Professions And Occupations
Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Contractors, Board for; applications for licensure. [HB-227]
[Construction ]
[Immigration ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Board for Contractors; applications for licensure. Provides that as part of the application for licensure as a contractor, whether the application is for a Class A, B, or C license, each applicant shall submit a statement, on a form provided by the Board, certifying that the applicant (i) will not knowingly employ an undocumented worker or otherwise violate the Federal Immigration and Reform Act or § 40.1-11.1 of the Code of Virginia and (ii) will continue to verify the lawful employment status of all employees by means of a work-authorization
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Sponsored by: No sponsors House: Incorporated By Rules (hb926-byron) By Voice Vote on 02/05/2008
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Income tax, state; TRICARE physicians tax credit. [HB-213]
[Taxes ]
[Healthcare ]
[Military ]
[Veterans ]
Income tax; TRICARE physicians tax credit. Provides a one-time credit in the amount of $2,500 to physicians who enter into a TRICARE contract to provide health care services to patients covered by the TRICARE military health care system, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2008. An additional annual credit of $1,000 is allowed to those physicians who contract to provide health care services to TRICARE patients and do so for at least 100 TRICARE patients each year.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark L. Cole House: Left In Finance on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Schedule I hallucinogenic drugs; includes salvia divinorum and salvinorin A thereas. [HB-21]
[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Salvinorin A as a Schedule I hallucinogenic. Includes Salvinorin A in controlled substance Schedule I as a hallucinogenic drug.
Sponsored by: Rep. John M. O'Bannon Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0059) on 03/04/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence of contractors for employment. [HB-1558]
[Immigration ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence. Requires all public contractors and their subcontractors to register and participate in a federal Electronic Work Verification Program or similar electronic verification of work authorization program to determine that their employees and individual independent contractors are legally eligible for employment in the United States. Contractors and subcontractors are required to verify the employment status of their employees and independent contractors, and are prohibited from employing or contracting
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Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin L. Cline House: Continued To 2009 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/05/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Unborn child pain information; requires doctors to offer to anesthetize fetus prior to abortion. [HB-1556]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Unborn child pain information. Requires doctors to offer to anesthetize a fetus prior to abortion and to include in informational materials a statement that a fetus at 20 gestational weeks has the physical structures necessary to feel pain and react to physical stimuli in a manner that, in an infant or adult, would be interpreted as a response to pain.
Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin L. Cline Senate: Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (10-y 5-n) on 02/28/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Surgical complications; requires physicians to report. [HB-1543]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Data Privacy ]
Health records; surgical complications reporting. Requires physicians to report, in writing or by electronic means, each patient who comes under his professional care and requires medical treatment or suffers death that the physician has a reasonable basis to believe is the result of an elective outpatient surgical procedure. Complications resulting from elective outpatient surgical procedures. This bill provides that the report shall not contain any identifying information.
Sponsored by: Rep. William R. Janis Senate: Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (10-y 1-n) on 02/28/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Embalmers and funeral directors; continuing education [HB-1521]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
Embalmers and funeral directors; continuing education. Requires 10 hours of continuing education hours over a two-year period, rather than the current requirement of five hours per year. Also requires at least one hour per year covering compliance with laws and regulations governing the profession, and at least one hour per year covering preneed funeral arrangements.
