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2004 SESSION
HB 577 Health professionals; disciplinary proceedings and reporting requirements.
Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Health professions; disciplinary proceedings. Grants to all health regulatory boards the authority to delegate some informal fact-finding proceedings to an appropriately qualified agency subordinate pursuant to regulations adopted by the relevant board. The bill makes general an existing provision for most health regulatory boards to order a physical or mental examination of a practitioner when he is unable to practice because of excessive use of alcohol or drugs or mental illness, after preliminary investigation by an informal fact-finding proceeding. The bill moves two sections relating to reporting requirements for hospital and other health care institutions and practitioners into the general provisions for health regulatory boards. Both sections are amended to require that the reports be made to the Director of the Department of Health Professions and are made applicable to persons holding the multistate licensure privilege to practice nursing. The bill requires the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services to report health professionals who may be guilty of fraudulent, unethical or unprofessional conduct. The bill adds an immunity provision for any person who reports regarding the conduct or competency of a health care practitioner as required by law or regulation or provides information pursuant to an investigation or testifying in a judicial or administrative proceeding as a result of such report, unless the person acted in bad faith or with malicious intent. Finally, the bill requires the health regulatory boards to promulgate emergency regulations relating to the delegation of fact-finding proceedings to an agency subordinate.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/04 043917116 pdf | impact statement
- 01/29/04 House: Printed as engrossed 043917116-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/04 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB577ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/10/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064) pdf
- 03/10/04 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB577ER2) pdf
- 03/17/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0064) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/04 043917116
- 01/14/04 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/27/04 House: Reported from H. W. I. w/amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/04 House: Read first time
- 01/29/04 House: Read second time
- 01/29/04 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/29/04 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB577E
- 01/29/04 House: Printed as engrossed 043917116-E
- 01/30/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/04 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/04 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/02/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/02/04 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/12/04 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/04 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/04 Senate: Read third time
- 02/16/04 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/04 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/04 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB577ER)
- 02/23/04 House: Enrolled
- 02/24/04 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/04 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/05/04 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 03/05/04 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/08/04 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/09/04 House: House concurred in Gov's recommendation (98-Y 0-N 2-A)
- 03/09/04 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N 2-A)
- 03/10/04 Senate: Senate concurred in Gov's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/10/04 Senate: VOTE: ADOPT GOV. RECOMM. (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/10/04 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 03/10/04 House: Reenrolled
- 03/10/04 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 03/10/04 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 03/10/04 House: Enacted, Chapter 64 (effective - see bill)
- 03/10/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064)
- 03/10/04 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB577ER2)
- 03/17/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0064)