PRINTER'S NO. 2151
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1893
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY STAATS, KAUFFMAN, RYAN, HAMM, JAMES, R. BROWN,
GILLEN AND GROVE, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 23, 1956 (1955 P.L.1510, No.500),
entitled "An act providing for the prevention and control of
communicable and non-communicable diseases including venereal
diseases, fixing responsibility for disease prevention and
control, requiring reports of diseases, and authorizing
treatment of venereal diseases, and providing for premarital
and prenatal blood tests; amending, revising and
consolidating the laws relating thereto; and repealing
certain acts," further providing for confidentiality of
reports and records.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 15 of the act of April 23, 1956 (1955
P.L.1510, No.500), known as the Disease Prevention and Control
Law of 1955, amended November 3, 2020 (P.L.1093, No.112), is
amended to read:
Section 15. [Confidentiality of Reports and Records] Reports
and records.--
[(a) Except as provided under section 15.1, State and local
health authorities may not disclose reports of diseases, any
records maintained as a result of any action taken in
consequence of such reports, or any other records maintained
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