Bill Text: VA SB1079 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Board of Medicine; medically unnecessary chaperones.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-04 - Left in Education and Health [SB1079 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2021-SB1079-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 1079 Offered January 17, 2020 A BILL to direct the Board of Medicine to amend their regulations regarding medically unnecessary chaperones. ---------- Patron-- Suetterlein ---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Board of Medicine shall amend its regulations to require that patients be notified that they have the right to opt out of the presence of a chaperone during medical examinations, provided that the chaperone is medically unnecessary. The regulations shall also include a provision permitting health care practitioners to refuse to perform medical services for a patient who refuses the presence of a chaperone.