2008 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 733

File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 566
Sponsored By:
Delegate Hubbard
Entitled:
Health Care Facility Visitation and Medical Decisions - Domestic Partners

Synopsis:

Requiring specified health care facilities to allow domestic partners and specified relatives of domestic partners to visit a domestic partner except under specified circumstances; requiring two adults to be treated as domestic partners under specified circumstances related to medical emergencies; providing that a health care agent retains specified authority to make specified decisions notwithstanding specified provisions of law; etc.

History by Legislative and Calendar Date

Legislative date is used to record history occuring in the Chambers otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
2/4
First Reading Health and Government Operations
2/6
Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
4/7
Withdrawn
Senate Action
No Action

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

Ambulances -see also- Emergency Med Services; Rescue Squads.
Autopsies
Cemeteries
Civil Actions -see also- Small Claims
Clinics
Death -see also- Advance Medical Directives; Wrongful Death.
Disclosure
Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions
Emergency Medical Services
Funerals
Health -see also- Mental Health
Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of
Hospices
Hospitals -see also- Clinics; State Hospitals
Nursing Homes -see also- Continuing Care; Long Term Care
Organ Donorship
Patients
Privacy
Records -see also- Land Records; Vital Records

Bill affects the following Statutes:

Estates and Trusts
( 4-501 )
Health - General
( 1-101 , 4-215 , 4-215 , 5-501 , 5-501 , 5-509 , 5-509 , 5-605 , 5-605 , 5-612 , 5-612 , 6-101 , 6-201 , 6-202 , 6-203 , 10-807 , 10-807 , 19-310 , 19-344 , 19-344 )
Health Occupations
( 7-410 , 7-410 )
Real Property
( 14-121 )

Documents:

Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format): First Reading, Third Reading, Enrolled
Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format): Available
Amendments: None offered