Despite the 18-to-2 vote in favor of the bill proposal, privacy advocates likely will not be satisfied, considering two key amendments reportedly were shot down.
The case stems from two incidents where at least one individual is accused of accessing the hospital's network to spread "defamatory" messages to employees.
Ryan Ackroyd, 26; Jake Davis, 20; and Mustafa al-Bassam, 18, who was not named until now because of his age, all admitted their involvement in the hacktivist gang's attack spree.
How can it be that firms can feel confident in their security technology investments and their people, yet ultimately still believe that they remain at great risk?
Last week, hospital officials began notifying patients of the February theft.
The security researcher and self-proclaimed internet troll earned 41 months behind bars Monday for his role in using a script to retrieve data on roughly 120,000 Apple iPad users from a public web server.