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2002 SESSION

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HB 1318 Volunteer services by certain providers of health care.

Introduced by: Jackie T. Stump | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Volunteer services by certain providers of health care. Exempts from the Virginia licensure or certification requirements of the Board for Opticians and the Boards of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine certain out-of-state practitioners who (i) do not regularly practice in Virginia, (ii) hold current valid licenses or certificates to practice in another state, territory, district or possession of the United States, (iii) volunteer to provide free health care to an underserved area of this Commonwealth under the auspices of a publicly supported all-volunteer, nonprofit organization with no paid employees that sponsors the provision of health care to populations of underserved people throughout the world, (iv) file copies of the licenses or certificates issued in such other jurisdiction with the appropriate board, (v) notify the appropriate board, within 15 days prior to the voluntary provision of services of the dates and location of such services, and (vi) acknowledge in writing that such licensure exemption shall only be valid during the limited period that such free health care is made available on the dates and at the location filed with the various boards. Enactment clauses require emergency regulations and authorize the various boards to require the sponsoring organization to register and pay a fee prior to delivering services in Virginia.


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