| VA | SB331 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Health Professions; informed consent requirements for hysterectomies and oophorectomies; review; report. Directs the Department of Health Professions to review and make recommendations regarding informed consent requirements for hyster...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | SB33 | Engross
Prefile | Supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists; work group; report. Clarifies that supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist requires that a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry is present during an op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | SB33 | Engross
Sine Die | Supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists; work group; report. Clarifies that supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist requires that a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry is present during an op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB217 | Engross
Sine Die | Physicians; informed consent; disclosure of certain information prior to hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Requires physicians to obtain informed consent from a patient prior to performing a hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Prior to obtaining informed conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; religious exception. Exempts a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects to administration of a vaccine on religious grounds from mandatory immunization requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; perinatal services for parents. Directs the Department of Health to obtain all available federal funding for services for expecting mothers and fathers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1290 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Nursing; nursing faculty educational requirements. Directs the Board of Nursing to add or remove certain educational requirements for members of the nursing faculty in specified nursing education programs. The bill directs the Board to adopt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB983 | Intro
Sine Die | Nurse practitioners; patient care team provider; autonomous practice. Allows certain nurse practitioners to oversee patient care teams by changing "patient care team physician" to "patient care team provider." The bill defines "patient care team prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Social Services; human trafficking services. Adds to the responsibilities of the Department of Social Services certain duties related to human trafficking prevention and victim support. The bill requires the Department, among other thin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; community services boards; quarterly stakeholder meetings. Provides that every community services board shall conduct stakeholder meetings at least four time per year to discuss challenges, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1476 | Intro
Sine Die | Child abuse; mandatory reporters. Adds to the list of persons who are required to report suspected child abuse or neglect employees of the Department of Labor and Industry whose duties include ensuring compliance with child labor laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1289 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; health workforce development program. Directs the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority to establish a program to strengthen the health and health sciences workforce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; born alive infant; treatment and care; penalty. Requires every health care provider licensed by the Board of Medicine who attempts to terminate a pregnancy to (i) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; mobile food units. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations and each local health department and health district to amend its regulations and guidance documents to allow a mobile food unit to conduct up to 20 pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Therapeutically equivalent drug products; provisions for return of outdated drugs. Requires drug manufacturers to implement provisions for the return of drugs past their expiration date by pharmacies in order for their products to be eligible for dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1500 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Counseling; registration of behavioral health technicians and behavioral health technician trainees. Establishes requirements for the Board of Counseling to register individuals as behavioral health technicians or behavioral health technicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB481 | Intro
Sine Die | First responders; proof of immunization; exemption. Provides that first responders shall not be required to show proof of immunization to attend trainings at medical care facilities, regardless of whether the administration of immunizing agents confl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1294 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Psychology; psychological practitioners; licensure. Establishes a licensing procedure by the Board of Psychology for a psychological practitioner as defined in the bill. The bill directs the Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Health; hospital regulations; patient drug testing. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require hospitals to test patients who are presenting with overdose symptoms for fentanyl and to test for fentanyl, marijuana, amphe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonresident pharmacies; pharmacy benefits administrators. Removes a provision permitting a registered nonresident pharmacy that provides services as a pharmacy benefits administrator from operating without designating a Virginia licensed pharmacist i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1340 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; breast implant patient decision checklist required. Directs the Board of Medicine to develop a patient decision checklist for procedures involving breast implants that informs patients of the potential risks of breast implants. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Child abuse; mandatory reporters. Adds to the list of persons who are required to report suspected child abuse or neglect employees of the Department of Labor and Industry whose duties include ensuring compliance with child labor laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical Ethics Defense Act established. Establishes the right of a medical practitioner, health care institution, or health care payer not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service that violates such medical practitioner's, health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Central fill pharmacies. Establishes requirements for central fill pharmacies, which are defined in the bill as permitted pharmacy facilities that, upon the request of an originating pharmacy, perform the product fulfillment of a drug order and retur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; purpose; Board of Directors; powers and duties. Adds managing primary care graduate medical education programs and managing the Health Workforce Innovation Fund to the duties of the Virginia Health Wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1188 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need program; phased elimination. Creates a three-phase process to eliminate the certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with elimination of the requirement for a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Massage Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Interstate Massage Compact. The Compact allows massage therapists who (i) possess an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state in which they reside; (ii) have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB323 | Intro
Prefile | Interstate Massage Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Interstate Massage Compact. The Compact allows massage therapists who (i) possess an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state in which they reside; (ii) have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1479 | Intro
Sine Die | Health professions; universal licensure; requirements. Requires health regulatory boards within the Department of Health Professions to recognize licenses or certifications issued by other United States jurisdictions, as defined in the bill, as fulfi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1295 | Intro
Sine Die | Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels; water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilize point-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB978 | Intro
Prefile | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1479 | Intro
Prefile | Health professions; universal licensure; requirements. Requires health regulatory boards within the Department of Health Professions to recognize licenses or certifications issued by other United States jurisdictions, as defined in the bill, as fulfi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB978 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1295 | Intro
Prefile | Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels; water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilize point-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1239 | Intro
Sine Die | Unaccompanied homeless youth; consent to surgical or medical care. Provides that except for the purposes of sexual sterilization or abortion, a minor who is 14 years of age or older and who is an unaccompanied homeless youth shall be deemed an adult ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| VA | HB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child's health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB499 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Medicaid Waivers; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; hospitals licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; psychiatric beds. Excludes from the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required hospitals license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB628 | Intro
Prefile | Certificate of public need; hospitals licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; psychiatric beds. Excludes from the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required hospitals license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB499 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Medicaid Waivers; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions; facilities subject to minimum standards. Amends the administrative sanctions that may be imposed on certified nursing facilities in relation to compliance with staffing requirements. The bill di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical assistance services; payment for essential hygiene products. Directs the State Board of Health to include a provision for payment of medical assistance for the purchase of essential hygiene products in the state plan for medical assistance se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB620 | Intro
Prefile | Medical assistance services; payment for essential hygiene products. Directs the State Board of Health to include a provision for payment of medical assistance for the purchase of essential hygiene products in the state plan for medical assistance se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1239 | Intro
Prefile | Unaccompanied homeless youth; consent to surgical or medical care. Provides that except for the purposes of sexual sterilization or abortion, a minor who is 14 years of age or older and who is an unaccompanied homeless youth shall be deemed an adult ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB886 | Intro
Prefile | Certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions; facilities subject to minimum standards. Amends the administrative sanctions that may be imposed on certified nursing facilities in relation to compliance with staffing requirements. The bill di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB813 | Intro
Prefile | Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child's health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1387 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health Professions; veterinary medicine; exceptions for care of animals injured in line of duty. Provides an exception to the unauthorized practice of veterinary medicine for any law-enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1387 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Health Professions; veterinary medicine; exceptions for care of animals injured in line of duty. Provides an exception to the unauthorized practice of veterinary medicine for any law-enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1063 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing homes; application requirements. Requires all applicants for a nursing home license to complete and submit an application on a form approved by the Department of Health. Under the bill, the applicant is required to provide certain information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
