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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: January 28, 2022
Time and Place: 8:30 AM Subcommittee Room #2 / 5th Floor Pocahontas Building
Updated: SB711 added to the docket

S.B. 169

Patron: Peake

Licensed practical nurses; authority to pronounce death. Extends to licensed practical nurses the authority to pronounce the death of a patient, provided that certain conditions are met. Current law provides that physicians, registered nurses, and physician assistants may pronounce death.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2972 of the Code of Virginia, relating to licensed practical nurses; authority to pronounce death.

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S.B. 414

Patron: Kiggans

Nurse practitioners; patient care team physician supervision capacity increased. Increases from six to 10 the number of nurse practitioners a patient care team physician may supervise at any one time in accordance with a written or electronic practice agreement.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2957.01 of the Code of Virginia, relating to nurse practitioners; patient care team physician supervision capacity increased.

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S.B. 456

Patron: Locke

Board of Medicine; implicit bias and cultural competency. Requires all practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to complete two hours of continuing education in each biennium on topics related to implicit bias and cultural competency.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2912.1, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to Board of Medicine; implicit bias and cultural competency.

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S.B. 542

Patron: Marsden

Board of Pharmacy; written certification for the use of cannabis products. Requires the Board of Pharmacy to provide a form for practitioners to issue as written certification for the use of cannabis products. Current law requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to provide the form.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-3408.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Board of Pharmacy; written certification for the use of cannabis products.

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S.B. 590

Patron: Pillion

License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates. Allows the Board of Dentistry to grant, without examination, a faculty license to teach dentistry in an accredited dental program to a graduate of a dental school or college or the dental department of an institution of higher education in a foreign country that has been granted a certification letter from the dean or program director of an accredited dental program confirming that the applicant has clinical competency and clinical experience that meet the credentialing standards of the dental school with which the applicant is to be affiliated. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2025.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2713 of the Code of Virginia, relating to license to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates.

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S.B. 647

Patron: Dunnavant

Commissioner of Health; administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices, and vaccines during public health emergency. Allows the Commissioner of Health to authorize persons who are not authorized by law to administer or dispense drugs or devices to do so in accordance with protocols established by the Commissioner when the Board of Health has made an emergency order for the purpose of suppressing nuisances dangerous to the public health and communicable, contagious, and infectious diseases and other dangers to the public life and health for the limited purpose of administering vaccines as an approved countermeasure for such communicable, contagious, and infectious diseases. Current law limits the Commissioner's ability to make such authorizations to circumstances when the Governor has declared a disaster or a state of emergency or the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services has issued a declaration of an actual or potential bioterrorism incident or other actual or potential public health emergency.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-42.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Commissioner of Health; administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices, and vaccines during public health emergency.

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S.B. 670

Patron: Hashmi

Board of Medicine; implicit bias and cultural competency. Requires all practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to complete two hours of continuing education in each biennium on topics related to implicit bias and cultural competency.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2912.1, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to Board of Medicine; implicit bias and cultural competency.

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S.B. 671

Patron: Dunnavant

Pharmaceutical processors. Amends the definition of "cannabis oil" by removing the requirement that only oil from industrial hemp be used in the formulation of cannabis oil. The bill requires the Board of Pharmacy to publish monthly on its website information including the number of practitioners, patients, registered agents, and parents or legal guardians of patients in each health service area who have registered with the Board, the number of written certifications issued, the number of pending applications for registrations, and the pace at which the Board is approving registrations. The bill directs the Board to promulgate numerous regulations related to pharmaceutical processors.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 54.1-3408.3, 54.1-3442.6, and 54.1-3442.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to pharmaceutical processors.

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S.B. 676

Patron: DeSteph

Licensure and practice of associate physicians. Authorizes the Board of Medicine to issue a two-year license to practice as an associate physician to an applicant who is 18 years of age or older, is of good moral character, has graduated from an accredited medical school, has successfully completed Step 1 and Step 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination, and has not completed a medical internship or residency program. The bill requires all associate physicians to practice in accordance with a practice agreement entered into between the associate physician and a physician licensed by the Board and provides for prescriptive authority of associate physicians in accordance with regulations of the Board.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 29 of Title 54.1 an article numbered 3.1, consisting of sections numbered 54.1-2941.1, 54.1-2941.2, and 54.1-2941.3, relating to licensure and practice of associate physicians.

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S.B. 711

Patron: Chase

Prescriptions; off-label use. Provides that a licensed health care provider with prescriptive authority may prescribe, administer, or dispense a drug that has been approved for a specific use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an off-label use when the health care provider determines, in his professional judgment, that such off-label use is appropriate for the care and treatment of the patient and prohibits a pharmacist from refusing to dispense a drug for off-label use if a valid prescription is presented.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 54.1-2971.02 and 54.1-3408.6, relating to prescriptions; off-label use.

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