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House health committee agrees to concur with Senate edits to H.293, eases several annual report requirements and adds recovery organizations financial review
Summary
The House health committee reviewed Senate amendments to H.293 and signaled concurrence. The bill removes or reduces several statutory annual reporting duties for the Department of Health, adds a new financial-reporting requirement for recovery service organizations, and preserves public posting of the underlying data, the department said.
The House health committee on the floor reviewed a returned version of H.293 and signaled agreement with the Senate changes after questioning from lawmakers and testimony from the Department of Health.
Katie McLennan, legislative counsel, summarized the Senate edits and said the package largely pares back statutory reporting timelines and clarifies research-approval language for state registries. "This change allows the Commissioner of Health to disclose registered data containing protected health information to researchers to obtain either the Institutional Review Board or the Privacy Board approval," McLennan said, explaining the revision is intended to allow public health surveillance while complying with federal privacy rules.
Jessica Schifano, policy director at the Department of Health, told the committee the department produced 17 reports to the legislature this year and is seeking to streamline reporting requirements while continuing to collect and publish the underlying data online. "We're not trying to stop collecting or analyzing any of the data. It's…
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