Bill Text: VA HB1647 | 2015 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Drug overdoses; reporting of medical aid or treatment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-10 - Left in Courts of Justice [HB1647 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2015-HB1647-Prefiled.html
15100567D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §54.1-2967 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §54.1-2967. Physicians and others rendering medical aid to report certain wounds and overdoses. Any physician or other person who renders any medical aid or
treatment to any person for (i)
any wound which such physician or other person knows or has reason to believe
is a wound inflicted by a weapon specified in §18.2-308 and which wound such
physician or other person believes or has reason to believe was not
self-inflicted or (ii) an overdose that
such physician or other person knows or has reason to believe is an overdose of
a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II of the Drug Control Act
(§54.1-3400 et seq.) shall as soon as practicable report
such fact, including the Any physician or other person failing to comply with this
section |