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2020 SESSION
HB 687 State-certified doulas; certification, registry.
Introduced by: Lashrecse D. Aird | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Doulas; certification; registry. Provides that no person shall use or assume the title "state-certified doula," as defined in the bill, unless such person is a community-based doula who has received training and education as a doula from an entity approved by a body approved by the Board of Health for such purpose and been certified as a doula by a body approved by the Board of Health for such purpose and that no entity shall hold itself out as providing training and education necessary to meet the requirements for certification as a doula unless its curriculum and training program has been approved by a body approved by the Board of Health for such purpose. The bill also directs the Board of Health to adopt regulations setting forth the requirements for (i) use of the title "state-certified doula" and (ii) training and education necessary to satisfy the requirements for certification by the Department of Health as a state-certified doula.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102733D pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106550D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/05/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB687ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/06/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102733D
- 01/06/20 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/17/20 House: Assigned HWI sub: Health
- 01/28/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106550D-H1
- 01/30/20 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
- 01/30/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/31/20 House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/20 House: Read first time
- 02/05/20 House: Read second time
- 02/05/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20106550D-H1
- 02/05/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB687H1
- 02/06/20 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 2-N)
- 02/06/20 House: VOTE: Passage (97-Y 2-N)
- 02/07/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/20 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 (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/26/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/20 Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/05/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB687ER)
- 03/06/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/06/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 724 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/06/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724)