Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on January 30, 2018. The 2018 session has ended.
2018 Regular Session
House Bill 440
Medicaid; provide for a database of electronic medical records of Medicaid recipients, with access by Medicaid providers.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO DIRECT THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID TO CONTRACT WITH AN ENTITY TO DEVELOP, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A DATABASE OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS OF MEDICAID RECIPIENTS, WHICH MAY BE ACCESSED BY MEDICAID PROVIDERS TO OBTAIN THE MEDICAL RECORDS OF MEDICAID RECIPIENTS TO WHOM THEY ARE PROVIDING SERVICES; TO PROVIDE THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE DATABASE IS TO ALLOW HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO BE ABLE TO COORDINATE SERVICES TO MEDICAID RECIPIENTS WITH THOSE PROVIDED BY OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IN A MANNER TO OPTIMIZE THE QUALITY, EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY OF THE HEALTH CARE RECEIVED BY MEDICAID RECIPIENTS; TO REQUIRE THAT THE DATABASE SHALL BE DESIGNED TO LIMIT ACCESS TO THE MEDICAL RECORDS OF ANY PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL ONLY TO THOSE MEDICAID PROVIDERS WHO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THAT INDIVIDUAL; TO DIRECT THE DIVISION TO ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS TO PROVIDE THAT MEDICAID PROVIDERS SHALL TRANSFER TO THE ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS DATABASE THE MEDICAL RECORDS INFORMATION FOR THE MEDICAID RECIPIENTS TO WHOM THEY PROVIDE SERVICES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Its course
January 5 to January 30, 2018, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the House of RepresentativesJan 5 to Jan 30 · stopped25 days
MedicaidJan 5 to Jan 30 · stopped25 days
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.