File Code: Health Occupations
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 425/95 - ENV
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 236
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Goldwater, Eckardt, Walkup, Pitkin, Workman,
E. Burns, Parker, and McIntosh
- Entitled:
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Nurses - Exercise of Professional Judgment
Authorizing nurses to exercise professional judgment by providing
grounds for disciplining a supervisory nurse directing another nurse
to perform an act or take an assignment that the nurse has refused;
creating an exception for emergencies under which the nurse should do
the act or accept the assignment; authorizing a person to create and a
Health Occupations board to approve nurse performance protocols;
exempting a person in compliance with a performance protocol from a
specified disciplinary provision; etc.
House Action
- 1/29
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 1/31
- Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/11
- Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Marilyn Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42
- Delegate Joan N. Parker, District 10
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
- Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DISCIPLINE
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- NURSES
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health Occupations
- (
8-316 ,
8-316 ,
8-708 ,
8-710 ,
816
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available