1. In section 9, on review of requests for clinical data, in paragraph A, subsection 4, language must be added providing a health care quality exception and extending the exception that applies to an authorized public health study to health care quality analyses;

2. In section 9, on review of requests for clinical data, in paragraph B, subsection 2, language must be added providing a reference to the health care quality exception; and

3. In section 9, on review of requests for clinical data, a new paragraph E must be added to provide a health care quality exception to allow release of data that identifies individual health care practitioners to the Maine Quality Forum for the purpose of undertaking health care quality analyses pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 24-A, chapter 87, subchapter 2.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this resolve takes effect when approved.