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2022 SESSION

22100567D
SENATE BILL NO. 192
Offered January 12, 2022
Prefiled January 10, 2022
A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-30 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local health director; qualifications.
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Patrons-- Mason and Locke
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Referred to Committee on Education and Health
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 32.1-30 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 32.1-30. Local health departments.

Each county and city shall establish and maintain a local department of health which that shall be headed by a local health director. Each such local health director shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in this the Commonwealth or shall possess a Doctor of Public Health degree, a Master of Public Health degree, or a doctoral degree in the area of public health.