2025 bills / H.B. 503
H.B. 503 Medical Malpractice Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill changes medical malpractice lawsuits by ending affidavit-of-merit requirements, barring claimants from pursuing or collecting judgments against a provider's personal income or assets except in listed cases, and making prelitigation panel findings advisory. It also gives the Division of Professional Licensing access to court Xchange records and requires the division to collect and report data.
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Official description
- defines terms
- with respect to a medical malpractice action:
- repeals requirements related to affidavits of merit
- prohibits prejudicing a defendant in an adjudication of a claimant's claims
- prohibits pursuing or collecting on a judgment against a health care provider's personal income or assets, with exceptions
- grants access to the court's Xchange database to the Division of Professional Licensing (division)
- establishes data collection and reporting requirements for the division
- amends procedure pertaining to prelitigation review panels and panel reviews
- makes a prelitigation review panel's recommendations or findings advisory
- makes technical changes
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- An alert the day H.B. 503 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 503 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 10 yes, 4 no, 2 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 41 yes, 25 no, 9 absentFinal House vote · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 noSenate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 17 yes, 11 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 47 yes, 27 no, 1 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how