Protection from Surgical Smoke

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Requires hospitals & ambulatory surgical centers to adopt & implement policies requiring use of smoke evacuation systems during certain surgical procedures.

Every action

11 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Jan 6, 2025HouseFiled
2. Jan 15, 2025CommitteeReferred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
3. Jan 15, 2025CommitteeReferred to Health & Human Services Committee · House Health & Human Services Committee
4. Jan 15, 2025CommitteeNow in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
5. Feb 13, 2025CommitteeAdded to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee agenda · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
6. Feb 20, 2025CommitteeFavorable by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee17–0 vote
7. Feb 25, 2025CommitteeReported out of Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee · House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
8. Feb 25, 2025CommitteeNow in Health & Human Services Committee · House Health & Human Services Committee
9. Mar 4, 2025House1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
10. May 3, 2025HouseIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
11. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Health & Human Services Committee · House Health & Human Services Committee

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 3 cosponsors: 3 Democrats.

• Marie Paule WoodsonD Primary sponsor · District 105