VA HB1689 | 2023 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 39-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2023 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-02-16 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2023 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-02-16 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Patient visitation; visitation from clergy members. Requires hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities to allow patients to receive visits from clergy members during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat, unless the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility demonstrates that it is unable to reasonably accommodate the visits without undue hardship on the facility. Under the bill, the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility may restrict visits of a clergy member who fails a health screening measure or tests positive for a communicable disease of public health threat. If the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility establishes a protocol restricting the total number of individuals permitted to visit a patient, clergy members shall not be counted toward that total number. The bill provides immunity for hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities and their employees and contractors from liability for injury or death due to exposure to a communicable disease of public health threat resulting from or related to such visitation, except in limited circumstances.
Title
Patient visitation; request visitation from clergy members during declared public health emergency.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2023-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 46-N) (Y: 52 N: 46 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (12-Y 9-N) (Y: 12 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-26 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N) (Y: 3 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 46-N) (Y: 52 N: 46 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (12-Y 9-N) (Y: 12 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-26 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N) (Y: 3 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-16 | Senate | Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| 2023-02-08 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
| 2023-02-08 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed |
| 2023-02-07 | House | VOTE: Passage (52-Y 46-N) |
| 2023-02-07 | House | Read third time and passed House (52-Y 46-N) |
| 2023-02-06 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1689H1 |
| 2023-02-06 | House | Committee substitute agreed to 23105528D-H1 |
| 2023-02-06 | House | Read second time |
| 2023-02-03 | House | Passed by for the day |
| 2023-02-02 | House | Read first time |
| 2023-01-31 | House | Committee substitute printed 23105528D-H1 |
| 2023-01-31 | House | Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (12-Y 9-N) |
| 2023-01-26 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N) |
| 2023-01-13 | House | Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 |
| 2023-01-09 | House | Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions |
| 2023-01-09 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101767D |
