HB50
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Fariss |
Infant relinquishment laws; DSS to establish hotline to make information available to public. |
Summary:
Safe haven protections; hotline to provide information about infant relinquishment laws and options.
Directs the Department of Social Services to establish a toll-free, 24-hour hotline to make information about the Commonwealth's safe haven laws that provide for relinquishment of an infant, infant relinquishment locations, and support and resources available for parents available to the public and to make information about the hotline, including the toll-free number that may be used to contact the hotline, available on its website. The bill also directs the Department to undertake a campaign to increase public awareness of the Commonwealth's laws providing for relinquishment of an infant and the hotline established pursuant to the bill.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/21/2022 - Enrolled 3/21/2022 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB50ER) 3/21/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB50ER) 3/22/2022 - Signed by Speaker 3/22/2022 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
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Senate Committee Actions:
3/8/2022 - Senate requested conference committee 3/10/2022 - Conferees appointed by Senate 3/10/2022 - Senators: Favola, Locke, Cosgrove 3/11/2022 - Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) 3/21/2022 - Signed by President
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Health and Human Resources Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
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HB93
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Head |
Home care organizations; changes the license renewal requirement. |
Summary:
Department of Health; home care organizations; license renewal.
Changes the license renewal requirement for home care organizations from an annual renewal to a triennial renewal. The bill prohibits the Department of Health, upon renewal of a home care organization license, from requiring home care organizations to submit financial documents other than those required for initial licensure.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/2/2022 - Enrolled 3/2/2022 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB93ER) 3/2/2022 - Signed by Speaker 3/3/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB93ER) 3/11/2022 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/24/2022 - Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) 2/25/2022 - Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) 2/28/2022 - Read third time 2/28/2022 - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) 3/3/2022 - Signed by President
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Health and Human Resources Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
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HB191
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Hodges |
Health Workforce Development; creates position of Special Advisor to the Governor. |
Summary:
Health workforce development; Special Advisor to the Governor for Health Workforce Development; Virginia Health Workforce Development Fund.
Creates the position of Special Advisor to the Governor for Health Workforce Development (the Special Advisor) in the Office of the Governor and creates the Virginia Health Workforce Development Fund to (i) provide incentives for the removal of barriers to educating and training health workforce professionals that include increasing eligible faculty, clinical placements, and residencies; (ii) incentivize the production of health workforce credentials, degrees, and licensures based on a rigorous analysis of the need by the Office of Education and Labor Market Alignment; (iii) address regulatory barriers to entering into and staying in health professions; and (iv) provide education and training for health and health science professionals to align education and training initiatives with existing and evolving health workforce needs. The bill also requires the Special Advisor to review and evaluate the structure and organization of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority (the Authority) and make recommendations regarding the long-term administrative structure and funding of the Authority to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2022. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/12/2022 - Conference substitute printed 22107964D-H2 3/12/2022 - Conference report agreed to by House (91-Y 0-N) 3/12/2022 - VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 0-N) 3/12/2022 - Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 4/1/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB191H2)
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Senate Committee Actions:
3/8/2022 - Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) 3/10/2022 - Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) 3/10/2022 - Senate requested conference committee 3/10/2022 - Conferees appointed by Senate 3/10/2022 - Senators: Barker, Hashmi, Lewis
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Commerce, Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
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HB235
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Orrock |
Hospitals; protocols for patients receiving rehabilitation services. |
Summary:
Rehabilitation hospitals; arrangements for follow-up care.
Directs the Board of Health to convene a work group to provide recommendations regarding regulations requiring hospitals to develop protocols for connecting patients receiving rehabilitation services to necessary follow-up care. The bill requires the work group to report its recommendations to the Board of Health by October 1, 2022.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/2/2022 - Enrolled 3/2/2022 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB235ER) 3/2/2022 - Signed by Speaker 3/3/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB235ER) 3/11/2022 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/24/2022 - Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) 2/25/2022 - Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) 2/28/2022 - Read third time 2/28/2022 - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) 3/3/2022 - Signed by President
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HB360
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Fowler |
Health insurance; carrier contracts, carrier provision of certain prescription drug information. |
Summary:
Health insurance; carrier disclosure of certain information.
Requires each health insurance carrier, beginning July 1, 2025, to establish and maintain an online process that (i) links directly to e-prescribing systems and electronic health record systems that utilize the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard; (ii) can accept electronic prior authorization requests from a provider; (iii) can approve electronic prior authorization requests for which no additional information is needed by the carrier to process the prior authorization request, no clinical review is required, and that meet the carrier's criteria for approval; and (iv) otherwise meets the requirements of the relevant Code of Virginia section. The bill prohibits a carrier from (a) imposing a charge or fee on a participating health care provider for accessing the required online process required or (b) accessing, absent provider consent, provider data via the online process other than for the enrollee. The bill requires participating health care providers, beginning July 1, 2025, to ensure that any e-prescribing system or electronic health record system owned by or contracted for the provider to maintain an enrollee's health record has the ability to access the electronic prior authorization process established by a carrier and real-time cost information data for a covered prescription drug made available by a carrier. The bill provides that a provider may request a waiver of compliance for undue hardship for a period not to exceed 12 months. The bill requires any carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to provide real-time cost information data to enrollees and contracted providers for a covered prescription drug, including any cost-sharing requirement or prior authorization requirements, and to ensure that the data is accurate. The bill requires that such cost information data is available to the provider in a format that a provider can access and understand such as through the provider's e-prescribing system or electronic health record system for which the carrier or pharmacy benefits manager or its designated subcontractor has adopted that utilizes the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard from which the provider makes the request.The bill requires the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance (the Bureau) to, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, establish a work group to evaluate and make recommendations to modify the process for prior authorization for drug benefits in order to maximize efficiency and minimize delays that include a single standardized process and any recommendations for necessary statutory or regulatory changes. The bill requires the work group to include relevant stakeholders, including representatives from the Virginia Association of Health Plans, the Medical Society of Virginia, the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, the Virginia Pharmacists Association, and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, and other parties with an interest in the underlying technology. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor and the House Committee on Commerce and Energy by November 1, 2022. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Bureau to establish the work group will not become effective unless reenacted by the 2023 Session of the General Assembly. This bill is identical to SB 428.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/2/2022 - Enrolled 3/2/2022 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB360ER) 3/2/2022 - Signed by Speaker 3/3/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB360ER) 3/11/2022 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/24/2022 - Reading of amendments waived 2/24/2022 - Amendments by Senator Dunnavant agreed to 2/24/2022 - Engrossed by Senate as amended 2/24/2022 - Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) 3/3/2022 - Signed by President
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Subcommittee #3
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
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HB555
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Hayes |
Health care providers; transfer of patient records in conjunction with closure, etc. |
Summary:
Health care providers; transfer of patient recordsin conjunction with closure, sale, or relocation of practice; electronicnotice permitted.
