Bill Text: CT SB00189 | 2013 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: An Act Concerning Elective Angioplasty For Certain Patients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Public Hearing 02/20 [SB00189 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-SB00189-Introduced.html

General Assembly

 

Proposed Bill No. 189

 

January Session, 2013

 

LCO No. 1119

   

Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH

 

Introduced by:

 

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

 

AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTIVE ANGIOPLASTY FOR CERTAIN PATIENTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That chapter 368a of the general statutes be amended to allow a hospital, that is approved to perform emergency angioplasty and not elective angioplasty, to perform elective angioplasty when a patient is in need of emergency angioplasty for myocardial infarction and the patient's physician believes the patient may also need elective angioplasty in the near future.

Statement of Purpose:

To improve patient health.

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