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2005 Senate Bill 5054: Regarding health care information release authorizations
Introduced by Sen. Stephen Johnson (R) on January 12, 2005
To modify provisions regarding patients authorizing a health care provider to disclose the patient's health care information. The bill establishes that an authorization shall automatically terminate sixty days after the date of the patient's death unless it expressly provides for a different expiration date. See companion HB 1053. Official Text and Analysis.
Referred to the Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee on January 12, 2005
Referred to the House Judiciary Committee on January 19, 2005
Substitute offered to the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 21, 2005
To require disclosure authorization to contain an expiration date or an expiration event that relates to the patient or the purpose of the use or disclosure. The substitute removes the provision that an authorization will automatically terminate sixty days after the date of the patient's death.
The substitute passed by voice vote in the Senate on March 9, 2005
Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on February 21, 2005
To modify provisions regarding patients authorizing a health care provider to disclose the patient's health care information.
Received to the House on March 10, 2005
Referred to the House Health Care Committee on March 10, 2005
Referred to the House Rules Committee on March 22, 2005
Received in the Senate on January 9, 2006