Maryland House Bill 691 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-7)
Status: Engrossed on March 13 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-03-14 - Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
Pending: Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Altering a requirement that a petition for guardianship of a disabled person include signed and verified certificates of competency by providing that the certificates may be signed and verified by a nurse practitioner and certain other health care practitioners; altering the requirements for the certification of a patient's incapacity to make an informed decision regarding treatment or of a patient's terminal or end-stage condition to allow the second individual making the certification to be a nurse practitioner; etc.

Health Occupations - Nurse Practitioners - Certifications of Competency and Incapacity

Del. Bonnie Cullison [D]	Del. Heather Bagnall [D]	Del. Lisa Belcastro [D]	Del. Harry Bhandari [D]
Del. Alfred Carr [D]	Sen. Nick Charles [D]	Del. Brian Chisholm [R]	Del. Terri Hill [D]
Del. Steve Johnson [D]	Sen. Ariana Kelly [D]	Del. Ken Kerr [D]	Del. Nicholaus Kipke [R]
Del. Susan Krebs [R]	Del. Robbyn Lewis [D]	Del. Matt Morgan [R]	Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk [D]
Del. Shane Pendergrass [D]	Del. Teresa Reilly [R]	Del. Samuel Rosenberg [D]	Del. Sid Saab [R]
Del. Kathy Szeliga [R]	Sen. Karen Lewis Young [D]

2020-03-13 - House - Third Reading Passed (Y: 133 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 7) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-14	Senate	Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2020-03-13	House	Third Reading Passed (133-0)
2020-03-12	House	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2020-03-12	House	Favorable with Amendments {686485/1 Adopted
2020-03-12	House	Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
2020-02-10	House	Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-01-30	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations

SB576 (Crossfiled) 2020-05-08 - Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 568

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Estates and Trusts	13	705	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Health - General	5	606	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0691?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0691f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0691t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/amds/bil_0001/hb0691_68648501.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/hb0691_hgo.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/House/0595.pdf