Virginia House Bill 240 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 5 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Provides that the entity designated by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to operate the programs of the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman shall have access to facilities, clients, patients, individuals receiving services, and the records of such clients, patients, and individuals in licensed assisted living facilities, licensed adult day care centers, home care organizations, hospice facilities, certified nursing facilities and nursing homes, providers as defined in § 37.2-403, state hospitals operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, and providers of services by an area agency on aging or any private nonprofit or proprietary agency whenever the entity has the consent of the client, patient, or individual receiving services or his legal representative. The bill provides that if a client, patient, or individual receiving services is unable to consent to the review of his medical and social records and has no legal representative, and access to the records is necessary to investigate a complaint, access shall be granted to the extent necessary to conduct the investigation. The bill provides that access also shall be granted if a legal representative of the client, patient, or individual receiving services refuses to give consent and the entity has reasonable cause to believe that the legal representative is not acting in the best interests of the client, patient, or individual receiving services.

Long-Term Care Ombudsman, Office of State; access to clients, patients, individuals, etc., records.

Del. John O'Bannon [R]

2014-02-18 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-28 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-23 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 24 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-21 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (11-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-05		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120)
2014-03-05		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 120 (effective 7/1/14)
2014-02-22	Senate	Signed by President
2014-02-20	House	Signed by Speaker
2014-02-20	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB240ER)
2014-02-20	House	Enrolled
2014-02-18	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2014-02-18	Senate	Read third time
2014-02-17	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2014-02-14	Senate	Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N)
2014-02-06	Senate	Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services
2014-02-06	Senate	Rereferred from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2014-01-29	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2014-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2014-01-28	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2014-01-28	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2014-01-27	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB240H1
2014-01-27	House	Committee substitute agreed to 14103957D-H1
2014-01-27	House	Read second time
2014-01-24	House	Read first time
2014-01-23	House	Committee substitute printed 14103957D-H1
2014-01-23	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2014-01-21	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (11-Y 0-N)
2014-01-09	House	Assigned HWI sub: # 1
2013-12-29	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2013-12-29	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101547D

SB572 (Same As) 2014-03-03 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
51	5	140	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB240
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB240+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB240H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB240ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0120+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H1201V0007+HB0240
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H12V0056+HB0240
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV0252+HB0240
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S04V0097+HB0240
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S09V0062+HB0240
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0428HB0240+HB0240
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0437HB0240+HB0240