PRINTER'S NO. 3376
No. 2367 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY GABIG, CAPPELLI, McILHATTAN, SAYLOR, HENNESSEY,
FAIRCHILD, READSHAW, BOYD, SONNEY, REED, CREIGHTON, RAPP,
MUSTIO, SCHRODER, YOUNGBLOOD, TIGUE, HERSHEY, ARMSTRONG,
PETRI, GOODMAN, KILLION, O'NEILL, GILLESPIE, TURZAI AND LEH,
JANUARY 23, 2006
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 23, 2006
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for medical
3 referral civil immunity.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 8331.4. Medical referral civil immunity.
9 Any physician or any other practitioner of the healing arts
10 or any registered nurse, licensed by any state, or an employee
11 thereof, who in good faith refers a patient or potential patient
12 elsewhere for medical services shall not be liable for civil
13 damages as a result of any acts or omissions by the physician or
14 health care services provider to whom the patient or potential
15 patient was referred.
16 Section 2. The addition of 42 Pa.C.S. § 8331.4 shall apply
17 to causes of action which arise on or after the effective date
1 of this section.
2 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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