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Lawmakers hear privacy-focused bill to limit identifiers on live-birth data shared with CDC
Summary
Senate Bill 92 would prohibit disclosure of parental name, street address, medical-record number and parental birth date (keeping year only) with medical history when New Hampshire's birth-worksheet data are transmitted to federal systems; sponsors said DHHS supports and the secretary of state's office said a small federal funding risk may exist.
Senator Cindy Rosenwald, prime sponsor of Senate Bill 92, told the House committee the bill would restrict certain personally identifying fields transmitted with medical history from New Hampshire's live-birth worksheet to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Rosenwald said the bill would not change the information DHHS or the secretary of state's division of vital records hold internally but would preclude sending four identifiers — parents' names, parents' medical-record numbers, street address, and parents' exact birth dates —…
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