Bill Title: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. In a Section concerning the examination of health care records, provides that "health care practitioner" includes any therapist or counselor. Deletes language requiring a health care facility or health care practitioner to provide without charge one complete copy of a patient's records if the patient is an indigent homeless veteran in order to facilitate the person's application for federal veterans' disability benefits. Provides instead that complete copies of a patient's records shall be provided to the patient or other person authorized by the patient for the purpose of supporting a claim for: (1) federal veterans' disability benefits; or (2) federal Social Security or Supplemental Security Income benefits, or both, under any title of the Social Security Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-30 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0183 [HB0714 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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