H-1144

   Amend House File 393 as follows:
   1.  Page 52, after line 3 by inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
HEALTH DATA
   Sec. ___.  Section 135.166, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   135.166  Health care data —— collection and use —— collection from hospitals.
   1.  a.  The department of public health shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to utilize the Iowa hospital association to act as the department’s intermediary in collecting, maintaining, and disseminating hospital inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory information data, as initially authorized in 1996 Iowa Acts, ch. 1212, §5, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, subparagraph (4), and 641 IAC 177.3.
   2.  b.  The memorandum of understanding shall include but is not limited to provisions that address the duties of the department and the Iowa hospital association regarding the collection, reporting, disclosure, storage, and confidentiality of the data.
   2.  Unless otherwise authorized or required by state or federal law, data collected under this section shall not include the social security number of the individual subject of the data.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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PETTENGILL of Benton