Virginia Senate Bill 1151 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - Senate: Left in Education and Health
Pending: Senate Education and Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Health professions; licensure of surgical assistants. Requires surgical assistants to be licensed by the Board of Medicine and creates an Advisory Board on Surgical Assistants to assist with such licensure and regulation. A surgical assistant is an individual other than a licensed physician assistant, podiatrist assistant, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, dental hygienist, or registered nurse who, under the direct supervision of a qualified surgeon, directly performs significant surgical tasks including manipulating tissues or organs, manipulating or inserting subcutaneous sutures, placing hemostatic agents, injecting local anesthetic, harvesting veins, and implanting devices.

Surgical assistants; required to be licensed by Board of Medicine, Advisory Board created.

Sen. Frederick Quayle [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		Senate: Left in Education and Health
2011-01-18		Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health Licensing
2011-01-12		Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2011-01-12		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11100428D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2900	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	2956.12	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	2956.15	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+SB1151
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB1151+hil