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Committee adopts H-1 substitutes and an amendment to expand patient access to audit of who accessed health records; bills reported to floor
Summary
The House Health Policy Committee adopted H-1 substitutes for House Bills 4037 and 4038, approved an amendment requiring patients to be able to query a health data utility for entities that accessed their records over a six-year period, and reported both bills to the House floor with committee recommendation.
The House Health Policy Committee voted to adopt H-1 substitute language for House Bill 4037 and House Bill 4038 and approved a transparency amendment by Representative Preston that would allow patients to request a six-year access history from the health data utility.
Representative Miermann moved to adopt the H-1 substitute for HB4037; the clerk recorded a roll call and the substitute passed on the floor of the committee with a 14-0 tally. Representative Preston offered an amendment to add a transparency provision allowing patients to query the health data utility for all entities that accessed their information during a six-year period upon request; the amendment was adopted by roll call (final count recorded as 14-0). Representative Tisdell then moved to report HB4037 to the House floor with the committee's recommendation; the clerk recorded 12 ayes, 0 nays and 2 passes and the motion prevailed.
For House Bill 4038, Representative DeBoer moved to adopt the H-1 substitute; the clerk recorded the roll call and the substitute was adopted. Representative Bierlein moved to report HB4038 to the House floor with recommendation; the clerk recorded 12 ayes, 0 nays, and 2 passes and the motion prevailed.
Committee members described the H-1 substitutes as incorporating department correspondence. Representative Preston described the transparency amendment as "adding a transparency aspect ... where the patient will be able to make a query to the health data utility, basically disclosing all entities that have accessed their information for a period of 6 years upon request." The amendment language as adopted establishes that patients can request that access history; the transcript records the roll-call approval but does not show subsequent floor action.
The committee adjourned after reporting both bills to the floor; members noted travel delays for some representatives and cautioned attendees about weather and road conditions.
