HB1918
Corrections, Board of; minimum standards for health care services in local correctional facilities.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Board of Corrections; minimum standards for health care services in local correctional facilities.
Authorizes the Board of Corrections (Board) to establish minimum standards for health care services in local, regional, and community correctional facilities and procedures for enforcing such minimum standards, with the advice of and guidance from the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and State Health Commissioner. The bill provides ... (More) that (i) such standards shall require that each local, regional, and community correctional facility submit a standardized quarterly continuous improvement report documenting the delivery of health care services, along with any improvements made to those services, to the Board and (ii) such reports shall be available to the public on the Board's website. The bill also authorizes the Board to determine that a local, regional, or community correctional facility accredited by the American Correctional Association or National Commission on Correctional Health Care meets such minimum standards solely on the basis of such accreditation; however, without exception, the requirement to submit standardized quarterly continuous quality improvement reports shall be a mandatory minimum standard. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care. This bill is identical to SB 1598. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/04/2019 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101423D
- 01/04/2019 - House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/11/2019 - House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/24/2019 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1918)
- 01/29/2019 - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2019 - House: Read first time
- 02/01/2019 - House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/04/2019 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2019 - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2019 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2019 - House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2019 - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/08/2019 - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/2019 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106616D-S1
- 02/11/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1918S1)
- 02/11/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2019 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/12/2019 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/12/2019 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 19106616D-S1
- 02/12/2019 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1918S1
- 02/12/2019 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2019 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/2019 - House: Senate substitute rejected by House 19106616D-S1 (0-Y 98-N)
- 02/14/2019 - House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 98-N)
- 02/18/2019 - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/2019 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/19/2019 - House: House acceded to request
- 02/19/2019 - House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/19/2019 - House: Delegates: Stolle, Orrock, Aird
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Senators: Dunnavant, Chafin, Mason
- 02/21/2019 - Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 02/21/2019 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/2019 - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/2019 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2019 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2019 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1918ER)
- 03/07/2019 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1918ER)
- 03/09/2019 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2019 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- 03/11/2019 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/21/2019 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 695 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/21/2019 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695)
