S10494 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 only valid judicial warrants or orders and to keep immigration-related patient information confidential, 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 procedures to verify and limit immigration agents' access, requires notification of immigration enforcement actions to state authorities, and treats unauthorized immigration enforcement as a workplace hazard, so more structured limits on state/local cooperation with federal immigration in a

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 adopt and publicize patient rights statements limiting immigration enforcement access, provide related staff training, and protect employees from adverse actions for non-cooperation, creating new state regulatory requirements around immigration enforcement in health

Every healthcare facility shall adopt and make public a statement of patient rights of the patients who are receiving care in such facilities and healthcare facility obligations with regards to immigration enforcement and shall treat such patients in accordance with the provisions of such statement.

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