SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2130

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES TALBOY (Sponsor), SKAGGS, LeVOTA, HUGHES, NASHEED, HOLSMAN, JOHNSON, LOW (39), DOUGHERTY, DARROUGH, BAKER (25), BURNETT, DONNELLY, CURLS, SCHIEFFER AND MEINERS (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time February 13, 2008 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

4894L.02I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 191, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to unauthorized disclosure of medical information.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 191, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 191.275, to read as follows:

            191.275. Any health care provider in this state who discovers or otherwise learns that confidential medical information regarding a patient has been improperly shared with a third party shall, within five business days of such discovery, notify the patient in writing by first-class mail or certified mail, return receipt requested, that an unauthorized disclosure of the patient's confidential medical information to a third party has occurred.

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