CHAPTER NUMBER: 218
File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 747
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Hollinger, Teitelbaum, and Collins (Task Force on
Quality of Care in Nursing Homes)
- Entitled:
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Nursing Homes - Quality Assurance
Requiring a nursing home, by January 1, 2001, to establish and
implement a quality assurance program that meets specified
requirements and is approved by the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene; requiring a nursing home, by September 1, 2000, to designate
a qualified individual to coordinate and manage the program; requiring
a nursing home to establish a Quality Assurance Committee that must
follow specified guidelines; requiring the designation of a medical
director; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Finance
- 2/8
- Hearing 3/9 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/21
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/4
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/11
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 218
House Action
- 3/22
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 3/23
- Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/1
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Paula C. Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Nursing Facilities, T.F.on Quality of Care in
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES
- DISCLOSURE
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also specific health occupations-
- LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEV LIC; DRIVERS' LICENSES
- NOTICES
- NURSES
- NURSING HOMES -see also- CONTINUING CARE; LONG TERM CARE
- PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc
- RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
- REPORTS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-1401 ,
19-1402 ,
19-1403 ,
19-1404 ,
19-1405 ,
19-1406 ,
19-1407 ,
19-1408 ,
19-1409 ,
19-1410 ,
19-1411 ,
19-1412 ,
19-1413 ,
19-1414 ,
19-1415
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 107270/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 2000 at:
1:10 p.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 590719/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 4, 2000 at:
10:46 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 21, 2000: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- April 4, 2000: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- House
- April 1, 2000: Third Reading Passed (140-0)