{"id":"DUT-MD-009","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Maryland","state":"MD","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Maryland General Assembly (Public Safety Article, Title 14, Subtitle 3A)","authority":"Md. Const. art. III","instrument":"Statute","title":"Immunity of health care providers acting in good faith and under a catastrophic health emergency proclamation","dateIssued":"","effective":"in force throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3 (operative while the proclamation of March 5, 2020 stood, to August 15, 2021)","end":"standing","startDate":"2020-03-05","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC","COND"],"addressees":["health care facilities, health care practitioners and emergency medical services providers (Pub. Safety § 14-3A-01(e))"],"clause":"A health care provider is immune from civil or criminal liability if the health care provider acts in good faith and under a catastrophic health emergency proclamation.","enforcement":"Not a penalty provision; loss of immunity for conduct outside the proclamation\u0027s regime or in bad faith","functions":[],"notes":"Conditioned the only liability immunity Maryland law extended during the pandemic on the provider acting \u0027under\u0027 the Governor\u0027s proclamation, that is, within the regime of orders and directives issued under it; Maryland enacted no shield for businesses generally.","sourceUrl":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Statute_Web/gps/14-3A-06.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":222602,"grade":"primary","character":"liability_shield_condition","description":"","collection":"DUT-MD","url":"/library/DUT-MD-009","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MD-009","citation":"Maryland General Assembly (Public Safety Article, Title 14, Subtitle 3A), Statute (standing) (Ex. DUT-MD-009)","stateName":"Maryland","related":["DUT-MD-004"]}