HF 649 (LSB 2671HV (2) 87)

HOUSE FILE 649

BY  COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT

(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 191)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to certain records and data including activities relating to vital statistics records and health data collection and use.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 135.166, subsection 2, as enacted in 2017 Iowa Acts, House File 393, section 104, if enacted, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Unless otherwise authorized or required by state or federal law, data collected under this section shall not include the social security number or name of the individual subject of the data.
    Sec. 2.  Section 144.43, subsection 3, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   However, the following vital statistics records may be inspected and copied as of right under chapter 22, if requested by a member of the news media or an entitled person as defined by rule, when they the records are in the custody of a county registrar or when they the records are in the custody of the state archivist and are at least seventy-five years old:
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to records and data including activities relating to vital statistics records and the collection and use of health data by the department of public health. The bill amends Code section 135.166, if enacted in 2017 Iowa Acts, House File 393, to provide that in addition to prohibiting the collection of the social security number of the individual subject of the data, collection of the name of such individual is also prohibited.
   The bill also provides that when a record of birth; a record of marriage; a record of divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment of marriage; or a record of death if that death was not a fetal death is in the custody of the county registrar or in the custody of the state archivist and the record is at least 75 years old, if requested by a member of the news media or an entitled person as defined by rule, the record may be inspected and copied as of right under Code chapter 22.