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2017 SESSION
HB 1777 Hospitals providing psychiatric services; denials of admission.
Introduced by: Christopher P. Stolle | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Hospitals providing psychiatric services; denials of admission. Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations that require each hospital that provides inpatient psychiatric services to establish a protocol that (i) requires, for any refusal to admit a medically stable patient referred to its psychiatric unit, direct verbal communication between the on-call physician in the psychiatric unit and the referring physician, if requested by the referring physician, and (ii) prohibits on-call physicians or other hospital staff from refusing a request for such direct verbal communication by a referring physician.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102042D pdf | impact statement
- 01/23/17 House: Printed as engrossed 17102042D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/15/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1777ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/09/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102042D
- 01/09/17 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/12/17 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/17/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (11-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/17 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/17 House: Read first time
- 01/23/17 House: Read second time
- 01/23/17 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/23/17 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1777E
- 01/23/17 House: Printed as engrossed 17102042D-E
- 01/24/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/25/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/06/17 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
- 02/09/17 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/13/17 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/17 House: Enrolled
- 02/15/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1777ER)
- 02/15/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/17/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/17/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- 02/17/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- 02/23/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 175 (effective 7/1/17)
- 02/23/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175)