Summary: Temporary detention; certified evaluators; report.Authorizes hospitals with a psychiatric emergency department to employ certain trained individuals to perform evaluations to determinewhether a person meets the criteria for temporary detention for behavioralhealth treatment. The bill defines psychiatric emergency departmentas an emergency department of a hospital licensed by the Department of Health that is physically attached to a hospital with adult andadolescent inpatient psychiatric beds and adult detoxification bedslicensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and DevelopmentalServices. The bill requires participating hospitals with psychiatricemergency departments to annually report the number of temporary detentionorder evaluations completed, the number of temporary detention orderspetitioned, the number of individuals evaluated for temporary detention who were determined to not meet the criteria for temporary detention,and the number of individuals under a temporary detention order admittedto a state facility to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Educationand Health, the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions,and the Behavioral Health Commission. The bill has an expirationdate of July 1, 2026.

Summary: Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporters; statute of limitations; penalties. Adds aggravated sexual battery of a child and attempted rape, sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, or object sexual penetration of a child to the list of offenses for which a failure to report subjects a mandatory reporter to criminal liability. The bill further requires that a prosecution for any misdemeanor violation for failing to report certain sexual acts committed against a minor be commenced within one year of the discovery of the offense. This bill was incorporated into HB 1542.

Summary: Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporters; statute of limitations; penalties. Adds aggravated sexual battery of a child and attempted rape, sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, or object sexual penetration of a child to the list of offenses for which a failure to report subjects a mandatory reporter to criminal liability. This bill incorporates HB 449.

Summary: Prescription drugs; labels; blind and disabled users. Requires pharmacies to notify each person who identifies themselves or a patient as blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that an accessible prescription label or alternate accommodation is available to the person upon request at no additional cost. The bill requires the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations implementing the provisions of the bill no later than December 31, 2024.

Summary: Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardless of where such abortion care was provided or received. The bill also specifies that grounds for refusal to issue a certificate or license to any applicant or to take disciplinary action for procuring or performing an abortion apply to such action only as it is prohibited by the laws of the Commonwealth. Under current law, such grounds for refusal or disciplinary action apply for procuring or performing a criminal abortion. This bill is identical to SB 716.

Summary: Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringes on such right. This bill is identical to SB 237.

Summary: Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal condition to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's life. The bill requires that a patient's request for a self-administered controlled substance to end his life must be given orally on two occasions and in writing, signed by the patient and one witness, and that the patient be given an express opportunity to rescind his request at any time. The bill makes it a Class 2 felony (i) to willfully and deliberately alter, forge, conceal, or destroy a patient's request, or rescission of request, for a self-administered controlled substance to end his life with the intent and effect of causing the patient's death; (ii) to coerce, intimidate, or exert undue influence on a patient to request a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending his life or to destroy the patient's rescission of such request with the intent and effect of causing the patient's death; or (iii) to coerce, intimidate, or exert undue influence on a patient to forgo a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's life. The bill also grants immunity from civil or criminal liability and professional disciplinary action to any person who complies with the provisions of the bill and allows health care providers to refuse to participate in the provision of a self-administered controlled substance to a patient for the purpose of ending the patient's life.

Summary: Board of Pharmacy; regulations related to pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy technician remote database access. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations related to pharmacy outsourcing and pharmacy technician remote database access. The bill directs the Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.

Summary: 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 utilizepoint-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtrationto remove or significantly reduce concentrations of contaminantsof concern that meet or exceed any maximum contaminant level orhealth advisory for the same contaminant adopted by the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency. The bill also establishes the Rural Water SupplyProgram and Fund to allow the Department of Health's Office of DrinkingWater to test and treat contaminated drinking water for individualson private wells and small rural public water systems.

Summary: Board of Veterinary Medicine; powers and duties;satellite offices. Permits the Board of Veterinary Medicine toregulate, inspect, and register all satellite offices where veterinarymedicine is practiced. The bill directs the Board to adopt emergencyregulations to implement the provisions of the bill.

Summary: Alternative onsite sewage systems; approval of treatment units. Requires the Department of Health to approve treatment units for alternative onsite sewage systems if they meet certain NSF/ANSI standards or certain testing requirements.

Summary: Interstate Massage Compact. AuthorizesVirginia to become a signatory to the Interstate Massage Compact.The Compact allows massage therapists who (i) possess an active, unencumberedlicense in the compact member state in which they reside; (ii) have completed at least 625 hours of massage therapy education; (iii)have passed the national licensing examination; and (iv) have no disqualifyingcriminal history to be granted a multistate license that authorizesthem to practice in all compact member states. The Compact takes effectwhen it is enacted by a seventh member state.

Summary: PA Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the The Compact permits eligible physician assistants to practice in Compact-participating states, provided that they are licensed in at least one participating state. The Compact has been passed in three states and takes effect when it is enacted by a seventh participating state or upon the effective date of the bill, whichever is later.

Summary: Out-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice; assisted living facilities. Adds assisted living facilities to the list of eligible health care employers for which a health care practitioner licensed, certified, or registered in another state or the District of Columbia may temporarily practice for one 90-day period, provided that the practitioner is contracted by or has received an offer of employment in the Commonwealth from the health care employer and certain other conditions are met.

Summary: Nurse practitioners; autonomous practice. Lowers from five years to three years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice agreement and permits qualified nurse practitioners to attest that a nurse practitioner may be qualified to practice without a practice agreement. The bill permits advanced practice registered nurses to practice without a practice agreement when a patient care team physician is no longer able to serve if such advanced practice registered nurse provides evidence that he meets the requirements to practice without a practice agreement as established by the bill. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Health Professions to collect data on the implementation of the bill and make such data publicly available on its website.

Summary: 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 the Board of Medicine and the Board of Nursing to being licensed by the Board of Nursing only.

Summary: Certified registered nurse anesthetist; eliminationof supervision requirement. Eliminates the requirement that certifiedregistered nurse anesthetists practice under the supervision of adoctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry. The bill providesthat certified registered nurse anesthetists shall practice in consultationwith a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry andin accordance with regulations jointly promulgated by the Board ofMedicine and the Board of Nursing.

Summary: Health professions; universal licensure; requirements. Requires health regulatory boards within the Department of HealthProfessions to recognize licenses or certifications issued by otherUnited States jurisdictions, as defined in the bill, as fulfillmentfor licensure or certification in the Commonwealth if certain conditionsare met. The bill also requires such health regulatory boards torecognize work experience as fulfillment for licensure or certificationin the Commonwealth if certain conditions are met. The bill doesnot apply to licensure for physicians or dentists.

Summary: Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority by adding four additional ex officio members to the Authority's Board of Directors, adding setting priorities for and managing graduate medical education programs to the duties of the Authority, specifying additional recipients of the Board's biennial report, and authorizing the Authority to partner with other agencies and institutions to obtain and manage health workforce data. The bill establishes the Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund. The bill directs the Board of Nursing to add or remove certain educational requirements for members of the nursing faculty in specified nursing education programs and establishes a licensing procedure by the Board of Psychology for a psychological practitioner, as defined by the bill. The bill directs the Board of Nursing and the Board of Psychology to adopt regulations to implement relevant provisions of the bill to be effective no later than January 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 155.

Summary: Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they reside to apply for a multistate license. After verifying eligibility, the social worker is granted a multistate license that authorizes practice in all other compact member states. The Compact takes effect when it is enacted by a seventh member state. This bill is identical to SB 239.