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AN ACT concerning Health - Reproductive Health Services - Protected Information and Insurance Requirements FOR the purpose of regulating the disclosure of certain information related to legally protected health care by custodians of public records, health care providers, health information exchanges, and dispensers electronic health networks; repealing a provision of law authorizing a custodian to allow inspection of the part of a public record that gives the home address of a licensee under certain circumstances; requiring that the regulations adopted by the Maryland Health Care Commission regarding clinical information to be exchanged through the State-designated exchange restrict data of patients who have obtained legally protected health care; establishing the Protected Health Care Commission; altering the purpose of the Maryland Health Care Commission to include the establishment of policies and standards that protect the confidentiality of certain health care information; clarifying that certain insurance requirements regarding abortion care services apply notwithstanding a certain restriction; and generally relating to health information and reproductive health services. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - General Provisions Section 4-333 Annotated Code of Maryland (2019 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Health - General Section 4-301, 4-302.3, 4-305, 4-309, 19-103, and 19-145 and 19-103 Annotated Code of Maryland (2019 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY adding to Article - Health - General Section 4-302.5 and 4-310 Annotated Code of Maryland (2019 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Insurance Section 15-857 Annotated Code of Maryland (2017 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, Article - Insurance Section 31-116(a) Annotated Code of Maryland (2017 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement)

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Sandy Rosenberg (D)*,  Tiffany Alston (D),  Heather Bagnall (D),  Harry Bhandari (D),  Bonnie Cullison (D),  Pamela Guzzone (D),  Terri Hill (D),  Steve Johnson (D),  Anne Kaiser (D),  Ken Kerr (D),  Robbyn Lewis (D),  Lesley Lopez (D),  Ashanti Martínez (D),  Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D),  Deni Taveras (D),  Jennifer White Holland (D),  Jamila Woods (D), 

Approved by the Governor - Chapter 249 (on 05/03/2023)

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