File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request -
Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Communicable Diseases or Conditions - Reporting
 
Requiring a physician with reason to suspect that a patient has a
condition or a disease, with specified exceptions, that endangers
public health and that has been designated by the Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene as reportable, to submit a report to a specified
county health officer; authorizing the Secretary to disseminate
nonindividually identifiable information under specified
circumstances; repealing the list of the diseases or conditions that
are reportable by a medical laboratory director; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occuring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 1/28
 - First Reading Health and Government Operations
 - 1/30
 - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/22
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
 - 3/19
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/20
 - Third Reading Passed (135-0)
 - 3/31
 - Returned Passed
 
Senate Action
- 3/22
 - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 3/26
 - Hearing 4/2 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/4
 - Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 4/1
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/2
 - Third Reading Passed (46-0)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 4/24
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 270
 
Sponsored by:
- Health and Government Operations Committee, Chair
 - Departmental
 - Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Counties -see also- Chartered Counties; Code Counties
 - Disclosure
 - Diseases -see also- AIDS; Rabies
 - Health -see also- Mental Health
 - Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of
 - Health Occupations -see also- specific health occupations
 - Hospitals -see also- Clinics; State Hospitals
 - Hotels and Motels
 - Investigations and Inquiries -see also- Crim Bckgrnd Invest.
 - Laboratories
 - Patients
 - Physicians -see also- Dentists; Med Exmnrs; Psych; etc
 - Privacy
 - Records -see also- Land Records; Vital Records
 - Reports
 - Rules and Regulations
 - Safety -see also- Occupational Safety
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Health - General
 - (
 18-201 ,
 18-202 ,
 18-205 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
 House 
- Number: 976085/01     Offered on: March 22, 2008      at:
11:44 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- March 20, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (135-0)
 
Senate
- April 2, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (46-0)