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2023 SESSION
HB 1689 Patient visitation; request visitation from clergy members during declared public health emergency.
Introduced by: Karen S. Greenhalgh | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Patient visitation; visitation from clergy members. Requires hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities to allow patients to receive visits from clergy members during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat, unless the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility demonstrates that it is unable to reasonably accommodate the visits without undue hardship on the facility. Under the bill, the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility may restrict visits of a clergy member who fails a health screening measure or tests positive for a communicable disease of public health threat. If the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility establishes a protocol restricting the total number of individuals permitted to visit a patient, clergy members shall not be counted toward that total number. The bill provides immunity for hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities and their employees and contractors from liability for injury or death due to exposure to a communicable disease of public health threat resulting from or related to such visitation, except in limited circumstances.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101767D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105528D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/09/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101767D
- 01/09/23 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/13/23 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
- 01/26/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N)
- 01/31/23 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (12-Y 9-N)
- 01/31/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105528D-H1
- 02/02/23 House: Read first time
- 02/03/23 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/23 House: Read second time
- 02/06/23 House: Committee substitute agreed to 23105528D-H1
- 02/06/23 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1689H1
- 02/07/23 House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/07/23 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/08/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/16/23 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)