Life Lines™

Annapolis, MD January 31, 2005

LIFE EVENTS

Monday, January 31st, 2005, Theology on Tap Alexandria, sponsored by the Diocese of Arlington, Pat Troy's Irish Pub, 111 N. Pitt St. 7:00pm, 703-549-4535. Speaker: Cathy Ruse on "We Are a People of Life."

Monday, March 7th, 2005, 26th Annual Candlelight March for Life, Annapolis, MD, beginning at 6:30 pm. We will begin at St. Mary's Church, 111 Duke of Glouchester Street, Annapolis, MD and march to the Annapolis State House at State Circle. Directions and parking information are posted at www.marylandmarchforlife.org. Maryland's Innocent are at Risk. We need you to pray with us and hundreds of others. Bring family, friends, church and student/youth groups. Bring candles. A photo ID will be necessary for entrance into Legislative buildings. Thank you for helping us soften hearts for the innocent.

LEGISLATIVE BILLS

Senate Bill 272—Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2005—SUPPORT
Synopsis:
Prohibiting a person from performing or attempting to perform human cloning, participating in an attempt to perform human cloning, transferring or receiving the product of human cloning, or transferring specified items for the purpose of human cloning, providing a description of specified items that may be produced resulting from scientific research using nuclear transfer or other cloning techniques; establishing criminal and civil penalties; etc.
1/27/05 First Reading Education, Health & Environmental Affairs
Sponsored by: Senators Stone, Harris, Brinkley, Colburn, DeGrange, Dyson, Giannetti, Green, Greenip, Hafer, Haines, Hooper, Jacobs, Jimeno, Middleton, Mooney, Munson and Stoltzfus

House Bill 14—Prenatal Dietary Supplement Distribution Program—WATCH
Synopsis:
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a program to distribute prenatal multivitamin and mineral dietary supplements to women between the ages of 15 and 45 years old; requiring the Program to provide prenatal multivitamin and mineral dietary supplements with the recommended amount of folic acid, and counseling and information regarding proper use of the supplements, to women between those ages; etc.
8/12 Pre-filed; 1/12 First Reading Health and Government Operations; 1/26 Hearing 2/3 at 1:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Delegate Taylor

House Bill 21—Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Program Facilities—Automated External Defibrillator—WATCH
Synopsis:
Requiring nursing homes and assisted living program facilities to have and maintain automated external defibrillators at the facilities; requiring nursing homes and assisted living program facilities to have automated external defibrillator operators on- site 24 hours each day; and requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations regarding the training requirements for automated external defibrillator operators.
09/23 Pre-filed; 1/12 First Reading Health and Government Operations; 1/19 Hearing 2/1 at 1:00 p.m.
Sponored by: Delegate Costa

House Bill 27—Crime Against a Spouse, Child, or Vulnerable Adult—Penalty—WATCH
Synopsis:
Establishing the crime of spousal assault in the first degree for a person who causes or attempts to cause serious physical injury to the person's legal spouse; establishing penalties; increasing penalties for specified violations of child abuse in the first degree, sexual abuse of a minor, and abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult in the first degree; etc.
08/12 Pre-filed; 1/12 First Reading Judiciary;Hearing 1/19 at 10:30 a.m.
Sponsored by: Delegate Boschert

House Bill 86—Public Health, Children & Pregnant Women, Mercury & Heavy Metal-Free Vaccines and Injections—WATCH
Synopsis:
Prohibiting, on or after July 1, 2006, children under the age of 3 years and women who are known to be pregnant from being vaccinated with a vaccine that contains, or injected with a product that contains, mercury or other heavy metals.
1/13 First Reading Health and Government Operations; 1/28 Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: Delegate Gilleland

House Bill 177—Health Care Facilities, Oversight Committee on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes, Additional Duties and Sunset Extension—WATCH
Synopsis:
Altering the duties of the Oversight Committee on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes by adding a duty to consider the quality of care received by the mentally ill in nursing homes; and extending the termination date to December 31, 2006, for provisions of law that establish the existence and duties of the Oversight Committee on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes.
1/21 First Reading Health and Government Operations; 1/28 Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: Delegate Hixson

House Bill 268—Mortality & Quality Review Committee-Serious Incidents—WATCH
Synopsis:
Renaming the Mortality Review Committee the Mortality and Quality Review Committee; requiring the Committee to make findings and recommendations on the prevention of serious incidents and specified systemic quality assurance needs; allowing the Committee to authorize a follow-up review; requiring the Office of Health Care Quality to develop an analysis of data on serious incidents; requiring that the analysis be provided to the Committee once every 6 months; etc.
1/26 First Reading Health and Government Operations
Sponsored By: Delegates Hubbard, Conroy, Costa, Kullen, and Taylor

We will notify you soon about contacting your legislators concerning these and/or other bills as they are available.

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