Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary MEDICAL RECORDS Mental Health If a child with serious emotional disturbance or mental illness is 16 or older, present law provides, with certain exceptions, that the child has the same rights as an adult with respect to treatment, medication decisions, confidential information, and participation in conflict resolution procedures. However, a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may access prescription records resulting from such treatment provided to an unemancipated minor. This bill adds that such parent, guardian, or custodian may also access all mental health treatment, medical, and rehabilitation records resulting from such treatment. However, present law provides that the above outlined exception is not available if the treating professional is required to report abuse of the unemancipated minor and believes that parental access to the prescription records is reasonably likely to endanger the life or physical safety of the minor. This bill adds that when such circumstances are met, such access to mental health treatment, medical, or rehabilitation records is also prohibited. Health Facilities and Resources Present law provides that hospital records are, and must remain, the property of the various hospitals, subject, however, to a court order to produce the records. However, if an unemancipated minor receives medical treatment, then the minor's parent, legal guardian, legal custodian, or other person with medical decision-making authority for such minor may access, and a healthcare provider or healthcare facility must provide, any prescription records resulting from medical treatment of the minor, even if the treatment was provided to the unemancipated minor without parental consent, including treatment provided for a sexually transmitted disease, contra
