File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 933
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Middleton, Della, Exum, Kelley, Klausmeier, and Pugh
- Entitled:
-
Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Debt Collection
Requiring chronic care hospitals to develop a financial assistance
policy for free and reduced-cost care to patients; requiring a
hospital financial assistance policy to provide reduced-cost medically
necessary care to patients who have a financial hardship; requiring a
hospital to apply a reduction that is most favorable to a patient;
establishing requirements for continued eligibility for reduced-cost
care due to a financial hardship; altering the requirements for a
notice that a hospital must post; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 1/28
- First Reading Finance
- Hearing 2/2 at 3:00 p.m.
- 2/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 2/11
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/15
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/4
- Returned Passed
House Action
- 2/16
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 3/17
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/6
- Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/30
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/31
- Third Reading Passed (140-1)
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 4/13
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 60
Sponsored by:
- Senator Thomas M. Middleton, District 28
- Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 46
- Senator Nathaniel Exum, District 24
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Senator Catherine E. Pugh, District 40
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Appeals -see also- Judicial Review
- Civil Actions -see also- Small Claims
- Consumer Protection -see also- Unfair Trade Practices
- Credit
- Debt Collection -see also- Attachments and Garnishments
- Foreclosure
- Health Services Cost Review Commission
- Hospitals -see also- Clinics; State Hospitals
- Judgments
- Liens -see also- Mechanics` Liens
- Notices
- Patients
- Prices -see also- Consumer Price Index
- Reports
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-214.1 ,
19-214.2 ,
19-350
)
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note:
Available
- Amendments:
Senate
- Number: 747076/01 Offered on: February 11, 2010 at:
11:32 a.m. Status: Adopted
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Committee Votes :
Senate
- Finance
House
- Health and Government Operations
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- February 15, 2010: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
House
- March 31, 2010: Third Reading Passed (140-1)
