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S. 581 · 115th Congress

Jessie's Law

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Passed the Senate without a recorded vote, then expired. It passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record how each member voted, but didn't become law before the 115th Congress ended.

JMD ManchinSponsor
6 cosponsors · 3 D, 2 R, 1 I
SCR Capito DFD Feinstein AKD Klobuchar AKI King JSD Shaheen LMR Murkowski

3 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

  1. Senate Introduced Mar 8, 2017
  2. Senate Passed Aug 3, 2017

In doing so, HHS must identify: (1) the circumstances under which information provided by a patient to a health care provider should, upon patient request, be displayed in the patient's medical records; (2) what constitutes a patient request; and (3) the process and methods by which the information should be displayed.

What it does: CRS summary · Passed Senate amended · Aug 3, 2017

Jessie's Law

(Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and disseminate best practices for health care providers and state agencies regarding the display of a patient's history of opioid addiction in the patient's medical records.

In doing so, HHS must identify: (1) the circumstances under which information provided by a patient to a health care provider should, upon patient request, be displayed in the patient's medical records; (2) what constitutes a patient request; and (3) the process and methods by which the information should be displayed.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Jessie's Law

Latest action (Aug 11, 2017): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Mar 8, 2017

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

  1. Senate Introduced Mar 8, 2017
  2. Senate Passed Aug 3, 2017

No recorded floor vote found.