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OLR Bill Analysis
sSB 1530
AN ACT CONCERNING A TECHNICAL CHANGE TO A PROVISION
CONCERNING GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND THE
PROVISION OF REPRODUCTIVE AND GENDER -AFFIRMING
HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO PATIENTS REGARDLESS OF
LOCATION.
SUMMARY
This bill makes several changes to state laws that generally shield
health care providers and recipients who lawfully engage in
reproductive or gender-affirming health care services in Connecticut
from liability imposed by another state by allowing them to seek
recovery of damages in an action here. Specifically, it:
1. applies regardless of whether the patient was in Connecticut
when receiving services (e.g., telehealth services);
2. subjects covered entities’ business associates to existing law’s
limitations on disclosing communications or information
without consent from a patient or authorized legal
representative;
3. requires these entities and associates to notify the attorney
general when they receive certain requests for patient
information on reproductive or gender-affirming health care
services;
4. exempts federal investigations or proceedings with an
accompanying court order from the general ban on public
agencies giving information or using resources to further another
state’s investigation or proceeding to impose liability on someone
who provides, asks about, or receives reproductive or gender-
affirming health care services that are legal in Connecticut; and
5. expands its scope to recover damages due to actions filed in 2025SB-01530-R000661-BA.DOCX
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another state, as opposed to just those resulting in judgements.
Lastly, the bill makes minor, technical, and conforming changes,
including (1) explicitly including fertility services in the nonexclusive
list of covered reproductive health care services and (2) merging the
state’s separate laws that protect reproductive and gender-affirming
health care services providers from this liability into one.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2025
REQUESTS FOR PATIENT INFORMATION
Business Associates
Existing law prohibits, with certain exceptions, HIPAA-covered
entities (generally, health care plans or payors, clearinghouses, and
providers) from disclosing specified information in a civil action or a
preliminary proceeding before a civil action, or a probate, legislative, or
administrative proceeding. Without explicit written consent from the
patient or patient’s authorized legal representative (e.g., conservator or
guardian), communications made to a covered entity or obtained by it
from the patient or representative cannot be disclosed.
The bill extends this prohibition to covered entities’ “business
associates,” which are generally those who perform functions or
activities on behalf of, or provide services to, the covered entity that
involves accessing or using protected health information. It also
specifies that the prohibition applies to information about services
provided to a patient physically located in Connecticut when they were
provided.
Attorney General Notification
The bill requires covered entities and their business associates to
notify the attorney general within seven days after receiving a request
for patient information related to reproductive or gender-affirming
health care services that is not exempt from disclosure and does not
have written consent from the patient or patient’s authorized legal
representative. But it prohibits this notice from having any identifying
information of the patient or the representative. 2025SB-01530-R000661-BA.DOCX
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BACKGROUND
Related Bill
sHB 7135, favorably reported by the Judiciary Committee, also
merges the health care services liability protection laws and contains
similar provisions on patients outside of the state when receiving
services; business associates; and notification to the attorney general,
but with respect to receiving a subpoena.
COMMITTEE ACTION
Government Administration and Elections Committee
Joint Favorable
Yea 14 Nay 5 (03/26/2025)