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2016 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health

Cosgrove (Chairman), Black, Barker, Lewis, Suetterlein

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 16, 2016
Time and Place: 4:00 P.M. - 3rd FL. East Conf. Rm.
REVISED - Delete HB 546 - Add HB 646

H.B. 312

Patron: Orrock

Secretary of Health and Human Resources; increase sharing of electronic health records; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to work with stakeholders, which shall include representatives of hospitals and other health care providers in the Commonwealth, to (i) evaluate interoperability of electronic health records systems among health systems and health care providers and the ability of health systems and health care providers to share patient records in electronic format and (ii) develop recommendations for improving the ability of health systems and health care providers to share electronic health records with the goal of ensuring that all health care providers in the Commonwealth are able to share electronic health information to reduce the cost of health care and improve the efficiency of health care services. The Secretary shall report his findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by December 1, 2016. The bill contains an emergency clause.

EMERGENCY

H.B. 337

Patron: Pogge

Informed consent to experimental treatment; neurodegenerative diseases. Provides that in the case of persons suffering from neurodegenerative diseases causing progressive deterioration of cognition for which there is no known cure, the implementation of experimental courses of therapeutic treatment, including non-pharmacological treatment, to which a legally authorized representative has given informed consent shall not constitute the use of force. This provision replaces a current provision that informed consent to experimental courses of treatment, without reference to non-pharmacological treatment, given by a legally authorized representative shall not constitute the use of force in cases of organic brain diseases causing progressive deterioration in which there is either no known cure or medically accepted treatment to the disorder.

H.B. 646

Patron: Aird

Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services duties related to substance abuse; report on state plan for substance abuse services. Eliminates the requirement that the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department) report biennially to the General Assembly on the comprehensive state interagency state plan for substance abuse services and the Department's activities in administering, planning, and regulating substance abuse services and specifically on the extent to which the Department's duties have been performed.

H.B. 648

Patron: Knight

State Health Commissioner; State Board of Health; approved sewage system or nonconforming system. Provides for the State Health Commissioner to develop a procedure for processing requests to approve an installed treatment works. The bill authorizes the Commissioner or his agent to approve a nonconforming treatment works under certain conditions and for an owner of real property to accept a voluntary upgrade as a condition for the approval of a nonconforming treatment works. In addition, the bill designates persons who may certify that the sewage treatment available for a building is safe, adequate, and proper.