Key Votes
SB 566 - Hospital Visitation/Decision-Making Rights for Domestic Partners - Key Vote
Maryland Key Votes
Stages
- May 22, 2008 Executive Signed
- April 4, 2008 House Bill Passed
- March 18, 2008 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 4, 2008 Introduced
Family
Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - May 22, 2008
Title: Hospital Visitation/Decision-Making Rights for Domestic Partners
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (88-46) - April 4, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Hospital Visitation/Decision-Making Rights for Domestic Partners
Vote to pass a bill that extends medical visitation and decision-making rights to domestic partners.
- - Hospital visitation rights, unless the visit would threaten the patients health, if the patient requested that the partner not visit, or if the hospital does not allow visitors;
- The right to make decisions about their partner's health care if their partner is incapable of doing so unless they have appointed a health care agent or guardian;
- The right to accompany their partner in an emergency vehicle; and
- Control over final arrangements for their partner's body, including the right to give consent for a postmortem examination of their partner's body and the right to decide how the body will be disposed if not specified by the deceased partner.
- - Are at least 18 years old;
- Are not related by blood or marriage;
- Are not married, in a civil union, or domestic partnership with another individual; and
- Agree to be in a relationship of mutual interdependence.
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (30-17) - March 18, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Hospital Visitation/Decision-Making Rights for Domestic Partners
Vote to pass a bill that extends medical visitation and decision-making rights to domestic partners.
- - Hospital visitation rights, unless the visit would threaten the patients health, if the patient requested that the partner not visit, or if the hospital does not allow visitors;
- The right to make decisions about their partner's health care if their partner is incapable of doing so unless they have appointed a health care agent or guardian;
- The right to accompany their partner in an emergency vehicle; and
- Control over final arrangements for their partner's body, including the right to give consent for a postmortem examination of their partner's body and the right to decide how the body will be disposed if not specified by the deceased partner.
- - Are at least 18 years old;
- Are not related by blood or marriage;
- Are not married, in a civil union, or domestic partnership with another individual; and
- Agree to be in a relationship of mutual interdependence.
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - Feb. 4, 2008
Title: Hospital Visitation/Decision-Making Rights for Domestic Partners