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2024 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health

Favola (Chair), Suetterlein, Bagby, Aird, Durant

Clerk: Hobie Lehman, Madison Odallo
Staff: Julia Carlton
Date of Meeting: January 16, 2024
Time and Place: 4 PM, Senate Room C, 3rd Floor, General Assembly Building
Updated to remove SB 229

S.B. 140

Patron: Carroll Foy

Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a systematic way. The bill requires the Team to compile triennial statistical data regarding fetal and infant deaths and to make such data available to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Department of Health. The bill provides that information and records obtained or created by the Team and portions of meetings of the Team at which individual fetal and infant deaths are discussed shall be confidential.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-3705.5, 2.2-3711, as it is currently effective and as it may become effective, and 2.2-4002 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-283.9, relating to the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report.

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S.B. 154

Patron: Head

Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also changes the name of the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to the Advance Health Care Planning Registry. The bill directs the Department of Health to amend certain Advance Health Care Planning Registry regulations.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 54.1-2994 and 54.1-2995 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations.

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S.B. 250

Patron: Hashmi

Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote ultrasound procedures; remote fetal non-stress tests. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to modify the state plan for medical assistance to include a provision allowing for reimbursement under certain conditions for remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal non-stress tests.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-325 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote ultrasound procedures; remote fetal non-stress tests.

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S.B. 320

Patron: Roem

Department of Health; WIC applications; information. Directs the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) application.

A BILL to direct the Department of Health to provide information, resources, and education to food banks regarding outreach opportunities for providing assistance to individuals completing a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) application.

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S.B. 325

Patron: Roem

Vital records; birth certificates; adoption; members of the military. Directs the State Registrar to issue a new birth certificate no later than two business days after receipt of adoption records for a person born in the Commonwealth if at least one adoptive parent is an active duty or retired member of the military or military reserves. The bill directs the court decreeing the adoption to deliver such records to the State Registrar no later than five business days from such decree.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-261 of the Code of Virginia, relating to vital records; birth certificates; adoption; members of the military.

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S.B. 390

Patron: Pekarsky

Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined in the bill. The bill directs the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to publish information on SUDEP and a SUDEP death investigation form on its website. Additionally, the bill requires the Chief Medical Examiner and local medical examiners to complete training in the investigation of SUDEP on a triennial basis. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-283.9, relating to Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training.

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S.B. 392

Patron: Pekarsky

Hospitals; emergency departments; licensed physicians.Requires any hospital with an emergency department to have at least one licensed physician on duty and physically present at all times. Current law requires such hospitals to have a licensed physician on call, though not necessarily physically present on the premises, at all times.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-127, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to hospitals; emergency departments; licensed physicians.

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S.B. 525

Patron: Williams Graves

Stillbirth Support Grant Program. Establishes the Stillbirth Support Grant Program for the purpose of providing grants to individuals who delivered a stillborn child, as defined by the bill, to assist with out-of-pocket costs associated with such delivery. Under the bill, an application for such a grant must be submitted within the same calendar year as such delivery of a stillborn child occurs.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-78.1, relating to Stillbirth Support Grant Program.

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