| HB1552 - Certificate of public need; exception; critical access hospitals; swing beds. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Allows critical access hospitals to utilize any number of swing beds without obtaining a certificate of public need, subject to the limitations of federal law. Under current law, critical access hospitals may only use up to 10 percent of beds as swing beds. |
| HB1555 - Health Care Regulatory Sandbox Program established. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Requires the Department of Health to establish the Health Care Regulatory Sandbox Program to enable a person to obtain limited access to the market in the Commonwealth to temporarily test an innovative health care product or service on a limited basis without otherwise being licensed or authorized to act under the laws of the Commonwealth. Under the Program, an applicant requests the waiver of certain laws, regulations, or other requirements for a 24-month testing period, with an option to request an additional six-month testing period. The bill provides application requirements, consumer protections, procedures for exiting the Program or requesting an extension, and recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The bill requires the Department to provide an annual report to the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health that provides information regarding each Program participant and recommendations regarding the effectiveness of the Program. The bill directs the Board of Health to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and has an expiration date of July 1, 2030. |
| HB1582 - Pharmacists; collaborative agreements; drug therapy. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Specifies that collaborative agreements between pharmacists and other health care providers may include prescribing for the implementation, modification, continuation, or discontinuation of drug therapy. |
| HB1639 - Health insurance; tobacco surcharge; sunset. | 01/19/2025 |
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| HB1732 - Health records; disclosure of laboratory test results. | 01/19/2025 |
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| HB1765 - Health insurance; coverage for non-opioid prescription drugs. | 01/19/2025 |
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| HB1828 - Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. | 01/19/2025 |
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| HB1860 - Board of Nursing; faculty supervision of direct client care; faculty-to-student ratio. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| HB1861 - Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement. | 01/19/2025 |
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| HB2106 - Health insurance; prohibits pharmacy override for enrollee with sickle cell disease. | 01/19/2025 |
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| HB2107 - Health insurance; pharmacies, freedom of choice, delivery of prescription drugs, penalties. | 01/19/2025 |
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| HB2208 - Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors, report. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| HB2269 - Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| HB2535 - Uniform Health Care Decisions Act. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| HB2605 - Medical Conscience Protection Act established. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1020 - Restaurant Meals Program of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; DSS to report. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1064 - Medical care facilities; relocation, conversion, and addition of beds. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1177 - Certificate of public need; exception; critical access hospitals; swing beds. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1203 - Certificate of public need; establishes expedited application and review, medical deserts. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1363 - Elimination of Board of Health Professions; transfer of powers and duties. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1379 - Health; Research and Clinical Trial Cancer Consortium Initiative established; report. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1383 - Nursing homes; sanctions; civil penalty. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1447 - Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB1484 - Hospitals, nursing homes, or certified nursing facilities; licensure and inspection fees; fund. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |
| SB739 - Certified registered nurse anesthetists; supervision, report. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Clarifies that supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist requires that a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry is present during an operation or procedure or is immediately available to respond and provide patient care as needed. The bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, in collaboration with the Board of Medicine, Board of Nursing, and Department of Health Professions, to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to evaluate and make recommendations to increase the anesthesia provider workforce in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the work group to report its recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health and Human Services by November 1, 2025.
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| SB740 - Medicine, Board of; continuing education, unconscious bias and cultural competency. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Directs the Board of Medicine to require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure. The bill specifies requirements for the training and requires the Board of Medicine to report on the training to the Department of Health and the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative. |
| SB758 - Remote monitoring services for pregnant and postpartum patients; reimbursement. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Expands provision for payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring services provided via telemedicine to include all pregnant and postpartum persons. Under current law, only high-risk pregnancies are covered. |
| SB774 - Essential health benefits benchmark plan review; members of stakeholder work group. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Requires that the stakeholder work group convened by the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission for the essential health benefits benchmark plan review consist of members who possess demonstrated and acknowledged expertise in health benefit plan design, actuarial science, population health, patient advocacy, or advocating for or assisting enrollees in individual or small group health coverage. The bill requires the work group to consider factors including (i) coverage denial rates of benefits that are not covered under the current benchmark plan; (ii) the utilization of mandated benefits; (iii) the projected impact of a proposed mandate on the prevalence of medical need, the urgency of such medical need, and any disproportionate disease burden borne by different subpopulations; (iv) the projected cost of each proposed mandate; and (v) other data as determined by the work group. This bill is a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission. |
| SB780 - Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for contraceptive drugs and contraceptive devices, as defined in the bill, including those available over-the-counter. |
| SB841 - Opioid treatment programs; dispensing, medications from mobile units. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Directs the Board of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop and implement a process by which opioid treatment programs can apply for and receive the necessary permissions and waivers to dispense opioid use disorder treatment medications from mobile units. |
| SB842 - mobile health clinics; DHCD to include broadband access services for clinics. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to, as part of its broader initiative to support the development and implementation of programs that support telehealth, include broadband access services for mobile health clinics as a priority for broadband deployment programs using federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program funding. |
| SB981 - Certified community health workers; Department of Health to submit annual report. | 01/19/2025 |
| Notes: No additional notes. |