Allows health care providers to notify patientseither electronically or by mail prior to the transfer of patientrecords in conjunction with the closure, sale, or relocation of thehealth care provider's practice. Current law requires health careproviders to provide such notice by mail.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
2/23/2022 - Enrolled 2/23/2022 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB555ER) 2/23/2022 - Signed by Speaker 2/24/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB555ER) 3/9/2022 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/17/2022 - Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) 2/18/2022 - Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) 2/21/2022 - Read third time 2/21/2022 - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) 2/23/2022 - Signed by President
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HB604
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Sickles |
Nursing, Board of; power and duty to prescribe minimum standards, etc., for educational programs. |
Summary:
Board of Nursing; education programs; oversight.
Gives the Board of Nursing the power and duty to prescribe minimum standards and approve curricula for educational programs preparing persons for registration as a medication aide and to provide periodic surveys of training programs.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
2/23/2022 - Enrolled 2/23/2022 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB604ER) 2/23/2022 - Signed by Speaker 2/24/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB604ER) 3/9/2022 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/17/2022 - Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) 2/18/2022 - Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) 2/21/2022 - Read third time 2/21/2022 - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) 2/23/2022 - Signed by President
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HB939
Emergency |
Robinson |
Public health emergency; Comm. of Health to authorize administration, etc., of necessary drugs, etc. |
Summary:
Commissioner of Health; administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices, and vaccines during public health emergency; emergency.
Allows the Commissioner of Health to authorize persons who are not authorized by law to administer or dispense drugs or devices to do so in accordance with protocols established by the Commissioner when the Board of Health has made an emergency order for the purpose of suppressing nuisances dangerous to the public health and communicable, contagious, and infectious diseases and other dangers to the public life and health for the limited purpose of administering vaccines as an approved countermeasure for such communicable, contagious, and infectious diseases. Current law limits the Commissioner's ability to make such authorizations to circumstances when the Governor has declared a disaster or a state of emergency or the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services has issued a declaration of an actual or potential bioterrorism incident or other actual or potential public health emergency. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to SB 647.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
4/27/2022 - VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) 4/27/2022 - Reenrolled 4/27/2022 - Reenrolled bill text (HB939ER2) 4/27/2022 - Signed by Speaker as reenrolled 4/27/2022 - Enacted, Chapter 774 (effective 4/27/22)
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/28/2022 - Read third time 2/28/2022 - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) 3/4/2022 - Signed by President 4/27/2022 - Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) 4/27/2022 - Signed by President as reenrolled
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HB1245
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Adams, D.M. |
Nurse practitioners; practice without a practice agreement, repeals sunset provision. |
Summary:
Nurse practitioners; practice without a practiceagreement; repeal sunset.
Repeals the sunset provision on thebill passed in 2021 that reduces from five to two the number of yearsof full-time clinical experience a nurse practitioner must have tobe eligible to practice without a written or electronic practiceagreement.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/9/2022 - VOTE: Rejected (0-Y 98-N) 3/10/2022 - House acceded to request 3/10/2022 - Conferees appointed by House 3/10/2022 - Delegates: Adams, D.M., Robinson, Head 3/12/2022 - Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455
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Senate Committee Actions:
3/8/2022 - Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) 3/10/2022 - Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) 3/10/2022 - Senate requested conference committee 3/10/2022 - Conferees appointed by Senate 3/10/2022 - Senators: Newman, Saslaw, Hashmi
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HB1305
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Williams |
Patrick County; reestablishment of a general hospital. |
Summary:
Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick County.
Authorizes the reestablishment of a general hospital in Patrick County.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/11/2022 - Enrolled 3/11/2022 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1305ER) 3/11/2022 - Signed by Speaker 3/14/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB1305ER) 3/22/2022 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
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Senate Committee Actions:
3/8/2022 - Reading of substitute waived 3/8/2022 - Committee substitute agreed to 22107152D-S1 3/8/2022 - Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1305S1 3/8/2022 - Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) 3/11/2022 - Signed by President
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Health and Human Resources Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 1-N)
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HB1345
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Fariss |
Virginia Transplant Council; increases membership. |
Summary:
Virginia Transplant Council; membership.Adds Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters to the membershipof the Virginia Transplant Council.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
2/23/2022 - Enrolled 2/23/2022 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1345ER) 2/23/2022 - Signed by Speaker 2/24/2022 - Impact statement from DPB (HB1345ER) 3/9/2022 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/17/2022 - Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) 2/18/2022 - Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) 2/21/2022 - Read third time 2/21/2022 - Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) 2/23/2022 - Signed by President
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