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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor S.B. 796
who are also married to each other in another state may not be considered to be
certain evidence, knowledge, awareness, or admission; providing that this Act
may not be construed to recognize, condone, or prohibit a domestic partnership,
civil union, or marriage recognized in other states or jurisdictions; providing
that a health care agent retains certain, authority to make certain decisions
notwithstanding certain provisions of law; prohibiting the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene from denying a domestic life partner the right to inspect a
record to permit a disinterment or reinterment of a body; authorizing a domestic
life partner to give consent to conduct a postmortem examination of a certain
body; authorizing the domestic life partner to arrange for the final disposition of
the body of a decedent under certain circumstances; authorizing a domestic life
partner to make the health care decisions for certain persons; authorizing a
domestic life partner of a certain patient to petition a court to enjoin the actions
of a certain treating health care provider; authorizing a domestic life partner to
accompany an individual being transported from one health care facility to
another health care facility in under certain circumstances; establishing that a
domestic life partner may be a representative of a deceased from whom a
hospital is asking a may ask for authorization for a human organ donation;
prohibiting a hospital from billing a domestic life partner for the costs
associated with the deceased domestic life partner's organ donation; requiring
that domestic life partners be given the opportunity to share a room in a certain
faculty facility under certain circumstances; requiring certain related
institutions to allow a resident who is a party to a domestic life partnership to
have privacy during a visit by the other domestic life partner; authorizing the
domestic life partner to arrange the final disposition of the body of a decedent
with a mortician under certain circumstances; establishing that for purposes of
an interest in the property of a burial site, a domestic life partner is a person in
interest; establishing that a domestic life partner is a next of kin for purposes of
making anatomical gifts of a decedent; defining certain terms; making the
provisions of this Act severable; providing for the construction of this Act; and
generally relating to the Medical Decision Making Act of 2005.
BY adding to
Article - Health — General
Section 6-101 through 6-501 6-401 6-402 to be under the new title "Title 6.
Domestic Life Partnerships"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2004 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 1-101, 4-215(e), 5-501(b), 5-509(c), 5-605(a)(2), 5-612, 10-807(e),
19-310(d) and (g), and 19-344(h), (k), and (q)(l)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2004 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
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