HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2315

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO RECORDS OF THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 323F-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§323F-6  Records.  (a)  The corporation and each regional system board shall be subject to the requirements of chapter 92F, except that the following categories of government records shall not be required to be disclosed:

     (1)  Applications for credentials or staff privileges at any of the corporation's medical facilities, records from peer review proceedings, and medical records; and

     (2)  Marketing strategies, strategic plans, evaluations, assessments, negotiations, or rates and charges, the disclosure of which would raise the cost of procurement or give a manifestly unfair advantage to any competitor or to any person or entity seeking to do business or proposing to enter into an agreement with a regional system board, the corporation, or any of its facilities.

Any person denied access to any such government records shall have available the remedies specified in sections 92F-15 and 92F-15.5.  Government records protected from disclosure by this section shall be subject to the interagency disclosure provisions of section 92F-19.  Section 624-25.5 shall apply to this part notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this section.

     (b)  The corporation shall have the authority to set rates for copies of records exempt from chapter 92F.  In the case of medical records subpoenaed or in any other manner requested from any of the corporation's regional system facilities, copies shall be paid for by the requestor in an amount based on the facility's actual cost of preparation.  The facility's actual cost of preparation shall be no less than $1 per page and no more than $2 per page."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, and proceedings that were begun before it effective date.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST


 


 

Report Title:

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation

 

Description:

Establishes the minimum and maximum fee for copies of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation medical records and the method of computing appropriate fees above the minimum.

 

 

 

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