Subject Health | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | SB708 | Assisted living facilities; self-administration of medications. Requires the Board of Social Services to include in regulations governing the administration and management of medications in assisted living facilities developed by the Board of Social ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-25 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1275 | Medical data. Prohibits any person that regularly stores medical data in an electronic or digital format from (i) participating in the establishment or implementation of the Nationwide Health Information Network; (ii) performing any analytic or stati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) |
| VA | SB783 | Birth control; definition. Adds a definition of birth control. "Birth control" means contraceptive methods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Birth control shall not be considered abortion for the purposes of Title 18.2. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB826 | Funding for certain abortions. Repeals the section authorizing the Board of Health to fund abortions for women who meet the financial eligibility criteria of the State Plan for Medical Assistance in cases in which a physician certifies that he believ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB1080 | Ultrasound imaging. Provides that no law or regulation of the Commonwealth or administrative action of an agent of the Commonwealth shall require that a person receive ultrasound imaging for nonmedical reasons or ultrasound imaging that is not medica... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB1115 | Classification as hospitals of certain facilities in which abortions are performed. Eliminates language classifying facilities in which five or more first trimester abortions per month are performed as hospitals for the purpose of compliance with reg... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB1116 | Design and construction standards for certain facilities. Provides that regulations of the Board of Health for the construction, maintenance, operation, staffing, and equipping of hospitals shall apply to facilities in which five or more first trimes... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB1082 | Ultrasound prior to abortion. Removes the requirement that a woman undergo a transabdominal ultrasound prior to an abortion. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB1079 | DMAS to designate certain waiver slots for dependents of certain military personnel. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to designate 10 Mental Retardation/Intellectual Disabilities Medicaid Waiver slots, 10 Individual and Family De... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB901 | Vital records; marital status. Requires an officer issuing a marriage license to contact the State Registrar of Vital Records to confirm that neither applicant for the license is currently married and requires the State Registrar to disclose that inf... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-10 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1 | Rights of unborn children. Provides that unborn children at every stage of development enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and Constitution... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB1112 | Human papillomavirus vaccination; eliminates requirement. Eliminates the requirement for vaccination against human papillomavirus for female children. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB92 | Nursing homes; involuntary discharge notification. Requires that a copy of the written notice of intent to involuntarily discharge a patient from a nursing home also be sent to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Also contains a technical correction. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB426 | Medicaid; appeals of agency determinations. Provides that all recommended or final case decisions in administrative hearings regarding Medicaid overpayments shall be made in accordance with the Administrative Process Act, shall be based on the whole... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB439 | Medical Fraud Control Unit; appointment of investigators. Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint unit investigators to investigate fraud, abuse, or neglect in the provision of care under the plan for medical assistance. Such investigators would b... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB483 | Asbestos workers; violations; penalties. Requires the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to maintain a registry of employee complaints alleging the existence or imminent threat of an asbestos NESHAP violation. The measure prohibits employers from dis... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB496 | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission. The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB518 | Mandated health insurance benefits; essential benefits package. Provides that health insurance plans will not be required, effective January 1, 2014, to provide coverage for state-mandated health benefits to the extent that the benefit is not an esse... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB624 | Institutions of higher education; suicidal students. Requires public institutions of higher education to notify parents any time the institution receives notification from any source that a student may be suicidal, to the extent permitted by the fede... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB634 | Health Practitioners' Monitoring Program; impaired health care providers. Provides that the term "impairment" includes psychological and behavioral disabilities, including the mismanagement of countertransference, for the purposes of determining eli... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB650 | Hospitals and physicians; processing health insurance claims. Requires any hospital or licensed physician who treats a patient who presents proof of health insurance providing coverage within the applicable provider network to process such patient's ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB659 | Medicaid; coordinated long-term care. Directs the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop and implement a statewide, fully integrated risk-based long-term care system that integrates Medicaid-reimbursed primary, acute, an... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB214 | Notification of breach of medical information. Extends the requirement to notify individuals of a breach of their medical information to all individuals and public and private entities, rather than just governmental agencies. The bill also allows the... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB159 | Discharge or transfer of nursing home patients; notice to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Provides that in cases in which a nursing home patient is involuntarily transferred or discharged from a nursing home, a copy of the written notice of such... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB264 | Interstate Health Care Compact established. Creates the Interstate Health Care Compact to (i) secure the right of the member states to regulate health care in their respective states pursuant to the compact and to suspend the operation of any confli... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB398 | Radiology benefits managers. Requires that any decision by a radiology benefits manager to deny a treating physician's order or recommendation for a diagnostic radiology test be made by a physician. An authorization to perform a diagnostic radiology ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB505 | Income tax; long-term care insurance credit. Increases the amount of the credit an individual may claim for long-term care insurance premiums from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premiums paid. The bill would be effective for taxable ye... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB534 | COPN; exemption from RFA process. Allows the Commissioner of Health, in his discretion, to accept and approve applications for a certificate of public need that have been submitted without the Commissioner having issued a Request for Applications. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB705 | Health insurance; diagnostic procedures resulting from preventive care or screening. Prohibits a health carrier from imposing cost-sharing requirements with respect to any diagnostic service or test, or related procedure, that is administered or cond... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB814 | Virginia Public Health Foundation; established. Creates the Virginia Public Health Foundation in order to (i) support the development and implementation of innovative activities and creative solutions for the prevention of disease and the promotion o... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB918 | Medicaid; appeals of agency determinations. Provides that all recommended or final case decisions in administrative hearings regarding Medicaid overpayments shall be made in accordance with the Administrative Process Act, shall be based on the whole... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB980 | Health insurance; time limit on submitting claims. Establishes a minimum period of one year for the filing of a claim with a health insurance carrier. If it is not reasonably possible to submit a claim within this period, the carrier shall not reduce... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1087 | Discharge or transfer of nursing home patients; notice to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Provides that in cases in which a nursing home patient is involuntarily transferred or discharged from a nursing home, a copy of the written notice of such... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1125 | Disposition of dead bodies; how expenses paid. Requires court authorization for a county or city to pay reasonable expenses for the disposition of a dead body in all cases in which a dead body is unclaimed or is claimed by a claimant who is unable to... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1285 | Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The act, created in new Article 9.1 of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2, prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reas... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1289 | Impaired health care providers. Amends definition of "impairment." [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB277 | Forced or coerced abortion prohibited; penalty. Provides that any person who forces or coerces a pregnant female to have an abortion against her will is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also creates a private right of action against the pers... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB341 | Income tax; long-term care insurance credit. Increases the amount of the credit an individual may claim for long-term care insurance premiums from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premiums paid. The bill would be effective for taxable ye... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
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