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2015 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: February 12, 2015
Time and Place: 8:00 a.m. - Senate Room B
Revised to remove HB 1436 and Add HBs 1550, 1585 & 1838

H.B. 1307 Public elementary and secondary schools; student identification numbers.

Patron: Landes

Public elementary and secondary schools; student identification numbers. Prohibits the Department of Education and each local school board from requiring any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school or receiving home instruction, or his parent, to provide the student's federal social security number. The bill requires the Department to instead develop a system of unique student identification numbers and requires each local school board to assign such a number to each student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school. Under current law, every student is required to present a federal social security number within 90 days of his enrollment; if a student is ineligible to obtain a social security number or his parent is unwilling to present a social security number, the superintendent may assign another identifying number or waive the requirement. The bill has a delayed effective date of August 1, 2015.

H.B. 1334 Students' personally identifiable information; (DOE) to develop certain policies.

Patron: Landes

Students' personally identifiable information. Requires the Department of Education to develop and make publicly available on its website policies to ensure state and local compliance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and state law applicable to students' personally identifiable information, including policies for (i) access to students' personally identifiable information and (ii) the approval of requests for student data from public and private entities and individuals for the purpose of research. The bill requires the Department and each local school division to notify the parent of any student whose personally identifiable information contained in electronic records could reasonably be assumed to have been disclosed in violation of FERPA or state law applicable to such information, except as otherwise provided in certain other provisions of law. Such notification shall include the (a) date, estimated date, or date range of the disclosure; (b) type of information that was or is reasonably believed to have been disclosed; and (c) remedial measures taken or planned in response to the disclosure.

H.B. 1335 Education; agency coordination.

Patron: Landes

Education; agency coordination. Requires the Secretary of Education to consult with the agencies for which he is responsible pursuant to statute and biennially report to the General Assembly on the coordination efforts among such agencies. The bill also requires (i) the Superintendent of Public Instruction to designate an employee of the Department of Education to serve as its liaison to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the State Board for Community Colleges and (ii) the Chancellor of Community Colleges to designate an employee of the State Board for Community Colleges to serve as its liaison to the Board of Education.

H.B. 1336 SCHEV; policy on course credit at higher educational institutions.

Patron: Landes

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; policy on course credit at public institutions of higher education for certain examinations. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with the governing board of each public institution of higher education, to establish a uniform policy for granting undergraduate course credit to entering freshman students who have taken one or more Advanced Placement, Cambridge Advanced (A/AS), College-Level Examination Program (CLEP), or International Baccalaureate examinations and repeals the current law under which such governing boards individually implement such policies. The bill requires SCHEV and each public institution of higher education to make the policy available to the public on its website. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2016.

H.B. 1351 Diploma seals; biliteracy.

Patron: Ramadan

Diploma seals; biliteracy. Directs the Board of Education to award a diploma seal for biliteracy for any student who meets certain criteria for general academic achievement and demonstrates proficiency in a foreign language through certain testing or coursework.

H.B. 1413 Hospital discharge procedures; designation of individual to provide care, hospital demonstration.

Patron: Filler-Corn

Hospital discharge procedures; designation of individual to receive information and instructions. Requires hospitals to provide patients or their legal guardians the opportunity to designate an individual who will care for or assist the patient in his residence following discharge from the hospital to whom the hospital shall provide information regarding the patient's discharge plan and any follow-up care, treatment, and services that the patient may require.

H.B. 1423 Advanced Learning and Research, Institute for; board membership.

Patron: Marshall, D.W.

Institute for Advanced Learning and Research; board membership. Requires the nine citizen members of the board of trustees of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research who represent business and industry to (i) reside in Southside Virginia, (ii) own a business headquartered or otherwise operating in Southside Virginia, or (iii) serve as a member of either the board of directors or senior management of a business headquartered or otherwise operating in Southside Virginia. Under current law, all nine citizen members who represent business and industry are required to reside in Southside Virginia.

H.B. 1435 Physician assistants and nurse practitioners; appointment as medical examiners.

Patron: O'Bannon

Appointment of physician assistants and nurse practitioners as medical examiners. Adds licensed physician assistants and nurse practitioners to the list of individuals who may be appointed to serve as medical examiners.

