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HB 42 Prenatal and postnatal depression, etc.; importance of screening patients.
Introduced by: Ibraheem S. Samirah | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Health care providers; screening of patients for prenatal and postpartum depression; training. Directs the Board of Medicine to annually issue a communication to every practitioner licensed by the Board who provides primary, maternity, obstetrical, or gynecological health care services reiterating the standard of care pertaining to prenatal or postnatal depression or other depression and encouraging practitioners to screen every patient who is pregnant or who has been pregnant within the previous five years for prenatal or postnatal depression or other depression, as clinically appropriate. The bill requires the Board to include in such communication information about the factors that may increase susceptibility of certain patients to prenatal or postnatal depression or other depression, including racial and economic disparities, and to encourage providers to remain cognizant of the increased risk of depression for such patients.
FULL TEXT
- 11/19/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100344D pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107179D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB42ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/06/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Conference amendments
HISTORY
- 11/19/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100344D
- 11/19/19 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/15/20 House: Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions
- 01/29/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107179D-H1
- 02/04/20 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/20 House: Read first time
- 02/06/20 House: Read second time
- 02/06/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20107179D-H1
- 02/06/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB42H1
- 02/07/20 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/20 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/12/20 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
- 02/20/20 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/21/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/20 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/25/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/25/20 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/25/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/25/20 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (30-Y 10-N)
- 02/27/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/27/20 House: Senate amendment rejected by House (3-Y 96-N)
- 02/27/20 House: VOTE: REJECTED (3-Y 96-N)
- 03/02/20 Senate: Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/20 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 03/03/20 House: House acceded to request
- 03/04/20 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 03/04/20 Senate: Senators: Barker, Newman, McClellan
- 03/05/20 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 03/05/20 House: Delegates: Samirah, Guzman, Orrock
- 03/05/20 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 03/07/20 House: Conference report agreed to by House (Y-98 0-N)
- 03/07/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/20 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (29-Y 11-N)
- 03/18/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB42ER)
- 03/18/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/19/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/20/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- 03/20/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/06/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 709 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/06/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709)