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2018 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Professions

Dunnavant (Chairman), Suetterlein, Carrico, Barker, Lucas, Peake

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens
Date of Meeting: February 6, 2018
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m. - Senate Subcommittee Room 2, 5th Floor

S.B. 370

Patron: Newman

Delivery of prescription drug orders. Provides that whenever any pharmacy delivers a prescription drug order for which refrigeration is required by mail, common carrier, or delivery service, when the drug order is not personally hand delivered directly, to the patient or his agent at the person's residence or other designated location, the shipment shall include a means for the (i) detection of temperature variations that may cause chemical degradation of the drugs and (ii) notification of the patient of the variation.

S.B. 505

Patron: Carrico


Doctorate of medical science; licensure and practice. Establishes requirements for licensure and practice as a doctorate of medical science. The bill provides that it is unlawful to practice as a doctorate of medical science unless licensed by the Board of Medicine (Board) and requires that an applicant for licensure, among other requirements, (i) hold an active unrestricted license to practice as a physician assistant in the Commonwealth or another jurisdiction and be able to demonstrate engagement in active clinical practice as a physician assistant under physician supervision for at least three years and (ii) be a graduate of at least a two-year doctor of medical science program or an equivalent program that is accredited by a regional body under the U.S Department of Education and an accrediting body approved by the Board. The bill provides that doctorates of medical science can practice only as part of a patient care team at a hospital or group medical practice engaged in primary care and are required to maintain appropriate collaboration and consultation, as evidenced in a written or electronic practice agreement, with at least one patient care team physician. The bill requires the Board to establish the scope of practice for doctorates of medical science and to promulgate regulations regarding collaboration and consultation among a patient care team and requirements for the practice agreement. The bill outlines the prescriptive authority of doctorates of medical science. The bill also authorizes various powers and requires various duties of a doctorate of medical science where such powers and duties are, under current law, given to and required of physician assistants and nurse practitioners.

S.B. 812

Patron: Barker

Definition of qualified mental health professional. Broadens the definition of "qualified mental health professional" to include employees and independent contractors of the Department of Corrections who by education and experience are professionally qualified and registered by the Board of Counseling to provide collaborative mental health services.

S.B. 829

Patron: Barker

Military medical personnel program; supervision. Provides that military medical personnel in a program, established by the Department of Veterans Services, who may perform certain delegated acts that constitute the practice of medicine while under the supervision of a physician or podiatrist may also perform such acts under the supervision of the chief medical officer, or his designee, of an organization participating in the program. In addition, the bill removes the designation of this program as a pilot program.

S.B. 832

Patron: Carrico

Prescription Monitoring Program; covered substances. Adds controlled substances included in Schedule V for which a prescription is required and naloxone to the list of covered substances the dispensing of which must be reported to the Prescription Monitoring Program.

S.B. 918

Patron: Ebbin

Department of Health Professions; suspension of license; nonpayment of student loans. Repeals provisions authorizing an obligee to petition for and a circuit court to order the suspension of any state-issued license to engage in a health care profession or occupation when an obligor is delinquent or in default in the payment of a federally guaranteed or state-guaranteed educational loan or work-conditional scholarship.

S.B. 973

Patron: Vogel

Track and Trace Program.