CHAPTER NUMBER: 2
EMERGENCY BILL
File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 230
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Hammen, Frush, Nathan-Pulliam, Redmer, and Watson
(Joint Legislative Task Force on Organ and Tissue Donation) and
Delegates Guns, D. Hughes, McHale, Mohorovic, Harkins, Morhaim, Stull,
Owings, Oaks, Klausmeier, Hubbard, Stup, D. Davis, Weir, Bonsack,
Comeau, Krysiak, Dypski, C. Mitchell, Branch, Harrison, Baldwin,
Bissett, and Conroy
- Entitled:
-
The William H. Amoss Organ and Tissue Donation Act of 1998
Requiring hospitals to contact an appropriate organ, tissue, or eye
recovery agency on or before each death in a hospital in order to
determine a patient's suitability for organ, tissue, or eye donation;
requiring a representative of the appropriate organ, tissue, or eye
recovery agency or a designated requestor to request that specified
representatives of a decedent consent to organ or tissue donation
under specified circumstances; creating an Organ and Tissue Donation
Awareness Fund; etc.
House Action
- 1/29
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 1/30
- Hearing 2/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/9
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 2/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/13
- Third Reading Passed (131-4)
- 3/3
- Return Passed
- 4/14
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 2
Senate Action
- 2/16
- First Reading Finance
- 2/27
- Favorable Report by Finance
- 3/2
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- Motion 2rdgs same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Bromwell) Adopted (47-0)
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
- Delegate Robert C. Baldwin, District 33
- Delegate Phillip D. Bissett, District 30
- Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
- Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
- Delegate Michael G. Comeau, District 35A
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
- Delegate Cornell N. Dypski, District 46
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Don B. Hughes, District 37A
- Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
- Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 47A
- Delegate Clarence M. Mitchell, IV, District 44
- Delegate Jacob J. Mohorovic, Jr., District 7
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
- Organ & Tissue Donation, Joint Leg. T.F.on
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., District 8
- Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
- Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
- Delegate Carmena F. Watson, District 44
- Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- DEATH -see also- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES; WRONGFUL DEATH.
- DRIVERS' LICENSES
- GENERAL ASSEMBLY -see also- AELR CMTE; LEGISLATIVE POLICY
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- IDENTIFICATION
- LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
- MEDICAL EXAMINERS
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION
- ORGAN DONORSHIP
- PATIENTS
- RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
- TELEPHONES
- WITNESSES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Estates and Trusts
- (
4-501 ,
4-502 ,
4-503 ,
4-504 ,
4-505 ,
4-506 ,
4-507 ,
4-508 ,
4-509 ,
4-509.1 ,
4-510 ,
4-511 ,
4-512
)
- Health - General
- (
4-305 ,
5-202 ,
5-603 ,
13-901 ,
13-902 ,
13-903 ,
13-904 ,
13-905 ,
13-906 ,
19-310
)
- Transportation
- (
12-303 ,
16-111.1
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 159680/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 10, 1998 at:
10:42 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- February 13, 1998: Third Reading Passed (131-4)
- Senate
- March 2, 1998: Motion 2rdgs same day Const/Rule 24 (Bromwell) Adopted (47-0)
- March 2, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
