AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT
Summary
Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care information.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 7, 2025
Last action May 9, 2025
Floor votes · Senate May 8, 2025
How they voted
33–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 36
May 8, 2025
D
Democratic32
90% Yea
R
Republican4
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
8
Key actions
2
Committee
2
May 9, 2025
Committee
05/09/2025 Referred to House Judiciary
lower
May 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
05/08/2025 Senate read and passed
upper
May 1, 2025
Legislature · Passed
05/01/2025 Committee recommends passage
legislature
Mar 7, 2025
Introduced
03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Melissa Murray
DDemocratic
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