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2024 SESSION

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SB 537 Hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures.

Introduced by: Lamont Bagby | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (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 HB 763.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/24  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102777D  pdf | impact statement
• 01/25/24  Senate: Committee substitute printed 24105644D-S1  pdf | impact statement
• 02/26/24  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB537ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 03/28/24  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered

HISTORY

• 01/10/24  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102777D
• 01/10/24  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 01/16/24  Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions
• 01/25/24  Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
• 01/25/24  Senate: Committee substitute printed 24105644D-S1
• 01/26/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 01/29/24  Senate: Read second time
• 01/29/24  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 01/29/24  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24105644D-S1
• 01/29/24  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB537S1
• 01/30/24  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-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 (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/19/24  House: Read second time
• 02/20/24  House: Read third time
• 02/20/24  House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)'
• 02/20/24  House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/26/24  Senate: Enrolled
• 02/26/24  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB537ER)
• 02/26/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 02/29/24  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
• 03/28/24  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 249 (effective 7/1/25)
• 03/28/24  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249)