File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates Hucker, Cullison, Hubbard, and Tarrant
- Entitled:
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Health - Palliative Care - Services and Education
Requiring hospitals with 50 beds or more to implement a palliative
care program on or before a specified date; requiring palliative care
programs to provide and facilitate access to specified information and
palliative care services and to implement specified policies and
procedures; requiring health care providers to provide information and
counseling about palliative care options to specified patients and
proxy decision makers under specified circumstances; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
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House Action
- 2/10
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 2/22
- Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/29
- Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
Senate Action
- No Action
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Tom Hucker, District 20
- Delegate Bonnie Cullison, District 19
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, District 40
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Advance Medical Directives
- Counselors -see also- Social Workers
- Death -see also- Advance Medical Directives; Wrongful Death.
- Disclosure
- Education -see also- Driver Ed; Higher Ed; Special Ed; etc
- Electronic Government
- Health -see also- Mental Health
- Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of
- Health Occupations -see also- specific health occupations
- Hospitals -see also- Clinics; State Hospitals
- Nurses
- Patients
- Physician Assistants
- Physicians -see also- Dentists; Med Exmnrs; Psych; etc
- Public Information
Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
19-2401 through 19-2404
)
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal and Policy Note:
Available
- Amendments:
None offered
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Committee Votes :
House
- Health and Government Operations
