File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Pena-Melnyk, Ali, Benson, Braveboy, Bromwell, Costa, Donoghue,
Griffith, Gutierrez, Hubbard, Hucker, Kipke, McDonough, Montgomery,
Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Reznik, Robinson, Tarrant, V. Turner, Valderrama, Weldon,
Elliott, Hammen, Kullen, Morhaim, and Pendergrass
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Nursing Homes - Safe Patient Lifting
 
Requiring nursing homes to establish a safe patient lifting workgroup
composed of specified members on or before December 1, 2008; requiring
the workgroup to establish a safe patient lifting policy on or before
July 1, 2009; requiring the workgroup to consider specified factors
while developing a safe patient lifting policy; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occuring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Health and Government Operations
 - 2/6
 - Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/4
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
 - 3/5
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/7
 - Third Reading Passed (134-0)
 - 3/28
 - Returned Passed
 
Senate Action
- 3/10
 - First Reading Finance
 - 3/18
 - Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/31
 - Favorable Report by Finance
 - 3/28
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 3/29
 - Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 4/8
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 80
 
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Joseline A. Pena-Melnyk, District 21
 - Delegate Saqib Ali, District 39
 - Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
 - Delegate Aisha N. Braveboy, District 25
 - Delegate Eric M. Bromwell, District 8
 - Delegate Robert A. Costa, District 33B
 - Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
 - Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
 - Delegate Melony G. Griffith, District 25
 - Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, District 18
 - Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
 - Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
 - Delegate Tom Hucker, District 20
 - Delegate Nicholaus R. Kipke, District 31
 - Delegate Sue Kullen, District 27B
 - Delegate Pat McDonough, District 7
 - Delegate Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
 - Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
 - Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
 - Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
 - Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13
 - Delegate Kirill Reznik, District 39
 - Delegate Barbara Robinson, District 40
 - Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, District 40
 - Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
 - Delegate Kriselda Valderrama, District 26
 - Delegate Richard B. Weldon, Jr., District 3B
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
 - Equipment -see also- Motor Vehicle Equipment
 - Health Occupations -see also- specific health occupations
 - Nurses
 - Nursing Homes -see also- Continuing Care; Long Term Care
 - Occupational Safety
 - Patients
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Health - General
 - (
 19-1401 ,
 19-1410.1 
)
 
- 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: 546986/01     Offered on: March 5, 2008       at:
10:17 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- March 7, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (134-0)
 
Senate
- March 29, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (47-0)