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2005 SESSION
Senate Education and Health
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- HB 160 Optometrists; classification of practicing in a commercial or mercantile establishment.
- HB 1570 Nosocomial infections; procedures for hospitals to release information.
- HB 1573 Student conduct; code regulations to include guidelines on gang-related activity.
- HB 1606 Nurses; endorsement of certain licensure of certification.
- HB 1607 Public health emergency; includes veterinarians in contact information.
- HB 1615 School safety audits; requirements.
- HB 1624 Insurance Plan for Seniors; created.
- HB 1685 School property; allows local school boards to sell for transportation purposes.
- HB 1687 Birth records; access by grandparents.
- HB 1716 Schools; reporting of certain offenses by school authorities.
- HB 1719 Schools, postsecondary; clarifies role of Council of Higher Education in certification thereof.
- HB 1726 Higher education institutions; SCHEV to adopt guidelines for textbook sales.
- HB 1727 Death certificates; allows attorney and funeral directors to obtain copy.
- HB 1743 Auto-injectable epinephrine; allows possession & self-administration by students in public schools.
- HB 1762 Standards of Quality; changes in provisions.
- HB 1767 Home schooling; notification of certain examinations.
- HB 1770 Home schooling; testing of students.
- HB 1778 Methadone clinics; prohibited in certain counties.
- HB 1781 Teachers; extends sunset provision for division superintendent to report shortages to school board.
- HB 1782 Teachers; extends provision for Superintendent of Public Instruction surveying shortage in schools.
- HB 1816 Student fees; annual reporting of use.
- HB 1824 Infants; screening tests required after delivery.
- HB 1854 Drugs; returns, exchanges, or re-dispensing, exceptions.
- HB 1865 Pharmacy, Board of; requires executive director to be a pharmacist.
- HB 1938 Community services boards and behavioral health authorities; funding
- HB 1939 Health professionals; unprofessional conduct.
- HB 1989 School boards; increase of salaries for members in City of Salem.
- HB 2018 Bedding and used upholstered furniture; regulations.
- HB 2036 Long-term care; to ensure coordinated, effective, and efficient services to older adults.
- HB 2038 Midwifery; licensure.
- HB 2071 Southside Virginia Higher Education Center; created.
- HB 2166 Long-term health care; Sec. of Health & Human Resources to develop public info.campaign.
- HB 2198 Sewage sludge; program established to train employees for testing thereof.
- HB 2223 Student expulsion; procedures for readmission.
- HB 2236 Patient records; protection of health data by hospitals.
- HB 2237 Practitioner Self-Referral Act; exemption.
- HB 2238 Emergency medical services personnel training, response times, etc.; civil penalties.
- HB 2242 Pharmacy interns; provisions.
- HB 2243 Medical care facilities certificate of public need; parties to the case.
- HB 2253 Emergency Medical Services Plan, statewide; new requirements, and deletion of cross references.
- HB 2266 Character education; harassment prevention required.
- HB 2284 Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan; changes in benefits.
- HB 2316 Nursing home bed projects; conditions for issuance of an amended certificate of public need.
- HB 2337 Articulation agreements; admission of community college students into four-year public institution.
- HB 2363 Health records; emphasizes right of an individual to have access thereto, exceptions.
- HB 2366 Hospitals and nursing homes; Bd. of Health must include min. standards for design and construction.
- HB 2368 Dentists and dental hygienists; licensure and continuing education.
- HB 2422 Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center; membership.
- HB 2429 Prescription Monitoring Program; includes reporting by out-of-state dispensers.
- HB 2430 Health care services; safety and quality by physicians.
- HB 2431 Practitioners; information provided to patients.
- HB 2451 Septic systems; validity of septic tank permits.
- HB 2461 Residential facilities; Board who regulates to provide name, etc. of contact person.
- HB 2514 Health care providers; elim. provisions governing disclosure of patient info. to third party payors.
- HB 2515 Medical records; charge for copies distinguished between patient request & subpoenaed records.
- HB 2516 Health records; revises certain provisions for privacy of minors.
- HB 2519 Immunization Information System (VIIS); established.
- HB 2522 Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board; increase in membership & deletion of obsolete cross ref.
- HB 2523 Ambulance services; localities authorized to charge insurers.
- HB 2524 Drug Control Act; definitions of compounding and dispense.
- HB 2526 Athletic trainers; allows administration of certain topical drugs.
- HB 2538 Nonresident pharmacies; registration.
- HB 2588 Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund; created.
- HB 2598 Funeral Directors and Embalmers, Board of; licensure.
- HB 2601 Medical assistance services; establishing more restrictive asset transfer limit.
- HB 2602 No Child Left Behind Act; Board of Education to seek waiver.
- HB 2639 Medical care facilities certificate of public need; reissuance of request for new nursing home beds.
- HB 2656 Obstetrical and pediatric care; pilot programs in certain areas.
- HB 2711 Hearing aids; practice of fitting or dealing.
- HB 2716 Controlled substances; additions and deletions to Schedule I and II list.
- HB 2790 Teachers; licensure qualifications.
- HB 2796 Suicide prevention; lead agency to be Department of Mental Health, etc., report.
- HB 2804 Health care practitioners; immunity for making voluntary report regarding conduct or compentency.
- HB 2826 Brain Injury Waiver; licensing authority.
- HB 2831 Clinical drug trials; publication of certain data.
- HB 2832 Interscholastic & intercollegiate athletic ineligibility; use of anabolic steriods.
- HB 2857 Pharmacists; allows compounding under certain conditions, requirements.
- HB 2866 Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act; created, report.
