Maryland Senate Bill 691 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-15 - Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prohibiting health care practitioners and health care facilities from denying patients life-preserving health care services requested by a specified person on the basis of a specified view or disagreement; authorizing specified persons to file an action for an injunction in a specified court under specified circumstances; authorizing a health care practitioner, under specified circumstances, to provide specified reasons as a defense to an action filed under a specified provision of the Act; etc.

Public Health - Provision of Life-Preserving Health Care Services (Vulnerable Protection Act)

Sen. Gail Bates [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-15	Senate	Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
2016-02-17	Senate	Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
2016-03-16	Senate	Hearing cancelled
2016-03-16	Senate	Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
2016-02-05	Senate	First Reading Finance

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0691?ys=2016rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/bills/sb/sb0691f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/fnotes/bil_0001/sb0691.pdf