Virginia Senate Bill 1178 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 18 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-03-18 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [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 The law being repealed also prohibits the licensing of any genetic counselor from being contingent upon participating in such counseling.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]

2021-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) (Y: 55 N: 45 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-16 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (14-Y 7-N) (Y: 14 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-02-11 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
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
2021-03-18		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240)
2021-03-18		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 240 (effective 7/1/21)
2021-02-26		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
2021-02-26	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
2021-02-25	House	Signed by Speaker
2021-02-24	Senate	Signed by President
2021-02-24	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1178ER)
2021-02-24	Senate	Enrolled
2021-02-19	House	VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
2021-02-19	House	Passed House (55-Y 45-N)
2021-02-19	House	Read third time
2021-02-18	House	Read second time
2021-02-16	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (14-Y 7-N)
2021-02-11	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
2021-02-09	House	Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions
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?212+sum+SB1178
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1178+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1178ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0240+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+SB1178F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+SB1178FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S04C0058+SB1178
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SC0184SB1178+SB1178
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SC0239SB1178+SB1178
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H1202V0002+SB1178
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H12V0028+SB1178
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+HV1764+SB1178