CHAPTER NUMBER: 640
File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled:
-
Mortality Review Committee - Deaths of Individuals in State Facilities
and Programs
Requiring the Mortality Review Committee in the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) to evaluate causes or factors contributing
to deaths in facilities or programs operated or licensed by the Mental
Hygiene Administration; making changes in the Committee membership;
requiring the Secretary of DHMH to report specified deaths within a
specified time to the Committee; requiring the Office of Health Care
Quality to review specified deaths of individuals with mental illness;
etc.
House Action
- 09/22
- Pre-filed
- 1/10
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 1/24
- Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/27
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 2/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/2
- Third Reading Passed (132-0)
- 3/31
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (136-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/18
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 640
Senate Action
- 3/5
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/7
- Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/27
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/29
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0)
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- DEATH -see also- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES; WRONGFUL DEATH.
- DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- MENTAL HEALTH
- REPORTS
- STATE HOSPITALS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
4-219 ,
5-803 ,
5-804 ,
5-805 ,
7-207 ,
10-714
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 620212/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 28, 2001 at:
10:40 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 634630/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 28, 2001 at:
10:40 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 2, 2001: Third Reading Passed (132-0)
- March 31, 2001: Third Reading Passed (136-0)
- Senate
- March 29, 2001: Third Reading Passed (45-0)