H.B. 1443 Public schools; Board of Education regulations on use of seclusion and restraint.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

The use of seclusion and restraint in public schools; Board of Education regulations. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations on the use of seclusion and restraint in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requires that such regulations are consistent with certain existing guidance documents; include definitions of terms, criteria for use, restrictions for use, training requirements, notification requirements, reporting requirements, and follow-up requirements; and address distinctions between certain student populations. The bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Commission on Youth.

H.B. 1457 Direct access to physical therapy.

Patron: O'Bannon

Direct access to physical therapy. Provides that a physical therapist who has completed a doctor of physical therapy program approved by the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education or who has obtained a certificate of authorization may evaluate and treat patients for up to 30 days after an initial evaluation without a referral if (i) the patient is not receiving care from a licensed health care provider for the symptoms giving rise to the presentation at the time of the presentation to the physical therapist for physical therapy services or (ii) the patient is receiving care from a licensed health care provider at the time of his presentation to the physical therapist for the symptoms giving rise to the presentation for physical therapy services and the patient identifies a health care provider from whom he is currently receiving care, the patient gives written consent for the physical therapist to release all personal health information and treatment records to the identified practitioner, and the physical therapist notifies the practitioner identified by the patient no later than 14 days after treatment commences and provides the practitioner with a copy of the initial evaluation along with a copy of the patient history obtained by the physical therapist. The bill allows a physical therapist who has not completed a doctor of physical therapy program approved by the American Physical Therapy Association or received a certificate of authorization to conduct a one-time evaluation of a patient who has not met the criteria for evaluation and treatment without a referral and direction, provided the physical therapist does not provide treatment. The bill eliminates the requirement for continuing education for physical therapists who have received a certificate of authorization and eliminates the advisory committee established to consult with the Board of Physical Therapy in promulgating regulations for minimum education, training, and experience criteria.

H.B. 1458 Naloxone or other opioid antagonist; pharmacist may dispense in cases of opiate overdose.

Patron: O'Bannon

Naloxone; administration in cases of opiate overdose. Provides that a pharmacist may dispense naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal pursuant to an oral, written or standing order in accordance with protocols developed by the Board of Pharmacy in consultation with the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health, that a person may possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal to a person who is believed to be experiencing or about to experience a life-threatening opiate overdose, and that firefighters and law enforcement officers who have completed a training program may possess and administer naloxone. The bill also provides that a person who in good faith prescribes, dispenses or administers naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal in an emergency to an individual who is believed to be experiencing or about to experience a life-threatening opioid overdose shall not be liable for any civil damages for ordinary negligence in acts or omissions resulting from the rendering of such treatment if acting in accordance with the provisions of § 54.1-3408 or in his role as a member of an emergency medical services agency.

H.B. 1476 Nurse practitioners; expert witness testimony, added to definition of health care provider.

Patron: Leftwich

Nurse practitioners. Allows a nurse practitioner to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his activities and adds nurse practitioner to the definition of "health care provider" under the medical malpractice statutes.

H.B. 1484 Schools; approval of annual budgets.

Patron: Tyler

School budgets. Conforms the county budget preparation and approval process to that of municipalities.

H.B. 1490 Standards of Learning; eligibility for retake of test, exception.

Patron: Habeeb

Public schools; Standards of Learning tests. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to provide the same criteria for eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning test, with the exception of the writing Standards of Learning tests, to each student regardless of grade level or course.

H.B. 1499 Breast-feeding in public places; mother's right.

Patron: Albo

Right to breast-feed in public places. Provides that a mother may breast-feed in any place where the mother is lawfully present. Current law allows breast-feeding on any property owned, leased, or controlled by the Commonwealth.

H.B. 1550 School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting.

Patron: Greason

School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening date of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education may grant waivers of this requirement.

H.B. 1558 Adult fatality review teams, local and regional; created, penalty.

Patron: Rust

Local and regional adult fatality review teams; penalty. Allows for the creation of local or regional adult fatality review teams upon the initiative of any local or regional law-enforcement agency, department of social services, emergency medical services agency, attorney for the Commonwealth's office, or community services board. The bill provides that such teams may review the death of any person age 60 years or older, or any adult age 18 years or older who is incapacitated, who resides in the Commonwealth and who is in need of temporary or emergency protective services (i) who was the subject of an adult protective services or law-enforcement investigation; (ii) whose death was due to abuse, neglect, or exploitation or acts suggesting abuse, neglect, or exploitation; or (iii) whose death came under the jurisdiction of or was investigated by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as occurring in any suspicious, unusual, or unnatural manner, pursuant to § 32.1-283.

