The proposed bill would have applied to organizations that collect and analyze COVID-19 health data.
Under the legislation, organizations including hospitals, physicians’ offices and medical research facilities would have been limited by the amount and type of data they collect for public health purposes. The bill also would have prohibited the use of data for commercial or advertising purposes and would have let citizens opt in and out of organizations collecting their health data, according to the report.
The governor in a May 19 statement said the bill was vetoed because “the current critical need to incentivize every eligible person to become vaccinated is an issue that did not exist and was not contemplated at the time this bill was drafted or made its way through the legislative process.”
