VA SB 970

Title: Mental health conditions & impairment; health regulatory board w/in DHP to amend its applications.
Author: Taylor Montgomery Mason

Summary
Department of Health Professions; applications for licensure, certification, and registration; mental health conditions and impairment; emergency. Directs each health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions to amend its licensure, certification, and registration applications to remove any existing questions pertaining to mental health conditions and impairment and to include the following questions: (i) Do you have any reason to believe that you would pose a risk to the safety or well-being of your patients or clients? and (ii) Are you able to perform the essential functions of a practitioner in your area of practice with or without reasonable accommodation? The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to HB 1573.

Status
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023

Bill Documents
VA SB 970 - House committee amendments reported

VA SB 970 - House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered

VA SB 970 - House amendments engrossed

VA SB 970 - House amendments adopted

VA SB 970 - Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB970ER)

VA SB 970 - Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/11/23 23102876D

VA SB 970 - Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102876D

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