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2014 SESSION
Chairman: L. Louise Lucas
Clerk: Patty Lung, Wesley Bland
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 6, 2014
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m. / Senate Room B
Patron: Minchew
Charter schools; restrictions and pre-lottery enrollment for current students of conversion charter schools. Provides that in the case of the conversion of an existing public school, students who attend the school and the siblings of such students shall be given the opportunity to enroll in advance of the lottery process. The bill removes the requirement that at least one-half of public charter schools per division be for at-risk students.
Patron: O'Bannon
Virginia College Savings Plan; incorporated government agency. Declares the Virginia College Savings Plan to be a body politic and corporate.
Patron: O'Bannon
Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman; access to clients, patients, individuals, facilities, and records. Provides that the entity designated by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to operate the programs of the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman shall have access to adult day care centers, assisted living facilities, nursing facilities and nursing homes, hospices, home care organizations, providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, state hospitals, and training centers; their clients, patients, and individuals receiving services; and the records of those clients, patients, and individuals receiving services, for the purposes of investigating complaints referred to the program.
Patron: Cox
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Requires the President of Virginia Commonwealth University to serve as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority. The bill also provides that in the event that the majority of the Board of Directors of the Authority and the Board of Visitors of the University disagree upon the selection, removal, or conditions of employment, including salary, of the Chief Executive Officer, each board shall appoint a committee of three members of its board to consider the matters upon which the boards disagree. If the majority voters of each committee agree upon the selection, removal, or conditions of employment of the Chief Executive Officer, the Board of Directors and the Board of Visitors will be bound by that decision. If the majority voters of each committee disagree upon the selection, removal, or conditions of employment of the Chief Executive Officer within 30 days, the President of the University shall decide the matters upon which the committees disagree, and each board will be bound by that decision.
Patron: Comstock
Critical congenital heart defect screening of newborns. Requires the Board of Health to include in its regulations governing hospitals a requirement that every hospital implement a protocol for testing newborn infants for critical congenital heart defects, including performing pulse oximetry screening for newborn infants and providing appropriate follow-up and treatment for infants diagnosed with a critical congenital heart defect.
Patron: Howell, A.T.
School board of the City of Norfolk; term length. Increases from two years to three years the terms for the members of the school board of the City of Norfolk without affecting the length of any term that began prior to July 1, 2014.
Patron: Anderson
Student-athletes; concussion policies. Requires each non-interscholastic youth sports program utilizing public school property to (i) establish policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling of suspected concussions in student-athletes, based on either the local school division's policies and procedures or the Board's Guidelines for Policies on Concussions in Student-Athletes, or (ii) follow the local school division's policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling of suspected concussions in student-athletes.
Patron: LeMunyon
Public institutions of higher education; year-round instruction. Repeals the section of the Code of Virginia that continues in effect a chapter of the Acts of Assembly that directs certain public institutions of higher education to be placed on a year-round basis of instruction as soon as their financial resources will warrant to expedite the training of teachers. The bill is a recommendation of the Code Commission.
Patron: Hodges
Virginia Center for School Safety; name change. Changes the name of the Virginia Center for School Safety to the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety.
Patron: Stolle
Active duty military health care providers; practice at public and private health care facilities. Clarifies that the exemption from licensure requirements for active duty military health care providers applies when they are providing health care services at public and private health care facilities. This bill includes an emergency clause.
EMERGENCY
Patron: O'Bannon
Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan; eligibility. Eliminates the requirement that an individual under the age of 19 must have been without health insurance for at least four months or must meet the requirements set forth in the Virginia Plan for Title XXI of the Social Security Act (Children's Health Insurance Program) to be eligible for assistance under the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan.
Patron: Robinson
Genetic counseling; licensure. Establishes a mandatory licensing process for genetic counselors, including educational and training requirements. The bill establishes requirements for license renewal, including continuing education mandates, and creates the Advisory Board on Genetic Counseling to assist the Board of Medicine in regulating the practice of genetic counseling.
Patron: Brink
Registry of persons who are blind. Repeals the requirement that the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired maintain a registry of persons in the Commonwealth who are blind.
Patron: Garrett
Health regulatory boards; reinstatement of licensure. Requires that an applicant for reinstatement of a certificate, registration, or license that has been revoked show by clear and convincing evidence that he is safe and competent to practice.
