Gun buyer database needs clash with state privacy laws
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, May 7, 2007
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Although there is support in Congress to require states to report mental health records to the federal gun buyer database, state privacy laws might hamper the effort, reports The New York Times.
The recent shootings at Virginia Tech have boosted support for a bill that Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) have put forward. The bill would provide money to states that submit their mental health records to the database and withhold money from those that don't, according to The Times.
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