Virginia House Bill 1130 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-12-01 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Requests for medical records; fee limits and penalty for failure to provide. Provides that when documents are requested or subpoenaed, the requester or subpoenaing party has the option of specifying that the documents are to be produced by the health care provider in hard copy or electronic format, and where a requester makes no specification, the documents are to be produced in electronic format. The bill imposes a maximum cost to the requester of medical records requested in electronic format. Current law does not set a maximum cost or deadline for production but provides that if a court finds that a health care provider refuses to comply either by willfully or arbitrarily refusing or by imposing a charge in excess of the reasonable expense of making the copies and processing the request for records, the court may award damages for all expenses incurred by the patient or authorized insurer to obtain such copies, including court costs and reasonable attorney fees. The bill imposes a $100 per day sanction, plus damages, attorney fees, and costs incurred by the requesting party, upon health care providers who do not furnish

Medical records; fee limits and penalty for failure to provide.

Del. Gregory Habeeb [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-12-01	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-02-03	House	Continued to 2017 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
2016-01-25	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017 by voice vote
2016-01-20	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2016-01-13	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-13	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103223D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	127.1:03	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	111	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	413	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1130
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1130+hil