File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 369
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Hubbard, Bobo, and Frush
- Entitled:
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Health Care Decisions Act - Advance Directives - Selection of Health
Care Agent and Treatment Preferences
Clarifying the forms relating to the selection of a health care agent,
treatment preferences (living wills), and organ donations; clarifying
that surrogate decision-makers may make decisions when health care
agents are unavailable; altering a definition; etc.
House Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 2/8
- Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/1
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/3
- Third Reading Passed (140-0)
- 4/6
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Hubbard, McDonough, and Donoghue
Senate Action
- 3/6
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/5
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
- 4/7
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Conway, Britt, and Hollinger
Sponsored by:
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES
- AGENTS AND BROKERS
- DEATH -see also- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES; WRONGFUL DEATH.
- FORMS
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also- specific health occupations
- ORGAN DONORSHIP
- PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc
- PSYCHOLOGISTS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
5-603 ,
5-603 ,
5-605
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
House
- Number: 526985/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 1, 2006 at:
10:43 a.m. Status: Adopted
Senate
- Number: 654631/01 (PDF) Offered on: April 7, 2006 at:
10:46 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 3, 2006: Third Reading Passed (140-0)
Senate
- April 5, 2006: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
