OTHER DOCUMENTS

US Public Laws | U.S. Congress: Proposed Legislation | U.S. Congress: Hearings and Reports | U.S. Federal Regulations| Other U.S. Privacy Documents | International Privacy Documents

I. US Public Laws/United States Code

• Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (PL 90-351; 18 USC chap 119)
• Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 (PL 91-508; 15 USC sect 1681)
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (PL 93-380; 20 USC sect 1232g)
• Privacy Act of 1974 (PL 93-579; 5 USC sect 552a)
• alternate address: http://www.epic.org/privacy/laws/privacy_act.html
• Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (PL 95-630; 12 USC chap 35)
• Privacy Protection Act of 1980 (PL 96-440; 42 USC sect 2000aa)
• Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 (PL 98-549; 47 USC sect 551)
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (PL 99-508; 18 USC chap 121)
• Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (PL 100-503; 5 USC sect 552a)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 (PL100-347; 29 USC chap 22)
• Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (PL 100-618; 18 USC sect 2710)
• Telemarketing Protection Act of 1991 (PL 102-243; 47 USC sect 227)

II. US Congress/Proposed Legislation

• 104^th Congress
  
• Fair Health Information Practices Act of 1995 (H.R. 435; Rep. Condit)
  
• Genetic Confidentiality and Nondiscrimination Act of 1996 (S.1898; Sen. Domenici)
  
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-191; Sens. Kassebaum and Kennedy)
  
• Genetic Information Health Insurance Nondiscrimination Act of 1996 (H.R.4008; Rep. Solomon)
  
• Medical Privacy in the Age of New Technologies Act of 1996 (H.R.3482; Rep. McDermott)
  
• Medical Records Confidentiality Act of 1995 (S.1360; Sen. Bennett)
  
• For all bills and laws from the 104^th Congress
  

  105^th Congress
  

• Fair Health Information Practices Act of 1997 (H.R.52; Rep. Condit)
  
• Genetic Privacy and Nondiscrimination Act of 1997 (H.R.341; Rep. Stearns)
  
• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination in Health Insurance Act of 1997 (H.R.306; Rep. Slaughter)
  
• Insurance Claims Privacy Protection Act (H.R.1029; Rep. Towns)
  
• Personal Information Privacy Act of 1997 (S.600; Sen. Feinstein)
  
• For all bills and laws from the 105^th Congress
  
  

III. US Congress/Hearings and Reports

• Privacy of Medical Records, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, 96^th Congress, 1^st Session (1979).
  
• Legislation to Protect the Privacy of Medical Records, Hearings Before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, 96^th Congress, 2^nd Session (1980).
  
• House Committee on Government Operations, Federal Privacy of Medical Information Act, H.R. Report no 96-832 Part 1, 96^th Congress, 2^nd Session (1980).
  
• Data Protection, Computers, and Changing Information Practices, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture, House Committee on Government Operations, 103^rd Congress, 1^st Session (1993).
  
• Health Reform, Health Records, Computers and Confidentiality, Hearings Before the Information, Justice, Transportation, and Agriculture Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, 103^rd Congress, 1^st Session (1993).
  
• Fair Health Information Practices Act of 1994, Hearings before the Information, Justice, Transportation, and Agriculture Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, 103^rd Congress, 2^nd Session (1994).
  
• House Committee on Government Operations, Health Security Act, H.R. Report No 103-601 Part 5, 103^rd Congress, 2^nd Session (1994)
  
  

IV. US Federal Regulations

• Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records (42 U.S.C. 290dd-2; 41 CFR Part 2)
  
• Protection of Human Subjects (45 CFR Part 46)
  
• For all Code of Federal Regulations
  
  

V. Other US Privacy Documents

• American Health Information Management Association
  
• • AHIMA Health Information Model Legislation (199x)
    
• Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
  
• • [current institutional recommendations]
    
• National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws
  
• • Model Uniform Health Care Information Act (1986)
    
• National Center for Quality Assurance
  
• • [current institutional recommendations, if any]
    
• State of Vermont
  
• • Vermont Health Care Information Act (1994)
• Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange
• • WEDI Health Information Confidentiality and Privacy [Model] Act (199x)
    

VI. International Privacy Documents

• Canadian Standards Association
• • Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information (1995)
• Council of Europe
• • Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (1981)
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• • Recommendation of the Council Concerning Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Data Flows of Personal Data (1980)
• European Union
• • Commission Proposal for a Council Directive Concerning the Protection of Individuals in Relation to the Processing of Personal Data (1990)
  • Council Directive 95/46/EC on the Protection of Individuals With Regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data (1995)

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