Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary Present law requires records of a quality improvement committee ("QIC"), and testimony or statements by a healthcare organization's officers, directors, trustees, healthcare providers, administrative staff, employees or other committee members or attendees relating to activities of the QIC, to be confidential, privileged, and protected from direct or indirect means of discovery, subpoena or admission into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding. Any person who supplies information, testifies, or makes statements as part of a QIC is not required to provide information as to the information, testimony or statements provided to or made before such a committee or opinions formed by such person as a result of committee participation. However, information, documents or records, which are not produced for use by a QIC or which are not produced by persons acting on behalf of a QIC, and are otherwise available from original sources, are not immune from discovery or use in any judicial or administrative proceeding merely because such information, documents or records were presented during proceedings of such committee. Present law authorizes a QIC to share information and documents, including complaints, incident reports, and testimony and statements by any person to the QIC, with one or more other QICs. Information and documents so disclosed, and any information and documents created or maintained as a result of the sharing of such information and documents, is confidential, privileged, and protected from direct or indirect means of discovery, subpoena or admission into evidence, to the same extent as provided above. The QIC sharing such information with another QIC must determine the manner and process by which it will share such information and documents, which process may inclu
