Bill Text: VA HB1128 | 2016 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Spouse's liability for medical care; exemption for principal residence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-03-04 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) [HB1128 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2016-HB1128-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1128 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee for Courts of Justice on January 27, 2016) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Habeeb) A BILL to amend and reenact §8.01-220.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to spouse's liability for medical care; exemption for principal residence.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §8.01-220.2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§8.01-220.2. Spousal liability for medical care.

Each spouse shall be jointly and severally liable for all emergency medical care furnished to the other spouse by a physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth or by a hospital located in the Commonwealth, including all follow-up inpatient care provided during the initial emergency admission to any such hospital, which is furnished while the spouses are living together. For the purposes of this section, emergency medical care shall mean any care the physician or other health care professional deems necessary to preserve the patient's life or health and which, if not rendered timely, can be reasonably anticipated to adversely affect the patient's recovery or imperil his life or health.

Any lien arising out of a judgment under this section against the judgment debtor's principal residence held as tenants by the entireties shall not be enforced unless the residence is refinanced or is transferred to a new owner.