Texas Enacts Expansive New Health Privacy Law : Privacy & Information Security Law Blog Last month, Texas Governor Rick Perry <http://governor.state.tx.us/> signed a health privacy bill<http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB00300F.pdf>into law that imposes new obligations exceeding the requirements in the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The law, which will become effective on September 1, 2012, incorporates the expanded definition of the term “covered entity” in Texas’s existing health privacy law and could have a broad impact on many non-HIPAA covered entities. http://bit.ly/ncwEUE Source: http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2011/07/articles/hipaa-1/texas-enacts-expansive-new-health-privacy-law/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/ncwEUE+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]