HB5105
Rapid diagnostic testing; availability to all essential workers.
Summary
As Introduced. Rapid diagnostic testing; essential workers; emergency.
Requires that when the Commissioner of Health determines that a communicable disease of public health significance exists in the Commonwealth, he shall ensure that any available rapid diagnostic testing indicating the existence of such communicable disease is readily available to all essential workers in the Commonwealth. Priority for access to ... (More) such testing shall go to (i) health care providers, (ii) law-enforcement officers, (iii) emergency medical services personnel and emergency medical services providers, (iv) patients in nursing homes who are determined by the nursing home to be high-risk patients, (v) public and private elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, and (vi) public institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. The bill contains an emergency clause. (Less)-
Bill History
- 08/21/2020 - House: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20200878D
- 08/21/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 08/21/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB5105)
- 08/25/2020 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 08/25/2020 - House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (11-Y 10-N)
