A11537 Enacts the safe access to care act requiring certain healthcare facilities to adopt and make public a statement of patient rights and healthcare facility obligations with regards to immigration enforcement; includes unlawful or non-judicially authorized immigration enforcement actions at a healthcare facility as a workplace threat or hazard for purposes of the violence prevention program.

↓Restricts immigration enforcement model confidence 90%

Requires healthcare facilities to limit cooperation with civil immigration enforcement agents to cases with a valid judicial warrant or order, and to keep immigration-related patient information confidential except when legally required, so less immigration enforcement in healthcare settings.

No healthcare facility, and no employee, contractor, agent, or volunteer of a healthcare facility, shall voluntarily: (i) Disclose to any civil immigration enforcement agent the immigration status, national origin, place of birth, or any other protected health information of any patient; or (ii) Grant a civil immigration enforcement agent access to nonpublic areas of the healthcare facility, to any patient, or to any healthcare facility records for the purpose of immigration enforcement, except as required by a valid judicial warrant or judicial order or as otherwise required by state or联邦 law

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↓Restricts immigration enforcement model confidence 85%

Mandates that healthcare facilities verify judicial warrants before allowing ICE access, notify designated contacts and legal counsel of ICE requests, document interactions, report enforcement actions to state authorities, and train staff to decline voluntary cooperation, reducing state/local aid to

Procedures to verify the validity, scope, and specificity of any judicial warrant or judicial order presented by a civil immigration enforcement agent, including whether such warrant or order was issued by a judicial officer, whether it specifically identifies the healthcare facility or person subject to the authorized action, and whether it authorizes access to nonpublic areas of the healthcare facility;

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↓Restricts immigration enforcement model confidence 80%

Requires healthcare facilities to treat patients in civil immigration custody with the same rights as others, prohibits monitoring of communications or visits by agents without a judicial order, bars transfers or discharges due to ICE requests, and ensures care is not delayed by custodial status, so

Patients who arrive at a healthcare facility while in the custody of civil immigration enforcement agents shall be afforded the same standard of care and the same rights as any other patient presenting to the healthcare facility, including: (i) The right to receive necessary medical care, treatment, and emergency services without delay attributable to their custodial status;

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