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SENATE BILL NO. 1079 Offered January 17, 2020 A BILL to direct the Board of Medicine to amend their regulations regarding medically unnecessary chaperones. ---------- Patron-- Suetterlein ---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Board of Medicine shall amend its regulations to require that patients be notified that they have the right to opt out of the presence of a chaperone during medical examinations, provided that the chaperone is medically unnecessary. The regulations shall also include a provision permitting health care practitioners to refuse to perform medical services for a patient who refuses the presence of a chaperone.