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2022 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Professions

Barker (Chair), Saslaw, Newman, Edwards, Lewis, Dunnavant, Suetterlein, Pillion

Clerk: Michael Jackson,Thomas Jackson
Staff: Julia Carlton, Anna Moir
Date of Meeting: February 18, 2022
Time and Place: 8:30 AM Subcommittee Room #2 / 5th Floor Pocahontas Building
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H.B. 84

Patron: Kilgore

Volunteer audiologists. Permits out-of-state audiologists to volunteer to provide free health care to an underserved area of the Commonwealth under the auspices of a publicly supporting nonprofit organization that sponsors the provision of health care to populations of underserved people if they do so for a period not exceeding three consecutive days and if the nonprofit organization verifies that the practitioner has a valid, unrestricted license in another state.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2601 of the Code of Virginia, relating to volunteer audiologists.

22102057D

H.B. 145

Patron: Head

Practice of physician assistants. Removes the requirement that physician assistants appointed as medical examiners practice as part of a patient care team. For hospice program licensing, the bill adds physician assistants to the list of hospice personnel who may be part of a medically directed interdisciplinary team. The bill removes a reference to physician assistants in the definition of patient care team podiatrist. Finally, the bill permits physician assistants working in the field of orthopedics as part of a patient care team to utilize fluoroscopy for guidance of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, provided other requirements are met.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-162.1, 32.1-282, 54.1-2900, and 54.1-2952 of the Code of Virginia, relating to practice of physician assistants.

22101644D

H.B. 192

Patron: Hodges

Prescription of opioids; sunset. Repeals sunset provisions for the requirement that a prescriber registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program request information about a patient from the Program upon initiating a new course of treatment that includes the prescribing of opioids anticipated, at the onset of treatment, to last more than seven consecutive days.

A BILL to repeal the second enactment of Chapter 113 and the second enactment of Chapter 406 of the Acts of Assembly of 2016, as amended by the second enactment of Chapter 249 of the Acts of Assembly of 2017, and the second and third enactments of Chapter 249 of the Acts of Assembly of 2017, relating to prescription of opioids; sunset.

22101714D

H.B. 285

Patron: Adams, D.M.

Clinical nurse specialist; practice agreements. Provides that a nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing in the category of clinical nurse specialist who does not prescribe controlled substances or devices may practice in the practice category in which he is certified and licensed without a written or electronic practice agreement, provided that he (i) only practice within the scope of his clinical and professional training and limits of his knowledge and experience and consistent with the applicable standards of care, (ii) consult and collaborate with other health care providers based on the clinical condition of the patient to whom health care is provided, and (iii) establish a plan for referral of complex medical cases and emergencies to physicians or other appropriate health care providers. The bill also provides that a nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards in the category of clinical nurse specialist who prescribes controlled substances or devices shall practice in consultation with a licensed physician in accordance with a practice agreement between the nurse practitioner and the licensed physician.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 54.1-2957, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, and 54.1-2957.01 of the Code of Virginia, relating to clinical nurse specialist; practice agreement.

22100270D

H.B. 286

Patron: Adams, D.M.

Nurse practitioners; declaration of death and cause of death. Authorizes autonomous nurse practitioners, defined in the bill, to declare death and determine cause of death; allows nurse practitioners who are not autonomous nurse practitioners to pronounce the death of a patient in certain circumstances; and eliminates the requirement for a valid Do Not Resuscitate Order for the deceased patient for declaration of death by a registered nurse, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner who is not an autonomous nurse practitioner.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-263 and 54.1-2972 of the Code of Virginia, relating to nurse practitioners; declaration of death and cause of death.

22103683D

H.B. 745

Patron: Bell

Respiratory therapists; practice pending licensure. Provides that a person who has graduated from an accredited respiratory therapy education program may practice with the title "Respiratory Therapist, License Applicant" or "RT-Applicant" until he has received a failing score on any examination required by the Board for licensure or six months from the date of graduation, whichever occurs sooner.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2955 of the Code of Virginia, relating to practice of respiratory therapists; practice pending licensure.

22101255D

H.B. 1245

Patron: Adams, D.M.

Nurse practitioners; practice without a practice agreement; repeal sunset. Repeals the sunset provision on the bill passed in 2021 that reduces from five to two the number of years of full-time clinical experience a nurse practitioner must have to be eligible to practice without a written or electronic practice agreement.

A BILL to repeal the second enactment of Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021 Special Session I, relating to nurse practitioners; practice without a practice agreement.

22100642D