CHAPTER 563

H.P. 1219 - L.D. 1642

An Act To Provide an Exemption to the Laws Governing Patient

Confidentiality Regarding Certain Former Patients of the

State Mental Institutions

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 34-B MRSA §1207, sub-§1, ¶F, as amended by PL 1989, c. 335, §2, is further amended to read:

F. Nothing in this subsection precludes the disclosure or use of any information, including recorded or transcribed diagnostic and therapeutic interviews, concerning any client in connection with any educational or training program established between a public hospital and any college, university, hospital, psychiatric or counseling clinic or school of nursing, provided that, in the disclosure or use of the information as part of a course of instruction or training program, the client's identity remains undisclosed; and

Sec. 2. 34-B MRSA §1207, sub-§1, ¶G, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 335, §3, is amended to read:

G. Information shall must be disclosed to the executive director and the members of the subcommittees on institutes and quality assurance of the Maine Commission on Mental Health for the purpose of carrying out the commission's statutory duties.; and

Sec. 3. 34-B MRSA §1207, sub-§1, ¶H is enacted to read: