Virginia Senate Bill 294 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 5 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0178)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Prescription Monitoring Program; prescriber requirements. Requires prescribers to be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program by the Department of Health Professions upon filing an application for licensure or renewal of a license, if the prescriber has not already registered. The bill requires prescribers to request information from the Director of the Department of Health Professions to determine what, if any, other covered substances are currently being prescribed to any patient for whom the prescriber is initiating a new course of treatment that includes the prescribing of benzodiazepine or an opiate, when such course of treatment is anticipated to last more than 90 consecutive days and for which a treatment agreement is entered into, except when the prescriber's course of treatment arises from pain management relating to dialysis or cancer treatment. The bill also authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to identify and publish a list of benzodiazepines or opiates that have a low potential for abuse by human patients, the prescription of which shall not require the prescriber to request and obtain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program. This bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2015.

Prescription Monitoring Program; requirements of prescriber, effective date.

Sen. Phillip Puckett [D]

Sen. Jeffrey McWaters [R]

2014-02-19 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-17 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (87-Y 11-N) (Y: 89 N: 11 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-13 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (19-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-21 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (11-Y 0-N) (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-05		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0178)
2014-03-05		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 178 (effective 7/1/15)
2014-02-23	Senate	Signed by President
2014-02-21	House	Signed by Speaker
2014-02-21	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB294ER)
2014-02-21	Senate	Enrolled
2014-02-19	Senate	Title replaced 14105021D-H1
2014-02-19	Senate	House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2014-02-17	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (87-Y 11-N)
2014-02-17	House	Passed House with substitute (87-Y 11-N)
2014-02-17	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB294H1
2014-02-17	House	Committee substitute agreed to 14105021D-H1
2014-02-17	House	Read third time
2014-02-14	House	Read second time
2014-02-13	House	Committee substitute printed 14105021D-H1
2014-02-13	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
2014-01-24	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2014-01-24	House	Read first time
2014-01-24	House	Placed on Calendar
2014-01-21	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2014-01-20	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB294S1
2014-01-20	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 14104057D-S1
2014-01-20	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2014-01-20	Senate	Read second time
2014-01-17	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2014-01-16	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (11-Y 0-N)
2014-01-16	Senate	Committee substitute printed 14104057D-S1
2014-01-08	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2014-01-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2014-01-06	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102725D

HB1249 (Same As) 2014-03-03 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2522.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB294
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB294+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB294S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB294H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB294ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0178+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S04V0011+SB0294
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0073SB0294+SB0294
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0103SB0294+SB0294
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H12V0111+SB0294
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV0745+SB0294
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0452SB0294+SB0294