2842                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND                                    Ch. 388

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 389

(House Bill 1023)

AN ACT concerning

Health - Rights of Patients

FOR the purpose of including the right to privacy among the
basic rights afforded to individuals in certain
facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 19-343(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (H.B. 200) of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1982)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 19-343(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (H.B. 200) of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1982)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Health - General

19-343.

(a)   In this section and §§ 19-344 and 19-345 of this
subtitle, "facility" means a related institution that, under
the rules and regulations of the. Department, is a
comprehensive care facility or an extended care facility.

(b)  (1) The General Assembly intends to promote the
interests and well-being of each resident of a facility.

(2) It is the policy of this State that, in
addition to any other rights, each resident of a facility
has the following basic rights: