Bill Title: Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. In the list of provisions to be incorporated into hospital policies regarding the risk of injury to patients and nurses and other health care workers associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning, or movement of a patient, includes (1) the primacy of maintaining patient dignity, self-determination, and choice and (2) consideration of the feasibility of incorporating patient handling equipment or the physical space and construction design needed to incorporate that equipment in conjunction with federal handling equipment or the physical space and construction design needed to incorporate that equipment and federal guidelines known as Access to Medical Care for Individuals With Mobility Disabilities. Makes other changes. Effective on January 1, 2012.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1577 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Contact	Phone	District	Sponsorship	State Profile	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Linda Holmes [D]	Primary	N/A	217-782-0422	SD-042	Sponsored Bills	State Profile	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Maggie Crotty [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-019	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Edward Maloney [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-018	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-009	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Iris Martinez [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-020	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Esther Golar [D]	Primary	Inactive	Inactive	HD-006	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Karen May [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	HD-058	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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