Connecticut 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00189 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/16/2013

                            General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 189
January Session, 2013  LCO No. 1119
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 189 

January Session, 2013

LCO No. 1119

Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH 

Introduced by:

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTIVE ANGIOPLASTY FOR CERTAIN PATIENTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That chapter 368a of the general statutes be amended to allow a hospital, that is approved to perform emergency angioplasty and not elective angioplasty, to perform elective angioplasty when a patient is in need of emergency angioplasty for myocardial infarction and the patient's physician believes the patient may also need elective angioplasty in the near future.

Statement of Purpose: 

To improve patient health.