Maryland Senate Bill 301 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: Passed on April 30 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-04-30 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 286
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide patients with a certain patient's bill of rights; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide certain patients with an interpreter, a translator, or other accommodation to provide assistance to patients; requiring each administrator of a hospital to conspicuously post the patient's bill of rights on the hospital's website and in areas of the hospital accessible to patients and visitors; requiring the Department of Health to submit a certain report by January 1, 2021; etc.

Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights

Sen. Joanne Benson [D]	Sen. Jill Carter [D]	Sen. Brian Feldman [D]	Sen. Nancy King [D]
Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]	Sen. Clarence Lam [D]	Sen. Susan Lee [D]	Sen. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam [D]
Sen. William Smith [D]	Sen. Mary Washington [D]	Sen. Ronald Young [D]	Sen. Antonio Hayes [D]

2019-03-27 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (134-0) (Y: 134 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2019-03-23 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (46-0) (Y: 47 N: 1 NV: 2 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-04-30	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 286
2019-04-05	Senate	Returned Passed
2019-04-04	House	Third Reading Passed (134-0)
2019-04-04	House	Second Reading Passed
2019-04-04	House	Favorable Report Adopted
2019-04-04	House	Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations
2019-03-29	House	Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
2019-03-28	House	Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
2019-03-28	House	First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
2019-03-27	Senate	Third Reading Passed (46-0)
2019-03-26	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2019-03-26	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {697371/2 Report Adopted
2019-03-25	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2019-02-06	Senate	Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
2019-01-30	Senate	First Reading Finance

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0301?ys=2019rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0301f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0301t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/Chapters_noln/CH_286_sb0301t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/amds/bil_0001/sb0301_69737102.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/fnotes/bil_0001/sb0301.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/votes_comm/sb0301_fin.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/votes/Senate/0809.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/votes_comm/sb0301_hgo.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/votes/House/1301.pdf