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Sponsor seeks to apply Montana privacy law to mental-health apps, with carve-out for HIPAA-covered telehealth
Summary
Rep. Katie Sullivan reintroduced a bill to bring certain mental-health apps and digital services under Montana's Uniform Health Care Information Act, aiming to limit sale or sharing of sensitive mental-health data; sponsors and proponents emphasized an amendment to exempt HIPAA-covered telehealth providers.
Representative Katie Sullivan opened a hearing on House Bill 397, which would extend Montana's Uniform Health Care Information Act to a narrowly defined category of "mental health digital services"—mobile apps and websites that collect mental-health or substance-use information, market themselves as such, and use that information to facilitate mental-health services.
"I am here to bring you House Bill 397 which is a law relating to privacy and mental health digital services," Sullivan told the House Health and Human Services Committee. She said the bill is not intended to regulate legitimate telehealth providers already covered…
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