AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH CARE ADVOCATE (Permits the health care advocate to receive confidential health care information with individual patient information but would prohibit the disclosure of the information, except pursuant to judicial process.)
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
May 2022
House Passage
May 2022
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 4, 2022
Last action May 20, 2022
Floor votes · House May 5, 2022
How they voted
60–0
Passed · 14 other
Total votes 74
May 5, 2022
D
Democratic64
79% Yea
R
Republican10
90% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
8
Key actions
2
Committee
3
May 20, 2022
Committee
05/20/2022 Referred to Senate Health and Human Services
upper
May 5, 2022
Lower · Passed
05/05/2022 House read and passed
lower
Apr 13, 2022
Legislature · Passed
04/13/2022 Committee recommends passage
legislature
Mar 17, 2022
Committee
03/17/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
legislature
Mar 4, 2022
Introduced
03/04/2022 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Susan Donovan
DDemocratic
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