Virginia Senate Bill 1297 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2023 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-02-02 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

In-person visitation policies and procedures at certain In-person visitation policies and procedures at certain facilities. Requires hospitals, nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, hospices or hospice facilities, assisted living facilities, and intermediate care facilities to establish certain in-person visitation policies and procedures. The bill (i) requires that such policies include screening, personal protective equipment, and other infection control protocols for visitors; (ii) prohibits such policies from requiring the visitor to provide proof of immunization or vaccination; (iii) requires such policies to allow consensual physical contact between the visitor and the resident, client, or patient of the facility; (iv) authorizes the resident, client, or patient to designate an essential caregiver and establishes requirements related to essential caregivers; (v) requires that such policies allow unrestricted in-person visitation under certain circumstances; (vi) provides that the policies and procedures may require visitors to agree in writing to follow such policies and procedures; (vii) authorizes facilities to suspend in-person visitation of specific visitors for violations of such agreement; (viii) requires facilities to make their in-person policies and procedures available to the Department of Health for review when applying for initial licensure, licensure renewal, or change of ownership; and (ix) requires facilities and the Department of Health to make their in-person visitation policies and procedures easily accessible from their websites.

In-person visitation; policies and procedures at certain facilities, definition of "facility."

Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]

2023-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N 1-A) (Y: 13 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-02	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
2023-01-27	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health
2023-01-27	Senate	Rereferred to Education and Health
2023-01-27	Senate	Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 0-N)
2023-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
2023-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100040D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	162.15:12	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1297
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1297+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1297F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S09V0032+SB1297
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S04V0123+SB1297