VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2007 SESSION

• history | hilite | pdf | print version

077635412
HOUSE BILL NO. 2045 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions on January 16, 2007) (Patron Prior to Substitute --Delegate McQuigg) A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 24 of Title 54.1 a section numbered 54.1-2409.4, relating to authority to receive laboratory test results directly.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in of Chapter 24 of Title 54.1 a section numbered 54.1-2409.4 as follows:

§ 54.1-2409.4. Authority to receive laboratory results directly.

Any doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, podiatry, dentistry, optometry, or any licensed nurse practitioner as authorized pursuant to his practice protocol or licensed physicians assistant acting under the supervision of a licensed physician who orders a laboratory test of any person may request, in writing, that a copy of the report of the results of the test be provided by the laboratory conducting the test directly to the subject of the test, at the same time that the results are provided to the physician ordering the test. The subject of the test shall then be considered authorized to receive the report for the purposes of the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments.