Medically accurate information

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill creates a right and obligation for a health care provider to provide medically accurate information to patients to whom the health care provider provides medical care. The bill also creates a right for a patient to receive medically accurate information from a health care provider. The bill prohibits any person, including the state or any subdivision of the state, from interfering with or otherwise diminishing the rights described under the bill related to medically accurate information and from requiring in a procedure or treatment form information that is not medically accurate. The bill further prohibits employment retribution based upon a health care provider's exercise of the rights and obligations relating to the provision of medically accurate information.

Under the bill, a patient or health care provider may file a civil action for a violation related to the patient's right to accurate medical information. The bill allows the person to seek, in addition to injunctive relief and punitive damages, compensatory damages that reflect his or her actual damages or statutory damages of $5,000 per violation.

Who's behind it

11 senators are its authors⁠. All 11 are Democrats.

20 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.