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Relating to the availability to the public of certain deceased individuals’ anonymized biographical information and immunization record data
Topics:Health care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2024
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the public availability of anonymized biographical information and immunization record data of certain deceased individuals.26 on or after January 1, 2020, to first create, and assign an individual identifier to, a report for each individual that includes biographical information collected from the individual’s death certificate including the individual’s year of birth, year of death, biological sex, ethnicity, and cause of death using international classification of diseases codes.
Read the full explanation
HHS is then required to search the immunization registry information system to collect immunization data for all available vaccinations for each deceased individual. If the deceased individual is under years of age, HHS shall collect the entire immunization record data set of the individual. If the deceased individual is years of age or older, HHS shall collect the immunization record data set for the months immediately preceding the individual’s date of death. Following collection of the immunization data, HHS shall create a report and assign the same individual identifier to the individual’s collected immunization data as assigned to the individual’s collected biographical information. Following the collection of the biographical information and immunization data and the creation of the reports, HHS shall make both anonymized reports available to the public in a digital, downloadable format, such as a comma-separate text file. HHS shall not reproduce, release, or disclose the information compiled under the bill for any purpose other than for the purposes of the bill. Beginning July 1, 2024, and thereafter, HHS shall comply with the bill for each death certificate filed in the state within days of the filing of the death certificate. The bill defines “immunization record data set” for the purposes of the bill.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Senate subcommittee
Named February 12, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Iowa Code it changes
Creates§135.39F
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
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