Virginia House Bill 350 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 12 2016 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-07 - Continued to 2017 in Finance
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Certificate of public need. Makes changes to the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program. The bill removes various behavioral health facilities from the list of medical care facilities and projects subject to the requirement of a certificate of public need and makes various changes to procedures governing the certificate of public need process, including (i) defining "charity care" for purposes of the certificate of public need program; (ii) establishing an expedited 45-day review process for applicants for projects determined by the Department of Health (the Department) to be uncontested and to present minimal health planning impacts and for which the applicant agrees to comply with quality assurance requirements established by the Board of Health (the Board) and consents to provide charity care in an amount specified by the Board; (iii) establishing an expedited 120-day review process for applicants for projects identified by the Department to be uncontested and to present limited health planning impacts that require an intermediate level of scrutiny and for which the applicant agrees to comply with quality assurance requirements established by the Board and consents to provide charity care in an amount specified by the Board; (iv) clarifies the content of a completed application for a certificate; (v) eliminates the requirement for a public hearing on applicants for certificates; (vi) reduces the timeline from 80 calendar days to four days for a person to be made party to the case for good cause following completion of the review and submission of recommendations related to an application; (vii) requires the Department to establish a website to make information about the certificate of public need program, including information about letters of intent received by the Department, available to the public; and (viii) establishes a permit process for projects that are no longer subject to the requirement for a certificate of public need, which includes provisions for charity care requirements and quality assurance. The bill also (a) directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to review requirements governing imposition and satisfaction of charity care requirements for certificates of public need, including provisions for defining charity care and calculating the amount and value of charity care required and provided, develop recommendations for standardizing and enforcing such requirements, and report his recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2016, and (b) requires the Department to work cooperatively with Virginia Health Information to develop a process for the collection of utilization data for recipients of certificates of public need describing specific types of equipment utilized.

Certificate of public need; changes to Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program.

Del. Kathy Byron [R]	Del. John O'Bannon [R]	Del. Christopher Peace [R]	Del. Richard Bell [R]
Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Dave LaRock [R]

2016-03-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-03-03 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-15 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 4-N 1-A) (Y: 96 N: 5 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2016-02-04 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 1-N) (Y: 23 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-27 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 1-N) (Y: 5 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-07	Senate	Continued to 2017 in Finance
2016-03-07	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2016-03-07	Senate	Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
2016-03-07	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2016-03-07	Senate	Floor substitute printed 16106109D-S2 (Newman)
2016-03-07	Senate	Committee substitute rejected 16106036D-S1
2016-03-07	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2016-03-07	Senate	Read third time
2016-03-04	Senate	Passed by for the day
2016-03-04	Senate	Read third time
2016-03-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2016-03-03	Senate	Committee substitute printed 16106036D-S1
2016-03-03	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
2016-02-16	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2016-02-16	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2016-02-15	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 4-N 1-A)
2016-02-15	House	Read third time and passed House (94-Y 4-N 1-A)
2016-02-15	House	Passed by temporarily
2016-02-12	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB350H1
2016-02-12	House	Committee substitute agreed to 16105312D-H1
2016-02-12	House	Read second time
2016-02-12	House	Passed by temporarily
2016-02-11	House	Passed by for the day
2016-02-08	House	Passed by until Thursday, February 11, 2016
2016-02-05	House	Read first time
2016-02-04	House	Substitute bill reprinted 16105312D-H1
2016-02-04	House	Committee substitute printed 16105312D-H1
2016-02-04	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
2016-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 1-N)
2016-01-14	House	Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
2016-01-05	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2016-01-05	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101162D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	4006	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.14	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.23	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.24	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB350
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB350+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB350H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB350S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB350S2+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H1203V0005+HB0350
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H12V0076+HB0350
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+HV0536+HB0350
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S04V0226+HB0350
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0869HB0350+HB0350