Medical care facilities; designated support persons for persons with disabilities. (HB2162)

Introduced By

Del. Kathy Tran (D-Springfield) with support from 7 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:

Those copatrons are Del. Dawn Adams (D-Richmond), Del. Rob Bell (R-Charlottesville), Del. Mark Keam (D-Vienna), Del. Candi King (D-Woodbridge), Del. Mark Levine (D-Alexandria), Del. Kathleen Murphy (D-McLean), Del. Cia Price (D-Newport News)

Progress

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

Description

Medical care facilities; persons with disabilities; designated support persons. Requires every medical care facility, as defined in the bill, to allow a person with a disability who requires assistance as a result of such disability to be accompanied by a designated support person who will provide support and assistance necessary due to the specifics of the person’s disability to the person with a disability during an admission to such medical care facility. The bill (i) defines "person with a disability" and "designated support person"; (ii) provides that a designated support person shall not be subject to restrictions on visitation adopted by the medical care facility but may be required to comply with reasonable requirements of the medical care facility adopted to protect the health and safety of the person with a disability, the designated support person, and staff and other patients of and visitors to the medical care facility; and (iii) authorizes a medical care facility to restrict a designated support person's access to specified areas and movement on the premises of the medical care facility when such restrictions are determined by the medical care facility to be reasonably necessary to protect the health and safety of the person with a disability, the designated support person, and staff and other patients of and visitors to the medical care facility. The bill requires every medical care facility to adopt protocols to inform patients of their right to be accompanied by a designated support person, and to develop and make available to persons with disabilities written information regarding the right of a person with a disability to be accompanied by a designated support person and policies related thereto. The bill contains an emergency clause and directs the Board of Health to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. Read the Bill »

Status

04/18/2021: Awaiting a Vote in the Education and Health Committee

History

Date	Action
01/12/2021	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102505D
01/12/2021	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
01/23/2021	Assigned HWI sub: Health
01/25/2021	Impact statement from DPB (HB2162)
01/26/2021	House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
01/26/2021	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
01/26/2021	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (18-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/26/2021	Committee substitute printed 21103593D-H1
01/27/2021	Impact statement from DPB (HB2162H1)
01/28/2021	Read first time
01/29/2021	House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
01/29/2021	Passed by for the day
02/01/2021	House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/01/2021	Read second time
02/01/2021	Committee substitute agreed to 21103593D-H1
02/01/2021	Emergency clause added
02/01/2021	Amendments by Delegate Tran from 1/29 withdrawn
02/01/2021	Amendment by Delegate Tran agreed to
02/01/2021	Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB2162EH1
02/01/2021	Printed as engrossed 21103593D-EH1
02/02/2021	Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
02/02/2021	VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/02/2021	Impact statement from DPB (HB2162EH1)
02/03/2021	Constitutional reading dispensed
02/03/2021	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
02/05/2021	Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/12/2021	Assigned Education sub: Health
02/18/2021	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/19/2021	Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
02/22/2021	Read third time
02/22/2021	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
02/25/2021	Enrolled
02/25/2021	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2162ER)
02/25/2021	Impact statement from DPB (HB2162ER)
02/25/2021	Signed by President
02/26/2021	Signed by Speaker
03/01/2021	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
03/01/2021	G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
03/18/2021	G Approved by Governor-Chapter 220 (effective 7/1/21)
03/18/2021	G Approved by Governor-Chapter 220 (effective 3/18/21)
03/18/2021	G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220)