Sponsored by: Rep. James P. Massie Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0396) on 03/11/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons; certain data required [HB-1509]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons; certain data required. Requires the Board of Dentistry to establish, maintain, and make available to the public, on its website and in accompanying materials, the individual certifications for cosmetic procedures for board-certified or board-eligible oral and maxillofacial surgeons who perform certain procedures.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark D. Sickles House: Continued To 2009 In Health, Welfare And Institutions By Voice Vote on 01/29/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Firefighters; task force to develop training standards, report. [HB-1501]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Firefighters; task force to develop training standards. Creates a task force, appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety, to develop criteria for the training and certification of all firefighters in Virginia. The bill sets out the membership of the task force and its duties.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam P. Ebbin House: Passed By Indefinitely In Militia, Police And Public Safety (15-y 7-n) on 02/08/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Small business health insurance advisor; Sec. of Health and Human Resources to create position. [HB-1497]
[Healthcare ]
[Small Business ]
[Insurance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
Small business health insurance pools; advisor. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to create the position of Small Business Health Insurance Advisor to assist small businesses in forming health insurance pools, as authorized by state and federal law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel W. Marshall House: Left In General Laws on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, etc., Board for; land surveyors. [HB-1492]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Real Estate ]
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects; land surveyors; public employees. Provides that any person engaged in the practice of land surveying as an employee of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision shall be allowed to use such experience toward the requirements for a licensed land surveyor. The bill provides that in order to sit for the licensing examination, such applicant shall (i) have a surveyor-in-training designation by the Board; (ii) have a minimum of four
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Sponsored by: Rep. David A. Nutter House: Left In General Laws on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Funerals and burials; designation of persons authorized to make decisions. [HB-1484]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Public Safety ]
Designation of persons authorized to make funeral and burial decisions. Designates the persons in order of priority who have the ability to make all necessary arrangements for a decedent's funeral and the disposition of his remains. This bill is in response to recent cases in Virginia concerning who had the right to make such decisions. Current law allows any next of kin to make arrangements, without specifying an order of priority. This bill grants funeral services providers civil immunity for decisions made if there is a dispute among members
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ward L. Armstrong House: Continued To 2009 In Health, Welfare And Institutions By Voice Vote on 01/24/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Certified home inspection; revises definition. [HB-1483]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Energy ]
Certified home inspection; definitions. Revises the definition of certified home inspection to include heating and cooling systems and the efficiency of such systems and duct work.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher B. Saxman House: Left In General Laws on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Contractors on school property; may request waiver from disqualification of providing services. [HB-1481]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Construction ]
Contractors on school property. Provides that a contractor or his employee may request a waiver from disqualification of providing services because of a felony conviction under certain conditions. The felony conviction must have occurred at least five years prior to the date of the waiver request, and the felony must not have involved: (i) the sexual molestation or physical or sexual abuse or rape of a child; (ii) any crime against the person under Chapter 4 of Title 18.2; or (iii) health and safety under Articles 1 or 1.1 of Chapter 7 of Title
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Sponsored by: Rep. Onzlee Ware House: Read Third Time And Defeated By House (30-y 65-n) on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Laboratory results; exception to releasing records directly to patient. [HB-1468]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Data Privacy ]
Authority to receive laboratory results directly. Creates an exception to the requirement that laboratories release records of results directly to patients for cases in which a treating physician or clinical psychologist determines that release to the patient would be reasonably likely to endanger the life or physical safety of the patient or another person or cause substantial harm to another person. This bill also creates an appeal process for persons who have been denied the records based on the recommendations of a treating physician or clinical
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Sponsored by: Rep. Clifford L. Athey House: Stricken From Docket By Health, Welfare And Institutions By Voice Vote on 01/29/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Schools for students with disabilities; administration of prescription medications. [HB-1445]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Administration of drugs; training of educational facility staff. Allows the administration of drugs by a person who has satisfactorily completed a training program for this purpose approved by the Board of Nursing and who administers such drugs in accordance with a physician's instructions pertaining to dosage, frequency, and manner of administration, and in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Board of Pharmacy relating to security and record keeping, when the drugs administered would be normally self-administered by a resident of a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Watkins M. Abbitt Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0085) on 03/04/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Dental assistants; Board of Dentistry to regulate practice thereof. [HB-1431]
[Healthcare ]
Practice of dental assistants. Requires the Board of Dentistry to regulate the practice of dental assistants. This bill is identical to
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny C. Bowling Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0084) on 03/04/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Minor's drug test; disclosure of results. [HB-1400]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Mental Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Crime ]
Disclosure of minor's drug test results. Provides that a parent, legal guardian or person standing in loco parentis may obtain the results of any drug test of a minor or a minor's health records, except when the minor's treating physician or the minor's treating clinical psychologist has determined in the exercise of his professional judgment that the disclose of heath records or the results of any drug test of the minor would be reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to the minor or another person. This bill also provides that a minor shall
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Sponsored by: Rep. Brenda L. Pogge Senate: Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (10-y 5-n) on 02/28/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Real estate brokers and salespersons; required disclosures. [HB-1397]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Duties of real estate brokers and salespersons; required disclosures. Eliminates the requirement that required disclosures concerning the physical condition of the property made by real estate licensees be conspicuous and printed either in bold lettering or all capitals, and underlined or in a separate box. Such disclosures, however, must continue to be made in writing.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jackson Hunter Miller Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0741) on 04/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Interpreters; use during testifying. [HB-1370]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Use of interpreters; not hearsay. States that if a person is testifying regarding the statement of another, and it would not be considered impermissible hearsay but for the use of an interpreter to communicate with such person, then the fact that an interpreter was used shall not make it impermissible.
Sponsored by: Rep. C. Todd Gilbert House: Stricken From Docket By Courts Of Justice By Voice Vote on 02/01/2008