Advance Health Care Directive Registry; created. (SB290)
Introduced By
Sen. George Barker (D-Alexandria)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Advance Health Care Directive Registry; creation. Requires the Department of Health to create and maintain a secure online central registry for advance health care directives. The registry shall be accessible to health care providers licensed by the Board, through a site maintained by the Department of Health. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Passed
History
Date | Action |
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01/08/2008 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 086274201 |
01/08/2008 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
01/16/2008 | Assigned Education sub: Health Care |
01/16/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (SB290) |
01/24/2008 | Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/24/2008 | Committee substitute printed 084086201-S1 |
01/25/2008 | Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/28/2008 | Read second time |
01/28/2008 | Reading of substitute waived |
01/28/2008 | Committee substitute agreed to 084086201-S1 |
01/28/2008 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB290S1 |
01/29/2008 | Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/29/2008 | Communicated to House |
02/04/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (SB290S1) |
02/12/2008 | Placed on Calendar |
02/12/2008 | Read first time |
02/12/2008 | Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions |
02/21/2008 | Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/21/2008 | Referred to Committee on Appropriations |
02/22/2008 | Committee substitute printed 088580201-H1 |
02/22/2008 | Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources (Hamilton) |
02/25/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (SB290H1) |
02/27/2008 | Reported from Appropriations (23-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/29/2008 | Read second time |
03/03/2008 | Read third time |
03/03/2008 | Committee substitute agreed to 088580201-H1 |
03/03/2008 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB290H1 |
03/03/2008 | Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) |
03/03/2008 | VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) |
03/05/2008 | House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
03/08/2008 | Enrolled |
03/08/2008 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB290ER) |
03/08/2008 | Signed by Speaker |
03/10/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (SB290ER) |
03/11/2008 | Signed by President |
03/12/2008 | Signed by Speaker |
03/12/2008 | Signed by President |
03/27/2008 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 696 (effective - see bill) |
Comments
This will help increase cadaver organ donation by people who have signed up to be donors but whose family is not available to give consent in time for donation I think. Organ donors who have advance health care directives say so in the directive and transplant coordinators should be able to use the availability of this binding document to adhere to the wishes of deceased donors I think. Any lawyers who think it won't do this, please correct me, I am not a lawyer.
That's a good point, Alison - decisions about organ donation would certainly be able to be made quicker if an advance medical directive was pre-filed. Yet another reason why this bill is a Good Thing.
One aspect of this bill that might not be immediately apparent from reading the language is that it's a part of Englin's ongoing strategy to expand the rights of same-sex couples.
"Old Town Lurker,"
This is only true in that advance medical directive registries help everyone, and gay folk are included in that definition of everyone. I would assert that the single demographic with the most to stand to gain from passage of this bill is the elderly.
Old town lurker, you would rather people die from organ failure than let same sex couples visit each other in the hospital???? WWJD?