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VAHB214PassCommon interest communities; residents providing certain services exemption. Provides that a resident of a common interest community association who provides bookkeeping, billing, or recordkeeping services for such community for compensation shall be...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839)
VASB119VetoDrug manufacturers; permitting and registration; certain conditions related to 340B-covered drugs. Requires a drug manufacturer, as a condition of obtaining a permit or as a condition of registration or renewal of registration, to certify that it doe...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB576VetoBoard for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Requires the Board for Contractors to adopt regulations requiring all Class A, B, and C residential contractors, excluding subcontractors to the contracting parties and those who engage in ...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB313VetoBoard for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Requires the Board for Contractors to adopt regulations requiring all Class A, B, and C residential contractors, excluding subco...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB585VetoHome-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools; penalties. Provides that no home-based firearms dealer, as defined in the bill, shall be engaged in the business of selling, trading, or transferring firearms at wholesale or retail within 1.5 mil...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VASB274VetoPrescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
VAHB570VetoPrescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB455VetoPossession of an item containing residue of a controlled substance; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for the offense of possession of an item containing residue of a controlled substance. The bill provides that upon motion of the attorney for t...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB519VetoBoard of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardle...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB738PassSpace Force; extension of certain benefits and privileges for persons serving in a branch of the Armed Forces. Amends several provisions of law related to certain benefits and privileges available to persons serving or having served in a branch of th...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817)
VAHB1190VetoBoard for Contractors; offering or approving exams; language counterparts. Provides that any exam offered by the Board for Contractors that averaged over 50 administrations per year over the preceding four-year period shall be made available in any l...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VASB716VetoBoard of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardle...
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2024-04-17
Passed by for the day
VAHB516PassPrescription drugs; labels; blind and disabled users. Requires pharmacies to notify each person who identifies themselves or a patient as blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that an accessibl...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725)
VAHB1354PassDeclawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats for any person engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill. Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawfu...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748)
VAHB1337PassBoard of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654)
VASB463PassBoard of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677)
VAHB1499PassVirginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754)
VASB155PassVirginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761)
VASB513PassFuneral services; transportation protection agreements. Defines "transportation protection agreement" as an agreement that provides for the coordination and arranging of all professional services related to transportation of human remains or cremated...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598)
VASB403PassBehavioral health technicians; behavioral health technician assistants; qualified mental health professionals; qualified mental health professional-trainees; scope of practice, supervision, and qualifications. Adds behavioral health technicians and b...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595)
VAHB1278PassAuricular acupuncture; use of the five needle protocol. Allows any person to engage in the five needle auricular acupuncture protocol (5NP), a standardized protocol wherein up to five needles are inserted into the external human ear to provide relief...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548)
VAHB324PassPA Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the PA Licensure Compact. The Compact permits eligible physician assistants to practice in Compact-participating states, provided that they are licensed in at least one participating ...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)
VAHB426PassBoard of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Directs the Board of Counseling to recognize the National Counselor Examination as a valid examination for licensure as a professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Vir...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443)
VAHB342PassNaloxone or other opioid antagonists; possession and administration by state agencies. Requires state agencies to possess naloxone or other opioid antagonists used for overdose reversal to a person who is believed to be experiencing or about to exper...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440)
VAHB964PassBoard of Medicine; executive director; qualifications. Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Board of Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Board of Medicine must be a physician.
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463)
VAHB732PassPublic schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to dev...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451)
VAHB511PassOut-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice; assisted living facilities. Adds assisted living facilities to the list of eligible health care employers for which a health care practitioner licensed, certified, or regist...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390)
VAHB971PassNurse practitioners; autonomous practice. Lowers from five years to three years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice agreement and permits qualified nurse pr...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404)
VAHB995PassBoard of Medicine; temporary licensure of physicians licensed in a foreign country. Permits the Board of Medicine to issue a provisional license to a physician licensed in a foreign country for no more than two years, then a subsequent renewable two-...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464)
VAHB1035PassPlaces of public accommodation; possession and administration of epinephrine. Permits every place of public accommodation, defined in relevant law as all places or businesses offering or holding out to the general public goods, services, privileges, ...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465)
VAHB1039PassPublic elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated glucagon; school board policies; donations. Permits any local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of undesignated na...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466)
VASB568PassCrisis stabilization services; facilities licensed by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; nursing homes; dispensing and administration of drugs; emergency. Permits facilities licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513)
VASB726PassPublic schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to dev...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519)
VAHB188PassAdvance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also ...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274)
VAHB349PassAdvanced registered medication aides; certified nursing facilities; work group; report. Requires advanced registered medication aides who administer drugs that would otherwise be self-administered to residents in a certified nursing facility licensed...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284)
VAHB503PassDepartment of Medical Assistance Services; credentialed addiction treatment professionals; licensed behavior analysts; definition. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend in its regulations the definition of "credentialed addic...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288)
VAHB605PassDental hygienists; remote supervision. Extends from 90 days to 180 days the period during which a dental hygienist practicing under remote supervision may continue to treat a patient, after which period the supervising dentist shall conduct an examin...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295)
VAHB848PassVeterinary medicine; traineeships. Allows any veterinary medicine licensure applicant enrolled in a traineeship program to engage in the limited practice of veterinary medicine, as that term is defined by the Board of Veterinary Medicine, under the d...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307)
VASB111PassDrug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule II; Schedule IV; Schedule V. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I, II, IV, and V of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added v...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228)
VASB154PassAdvance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)
VAHB1389PassPractice of athletic training; definition. Amends the definition of "practice of athletic training" to allow the practice of athletic training to be conducted in an inpatient or outpatient setting.
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0222)
VASB521PassPreneed funeral contracts; declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee. Defines "declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee" as an optional and declinable fee agreed to by a preneed funeral contract purchaser, if offered by a seller, for which the cost of...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247)
VAHB652PassFuneral arrangements; disputes between next of kin; proof of next of kin status. Establishes a dispute resolution process for disagreements about what persons are responsible for a decedent's funeral and the disposition for such decedent's remains. T...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200)
VAHB1067PassPharmacy technicians; expansion of allowable duties. Allows pharmacy technicians to clarify quantity or refills for a prescription issued for a Schedule VI drug. Current law only allows pharmacy technicians to accept refill authorizations. The bill a...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0214)
VAHB42PassCivil immunity; dentists and dental hygienists; mental health treatment for health care professionals; reporting requirements. Adds dentists and dental hygienists to the list of providers who are immune from civil liability for any act done or made i...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0096)
VAHB225PassDentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. The Compact increases public access to dental services by permitting eligible licensed dentists and dental hygienists to prac...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0101)
VASB133PassPhysician assistants; practice agreement exemption. Allows physician assistants employed by a hospital or employed in certain facilities operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or in federally qualified health cente...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116)
VASB629PassCivil immunity; dentists and dental hygienists; mental health treatment for health care professionals; reporting requirements. Adds dentists and dental hygienists to the list of providers who are immune from civil liability for any act done or made i...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0126)
VAHB436PassRevocation of advance directive; divorce or annulment; custody or visitation. Provides that the authority of an agent to make health care decisions pursuant to an advance directive shall be revoked upon the filing of either (i) an action for the divo...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0081)
VASB22PassDentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. The Compact increases public access to dental services by permitting eligible licensed dentists and dental hygienists to prac...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031)
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