Virginia House Bill 874 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-11-30 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Certificates of public need. Creates a three-phase process to sunset certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with the requirement for a certificate of public need eliminated (i) for the establishment of a new imaging service or addition of new equipment for imaging services beginning July 1, 2019; (ii) for ambulatory and outpatient surgery centers beginning July 1, 2020; and (iii) for hospitals and all other categories of projects other than nursing homes and facilities and equipment for open heart surgery and organ or tissue transplant services beginning July 1, 2021. The bill also creates a new permitting process for categories of facilities and projects exempted from the certificate of public need process that requires the Commissioner of Health to issue a permit but allows the Commissioner to condition a permit (a) on the agreement of the applicant to provide a specified level of care at a reduced rate to indigents, accept patients requiring specialized care, or facilitate the development and operation of primary medical care services in designated medically underserved areas of the applicant's service area or (b) on compliance of the applicant with quality of care standards. The bill allows the Commissioner to refuse to issue a permit if he determines that the project for which the permit is sought would be detrimental to the provision of health services in underserved areas of the Commonwealth.

Certificates of public need; creates a three-phase process to sunset requirements.

Del. Robert Orrock [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-11-30	House	Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
2018-02-06	House	Continued to 2019 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
2018-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2018-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102305D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	102.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.11	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.1:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3:7	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.3:8	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	102.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.23	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	122.24	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB874
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB874+hil