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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Pharmacies; reporting of processing delays impacting patient safety. [HB-1952]
Pharmacies; reporting of processing delays impacting patient safety; centralized or remote processing of prescriptions. Requires a pharmacy that, on average, during any one-week period is unable to process a prescription within two days of receipt of such prescription to report the prescription backlog to the Board of Pharmacy. The bill requires any pharmacy making such report to submit a corrective action plan detailing its staffing, workflow, technology, and patient communication strategies to address the prescription backlog. The bill permits
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Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Left In Education And Health on 02/22/2023
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Prescription Monitoring Program; exemptions, licensed narcotic maintenance treatment programs. [HB-1814]
Prescription Monitoring Program; exemptions; licensed narcotic maintenance treatment programs. Removes dispensing of covered substances within a licensed narcotic maintenance treatment program from the list of circumstances exempt from reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Howard Wachsmann
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Education And Health (14-y 0-n) on 02/16/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Telemedicine; practitioner-patient relationship, continuity of care. [SB-1119]
Telemedicine; continuity of care. Allows for continuity of care through telemedicine when a practitioner with whom a patient has previously established a practitioner-patient relationship is unavailable at the time in which the patient seeks continuity of care. The bill allows another practitioner of the same subspecialty at the same practice group with access to the patient's treatment history to provide continuity of care using telemedicine services until the practitioner with whom the patient has a previously established practitioner-patient
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0151) on 03/22/2023
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Medical marijuana program; product, registration, dispensing, and recordkeeping requirements. [HB-1846]
Medical marijuana program; product, registration, dispensing, and recordkeeping requirements; advertising. Amends and adds numerous provisions regarding the Commonwealth's medical marijuana program, including provisions related to recordkeeping, product registration, allowable deviations, dispensing, packaging, labeling, and advertising. The bill requires pharmaceutical processors and cannabis dispensing facilities to collect and provide to the Board of Pharmacy by July 1, 2024, data regarding implementation of the bill. The bill also requires the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0780) on 04/12/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Prescription of Schedule VI controlled substances; asynchronous interactions. [SB-1084]
Prescription of Schedule VI controlled substances; asynchronous interactions; report. Allows practitioners to establish a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship through asynchronous interaction for the purpose of prescribing Schedule VI controlled substances if the patient chooses not to use insurance for the encounter and if such prescribing complies with federal requirements for the practice of telemedicine. The bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to conduct a review of Schedule VI controlled substances and report to the Chairmen of the Senate
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Bell
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Education And Health (14-y 0-n) on 01/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Telemedicine; practitioner-patient relationship, continuity of care. [HB-1754]
Telemedicine; continuity of care. Allows for continuity of care through telemedicine when a practitioner with whom a patient has previously established a practitioner-patient relationship is unavailable at the time in which the patient seeks continuity of care. The bill allows another practitioner of the same subspecialty at the same practice group with access to the patient's treatment history to provide continuity of care using telemedicine services until the practitioner with whom the patient has a previously established practitioner-patient
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0150) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Minor's medical records; prohibits denial of parental access to records. [SB-1070]
Parental access to minor's medical records. Prohibits denial of parental access to the medical records of such parent's minor child, unless federal law requires the minor child's consent.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (10-y 5-n) on 02/02/2023
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Physician assistants; practice agreement exemption, elimination of practice ratio. [HB-1764]
Physician assistants; practice agreement exemption; elimination of practice ratio for physicians and physician assistants. Allows physician assistants practicing in hospitals, certain facilities operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, or federally qualified health centers designated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to practice without a practice agreement if the credentialing and privileging requirements of the applicable facility include a practice arrangement, as described in the bill. The bill
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Schedule VI controlled substance; practitioner-patient relationship. [HB-1787]
Prescription for controlled substance; practitioner-patient relationship; telemedicine. Allows a practitioner to establish a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship through asynchronous interaction for the purpose of prescribing a Schedule VI controlled substance if the patient chooses not to seek reimbursement by a health plan or carrier for the prescribing and if such prescribing complies with federal requirements for the practice of telemedicine. Prescription for controlled substance; practitioner-patient relationship; telemedicine. Allows
