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2024 SESSION
SB 392 Hospitals; emergency departments to have at least one licensed physician on duty at all times.
Introduced by: Stella G. Pekarsky | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Hospitals; emergency departments; licensed physicians. Requires any hospital with an emergency department to have at least one licensed physician on duty and physically present at all times. Current law requires such hospitals to have a licensed physician on call, though not necessarily physically present on the premises, at all times. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025 and is identical to HB 353.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103092D pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24103092D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/27/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB392ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/04/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments engrossed
- Senate amendments
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103092D
- 01/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/15/24 Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health
- 01/25/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/30/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/01/24 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/01/24 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/01/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB392E
- 02/01/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24103092D-E
- 02/02/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/24 House: Read first time
- 02/13/24 House: Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- 02/15/24 House: Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N)
- 02/19/24 House: Read second time
- 02/20/24 House: Read third time
- 02/20/24 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/20/24 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/20/24 House: Passed House with amendment (63-Y 36-N)
- 02/20/24 House: VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N)
- 02/22/24 Senate: House amendment agreed to by Senate (36-Y 2-N)
- 02/27/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/27/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB392ER)
- 02/27/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/01/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/04/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 505 (effective 7/1/25)
- 04/04/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505)