Requires health providers to notify parents every six months about how to access a minor child's electronic health records if access to the online portal is restricted, increasing parental awareness of and potential involvement in a child's health information including gender-related care.
a covered entity that restricts a parent's, guardian's, or managing conservator's access to an online patient portal or health software application containing the electronic health records of a child who is 17 years of age or younger shall notify each parent, guardian, or managing conservator that the parent, guardian, or managing conservator may access the child's records by contacting the covered entity.
Requires health providers to notify parents every six months about how to access a minor child's electronic health records if access to the online portal is restricted, increasing parental awareness of and potential involvement in a child's health information including gender-related care.
a covered entity that restricts a parent's, guardian's, or managing conservator's access to an online patient portal or health software application containing the electronic health records of a child who is 17 years of age or younger shall notify each parent, guardian, or managing conservator that the parent, guardian, or managing conservator may access the child's records by contacting the covered entity.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill requires periodic parental notification when a minor's online health portal access is restricted, which in the Texas context (with existing laws limiting gender-affirming care for minors) facilitates parental oversight of transgender-related healthcare and education records, thereby restricting access and recognition for transgender minors.
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HB805Relating to a task force to study the legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender persons.↑Expands transgender recognition & access↑Expands transgender recognition & access Filed
SB37Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.↓Restricts abortion access=No change to transgender recognition & access Died (session ended)
SB64Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.↓Restricts abortion access=No change to transgender recognition & access Died (session ended)
SB1257Relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals.↑Expands transgender recognition & access Law