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- HB 1630 Nursing facility or extended care services; extends sunset provision therefor.
- HB 1633 Mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services providers; retaliation prohibited.
- HB 1682 Health professions, Department of; information to complainants and disciplinary proceedings.
- HB 1687 Criminal history record check, etc.; exempts birth parents revoking voluntary entrustment agreement.
- HB 1688 Parental placement adoptions; consent revocation period.
- HB 1690 Worksite health promotion grants program; repeals program.
- HB 1691 Medical care facilities certificate of public need; transition to elimination thereof.
- HB 1692 Home Energy Assistance Program; reduces frequency of required reports.
- HB 1743 Lyme disease; adds to list of diseases required to be reported to Department of Health.
- HB 1768 Stem cell research; authorizes research involving derivation & use of human embryonic cells, etc.
- HB 1839 Child Care Provider Registry; created.
- HB 1873 Doctors of medicine, osteopathy, and podiatry; expungement of disciplinary report if without merit.
- HB 1883 Abortion clinics; regulations and licensure.
- HB 1897 Adoption; exchange of medical and psychological information.
- HB 1904 Outpatient treatment orders; changes first criterion to include failure to properly take medication.
- HB 1905 Adoption; changes requirement that social worker meet with birth parents and prospective parents.
- HB 1911 Parental placement adoption; legal counsel may appear on behalf of birth parents or adoptive parent.
- HB 1912 Parental placement adoption; exchange of identifying information.
- HB 1914 Human papillomavirus vaccine; added as required vaccination.
- HB 1938 Physicians; persons without degree knowingly representing themselves as such.
- HB 1944 Medical practitioners; requires criminal history background checks therefor.
- HB 1949 Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund; indemnification claim time.
- HB 1950 Engineers, licensed professional; Board of Health, et al., to accept private site evaluations, etc.
- HB 1951 Traditional onsite sewage system; definition.
- HB 1954 Pharmacy benefits managers; regulation thereof.
- HB 1963 Physician assistant, licensed; authorized to prescribe Schedule II through VI controlled substances.
- HB 1965 Hospice facilities; regulations shall include minimum standards for design and construction.
- HB 1985 Adoption laws; technical changes.
- HB 1992 Nursing home beds; authorizes issuance of certificates of public need for relocation thereof.
- HB 2032 Aging, Department for; expands long-term care services.
- HB 2033 Health and Human Resources, Secretary of; clarifies powers to implement long-term care policy.
- HB 2035 Human papillomavirus vaccine; optional for female students before entering the sixth grade.
- HB 2036 Admission hearings, involuntary; adds providers to list by which an examiner may be employed.
- HB 2037 Practitioners; may authorize certain personnel to administer drugs and devices.
- HB 2038 Medical assistance plan; DMAS to contract with DMHMRSAS for mental health services.
- HB 2044 Detention orders, temporary; removes certain requirements.
- HB 2045 Physician, licensed; authority to send laboratory results directly to patient.
- HB 2046 Adoption laws; administrative changes.
- HB 2087 Physical therapists; allows patients to seek treatment therefrom.
- HB 2102 Wells, private; prohibits construction thereof within 50 feet of certain property line.
- HB 2123 Fertility treatments; disclosure required of ova donors.
- HB 2155 Certificate of public need; eliminates regional health planning agencies therefrom.
- HB 2157 Medicine, Board of; disciplinary procedure.
- HB 2158 Adult Fatality Review Team; created, report.
- HB 2161 Emergency medical care system; adds provisions for additional performance improvement measures.
- HB 2178 Schedule III controlled substances; adds embutramide to list thereof.
- HB 2210 Medical examiner fee; county or city shall be responsible therefor.
- HB 2211 Emergency Medical Services Registry and Statewide Trauma Registry; created.
- HB 2212 Health regulatory boards; summary restriction of licenses.
- HB 2221 Birth control; definition thereof.
- HB 2263 Hospital or health center commissions; membership.
- HB 2269 Statewide Independent Living Council and Statewide Independent Living Fund; report names of donors.
- HB 2274 Health care facilities; three year plan for repeal of certificate of public need program.
- HB 2276 Certificate of public need; establishes a two part review for contested /uncontested applications.
- HB 2277 Certificates of public need; eliminates regional health planning agencies therefrom.
- HB 2290 Nursing Facility Quality Improvement Program; Director of DMAS to establish program thereof.
- HB 2299 FAMIS Program; eliminates requirement that DMAS provide quarterly reports thereon.
- HB 2319 Abraham's Law.; parents' right to make medical decisions.
- HB 2363 Equine dental technicians; required to register with Board of Medicine.
- HB 2366 Water systems; Board of Health to implement chronically noncompliant systems.
- HB 2367 Health care data reporting; repeals sunset provisions.
- HB 2377 Dentistry licensure; removes exam requirement.
- HB 2378 Health Commissioner; duties thereof.
- HB 2393 Medical Examiner's reports; confidential except when death of prisoner committed in local facility.
- HB 2474 Involuntary commitment; county police department to provide transportation.
- HB 2504 Criminal history & central registry check; est. mandatory background check for foster, etc. parents.
- HB 2520 Health records privacy; creates exceptions to disclose records to law-enforcement officers.
- HB 2523 Child Fatality Review Team; Chief Medical Examiner to obtain/review presentence reports.
- HB 2546 Certificate of public need; Commissioner's approval of change may increase capital expenditure.
- HB 2567 Human research review committees; publication of results.
- HB 2572 Autism; includes if medically diagnosed under definition of 'functional and central nervous system'.
