REPORT TITLE:
Health Care Info


DESCRIPTION:
Authorizes OIP to establish task force for assistance in
promulgating rules for regulation of health care information;
appropriates funds for OIP.  (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE INFORMATION.
 


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1. The office of information practices shall convene
 
 2 a task force to advise and assist the office of information
 
 3 practices in drafting rules to implement the requirements of
 
 4 chapter 323C, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  Members of the task force
 
 5 may include, but are not limited to, participants in any prior
 
 6 task force that studied the issue of health care information
 
 7 privacy, interested members of the community, and health care
 
 8 organizations.  The office of information practices may invite
 
 9 any person or entity to participate in the task force. 
 
10      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
11 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $80,000, or so much
 
12 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001, to carry
 
13 out the purposes of this Act.  The sum appropriated shall be
 
14 expended by the office of information practices for the purposes
 
15 of this Act.
 
16      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.