H.B. 1564 Schedule I drugs; adding several substances to list.

Patron: Garrett

Schedule I drugs. Adds N-(1-amino-3-methyl-1-oxobutan-2-yl)-1-(cyclohexylmethyl)indazole-3-carboxamide (other name: AB-CHMINACA), N-(1-amino-3-methyl-1-oxobutan-2-yl)-1-(5-fluoropentyl)indazole-3-carboxamide (other name: 5-fluoro-AMB), and 3,4-methylenedioxy-N,N-dimethylcathinone (other names: Dimethylone, bk-MDDMA) to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act, in accordance with the action of the Board of Pharmacy adding these substances to Schedule I pursuant to § 54.1-3443.

H.B. 1581 Family life education; advance directives related to mental health.

Patron: Watts

Family life education; advance directives related to mental health. Requires the family life education curriculum developed by the Board of Education to include, as a component of instruction in mental health education and awareness, instruction on the availability of advance directives, as set forth in the Health Care Decisions Act (§ 54.1-2981 et seq.), related to mental health that permit an adult declarant to appoint an agent and authorize the agent to seek the hospitalization and evaluation of the declarant if the declarant shows signs of mental illness.

H.B. 1585 Schools failing to achieve full accreditation; scheduling flexibility.

Patron: Stolle

Schools failing to achieve full accreditation; scheduling flexibility. Permits a division superintendent, with the approval of the local school board, to (i) establish an alternative school schedule plan to (a) provide for the operation of schools on a year-round basis or (b) determine the opening day of the school year for any school within the local school division that has failed to achieve full accreditation status and (ii) establish such an alternative school schedule plan for the entire local school division if more than 15 percent of all public schools within the local school division have failed to achieve full accreditation status.

H.B. 1587 Deemed consent for blood testing; minors.

Patron: Landes

Blood testing for certain viruses; minor students. Provides that in cases in which a school board employee is directly exposed to body fluids of a minor student in a manner in that may transmit the HIV or hepatitis B or C viruses, the minor student's parent shall be notified prior to initiating testing of such minor student for infection with such viruses.

H.B. 1607 Medicolegal death investigators; Chief Medical Examiner authorized to appoint.

Patron: Garrett

Per diem medicolegal death investigators. Authorizes the Chief Medical Examiner to appoint per diem medicolegal death investigators to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with medicolegal death investigations and provides that per diem medicolegal death investigators shall be agents of the Commonwealth.

H.B. 1626 Students receiving home instruction; participation in public school interscholastic programs.

Patron: Bell, Robert B.

Students receiving home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) is receiving home instruction; (ii) has demonstrated evidence of progress for two consecutive academic years; (iii) is in compliance with immunization requirements; (iv) is entitled to free tuition in a public school; (v) has not reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the current academic year; (vi) is an amateur who receives no compensation but participates solely for the educational, physical, mental, and social benefits of the activity; (vii) complies with all disciplinary rules and is subject to all codes of conduct applicable to all public high school athletes; and (viii) complies with all other rules governing awards, all-star games, maximum consecutive semesters of high school enrollment, parental consents, physical examinations, and transfers applicable to all high school athletes. The bill allows such students to be charged reasonable fees for participation. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2020.

H.B. 1657 Advance directives; directions about life-prolonging procedures during pregnancy.

Patron: Rust

Advance directives; directions about life-prolonging procedures during pregnancy. Adds a section to the suggested form of written advance directives that allows a declarant to add specific instructions for life-prolonging procedures in case the declarant is pregnant when her attending physician determines that she has a terminal condition.

H.B. 1679 Students, hearing or visually impaired; information on services on school division website.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Information on services for students identified as hearing or visually impaired; school division website posting. Requires each local school board to annually post on the school division's website information describing the educational and other services available through the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, and the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired to students who are identified as hearing impaired or visually impaired, inform parents of its availability, and ensure that packets of such information are available in an accessible format for review by parents who do not have Internet access. Current law requires distribution of physical copies of such information.

H.B. 1715 Higher educational institutions; students exhibiting suicidal tendencies or behavior, policies.

