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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 20, 2018
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m. - Senate Subcommittee Room 2, 5th Floor

H.B. 330

Patron: Yancey

Public elementary and secondary school students; topical sunscreen. Permits any public elementary or secondary school student to possess and use unscented topical sunscreen in its original packaging on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored event without a note or prescription from a licensed health care professional if the topical sunscreen is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for nonprescription use for the purpose of limiting damage to skin caused by exposure to ultraviolet light. The bill contains an emergency clause.

EMERGENCY

H.B. 541

Patron: Freitas

Alternative treatment options for certain veterans; report. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to consider the efficacy of alternative treatments available for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder and report its findings and conclusions to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health. The bill defines "alternative treatment" as a therapeutic service that (i) is not part of the standard of medical care established by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for treating traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder but has been shown by at least one scientific or medical peer-reviewed study to have some positive effect on traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder and (ii) is provided at the direction and under the supervision of an individual licensed by the Board of Medicine, Nursing, Counseling, Psychology, or Social Work.

H.B. 614

Patron: Price

Practice of social work. Provides that the Board of Social Work may license baccalaureate social workers, master's social workers, and clinical social workers, as those terms are defined, and may register persons proposing to obtain supervised post-degree experience in the practice of social work.

H.B. 793

Patron: Robinson

Nurse practitioners; practice agreements. Eliminates the requirement for a practice agreement with a patient care team physician for nurse practitioners who have been licensed as a nurse practitioner by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing, graduated from a nurse practitioner educational program accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, completed at least five years of full-time clinical experience as a licensed, certified nurse practitioner, and submitted an attestation from his patient care team physician stating that the patient care team physician routinely practices in the same specialty practice category as the nurse practitioner and that the nurse practitioner meets the requirements for practice without a practice agreement. The bill establishes title protection for advanced practice registered nurses, nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and certified nurse midwives. The bill contains technical amendments.

H.B. 879

Patron: Orrock

Hospitals and nursing homes; frequency of inspections. Clarifies, in provisions governing frequency of hospital and nursing home inspections, that a second inspection of a hospital or nursing home that has previously been inspected may be performed before all other hospitals and nursing homes in the Commonwealth have been inspected only in cases in which the subsequent inspection is performed in conjunction with an inspection required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

H.B. 1003

Patron: Byron

Health care data reporting; penalty for failure to report. Provides that any medical care facility that fails to report data on utilization of services for which a certificate of public need is required or data on charity care provided to satisfy the conditions of a certificate of public need shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to $100 per day.

H.B. 1088

Patron: Boysko

Hospitals; security and emergency department staff; mental health training. Requires the Board of Health to include in its regulations governing licensed hospitals a requirement that every hospital with an emergency department establish protocols to ensure that security personnel of the emergency department, if any, receive training appropriate to the populations served by the emergency department, which may include training in identifying and safely addressing situations involving patients and others who pose a risk of harm to themselves or others due to mental illness or who are experiencing a mental health crisis.

H.B. 1303

Patron: Garrett

Prescribing controlled substances; veterinarian-client-patient relationship. Provides that a veterinarian shall not prescribe medication unless a bona fide veterinarian-client-patient relationship exists and establishes the requirements for a bona fide veterinarian-client-patient relationship.

H.B. 1378

Patron: Robinson

Registration of surgical assistants; renewal of registration. Provides that in cases in which a surgical assistant was initially registered based on a credential as a surgical assistant or surgical first assistant issued by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting, the National Surgical Assistant Association, or the National Commission for the Certification of Surgical Assistants or a successor thereof, the surgical assistant must attest that such credential is still current upon applying for renewal of his registration as a surgical assistant.

H.B. 1383

Patron: Rodman

Marriage and family therapy; appraisal. Provides that "marriage and family therapy" means the appraisal and treatment of cognitive, affective, or behavioral mental and emotional disorders within the context of marriage and family systems through the application of therapeutic and family systems theories and techniques and delivery of services to individuals, couples, and families, singularly or in groups, for the purpose of treating such disorders. Currently, "marriage and family therapy" means the assessment and treatment of such disorders.

H.B. 1524

Patron: Ingram

Board of Medicine; regulations related to retention of patient records; time.  Provides that any health care provider that provides professional services in a family medical practice with locations in the Cities of Colonial Heights and Hopewell that has provided health care services since 1955 and currently maintains all records created since May 2006 in electronic format and all records of current patients created prior to May 2006 in paper format may destroy paper versions of records created prior to May 2006 other than paper records of patients who have not yet reached the age of 18 and shall not be subject to disciplinary action for such action. Paper records of patients who have not yet reached the age of 18 shall be maintained until such time as the patient reaches the age of 18.