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Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/

Both collections are searchable by regulation cite or keyword.

United States Code
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.php
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

Both collections are searchable by statute cite or keyword

Florida Statutes
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/

Full collection of titles, searchable by statute number or keyword.

Florida Administrative Code
http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/

Current regulations by number. Not searchable.

Florida General/Local/Special Session Laws and Bills
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/laws/laws_proced.shtml

Laws and bills by year from 2000 onward. Not searchable.

Selected federal privacy statutes

• Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (PL 90-351; 18 USC chap 119)
• Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 (PL 91-508; 15 USC sect 1681)
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (PL 93-380; 20 USC sect 1232g)
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (PL 104-191)
• Privacy Act of 1974 (PL 93-579; 5 USC sect 552a)
• Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (PL 95-630; 12 USC chap 35)
• Privacy Protection Act of 1980 (PL 96-440; 42 USC sect 2000aa)
• Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 (PL 98-549; 47 USC sect 551)
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (PL 99-508; 18 USC chap 121)
• Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (PL 100-503; 5 USC sect 552a)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 (PL100-347; 29 USC chap 22)
• Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (PL 100-618; 18 USC sect 2710)
• Telemarketing Protection Act of 1991 (PL 102-243; 47 USC sect 227)

HIPAA Privacy Standard

• DHHS OCR Guidance on the Final Privacy Rule (4 December 2002)
• Final Rule (updated full regulation, 14 August 2002, unofficial version) (PDF)
• Final Rule (revisions and DHHS commentary,14 August 2002) (Word)
• Proposed Changes to Privacy Rule (27 March 2002)
• Proposed Changes to Privacy Rule (27 March 2002) - formatted as published in Federal Register (PDF)
• Final Rule - Preamble (28 December 2000)
• Final Rule - Regulation Text (28 December 2000)
• Final Rule - formatted as published in the Federal Register (28 December 2000) (zipped PDF)
• DHHS "First Guidance on the Final Privacy Rule" (6 July 2001)
• DHHS "Fact Sheet on the Final Privacy Rule" (2 April 2002)
• DHHS Privacy Standards home page

HIPAA Transaction/Code Set Standard

• Final Rule - Modified (20 February 2003) (PDF)
• Final Rule - Preamble (17 August 2000)
• Final Rule - Regulation Text (17 August 2000)
• Final Rule - Preamble and Regulation Text (17 August 2000) -- formatted as published in Federal Register (PDF)
• DHHS Transactions and Code Sets Standards home page

HIPAA Security Standard

• Final Rule (PDF, 289 pages)
• Proposed Rule (12 August 1998)
• DHHS Security Standards home page

HIPAA Identifier Standard

• Proposed Rule - Providers (17 May 1998)
• Proposed Rule - Employers (16 June 1998)
• Patient identifier (not available, under development)
• Plan identifier (not available, under development)
• DHHS Identifier Standards home page

  Last modified: 27-Mar-2006