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2003 SESSION
HB 1706 Board of Medicine's guidelines; ethical practice performance/surgery.
Introduced by: Harry R. Purkey | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Board of Medicine's guidelines for ethical practice in the performance of surgery and other invasive procedures by interns and residents. Broadens the Board of Medicine's responsibility for developing guidelines for ethical practice of physicians practicing in emergency rooms, and surgeons, interns and residents practicing in hospitals. This provision adds the Medical Society of Virginia and the Virginia Hospital and Health Care Association to Virginia's medical schools as cooperating parties in the development of these guidelines. The enhanced guidelines address: (i) obtaining informed consent from patients or the next of kin or the legally authorized representative, when the patient is incapable of making an informed decision after the consenting party has been informed as to which physicians, residents, or interns will perform the surgery or other invasive procedure; (ii) the presence of an attending physician during the surgery except in an emergency or other unavoidable situation; (iii) policies to avoid situations in which one person represents that he will perform a surgery or other invasive procedure and then fails to do so; and (iv) policies addressing informed consent and the ethics of appropriate care of patients in the emergency room. Such policies must take into consideration the nonbinding ban developed by the American Medical Association in 2000 on using newly dead patients as training subjects without the consent of the next of kin or other legal representative.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/03 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/03/03 034094896 pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/03 House: Committee substitute printed 033891896-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/03 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1706ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/26/03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/08/03 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/03/03 034094896
- 01/08/03 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/13/03 House: Assigned to H. W. I. sub-committee: 1
- 01/30/03 House: Reported from H. W. I. w/substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/03 House: Committee substitute printed 033891896-H1
- 01/31/03 House: Read first time
- 02/01/03 House: Read second time
- 02/01/03 House: Committee substitute agreed to 033891896-H1
- 02/01/03 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute 033891896-H1
- 02/03/03 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/03 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/03 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/04/03 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/03 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/13/03 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/03 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/03 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/03 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/03 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/03 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/03 House: Enrolled
- 02/21/03 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/21/03 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1706ER)
- 02/23/03 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/16/03 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 482 (effective 7/1/03)
- 03/26/03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482)