Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings
Committee on Judiciary
Assembly Bill 553
Relating to: arbitration agreements used by long-term care facilities, civil and criminal actions against health care providers and long-term care providers, use in civil and criminal actions and confidentiality of incident and occurrence reports, use as evidence of records given to a regulatory agency, use in criminal actions of records of reviews and evaluations of health care providers, limits on noneconomic damages, limits on punitive damages, and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Richards, Hebl, Wachs, Goyke, Barnes, Berceau, Billings, Jorgensen, Kessler, Mason, Milroy, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Ringhand, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, C. Taylor, Vruwink, Wright, Young, Zamarripa, Zepnick, Hintz, Johnson, Clark and Danou; cosponsored by Senators T. Cullen, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Hansen, Harris, C. Larson, Lassa, Lehman, Risser and L. Taylor.
December 09, 2013 Referred to Committee on Judiciary
April 08, 2014 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
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Virginia Mueller
Committee Clerk
