| VA | SB1090 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Pharmacy; permit to operate pharmaceutical processor or cannabis dispensing facility. Increases the limit on the number of permits that the Board of Pharmacy (the Board) may issue or renew in any year from one to two pharmaceutical processor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | SB1219 | Engross
Sine Die | Kinship foster care; barrier crimes; exception. Allows local boards of social services and child-placing agencies to approve as a kinship foster parent an applicant who has been convicted of possessing a Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | SB1487 | Engross
Sine Die | Alkaline hydrolysis; registration; regulations. Establishes a registration requirement for alkaline hydrolysis providers. The bill defines alkaline hydrolysis and adds alkaline hydrolysis and hydrolyzed remains to statutes dealing with cremation and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | SB1327 | Engross
Sine Die | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage on and after July 1, 2024, for individuals in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1597 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical cannabis program; transition from Board of Pharmacy to Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. Transfers oversight and administration of the Commonwealth's medical cannabis program from the Board of Pharmacy to the Virginia Cannabis Control Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2397 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency medical services; hospitals; mandatory reporting of controlled substance overdoses. Requires emergency medical services agencies and providers and hospitals to report incidents where a person is treated and released in response to a suspect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2472 | Intro
Sine Die | 340B Covered Entity Commitment to Good Stewardship Principles Annual Report; definition of covered entity; report. Directs a nonprofit organization, as defined in relevant law, to create a standardized reporting form that requires each covered each h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1600 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; expedited review process. Requires the Department of Health to establish an expedited review process for certain projects involving addition of imaging equipment, addition of a new ambulatory or outpatient surgery center, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Registered surgical technologist; credentialing. Adds the National Center for Competency Testing as an accepted credentialing organization for registered surgical technologists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2229 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensure of professional counselors; Counseling Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Counseling Compact. The Compact permits eligible licensed professional counselors to practice in Compact member states, provided that they are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1397 | Intro
Sine Die | Student immunization requirements; parental opt-out. Permits any parent of a child who attends any public or private preschool, nursery school, licensed child care center, or elementary or secondary school or who is school-aged but receives home inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2435 | Engross
Sine Die | Hospital price transparency; enforcement; plans of correction; civil penalty. Grants the Department of Health authority to impose a plan of correction on hospitals that fail to comply with hospital price transparency requirements. The bill imposes a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | 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-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1925 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; licensure of anesthesiologist assistants. Establishes criteria for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants and directs the Board of Medicine to adopt regulations governing the practice of anesthesiologist assistants. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2073 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. Adds Virginia to the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact to create a process for expedited issuance of a license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth for qualifying physicians to enhance the portability of m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2402 | Intro
Sine Die | Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). The bill direct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2239 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health Professions; Virginia Healthcare Workforce Data Center; provision of certain information related to health care providers to the public. Directs the Department of Health Professions, through its Virginia Healthcare Workforce Data...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2183 | Intro
Sine Die | Nurse practitioners; practice authority upon licensure. Removes the requirement that nurse practitioners, other than a nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing in the category of certified nurse midwife, certified registered ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1879 | Intro
Sine Die | Managed care health insurance plan licensees; network adequacy for mental health care services. Requires each managed care health insurance plan licensee (licensee) to (i) provide a sufficient number and mix of services, specialists, and practice sit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2287 | Intro
Sine Die | Practice of certified registered nurse anesthetists. Allows certified registered nurse anesthetists to practice in consultation with a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry. Currently, certified registered nurse anesthetists are requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2497 | Intro
Sine Die | Midwifery; administration of medication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2219 | Intro
Sine Die | Health records privacy; consumer-generated health information. Requires certain entities that collect, gather, or use consumer-generated health information, defined in the bill, to take reasonable measures to safeguard such aggregated health data, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1917 | Intro
Sine Die | Public pools; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to adopt regulations governing swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated for public use, including swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated in conjunc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1889 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education and certain other public educational institutions; certain immunization requirements prohibited. Prohibits any prospective or current full-time or part-time employee of a public institution of higher education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2293 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and regulations; limitations; civil penalty. Provides that neither the Board of Health nor the Commissioner of Health shall make any emergency order or regulation unless, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2057 | Intro
