Maryland House Bill 808 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-5)
Status: Introduced on February 3 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-03-24 - Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Providing it is the intent of the General Assembly to promote the health, safety, and well-being of patients and to foster communication between patients and health care providers; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide patients with a specified patient's bill of rights; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide translators or an interpreter for specified patients; requiring each administrator of a hospital to conspicuously post copies of the patient's bill of rights in specified areas; etc.

Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights

Sen. Karen Lewis Young [D]	Del. Erek Barron [D]	Sen. Benjamin Brooks [D]	Sen. Ariana Kelly [D]
Del. Marc Korman [D]	Del. Eric Luedtke [D]	Del. Patrick McDonough [R]	Del. Ric Metzgar [R]
Del. Christian Miele [R]	Del. Marice Morales [D]	Del. Andrew Platt [D]	Del. Frank Turner [D]
Del. David Vogt [R]	Sen. Chris West [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-24	House	Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
2017-03-02	House	Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-03	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0808?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0808f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0008/hb0808.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/hb0808_hgo.pdf