- HB 2870 Human rights committees, state & local; requires 1 appt. to each shall be a health care provider.
- HB 2879 Harassment; school bds. to establish measure to prevent, and guidelines for video monitoring.
- HB 2881 Children's group homes and residential facilities; summary suspension of licenses.
- HB 2912 Teachers; school boards to provide sick leave for those w/debilitating or life-threatening illness.
- SB 272 Optometrists; classification of practicing in a commercial or mercantile establishment.
- SB 456 Abortion; contraception not to constitute.
- SB 702 Medical assistance services; eligibility for aged and disabled individuals.
- SB 703 Health insurance credit for retired teachers.
- SB 712 Higher educational institutions; requires student be vaccinated for hepatitis B.
- SB 715 Nursing homes; guidelines for staffing.
- SB 716 Physician assistants; provisions for practicing in hospital emergency departments.
- SB 717 Character education; community service requirements.
- SB 724 Nursing homes; establishment of family councils.
- SB 730 Local Boards of Social Services; membership.
- SB 741 Substance Abuse Services Council; membership.
- SB 742 Medical assistance; employer information, report.
- SB 744 Nurse aides; nonprofit organization to provide on-site training to promote quality care.
- SB 753 Opiate addiction; standards for issuance of new licenses to providers of treatment.
- SB 757 Student Financial Security Program and Fund; created.
- SB 761 Teachers; extends sunset provision for division superintendent to report shortages to school board.
- SB 762 Teachers; extends sunset provision.
- SB 767 School boards; increase of salaries for members in City of Salem.
- SB 770 Salaries; instituted annually for members of Board of Education.
- SB 779 Standards of Quality; changes in provisions.
- SB 841 Prescription Drug Payment Assistance Program; created, report.
- SB 861 Tuberculosis; establishing library of isolates from persons with disease.
- SB 880 Compulsory school attendance; truancy and chronic tardiness.
- SB 889 Suicide prevention; lead agency to be Department of Mental Health, etc., report.
- SB 949 Teachers; licensure.
- SB 950 Economics education & financial literacy; requirement in public schools, etc.
- SB 952 Character education; humane treatment of animals requirement.
- SB 953 Pharmaceutical assistance; maximizing benefits of Medicare discount card program for seniors.
- SB 969 Entrepreneurship Education Program; created.
- SB 981 Schools or day-care centers; noncustodial parent as an emergency contact.
- SB 1006 Children in foster care; public schools shall provide free education.
- SB 1017 Detention of a mentally incapacitated person; judicial authorization.
- SB 1023 Persons with mental illness, mental retardation or substance abuse; recodification of Title 37.1.
- SB 1024 Hospitals and nursing homes; Bd. of Health must include minimum standards for design, etc.
- SB 1034 Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund; created.
- SB 1045 Diplomas; guidelines for awarding.
- SB 1064 Health records; emphasizes right of an individual to have access thereto, exceptions.
- SB 1066 Higher educational institutions; reduction in undergraduate tuition and fees.
- SB 1097 Medical Savings Account Plan; amd. prov. that permit eligible indiv. to establ. health savings acct.
- SB 1098 Prescription Monitoring Program; includes reporting by out-of-state dispensers.
- SB 1109 Health records; revises certain provisions for privacy of minors.
- SB 1110 Health care providers; elim. provisions governing disclosure of patient info. to third party payors.
- SB 1127 Dentists and dental hygienists; licensure.
- SB 1130 Elementary schools; physical education instruction requirement.
- SB 1132 Immunization Information System (VIIS); established.
- SB 1136 No Child Left Behind Act; Board of Education to seek waiver.
- SB 1145 Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board; increase in membership.
- SB 1146 Emergency Medical Services Plan, statewide; new requirements, and deletion of cross references.
- SB 1184 Newborn screening.
- SB 1185 Assisted living facilities; requires administrators to be licensed.
- SB 1187 Assisted living facilities; requires administrators to be licensed.
- SB 1191 Indoor Clean Air Act; smoking restrictions, civil penalty.
- SB 1194 Christopher Reeve Stem Cell Research Fund; created.
- SB 1203 Medical records; charge for copies distinguished between patient request & subpoenaed records.
- SB 1214 Early childhood education; availability in all school divisions for four- and five-year olds.
- SB 1237 Brain Injury Waiver; licensing authority.
- SB 1246 Prescription drugs; Governor to establish mechanism for purchasing from Canada.
- SB 1247 Medical assistance services; recovery of overpayment.
- SB 1251 Higher education; hiring and admission of military personnel.
- SB 1257 Tuition; restricted annual increase for resident students.
- SB 1259 Midwifery; licensure.
- SB 1262 Learning Technology, Office of; created within Council of Higher Education.
- SB 1278 Clinical drug trials; publication of certain data.
- SB 1285 Teachers; salary to equal or surpass nat'l. average for those in public schools, annual evaluation.
- SB 1288 War Orphans Education Act; created.
- SB 1293 Southside Virginia Higher Education Center.
- SB 1296 Shaken baby syndrome; requires nurse midwives and hospital to give information to maternity patient.
- SB 1304 Group homes or residential facilities for children; regulations to ensure education, etc.
- SB 1310 William and Mary, College of; extending term of Rector, change in number of members of board.
- SB 1326 Wholesale drug distributors; provisions.
- SB 1327 Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act; created, report.
- SB 1333 Children's group homes and residential facilities; summary suspension of licenses.
- SB 1336 Vaccines; prohibits price gouging of those in high demand.
- SB 1344 Wheelchair interfacility transport services and vehicles; exemption from regulation.