FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE
FIRST SESSION, 2021
February 20, 2021
Mr. Speaker:
Your HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
HOUSE BILL 240
has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
1. On page 2, line 1, strike "or", strike line 2 in its entirety and strike line 3 through "hospital".
2. On page 2, line 3, after "Mexico", insert "or an emergency health care facility".
3. On page 2, between lines 10 and 11, insert the following new subsection:.
"G. "emergency health care facility" means a twenty-four-hour emergency health care facility that is licensed as a remote location of an acute care hospital and that is located in a class B county with a population of more than seventy-five thousand but less than eighty-five thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census;"
4. Reletter the succeeding subsections accordingly.
5. On page 2, line 12, strike "twenty-four-hour".
6. On page 2, line 13, after "facility", strike the remainder of the line.
7. On page 2, line 14, strike "care hospital".
8. On page 2, line 15, strike "twenty-four-hour" and "licensed as".
9. On page 2, strike line 16 through "hospital".
10. On page 2, line 19, strike "twenty-four-hour".
11. On page 2, line 20, after "facility", strike the remainder of the line.
12. On page 2, line 21, strike "an acute care hospital".
13. On page 2, line 22, strike "twenty-four-hour".
14. On page 2, strike line 23 through "hospital".,
Respectfully submitted,
Deborah Armstrong, Chair
Adopted Not Adopted
(Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
Date
The roll call vote was 10 For 0 Against
Yes: 10
No: 0
Excused: Ferrary
Absent: None
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