Virginia Senate Bill 617 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2022-01-27 - Incorporated by Education and Health
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Commissioner of Health and local health director qualifications; local variances. Requires the Commissioner of Health to possess a Doctor of Public Health degree, a Master of Public Health degree, or a doctoral degree in the area of public health in addition to the current requirement that the Commissioner of Health be a physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth with certification from the American Board of Preventive Medicine or a recognized board in a primary care specialty as approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties. The bill allows local health directors to possess a Doctor of Public Health degree, a Master of Public Health degree, or a doctoral degree in the area of public health as an alternative to the current requirement that local health directors be physicians licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth. Additionally, the bill allows the Commissioner to grant a variance to a state law or regulation of the Board when the Commissioner determines that, upon review of an application from a county, city, or town, (i) the applicant for such variance has demonstrated that the implementation of a regulation would impose a substantial financial or programmatic hardship and (ii) the variance would not adversely affect the safety and well-being of residents of the county, city, or town or the Commonwealth.

Health, Commissioner of, and local health director; qualifications, local variances.

Sen. Mamie Locke [D]

2022-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-01-27	Senate	Incorporated by Education and Health
2022-01-14	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health
2022-01-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2022-01-12	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 22103430D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	17	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	30	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	34	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB617
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB617+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB617F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S04V0067+SB0617