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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 349
Neither any holding of unconstitutionality nor the repeal of 3(b)(2)(ii) of Section 1 of
Chapter 169 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1999, as amended by Chapter 141
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 2001, shall affect, impair, or invalidate any
other portion of Chapter 169 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1999, as amended
by Chapter 141 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 2001, or the application of such
Act to any other person or circumstance, and such remaining portions of Chapter 169
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1999, as amended by Chapter 141 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of 2001, shall at all times continue in full force and effect.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 2004.
Approved May 11, 2004.
CHAPTER 349
(House Bill 484)
AN ACT concerning
Health Facilities - Nursing Homes - Family Council
FOR the purpose of providing for the composition of a family council for a nursing
home; prohibiting a family council from being created or led by certain persons;
authorizing a family council to be created or led by certain persons under certain
circumstances; requiring a nursing home to give certain persons certain
information about a family council in the nursing home; requiring the nursing
home to respond in writing to certain communications from the family council
within a certain time frame; requiring a nursing home to create and to maintain
certain correspondence files; providing for the contents of certain files; requiring
records in regulatory files to be unedited; requiring records in public files to
delete certain information; providing the times for the review of public files by
certain persons; requiring a nursing home to promptly comply with a request by
a licensing authority to review certain files; requiring the Secretary of Aging to
adopt certain regulations; defining a certain term; and generally relating to a
family council in nursing homes.
BY renumbering
Article - Health - General
Section 19-1415
to be Section 19-1416
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 19-1415
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