Sec. C-27. 22 MRSA §8707, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 653, Pt. A, §2 and affected by §7, is amended to read:

2. Notice and comment period. The rules must establish criteria for determining whether information is confidential clinical data, confidential commercial financial data or privileged medical information and adopt procedures to give affected health care providers, facilities and payors notice and opportunity to comment in response to requests for information that may be considered confidential or privileged.

Sec. C-28. 22 MRSA §8708-A is enacted to read:

§8708-A. Quality data

The board shall adopt rules regarding the collection of quality data.__The board shall work with the Maine Quality Forum and the Maine Quality Forum Advisory Council established in Title 24-A, chapter 87, subchapter 2 to develop the rules. The rules must be based on the quality measures adopted by the Maine Quality Forum pursuant to Title 24-A, section 6951, subsection 2.__ The rules must specify the content, form, medium and frequency of quality data to be submitted to the organization.__In the collection of quality data, the organization must minimize duplication of effort, minimize the burden on those required to provide data and focus on data that may be retrieved in electronic format from within a health care practitioner's office or health care facility.__As specified by the rules, health care practitioners and health care facilities shall submit quality data to the organization.__Rules adopted pursuant to this section are major substantive rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

Sec. C-29. 22 MRSA §8712 is enacted to read:

§8712.__Reports

The organization shall produce clearly labeled and easy-to- understand reports as follows. Unless otherwise specified, the organization shall distribute the reports on a publicly accessible site on the Internet or via mail or e-mail, through the creation of a list of interested parties.__The organization shall publish a notice of the availability of these reports at least once per year in the 3 daily newspapers of the greatest general circulation published in the State.__The