BILL NUMBER: AB 1011 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 2009 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 15, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Jones FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act to add Section 130206 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1011, as amended, Jones. Office of Health Information Integrity: report. Existing federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), extends health coverage benefits to workers after they terminate coverage plans. Existing state law, to become inoperative on July 1, 2010, establishes the Office of HIPAA Implementation to, among other things, assume statewide leadership, coordination, direction, and oversight responsibilities for determining which provisions of state law concerning medical information are preempted by HIPAA. Existing law establishes the Office of Health Information Integrity within the California Health and Human Services Agency to ensure the enforcement of state law mandating confidentiality of medical information and to impose administrative fines for the unauthorized use of medical information. This bill would require the Office of Health Information Integrity, by April 1, 2010, to report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the impact of federal changes related to health care technology and the privacy of health and medicalinformation, including recommendations for statutory changesinformation . Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 130206 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 130206. By April 1, 2010, the Office of Health Information Integrity shall report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the impact of federal changes related to health care technology and the privacy of health and medical information.The office shall evaluate and make recommendations for statutory changes to ensure that California's medical privacy laws are minimally compliant with or exceed federal privacy laws, including, but not limited to, compliance with changes to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300gg) enacted through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and that California law is updated to reflect and promote the development and expansion of health information technology while safeguarding confidential medical information.