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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5041 Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospice facilities; public health emergency, etc.
Introduced by: Christopher T. Head | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19, each nursing home, certified nursing facility, and hospice establish a protocol to allow each patient to receive visits, consistent with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as directed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Board of Health. The bill contains an emergency clause and requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the act to be effective within 280 days of its enactment. This bill is identical to SB 5042.
FULL TEXT
- 08/17/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200220D pdf | impact statement
- 08/25/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201010D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 08/27/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20201010D-EH1 pdf | impact statement
- 08/27/20 House: Engrossed bill reprinted 20201010D-EH1 pdf | impact statement
- 10/07/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5041ER) pdf | impact statement
- 10/21/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
HISTORY
- 08/17/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200220D
- 08/17/20 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 08/25/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201010D-H1
- 08/25/20 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 08/26/20 House: Read first time
- 08/27/20 House: Read second time
- 08/27/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20201010D-H1
- 08/27/20 House: Emergency clause added
- 08/27/20 House: Amendments by Delegate Head agreed to
- 08/27/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB5041EH1
- 08/27/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20201010D-EH1
- 08/27/20 House: Engrossed bill reprinted 20201010D-EH1
- 08/28/20 House: Read third time and passed House (94-Y 0-N)
- 08/28/20 House: VOTE: Passage Emergency (94-Y 0-N)
- 09/02/20 Senate: Read first time
- 09/02/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 09/22/20 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 0-N)
- 09/24/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Read third time
- 09/25/20 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 09/25/20 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 09/25/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 09/25/20 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (35-Y 0-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (36-Y 0-N)
- 09/29/20 House: Passed by for the day
- 10/02/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 10/02/20 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- 10/02/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
- 10/07/20 House: Enrolled
- 10/07/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5041ER)
- 10/07/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 10/07/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 10/14/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 14, 2020
- 10/14/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020
- 10/21/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 10 (effective 10/21/20)
- 10/21/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)