House Human Services reviews H.293 to change health‑equity reporting cadence and registry disclosure rules

Members of the House Human Services committee on Friday received a first briefing on H.293, an administration-requested bill the Department of Health says makes technical changes to state reporting and registry disclosure rules.

Lauren Laymon, general counsel for the Department of Health, told the committee the bill has two main elements: changing the frequency of a statewide health‑equity compilation and adjusting who may approve requests to access protected registry data for research and surveillance purposes.

“We're asking that we move from annually reporting to every 3 years, beginning in 2028,” Laymon said, describing the department’s request to change the required consolidated health‑equity compilation from annual to triennial. She said the department’s Division of Health Statistics and Informatics will continue to produce the underlying reports that identify inequities; the bill seeks only to reduce the frequency of the additional compilation task.

Laymon also described…