Patron: LeMunyon

Public institutions of higher education; students exhibiting suicidal tendencies or behavior; notification. Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education to establish policies and procedures that advise students, faculty, and staff, including residence hall staff, of the proper procedures for notifying the threat assessment team when a student has exhibited suicidal tendencies or behavior.

H.B. 1750 Investigational drugs; expanded access.

Patron: Ransone

Expanded access to investigational drugs, biological products, and devices. Provides that a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device may make such investigational drug, biological product, or device available to a person who has a terminal illness when (i) no comparable or satisfactory alternative treatment options approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are available to treat his terminal illness; (ii) the potential benefits of the use of the investigational drug, biological product, or device outweigh the risks of use of the investigational drug, biological product, or device; (iii) his treating physician has recommended use of the investigational drug, biological product, or device; and (iv) the person has provided informed written consent to use of the investigational drug, biological product, or device. The bill provides that a manufacturer that provides an investigational drug, biological product, or device for treatment of a person's terminal illness may provide the investigational drug, biological product, or device free of charge or may require the person to pay costs associated with manufacture of the investigational drug, biological product, or device and that health insurance providers may, but are not required to, provide coverage for costs associated with use of the investigational drug, biological product, or device. The bill provides immunity from civil liability for health care providers who recommend an investigational drug, biological product or device and for manufacturers of investigational drugs, biological products or devices that make such drugs, products or devices available to a person who meets the criteria set forth in the bill.

H.B. 1775 Medical malpractice proceedings; health care providers; expert testimony.

Patron: Campbell

Medical malpractice proceedings; health care providers; expert testimony. Provides that medical experts licensed in other states, but not in Virginia, are presumed to know the standard of care in Virginia, provided that they meet the educational and examination requirements for licensure in Virginia. The bill also extends this presumption to all health care providers who are licensed to practice in Virginia. Currently, such presumption is limited to physicians and nurses.

H.B. 1791 Higher educational institutions; removal of members of board of visitors, etc.

Patron: Massie

Public institutions of higher education; members; removal; terms. Provides that if a member of the board of visitors of a four-year public institution of higher education or the State Board for Community Colleges fails to attend the meetings of the board for one year without sufficient cause, as determined by a majority vote of the board, or to attend certain required educational programs in his first two years of membership, then the member is removed from office. The bill requires the board of visitors of each four-year public institution of higher education and the State Board for Community Colleges to adopt policies regarding the removal process and referencing the Governor's removal authority. The bill repeals existing provisions regarding the removal of members. The bill also prohibits a member who has served for two successive four-year terms from being eligible for reappointment to a board for four years after the end of his second successive four-year term. Finally, the bill changes the terms of the board of visitors of George Mason University to prohibit members from serving more than two successive four-year terms; current law prohibits members of that board from serving more than two four-year terms, successive or not.

H.B. 1803 Surface transportation and removal service; registration, manager of record.

Patron: Villanueva

Surface transportation and removal service; manager of record. Requires any applicant for registration as a surface transportation and removal service to include the name of a manager of record on its application for registration and to notify the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers within 30 days of any change in the manager of record.

H.B. 1804 Onsite sewage systems; validity of certain septic tank permits.

Patron: Knight

Onsite sewage systems; waivers. Provides that an owner of real property who (i) obtained a waiver to repair a failing onsite sewage system on or between July 1, 2004, and December 6, 2011, (ii) completed such repair, and (iii) voluntarily upgraded the system may request, and shall receive, a voluntary upgrade waiver.

H.B. 1822 Apprenticeship-related instruction; transfers certain duties.

Patron: Ward

Apprenticeship-related instruction. Transfers the duty to establish policies for apprentices governing the provision of apprenticeship-related instruction delivered by state and local public education agencies and to provide for the administration and supervision of related and supplemental instruction from the State Board for Community Colleges to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry.

H.B. 1838 School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting.

Patron: Robinson

School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening date of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education may grant waivers of this requirement. The bill requires local school boards that set the school calendar with a pre-Labor Day opening date, except those schools that were granted a "good cause" waiver for the 2014-2015 school year, to close all schools in the division (i) from the Thursday immediately preceding Labor Day through Labor Day or (ii) from the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day through the Tuesday immediately following Labor Day.

H.B. 1868 Home care organizations; unlawful advertising.

