Patients; medically or ethically inappropriate care not required. (SB222)

Introduced By

Sen. John Edwards (D-Roanoke)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Medically or ethically inappropriate care not required. Establishes a process whereby a physician may cease to provide health care that has been determined to be medically or ethically inappropriate for a patient. This bill is identical to HB 226. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

DateAction
01/03/2018Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101602D
01/03/2018Referred to Committee on Education and Health
01/10/2018Impact statement from VDH (SB222)
01/26/2018Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
02/01/2018Reported from Education and Health with amendments (12-Y 2-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
02/02/2018Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/05/2018Read second time
02/05/2018Reading of amendments waived
02/05/2018Committee amendments agreed to
02/05/2018Reading of amendment waived
02/05/2018Amendment by Senator Newman agreed to
02/05/2018Engrossed by Senate as amended SB222E
02/05/2018Printed as engrossed 18101602D-E
02/06/2018Impact statement from VDH (SB222E)
02/06/2018Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) (see vote tally)
02/08/2018Placed on Calendar
02/08/2018Read first time
02/08/2018Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
02/15/2018Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (15-Y 6-N) (see vote tally)
02/15/2018Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
02/16/2018Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
02/19/2018Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
03/02/2018Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 5-N) (see vote tally)
03/06/2018Read second time
03/07/2018Read third time
03/07/2018Committee amendments agreed to
03/07/2018Engrossed by House as amended
03/07/2018Passed House with amendments (80-Y 18-N)
03/07/2018VOTE: PASSAGE (80-Y 18-N) (see vote tally)
03/08/2018House amendments agreed to by Senate (36-Y 4-N) (see vote tally)
03/10/2018Enrolled
03/10/2018Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB222ER)
03/10/2018Signed by Speaker
03/12/2018Impact statement from VDH (SB222ER)
03/12/2018Signed by President
03/20/2018Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2018
03/20/2018G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
03/30/2018G Approved by Governor-Chapter 565 (effective 7/1/18)
03/30/2018G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 54 seconds.

Duplicate Bills

The following bills are identical to this one: HB226.