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Senate clarifies incarceration reporting bill to avoid HIPAA concerns, adds drug examples

Utah State Senate · February 28, 2018
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Summary

Senate Bill 205, revised on the floor, requires prisons and jails to provide annual reports on inmate deaths and certain medication refusals; sponsors clarified they do not seek HIPAA-protected data and added methadone and similar drugs as examples to report.

Senator Weiler explained a second substitute to Senate Bill 205, a bill requiring state prisons and county jails to provide more detailed reporting to the Legislature about inmate deaths and circumstances that might require policy responses.

Weiler said the substitute tightened language after…

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