VA HB278 | 2024 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Summary

State plan for medical assistance services; fertility preservation treatments; genetic material misuse; penalty. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assistance for coverage of fertility preservation for individuals diagnosed with cancer who need treatment for that cancer that may cause a substantial risk of sterility or iatrogenic infertility, as defined in the bill, including surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. The bill also establishes that it is a Class 3 felony for a health care provider to provide assisted conception treatment to a patient and use the health care provider's own gamete without the written consent of the patient.

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Title

State plan for medical assistance services; fertility preservation treatments, etc.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2024-02-07 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-02-06 - House - House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 1-N) (Y: 21 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2024-02-13HouseLeft in Appropriations
2024-02-07HouseSubcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N)
2024-02-06HouseAssigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
2024-02-06HouseReferred to Committee on Appropriations
2024-02-06HouseCommittee substitute printed 24106964D-H1
2024-02-06HouseReported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
2024-02-01HouseSubcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2024-02-01HouseSubcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
2024-01-17HouseAssigned sub: Social Services
2024-01-05HouseReferred to Committee on Health and Human Services
2024-01-05HousePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102951D

Same As/Similar To

SB333 (Similar To) 2024-02-08 - Continued to 2025 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)

Subjects


Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
18267.5:01(n/a)See Bill Text
3213(n/a)See Bill Text
321325(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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