File Code: Health Occupations
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 425/95 - ENV
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 422
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Hollinger
- Entitled:
-
Nurses - Exercise of Professional Judgment
Authorizing nurses to exercise professional judgment by providing
grounds for disciplining a supervisory nurse directing another nurse
to perform an act or take an assignment that the nurse has refused;
creating an exception for emergencies under which the nurse should do
the act or accept the assignment; authorizing a person to create and a
Health Occupations board to approve nurse performance protocols;
exempting a person in compliance with a performance protocol from a
specified disciplinary provision; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/24
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 1/31
- Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/4
- Favorable Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/5
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/7
- Third Reading Passed (43-0)
House Action
- 3/8
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DISCIPLINE
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- NURSES
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health Occupations
- (
8-316 ,
8-316 ,
8-316 ,
8-708 ,
8-710
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available
