Virginia Senate Bill 877 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-01-24 - Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Continuing education for prescribers; substance abuse, addiction, and related pain management and prescribing practices. Requires the Board of Dentistry, Board of Medicine, and Board of Optometry to require continuing education on the topics of substance abuse, addiction, and related pain management and prescribing practices for licensed practitioners who are authorized to prescribe controlled substances. The bill also requires the relevant Boards to seek to provide free online courses to fulfill this requirement.

Practitioners, licensed; continuing education required for those prescribing controlled substances.

Sen. Phillip Puckett [D]

2013-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-24	Senate	Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2013-01-09	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2013-01-04	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2013-01-04	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101353D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2709	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	2912.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3219	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+SB877
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB877+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+S04V0052+SB0877