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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 16
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4757
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT PROHIBITING AN UNAUTHORIZED PELVIC EXAMINATION
ON A FEMALE PATIENT WHO IS UNDER DEEP SE DATION OR
ANESTHESIA OR UNCONS CIOUS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) (a) No physician licensed 1
pursuant to chapter 370 of the general statutes, student in a medical 2
school participating in a course of instruction or person participating 3
in a residency program or clinical training program may perform a 4
pelvic examination on a female patient who is (1) under deep sedation 5
or anesthesia, or (2) unconscious unless (A) the patient or, if the patient 6
is incapacitated, the legal representative of the patient gave informed 7
consent to the pelvic examination, (B) the performance of a pelvic 8
examination is within the scope of the surgical procedure or diagnostic 9
examination to be performed on the patient, or (C) in the case of an 10
unconscious patient, the pelvic examination is required for diagnostic 11
purposes. 12
(b) The Department of Public Health (1) shall investigate any 13
alleged violation of subsection (a) of this section pursuant to 14
subdivision (11) of subsection (a) of section 19a-14 of the general 15
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statutes, and (2) if the department determines a violation was 16
committed, may take disciplinary action under section 19a-17 of the 17
general statutes. 18
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit unauthorized pelvic examinations on female patients who
have been administered deep sedation or anesthesia or are
unconscious.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. WINFIELD, 10th Dist.; REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.
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