As Reported by the House Health Committee

136th General Assembly

Regular Session Am. H. B. No. 162

2025-2026

Representative Click

Cosponsors: Representatives King, Williams, Gross, Fowler Arthur, John, Bird, Pizzulli, Dean, Klopfenstein, Odioso, Schmidt, Miller, M.

A BILL

To enact section 3798.05 of the Revised Code related to medical records of minors and to name the act the My Child-My Chart Act.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That section 3798.05 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 3798.05. (A) In utilizing an electronic health records system to maintain the records of a patient who is a minor, a health care provider shall ensure to the fullest extent permitted under the HIPAA privacy rule and Ohio law that the minor's parent or guardian has access in that system to the minor's health records. Additionally, a health care provider shall not require the minor's parent or guardian to obtain the minor's authorization before the parent or guardian may access in the electronic health records system records relating to care the minor received with parent or guardian consent.

(B) A health care provider that maintains protected health information for patients who are minors shall do both of the following:

(1) Annually inform each minor's parent or guardian of all of the following:

(a) Circumstances in which a minor is permitted under Ohio law to receive health care without parent or guardian consent, including under sections 2108.31, 2151.85, 2907.29, 3701.242, 3709.241, 3719.012, 5120.172, and 5122.04 of the Revised Code;

(b) That any medical records pertaining to care of a minor patient consented to without parent or guardian consent may not be disclosed to the parent or guardian unless the minor has authorized the disclosure;

(c) That a minor's consent for parent or guardian access to the minor's medical records is valid only for medical records regarding care provided to the minor patient by the health care provider that obtained the consent.

(2)(a) Except as provided in division (B)(2)(b) of this section, at each minor's annual well visit, provide the minor an opportunity to provide general, ongoing written consent for parent or guardian access to the minor's medical records regarding care that the minor patient may have consented to, or may consent to in the future, without parent or guardian consent.

(b) The requirement in division (B)(2)(a) of this section does not apply if a minor provides written consent as described under that division, and the minor has not revoked that consent.

(C) Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply to a health care provider rendering services to a minor patient on an episodic basis or in an emergency department or urgent care center, when it should not be reasonably expected that related medical services will be rendered by the health care provider to the minor patient in the future.

Section 2. This act shall be known as the My Child-My Chart Act.