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2008 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health

Chairman: R. Edward Houck

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 7, 2008
Time and Place: Thursday, 8:30 AM, Senate Room B, General Assembly Building

S.B. 48 School teachers; school boards to ensure that all are provided planning time.

Patron: Whipple

Planning time for school teachers. Requires school boards to ensure that all school teachers are provided at least three hours a week of unencumbered, self-directed planning time.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-291.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to planning time for teachers.

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S.B. 396 Health care; Department of Health to post on its website list of average costs.

Patron: Edwards

Health care costs; estimates and average costs.  Requires the Department of Health to post on its website a list of the average costs for 25 common outpatient procedures performed at each licensed hospital. Also the measure requires hospitals to provide upon request a written estimate of the total costs reasonably expected to be billed to a patient for non-emergency care.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-23, 32.1-276.6, and 32.1-276.9 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-135.3 and by adding in Chapter 7.2 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-276.12, relating to costs for health care.

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S.B. 437 Abortion; licensure of clinics.

Patron: Vogel

Licensure of abortion clinics. Requires all abortion clinics, defined as any facility other than a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center in which 25 or more first trimester abortions are performed in any 12-month period, to be licensed and to comply with the requirements currently in place for ambulatory surgery centers except the requirement for a certificate of public need. The Board of Health may also waive certain structural requirements.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-102.1, 32.1-123, 32.1-125, 32.1-125.1, 32.1-126, 32.1-127, 32.1-129, 32.1-130, 32.1-133 and 32.1-135 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulations and licensure of abortion clinics; civil penalties.

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S.B. 442 Higher educational institutions; operational authority.

Patron: Houck

Public institutions of higher education; operational authority.  Provides operational authority for public institutions of higher education in the areas of information technology, procurement, and capital outlay pursuant to the Restructuring Act of 2005.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 23-38.90 of the Code of Virginia, relating to operational authority for public institutions of higher education in information technology, procurement, and capital projects excluding leases of real property.

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S.B. 537 School boards, local; required to develop policies for changing students grades.

Patron: Barker

Local school boards; grade-changing policies.  Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies specifying the criteria and procedures for changing any grade given to a student.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-79.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to policies for changing student grades.

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S.B. 542 Schools, public; abortion services prohibited.

Patron: Obenshain

Public schools; abortion services prohibited.  Prohibits school divisions and their employees from providing abortion services. The bill also prohibits any provider of abortion services from providing information or course materials related to human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases. Abortion services means (i) performing, inducing, or assisting in the performance or inducing of an abortion that is not necessary to save the life of the mother; (ii) encouraging a patient to have an abortion or referring a patient for an abortion that is not necessary to save the life of the mother; or (iii) developing or dispensing drugs, chemicals, or devices intended to be used to induce an abortion that is not necessary to save the life of the mother.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 22.1 a section numbered 22.1-7.1, relating to abortion services in public schools.

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S.B. 693 Physician assistants; agreement with supervising physician detailing activities delegated thereto.

Patron: Edwards

Physician assistants; supervision.  Requires a written practice supervision agreement between the supervising physician and the assistant, detailing activities delegated to the assistant. Also allows treatment to be included in the plan, including the establishment of a final diagnosis or treatment plan for the patient, as long as it is set forth in the written practice supervision agreement.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2952 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the supervision physician assistants.

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S.B. 721 Foods in public schools; Board & Department of Health update regulations for nutrition.

Patron: Barker

Competitive foods in public schools; report.  Requires the Board, in cooperation with the Department of Health, to promulgate and periodically update regulations setting nutritional guidelines for all competitive foods sold during the school day. Also requires (i) the Board to adopt the Governor's Nutrition and Physical Activity Scorecard's nutritional guidelines as the statewide standard for competitive foods; (ii) the Board to report to the General Assembly on the final regulations by December 1, 2010; and (iii) local school boards to report to the Department of Education on their plan to implement the final regulations by 30 days prior to the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-207.4, relating to nutritional guidelines for competitive foods in public schools.

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S.B. 732 Class 1 misdemeanors; local law-enforcement shall report to school superintendent, etc.

Patron: Smith

Reports of Class 1 misdemeanors to school authorities.  Provides that local law-enforcement authorities shall report to the school division superintendent and to the principal or his designee all offenses, wherever committed, by students enrolled in the school if such offense would be a Class 1 misdemeanor if committed by an adult.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-279.3:1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reports of Class 1 misdemeanors to school authorities.

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S.B. 762 Abortion; forced or coerced prohibited, penalty.

Patron: Smith

Forced or coerced abortion prohibited; penalty. Provides that any person who forces or coerces a pregnant female of any age to have an abortion against her will is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. However, if such a violation is committed by the father or putative father of the unborn child when the pregnant female is less than 18 years of age, and the father or putative father is 18 years of age or older, the father or putative father is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-71.2, relating to a prohibition on forced or coerced abortion; penalty.

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