PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc

Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 62

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  HB 5

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 323

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Taylor, Dewberry, Hurson, Arnick, Busch, Guns, Harrison, Hixson, Howard, Kopp, Menes, Montague, Owings, Rawlings, Rosenberg, Vallario, and Wood

  Entitled

  Health Maintenance Organizations - Responsibility for and Regulation of Downstream Risk

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 58

  Status as of March 29, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Judicial Proceedings

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Cadden, Sophocleus, Rosso, Rzepkowski, Boschert, Leopold, and Love

  Entitled

  Health - Failure to Properly Bury or Dispose of a Body - Penalties

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Judicial Proceedings

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  HB 108

  Status as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Morhaim

  Entitled

  Patient Care Advisory Committees - Consultation and Evidentiary Use of Advice

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 161

  Status as of April 25, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 109

  Sponsored By

  Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)

  Entitled

  Health Occupations - State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Examination and Licensure Requirements

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

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  HB 308

  Status as of March 13, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Murphy, Brinkley, Dembrow, Pendergrass, Montague, Snodgrass, Baldwin, Hecht, and Kagan

  Entitled

  Marijuana - Exceptions for Compassionate Use

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Judiciary
  

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  HB 316

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 359

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Krysiak , Goldwater, and Brown

  Entitled

  Health Insurance Carriers - Standing Referral to Obstetrician for Pregnancy

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 365

  Status as of March 25, 2000: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Economic Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Donoghue

  Entitled

  Health Maintenance Organizations - Subscribers and Enrollees - Private Contracts for Health Care Services

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  

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  HB 367

  Status as of March 1, 2000: Bill is in the House - First Reading Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Goldwater, Eckardt, Sher, Snodgrass, Stull, Hurson, Nathan- Pulliam, Klausmeier, Redmer, and Owings

  Entitled

  Health Maintenance Organizations - Patient Access to Choice of Provider

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 412

  Status as of April 25, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 123

  Sponsored By

  Chairman, Economic Matters Committee (Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)

  Entitled

  Health Insurance - Private Review Agents

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 546

  Status as of March 2, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Valderrama

  Entitled

  Meridian Regulatory Acupuncture - Physicians

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 558

  Status as of April 25, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 140

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Barve

  Entitled

  Licensure of Physicians - Qualifications - Postgraduate Training

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

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  HB 559

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 254

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Barve, Stern, Mandel, Sher, Goldwater, Barkley, Kopp, Kagan, Carlson, Grosfeld, Petzold, Bronrott, Hixson, Heller, Dembrow, and Cryor

  Entitled

  Health Insurance - Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 591

  Status as of March 28, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Finance

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Goldwater, McHale, Walkup, Krysiak, Love, Kirk, Mandel, Nathan-Pulliam, Pitkin, Eckardt, Griffith, Barve, Kach, Pendergrass, Marriott, and Brown

  Entitled

  Health Insurance Carriers - Standing Referrals to Specialists

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 622

  Status as of March 1, 2000: Bill is in the House - First Reading Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Hubbard

  Entitled

  Hospitals and Related Institutions - Staff Use and Privileges - Certified Nurse Anesthetist

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 746

  Status as of March 21, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Griffith, Frush, Hurson, Cane, Owings, Fulton, Sher, Marriott, D. Davis, Oaks, Hubbard, Guns, and Nathan-Pulliam

  Entitled

  Mental Hygiene - Involuntary Admission and Emergency Evaluation - Clinical Social Worker

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 747

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 217

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Hammen, Klausmeier, Boutin, Nathan-Pulliam, Guns, Stern, Morhaim, Frush, Hubbard, Elliott, Schisler, Sher, Redmer, Mohorovic, Cane, Oaks, and Stull

  Entitled

  Nursing Homes - Quality Assurance

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 770

  Status as of April 25, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 152

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Bobo, Bozman, Glassman, Eckardt, Goldwater, Malone, Moe, Morhaim, Parrott, Pitkin, and Stull

  Entitled

  Health Care Providers - Do Not Resuscitate Orders - Outpatients

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Judicial Proceedings

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  HB 798

  Status as of March 1, 2000: Bill is in the House - First Reading Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Owings

  Entitled

  Hospitals - Credentialling Process - Health Care Practitioners and Physicians

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 891

  Status as of March 2, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate O'Donnell

  Entitled

  Parental Rights Act of 2000

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 901

  Status as of March 13, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Economic Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Kopp, Barve, Barkley, Bronrott, Brown, Goldwater, Heller, Hubbard, Mandel, Menes, and Stern

  Entitled

  Child Abuse and Neglect Diagnosis and Treatment Act of 2000

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  

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  HB 923

  Status as of March 13, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Economic Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Flanagan

  Entitled

  Maryland Health Care Foundation - Medical Malpractice Insurance for Retired Volunteer Physicians Program

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  

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  HB 950

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 437

  Sponsored By

  Delegates D. Davis, R. Baker, Oaks, Nathan-Pulliam, and Cane

  Entitled

  Medical Assistance - Program Recipients - Continuity of Care

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 1034

  Status as of April 8, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Senate Rules

  Sponsored By

  Delegates R. Baker, Brown, Valderrama, Proctor, Goldwater, D. Davis, Hubbard, Vallario, Grosfeld, Frush, Hill, and Patterson

  Entitled

  Health Care Credentialing Study

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Senate Rules

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  HB 1068

  Status as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Barve

  Entitled

  Health Insurance - Notice of Health Care Providers on Carrier's Provider Panel

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  Senate: Finance

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  HB 1101

  Status as of March 25, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Goldwater and Guns

  Entitled

  Nurse Psychotherapists - Authority to Prescribe Medications in Pro Bono Programs Not Adequately Served by Physician Volunteers

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 1102

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 457

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Goldwater

  Entitled

  State Board of Physicians - Powers and Duties

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

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  HB 1156

  Status as of March 22, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Pitkin

  Entitled

  Licensing - Medical Students - Pain Management Course

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 1164

  Status as of March 21, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Rosenberg, Hubbard, Frush, and Morhaim

  Entitled

  In Vitro Services - Embryos and Gametes - Consent and Disposition

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 1171

  Status as of March 1, 2000: Bill is in the House - First Reading Ways and Means

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Gordon and Barve

  Entitled

  Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Disposition of Fees

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Ways and Means
  

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  HB 1172

  Status as of May 18, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 672

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Shriver

  Entitled

  Education - Early Childhood Literacy - Grants

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Ways and Means
  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation

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  HB 1207

  Status as of March 1, 2000: Bill is in the House - First Reading Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Frush

  Entitled

  Hospitals or Related Institutions - Staff - Licensed Certified Social Workers-Clinical

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 1221

  Status as of May 18, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 677

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Marriott (Baltimore City Administration) and Delegates Rosenberg, Hammen, Hubbard, Klausmeier, and Nathan-Pulliam

  Entitled

  Education - Lead Poisoning Tests - Administering and Reporting

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

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  HB 1324

  Status as of February 21, 2000: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Guns and Petzold

  Entitled

  Physician Assistants - Delegation Agreements

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
  

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  HB 1375

  Status as of March 21, 2000: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegates Hammen and Klausmeier

  Entitled

  Hospitals - Incompetent Patient - Appropriate Placement

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Environmental Matters
  

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  HB 1413

  Status as of April 10, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Economic Matters

  Sponsored By

  Delegate Minnick

  Entitled

  Medical Directors - Regulation by Independent Board

  Committee
  Assignments

  House: Economic Matters
  

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  SB 13

  Status as of February 7, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Judicial Proceedings

  Sponsored By

  Senators Baker, Jimeno, and DeGrange

  Entitled

  Criminal Law - Failure of Duty to Report Death - Penalties

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Judicial Proceedings
  

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  SB 28

  Status as of March 6, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Finance

  Sponsored By

  Senator Bromwell

  Entitled

  Health - Reused Single-Use Medical Devices - Patient Consent Required

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  

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  SB 76

  Status as of January 31, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs

  Sponsored By

  Chairman, Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)

  Entitled

  State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Practice of Medicine - "Telemedicine"

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
  

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  SB 100

  Status as of April 25, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 51

  Sponsored By

  Senator Hollinger

  Entitled

  Patient Care Advisory Committees - Consultation and Evidentiary Use of Advice

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 188

  Status as of February 21, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Judicial Proceedings

  Sponsored By

  Senators Conway, Kelley, Blount, Exum, Mitchell, Lawlah, McFadden, Teitelbaum, and Currie

  Entitled

  Arrests - Access to Medical Care and Medication in Confinement

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Judicial Proceedings
  

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  SB 190

  Status as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed

  Sponsored By

  Chairman, Finance Committee (Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)

  Entitled

  Health Insurance - Private Review Agents

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Economic Matters

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  SB 250

  Status as of February 2, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs

  Sponsored By

  Senators Hollinger and Bromwell

  Entitled

  Intractable Pain Management Hotline - Board of Physician Quality Assurance

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
  

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  SB 295

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 253

  Sponsored By

  Senators Roesser, Teitelbaum, Hogan, Ruben, Van Hollen, and Forehand

  Entitled

  Health Insurance - Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Economic Matters

