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Committee backs modest privacy limits on birth records shared with CDC in SB92
Summary
The committee voted to pass SB92, which restricts certain personally identifying birth-record elements sent to the CDC and seeks to preserve aggregate data for public‑health monitoring, building on a prior constitutional amendment.
The House committee voted to report SB92 ought to pass after members described the bill as a narrow privacy measure to anonymize certain data elements in birth records sent to federal public‑health databases.
Representative McClain told the committee the bill "puts some very modest privacy provisions on the type of information that is provided to the CDC" and that the goal is to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue using aggregate birth data while reducing the risk that records could be tied back to individuals.
Committee members recorded few questions and no major opposition. The final committee vote was 17–1 in favor of reporting SB92 out of committee. The committee placed SB92 on the consent calendar for further House consideration.
The committee recorded that the bill builds on a prior constitutional amendment discussed in committee and is intended to preserve public-health surveillance while limiting the personally identifiable information transmitted in routine federal reporting.
