Virginia Senate Bill 1178 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 1 2021 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Genetic counseling; conscience clause. Repeals the conscience clause for genetic counselors who forgo participating in counseling that conflicts with their deeply held moral or religious beliefs, provided that they inform the patient and offer to direct the patient to the online directory of licensed genetic counselors maintained by the Board of Medicine. The law being repealed also prohibits the licensing of any genetic counselor from being contingent upon participating in such counseling.

Genetic counseling; repeals conscience clause.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

2021-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 14-N) (Y: 24 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2021-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 4-N) (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-08	House	Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
2021-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2021-02-05	House	Read first time
2021-02-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2021-02-02	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 14-N)
2021-02-01	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2021-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
2021-01-28	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
2021-01-13	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2021-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2021-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101267D

SB1178 (Carry Over) 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2957.21	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB1178
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1178+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB1178F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S04V0058+SB1178
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0184SB1178+SB1178
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0239SB1178+SB1178