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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 128

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Relating to: requiring informed consent before performing a pelvic exam on a patient who is under general anesthesia or unconscious.

Hospitals and health care facilities Medical education Nurses Physician Women

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires hospitals to have and enforce a policy requiring written and

verbal informed consent to be obtained from a patient before a medical student, a

nursing student, any person providing nursing care, or any other person authorized

to perform pelvic examinations may perform a pelvic examination on a patient who

is under general anesthesia or otherwise unconscious. Under the bill, every hospital

must also inform medical students, nursing students, persons providing nursing

care, other persons authorized to perform pelvic examinations, and physicians

supervising any of these individuals of the informed consent policy and must take

appropriate action to discipline any individual who violates the policy or instructs

a medical student, a nursing student, or a person providing nursing care to conduct

an examination in violation of the policy.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Bowen (D) , Brandtjen (R) , Brooks (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Cabrera (D) , J. Rodriguez (R) , Kerkman (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Rozar (R) , Shankland (D) , Skowronski (R) , Snyder (R) , Sortwell (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tittl (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Wichgers (R)

11 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Carpenter (D) , Jacque (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Mursau (R) , Nass (R) , Plumer and Dittrich , Roys (D) , Sinicki and Hesselbein , Vining (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 Feb 1, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 13, Noes 0

Passed 13–0 Feb 1, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Mar 5, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Cabral-Guevara, Brandtjen, Allen, Bowen, Cabrera, Kerkman, Moses, Murphy, J. Rodriguez, Shankland, Skowronski, Snyder, Sortwell, Subeck, Tittl, Vorpagel, Wichgers, Rozar, Brooks, Stubbs and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, L. Taylor, Carpenter, Ballweg, Larson, Nass and Roys

  2. Mar 5, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Jul 29, 2021 · Assembly

    Representatives Plumer and Dittrich added as coauthors

  4. Jul 29, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Aug 18, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Mursau added as a coauthor

  6. Oct 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Cabral-Guevara

  7. Oct 19, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Feb 1, 2022 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 12, Noes 0

  9. Feb 1, 2022 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 13, Noes 0

  10. Feb 1, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Mar 1, 2022 · Assembly

    Representatives Sinicki and Hesselbein added as coauthors

  12. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Vining added as a coauthor

  13. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1