HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3475        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2184

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to Video and Audio Patient Protection System..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1 Chapter 111 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 203 the following new section:-

203A (a) Every licensed hospital in Massachusetts shall allow any patient undergoing surgery to have the option at the patient’s expense, to have a licensed medical videographer, video and audio record the patients surgery. The videographer would not need to be in the operative room during the surgical procedure. A copy of the said surgery will be given to the hospital for their records free of charge. Failure to allow a patient to elect this option will result in a fine of not more than $10,000. (b)The DPH shall establish criteria for the licensure of medical videographers. 

SECTION 2: Upon passage of this bill it shall be named, Leona’s Law