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Committee approves House bill altering minor medical-record access, rejects broader withholding amendment
Summary
The committee adopted a House bill (H.B. 2402) to expand parental access to minors' medical records by removing certain confidentiality exemptions, but rejected an amendment that would have allowed physicians to withhold records on narrow clinical grounds; the committee reported the bill to the full Senate with recommendation to pass.
The committee considered House Bill 2402, which would change access to a minor’s medical records by limiting some current confidentiality exemptions. Counsel described the bill as removing certain statutory exemptions that currently require prior minor consent for release of records related to birth control, prenatal care, drug rehabilitation or venereal disease and removing the exemption tied to the AIDS-related testing confidentiality act. The bill also addressed disclosures by child-placing agencies and clarified that a parent, guardian, foster parent or kinship placement generally may not be denied access to a minor’s medical records.
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