Virginia House Bill 39 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on December 2 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-12 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Volunteer health care providers. Provides that the Department of Health shall certify as a volunteer health care provider any person who (i) holds a current, valid license as a doctor of medicine or osteopathy from the Board of Medicine or as a dentist from the Board of Dentistry; (ii) is deemed to be an employee of the federal Public Health Services as a free clinic professional providing qualifying health services; and (iii) provides documentation indicating that he has provided at least four hours of qualifying health services at a free clinic or free clinic offsite program per week for four consecutive weeks during the three-month period immediately preceding the date of application. The bill provides that no volunteer health care provider who is certified as a voluntary health care provider shall be liable for civil damages for any injury or wrongful death of any person resulting from the delivery of any health care provided in his professional capacity, absent gross negligence or willful misconduct. The bill further provides that the Attorney General may represent a volunteer health care provider in any civil matter in which a defense of immunity from liability due to status as a certified volunteer health care provider is raised.

Health care providers, volunteer; VDH shall certify certain persons, immunity from liability, etc.

Del. Robert Marshall [R]

Del. Patrick Hope [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-12	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2014-01-15	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2014-01-10	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil
2013-12-02	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2013-12-02	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14100709D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	507	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	370	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	225.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB39
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB39+hil