Maryland Senate Bill 336 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)
Status: Passed on May 10 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-05-10 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Requiring a hospital to provide a patient or the legal guardian of a patient with an opportunity to designate a lay caregiver before the patient is discharged from the hospital; requiring a hospital to document the decision to not designate a lay caregiver by a patient or the legal guardian of a patient in the patient's medical record; authorizing the patient or the legal guardian of the patient to change the designation of a lay caregiver in the event the lay caregiver becomes incapacitated; etc.

Hospitals - Designation of Lay Caregivers

Sen. Delores Kelley [D]	Sen. John Astle [D]	Sen. Joanne Benson [D]	Sen. Brian Feldman [D]
Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]	Sen. Thomas Middleton [D]	Sen. Catherine Pugh [D]

2016-03-25 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (137-0) (Y: 137 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2016-02-23 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (46-0) (Y: 46 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-05-10	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376
2016-03-31	Senate	Returned Passed
2016-03-30	House	Third Reading Passed (137-0)
2016-03-29	House	Second Reading Passed
2016-03-29	House	Favorable Report Adopted
2016-03-28	House	Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations
2016-03-24	House	Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
2016-02-24	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations
2016-02-23	Senate	Third Reading Passed (46-0)
2016-02-19	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2016-02-19	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {997370/1 Report Adopted
2016-02-18	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2016-02-11	Senate	Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
2016-01-27	Senate	First Reading Finance

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0336?ys=2016rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/bills/sb/sb0336f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/bills/sb/sb0336t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/Chapters_noln/CH_376_sb0336t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/amds/bil_0006/sb0336_99737001.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/fnotes/bil_0006/sb0336.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/votes_comm/sb0336_fin.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0336,s-0285&stab=02&ys=2016RS
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0336,h-0860&stab=02&ys=2016RS