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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health

Cosgrove (Chairman), Black, Barker, Lewis, Suetterlein

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 23, 2016
Time and Place: 4:00 P.M. - 3rd FL. East Conf. Rm.

H.B. 197

Patron: Lingamfelter

Commonwealth Workplace Violence Education, Awareness, and Prevention Program. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish and maintain the Commonwealth Mental Health First Aid Program to provide training by certified trainers of individuals residing or working in the Commonwealth on how to identify and assist individuals who have or may be developing a mental health or substance use disorder or who may be experiencing a mental health or substance abuse crisis.

H.B. 536

Patron: Hope

Sponsored residential and shared living services; background checks. Establishes a requirement for a national fingerprint-based background check for providers of sponsored residential and shared living services.

H.B. 558

Patron: Orrock

Onsite sewage systems and private wells; evaluation and design. Directs the State Health Commissioner to develop a plan for the orderly reduction and elimination of evaluation and design services by the Department of Health for onsite sewage systems and private wells, which shall provide for the protection of the public health as the Department transitions to accepting only applications that are supported by private site evaluations and designs from a licensed professional engineer or licensed onsite soil evaluator or, for any work subject to regulations governing private wells in the Commonwealth, by a licensed water well system provider. The Commissioner shall report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 15, 2016.

H.B. 905

Patron: Yancey

Advance disclosure of allowed amount or charge for procedure. Requires every hospital to furnish a patient scheduled to receive an elective procedure, test or service to be performed by the hospital, upon his request or the request of his legally authorized representative made no less than three days in advance of the date on which such elective procedure, test or service is scheduled to be performed, with an estimate of the payment amount for which the participant will be responsible for such elective procedure, test, or service.

H.B. 1273

Patron: O'Bannon

Regulation of X-ray machines. Clarifies the authority of the Department of Health (the Department) related to registration and inspection of X-ray producing devices and requires the Department to develop a list of qualified private inspectors of X-ray machines and develop regulations for the annual registration of such private inspectors. The bill authorizes the Department to collect a fee for registration of private inspectors of X-ray machines.

H.B. 1277

Patron: Robinson

Restaurants; annual inspections. Provides that every restaurant in the Commonwealth shall be inspected at least annually, with no more than 12 months elapsing between each such inspection.