File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Rosenberg, Guns, Goldwater, and Eckardt
- Entitled:
-
Voluntary Admissions to Mental Health Facilities - Applications by
Health Care Agents
Authorizing an application for voluntary admission of an individual to
specified facilities that provide treatment or other services for
mental disorders to be made by an agent appointed by the individual to
make health care decisions for the individual, if the agent is
specifically granted the authority by the individual's advance
directive to apply for voluntary admission of the individual; etc.
House Action
- 2/11
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/23
- Hearing 3/10 at 2:30 p.m.
- 3/1
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/25
- Referred to interim study by Environmental Matters
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES
- AGENTS AND BROKERS
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- MENTAL HEALTH
- PRIVACY
- PSYCHIATRISTS
- RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
- SUNSET
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
10-611
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
