Virginia House Bill 1695 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-11 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Powers and duties of health regulatory boards; health care practitioners with mental illness. Prohibits health regulatory boards from revoking, suspending, restricting, or refusing to issue or renew a registration, certificate, license, or multistate licensure privilege or otherwise discipline a health care practitioner, including a holder of a multistate licensure privileged to practice nursing, solely on the grounds that the health care practitioner has mental illness absent evidence indicating that the health care practitioner's mental illness renders the health care practitioner unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patients.

Health regulatory boards; powers and duties, health care practitioners with mental illness.

Del. Joseph Yost [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-11	House	Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
2015-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends striking from docket by voice vote
2015-01-20	House	Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2
2015-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2015-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102248D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2400	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1695
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1695+hil