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HB 1328 Offender medical & mental health information & records; exchange of information to facility, etc.

Introduced by: Vivian E. Watts | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Exchange of offender medical and mental health information and records. Provides that a health care provider who has been notified that a person to whom he has provided services within the last two years is committed to a local or regional correctional facility shall, upon request by the local or regional correctional facility, disclose to the local or regional correctional facility where the person is committed any information necessary to ensure the continuity of care of the person committed. The bill also provides protection from civil liability for such health care provider, absent bad faith or malicious intent. This bill is identical to SB 656.


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