Bill > A4253

Introduced Session

This bill requires: (1) electronic patient medical record programs to include race and ethnicity data entry feature and (2) certain laboratories to record patients' racial and ethnic information. Under the bill, a clinical laboratory which collects or receives specimens for analysis is to electronically record and report the patient's gender identity, sexual orientation, and racial and ethnic information as a condition of licensure. As a condition of licensure, any non-electronic specimen collection and analysis requisition forms distributed by the clinical laboratory is to require the manual entry of the patient's gender identity, sexual orientation, and racial and ethnic information on the form. If such information is ascertainable to a clinical laboratory, a laboratory order for inpatient and outpatient matters is to indicate the patient's race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity if the laboratory is required to report the condition of the patient, as determined by the Department of Health. Further, the bill provides that an electronic medical records company, which offers electronic medical records software programs for sale, on or after the effective date of this act in this State, shall configure the programs in a manner that prevents a health care provider from saving a patient's information in the program unless the patient's gender identity, sexual orientation, and racial and ethnic data is first entered into the program.

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Herbert Conaway (D)*,  Joe Cryan (D)*,  Angelica Jimenez (D)*,  Nancy Pinkin (D)*,  Angela Mcknight (D),  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D),  Sterley Stanley (D),  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D), 

Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (37-1) (on 01/10/2022)

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