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2014 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health

Chairman: L. Louise Lucas

Clerk: Patty Lung, Wesley Bland
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 13, 2014
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m. - Senate Room B
Updated to remove HB 388

H.B. 539

Patron: Hodges

Prescription Monitoring Program; delegation of authority. Authorizes dispensers who are authorized to access the information in the possession of the Prescription Monitoring Program to delegate this authority to certain health care professionals employed at the same facility and under their direct supervision. The bill also changes the requirements for individuals to whom such authority may be delegated by prescribers or dispensers, to include health care professionals licensed, registered, or certified by a health regulatory board in another state and employed at the same facility and under their direct supervision.

H.B. 541

Patron: O'Bannon

Determination of death. Removes the requirement for a second physician to declare death when the initial declaration of death is made by a physician who is a specialist in the field of neurology, neurosurgery, electroencephalography, or critical care medicine.

H.B. 575

Patron: O'Bannon

Schedule III and Schedule IV drugs. Adds lorcaserin to the list of Schedule IV drugs and adds perampanel to the list of Schedule III drugs.

H.B. 611

Patron: Robinson

Health regulatory boards; denial or suspension of a license, certificate or registration; exception. Creates an exception to the requirement that health regulatory boards within the Department of Health Professions shall refuse to issue a license, certificate, or registration to an applicant if the candidate or applicant has had his license, certificate, or registration to practice the profession or occupation revoked or suspend in another jurisdiction and shall suspend the license, registration, or certification of a person licensed, registered, or certified in the Commonwealth if his license, registration, or certification has been suspended or revoked or accepted for surrender in lieu of disciplinary action in another jurisdiction for cases in which the revocation or suspension in the other jurisdiction is the result of nonrenewal of the license, registration, or certification.

H.B. 754

Patron: Rust

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.

H.B. 758

Patron: Rust

Teacher licensure; career and technical education endorsement. Requires every teacher seeking initial licensure with an endorsement in the area of career and technical education to have an industry certification credential in the  area in which the teacher seeks endorsement that is earned by successfully passing a Board of Education-approved industry certification examination, being issued a state professional license, or passing an occupational competency examination.

H.B. 893

Patron: Stolle

Anatomic pathology services; fees. Prohibits practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine from charging a fee for anatomic pathology services performed by a person other than the practitioner or a person under the direct supervision of the practitioner that is greater than the fee paid for the delivery of such service.

H.B. 1007

Patron: Byron

High school equivalency programs and examinations. Replaces references throughout the Code to a General Education Development (GED) program or test with "a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education."

H.B. 1129

Patron: Garrett

Physician assistants; possession and administration of topical fluoride varnish. Allows physician assistants to possess and administer topical fluoride varnish to the teeth of children aged six months to three years pursuant to an oral or written order or a standing protocol issued by a doctor of medicine, osteopathic medicine or dentistry that conforms to standards adopted by the Department of Health.

H.B. 1134

Patron: O'Bannon

Practice of physician assistants. Updates terminology related to practice agreements for physician assistants and adds physician assistants to the definition of "health care provider" for the purposes of medical malpractice.

H.B. 1187

Patron: McClellan

Virginia Center for School Safety; bullying. Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety to use the definition of bullying found in § 22.1-276.01 of the Code of Virginia for purposes of training on evidence-based antibullying tactics and providing information to school divisions regarding school safety concerns.

H.B. 1249

Patron: Hodges

Prescription monitoring program; requesting information. Requires prescribers to be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program by the Department of Health Professions upon filing an application for licensure or renewal of a license, if the prescriber has not already registered. The bill requires prescribers to request information from the Director to determine what, if any, other covered substances are currently being prescribed to any patient for whom the prescriber is initiating a new course of treatment that includes prescribing of benzodiazepine or an opiate, when such course of treatment is anticipated to last more than 90 days and for which a treatment agreement is entered into, except when the prescriber's course of treatment arises from pain management relating to dialysis or cancer treatment. The bill also authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to identify and publish a list of benzodiazepines or opiates that have a low potential for abuse by human patients, the prescription of which shall not require the prescriber to request and obtain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program. This bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2015.

H.B. 1268

Patron: Hugo


Public institutions of higher education; violence prevention committee policies and procedures. Requires the violence prevention committee of each public institution of higher education to establish policies and procedures to encourage all faculty and staff to report threatening or aberrant behavior that may represent a threat to the community to members of the campus community identified by the committee.