CHAPTER NUMBER: 466 
File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegate Hammen
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Health Care Facilities - Certificate of Need
 
Specifying that a hospital may acquire a freestanding ambulatory
surgical facility or physician group practice without obtaining a
certificate of need under specified circumstances; and providing that
a hospital may not build or expand its ambulatory surgical capacity in
specified settings without obtaining a certificate of need if the
building or expansion would increase the surgical capacity of the
State's health care system.
House Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 2/1
 - Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/11
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 - 3/13
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/15
 - Third Reading Passed (136-0)
 - 4/2
 - Returned Passed
 - 5/14
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 466
 
Senate Action
- 3/18
 - First Reading Finance
 - 3/19
 - Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/5
 - Favorable Report by Finance
 - 4/3
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/4
 - Third Reading Passed (46-0)
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - CLINICS
 - HEALTH PLANNING AND COST REVIEW
 - HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS
 - PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Health - General
 - (
 19-101 ,
 19-115 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 409761/2 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 13, 1996     at: 10:49
 Status: Adopted