Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1424
       
       
       
       By Senator Garcia
       
       
       
       
       40-01299B-10                                          20101424__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to epidemiological monitoring systems;
    3         amending s. 395.3025, F.S.; authorizing the Department
    4         of Health to collaborate with and disclose certain
    5         information to the United States Centers for Disease
    6         Control and Prevention for specified purposes;
    7         providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 395.3025, Florida
   12  Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         395.3025 Patient and personnel records; copies;
   14  examination.—
   15         (5) The Department of Health may examine patient records of
   16  a licensed facility, whether held by the facility or the Agency
   17  for Health Care Administration, for the purpose of
   18  epidemiological investigations. The unauthorized release of
   19  information by agents of the department which would identify an
   20  individual patient is a misdemeanor of the first degree,
   21  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. The
   22  department may collaborate with, and disclose such information
   23  to, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
   24  as part of the epidemiological monitoring systems to which both
   25  the department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
   26  staff have access, as long as the systems meet federal standards
   27  for the protection of personal health information.
   28         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.