File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates V. Turner, Benson, Costa, Hubbard, and Oaks
- Entitled:
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Safe Nurse Staffing for Quality Care Act
Requiring a hospital to ensure direct care nursing staff meet the
individual care needs of patients; requiring each hospital to annually
submit to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene a nurse staffing
plan and a certification of the plan; requiring the staffing plan to
meet specified requirements; providing that a staffing plan may not
incorporate or assume that functions are to be performed by personnel
who are not direct care nurses; requiring the staffing plan to
incorporate specified ratios; etc.
House Action
- 1/27
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 2/9
- Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/22
- Withdrawn
Senate Action
- No Action
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Robert A. Costa, District 33B
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- APPEALS -see also- JUDICIAL REVIEW
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- DISCRIMINATION
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also- specific health occupations
- HEALTH PLANNING AND COST REVIEW
- HEARINGS
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- INSPECTIONS -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION
- LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
- LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEV LIC; DRIVERS' LICENSES
- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
- NOTICES
- NURSES
- PATIENTS
- PENALTIES
- PRIVACY
- PUBLIC INFORMATION
- RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
- REPORTS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- COL BARG; HOLIDAY; etc
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
1-101 ,
15-101 ,
15-110 ,
19-308 ,
19-3C-01 ,
19-3C-02 ,
19-3C-03 ,
19-3C-04 ,
19-3C-05 ,
19-3C-06 ,
19-3C-07 ,
19-3C-08 ,
19-3C-09 ,
19-3C-10 ,
19-319 ,
19-327
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments:
None offered