Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 5/28/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 157

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 157, AS AMENDED,
3 with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No.
4 1, on page 3, between lines 12 and 13, by inserting the
5 following:
6     "(c) The report shall include a description of the
7 methodology used in the collection of the data and an analysis
8 regarding the effect of employment and health coverage on the
9 assistance programs provided by the State. The Department shall
10 include available data regarding: the numbers of employees and
11 dependents of employees; the identity of employers by type of
12 industry and by public, private, profit, or non-profit status;
13 the employees' full-time or part-time status; and other
14 variables that the Department determines essential."; and
 
15 on page 3, line 13, by changing "(c)" to "(d)"; and
 
16 on page 3, line 18, by changing "(d)" to "(e)"; and
 
17 on page 4, line 2, after "be", by replacing "designed or used
18 to" with "designed or, except as provided in this Law, used
19 to"; and
 
20 on page 8, by replacing lines 12 and 13 with the following:
21     ""Death" means patient death related to an adverse event
22 and not related solely to the natural course of the patient's

 

 

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1 illness or underlying condition. Events otherwise reportable
2 under this Section 10-15 shall be reported even if the death
3 might have otherwise occurred as the natural course of the
4 patient's illness or underlying condition."; and
 
5 on page 8, by replacing lines 14 through 16 with the following:
6     ""Serious disability" means a physical or mental
7 impairment, including loss of a body part, related to an
8 adverse event and not related solely to the natural course of
9 the patient's illness or underlying condition, that
10 substantially limits one or more of the major life"; and
 
11 on page 9, line 24, after "errors or", by inserting ", except
12 to enforce this Law,"; and
 
13 on page 11, by replacing lines 14 through 16 with the
14 following:
15             (ii) Summarizes, in aggregate form, the corrective
16         action plans and findings of root cause analyses
17         submitted by health care facilities."; and
 
18 on page 11, line 32, after "Committee", by replacing "shall,
19 when possible, make" with "shall review the Department's"; and
 
20 on page 12, line 2, after "standards.", by replacing "Prior to
21 adoption of any" with "In connection with its review of the
22 Department's"; and
 
23 on page 12, line 23, by replacing "must address problems" with
24 "must substantially address the problems".