Professions And Occupations
Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Real estate appraisers; exemptions from licensure. [SB-1535]
Real Estate Appraiser Board; evaluations. Allows a licensed residential real estate appraiser, certified residential real estate appraiser, or certified general real estate appraiser to provide an evaluation of real estate or real property in connection with certain real estate-related financial transactions. This bill is identical to HB 1556.
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Drug Control Act; adds certain chemical substances to Schedule I. [SB-1546]
Drug Control Act; Schedule I. Adds certain chemical substances to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances to Schedule I in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule. The bill also removes two substances, benzylfentanyl and thienylfentanyl, from Schedule I. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to HB 1610.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Drug Control Act; Schedule II and Schedule V. [HB-2470]
Drug Control Act; Schedule II and Schedule V. Adds thiafentanil to Schedule II of the Drug Control Act and brivaracetam to Schedule V of the Drug Control Act.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Professional and occupational licensing; restoration of rights. [HB-2451]
Professional and occupational licensing; restoration of rights. Includes consideration of whether a person's right to vote has been restored as part of a regulatory board's determination of whether a criminal conviction directly relates to an occupation or profession for which a license is sought.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Advance directives; admission of person for mental health treatment, capacity determinations. [SB-1511]
Advance directives; mental health treatment; capacity determinations. Provides that in cases in which a person has executed an advance directive granting an agent the authority to consent to the person's admission to a facility for mental health treatment and the advance directive so authorizes, the person's agent may exercise such authority after a determination that the person is incapable of making an informed decision regarding such admission has been made by (i) the attending physician, (ii) a psychiatrist or licensed clinical psychologist,
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Pawnbrokers; allowable late fees. [HB-2394]
Pawnbrokers; allowable late fees. Provides that a pawnbroker may charge a late fee, not to exceed 10 percent of the amount loaned, for each item that is not claimed by the pledged due date.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Public Procurement Act; participation of employment services organizations. [HB-2396]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; SWaM program; participation of employment service organziations. Provides that contracts and subcontracts awarded to employment services organizations shall be credited toward the small business, women-owned, and minority-owned business contracting and subcontracting goals of state agencies as well as state contractors. This bill is identical to SB 1538.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee; procedures used by the Va. State Bar to evaluate, etc. [SB-1481]
Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee; Virginia State Bar. Codifies the procedures used by the State Bar to evaluate and recommend candidates for election by the General Assembly to the appellate courts, the federal courts, and the State Corporation Commission.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosure of information to certain physicians or pharmacists. [SB-1484]
Prescription Monitoring Program. Provides that the information in the possession of the Prescription Monitoring Program disclosed by the Director of Health Professions about a specific recipient who is a member of a Virginia Medicaid managed care program to a physician or pharmacist employed by the Virginia Medicaid managed care program may be disclosed to such physician's or pharmacist's clinical designee who holds a multistate licensure privilege to practice nursing or a license issued by a health regulatory board within the Department of Health
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Professional and Occupational Regulation, Department of; waiver of first-time licensing fees. [HB-2387]
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; waiver of first-time licensing fees for low-income applicants. Requires a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to waive the initial application fee for any low-income individual applying for any license, certificate, or registration issued by the regulatory board or the Department. The bill defines "low-income individual" as any individual whose gross annual income is less than $25,000 per year.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Firearm transactions; voluntary background checks, clarification of provisions. [HB-2372]
Firearm transactions; voluntary background checks; clarification. Clarifies the provisions that apply to voluntary background checks performed at a firearms show by translating the Latin term of art mutatis mutandis into English.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Window tinting; vehicles used by private investigators, bail bondsmen, bail enforcement agents. [HB-2373]
Window tinting; vehicles used by private investigators, bail bondsmen, bail enforcement agents. Allows licensed private investigators, licensed bail bondsmen, and licensed bail enforcement agents to apply tinting films to darken certain windows of vehicles used in the course of business to a minimum of 20 percent light transmittance from current minimums of 50 or 35 percent, depending on the window.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Marijuana; possession or distribution for medical purposes. [SB-1452]
Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes; affirmative defense for treatment of certain conditions. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution for possession of marijuana if a person has a valid written certification issued by a practitioner for cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil for treatment of, or to alleviate the symptoms of, cancer. Under current law, only the treatment of intractable epilepsy is covered by the affirmative defense.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Contractors, Board for; unlicensed activity, penalty. [HB-2335]
Board for Contractors; unlicensed activity; penalty. Provides that, in addition to existing penalties for unlicensed activity, any second or subsequent violation by any person who undertakes work without a valid Virginia contractor's license or certificate when a license or certificate is required shall constitute a Class 6 felony.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Ophthalmic prescriptions; definitions, who may provide prescriptions, requirements. [SB-1321]
Requirements for ophthalmic prescriptions. Requires, for ophthalmic prescriptions written on or after July 1, 2017, that an ophthalmologist or optometrist establish a bona fide provider-patient relationship with a patient prior to prescribing spectacles, eyeglasses, lenses, or contact lenses, and sets out requirements for establishing such relationship, which includes options for examination of the patient either in person or through face-to-face interactive, two-way, real-time communication or store-and-forward technologies. This bill is identical
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Marijuana; possession or distribution for medical purposes, affirmative defense for treatment. [SB-1298]
Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes; affirmative defense for treatment of certain conditions. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution for possession of marijuana if a person has a valid written certification issued by a practitioner for cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil for treatment of, or to alleviate the symptoms of, cancer, glaucoma, human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, Alzheimer's disease, nail patella, cachexia or wasting syndrome,
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Contractors, Board for; adds a professional engineer to membership. [SB-1374]
Board for Contractors; membership. Adds a professional engineer to the membership of the Board for Contractors.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Doctors; licensure of medical science. [SB-1327]
Licensure of doctors of medical science. Establishes criteria for license as a doctor of medical science and establishes the Advisory Board on Doctors of Medical Science.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
District courts; jurisdictional limit does not include any attorney fees. [SB-1342]
District courts; attorney fees. Provides that the jurisdictional limit for general district courts does not include any attorney fees. The bill requires that the amount of an appeal bond required for appeals from a district court include any amount awarded for attorney fees in the case.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Abortion; informed written consent. [SB-1424]
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.