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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5059 Hospices, certain, home care organizations, etc.; immunity from civil liability, COVID-19.
Introduced by: Rodney T. Willett | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Certain hospices, home care organizations, private providers, assisted living facilities, and adult day care centers; immunity from civil liability; COVID-19; emergency. Provides that a licensed hospice, home care organization, private provider, assisted living facility, or adult day care center that delivers care to or withholds care from a patient, resident, or person receiving services who is diagnosed as being or is believed to be infected with the COVID-19 virus shall not be liable for any injury or wrongful death of such patient, resident, or person receiving services arising from the delivery or withholding of care when the emergency and subsequent conditions caused by the emergency result in a lack of resources, attributable to the disaster, that render such hospice, home care organization, private provider, assisted living facility, or adult day care center unable to provide the level or manner of care that otherwise would have been required in the absence of the emergency and that resulted in the injury or wrongful death at issue. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to SB 5082.
FULL TEXT
- 08/18/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200737D pdf | impact statement
- 10/02/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5059ER) pdf | impact statement
- 10/13/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) pdf
HISTORY
- 08/18/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200737D
- 08/18/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 08/26/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 1-N)
- 08/28/20 House: Read first time
- 09/03/20 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 09/04/20 House: Read third time and passed House (85-Y 13-N)
- 09/04/20 House: VOTE: Passage Emergency (85-Y 13-N)
- 09/09/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 09/09/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 09/16/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (12-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: Passed Senate (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 (36-Y 0-N)
- 10/02/20 House: Enrolled
- 10/02/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5059ER)
- 10/02/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 10/02/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 10/07/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 7, 2020
- 10/07/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 14, 2020
- 10/13/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 6 (effective 10/13/20)
- 10/13/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006)