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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Professions

Barker (Chairman), Edwards, McWaters, Carrico

Clerk: Patty Lung, Wesley Bland
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 6, 2014
Time and Place: 3 p.m. / 3rd Floor East

H.B. 500

Patron: Yost

Practice of audiology; cerumen management. Adds limited cerumen management to the definition of the practice of audiology and requires the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology to promulgate regulations governing the practice of cerumen management, including requirements related to the training and qualifications of audiologists who perform cerumen management, within 280 days.

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. Changes the definition of brain death to "the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem" and removes the requirement for a second physician to declare such death when declared 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 IV drugs; lorcaserin. Adds lorcaserin to the list of schedule IV 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. 874

Patron: Yost


Designation and reporting of drugs of concern. Authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to identify "drugs of concern" and requires prescribers to report prescription drugs of concern to the Prescription Monitoring Program.

 

H.B. 891

Patron: Peace

Powers and duties of health regulatory boards; special conference committees. Provides that special conference committees may consider applications for a license, certificate, registration, permit or issuance of a multistate licensure privilege and may grant or deny the application or issue a restricted license, certification, registration, permit, or multistate licensure privilege. The bill also provides that special conference committees may hear cases in which a holder of a permit issued by a health regulatory board is reported to be the subject of disciplinary action.

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. 1032

Patron: Orrock

Board of Pharmacy; automatic review of certain case decisions. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations allowing for an automatic review of case decisions imposing a fine on free clinics receiving federal, state, or local funds in certain cases.

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.