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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: February 4, 2022
Time and Place: 8:00 AM Subcommittee Room #2 / 5th Floor Pocahontas Building
Updated: SB668 Removed & Added to the 2/3 full committee docket

S.B. 511

Patron: Suetterlein

Opioid treatment program pharmacy; medication dispensing; registered nurses. Allows a registered nurse practicing at an opioid treatment program pharmacy to perform the duties of a pharmacy technician, provided that all take-home medication doses are verified for accuracy by a pharmacist prior to dispensing.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-3321 of the Code of Virginia, relating to opioid treatment program pharmacy; medication dispensing; registered nurses.

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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. 594

Patron: Pillion

Medicaid participants; treatment involving the prescription of opioids; payment. Prohibits licensed providers from requiring payment from Medicaid participants for the prescription of an opioid for the management of pain or the prescription of buprenorphine-containing products, methadone, or other opioid replacements approved for the treatment of opioid addiction by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for medication-assisted treatment of opioid addiction, regardless of whether the provider participates in the state plan for medical assistance.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 54.1-2910.3:1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Medicaid participants; treatment involving prescription of opioids; payment.

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S.B. 601

Patron: Chase

COVID-19 immunization; prohibition on requirement; discrimination prohibited. Prohibits the State Health Commissioner and the Board of Health, the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Health Professions and any regulatory board therein, and the Department of Social Services from requiring any person, including any child, to undergo vaccination for COVID-19 and prohibits discrimination based on a person's COVID-19 vaccination status (i) with regard to education, employment, or issuance of a driver's license or other state identification or (ii) in numerous other contexts.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-2901.1, 2.2-3004, 15.2-1500.1, 15.2-1507, 15.2-1604, 22.1-271.2, 22.1-271.4, 22.1-289.031, 22.1-295.2, 22.1-306, 23.1-800, 32.1-43, 32.1-47, 32.1-47.1, 32.1-48, 44-146.17, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, 63.2-603, and 65.2-402.1 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-15.2, by adding in Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-48.002, by adding in Chapter 2 of Title 37.2 a section numbered 37.2-205, by adding sections numbered 40.1-27.5 and 38.2-3100.4, by adding in Article 4 of Chapter 3 of Title 46.2 a section numbered 46.2-333.2, by adding in Chapter 24 of Title 54.1 a section numbered 54.1-2409.6, and by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 63.2 a section numbered 63.2-221.1, relating to COVID-19 vaccination status; discrimination prohibited.

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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. 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. 672

Patron: Dunnavant

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; prescribing, dispensing, and administering of controlled substances. Allows pharmacists and pharmacy technicians under the supervision of a pharmacist to initiate treatment with and dispense and administer certain drugs devices, and tests in accordance with a statewide protocol developed by the Board of Pharmacy in collaboration with the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health. The bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to establish such protocol by November 1, 2022, and to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill within 280 days of its enactment.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 54.1-3303.1 and 54.1-3321 of the Code of Virginia, relating to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; prescribing, dispensing, and administering of controlled substances.

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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. 710

Patron: Chase

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20 weeks' gestation, the physician or authorized nurse practitioner is required to terminate the pregnancy in a manner that would provide the unborn child the best opportunity to survive. The bill punishes performance of an abortion in violation of the Act as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for civil remedies against a physician or authorized nurse practitioner who performs an abortion in violation of the Act.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-73 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 4 of Title 18.2 an article numbered 10, consisting of sections numbered 18.2-76.3 through 18.2-76.10, relating to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty.

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S.B. 772

Patron: Marsden

Board of Pharmacy; cannabis registration.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 54.1-3408.3, 54.1-3442.5, 54.1-3442.6 and 54.1-3442.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Board of Pharmacy; cannabis registration.

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