Introduced Version






SENATE BILL No. 133

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 11-10-4-9.

Synopsis: Medical records in correctional facilities. Provides for the maintenance and transfer of a criminal offender's mental health records.

Effective: July 1, 2007.





Miller




    January 11, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters.







Introduced

First Regular Session 115th General Assembly (2007)


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SENATE BILL No. 133



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 11-10-4-9; (07)IN0133.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 11-10-4-9 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2007]: Sec. 9. (a) As used in this section, "mental health record" has the meaning set forth in IC 16-18-2-226.
    (b) A psychiatrist or a mental health facility may provide a copy of an offender's mental health record, with or without the offender's consent, to a facility or an agency responsible for the incarceration of the offender. Any mental health records provided under this subsection shall become part of the offender's health record maintained by the facility or agency responsible for the incarceration of the offender.
    (c) If an offender is transferred to a different facility, the offender's mental health records must be provided to the facility that is used to:
        (1) house; or
        (2) provide mental health treatment to;
the offender, including a county jail or a community mental health

center.
    (d) The department shall maintain health records for each offender incarcerated by the department. After an offender is released from incarceration, the department shall provide the offender's mental health records, if any, to a mental health facility or mental health provider that is providing mental health treatment to the offender.