Sec. 10. (a) The health records and personal identifying information protection trust fund is established for the purpose of paying storage, maintenance, copying, mailing, and transfer of:
(1) health records; and
(2) records containing personal information;
as required under this chapter. Expenditures from the trust fund may be made only to carry out the purposes of this subsection.
(b) Subject to subsection (c), if a health care provider or a regulated professional is disciplined under IC 25-1-9 or IC 25-1-11, the board that issues the disciplinary order shall impose a fee against the individual of five dollars ($5). The fee must be deposited into the health records and personal identifying information protection trust fund.
(c) If the amount in the health records and personal identifying information protection trust fund exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), the fee imposed under subsection (b) may not be imposed on an individual who is subject to a disciplinary order.
(d) The attorney general shall administer the trust fund.
(e) The expenses of administering the trust fund shall be paid from the money in the fund.
(f) The treasurer of state shall invest the money in the trust fund not currently needed to meet the obligations of the fund in the same manner as other public money may be invested.
(g) Money in the trust fund at the end of a state fiscal year does not revert to the state general fund.
As added by P.L.84-2010, SEC.1.