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 - Withdrawn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