File Code: Public Health
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 1583/94 - ENV
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 503  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
 Delegates Owings, Weir,
 Ciliberti, Redmer, and Stup
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Job-Related Drug Testing
 
Defining the term "specimen"; authorizing the use of specified hair
specimen testing only for pre-employment drug testing; requiring
employees that use hair specimens for pre-employment drug testing to
adhere to specified standards; prohibiting employees that use hair
specimens for pre-employment drug testing from using the specimens to
determine specified information; clarifying that independent testing
applies to all types of job-related drug testing; etc.
House Action
- 1/24
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 2/5
 - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/19
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Owings) Adopted
 -      Special Order 3/20 (Delegate Kagan) Adopted
 - 3/20
 - Floor Amendment (Delegate Kagan) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Kagan) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Kagan) Rejected
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Kagan)
 -      Motion vote previous question (Delegate Billings) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Kagan) Rejected
 -      Special Order p.m.  session (Delegate C. Davis) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate C. Davis) Rejected (48-71)
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/21
 - Third Reading Passed (105-24)
 - 3/31
 - House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      House Requests Senate Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Delegates Owings, McHale, Oaks
 
Senate Action
- 3/24
 - First Reading Finance
 - 3/25
 - Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/4
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-1)
 - 4/5
 - Senate Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Senators Dorman, Roesser, Astle
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
 - Delegate Barrie S. Ciliberti, District 39
 - Delegate Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., District 8
 - Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
 - Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - CHEMICAL TESTS
 - CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES -see also- DRUGS
 - DRUGS -see also-CONTROLLED DANG.SUBST.;DRUNK & DRUGGED DRIVG
 - HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - LABORATORIES
 - LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES LICENSES
 - RULES AND REGULATIONS
 - WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- LEAVE; OVERTIME
 
- Bill affects the following Statute:
 -   Health - General
 - (
 17-214 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 112790/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 20, 1997     at: 11:21
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 192398/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 20, 1997     at: 11:24
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 229978/2 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 19, 1997     at: 11:04
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 262994/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 20, 1997     at: 11:23
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 512390/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 19, 1997     at: 11:05
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 532790/2 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 20, 1997     at: 16:48
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 852698/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 20, 1997     at: 11:34
 Status: Rejected        
 - Senate
 - Number: 877742/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 3, 1997      at: 12:30
 Status: Adopted