Patron: Peace
Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosure method. Specifies that when the Director, in his discretion, discloses information that is in the possession of the program concerning a recipient who is over the age of 18 to that recipient, the information shall be mailed to a street or mailing address indicated on the recipient request form.
Patron: Rust
Teachers; dismissal. Extends from five business days to 10 business days the deadline for a teacher to request a hearing after receiving written notice of a recommendation of dismissal.
Patron: Wilt
Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces the term "functional and central nervous system disabilities" with the term "physical and sensory disabilities" and changes the name of the Long-Term Rehabilitative Case Management System to the community rehabilitation case management system.
Patron: Newman
School calendar; continuing waivers. Requires the Board of Education to waive the requirement that a local school board set the first day students are required to attend school to be after Labor Day for any local school board that was granted a "good cause" waiver of this requirement for the 2011-2012 school year.
Patron: Barker
Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations, by July 1, 2016, establishing standards for accreditation that include a requirement that the standard school day for students in kindergarten must average at least 5.5 instructional hours in order to qualify for full accreditation. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2016.
Patron: Stuart
Care of students who have been diagnosed with diabetes. Requires the parents of any public school student who has been diagnosed with diabetes to designate in a diabetes care plan a delegated care aide to provide diabetes care for the student, including the administration of insulin and glucagon, when a school nurse or physician is not present in the school or at a school-sponsored activity. The bill also requires the delegated care aide to receive training in diabetes care and every school employee to receive basic training in responses to emergency situations and changes from one to two the minimum number of employees in a school that must be trained with regard to a student with diabetes who attends the school. The bill further allows a student to perform certain tasks in the management of his diabetes. The bill requires schools at which a student diagnosed with diabetes is in attendance, to possess an emergency supply of glucagon in addition to any glucagon provided to the school by the parent of such a student. The bill provides that no school board shall prohibit a student who has been diagnosed with diabetes from attending a school or a school-sponsored activity on the basis of his diabetes. Finally, the bill prohibits a school nurse or delegated care aide from being disciplined for ordinary negligence in acts or omissions made during the care of a student who has been diagnosed with diabetes. The bill contains technical amendments.
Patron: Martin
Health care provider-owned distributorships. Prohibits physicians and hospitals from using, referring, recommending, ordering, or arranging for the acquisition of certain medical devices in the treatment of patients if the physician or hospital has an ownership interest in the entity that manufactures, distributes, or supplies the medical device.
Patron: Black
Student discipline; modifying long-term suspensions and expulsions. Permits a school board or a committee thereof to reduce the long-term suspension or expulsion of a student or students who received a greater punishment in cases in which the school board or committee determines that (i) two or more students have engaged in closely related offenses arising out of the same incident or circumstances that lead to each student's expulsion or suspension, (ii) the cases resulted in highly disparate disciplinary decisions in which at least one student received a lesser punishment, and (iii) no rational basis exists for the disparate disciplinary decisions. The bill provides that such decisions of the school board or a committee thereof are not subject to judicial review.
Patron: Locke
Ultrasound prior to abortion. Removes the requirement that a woman undergo a transabdominal ultrasound prior to an abortion.
Patrons: Locke, McEachin
Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Virginia.
Patron: Miller
Christopher Newport University; Board of Visitors. Requires at least six of the 14 members of the Christopher Newport University Board of Visitors to be alumni of the University.
Patron: Smith
School calendar; continuing waivers. Requires the Board of Education to waive the requirement that a local school board set the first day students are required to attend school to be after Labor Day for any local school board that was granted a "good cause" waiver of this requirement for the 2011-2012 school year.
Patron: Smith
Prescription Monitoring Program; reporting requirements. Requires dispensers to comply with the reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program within three days of dispensing a covered substance.
Patron: McEachin
Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Virginia.
Patron: Favola
Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; out-of-state students. Requires the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind (Board) to include in its criteria and procedures governing admissions to the school provisions for the admission of students who are not residents of the Commonwealth. The bill provides that out-of-state students be admitted on a space-available basis and that priority be given to students who are residents of the Commonwealth. In addition, the Board may delegate authority to the superintendent to accept out-of-state students and may charge such students tuition, transportation, and other recurring fees as proposed by the superintendent and approved by the Board.