House Fiscal Agency Analysis
House Bills 4550 and 4552 would amend the Public Health Code to require hospitals to
implement specified minimum ratios of direct care registered professional nurses (RNs) to
patients in different hospital units, provide administrative fines and sanctions for a violation,
require records to be kept, provide for notice and a complaint process, and create a fund through
which fines imposed for violation of the bills can be used to support their administration.
Introduced in the House
May 11, 2023
Introduced
by
Rep. Carrie Rheingans (D-47)
and 47 co-sponsors
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Will Snyder (D-87), Kara Hope (D-74), Jaime Churches (D-27), Ranjeev Puri (D-24), Donavan McKinney (D-14), Erin Byrnes (D-15), Kimberly Edwards (D-12), Veronica Paiz (D-11), Emily Dievendorf (D-77), Kelly Breen (D-21), Felicia Brabec (D-33), Betsy Coffia (D-103), Lori Stone (D-13), Helena Scott (D-7), Penelope Tsernoglou (D-75), Kevin Coleman (D-25), Jennifer Conlin (D-48), Stephanie Young (D-16), Sharon MacDonell (D-56), Brenda Carter (D-53), Dylan Wegela (D-26), Jasper Martus (D-69), Jason Hoskins (D-18), Denise Mentzer (D-61), David Prestin (R-108), Samantha Steckloff (D-19), Laurie Pohutsky (D-17), Joey Andrews (D-38), Julie Brixie (D-73), Rachel Hood (D-81), Jenn Hill (D-109), Jim Haadsma (D-44), Tyrone Carter (D-1), Cynthia Neeley (D-70), Nate Shannon (D-58), Jimmie Wilson (D-32), Phil Skaggs (D-80), Jason Morgan (D-23), Amos O’Neal (D-94), Tullio Liberati (D-2), Alabas Farhat (D-3), Regina Weiss (D-6), John Roth (R-104), Natalie Price (D-5), Jamie Thompson (R-28), Abraham Aiyash (D-9) and Karen Whitsett (D-4)
Referred to the Committee on Health Policy
