Virginia House Bill 2337 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-08 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Certificates of public need. Creates a two-phase Certificates of public need. Creates a two-phase process to sunset certificate of public need (COPN) requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with the requirement for a certificate of public need (i) for all medical care facilities other than nursing homes, rehabilitation hospitals and beds, imaging centers, organ or tissue transplant services, certain open heart surgery services, certain neonatal services, and certain medical care facilities located in a locality with a population density of at least 200 people per square mile as reported by the United States Bureau of the Census in the 2010 census report that is contiguous with at least one other locality with such population density, or has a population of at least 75,000 people repealed effective July 1, 2017, and (ii) imaging centers repealed effective January 1, 2018. The bill also creates a new permitting process for categories of facilities and projects exempted from the certificate of public need process that requires the Commissioner of Health to issue a permit but requires the Commissioner to condition a permit (a) on the agreement of the applicant to provide a specified level of care at a reduced rate to indigents, accept patients requiring specialized care, or facilitate the development and operation of primary medical care services in designated medically underserved areas of the applicant's service area and (b) on compliance of the applicant with quality of care standards. The bill also eliminates regional health planning agencies and makes numerous changes to the COPN process for facilities and projects that will still be subject to the

Certificates of public need; creates a two-phase process.

Del. John O'Bannon [R]

Del. Richard Bell [R]

2017-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (11-Y 10-N) (Y: 11 N: 10 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2017-01-25 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 1-N) (Y: 4 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-08	House	Left in Appropriations
2017-01-31	House	Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
2017-01-31	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2017-01-31	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (11-Y 10-N)
2017-01-31	House	Committee substitute printed 17104734D-H1
2017-01-25	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 1-N)
2017-01-17	House	Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
2017-01-13	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2017-01-13	House	Presented and ordered printed 17103865D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	5307	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4006	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.14	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.1:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.2:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.04	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.05	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.06	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.07	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.23	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.24	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2337
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2337+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2337H1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1203V0003+HB2337
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H12V0136+HB2337