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2006 SESSION
HB 1110 Physicians; immunity thereof for failing to review or act on any laboratory tests, etc., exception.
Introduced by: Clifford L. Athey, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Immunity of physicians for laboratory results and examinations. Creates a new Code section that provides that a physician is not liable for failure to review or act on results of laboratory tests or examinations that he did not request or authorize unless the physician is provided the report with a request for consultation, the physician assumes responsibility for the report, or the physician has reason to know that the report result is needed. The physician must additionally prove one of the following in order to be immune: (i) no physician-patient relationship existed; (ii) the physician received the results without a request for consultation; (iii) the results were not part of the physician's management of the patient; or (iv) interpreting the results would exceed the physician's scope of practice.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/06 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 061347204 pdf
- 02/11/06 House: Committee substitute printed 062883220-H1 pdf
- 02/28/06 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1110ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/14/06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/11/06 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 061347204
- 01/11/06 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/10/06 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/06 House: Committee substitute printed 062883220-H1
- 02/11/06 House: Read first time
- 02/13/06 House: Read second time
- 02/13/06 House: Committee substitute agreed to 062883220-H1
- 02/13/06 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1110H1
- 02/14/06 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/06 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/06 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/15/06 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/15/06 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/20/06 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/06 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/06 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/06 Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/06 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/06 Senate: VOTE: (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/06 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1110ER)
- 02/28/06 House: Enrolled
- 03/01/06 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/02/06 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/05/06 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 684 (effective 7/1/06)
- 04/14/06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684)