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H.R. 5009 (115th)

Jessie's Law

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Introduced

13 February 2018

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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5 December 2025

Summary

Jessie's Law 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.

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