Delaware Senate Bill 275 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on July 30 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-07-30 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

The Bill will authorize and require the Delaware Board of Medical Practice, the agency that oversees physician licensure, to require doctors applying for licensure or relicensure to present service letters from health care facilities through which they have had direct access to patients, or admitting or staff privileges, attesting to their good character. The letters would contain information, if it exists, about any reasonably substantiated incidents involving violence, threats of violence, abuse or neglect toward any other person, including any disciplinary action taken as a result of such conduct. Health care organizations or facilities providing the service letters would be immune from civil liability regarding any disclosures of information and their consequences and may not be made the subject of any libel or slander action by the person to whom the letter applies.

An Act To Amend Title 24 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Health Care Practices.

Sen. Joseph Booth [R]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Sen. George Bunting [D]
Sen. Brian Bushweller [D]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Margaret Henry [D]	Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]
Rep. Deborah Hudson [R]	Rep. Quinton Johnson [D]	Rep. Helene Keeley [D]	Rep. Thomas Kovach [R]
Sen. Robert Marshall [D]	Sen. Karen Peterson [D]	Sen. Gary Simpson [R]

2010-06-30 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2010-06-16 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-07-30		Signed by Governor
2010-07-30		Signed by Governor
2010-07-30		Signed by Governor
2010-06-30		Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 40 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2010-06-23		Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT) in House with 7 On Its Merits
2010-06-17		Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
2010-06-16		Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2010-06-16		Amendment SA 2 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2010-06-16		Amendment SA 2 - Introduced in Senate
2010-06-16		Lifted From Table in Senate
2010-06-16		Laid On Table in Senate
2010-06-16		Amendment SA 1 - Stricken
2010-06-16		Amendment SA 1 - Introduced in Senate
2010-06-15		Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits
2010-06-01		Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/370d6605c8d9788c852576a9006c3b03?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+275/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/2db84527f6fe2507852577440072d98f?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/66cc176f2b30a32f8525775200839588?OpenDocument