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2024 SESSION
HB 763 Hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures.
Introduced by: Karrie K. Delaney | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring the use of a smoke evacuation system for all planned surgical procedures. The bill defines "smoke evacuation system" as smoke evacuation equipment and technologies designed to capture, filter, and remove surgical smoke at the site of origin and to prevent surgical smoke from making ocular contact or contact with a person's respiratory tract. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to SB 537.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103393D pdf | impact statement
- 02/06/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24105653D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/29/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB763ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/28/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103393D
- 01/09/24 House: Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- 01/19/24 House: Assigned sub: Health
- 02/01/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/24 House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24105653D-H1
- 02/08/24 House: Read first time
- 02/09/24 House: Read second time
- 02/09/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24105653D-H1
- 02/09/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB763H1
- 02/12/24 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/13/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/22/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/23/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/26/24 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/24 House: Enrolled
- 02/29/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB763ER)
- 02/29/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/28/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/25)
- 03/28/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)