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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
SB 5095 Rapid diagnostic testing; availability to all essential workers.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Rapid diagnostic testing; essential workers; emergency. Requires the Commissioner to ensure that priority for access to any rapid diagnostic testing indicating the existence of the COVID-19 virus that is already available in the Commonwealth go to essential workers in the Commonwealth. Priority for access to such testing shall include the following groups: (i) health care providers; (ii) law-enforcement officers; (iii) emergency medical services personnel and emergency medical services providers; (iv) firefighters; (v) employees of nursing homes and adult day care centers and assisted living facilities; (vi) public and private elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth; (vii) public institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education; (viii) private providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; and (ix) employees at child day centers, family day homes, and early childhood care and education entities. The bill contains an emergency clause.
FULL TEXT
- 08/18/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200684D pdf
- 08/19/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20200865D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 08/26/20 Senate: Floor substitute printed 20200954D-S2 (Dunnavant) pdf | impact statement
- 08/27/20 Senate: Floor substitute printed 20201046D-S3 (Dunnavant) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 08/18/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200684D
- 08/18/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 08/19/20 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 08/19/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20200865D-S1
- 08/20/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 08/26/20 Senate: Floor substitute printed 20200954D-S2 (Dunnavant)
- 08/26/20 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 08/27/20 Senate: Floor substitute printed 20201046D-S3 (Dunnavant)
- 08/27/20 Senate: Read second time
- 08/27/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 08/27/20 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 20200865D-S1
- 08/27/20 Senate: Substitute #1 by Senator Dunnavant withdrawn 20200954D-S2
- 08/27/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 08/27/20 Senate: Substitute #2 by Senator Dunnavant agreed to 20201046D-S3
- 08/27/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB5095S3
- 08/28/20 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 0-N)
- 09/17/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 09/17/20 House: Read first time
- 09/17/20 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 09/17/20 House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N)