Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1398

E Authorizing the commissioner of health to conduct maternal death studies to
assist in the planning, implementation and evaluation of medical, health and
welfare service systems and to reduce the numbers of preventable maternal
deaths; including midwives in the definition of provider for health records
access purposes and granting the commissioner access to certain medical data and
health records without the consent of the subject or relatives of the subject of
the data for study purposes, authorizing a data provider fee, requiring the
commissioner to make reasonable efforts to notify relatives of the subject of
the data before collection; providing for management of the records, classifying
the data obtained; repealing a certain provision providing for fetal, infant and
maternal death studies (mk, ja)