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.

2010 SESSION

• | print version

HB 85 Umbilical cord blood education; Commissioner of Health to develop and post information on website.

Introduced by: Robert G. Marshall | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Umbilical cord blood education. Requires the Commissioner of Health to make information relating to umbilical cord blood developed by the Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation available to the public on a website maintained by the Department of Health. This bill also requires health care practitioners who provide prenatal care to make information about umbilical cord blood available to every pregnant patient prior to the beginning of the patient's third trimester of pregnancy or at the time of the patient's first visit, whichever is later.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Umbilical cord blood education; informed consent.  Requires the Commissioner of Health to develop and post to the Department of Health's website certain information relating to umbilical cord blood. Also, requires the Commissioner to develop an informed consent document to be signed by expectant mothers regarding donation or disposal of cord blood, and requires every licensed practitioner who renders prenatal care to present his patients with this information and obtain such written consent.