l9n/ Oregon

2009 Regular Session

House Bill 3397

Prohibits commencement of civil action against health care provider until after submission of health care claim to medical legal panel.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Health Care Committee on June 29, 2009. The 2009 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Prohibits commencement of civil action against health care provider until after submission of health care claim to medical legal panel. Establishes membership and procedures for medical legal panels. Requires disclosure of identity of expert witness and summary of expert's opinion in health care claims. Provides that findings of medical legal panels are not admissible in subsequent proceedings. Provides that costs of medical legal panels be paid by surcharges on health care providers. Establishes Medical Legal Panel Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Chief Justice of Supreme Court for payment of costs of medical legal panels. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

11 co-sponsors

Jeff Barker, Vicki Berger, Kevin Cameron, Mitch Greenlick, Bruce Hanna, Bob Jenson, Wayne Krieger, Ron Maurer, Judy Stiegler, Kim Thatcher, Jim Weidner

In the Senate

    4 co-sponsors

    Alan Bates, Jeff Kruse, Bill Morrisette, Frank Morse

    Its course

    March 11 to June 29, 2009, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action3 actions on 3 days

    In the House of RepresentativesMar 11 to Jun 29 · stopped110 days

    Waiting for a committeeMar 11 to Mar 187 days

    Health CareMar 18 to Jun 29 · stopped103 days

    Text

    Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

    In the House of Representatives Mar 11 – Jun 29

    1. Mar 11Introduced
    2. Mar 18Sent to Health Care
    3. Jun 29Died when the session ended
    All 3 actions, as published
    1. Mar 11First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
    2. Mar 18Referred to Health Care with subsequent referral to Judiciary, then Ways and Means.House of Representatives
    3. Jun 29In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives