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HB 1514 Doctor of medicine, etc.; reporting disabilities of drivers to DMV, not subject to civil liability.
Introduced by: Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Health care practitioners; reporting disabilities of drivers. Provides that any doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry or any nurse practitioner, physician assistant, optometrist, physical therapist, or clinical psychologist who reports to the Department of Motor Vehicles the existence, or probable existence, of a mental or physical disability or infirmity of any person licensed to operate a motor vehicle that the reporting individual believes affects such person's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely is not subject to civil liability or deemed to have violated the practitioner-patient privilege unless he has acted in bad faith or with malicious intent. This bill is identical to SB 1024.
FULL TEXT
- 12/21/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103034D pdf | impact statement
- 01/27/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104297D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1514ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/24/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) pdf
HISTORY
- 12/21/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103034D
- 12/21/16 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/13/17 House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
- 01/23/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 1-N)
- 01/27/17 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104297D-H1
- 01/31/17 House: Read first time
- 02/01/17 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/02/17 House: Read second time
- 02/02/17 House: Committee substitute agreed to 17104297D-H1
- 02/02/17 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1514H1
- 02/03/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/17 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/08/17 Senate: Rereferred from Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/17 Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
- 02/16/17 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
- 02/17/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/17 Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N)
- 02/23/17 House: Enrolled
- 02/23/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1514ER)
- 02/23/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/28/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- 02/28/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/24/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 712 (effective 7/1/17)
- 03/24/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712)