CHAPTER NUMBER: 267
File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Rosenberg, Eckardt, Schisler, Goldwater, and Guns
- Entitled:
-
Mental Hygiene Law - Advance Directives
Requiring that the administrative head of a residential facility
providing treatment or services for individuals with mental disorders
who releases an individual from the facility notify the individual of
the advisability of making an advance directive for mental health
services; requiring that the facility assist the individual in making
the advance directive or refer the individual to an appropriate
community resource, if the individual requests assistance; etc.
House Action
- 2/8
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/21
- Hearing 3/8 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/19
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/18
- Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- 4/3
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (136-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 4/20
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 267
Senate Action
- 3/22
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/23
- Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 4/2
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/3
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate Kenneth D. Schisler, District 37B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES
- CLINICS
- DISCLOSURE
- FORMS
- GROUP HOMES -see also- ASSISTED LIVING
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- MENTAL HEALTH
- NOTICES
- PATIENTS
- STATE HOSPITALS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
5-602.1 ,
10-809
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 080119/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 19, 2001 at:
7:02 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 624034/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 5, 2001 at:
8:24 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 18, 2001: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- April 3, 2001: Third Reading Passed (136-0)
- Senate
- April 3, 2001: Third Reading Passed (47-0)