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2021 SESSION
SB 1446 Medicine and other healing arts; practice, provision of litigation assistance.
Introduced by: Scott A. Surovell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners of medicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistance to treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistance includes providing a legal consult fee schedule upon request, scheduling and participating in meetings with a treated patient's attorney upon request, participating in trial or de bene esse depositions as needed, and providing a written estimate of the cost of the patient's medical services related to the litigation.
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- 01/19/21 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 21102383D
- 01/19/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/21/21 Senate: Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/21 Senate: Rereferred to Judiciary
- 02/01/21 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 6-N 1-A)
- 02/02/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/04/21 Senate: Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
- 02/04/21 Senate: Recommitted to Judiciary
- 02/06/21 Senate: Left in Judiciary