House File 649 H-1422 Amend House File 649 as follows: 1 1. Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 2 < Section 1. Section 135.22, subsection 2, Code 2017, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 2. The director shall establish and maintain a central 5 registry of persons with brain or spinal cord injuries in 6 order to facilitate prevention strategies and the provision 7 of appropriate rehabilitative services to the persons by the 8 department and other state agencies. Hospitals shall report 9 patients who are admitted with a brain or spinal cord injury 10 and their diagnoses to the director no later than forty-five 11 days after the close of a quarter in which the patient was 12 discharged. The report shall contain the name, age, and 13 residence of the person, the date, type, and cause of the 14 brain or spinal cord injury, and additional information as the 15 director requires, except that where available, hospitals shall 16 report the Glasgow coma scale. The director shall consult 17 with health care providers concerning the availability of 18 additional relevant information. The department shall maintain 19 the confidentiality of all information which would identify any 20 person named in a report. However, the identifying information 21 may be released for bona fide research purposes if the 22 confidentiality of the identifying information is maintained by 23 the researchers, or the identifying information may be released 24 by the person with the brain or spinal cord injury or by the 25 person’s guardian or, if the person is a minor, by the person’s 26 parent or guardian. > 27 2. Title page, line 2, after < records > by inserting < , the 28 central registry for brain and spinal cord injuries, > 29 3. By renumbering as necessary. 30 ______________________________ JONES of Clay -1- HF649.2578 (1) 87 pf/rj 1/ 1 #1. #2. #3.