HEALTH: Provides relative to stock emergency medications
This bill modifies the state's existing framework for stock emergency medications, which allows healthcare providers to keep specific life-saving drugs on hand for immediate use. The text includes several technical amendments that adjust language regarding who may issue standing orders, clarify liability protections for departments and their designated physicians, and require the Department of Health to create a specific list of approved medications through new rules. These changes aim to refine the operational details and legal responsibilities surrounding the distribution and maintenance of emergency medical supplies.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Mar 1, 2024
Signed Jun 18, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 22, 2024 · House Apr 10, 2024
How they voted
35–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 38
May 22, 2024
D
Democratic12
83% Yea
R
Republican26
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
5
May 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 22, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 13, 2024
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
Apr 10, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 4, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (11-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
Mar 1, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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