Menstrual Equity For All Act of 2017 [HB-972]
Menstrual Equity For All Act of 2017 This bill establishes a tax credit, a tax exclusion, and requirements that apply to the purchase or distribution of menstrual hygiene products. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand the tax exclusion for reimbursements from a health flexible spending arrangement to include amounts paid or incurred for menstrual hygiene products, and (2) allow a refundable tax credit of $120 for certain individuals who use menstrual hygiene products, subject to adjustments for inflation and a limitation based
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HB-972: Menstrual Equity For All Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 03/02/2017
Medicaid Third Party Liability Act [HB-938]
Medicaid Third Party Liability Act This bill alters provisions related to third-party liability for medical assistance paid under the Medicaid program. Specifically, with respect to such liability, the bill: expands the definition of "responsible third party" to include, among other health insurers, the TRICARE program; eliminates special rules with respect to certain services provided to children; requires the inclusion, in a contract between a state Medicaid program and a health insurer, of certain information regarding whether the state is delegating
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HB-938: Medicaid Third Party Liability Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Brett Guthrie
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/10/2017
Regulation of private wells. [SB-1247]
Regulation of private wells. Adds Stafford County to the list of counties and cities authorized to establish standards for the construction and abandonment of private wells that are more stringent than those standards adopted by the Board of Health.
SB-1247: Regulation of private wells.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (15-y 0-n) on 01/26/2017
Virginia Human Rights Act; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; causes of action. [HB-2295]
Virginia Human Rights Act; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; causes of action. Provides that no employer may discharge any employee on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including lactation. Currently, the protection against discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions applies to an employer employing more than five but fewer than 15 persons.
HB-2295: Virginia Human Rights Act; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; causes of action.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Stricken From Docket By General Laws By Voice Vote on 01/24/2017
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Act [S.311]
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to expand training and support services for families and caregivers of individuals living with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.
S.311: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 02/06/2017
SR-49: A resolution declaring that achieving the primary goal of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease of the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer's disease by 2025 is an urgent national priority.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins
Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S747-748) on 02/06/2017
You have voted SR-49: A resolution declaring that achieving the primary goal of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease of the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer's disease by 2025 is an urgent national priority..
Provider Payment Sunshine Act [S.308]
Provider Payment Sunshine Act This bill amends title XI (General Provisions) of the Social Security Act to expand reporting requirements related to the transparency of physician ownership or investment interests. Under current law, a manufacturer of drugs, devices, or medical supplies that are covered under Medicaid or Medicare must regularly report on any payment or transfer of value by the manufacturer to a “covered recipient,” defined as either a physician who is not an employee of the manufacturer or a teaching hospital. The bill expands the
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S.308: Provider Payment Sunshine Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/06/2017
Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act [S.309]
Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act This bill establishes a Community-Based Institutional Special Needs Plan demonstration program, through which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall target home- and community-based services to low-income seniors who are unable to perform two or more activities of daily living and are eligible for Medicare Advantage (MA) but not for Medicaid. An MA plan that is selected to participate in the program must use certain payments from CMS to provide those beneficiaries with services and supports
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S.309: Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/06/2017
DEVICE Act of 2017 Disclosure; and Encouragement of Verification, Innovation, Cleaning, and Efficiency Act of 2017 [HB-872]
DEVICE Act of 2017 Disclosure; and Encouragement of Verification, Innovation, Cleaning, and Efficiency Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require medical device manufacturers to notify the Food and Drug Administration (FDA): (1) before making changes to the design or reprocessing instructions of a device, and (2) no more than five days after widely disseminating to health care providers in a foreign country communications regarding changes to the design or reprocessing instructions of a device or regarding a
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HB-872: DEVICE Act of 2017 Disclosure; and Encouragement of Verification, Innovation, Cleaning, and Efficiency Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/10/2017
MISSION ZERO Act Military Injury Surgical Systems Integrated Operationally Nationwide to Achieve ZERO Preventable Deaths Act [HB-880]
MISSION ZERO Act Military Injury Surgical Systems Integrated Operationally Nationwide to Achieve ZERO Preventable Deaths Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to certain trauma centers to enable military trauma care providers and trauma teams to provide trauma care and related acute care at those trauma centers. Funds may be used to train and incorporate military trauma care providers into the trauma center, including expenditures for malpractice insurance,
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HB-880: MISSION ZERO Act Military Injury Surgical Systems Integrated Operationally Nationwide to Achieve ZERO Preventable Deaths Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Castor
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 02/27/2018
Death certificate; amendments other than correction of information. [HB-2276]
Death certificate; amendments. Establishes a process for amending death certificates to change the name of the deceased, the deceased's parent or spouse, or the informant; the marital status of the deceased; or the place of residence of the deceased when the place of residence is outside the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 1048.
HB-2276: Death certificate; amendments other than correction of information.
Sponsored by: Rep. R. Steven Landes
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0284) on 03/03/2017
Right to Try Act of 2017 [HB-878]
Right to Try Act of 2017 This bill requires the federal government to allow unrestricted manufacturing, distribution, prescribing, and dispensing of experimental drugs, biological products, and medical devices that are: (1) intended to treat a patient who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and (2) authorized by state law. The federal government must allow unrestricted possession and use of such treatments by patients certified by a physician as having exhausted all other treatment options. A manufacturer, distributor, prescriber, dispenser,
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HB-878: Right to Try Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 03/02/2017
Suicide; task force to raise public awareness, etc. [HB-2258]
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; report on activities related to suicide prevention. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on its activities related to suicide prevention across the lifespan by December 1, 2017.
HB-2258: Suicide; task force to raise public awareness, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0464) on 03/13/2017
Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act [HB-849]
Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to terminate the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Under PPACA, the IPAB is tasked with developing proposals to reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending.
HB-849: Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act
Explanation of the Bill:
This bill, also known as the 'Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act,' aims to get rid of a part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that establishes the Independent Payment Advisory Board. This board was set up to help control costs in Medicare, but some people believe it gives the government too much power over healthcare decisions. If this bill passes, the provisions related to this board would be removed as if they were never part of the law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/15/2017
Abortion; informed written consent. [HB-2286]
Abortion; informed written consent. Provides that a woman seeking an abortion may waive in writing any requirement establishing a mandatory time period or mandating that a physician provide to or review with the woman specific information or materials before an abortion may be performed. The bill requires that a copy of such waiver be maintained in the woman's medical records. The bill also provides that, regardless of any waiver, a physician is still obligated to satisfy the applicable standard of care.
HB-2286: Abortion; informed written consent.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act of 2017 [HB-853]
Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act of 2017 This bill requires federally funded entities to certify that they will not perform, and will not provide funds to any other entity that performs, an abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or where a physical condition endangers the woman's life unless an abortion is performed. This applies to a hospital only if the hospital funds a non-hospital entity that performs abortions.
HB-853: Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Andy Biggs
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/10/2017