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1998 SESSION

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SB 33 Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate Orders.

Introduced by: Frederick M. Quayle | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Emergency Medical Services Do Not Resuscitate (EMSDNR) Orders. Authorizes licensed hospital personnel, when acting within their scope of practice, to honor EMSDNR orders for 24 hours after admission. Presently, only EMS pre-hospital personnel and hospital emergency department health care providers are authorized to honor EMSDNR orders. After hospital admission, however, the EMSDNR orders have no effect; therefore, a new order must be written--a process which usually takes some hours. This bill provides time to bridge this hiatus between emergency room or EMS transport and the writing of a hospital Do Not Resuscitate order.

FULL TEXT

• 01/14/98  Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/98 984901726  pdf
• 03/10/98  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB33ER)  pdf
• 04/27/98  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630)  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/14/97  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 01/14/98  Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/98 984901726
• 01/22/98  Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
• 01/23/98  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 01/23/98  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/98  Senate: Read second time and engrossed
• 01/27/98  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 01/27/98  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
• 01/27/98  Senate: Communicated to House
• 01/28/98  House: Placed on Calendar
• 01/29/98  House: Read first time
• 01/29/98  House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
• 02/20/98  House: Assigned to H. W. I. sub-committee: 1
• 02/26/98  House: Reported from H. W. I. (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/27/98  House: Read second time
• 03/02/98  House: Read third time
• 03/02/98  House: Passed House (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
• 03/02/98  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
• 03/10/98  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB33ER)
• 03/16/98  Senate: Enrolled
• 03/16/98  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/17/98  Senate: Signed by President
• 04/15/98  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 630 (effective 7/1/98)
• 04/27/98  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630)