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SB-711 Patient access to health records.(2021-2022)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 123100 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

123100.
 (a)  The Legislature finds and declares that every person having  who has  ultimate responsibility for decisions respecting his or her  their  own health care also possesses a concomitant right of access to complete information respecting his or her  regarding the person’s  condition and care provided. Similarly, persons having  a person who has  responsibility for decisions respecting regarding  the health care of others  another person  should, in general, have access to information on regarding  the patient’s condition and care. It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to establish procedures for providing access to health care records or summaries of those records by patients and by those persons having responsibility for decisions respecting the health care of others. 
(b) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to establish procedures for providing access to health care records or summaries of those records by patients and by those persons who have responsibility for decisions regarding the health care of others.