HB52
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Taylor |
Alkaline hydrolysis; establishes registration requirement, regulations. |
Summary:
Alkaline hydrolysis; registration; regulations.
Establishes a registration requirement for alkaline hydrolysis providers. The bill defines alkaline hydrolysis and adds alkaline hydrolysis and hydrolyzed remains to statutes dealing with cremation and cremains. The bill grants the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers the power to regulate and inspect alkaline hydrolysis providers and their operations. The bill requires the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to consult with the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Health, and representatives of wastewater treatment facilities and funeral service associations to promulgate regulations related to alkaline hydrolysis.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
2/6/2024 - Engrossed by House as amended HB52E 2/6/2024 - Printed as engrossed 24100900D-E 2/7/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB52E) 2/7/2024 - Read third time and passed House (53-Y 47-N) 2/7/2024 - VOTE: Passage (53-Y 47-N)
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/8/2024 - Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology 2/14/2024 - Reported from General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) 2/16/2024 - Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) 2/19/2024 - Read third time 2/19/2024 - Defeated by Senate (6-Y 32-N)
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Health
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
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HB314
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Hope |
State hospitals; discharge planning. |
Summary:
State hospitals; discharge planning; report.
Provides that (i) when an individual is to be discharged from Central State Hospital, Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute, or Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute in 30 days or less after admission, the appropriate community services board shall implement the discharge plan developed by the state facility and (ii) when an individual is to be discharged from any other state facility in 30 days or less after admission, or from a state hospital more than 30 days after admission, the appropriate community services board or behavioral health authority shall be responsible for the individual's discharge planning. Under current law, community services boards and behavioral health authorities provide discharge planning for all individuals discharged from state hospitals, regardless of the duration of their stay. The bill requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to make certain annual reports by August 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly and to provide the General Assembly with a one-time evaluation of the impacts of the changes to discharge planning implemented by the bill by November 1, 2025. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 179.Â
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/25/2024 - Enrolled 3/25/2024 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB314ER) 3/26/2024 - Signed by Speaker 3/27/2024 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 4/3/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB314ER)
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/29/2024 - Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) 3/4/2024 - Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) 3/5/2024 - Read third time 3/5/2024 - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) 3/25/2024 - Signed by President
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Related Bills:
SB179 (Favola) - State hospitals; discharge planning.
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Health
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
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HB354
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Hope |
Public pools; Board of Health to adopt regulations. |
Summary:
Public pools; regulations.
Directs the Boardof Health to adopt regulations governing swimming pools and otherwater recreational facilities operated for public use, includingswimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated inconjunction with a tourist facility or health spa.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
2/29/2024 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB354ER) 2/29/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB354ER) 2/29/2024 - Signed by Speaker 3/11/2024 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 4/17/2024 - House sustained Governor's veto
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/22/2024 - Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 6-N 1-A) 2/23/2024 - Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) 2/26/2024 - Read third time 2/26/2024 - Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) 3/3/2024 - Signed by President
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Health
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Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
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HB435
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Arnold |
Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids, petition to the general district court. |
Summary:
Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodilyfluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth.
Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealthin the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petitionfor an order requiring testing and disclosure of test results onbehalf of a law-enforcement officer when a law-enforcement officer is directly exposed to the bodily fluid of a person in a manner thatmay, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virusor hepatitis B or C viruses and such person refuses to submit to testing. Current law limits who may file a petition to the exposed law-enforcement officer or his employer.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/7/2024 - Enrolled 3/7/2024 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB435ER) 3/7/2024 - Signed by Speaker 3/11/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB435ER) 3/11/2024 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/28/2024 - Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) 3/1/2024 - Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) 3/4/2024 - Read third time 3/4/2024 - Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) 3/8/2024 - Signed by President
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Criminal
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Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
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HB649
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Coyner |
Vital records; birth certificates, adoption, members of the military. |
Summary:
Vital records; birth certificates; adoption; members of the military.
Directs the State Registrar to expedite issuance of a new birth certificate upon receipt of certain documentation for a person born in the Commonwealth if at least one adoptive parent is an active duty or retired member of the military or military reserves. The bill directs the court decreeing the adoption to deliver such records to the State Registrar no later than five business days from such decree. This bill is identical to SB 325.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
2/22/2024 - Enrolled 2/22/2024 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB649ER) 2/22/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB649ER) 2/22/2024 - Signed by Speaker 3/1/2024 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/15/2024 - Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) 2/16/2024 - Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) 2/19/2024 - Read third time 2/19/2024 - Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) 2/25/2024 - Signed by President
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Related Bills:
SB325 (Roem) - Vital records; birth certificates, adoption, members of the military.
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Health
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
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HB689
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Seibold |
SUDP; Office of Chief Medical Examiner to publish information on its website. |
Summary:
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 bill. The bill directs the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to publish information on SUDEP and a SUDEP death investigation form on its website. Additionally, the bill requires the Chief Medical Examiner and local medical examiners to complete training in the investigation of SUDEP on a triennial basis. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
2/1/2024 - Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) 2/1/2024 - Referred to Committee on Appropriations 2/2/2024 - Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) 2/7/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB689H1) 2/13/2024 - Left in Appropriations
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Related Bills:
SB390 (Pekarsky) - SUDP; Office of Chief Medical Examiner to publish information on its website.
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Health and Human Resources Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
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