Virginia Senate Bill 561 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-12-02 - Left in Education and Health
Pending: Senate Education and Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Certificates of public need. Creates a three-phase Certificates of public need. Creates a three-phase process to sunset certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with the requirement for a certificate of public need (i) for the establishment of a new imaging service or addition of new equipment for imaging services eliminated beginning July 1, 2016, for ambulatory and outpatient surgery centers eliminated beginning July 1, 2017, and (iii) for hospitals and all other categories of projects other than nursing homes and facilities and equipment for open heart surgery and organ or tissue transplant services eliminated beginning July 1, 2018. The bill also creates a new permitting process for categories of facilities and projects exempted from the certificate of public need process that requires the Commissioner of Health to issue a permit but allows the Commissioner to condition a permit (a) on the agreement of the applicant to provide a specified level of care at a reduced rate to indigents, accept patients requiring specialized care, or facilitate the development and operation of primary medical care services in designated medically underserved areas of the applicant's service area or (b) on compliance of the applicant with quality of care standards. The bill allows the Commissioner to refuse to issue a permit if he determines that the project for which the permit is sought would be detrimental to the provision of health services in underserved areas of the

Certificates of public need.

Sen. Stephen Newman [R]	Sen. George Barker [D]	Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]	Sen. William Stanley [R]
Sen. Richard Black [R]

2016-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2017 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-12-02	Senate	Left in Education and Health
2016-02-11	Senate	Continued to 2017 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2016-02-11	Senate	Incorporates SB641
2016-02-11	Senate	Incorporates SB777
2016-02-11	Senate	Incorporates SB585
2016-02-11	Senate	Incorporates SB398
2016-02-11	Senate	Incorporates SB333
2016-02-11	Senate	Committee substitute printed to Web only 16105484D-S1
2016-02-05	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2016-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2016-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102956D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	102.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.11	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.1:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3:7	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3:8	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.23	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.24	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB561
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB561+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB561S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S04C0100+SB0561