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HB 251 Adult Fatality Review Team; created, report.
Introduced by: John M. O'Bannon, III | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Adult Fatality Review Team. Establishes the Adult Fatality Review Team to review suspicious deaths of any incapacitated adult aged 18 or older and any adult aged 60 or older (i) who was the subject of an adult protective services investigation, (ii) whose death was due to abuse or neglect or acts that suggest abuse or neglect, or (iii) whose death came under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner pursuant to § 32.1-283. The bill sets forth duties, membership, confidentiality, reporting, and other requirements for the team. The bill also creates a Freedom of Information Act exemption for information and records acquired during a review of any death conducted by a family violence fatality review team or during a review of any adult death conducted by the adult fatality review team to the extent made confidential by state law.
FULL TEXT
- 12/28/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083131664 pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/08 House: Printed as engrossed 083131664-E pdf | impact statement
- 03/05/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB251ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/17/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/28/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083131664
- 12/28/07 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/15/08 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/15/08 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/18/08 House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources (Hamilton)
- 01/30/08 House: Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 3-N)
- 02/01/08 House: Read first time
- 02/04/08 House: Read second time
- 02/04/08 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/04/08 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB251E
- 02/04/08 House: Printed as engrossed 083131664-E
- 02/05/08 House: Read third time and passed House (96-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 02/05/08 House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (96-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 02/05/08 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/06/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/13/08 Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/08 Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
- 02/19/08 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health Care
- 02/21/08 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/08 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- 02/25/08 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/27/08 Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/08 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/28/08 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/28/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/28/08 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/08 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/03/08 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 03/03/08 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (98-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 03/05/08 House: Enrolled
- 03/05/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB251ER)
- 03/05/08 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/08 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 539 (effective 7/1/08)
- 03/17/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539)