Patron: Krupicka

Home care organizations; unlawful advertising. Prohibits any person who is not licensed as a home care organization or exempt from licensure as a home care organization, or whose license as a home care organization has been suspended or revoked, or whose license as a home care organization has lapsed and has not been renewed from knowingly advertising or marketing himself as or otherwise holding himself out to be a home care organization or otherwise asserting or implying that he is licensed to provide home health, personal care, or pharmaceutical services. The bill also provides that a person who solely offers referrals of independent providers of home care or personal care services, and who advertises or markets himself as such, shall not be deemed to be holding himself out as, or asserting or implying that he is, a home care organization or otherwise licensed to provide home health or personal care services.

H.B. 1895 Higher educational institutions; additional financial and administrative authority.

Patron: Cox

Additional financial and administrative authority for certain public institutions of higher education. Permits the board of visitors or other governing body of any public institution of higher education that has entered into and successfully renewed a memorandum of understanding with the appropriate Cabinet Secretary or Secretaries to exercise, with some variation, (i) additional authority in the functional areas of information technology, procurement, and capital projects and (ii) the financial operational authority of covered institutions that have entered into management agreements. Under current law, such boards of visitors and governing bodies are limited to exercising authority in two of the three functional areas of information technology, procurement, and capital projects. The bill also describes the conditions for renewal and revocation of such authority and requires the accounts of each institution granted such authority to be audited by the Auditor of Public Accounts.

H.B. 1896 Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants.

Patron: Cox

Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (Program), including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive an award from the institution's appropriations for undergraduate student financial assistance before grants are awarded to students with equivalent remaining need, (ii) each eligible student receive an award in an amount greater than other grants awarded to students with equivalent remaining need, (iii) beginning with first-time students enrolled in the fall semester of 2016, each eligible student receive a Program award in an amount greater than the award of each eligible student with equivalent remaining need in the next-lowest class level, and (iv) each Program award be determined by a proportionate award schedule adopted by each institution and vary according to each student's remaining need and the total of tuition, fees, and other necessary charges, including books.

H.B. 1952 School buses; transfer and sell to another school division.

Patron: Poindexter

Transfer and sale of school buses between local school divisions. Permits any local school board, notwithstanding any regulation to the contrary, to sell or transfer any of its school buses to another school division or purchase a used school bus from another school division or a school bus dealer as long as the school bus (i) conforms to the specifications relating to construction and design effective in the Commonwealth on the date of manufacture; (ii) has a valid Virginia State Police inspection; and (iii) has not reached the end of its useful life according to the school bus replacement schedule utilized by the Department of Education as required by the general appropriation act.

H.B. 1956 Hospitals; patients who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Patron: Orrock

Hospitals; patients who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Directs the Department of Health to (i) work with stakeholders to develop guidelines for hospitals to ensure that hospitals are complying with requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and that patients and family members with sensory disabilities are able to communicate effectively with health care providers and (ii) report on its progress in developing such guidelines to the General Assembly no later than December 1, 2015.

H.B. 1959 Higher educational institutions; information for six-year plans.

Patron: Toscano

Six-year plans to include information on intellectual property and externally sponsored research. Requires public institutions of higher education to include in their six-year plans information for the prior fiscal year on (i) the assignment during the year of any intellectual property interests to a person or entity with a physical presence in Virginia by the institution or any related entity, (ii) the value of externally sponsored research funds received during the year from a person or entity with a physical presence in Virginia by the institution or any related entity, and (iii) the number and types of patents awarded during the year to the institution or any related entity that were developed in whole or part from externally sponsored research provided by a person or entity with a physical presence in Virginia.

H.B. 1963 Health Professions, Department of; disclosure of confidential information.

Patron: O'Bannon

Department of Health Professions; disclosure of confidential information. Allows the Director of the Department of Health Professions to disclose information about a suspected violation of state or federal law or regulation to other agencies within the Health and Human Resources Secretariat or to federal law-enforcement agencies having jurisdiction over the suspected violation or to request an inspection or investigation of a licensee by such state or federal agency when the Director has reason to believe that a possible violation of federal or state law has occurred.

H.B. 1980 Higher educational institutions, four-year public; websites, consumer information.

Patron: Hugo

Four-year public institutions of higher education; websites; informational tab or link. Requires each four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to maintain on the home page of its website and annually update no later than September 30 a tab or link that includes information related to undergraduate retention and graduation rates, tuition and mandatory student fee increases, the use of student fees, postsecondary education and employment, and the institution's finances.

