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2022 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Certificate of Public Need

Lucas (Chair), Saslaw, Newman, Petersen, Barker, Cosgrove, Dunnavant

Clerk: Michael Jackson,Thomas Jackson
Staff: Julia Carlton, Anna Moir
Date of Meeting: February 3, 2022
Time and Place: Upon Adj. of Ed and Health Comm. Meeting/Senate Committee Room A
Updated: SB205 Removed & added to 2/3 full committee docket

S.B. 130

Patron: Favola

Certificate of public need; conditions and licensure of nursing homes and hospitals; public health emergency. Provides for an exemption from the requirement for a certificate of public need, for the duration of the State Health Commissioner's determination, emergency order of the State Board of Health, or Commissioner's exercising of authority on behalf of the Board, plus a period of 30 days, for projects involving a temporary increase in the total number of beds in an existing hospital or nursing home, which may include temporary structures or satellite locations that are operated by the hospital or nursing home in response to a public health emergency, when the Commissioner has determined that a natural or man-made disaster has caused the evacuation of a hospital or nursing home and that a public health emergency exists due to a shortage of hospital or nursing home beds, or when the Board has made an emergency order or the Commissioner is exercising authority on behalf of the Board 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.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-102.2 and 32.1-127 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certificate of public need; conditions and licensure of hospitals and nursing homes; public health emergency.

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S.B. 293

Patron: Deeds

Certificate of public need; inpatient psychiatric services and facilities. Requires the Commissioner of Health (the Commissioner) to impose conditions related to the provision of care to individuals who are the subject of a temporary detention order on certificates of public need for projects involving inpatient psychiatric services and facilities and provides that when determining the public need for a proposed project involving an inpatient psychiatric service or facility, the Commissioner shall not take into consideration existing inpatient psychiatric services or facilities or the impact of approving the application and issuing the certificate of public need for the proposed project on an existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility if the existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility does not provide an adequate amount of service to individuals who are subject to a temporary detention order, as determined by the Commissioner in accordance with regulations of the Board of Health (the Board). The bill directs the Board to adopt regulations establishing a process by which the Commissioner shall annually establish the amount of services for individuals who are subject to a temporary detention order that an existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility must provide.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-102.3 and 32.1-102.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certificate of public need; inpatient psychiatric services and facilities.

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S.B. 336

Patron: Barker

Certificate of public need; nursing homes; charity care. Exempts nursing homes from the requirement that applicants for a certificate of public agree to provide a specified level of charity care to indigent persons or accept patients requiring specialized care, facilitate the development and operation of primary and specialty medical care services in designated medically underserved areas of the applicant's service area, or both.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-102.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certificate of public need; nursing homes; charity care.

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