Bill Title: Concerning an unaccompanied homeless youth's ability to provide informed consent for that minor patient's own health care, including nonemergency, outpatient, and primary care services, including physical examinations, vision examinations and eyeglasses, dental examinations, hearing examinations and hearing aids, immunizations, treatments for illnesses and conditions, and routine follow-up care customarily provided by a health care provider in an outpatient setting, excluding elective surgeries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-03-31 - Effective date 6/9/2022. [SB5883 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House	2022-03-07	29	20	0	0	49	Passed	Link	View
House	House Final Passage as Amended by the House	2022-03-03	57	41	0	0	98	Passed	Link	View
House	House Committee on Children, Youth & Families: do pass	2022-02-21	7	6	0	0	13	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage	2022-02-09	28	21	0	0	49	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Committee on Law & Justice: 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass	2022-02-03	5	3	1	0	9	Passed	Link	View

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