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House Bill 1067 |
House Author: Naishtat |
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Effective: 5-23-09 |
Senate Sponsor: Nelson |
House Bill 1067 amends the Health and Safety Code to authorize a medical examiner, local registrar, local health authority, local mental health authority, or community mental health center or certain other entities to enter into a memorandum of understanding to share suicide data that does not identify a deceased individual. The bill specifies the information that may be included in the shared data and authorizes an entity that receives such data to periodically release the data to an agency or organization with recognized expertise in suicide prevention to be used only for suicide prevention purposes. The bill expressly states that suicide data described above is not confidential and that an authorized recipient of suicide data is not civilly or criminally liable for receiving or providing such data under the memorandum of understanding.