H.B. 2063 Telemedicine services; provision of health care services.

Patron: Kilgore

Telemedicine services; prescriptions. Amends the definition of telemedicine services to encompass the use of electronic technology or media, including interactive audio or video, for the purpose of diagnosing or treating a patient, consulting with other health care providers regarding a patient's diagnosis or treatment, or transmitting a patient's health care data. The measure also provides that for the purpose of prescribing a Schedule VI controlled substance to a patient via telemedicine services, a prescriber may establish a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship by an examination through face-to-face interactive, two-way, real-time communications services or store-and-forward technologies when certain conditions are met.

H.B. 2068 Senior citizens' higher education; income limit.

Patron: Keam

Senior citizens higher education; income limit. Increases from $15,000 to $23,850 the maximum taxable individual income for senior citizens who wish to register for and enroll in courses as a full-time or part-time student for academic credit, tuition free, at a public institution of higher education.

H.B. 2090 Restaurants; training standards that address food safety and food allergy awareness and safety.

Patron: Keam

Restaurant employees; training in food safety and food allergy awareness and safety. Requires the Board of Health to include training standards, including training standards that address food safety and food allergy awareness and safety, in its regulations governing restaurants. The bill also requires the Commissioner of Health to provide written materials on food safety and food allergy awareness and safety for the training of restaurant personnel.

H.B. 2114 Competitive foods; school-sponsored fundraisers.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Competitive foods; school-sponsored fundraisers. Requires the regulations setting nutritional guidelines for competitive foods to permit each public school to conduct on school grounds during regular school hours no more than 12 school-sponsored fundraisers per school year, each of which shall not exceed five consecutive school days in duration, during which food other than competitive food may be sold to students. "Competitive food" is defined in current law as any food, excluding beverages, sold to students on school grounds during regular school hours that is not part of the school breakfast or school lunch program.

H.B. 2118 Acute psychiatric bed registry; frequency of updating.

Patron: Cline

Acute psychiatric bed registry; frequency of updating. Requires state facilities, community services boards, behavioral health authorities, and private inpatient psychiatric service providers to update information included in the acute psychiatric bed registry whenever there is a change in bed availability for the facility, board, authority, or provider or, if no change in bed availability has occurred, at least once daily.

H.B. 2177 Certificate of public need; eliminates regional health planning agencies.

Patron: Orrock

Certificate of public need. Amends the definition of "project" for which a certificate of public need is required to include capital expenditures of $15 million or more by or on behalf of a medical care facility other than a general hospital. Currently, all capital expenditures of $15 million or more by any medical care facility constitute a project for which a certificate of public need is required. The bill also provides that capital expenditures of $5 million or more by a general hospital shall be registered with the Commissioner of Health.

H.B. 2192 Practitioners of the healing arts; prohibits dispensing controlled substances unless licensed.

Patron: Garrett

Board of Pharmacy; practitioners dispensing controlled substances. Prohibits a practitioner of the healing arts from dispensing controlled substances unless licensed by the Board of Pharmacy to sell controlled substances. The bill requires facilities from which practitioners of the healing arts dispense controlled substances to obtain a permit from the Board but exempts facilities in which only one practitioner of the healing arts is licensed by the Board to sell controlled substances from fees associated with obtaining and renewing such permit. The bill also requires the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations to implement the provision of this act within 280 days of its enactment.

H.B. 2290 University of Virginia; terms of rector and vice-rector.

Patron: Landes

The board of visitors of the University of Virginia; terms of rector and vice-rector. Requires the board of visitors of the University of Virginia to establish in its bylaws the commencement and expiration dates of the two-year terms of the board's rector and vice-rector. Under current law, such two-year terms are required to commence on July 1 of the year of appointment and expire on June 30 of the year of expiration.

H.B. 2318 High school graduation rate; Board of Education's formula for assessing rates.

Patron: Orrock

High school graduation rate formula; Standards of Accreditation; exclusions. Requires the Board of Education's formula for assessing high school graduation rates, as applied to the Standards of Accreditation, to exclude from rates of on-time graduates each student who fails to graduate on time based on extenuating circumstances that are outside of the control of the local school board, as determined by the Board. Such provisions has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2016. The bill requires the Board to report to the chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on the Board's progress towards updating its formula for collecting, analyzing, and reporting high school graduation and dropout data no later than December 1, 2015.