Virginia House Bill 962 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Lyme disease testing disclosure; sunset repeal; educational signage; civil penalty. Creates a civil penalty for individuals licensed by the Board of Medicine who violate the requirement to disclose certain information to a patient when the licensee orders a laboratory test for the presence of Lyme disease for the patient. The first violation results in a written reprimand from the Board. The second violation results in a $500 civil penalty and each subsequent violation results in a $1,000 civil penalty. The bill also repeals the sunset for the Lyme disease testing disclosure requirement. The bill creates the Lyme Disease Educational Signage Fund for the purposes of providing Lyme disease educational signage for placement in Virginia State Parks.

Lyme disease; testing disclosure.

Del. Dave LaRock [R]

Del. Robert Marshall [R]

Del. Randall Minchew [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
2016-02-04	House	Subcommittee recommends striking from docket by voice vote
2016-01-20	House	Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
2016-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2016-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102111D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	1	202.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	2963.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB962
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB962+hil