BILL NUMBER: AB 322	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Waldron

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2015

   An act to amend Section 130300 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 322, as introduced, Waldron. Health insurance.
   Existing law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Implementation Act of 2001, establishes the Office of HIPAA
Implementation within the California Health and Human Services
Agency, which is responsible for implementing the provisions of the
federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Under the act, the office is required, until January 1, 2016, to,
among other things, determine the provisions of state law that are
preempted by HIPAA. The provisions of the act will repeal on that
date.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 130300 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   130300.  This division shall be  known  
known,  and may be cited  as  as,  the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Implementation Act
of 2001.