An Act amending the act of April 23, 1956 (1955 P.L.1510, No.500), known as the Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955, further providing for confidentiality of reports and records.

HB 694 amends Pennsylvania's 1955 Disease Prevention and Control Law to clarify when local county governments without their own health departments may access de-identified communicable disease data. Specifically, it allows county governing bodies to receive limited, anonymized disease reports (including municipality-level data for cases within the past 24 hours) if they pass a resolution authorizing this, provided they follow all applicable confidentiality laws. This provision directly affects counties without local health departments, enabling them to monitor outbreaks while protecting patient privacy. The law explicitly excludes counties with existing health departments from this process, ensuring existing reporting structures remain unchanged.