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SENATE BILL NO. 703
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
on February 21, 2006)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Devolites Davis)
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 54.1-3013.1, relating to the Board of Nursing; nursing education programs to include child abuse recognition and intervention.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 54.1-3013.1 as follows:

§ 54.1-3013.1. Nursing education programs to include child abuse recognition and intervention.

In the exercise of its authority to establish minimum standards for professional nursing curricula and practical nursing curricula, the Board of Nursing, on and after July 1, 2007, shall require that approved nursing education programs provide instruction in child abuse recognition and intervention.