Professions And Occupations
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. [HB-1185]
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 Health Professions for use in the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill requires practitioners to obtain such data when prescribing opioids. Board of Health; Department of Health Professions; Prescription Monitoring Program; overdose information. Directs the Board of Health to report Admit, Transfer,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (12-y 3-n) on 03/04/2024
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To allow another round of “buy in” to the old public employees retirement plan for those that didn’t last time. [HB-4281]
The purpose of this bill is to open an enrollment period of 11 months in which certain members of the Public Employees Retirement System may purchase previously forfeited service credit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Dean
Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2024
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to service employees with National Association for Pupil Transportation Certifications [HB-4204]
The purpose of this bill is to make service employees with National Association for Pupil Transportation Certification as a Director or Supervisor of Pupil Transportation eligible as candidates for professional employee positions involving supervision of a county transportation department and requiring county boards to consider such candidates.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Toney
Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2024
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To expand the EMS retirement system [HB-4505]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify that an emergency medical services agency designated by a county commission to provide emergency response through a county emergency dispatch center qualifies as a participating public employer in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Statler
Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Therapeutically equivalent drug products; provisions for return of outdated drugs. [HB-1194]
Therapeutically equivalent drug products; provisions for return of outdated drugs. Requires drug manufacturers to implement provisions for the return of drugs past their expiration date by pharmacies in order for their products to be eligible for dispensing as a therapeutically equivalent drug.
Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Left In Health And Human Services on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment. [HB-813]
Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child's health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting parent of such health records would be reasonably likely to deter the minor from seeking care. Under the bill, a minor 16 years of age or older who is determined by a health care provider to be mature and capable of giving informed consent shall be deemed an adult for the purpose of giving consent to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Tran
Continued To 2025 In Health And Human Services By Voice Vote on 02/06/2024
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to administration of anesthetics [SB-192]
The purpose of this bill is to update the required credentials for a certified registered nurse anesthetist who cooperates with a physician or dentist.
Sponsored by: Sen. Patricia Rucker
Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Xylazine; penalty for manufacturing, selling, etc., for human consumption. [HB-1187]
Xylazine; manufacturing; selling; giving; distributing; possessing; veterinary use exemption; penalties. Provides that any person who knowingly manufactures, sells, gives, distributes, or possesses with the intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute the substance xylazine, when intended for human consumption, is guilty of a Class 5 felony. Under the bill, any person who knowingly possesses xylazine, when intended for human consumption, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Under the bill, it is not an offense to (i) manufacture xylazine for
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Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0472) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Central fill pharmacies; establishes requirements. [HB-1166]
Central fill pharmacies. Establishes requirements for central fill pharmacies, which are defined in the bill as permitted pharmacy facilities that, upon the request of an originating pharmacy, perform the product fulfillment of a drug order and return the filled prescription to the originating pharmacy for delivery to the patient or patient's agent or, for non-federally controlled substances, send the filled prescription directly to the patient. The bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Wyatt
Left In Health And Human Services on 02/13/2024
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Allow anyone with a master’s degree to sit for WV Bar exam and become licensed attorney [HB-4580]
The purpose of this bill is to permit persons with master's degrees, regardless of the course of study, to take an examination for admission to practice law in the courts of this state.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Dean
Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated glucagon. [HB-1039]
Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated glucagon; school board policies; donations. Permits any local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of undesignated nasal or injectable glucagon in each public elementary or secondary school in the local school division, provided that such policies are consistent with the guidance outlined in the most recent revision of the Diabetes Management In School: Manual for Unlicensed Personnel published by the Department of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0466) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives; joint licensing. [SB-351]
Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by the Board of Medicine and the Board of Nursing to being licensed by the Board of Nursing only.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0844) on 02/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Space Force; extension of certain benefits and privileges for persons serving in Armed Forces. [HB-738]
Space Force; extension of certain benefits and privileges for persons serving in a branch of the Armed Forces. Amends several provisions of law related to certain benefits and privileges available to persons serving or having served in a branch of the Armed Forces to include the Space Force as an eligible branch.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Wiley
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0817) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives; joint licensing. [HB-978]
Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by the Board of Medicine and the Board of Nursing to being licensed by the Board of Nursing only. Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Continued To 2025 In Health And Human Services By Voice Vote on 02/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Hysterectomies and oophorectomies; DHP shall review informed consent requirements. [SB-331]
Department of Health Professions; informed consent requirements for hysterectomies and oophorectomies; review; report. Directs the Department of Health Professions to review and make recommendations regarding informed consent requirements for hysterectomies and oophorectomies. The bill directs the Department of Health Professions to report its findings and recommendations to the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Left In Health And Human Services on 03/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Pharmacy technicians; expansion of allowable duties. [HB-1067]
Pharmacy technicians; expansion of allowable duties. Allows pharmacy technicians to clarify quantity or refills for a prescription issued for a Schedule VI drug. Current law only allows pharmacy technicians to accept refill authorizations. The bill also allows pharmacy technicians to accept electronic transfer of a refill for a Schedule VI drug upon order of the pharmacist-in-charge or pharmacist on duty if the refill is not an on-hold prescription. The bill defines "on-hold prescription" as a valid prescription that is received and maintained at
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Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0214) on 03/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Nurse practitioners; patient care team provider, autonomous practice. [HB-983]
Nurse practitioners; patient care team provider; autonomous practice. Allows certain nurse practitioners to oversee patient care teams by changing "patient care team physician" to "patient care team provider." The bill defines "patient care team provider" as a patient care team physician, as defined in relevant law, or a nurse practitioner who meets certain requirements. The bill also lowers from five years to two years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Left In Health And Human Services on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public schools; opioid antagonist administration, etc. [HB-732]
Public schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to develop, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Education, plans, policies, and procedures for (i) providing at each public secondary school that includes grades nine through 12 a program of instruction on opioid overdose prevention
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0451) on 04/04/2024
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South Dakota 2024 Regular Session
Expand eligibility to practice as a dental hygienist under the collaborative supervision of a dentist. [HB-1074]
Expand eligibility to practice as a dental hygienist under the collaborative supervision of a dentist.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phil Jensen
Signed By The Governor On February 06, 2024 H.j. 256 on 02/06/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Medicine, Board of; an attorney is allowed to serve as executive director for the Board. [HB-964]
Board of Medicine; executive director; qualifications. Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Board of Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Board of Medicine must be a physician.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0463) on 04/04/2024