Plain English Breakdown
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Health Care Protection and Privacy Rules
This law adds gender-affirming care providers, employees, volunteers, and patients to existing privacy programs that protect people facing threats, bans sharing their personal info online with bad intent, stops reporting certain medicine records for these services, and protects related legal investigations.
What This Bill Does
- The state address confidentiality program now includes gender-affirming health care providers, employees, volunteers who face threats because of their job or affiliation with a facility.
- It is illegal to post or sell the names, photos, or home addresses of gender-affirming care patients and staff on social media if someone intends to hurt them.
Who It Names or Affects
- Reproductive health care providers
- Gender-affirming health care providers, employees, volunteers, and their patients
- Patients receiving these types of medical treatments
Terms To Know
- Address confidentiality program
- A system that hides a person's home address from the public to keep them safe when they face threats.
- Gender-affirming health care services
- Medical treatments, such as hormone therapy or surgery, that help align a person's body with their gender identity.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law only applies if the person posting information intends to cause harm or threaten violence.
- Records created before January 1, 2026, must be removed by January 1, 2027.