), as amended from time to time, [and] the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 USC 1232g, (FERPA), as amended from time to time, and any regulations promulgated thereunder at 34 CFR Part 99 and the Social Security Act, as amended from time to time. The administrator of the Connecticut Health Information Network and its subcontractors shall not disclose personally identifiable information.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2013	19a-25f

Statement of Purpose:

To make changes to the statute concerning disclosure of personally identifiable information by state agencies to the Connecticut Health Information Network.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]