PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 580

1.       ACTIONS TO PREVENT PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM
CONTAMINATION OR TO RESPOND TO A SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT EMERGENCY
UNDER §§ 9-405 AND 9-406 OF THIS ARTICLE; AND

2.       NOTICES GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC BY PUBLIC WATER
SYSTEMS UNDER § 9-410 OF THIS ARTICLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1997.

Approved May 22, 1997.

CHAPTER 580
(Senate Bill 325)

AN ACT concerning

Medical Records - Maintenance, Disclosure, and Confidentiality

FOR the purpose of specifying a certain time frame for the disclosure of medical records
by health care providers; prohibiting health care providers from refusing to disclose
a medical record under specified circumstances; altering a certain penalty penalties;
requiring certain individuals to take certain actions before the destruction or
transfer of certain medical records; making certain individuals who violate specified
provisions of law liable for actual damages; altering a certain definition; making
certain stylistic changes; and generally relating to the maintenance, disclosure, and
confidentiality of medical records.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 4-301(g), 4-309, and 4-403
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

4-301.

(g) (1) "Medical record" means any oral, written, or other transmission IN ANY
FORM OR MEDIUM of information that:

(i) Is [written] ENTERED in the record of a patient or recipient;

(ii) Identifies or can readily be associated with the identity of a patient
or recipient; and

(iii) Relates to the health care of the patient or recipient.
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