1999 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 953

File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation
Sponsored By:
Delegates Dewberry, Guns, Weir, McHale, Elliott, Stull, Malone, D. Murphy, and Sophocleus
Entitled:
Open Heart Surgery Services - Demonstration Program For New Services

Synopsis:

Exempting specified new open heart surgery services from a certificate of need requirement under specified circumstances; creating a demonstration program; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, by a specified date, to adopt quality-of-care standards for new open heart surgery services; requiring a hospital to be licensed by the Secretary to provide a new open heart surgery service before the hospital provides that service; providing for the termination of the Act; etc.

History by Legislative Date

House Action
2/12
First Reading Environmental Matters
2/24
Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
3/27
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
Senate Action
No Action
Sponsored by:
Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 47A
Delegate Donald E. Murphy, District 12A
Delegate Theodore Sophocleus, District 32
Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
DEATH -see also- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES; WRONGFUL DEATH.
EVIDENCE
HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH PLANNING AND COST REVIEW
HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
INSPECTIONS -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION
INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES -see also- CRIM BCKGRND INVEST.
LICENSES -see also- ALC. BEVERAGES LIC; DRIVERS' LIC
PRIVACY
RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
RULES AND REGULATIONS
SUNSET
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Health - General
( 1-101 , 19-101 , 19-115 , 19-115 , 19-115 , 19-308 , 19-309 , 19-318 )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading, Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments: None offered