SB378

SB378

Makes Revisions Relating to Health Care. (BDR 40-705)

AN ACT relating to health care; revising requirements governing the electronic maintenance, transmittal and exchange of health information; establishing a program to increase awareness of information concerning independent centers for emergency medical care; requiring certain facilities that are owned or operated by, or otherwise part of, hospitals to be licensed as independent centers for emergency medical care; requiring certain independent centers for emergency medical care to provide urgent care services under certain conditions; authorizing the review of certain sealed records to determine the suitability of a person to provide services under Medicaid; requiring Medicaid to include a system of value-based payments for independent centers for emergency medical care; requiring a provider of services under Medicaid to maintain certain records; authorizing audits of such records, the review and denial of claims under Medicaid and the recovery of money paid under Medicaid under certain circumstances; prohibiting a noncompetition covenant from applying to a patient-facing provider of health care; requiring a custodian of health records to furnish health records within a specified period of time and without charging a fee under certain circumstances; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsors

FDFabian DonateCurrent official profile · historical bill record belowD · SD-010 · Sen

EFEdgar FloresCurrent official profile · historical bill record belowD · SD-002 · Sen

RLRoberta LangeCurrent official profile · historical bill record belowD · SD-007 · Sen

JOJames OhrenschallCurrent official profile · historical bill record belowD · SD-021 · Sen

Legislative History

1. 2025-03-17

   Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.

2. 2025-03-18

   From printer. To committee.

3. 2025-04-21

   From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

4. 2025-04-21

   Placed on Second Reading File.

5. 2025-04-21

   Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 537.)

6. 2025-04-21

   Notice of eligibility for exemption.

7. 2025-04-21

   Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.

8. 2025-04-24

   From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

9. 2025-05-27

   From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

10. 2025-05-27

    Placed on General File.

11. 2025-05-27

    Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 804.)

12. 2025-05-27

    Reprinting dispensed with.

13. 2025-05-27

    Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 12, Nays: 8, Excused: 1.) To printer.

14. 2025-05-28

    From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.

15. 2025-05-28

    In Assembly.

16. 2025-05-28

    Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.

17. 2025-06-01

    From committee: Do pass.

18. 2025-06-01

    Placed on Second Reading File.

19. 2025-06-01

    Read second time.

20. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 27, Nays: 15.) To Senate.

21. 2025-06-03

    In Senate. To enrollment.

22. 2025-06-04

    To enrollment.

23. 2025-06-05

    Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

24. 2025-06-11

    Vetoed by the Governor. (Return to 84th Session.)

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Hearing History

Bill Text & Documents

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0000-00-00 · Introduced View source document ↗

0000-00-00 · Amended View source document ↗

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2025-06-03 · Enrolled View source document ↗