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  SB 325

  Status as of April 8, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Senator Dorman

  Entitled

  Health Maintenance Organizations - Patient Access to Choice of Provider

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 328

  Status as of May 18, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 519

  Sponsored By

  Senators Lawlah, Roesser, Hogan, Pinsky, Dorman, Exum, Currie, Green, Baker, Miller, Teitelbaum, Kelley, Hollinger, Hafer, Forehand, Frosh, and Hughes

  Entitled

  Health Care Credentialing Study

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 359

  Status as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed

  Sponsored By

  Senators Exum, Bromwell, DeGrange, Della, Dorman, Hooper, and Teitelbaum

  Entitled

  Medical Assistance - Program Recipients - Continuity of Care

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 372

  Status as of April 3, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Senators Hollinger, Dorman, Exum, Collins, Della, Ruben, Blount, DeGrange, Forehand, Stone, Van Hollen, Sfikas, Astle, Middleton, Ferguson, Pinsky, Green, Harris, Hoffman, and Teitelbaum

  Entitled

  Practice of Medicine - Definition

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 405

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 275

  Sponsored By

  Senator Astle

  Entitled

  Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement of Non-Contracting Providers

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Economic Matters

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  SB 429

  Status as of February 9, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Judicial Proceedings

  Sponsored By

  Senators Harris and Mooney

  Entitled

  Abortion after Viability - Prohibition - Penalties

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Judicial Proceedings
  

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  SB 455

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 279

  Sponsored By

  Senators Teitelbaum, Exum, DeGrange, Hooper, and Hafer

  Entitled

  Health Insurance - Notice of Health Care Providers on Carrier's Provider Panel

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Economic Matters

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  SB 487

  Status as of March 2, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Finance

  Sponsored By

  Senator Della

  Entitled

  Maryland Cancer Registry - Deaths Caused by Cancer

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  

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  SB 495

  Status as of March 20, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Finance

  Sponsored By

  Senator Hoffman

  Entitled

  Child Abuse and Neglect Diagnosis and Treatment Act of 2000

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  

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  SB 497

  Status as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative

  Sponsored By

  Senators Bromwell and Miller

  Entitled

  Health Maintenance Organizations - Responsibility for and Regulation of Downstream Risk

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Economic Matters

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  SB 502

  Status as of March 2, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Finance

  Sponsored By

  Senators Dorman, DeGrange, Hooper, Teitelbaum, Exum, Astle, and Della

  Entitled

  Health Insurance Carriers - Standing Referrals to Specialists

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  

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  SB 684

  Status as of May 18, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 553

  Sponsored By

  Senator Harris

  Entitled

  Health - General - Advance Directives

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Judicial Proceedings
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 690

  Status as of May 11, 2000: Became Law - Chapter 218

  Sponsored By

  Senators Hollinger, Teitelbaum, and Collins (Task Force on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes)

  Entitled

  Nursing Homes - Quality Assurance

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 712

  Status as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed

  Sponsored By

  Senator McFadden

  Entitled

  Education - Lead Poisoning Tests - Administering and Reporting

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 750

  Status as of May 19, 2000: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed

  Sponsored By

  Senators Kasemeyer, Collins, Green, Frosh, Forehand, Van Hollen, McFadden, and Roesser

  Entitled

  Education - Early Childhood Literacy - Grants

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation
  House: Ways and Means

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  SB 758

  Status as of February 9, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Judicial Proceedings

  Sponsored By

  Senators Hooper, Haines, Jacobs, Dyson, Stone, and Harris

  Entitled

  Abortion - Minors - Parental Notification

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Judicial Proceedings
  

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  SB 761

  Status as of April 8, 2000: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters

  Sponsored By

  Senator Della

  Entitled

  Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene - Disclosure of Information to Interested Persons

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance
  House: Environmental Matters

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  SB 822

  Status as of February 23, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Economic and Environmental Affairs

  Sponsored By

  Senator Bromwell

  Entitled

  Nurse Psychotherapists - Authority to Prescribe Medications in Pro Bono Programs Not Adequately Served by Physician Volunteers

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
  

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  SB 867

  Status as of March 20, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Finance

  Sponsored By

  Senators Mitchell, Bromwell, Conway, McFadden, Blount, Hughes, Lawlah, Currie, Kelley, and Exum

  Entitled

  Task Force to Study Historic Providers of Health Care Services

  Committee
  Assignments

  Senate: Finance