Virginia House Bill 1249 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 3 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-03 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Prescription Monitoring Program; prescriber requirements. Requires prescribers to be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program by the Department of Health Professions upon filing an application for licensure or renewal of a license, if the prescriber has not already registered. The bill requires prescribers to request information from the Director of the Department of Health Professions to determine what, if any, other covered substances are currently being prescribed to any patient for whom the prescriber is initiating a new course of treatment that includes the prescribing of benzodiazepine or an opiate, when such course of treatment is anticipated to last more than 90 consecutive days and for which a treatment agreement is entered into, except when the prescriber's course of treatment arises from pain management relating to dialysis or cancer treatment. The bill also authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to identify and publish a list of benzodiazepines or opiates that have a low potential for abuse by human patients, the prescription of which shall not require the prescriber to request and obtain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program. This bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2015.

Prescription Monitoring Program; registration with Program for prescriber treating human patients.

Del. Keith Hodges [R]

2014-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-04 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 2-N) (Y: 99 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-30 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 24 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-28 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (11-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-03		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093)
2014-03-03		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 93 (effective 7/1/15)
2014-02-21	Senate	Signed by President
2014-02-19	House	Signed by Speaker
2014-02-19	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1249ER)
2014-02-19	House	Enrolled
2014-02-17	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2014-02-17	Senate	Read third time
2014-02-14	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2014-02-13	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
2014-02-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2014-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2014-02-04	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 2-N)
2014-02-04	House	Read third time and passed House (97-Y 2-N)
2014-02-03	House	Printed as engrossed 14104563D-EH1
2014-02-03	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB1249EH1
2014-02-03	House	Amendments by Delegate Hodges agreed to
2014-02-03	House	Committee substitute agreed to 14104563D-H1
2014-02-03	House	Read second time
2014-01-31	House	Read first time
2014-01-30	House	Committee substitute printed 14104563D-H1
2014-01-30	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2014-01-28	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (11-Y 0-N)
2014-01-22	House	Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1
2014-01-17	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2014-01-17	House	Presented and ordered printed 14103851D

SB294 (Same As) 2014-03-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0178)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2522.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB1249
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB1249+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB1249H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB1249EH1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB1249ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0093+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H1201V0017+HB1249
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H12V0087+HB1249
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV0429+HB1249
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S04V0138+HB1249
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0416HB1249+HB1249
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0421HB1249+HB1249