US Congress House Bill 3586 (Prior Session Legislation)

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December 14 2011 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Pending: House Subcommittee on the Constitution Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that a health care professional shall not be liable under federal or state law for harm caused by any act or omission if: (1) the professional is serving as a volunteer for purposes of responding to a disaster; and (2) the act or omission occurs during the period of the disaster, in the professional's capacity as such a volunteer, and in a good faith belief that the individual being treated is in need of health care services. Makes exceptions where: (1) the harm was caused by an act or omission constituting willful or criminal misconduct, gross negligence, reckless misconduct, or a conscious flagrant indifference to the rights or safety of the individual harmed; or (2) the professional rendered the health care services under the influence of intoxicating alcohol or an intoxicating drug.

Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2011

Rep Stearns, Cliff	Rep Bilbray, Brian P.	Rep Bilirakis, Gus M.	Rep Blackburn, Marsha
Rep Burgess, Michael C.	Rep Coffman, Mike	Rep Cravaack, Chip	Rep Crenshaw, Ander
Rep Ellmers, Renee L.	Rep Gosar, Paul A.	Rep Griffith, H. Morgan	Rep Hultgren, Randy
Rep LoBiondo, Frank A.	Rep Luetkemeyer, Blaine	Rep Matheson, Jim	Rep McKeon, Howard P. "Buck"
Rep Roe, David P.	Rep Rogers, Mike J.	Rep Schock, Aaron	Rep Smith, Christopher H.
Rep Sullivan, John	Rep Wittman, Robert J.

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-12-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
2011-12-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-12-07	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2011-12-07	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-12-07	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

SB3473 (Related) 2012-08-01 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB6389 (Related) 2012-09-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN03586:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3586ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3586ih.pdf