Senate File 2217 - Introduced



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                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring the department of human services to maintain
  2    compliance with privacy laws applicable to mental health,
  3    mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and brain
  4    injury services data.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  6 TLSB 5026AS 81
  7 jp/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 225C.6A, subsection 2, paragraph c,
  1  2 Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    c.  Plan, collect, and analyze data as necessary to issue
  1  4 cost estimates for serving additional populations and
  1  5 providing core disability services statewide.  The department
  1  6 shall maintain compliance with applicable federal and state
  1  7 privacy laws to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of
  1  8 individually identifiable disability services data.  The
  1  9 department shall regularly assess the status of the compliance
  1 10 in order to assure that data security is protected.
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12    This bill requires the department of human services to
  1 13 maintain compliance with federal and state privacy laws to
  1 14 ensure the confidentiality and integrity of mental health,
  1 15 mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and brain
  1 16 injury (MH/MR/DD/BI) services data addressed in Code section
  1 17 225C.6A, relating to redesign of the system for these
  1 18 services.  That statute directs the MH/MR/DD/BI commission to
  1 19 plan, collect, and analyze data as necessary to issue cost
  1 20 estimates for serving additional populations and providing
  1 21 core MH/MR/DD/BI services statewide.  In addition, 2004 Iowa
  1 22 Acts, chapter 1090, section 35, paragraph "a", required the
  1 23 commission and the department to propose a new disability
  1 24 services information technology system.
  1 25    As part of the department's compliance duty, the bill
  1 26 requires the department to regularly assess the status of
  1 27 compliance in order to assure that data security is protected.
  1 28 LSB 5026AS 81
  1 29 jp:rj/gg/14.2