File Code: Health Occupations
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 623
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Hollinger
- Entitled:
-
Nurses - Exercise of Professional Judgment
Authorizing nurses to exercise professional judgment by providing
grounds for disciplining a supervisory nurse directing another nurse
to perform a designated nursing act or responsibility that the nurse
has justifiably refused to do, or for interfering with, inhibiting, or
preventing another nurse from justifiably refusing to accept such a
responsibility; creating an exception during medical emergencies;
authorizing discipline by a Health Occupations Board for violations of
these prohibitions; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/30
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 2/5
- Hearing 3/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/20
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
House Action
- 3/20
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- DISCIPLINE
- EMERGENCIES -see also- AMBULANCES; RESCUE SQUADS
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- NURSES
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health Occupations
- (
8-316 ,
8-316 ,
8-316 ,
8-708 ,
8-710
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 274303/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1997 at: 10:46
Status: Adopted