VA HB217 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 26 2024 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Health and Human Services
Pending: House Health and Human Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 26 2024 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Health and Human Services
Pending: House Health and Human Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Physicians; informed consent; disclosure of certain information prior to hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Requires physicians to obtain informed consent from a patient prior to performing a hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Prior to obtaining informed consent, physicians must inform the patient of the patient's freedom to withhold or withdraw consent, refer the patient to the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation, and provide the patient with anatomical diagrams relevant to the procedure. The bill allows physicians to forgo obtaining informed consent when a hysterectomy or oophorectomy is performed in a life-threatening emergency situation. Physicians; informed consent; disclosure of certain information prior to hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Requires physicians to obtain informed consent from a patient prior to performing a hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Prior to obtaining informed consent, physicians must inform the patient of the patient's freedom to withhold or withdraw consent, refer the patient to the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation, and provide the patient with anatomical diagrams relevant to the procedure. The bill allows physicians to forgo obtaining informed consent when a hysterectomy or oophorectomy is performed in a life-threatening emergency situation.
Title
Hysterectomies and oophorectomies; DHP shall review informed consent requirements.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-01-30 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 49-N) (Y: 51 N: 49 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-23 - House - House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (20-Y 2-N) (Y: 20 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-18 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-23 - House - House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (20-Y 2-N) (Y: 20 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-18 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-13 | House | Left in Health and Human Services |
| 2024-01-30 | House | Rereferred to Health and Human Services |
| 2024-01-30 | House | VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 49-N) |
| 2024-01-30 | House | Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (51-Y 49-N) |
| 2024-01-29 | House | Passed by for the day |
| 2024-01-26 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB217H1 |
| 2024-01-26 | House | Committee substitute agreed to 24105658D-H1 |
| 2024-01-26 | House | Read second time |
| 2024-01-25 | House | Read first time |
| 2024-01-23 | House | Committee substitute printed 24105658D-H1 |
| 2024-01-23 | House | Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (20-Y 2-N) |
| 2024-01-18 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) |
| 2024-01-17 | House | Assigned sub: Health Professions |
| 2024-01-04 | House | Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services |
| 2024-01-04 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100541D |
Same As/Similar To
SB331 (Similar To) 2024-03-04 - Left in Health and Human Services
