| VA | HB933 | Pass | Alzheimer's disease and dementia training for dispatchers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel. Requires certain agencies in the Commonwealth to develop curricula and provide training related to Alzheimer's disease and dementia to dispatche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 698 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB155 | Pass | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 761 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB367 | Pass | Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement established. Creates the Task Force on Fentanyl and Heroin Enforcement whose purpose is to study ways to enhance the ability of law-enforcement officers throughout the Commonwealth to combat the illegal m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 771 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1499 | Pass | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 754 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB250 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote ultrasound procedures; remote fetal non-stress tests. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to modify the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision allowing for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 585 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB150 | Pass | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 435 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB204 | Pass | Maternal Mortality Review Team; membership. Adds a representative of the Department of Corrections and a representative of the State Board of Local and Regional Jails, both appointed by the Governor, to the membership of the Maternal Mortality Review...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 376 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB353 | Pass | Hospitals; emergency departments; licensed physicians. Requires any hospital with an emergency department to have at least one licensed physician on duty and physically present at all times. Current law requires such hospitals to have a licensed phys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (effective 7/1/25) |
| VA | SB151 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; fees. Reduces the fee for the issuance of an original, duplicate, reissue, or renewal special identification card without a photograph from $10 per year with a $20 minimum fee to $2 per year with a $10 minimum fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 497 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB252 | Pass | Sickle cell disease; statewide registry; collection of sickle cell disease case information; penalties; notification; annual report. Creates a statewide registry of sickle cell disease patients to be maintained by the State Health Commissioner. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 437 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB514 | Pass | Advisory Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome; sunset. Extends from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2028, the sunset of the Advisory Council o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 391 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1224 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; fees. Reduces the fee for the issuance of an original, duplicate, reissue, or renewal special identification card without a photograph from $10 per year with a $20 minimum fee to $2 per year with a $10 minimum fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 474 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1431 | Pass | Alternative onsite sewage systems; approval of treatment units. Requires the Department of Health to approve treatment units for alternative onsite sewage systems if they meet certain NSF/ANSI standards or certain testing requirements. Alternative o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 419 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB620 | Pass | Long-term services and support screening; PACE programs; emergency. Allows qualified staff of programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to conduct the required long-term services and supports screening in accordance with requirements esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 517 (effective 4/4/24) |
| VA | HB820 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; annual review of medication and treatment for sickle cell disease; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to conduct an annual review of all medications and forms of treatment for sick...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 306 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB220 | Pass | Water facilities; staffing; licensed operators. Requires sewage treatment works, classified waterworks, and classified water treatment facilities to employ a licensed operator. The bill establishes a protocol for responding to an unexpected vacancy o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0178) |
| VA | HB255 | Pass | Adult wellness screening; sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait. Provides that every adult resident of the Commonwealth may be offered screening tests for sickle cell disease or the sickle cell trait and requires that the health care professional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182) |
| VA | HB435 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; exposure to bodily fluids; petition to the general district court by local attorney for the Commonwealth. Allows a local attorney for the Commonwealth in the county or city in which such exposure occurred to file a petition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190) |
| VA | HB763 | Pass | Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) |
| VA | SB537 | Pass | Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| VA | SB24 | Pass | Long-term services and supports screening; expedited screening; screening exemption; emergency. Modifies existing provisions regarding the required long-term services and supports screening under the state plan for medical assistance services by crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152) |
| VA | HB1498 | Pass | Adult day care centers; name change. Renames "adult day care centers" as "adult day centers" throughout the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150) |
| VA | HB649 | Pass | Vital records; birth certificates; adoption; members of the military. Directs the State Registrar to expedite issuance of a new birth certificate upon receipt of certain documentation for a person born in the Commonwealth if at least one adoptive par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) |
| VA | HB291 | Pass | Long-term services and supports screening; expedited screening; screening exemption; emergency. Modifies existing provisions regarding the required long-term services and supports screening under the state plan for medical assistance services by crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024) |
| VA | HB729 | Pass | Long-term services and support screening; PACE programs; emergency. Allows qualified staff of programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to conduct the required long-term services and supports screening in accordance with requirements esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0048) |
