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Relating to the elimination of surgical smoke by hospitals, critical access hospitals, and outpatient surgical centers
Sponsored by the House State Government Committee
Topics:Health careRural hospitals & health care
Same legislation: HSB 59
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 14, 2021
- Done: House committeeMarch 3, 2021
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 10, 202194–2
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires the department of inspections and appeals (DIA) to adopt administrative rules to require each outpatient surgical center, hospital, and critical access hospital to use a surgical smoke evacuation system to eliminate smoke produced through the use of energy-based devices including but not limited to electrosurgical devices and lasers in accordance with a time schedule specified in the bill. An outpatient surgical center, a hospital, or a critical access hospital that is unable to timely comply may petition DIA for an exemption.
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DIA shall adopt rules establishing the form to be used and specific information that must be included in a request for an exemption and the specific criteria to be considered for an exemption. An exemption period shall not exceed one year from the date of approval, and the exemption may be renewed annually upon request subject to DIA approval.
Senate subcommittee
Named March 17, 2021. On March 23, 2021 it recommended passage.
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