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2014 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health

Chairman: Stephen H. Martin

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: January 9, 2014
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m. - Senate Room B
Revised to remove SB 236, SB 240 & SB 242

S.B. 90

Patron: Alexander

Terms of school board members; City of Norfolk. Changes the length of term for members of the City of Norfolk school board from two years to three years.

S.B. 117

Patron: Watkins

Location of methadone clinics near schools and day care centers; exemptions for existing facilities and providers. Provides that licensed providers of methadone treatment that are exempt from restrictions regarding proximity to a school or day care center do not retain the exemption when relocating an existing facility or establishing a new facility.

S.B. 201

Patron: Puller

Health insurance; prescription drugs; formularies. Requires any health insurer, corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, or health maintenance organization that applies a formulary to prescription drug benefits provided under its policy, contract, or plan to provide 60 days' prior written notice to each insured, subscriber, enrollee, participant, beneficiary, or other individual covered under the policy, contract, or plan of a modification to the formulary that results in the movement of a prescription drug to a tier with higher cost-sharing requirements.

S.B. 207

Patron: McWaters

Licensed providers of treatment for persons with opiate addiction; Prescription Monitoring Program. Requires licensed providers of treatment for persons with opiate addiction through the use of methadone or other opioid replacements to comply with the reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program.

S.B. 309

Patron: Vogel

Appeal of computation of the local composite index. Provides a procedure for appealing the computation of the composite index of local ability-to-pay before a review committee consisting of three Board of Education members, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Secretary of Education or his designee, and the Secretary of Finance or his designee. The school boards are authorized to petition the Board of Education for review of the determination of the cost apportioned to the school boards for maintaining an educational program meeting the Standards of Quality.

S.B. 388

Patron: Barker

Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations authorizing local school divisions to determine the date for administering Standards of Learning assessments.