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Senate Committee on Education and Health Subcommittee Health Licensing

Quayle (Chairman), Lucas, Martin, Barker, Northam

Clerk: Patty Lung, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: J.Eades, N.Cheuk
Date of Meeting: February 14, 2011
Time and Place: 3:00 P.M., 3rd Floor East Conference Room, G.A.B.

H.B. 1559

Patron: Scott, E.T.

Audiologists; sale of hearing aids.  Exempts audiologists with a doctoral degree in audiology licensed to practice in Virginia from the examination requirement for issuance of a license to engage in the practice of fitting or dealing in hearing aids.

H.B. 2037

Patron: Peace

Social work; title protection.  Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person not licensed by the Board of Social Work to use the title "Social Worker" in writing or in advertising in connection with his practice unless he simultaneously uses the clarifying initials signifying a degree in social work. The bill provides exceptions for federally required and defined social workers in nursing homes and hospices and has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2013.