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An Act to Clarify Data Collection Processes in Health Care Facilities

An Act to Clarify Data Collection Processes in Health Care Facilities

Enacted

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Sponsor
Representative Ambureen Rana
Last action
2025-06-10
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Clarify Data Collection Processes in Health Care Facilities

An Act to Clarify Data Collection Processes in Health Care Facilities Sponsor: Representative Ambureen Rana Reference committee: Health and Human Services Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Clarify Data Collection Processes in Health Care Facilities Sponsor: Representative Ambureen Rana Reference committee: Health and Human Services Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR2226(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR2226(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 1945 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-10 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-03 House

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  3. 2025-06-03 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  4. 2025-05-29 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM

  5. 2025-05-21 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-05-21 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2025-05-07 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Clarify Data Collection Processes in Health Care Facilities
Sponsor:
Representative Ambureen Rana
Reference committee:
Health and Human Services
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR2226(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 1304 - L.D. 1945
An Act to Clarify Data Collection Processes in Health Care Facilities
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §265, first ¶, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 129, §1, is amended to
read:
Beginning October 1, 2026, a health care facility, other than a pharmacy licensed
pursuant to Title 32, chapter 117, shall ensure that data related to sexual orientation and
gender identity is collected from an individual as part of the health care information
collected upon intake at a health care facility and at any other time who is 19 years of age
or older when demographic information is collected, unless the individual declines to
answer questions regarding the individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. This data
is part of the individual's electronic health record. For the purposes of this section, "health
care facility" has the same meaning as in section 1711‑C, subsection 1, paragraph D, "health
care information" has the same meaning as in section 1711‑C, subsection 1, paragraph E
and "individual" has the same meaning as in section 1711‑C, subsection 1, paragraph G,
except that in this section it is limited to an individual who is 19 years of age or older. Data
collected pursuant to this section is health care information that is subject to the
confidentiality requirements of section 1711‑C. The sexual orientation and gender identity
data required to be collected pursuant to this section is the same as the sexual and gender
identity data elements added by the federal Department of Health and Human Services,
Health Resources and Services Administration to the uniform data system administered by
the Health Resources and Services Administration in 2016 or included in any subsequent
standards.
APPROVED
JUNE 10, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
255
PUBLIC LAW