CHAPTER NUMBER: 408
File Code: Private Sector Labor and Industry
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Guns, Goldwater, Klausmeier,
Frush, Elliott, Hammen, Eckardt, D. Davis, Stull, Donoghue, Hubbard,
Boutin, Owings, Weir, Cane, Baldwin, Malone,
Moe and Stern
- Entitled:
-
Health Care Workers' Safety Act - Bloodborne Pathogen
Standard
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a
study on the exposures of health care workers to blood and certain
potentially infectious materials by objects that can penetrate the
skin; requiring the Department to hold hearings and prepare a report
on the establishment of a bloodborne pathogen standard in consultation
with certain entities; requiring the Department to complete the study
and submit a report to the Secretary of the Department and the General
Assembly on or before January 1, 2000; etc.
House Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/10
- Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/17
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/15
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/18
- Third Reading Passed (134-2)
- 4/6
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (128-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/13
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 408
Senate Action
- 3/19
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Committee Amendment (Economic and Environmental Affairs) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/6
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Robert C. Baldwin, District 33
- Delegate Charles R. Boutin, District 34
- Delegate Rudolph C. Cane, District 37A
- Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
- Delegate Brian R. Moe, District 21
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Joan F. Stern, District 39
- Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
- Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AIDS
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- DISEASES -see also- AIDS; RABIES
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- HEARINGS
- LABOR AND INDUSTRY, DIVISION OF
- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- SUNSET
- WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- LEAVE; O.T.; SALARIES.
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Labor and Employment
- (
5-308.1
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 319491/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 1999 at:
10:31 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 524223/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 6, 1999 at:
10:25 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 644526/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 6, 1999 at:
10:25 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 18, 1999: Third Reading Passed (134-2)
- April 6, 1999: Third Reading Passed (128-0)
- Senate
- April 6, 1999: Third Reading Passed (45-0)