SB0157ham002 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 5/28/2005

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 157

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 157, AS AMENDED, with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 1, on page 3, between lines 12 and 13, by inserting the following:

"(c) The report shall include a description of the methodology used in the collection of the data and an analysis regarding the effect of employment and health coverage on the assistance programs provided by the State. The Department shall include available data regarding: the numbers of employees and dependents of employees; the identity of employers by type of industry and by public, private, profit, or non-profit status; the employees' full-time or part-time status; and other variables that the Department determines essential."; and

on page 3, line 13, by changing "(c)" to "(d)"; and

on page 3, line 18, by changing "(d)" to "(e)"; and

on page 4, line 2, after "be", by replacing "designed or used to" with "designed or, except as provided in this Law, used to"; and

on page 8, by replacing lines 12 and 13 with the following:

""Death" means patient death related to an adverse event and not related solely to the natural course of the patient's illness or underlying condition. Events otherwise reportable under this Section 10-15 shall be reported even if the death might have otherwise occurred as the natural course of the patient's illness or underlying condition."; and

on page 8, by replacing lines 14 through 16 with the following:

""Serious disability" means a physical or mental impairment, including loss of a body part, related to an adverse event and not related solely to the natural course of the patient's illness or underlying condition, that substantially limits one or more of the major life"; and

on page 9, line 24, after "errors or", by inserting ", except to enforce this Law,"; and

on page 11, by replacing lines 14 through 16 with the following:

(ii) Summarizes, in aggregate form, the corrective action plans and findings of root cause analyses submitted by health care facilities."; and

on page 11, line 32, after "Committee", by replacing "shall, when possible, make" with "shall review the Department's"; and

on page 12, line 2, after "standards.", by replacing "Prior to adoption of any" with "In connection with its review of the Department's"; and

on page 12, line 23, by replacing "must address problems" with "must substantially address the problems".