| VA | HB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Health; hospital regulations; patient drug testing. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require hospitals to test patients who are presenting with overdose symptoms for fentanyl and to test for fentanyl, marijuana, amphe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers. The bill establishes the scope of services offered by such centers and requirements for operation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB239 | Intro
Sine Die | Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease; established; report. Establishes the Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease to advise the State Health Commissioner on the efforts to improve awareness of sickle cell disease and the needs of individuals with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB481 | Intro
Sine Die | First responders; proof of immunization; exemption. Provides that first responders shall not be required to show proof of immunization to attend trainings at medical care facilities, regardless of whether the administration of immunizing agents confl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB278 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 payme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Home-produced or small farm-produced food products. Allows the sale of food products made from any fruit, grain, herbs, honey, meat, milk, mushrooms, nuts, poultry, seafood, or vegetables by a farm employing 10 or fewer people or by a private home, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB513 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; religious exception. Exempts a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects to administration of a vaccine on religious grounds from mandatory immunization requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB594 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services; certified community health workers; work group. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment for services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; born alive infant; treatment and care; penalty. Requires every health care provider licensed by the Board of Medicine who attempts to terminate a pregnancy to (i) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB622 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services; violence prevention services benefit; work group. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB982 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services; adult hearing screenings; audiological examinations; hearing aids. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1188 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need program; phased elimination. Creates a three-phase process to eliminate the certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with elimination of the requirement for a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB970 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1291 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Workforce Innovation Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Health Workforce Innovation Fund to be administered by the Board of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority. The Board shall use the Fund to provide grants t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; purpose; Board of Directors; powers and duties. Adds managing primary care graduate medical education programs and managing the Health Workforce Innovation Fund to the duties of the Virginia Health Wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion prohibited; exception; life of the mother; penalty. Provides that if any person administer to, or cause to be taken by a woman, any drug or other thing, or use means, with intent to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; use of public funds prohibited. Provides that no agency of the Commonwealth shall enter into any contract with or make any grant of public funds, as defined in the bill, to any entity or any affiliate of any entity that provides abortion se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
VOTE: Engrossment (1-Y 95-N 2-A) |
| VA | SB390 | Intro
Sine Die | Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB390 | Intro
Prefile | Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonbinary sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option of "male," "female," or "nonbinary" when designating the applicant's sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB502 | Intro
Prefile | Nonbinary sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option of "male," "female," or "nonbinary" when designating the applicant's sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical Ethics Defense Act established. Establishes the right of a medical practitioner, health care institution, or health care payer not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service that violates such medical practitioner's, health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB335 | Intro
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance services; health insurance; coverage for fertility preservation treatments. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| VA | HB978 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | SB351 | Intro
Prefile | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 payme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1295 | Intro
Sine Die | Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels; water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilize point-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | SB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; hospitals licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; psychiatric beds. Excludes from the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required hospitals license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. "Electronic monitoring" is defined in the bill as video or audio monitoring or recordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Youth Health Protection Act established; civil penalty. Creates the Youth Health Protection Act, which makes it unlawful for any individual to provide gender transition procedures, defined in the bill, for minors and prohibits the use of public funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB661 | Intro
Prefile | Nursing facilities; electronic monitoring in resident rooms. Gives residents of nursing facilities the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. "Electronic monitoring" is defined in the bill as video or audio monitoring or recordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB978 | Intro
Prefile | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | SB333 | Intro
Prefile | 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 payme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB140 | Intro
Prefile | Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1295 | Intro
Prefile | Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels; water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilize point-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | SB404 | Intro
Prefile | Certificate of public need; hospitals licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; psychiatric beds. Excludes from the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required hospitals license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical assistance services; payment for essential hygiene products. Directs the State Board of Health to include a provision for payment of medical assistance for the purchase of essential hygiene products in the state plan for medical assistance se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; hospitals licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; psychiatric beds. Excludes from the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required hospitals license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB620 | Intro
Prefile | Medical assistance services; payment for essential hygiene products. Directs the State Board of Health to include a provision for payment of medical assistance for the purchase of essential hygiene products in the state plan for medical assistance se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions; facilities subject to minimum standards. Amends the administrative sanctions that may be imposed on certified nursing facilities in relation to compliance with staffing requirements. The bill di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB886 | Intro
Prefile | Certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions; facilities subject to minimum standards. Amends the administrative sanctions that may be imposed on certified nursing facilities in relation to compliance with staffing requirements. The bill di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB628 | Intro
Prefile | Certificate of public need; hospitals licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; psychiatric beds. Excludes from the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required hospitals license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention; established; report. Establishes the Advisory Council on Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention to advise the State Health Commissioner on the regulations and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB579 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; professional liability insurance. Specifies that the required minimum amount of professional liability coverage for nursing homes and certified nursing facilities is the amount per occurrence. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB579 | Intro
Prefile | Nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; professional liability insurance. Specifies that the required minimum amount of professional liability coverage for nursing homes and certified nursing facilities is the amount per occurrence. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
