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Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee reports out six bills on hospital deals, mental-health petitions, UCC filings and road-user liability
Summary
The committee on Feb. 3 reported out a package of bills, including a hospital transaction-disclosure measure, expanded petitioning by psychiatric pharmacists, a process to terminate unauthorized UCC filings, a vulnerable-user negligence substitute, garnishment-form reform, and family-burial-ground rules; most passed with due-pass recommendations after debate and amendments.
The Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee on Feb. 3 advanced a slate of bills on health-care transaction disclosure, mental-health procedures, consumer protections and road-safety liability, reporting each to the next stage with due-pass recommendations.
Vice Chair Farber moved the committee to report substitute House Bill 2,548 out of committee with a due-pass recommendation. Staff described the substitute as requiring written notice when hospitals or provider organizations undergo ‘‘material change’’ transactions, including naming any person or entity with an ownership, investment or controlling interest of at least 25 percent, requiring parties to notify the attorney general and the secretary of state in certain nonprofit cases, and establishing filing fees scaled to the transaction’s value that are deposited in an antitrust revolving fund. Representative Walsh objected, saying the office ‘‘agree[s] with the problem statement’’ but that the substitute ‘‘might have the opposite of the intended effect in the marketplace by chilling transactions that could help deliver more health care services’’; the roll call produced seven ayes and six nays and the…
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