1st Engrossment - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 06/29/2023 04:19pm
A bill for an act
relating to health; changing provisions for cancer reporting; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2022, section 144.69.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 144.69, is amended to read:
Notwithstanding any
law to the contrary, including section 13.05, subdivision 9, data collected on individuals by
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persons required in section 144.68 to report, shall be private and may only be used for the
purposes set forth in this section and sections 144.671, 144.672, and 144.68. Any disclosure
other than is provided for in this section and sections 144.671, 144.672, and 144.68, is
declared to be a misdemeanor and punishable as such. Except as provided by rule, and as
part of an epidemiologic investigation, an officer or employee of the commissioner of health
may interview patients named in any such report, or relatives of any such patient, only after
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section 13.04, subdivision 2, and Code of Federal Regulations, title 45, part 46.
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(a) Information containing personal identifiers of a non-Minnesota resident
collected by the cancer reporting system may be provided to the statewide cancer registry
of the nonresident's home state solely for the purposes consistent with this section and
sections 144.671, 144.672, and 144.68, provided that the other state agrees to maintain the
classification of the information as provided under subdivision 1.
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(b) Information, excluding direct identifiers such as name, Social Security number,
telephone number, and street address, collected by the cancer reporting system may be
provided to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer
Registries and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results
Program registry.
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The revisor of statutes shall change the term "cancer surveillance system" to "cancer
reporting system" wherever it appears in the next edition of Minnesota Statutes and Minnesota
Rules and in the online publication.
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