Virginia Senate Bill 1146 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-01-27 - Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Costs of medical treatment; jail inmates. Provides that no sheriff or jail superintendent or locality is responsible for payment of the cost of medical treatment of an inmate's preexisting condition. Under current law, the sheriff, jail superintendent, or locality is responsible for payment of the cost of medical treatment for such inmate's preexisting condition if that condition is a communicable disease, serious medical need, or life-threatening condition. The bill provides that adequate medical treatment shall not be withheld due to an inmate's inability to pay.

Jail inmates; costs of medical treatment.

Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]

2017-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-27	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
2017-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
2017-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101362D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
53	1	126	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1146
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1146+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S09V0053+SB1146