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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 127

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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

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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: Cowles (R) , Hesselbein (D) , Jacque (R) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D) , Wirch (D)

24 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Andraca (D) , Bare (D) , Behnke (R) , Billings (D) , Bodden (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Carpenter and Agard , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Emerson (D) , Gustafson (R) , J. Anderson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Mursau (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Schutt (R) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki and Hong , Subeck (D) , Vining (D) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0

Passed 6–0 Oct 13, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0

Passed 6–0 Oct 13, 2023 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 14, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Jacque, Taylor, Cowles, Hesselbein, Larson, Roys, Spreitzer and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Brandtjen, Allen, Andraca, Bare, Behnke, Bodden, Emerson, Joers, Mursau, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Subeck, Wichgers, Madison, Clancy and Shankland

  2. Mar 14, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Mar 17, 2023 · Senate

    Representatives Sinicki and Hong added as cosponsors

  4. Jun 6, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senators Jacque and Taylor

  5. Sep 27, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  6. Oct 12, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Oct 12, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Conley added as a cosponsor

  8. Oct 13, 2023 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0

  9. Oct 13, 2023 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0

  10. Oct 13, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Oct 16, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-17-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  12. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Senators Carpenter and Agard added as coauthors

  13. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  14. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  15. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  17. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  18. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  20. Nov 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative J. Anderson added as a cosponsor

  21. Nov 30, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Billings added as a cosponsor

  22. Jan 10, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Gustafson added as a cosponsor

  23. Feb 12, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Vining added as a cosponsor

  24. Feb 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Schutt added as a cosponsor

  25. Mar 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  26. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1