PRINTER'S NO. 759
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
633
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY MASTRIANO, MENSCH, SCAVELLO AND ARGALL,
MAY 13, 2021
REFERRED TO HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, MAY 13, 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.--
(a) Except as provided under section 15.1, State and local
health authorities [may not] shall disclose reports of diseases,
any records maintained as a result of any action taken in
consequence of such reports[,] or any other records maintained
pursuant to this act or any regulations[, to any person who is
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not a member of the department or of a local board or department
of health], except [as follows] where necessary to carry out the
purposes of:
(1) [Where necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(Public Law 104-191, 110 Stat. 1936).
(2) [Where necessary to inform the public of the risk of a
communicable disease.] The act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6,
No.3), known as the Right-to-Know Law.
(3) Any other applicable Federal or State law.
(b) State and local health authorities may permit the use of
data contained in disease reports and other records, maintained
pursuant to this act, or any regulation, for research purposes,
subject to strict supervision by the health authorities to
insure that the use of the reports and records is limited to the
specific research purposes.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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