The bill would expand the anti‑hospital‑detention law to ban any act that keeps patients, their families, newborns, or a deceased person’s remains from leaving a health facility because of unpaid bills. It sets strict time limits for discharge and document release, allows hospitals to ask for a voluntary promissory note (but not to force it), and adds higher fines and possible jail time for facilities and officials that break the rules.
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HB11396 · Sources: BatasWatch
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Similar in what they’d do, filed by any lawmaker.