STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2223
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2849
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2849 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Department of Health to create permanent or temporary privacy officer and security officer positions, which shall be exempt from civil service requirements.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.
Your Committee finds that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 introduced rigorous national privacy and security standards to assure that personal health information remains confidential. Your Committee further finds that the privacy officer and security officer positions are necessary to help meet these standards, and they will work in tandem to manage the Department of Health's risks associated with any unauthorized acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of protected health information that compromises the security or privacy of the information.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2849, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2849, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair |
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