Virginia House Bill 512 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 12 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-12-03 - House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Lyme disease; long-term antibiotic therapy allowed. Allows a licensed physician to prescribe, administer, or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient diagnosed with Lyme disease. Also specifies that the Board of Medicine shall not initiate a disciplinary action against a licensed physician solely for prescribing, administering, or dispensing long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease, provided such clinical diagnosis and treatment has been documented in the patient's medical record by such licensed physician.

Lyme disease; allows a licensed physician to prescribe long-term antibiotic therapy.

Del. David Bulova [D]	Del. Benjamin Cline [R]	Del. Barbara Comstock [R]	Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]
Del. Barry Knight [R]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]	Del. Robert Marshall [R]
Del. Joe May [R]	Del. Thomas Rust [R]	Sen. Lionell Spruill [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-12-03		House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
2010-02-02		House: Continued to 2011 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
2010-02-01		House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2011 by voice vote
2010-01-20		House: Assigned HWI sub: #1
2010-01-12		House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2010-01-12		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103686D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	3408.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+HB512
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB512+hil