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Senate advances bill to limit negligent-credentialing suits while rejecting board-member shield amendment
Summary
Senators debated and voted on Senate Bill 150, which would limit negligent-credentialing as a cause of action; an amendment to shield individual credentialing-board members failed, and the bill passed final reading with the clerk announcing the tally as read on the floor.
Senators spent a substantial portion of the floor session debating Senate Bill 150, a bill responding to the Utah Supreme Court's Archuleta v. St. Mark's Hospital decision and aiming to limit "negligent credentialing" as a statutory cause of action.
Senator C. Adams, sponsor, said the bill would reset the statutory rule to the status before the court's decision and "eliminate negligent credentialing as a cause of action" while preserving other avenues of liability for hospitals. Opponents and supporters focused on whether individual members of credentialing boards should retain personal exposure.
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