Bill Text: NJ A3741 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits certain entities from requesting or requiring provision of personal health information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-02 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee [A3741 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3741-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Assemblywoman BETHANNE MCCARTHY PATRICK
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits certain entities from requesting or requiring provision of personal health information.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning personal health information and supplementing Title 10 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. As used in this act, "personal health information" means any information concerning an individual's health history and current or past physical or mental health status, condition, or treatment, including, but not limited to, medical records pertaining to the individual, documentation verifying health care services or treatments administered to or received by the individual, and laboratory test results concerning the individual.
b. Unless expressly authorized under federal law, and subject to the provisions of subsection c. of this section and State and federal privacy laws, no person or entity may request, or require the provision of, personal health information pertaining to any individual.
c. The provisions of subsection b. of this section shall not apply to a health care professional directly or indirectly providing physical or mental health care services to an individual.
d. In no case shall any entity discriminate, in the provision of goods, services, or other benefits generally available to the public at large, against a person who declines to provide personal health information.
2. This act shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits a person or entity from requesting, or requiring the provision of, personal health information pertaining to any individual.
The restrictions established under the bill will not apply to a health care professional directly or indirectly providing physical or mental health care services to an individual or when federal law expressly authorizes the information to be requested or required.
The bill additionally prohibits entities from discriminating, in the provision of goods, services, or other benefits generally available to the public at large, against a person who declines to provide personal health information.
As used in the bill, "personal health information" means any information concerning an individual's health history and current or past physical or mental health status, condition, or treatment, including, but not limited to, medical records pertaining to the individual, documentation verifying health care services or treatments administered to or received by the individual, and laboratory test results concerning the individual.
