HB 17 - Allowing Doctors to Prescribe Antibiotics to Unnamed Sexual Partners - Utah Key Vote
Kory Holdaway voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- March 24, 2009
- House Concurrence Vote Passed
- March 12, 2009
- Senate Bill Passed
- March 11, 2009
- House Bill Passed
- Jan. 29, 2009
- Introduced
- Jan. 26, 2009
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Title: Allowing Doctors to Prescribe Antibiotics to Unnamed Sexual Partners
Signed by Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Title: Allowing Doctors to Prescribe Antibiotics to Unnamed Sexual Partners
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes doctors to prescribe antibiotics to unnamed sexual partners of patients being treated for chlamydia or gonorrhea without conducting an examination of those unnamed partners.
Highlights:
- Authorizes pharmacists to prescribe such antibiotics to any individual who claims to be a partner and presents a prescription for the unnamed partner of the patient (Sec. 1). - Authorizes practitioners to refuse to prescribe such antibiotics to unnamed partners and specifies that the decision to do so is voluntary (Sec. 1).
Title: Allowing Doctors to Prescribe Antibiotics to Unnamed Sexual Partners
- Sheryl L. Allen (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jackie Biskupski (UT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Rebecca Chavez-Houck (UT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Julie Fisher (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Lorie D. Fowlke (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Neil A. Hansen (UT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Neal B. Hendrickson (UT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Christine A. 'Chris' Johnson (UT - D) (Out Of Office)
- David E. Litvack (UT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Paul Ray (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Phil E. Riesen (UT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Evan J. Vickers (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Larry B. Wiley (UT - D) (Out Of Office)