2025 Regular Session
HB34
Provides for transparency in medical expenses
Legislative progress
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Partner positions
Likes
No public reasoning provided.
Removes medical malpractice exemption. All parties may introduce evidence of either the amount billed, the amount paid, or both at trial. Letters of protection between attorneys and doctors as admissible evidence. Recoverable medical expenses are limited to “reasonable expenses” related to the claim.
No public reasoning provided.
No public reasoning provided.
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
April 28, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 34 FINAL PASSAGE (#36)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
68 yea–26 nay · 10 absent
April 28, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 34 FINAL PASSAGE (#36)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
69 yea–26 nay · 9 absent
Committee referrals
April 29, 2025 · Senate
Judiciary A
March 6, 2025 · House
Civil Law and Procedure
Instrument history
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 69, nays 26. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
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House Called from the calendar.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
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House Notice given.
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House Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
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House Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported with amendments (11-3-1).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/7/2025.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House Prefiled.