Bill Title: Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. In provisions regarding patient protection from abuse, provides that no patient, administrator, agent, or employee (rather than administrator, agent, or employee) of a hospital or a member of its medical staff may abuse a patient in the hospital. Provides that "abuse" in the provisions means any physical or mental injury or sexual abuse intentionally inflicted by, among other specified persons, a patient.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-29 - Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Lamont J. Robinson, Jr. [SB2977 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Third Reading in Senate	2022-02-23	52	0	6	0	58	Passed	Link	View