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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 958
January Session, 2023
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE TIMELY TRANSFER OF MEDICAL
RECORDS BETWEEN HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Each institution, as defined 1
in section 19a-490 of the general statutes, shall, upon receipt of a patient-2
approved medical records request, transfer such patient's medical 3
records to another institution (1) immediately, if such request is urgent, 4
or (2) not later than twenty-four hours after such request is made, if such 5
request is not urgent. 6
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require health care institutions to, upon receipt of a patient-approved
medical records request, transfer such patient's medical records to
another institution (1) immediately, if such request is urgent, or (2)
within twenty-four hours, if such request is not urgent. Raised Bill No. 958
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