FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2021

 

February 20, 2021

 

 

 

Mr. Speaker:

 

    Your HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

 

HOUSE BILL 240

 

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

 

    1. On page 2, line 1, strike "or", strike line 2 in its entirety and strike line 3 through "hospital".

 

     2. On page 2, line 3, after "Mexico", insert "or an emergency health care facility".

 

     3. On page 2, between lines 10 and 11, insert the following new subsection:.

 

           "G. "emergency health care facility" means a twenty-four-hour emergency health care facility that is licensed as a remote location of an acute care hospital and that is located in a class B county with a population of more than seventy-five thousand but less than eighty-five thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census;"

 

     4. Reletter the succeeding subsections accordingly.

 

     5. On page 2, line 12, strike "twenty-four-hour".

 

     6. On page 2, line 13, after "facility", strike the remainder of the line.

 

     7. On page 2, line 14, strike "care hospital".

 

     8. On page 2, line 15, strike "twenty-four-hour" and "licensed as".

 

     9. On page 2, strike line 16 through "hospital".

 

     10. On page 2, line 19, strike "twenty-four-hour".

 

     11. On page 2, line 20, after "facility", strike the remainder of the line.

 

     12. On page 2, line 21, strike "an acute care hospital".

 

     13. On page 2, line 22, strike "twenty-four-hour".

 

     14. On page 2, strike line 23 through "hospital".,

 

 

 

 

                             

                             Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

                                                                 

Deborah Armstrong, Chair

 

 

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

 

Date

 

 

The roll call vote was 10 For 0 Against

Yes:      10

No:       0

Excused:  Ferrary

Absent:   None

 

 

 

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