Maryland Senate Bill 530 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-3)
Status: Engrossed on March 9 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-03-27 - Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Health and Government Operations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Requiring each administrator of a hospital to make a certain patient bill of rights easily accessible to all patients and visitors; requiring each administrator of a hospital to offer to patients a certain patient's bill of rights; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide certain patients with a translator, an interpreter, or another accommodation to provide certain assistance to patients; specifying the content of the rights that are required to be addressed in a patient's bill of rights; etc.

Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights

Sen. Thomas Middleton [D]	Sen. John Astle [D]	Sen. Brian Feldman [D]	Sen. Guy Guzzone [D]
Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]	Sen. J.B. Jennings [R]	Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]	Sen. Richard Madaleno [D]
Sen. Roger Manno [D]	Sen. Jim Mathias [D]	Sen. Nathaniel Oaks [D]	Sen. Edward Reilly [R]
Sen. Jim Rosapepe [D]	Sen. William Smith [D]

2018-03-09 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (36-7) (Y: 37 N: 8 NV: 3 Abs: 8) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-27	House	Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
2018-03-12	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations
2018-03-09	Senate	Third Reading Passed (36-7)
2018-03-07	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2018-03-07	Senate	Floor Amendment {653325/1 (Senator Middleton) Adopted
2018-03-07	Senate	Floor Amendment {173723/1 (Senator Young) Withdrawn
2018-03-06	Senate	Laid Over (Senator Middleton) Adopted
2018-03-06	Senate	Floor Amendment {173723/1 (Senator Young)
2018-03-06	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {737674/1 Report Adopted
2018-03-05	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2018-02-15	Senate	Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
2018-01-29	Senate	First Reading Finance

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0530?ys=2018rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0530f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0530t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/amds/bil_0000/sb0530_17372301.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/amds/bil_0000/sb0530_73767401.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/amds/bil_0000/sb0530_65332501.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/fnotes/bil_0000/sb0530.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/votes_comm/sb0530_fin.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/votes/Senate/0471.pdf