SB1079: Board of Medicine; medically unnecessary chaperones.
SENATE BILL NO. 1079
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. That the Board of Medicine shall amend its regulations to require that patients be notified that they have the right to opt out of the presence of a chaperone during medical examinations, provided that the chaperone is medically unnecessary. The regulations shall also include a provision permitting health care practitioners to refuse to perform medical services for a patient who refuses the presence of a chaperone.