Virginia Senate Bill 1221 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-01-29 - Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Health care institutions; assisted living facilities; reporting requirements. Requires the chief executive, chief of staff, or administrator of a hospital, other health care institution, or assisted living facility who becomes aware of information indicating that a health care professional is in need of treatment or has been committed or admitted as a patient for the treatment of substance abuse or psychiatric illness to determine that the health care professional is a danger to himself, his patients, or others before reporting such information to the Department of Health Professionals. Current law requires reporting such information to the Department if the substance abuse or psychiatric illness may render the health professional a danger.

Health care institutions; reporting requirements of certain officials.

Sen. Jeffrey McWaters [R]

2015-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-29	Senate	Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
2015-01-20	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2015-01-14	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2015-01-14	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100333D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2400.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB1221
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1221+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S04V0055+SB1221