Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 125

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

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

Hospitals and health care facilities Medical education Nurses Physician Physician assistant Women

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
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.

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Mar 13, 2024 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, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 16, Noes 0