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SB 718 Telemedicine; Department of Health to establish a three-year pilot program, report.
Introduced by: William M. Stanley, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Telemedicine; pilot program. Directs the Department of Health, in partnership with a hospital licensed in the Commonwealth, to establish a three-year telemedicine pilot program designed to reduce patient use of emergency department facilities for the treatment of low-acuity conditions. The bill requires the Department to report the results of the pilot program to the State Board of Health and to the General Assembly by October 1, 2018. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a 2015 general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 12/08/14 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100725D pdf | impact statement
- 02/10/15 Senate: Printed as engrossed 15100725D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/08/14 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100725D
- 12/08/14 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/05/15 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/15 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/05/15 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/15 Senate: Read second time
- 02/10/15 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/10/15 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/10/15 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB718E
- 02/10/15 Senate: Printed as engrossed 15100725D-E
- 02/10/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/15 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/15 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/12/15 House: Read first time
- 02/12/15 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/12/15 House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
- 02/24/15 House: Left in Appropriations