Maryland Senate Bill 188 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on February 2 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-03-23 - Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishing the Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts; requiring the Task Force to study the adequacy and cost of State laws and policies relating to the litigation of medical malpractice cases and make recommendations regarding the establishment of health courts to hear medical malpractice cases and the feasibility of assigning a medical malpractice case to a single judge throughout the litigation process; requiring the Task Force to report to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2015; etc.

Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts

Sen. Catherine Pugh [D]	Sen. Joan Conway [D]	Sen. Ulysses Currie [D]	Sen. Guy Guzzone [D]
Sen. Nancy King [D]	Sen. Karen Montgomery [D]	Sen. Anthony Muse [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-23	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
2015-03-10	Senate	Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
2015-02-02	Senate	First Reading Judicial Proceedings

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0188?ys=2015rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/bills/sb/sb0188f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/fnotes/bil_0008/sb0188.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/votes_comm/sb0188_jpr.pdf