The Upper House granted the Health Committee's request and rejected the Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Act on Thursday. Fifty senators voted in favor of the veto, 44 were against, and one abstained. The bill will now go to the Diet, whose session is scheduled for April 12-14.
The Senate's veto was already virtually certain before the Senate Health Committee's meeting, when its chairwoman revealed during the Health Challenges Congress in Katowice that Senate legislators had found a number of serious constitutional flaws in the bill. At the time, Beata Małecka-Libera stressed that the Senate seeks to amend laws, but those that are directly unconstitutional it cannot amend, upholding the Basic Law. The debate during the Health Committee meeting was an opportunity to present these objections and also the senators' comments.
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