Indiana Senate Bill 206 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-15 - Senator Rogers added as coauthor
Pending: Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Attorney and next of kin access to patients. Requires hospitals, health facilities, and residential care facilities to develop and maintain protocols concerning the visitation of admitted patients by certain individuals. Specifies certain requirements for hospital, health facility, and residential care facility visitation protocols. Requires specified visitation policies to remain in effect during times in which normal visiting procedures are halted due to a declared emergency or epidemic. Provides civil immunity to hospitals, health facilities, residential care facilities, their respective employees, and their respective contractors for the good faith implementation of specified patient visitation protocols.

Attorney and next of kin access to patients.

Sen. Blake Doriot [R]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Ronald Grooms [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]
Sen. David Niezgodski [D]	Sen. Andy Zay [R]	Sen. Linda Rogers [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-15	Senate	Senator Rogers added as coauthor
2021-02-02	Senate	Senator Zay added as coauthor
2021-02-02	Senate	Senator Charbonneau added as second author
2021-02-02	Senate	Senator Zay removed as second author
2021-01-12	Senate	Senators Kruse and Niezgodski added as coauthors
2021-01-12	Senate	Senator Grooms added as third author
2021-01-12	Senate	Senator Zay added as second author
2021-01-07	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2021-01-07	Senate	Authored by Senator Doriot

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/206/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/f/1/a/8f1ac29a/SB0206.01.INTR.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/d/5/3/fd53392f/SB0206.01.INTR.FN001.pdf