Surgical assistants; definition, licensure. (HB1084)

Introduced By

Del. Cliff Hayes (D-Chesapeake) with support from co-patron Del. Clinton Jenkins (D-Suffolk)

Progress

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

Description

Surgical assistants; licensure. Defines "surgical assistant" and "practice of surgical assisting" and directs the Board of Medicine to establish criteria for the licensure of surgical assistants. Currently, the Board may issue a registration as a surgical assistant to eligible individuals. The bill also establishes the Advisory Board on Surgical Assisting to assist the Board of Medicine regarding the establishment of qualifications for and regulation of licensed surgical assistants. Read the Bill »

Status

02/20/2020: passed committee

History

Date	Action
01/07/2020	Committee
01/07/2020	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104907D
01/07/2020	Referred to Committee on Public Safety
01/17/2020	Referred from Public Safety
01/17/2020	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
01/22/2020	Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions
01/27/2020	Impact statement from DPB (HB1084)
01/29/2020	House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
01/29/2020	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 0-N)
02/04/2020	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/05/2020	Read first time
02/06/2020	Read second time
02/06/2020	Committee amendment agreed to
02/06/2020	Engrossed by House as amended HB1084E
02/06/2020	Printed as engrossed 20104907D-E
02/07/2020	Impact statement from DPB (HB1084E)
02/07/2020	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
02/07/2020	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/10/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed
02/10/2020	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
02/12/2020	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
02/20/2020	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/21/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)

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 3 minutes.

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