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Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 02/07/2023
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Optometry; reorganizes portions of the law regulating practice, etc. [HB-1737]
Practice of optometry; licensing; regulations. Reorganizes provisions regulating the practice of optometry; updates licensing requirements by removing specific requirements for the Board of Optometry's examination procedures; and expands possible Board actions for the issuance, revocation, and suspension of licenses and for the reprimand of licensees. The bill specifies that any student, intern, or trainee in optometry may perform optometric services under the direct supervision of a licensed optometrist or ophthalmologist as part of a course of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0268) on 03/22/2023
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Naloxone or other opioid antagonists; persons authorized to administer. [HB-1709]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Cherry
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0115) on 03/21/2023
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Minor's medical records; prohibits denial of parental access to records. [HB-1711]
Parental access to minor's medical records. Prohibits denial of parental access to the medical records of such parent's minor child, unless federal law requires the minor child's consent.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (10-y 5-n) on 02/16/2023
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Continuing education; implicit bias and cultural competency in health care. [HB-1734]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Interjurisdictional compacts; criminal history record checks. [SB-1054]
Interjurisdictional compacts; criminal history record checks. Provides that when an interjurisdictional compact requires criminal history record checks as a condition of participation, the applicable health regulatory board shall require each applicant to submit to fingerprinting and provide personal descriptive information to be forwarded along with his fingerprints through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0119) on 03/21/2023
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Health professions; proposed scope of practice changes, health regulatory board assessment required. [HB-1658]
Proposed scope of practice changes; health regulatory board assessment required; report. Directs the General Assembly to submit bills proposing scope of practice changes related to the health professions to the relevant health regulatory board for assessment. The bill provides that the relevant health regulatory board has 24 months to complete its assessment and directs the board to forward a report summarizing its assessment and recommendations to the chairman of the standing committee that requested the assessment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 02/07/2023
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Health regulatory boards; delegation of authority to conduct informal fact-finding proceedings. [HB-1622]
Health regulatory boards; delegation of authority to conduct informal fact-finding proceedings. Removes the requirement that a health regulatory board receive information that a practitioner may be subject to a disciplinary action in order for the board to delegate to an appropriately qualified agency subordinate the authority to conduct informal fact-finding proceedings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Wright
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0191) on 03/22/2023
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Health care; decision making, end of life, penalties. [SB-930]
Health care; decision making; end of life; penalties. Health care; decision making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal condition to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's life in a humane and dignified manner. The bill requires that a patient's request for a self-administered controlled substance to end his life must be given orally on two occasions and in writing, signed by the patient and one witness, and that the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 5-n) on 01/26/2023
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Certified nurse midwives, etc.; designation as advanced practice registered nurses. [SB-975]
Certified nurse midwives, certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners; designation as advanced practice registered nurses. Changes references to certain practitioners in the Code to advanced practice registered nurse in order to align the Code with the professional designations established by the Consensus Model for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses Regulation established by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. Certified nurse midwives, certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0183) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Prescription Drug Affordability Board and Fund; established, drug cost affordability review, etc. [SB-957]
Prescription Drug Affordability Board and Fund established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care system from the high costs of prescription drug products. Prescription Drug Affordability Board and Fund established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Left In Commerce And Energy on 02/22/2023
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Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board; established, report. [SB-932]
Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board established; report; Drug Control Act reclassification of psilocybin. Establishes the Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board to develop a long-term strategic plan for establishing therapeutic access to psilocybin services and monitor and study federal laws, regulations, and policies regarding psilocybin. The bill requires the Board to report annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its activities and recommendations. The bill reclassifies psilocybin under the Drug Control Act from a
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Tabled In Rules (13-y 5-n) on 02/14/2023