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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Create the Volunteer Immunity and Charitable Organization Liability Limit Act [HB-2751]
The purpose of this bill is to promote the formation, financial stability, and healthy operation of charitable organizations and to encourage volunteerism by limiting the exposure of organizations and volunteers to civil liability arising from their charitable activities.
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Relating to regulation of pawnbrokers [SB-259]
The purpose of this bill is to regulate pawnbrokers. The bill removes an exception for certain transactions from the report required of all pawnbrokers. The bill requires all pawnbrokers to be equipped with certain surveillance equipment and signage effective January 1, 2024. The bill prohibits pawnbrokers from doing business with certain persons. The bill prohibits pawnbrokers from purchasing certain items or transacting with certain items from anyone. The bill creates misdemeanor offenses for certain violations. Finally, the bill increases the
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Requiring certain boards that seek to increase a fee or seek to impose a new fee to also submit cost saving measures [HB-2628]
The purpose of this bill is to require certain boards that seek to increase a fee or seek to impose a new fee to also submit cost saving measures undertaken or proposed to be undertaken.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Relating generally to bail bondsman [HB-2621]
The purpose of this bill is to require the Insurance Commissioner to formulate testing and continuing education requirements for all applicants and license renewals for professional bondsmen in criminal cases. The bill also provides a definition of "approved securities" and amend the definition of "bondsman".
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Medical marijuana program; product requirements, certifications. [HB-2368]
Medical marijuana program; product requirements; certifications; reporting. Requires cannabis product and botanical cannabis labels to be complete, accurate, easily discernable, and uniform among different products and brands and that each label, which shall be included on the product and on the pharmaceutical processor's website, (i) include (a) the product name, (b) all active and inactive ingredients, (c) the total percentage and milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol included in the product and the number of milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
WV Real Estate License Act [SB-249]
The purpose of this bill is to amend the provisions of the Real Estate License Act to require fees to be deposited into state treasury daily, eliminate certain requirements for application for licensure, modify the qualifications for a broker's license, clarify criminal penalties provisions, repeal an outdated code section, and otherwise update the Act.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public [SB-244]
Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Promise for Promise Act [SB-227]
Promise for Promise Act
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Pharmacies; prohibits refusal to fill prescription from telemedicine provider. [HB-2374]
Prescriptions; telemedicine; refusal to fill prescription from telemedicine provider; prohibition. Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to fill prescriptions solely on the basis of a prescriber's use of a telemedicine platform to provide services. The bill also prohibits pharmacists from prioritizing dispensing prescriptions from a prescriber who does not use telemedicine over prescriptions from a prescriber who does use telemedicine based solely on the prescriber's use of a telemedicine platform to provide services. Prescriptions; telemedicine;
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Drug Control Act; adds certain chemicals to Schedule I of Act. [HB-2364]
Drug Control Act; Schedule I. Adds certain chemicals to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances 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.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Prohibiting certain advertising by adult venues on public billboards [SB-214]
The purpose of this bill is to restrict certain advertising by adult venues on public billboards.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Restricting the authority of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to regulate the use of commonly available, retail beauty products [HB-2523]
The purpose of this bill is to prevent the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists from regulating the use of hair, nail, skin and other beauty products that are commonly available as retail, consumer products.
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South Dakota 2023 Regular Session
Establish a community paramedic endorsement. [HB-1059]
Establish a community paramedic endorsement.
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West Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Prohibiting certain medical practices [HB-2007]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain medical practices.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Naloxone or other opioid antagonists; persons authorized to administer. [SB-1424]
Department of Corrections; possession and administration of naloxone. Adds employees of the Department of Corrections designated by the Director of the Department to the list of persons who are authorized to possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonists. Under current law, the only employees of the Department authorized to possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonists are those designated as probation and parole officers or as correctional officers.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Controlled substances; administration by emergency medical providers. [SB-1426]
Administration of controlled substances; emergency medical services providers. Allows persons who are employed or engaged at a medical care facility who have a valid emergency medical services provider certification issued by the Board of Health as a requirement of being employed or engaged at the medical care facility to administer drugs and devices at the medical care facility pursuant to an oral or written order or standing protocol.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Opioids; impact reduction registry, report. [SB-1415]
Opioid impact reduction. Allows any person to possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal other than naloxone in an injectable formulation with a hypodermic needle or syringe in accordance with protocols developed by the Board of Pharmacy in consultation with the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health, provided that certain other conditions enumerated in current law are met. The bill removes training requirements related to the possession and administration of naloxone. The bill directs the Department
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Continuing education; implicit bias and cultural competency in health care. [SB-1440]
Board of Medicine; continuing education; implicit bias and cultural competency in health care. Requires the Board of Medicine to adopt and implement policies that require each practitioner licensed by the Board who has direct contact with persons who are or may become pregnant to complete two hours of continuing education related to implicit bias, defined in the bill, and cultural competency in health care at least once every other license renewal cycle.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Midwifery; administration of medication. [SB-1275]
Midwifery; administration of medication. Allows licensed midwives to obtain, possess, and administer drugs and devices within the scope of their practice. The bill requires the Board of Medicine to develop and publish best practice and standards of care guidance for all such drugs. The bill limits the liability of entities that provide or dispense drugs or devices to a licensed midwife and that rely in good faith upon the license information provided by the licensed midwife. Under the bill, completing all Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Behavior analysts or assistant behavior analysts; licensure criteria, certifying entities. [SB-1406]
Behavior analysts; assistant behavior analysts; licensure criteria; certifying entities. Provides in the criteria for licensure as a behavior analyst or assistant behavior analyst established by the Board of Medicine that certain documentation must be provided by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board or its successor. Under current law, such documentation must be provided by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board or any other entity that is nationally accredited to certify practitioners of behavior analysis.