Virginia House Bill 2161 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: Passed on February 23 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-02-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0180)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Secretary of Health and Human Resources; workgroup to establish educational guidelines for training health care providers in the safe prescribing and appropriate use of opioids. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a workgroup that shall include representatives of the Departments of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Health, and Health Professions as well as representatives of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and each of the Commonwealth's medical schools, dental schools, schools of pharmacy, physician assistant education programs, and nursing education programs to develop educational standards and curricula for training health care providers, including physicians, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, physician assistants, and nurses, in the safe and appropriate use of opioids to treat pain while minimizing the risk of addiction and substance abuse. The workgroup shall report its progress and the outcomes of its activities to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2017. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to SB 1179.

Opioids; workgroup to establish guidelines for prescribing.

Sen. Todd Pillion [R]	Del. Terry Kilgore [R]	Sen. John Bell [D]	Del. Kathy Byron [R]
Del. Scott Garrett [R]	Del. Timothy Hugo [R]	Del. James Leftwich [R]	Del. Israel O'Quinn [R]
Del. Christopher Peace [R]	Del. Margaret Ransone [R]

2017-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Rules (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-31 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N) (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-26 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0180)
2017-02-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 180 (effective 2/23/17)
2017-02-17		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
2017-02-17	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
2017-02-17	Senate	Signed by President
2017-02-16	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-02-16	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2161ER)
2017-02-16	House	Enrolled
2017-02-14	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-14	Senate	Read third time
2017-02-13	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-10	Senate	Reported from Rules (13-Y 0-N)
2017-02-01	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rules
2017-02-01	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2017-01-31	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
2017-01-31	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
2017-01-30	House	Printed as engrossed 17100758D-E
2017-01-30	House	Engrossed by House as amended HB2161E
2017-01-30	House	Emergency clause added
2017-01-30	House	Committee amendments agreed to
2017-01-30	House	Read second time
2017-01-27	House	Read first time
2017-01-26	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
2017-01-23	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (9-Y 0-N)
2017-01-17	House	Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1
2017-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2017-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100758D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2161
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2161+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2161E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2161ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0180+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1201V0008+HB2161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H12V0049+HB2161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV1740+HB2161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S10V0086+HB2161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0494HB2161+HB2161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0508HB2161+HB2161