Virginia Senate Bill 663 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-04-08 - Letter sent to the Virginia Bar Association
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners of medicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistance to treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistance includes providing a legal consult fee schedule upon request, scheduling and participating in meetings with a treated patient's attorney upon request, participating in trial or de bene esse depositions as needed, and providing a written estimate of the cost of the patient's medical services related to the litigation. The bill prohibits providers from refusing services to a patient who is insured or otherwise has the ability to pay for provided services on the ground that such person was involved in an incident that is the subject of litigation or could result in litigation.

Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2020-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-08	Senate	Letter sent to the Virginia Bar Association
2020-04-08	Senate	Letter sent to the Medical Society of Virginia
2020-01-30	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 2-N)
2020-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute printed to LIS only 20105716D-S1
2020-01-16	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101354D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2910.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB663
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB663+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB663S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S04V0092+SB0663