| VA | HB354 | Veto | Public pools; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to adopt regulations governing swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated for public use, including swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated in conjunc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB609 | Enroll
75% | Contraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB570 | Veto | Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB962 | Enroll
75% | Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| 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 | 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 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| 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 | 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 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| 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 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) |
| VA | HB1185 | Engross
50% | Board of Health; Department of Health Professions; Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. Directs the Board of Health to report Admit, Transfer, and Discharge data elements on patients who overdose on opioids to the Department of Heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB550 | Engross
50% | Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate. Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| VA | HB1052 | Engross
50% | Department of Health; local government; alternative and conventional onsite sewage systems. Requires localities to review the Department of Health's database prior to notifying the owners of an alternative or conventional onsite sewage system about t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 21-N) |
| VA | HB210 | Engross
50% | Electronic execution of estate planning documents; Uniform Electronic Wills Act. Permits trusts, advance medical directives, and refusals to make anatomical gifts to be signed and notarized, as appropriate, by electronic means. The bill also codifies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| VA | HB52 | Engross
50% | Alkaline hydrolysis; registration; regulations. Establishes a registration requirement for alkaline hydrolysis providers. The bill defines alkaline hydrolysis and adds alkaline hydrolysis and hydrolyzed remains to statutes dealing with cremation and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Defeated by Senate (6-Y 32-N) |
| VA | HB8 | Intro
25% | Medical Ethics Defense Act established. Establishes the right of a medical practitioner, health care institution, or health care payer not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service that violates such medical practitioner's, health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB37 | Intro
25% | Loan repayment programs; mental health professionals. Creates a loan repayment program for persons who have worked as mental health professionals in the Commonwealth for at least five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB87 | Intro
25% | Board of Health; hospital regulations; patient drug testing. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require hospitals to test patients who are presenting with overdose symptoms for fentanyl and to test for fentanyl, marijuana, amphe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB241 | Intro
25% | Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers. The bill establishes the scope of services offered by such centers and requirements for operation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB239 | Intro
25% | Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease; established; report. Establishes the Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease to advise the State Health Commissioner on the efforts to improve awareness of sickle cell disease and the needs of individuals with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB481 | Intro
25% | First responders; proof of immunization; exemption. Provides that first responders shall not be required to show proof of immunization to attend trainings at medical care facilities, regardless of whether the administration of immunizing agents confl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB278 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; fertility preservation treatments; genetic material misuse; penalty. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB681 | Intro
25% | Home-produced or small farm-produced food products. Allows the sale of food products made from any fruit, grain, herbs, honey, meat, milk, mushrooms, nuts, poultry, seafood, or vegetables by a farm employing 10 or fewer people or by a private home, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB513 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB664 | Intro
25% | Abortion; born alive infant; treatment and care; penalty. Requires every health care provider licensed by the Board of Medicine who attempts to terminate a pregnancy to (i) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB665 | Intro
25% | Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; religious exception. Exempts a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects to administration of a vaccine on religious grounds from mandatory immunization requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB594 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; certified community health workers; work group. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment for services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB622 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; violence prevention services benefit; work group. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB997 | Intro
25% | Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB689 | Intro
25% | Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB982 | Intro
25% | State plan for medical assistance services; adult hearing screenings; audiological examinations; hearing aids. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Certificate of public need program; phased elimination. Creates a three-phase process to eliminate the certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with elimination of the requirement for a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB970 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health care coverage for individuals in the Commonwealth who (i) are under 19 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1291 | Intro
25% | Virginia Health Workforce Innovation Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Health Workforce Innovation Fund to be administered by the Board of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority. The Board shall use the Fund to provide grants t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1285 | Intro
25% | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; purpose; Board of Directors; powers and duties. Adds managing primary care graduate medical education programs and managing the Health Workforce Innovation Fund to the duties of the Virginia Health Wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB1364 | Intro
25% | Abortion prohibited; exception; life of the mother; penalty. Provides that if any person administer to, or cause to be taken by a woman, any drug or other thing, or use means, with intent to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB404 | Intro
25% | Abortion; use of public funds prohibited. Provides that no agency of the Commonwealth shall enter into any contract with or make any grant of public funds, as defined in the bill, to any entity or any affiliate of any entity that provides abortion se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
VOTE: Engrossment (1-Y 95-N 2-A) |
| VA | HB502 | Intro
25% | Nonbinary sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option of "male," "female," or "nonbinary" when designating the applicant's sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