Sine Die | Public benefits; eligibility of certain aliens. Repeals provisions prohibiting persons other than United States citizens or persons who are legally present in the United States from receiving certain public benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2085 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription of opioids; sickle cell anemia. Exempts prescribers from certain requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program related to prescribing opioids if the opioid is prescribed to a patient for pain management related to sickle cell anemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1809 | Intro
Sine Die | Newborn screening; Krabbe disease and other lysosomal storage disorders. Requires that newborn screening tests required to be performed on every infant born in the Commonwealth must include screening for Krabbe disease and other lysosomal storage dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing home standards of care; administrative sanctions; Long-Term Care Services Fund established. Requires regulations establishing the staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum number of hours of direct care services to eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2083 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services; dental care; anesthesia. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to provide for the payment of medical assistance for charges incurred and an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1764 | Intro
Sine Die | Physician assistants; practice agreement exemption; elimination of practice ratio for physicians and physician assistants. Allows physician assistants practicing in hospitals, certain facilities operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1831 | Intro
Sine Die | Long-term services and supports screening; authorization to share assessments. Allows completed screenings for long-term services and supports to be shared with local departments of social services. Such screenings may be used to determine eligibilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2279 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need program; regulations; charity care. Allows facilities other than hospitals to include care provided to individuals who are covered under the state plan for medical assistance services in the charity care requirement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1969 | Intro
Sine Die | Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants adoptees 18 years of age or older access to their original birth certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2430 | Intro
Sine Die | Produce Rx Program established; report. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish a Produce Rx Program as a three-year pilot program to incentivize consumption of qualifying fruits and vegetables by eligible individuals for whom increase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1658 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposed scope of practice changes; health regulatory board assessment required; report. Directs the General Assembly to submit bills proposing scope of practice changes related to the health professions to the relevant health regulatory board for as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2237 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospital price transparency; private right of action; Hospital price transparency; private right of action; patient payment disputes; noncompliance; prohibition of debt collection. Allows patients to bring an action against a hospital that is not in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1787 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription for controlled substance; practitioner-patient relationship; telemedicine. Allows a practitioner to establish a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship through asynchronous interaction for the purpose of prescribing a Schedule VI con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2369 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical marijuana program; dispensaries. Removes the requirement that a cannabis dispensing facility be owned, at least in part, by a pharmaceutical processor and increases from five to 12 the number of cannabis dispensing facility permits the Board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2427 | Engross
Sine Die | Hospital price transparency; private right of action; patient payment disputes; noncompliance; prohibition of debt collection. Allows patients to bring an action against a hospital that is not in material compliance with hospital price transparency l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | Providers of treatment for substance use disorder; use of methadone or opioid replacements; biometric certification. Requires providers of treatment for substance use disorder who administer methadone or opioid replacements as treatments to utilize b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1872 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Allows the Board of Counseling to issue a license to practice as a professional counselor without examination to an applicant seeking initial licensure or renewal of such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2276 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunization; immunization of children against COVID-19. Specifies that parents shall not be required to immunize their children against COVID-19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2117 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse counselors; barrier crimes; exception. Allows persons with convictions for possession of a controlled substance to work at adult substance abuse or adult mental health treatment programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | Treatment services for sexual assault survivors; emergency contraception; provision by health care providers, payment from fund. Requires the State Board of Health to adopt regulations that provide for the administration of emergency contraception by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2210 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1734 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; continuing education; implicit bias and cultural competency in health care. Requires the Board of Medicine to adopt and implement policies that require each practitioner licensed by the Board who has direct contact with persons who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1864 | Intro
Sine Die | Vaccine requirements for state agency employees; exemption. Creates an exemption to vaccine requirements implemented by state agencies for any state agency employees who are philosophically opposed to receiving such vaccination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2280 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental consent to surgical and medical treatment of certain minors; admission of minors to mental health facility for inpatient treatment. Requires written informed consent from the parent or guardian of any minor prior to any non-emergency surgica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB2091 | 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] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