- HB 2583 Surgical complications; requires physicians to report from elective outpatient procedures.
- HB 2607 Nursing homes; requires Board of Health to establish staffing standards therein.
- HB 2612 TANF; eligibility for benefits if convicted of drug-related felonies.
- HB 2636 Geriatric mental health care services; DMHMRSAS to develop pilot program therefor.
- HB 2649 Pharmacy, Board of; grounds for discipline.
- HB 2651 State employees; removes reference to Milliman & Robertson's guidelines from Code.
- HB 2678 Opiate addiction treatment; centers to refrain from providing services on Sunday, exception.
- HB 2684 Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA); replaces current provisions in the code with this act.
- HB 2691 Environmental Health Education and Training Fund; created.
- HB 2692 Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund; limitations.
- HB 2709 Cemetery operators and funeral establishments; prohibited acts.
- HB 2717 Paternity; State Registrar of vital records to provide certified copies of sworn statements thereof.
- HB 2721 Criminal history background checks; providers licensed by DMHMRSAS.
- HB 2722 Burial expenses; increase disregard from countable resources when calculating Medicaid eligibility.
- HB 2730 Hospital regulations; provision allowing patients to receive visits from whom they desire.
- HB 2732 Brain and spinal cord injury registry; specifies conditions thereof.
- HB 2815 Medical products and services; State to purchase lowest cost appropriate.
- HB 2842 Pharmacist; requirement that sell and dispense drugs.
- HB 2843 Physician, licensed; authority to send laboratory results directly to patient.
- HB 2844 Salvinorin A; included as a Schedule I hallucinogenic.
- HB 2857 Stem cell research; authorizes research involving derivation & use of human embryonic cells, etc.
- HB 2937 Certain aliens; eligibility of for state and local public benefits.
- HB 2948 State employees; health insurance plan to provide coverage for radiation therapy.
- HB 2955 Temporary detention orders; licensed physician to complete in-person evaluation.
- HB 2962 Life-sharing communities; defines and establishes criteria for licensing and inspection thereof.
- HB 2969 Medical students; prohibition of unauthorized pelvic exams.
- HB 2987 Tobacco products; use thereof around foster care children .
- HB 2994 Dental hygienists; authority to administer topical oral fluorides.
- HB 3043 Health Commissioner; required to designate licensed physician to oversee minority health efforts.
- HB 3061 Health care practitioner; authority to send laboratory test results directly to patient.
- HB 3080 Medical examiner; to make an in-person investigation on scene or at morgue into cause of death.
- HB 3105 Child day centers, licensed; approved credentials for program directors.
- HB 3134 Onsite sewage systems; Board of Health to establish program for operation and maintenance thereof.
- HB 3138 Department of Medical Assistance Services; recovery of third party liability payments.
- HB 3156 Intensity based modulated radiation therapy; state plan to include provision for payment thereof.
- HB 3167 Lead poisoning prevention; physicians to make available to parents information on dangers thereof.
- HB 3183 Pregnant Women Support Fund; created.
- HB 3188 Medicaid; DMAS to include a provision for electronic reimbursement for health care services.
- HB 3207 Assisted living facilities; resident shall not be removed by Board of Social Services.
- HJ 595 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DMAS to consider disease mgmt. to reduce finan./clin. burden.
- SB 738 Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act; certain judges, etc. authorized to perform hearings.
- SB 740 Nursing facility services; extends sunset provision for certain certific. of public need.
- SB 790 Caregivers Grant Program; modifies definition of eligible caregivers.
- SB 835 TANF; eligibility for benefits if convicted of drug-related felonies.
- SB 856 Criminal history background checks; providers licensed by DMHMRSAS.
- SB 865 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); time limit on receipt thereof.
- SB 888 Family day homes; insurance notice requirements.
- SB 890 Involuntary mental health commitment; emergency custody order to include transportation.
- SB 918 Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA); replaces current provisions in the code with this act.
- SB 944 Child support orders; provision of health care coverage.
- SB 985 Administrative support remedies; availability to individuals not receiving public assistance.
- SB 995 Medicaid eligibility; young adults transitioning from foster care.
- SB 998 Water systems; Board of Health to implement chronically noncompliant systems.
- SB 1024 Health and Human Resources, Secretary of; clarifies powers to implement long-term care policy.
- SB 1041 Adoption laws; administrative changes.
- SB 1088 Pregnant Women Support Fund; created.
- SB 1112 Health care data reporting; repeals sunset provisions.
- SB 1133 Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW) program; increase of requirements.
- SB 1146 Neighborhood Assistance Act; eligibility requirements.
- SB 1186 Community services board members; terms of office.
- SB 1195 Criminal history record information; disseminated to DMAS for screening individuals.
- SB 1207 Criminal history record information; agencies may obtain data on providers of services to adults.
- SB 1208 Background checks; requirement for employees, etc. that work for children's residential facilities.
- SB 1225 Health Commissioner; required to designate licensed physician to coordinate women's health efforts.
- SB 1230 Human papillomavirus vaccine; optional for female students before entering the sixth grade.
- SB 1240 Health Commissioner; duties thereof.
- SB 1270 Onsite sewage disposal system; certification of certain workers.
- SB 1305 Physical therapists; allows patients to seek treatment therefrom.
- SB 1325 Medical assistance services; state plan to include provision for medically needy aged & disabled.
- SB 1332 Community policy and management teams; adds children requiring mental health services.
- SB 1341 Health care practitioner; authority to send laboratory test results directly to patients.
- SB 1391 Pharmacy, Board of; membership.