SB 1446 Virginia Senate · 2021 Regular Session

Medicine and other healing arts; practice, provision of litigation assistance.

Summary

Practice of medicine and other healing arts;provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners ofmedicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistanceto treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistanceincludes providing a legal consult fee schedule upon request, schedulingand participating in meetings with a treated patient's attorney uponrequest, participating in trial or de bene esse depositions as needed,and providing a written estimate of the cost of the patient's medical services related to the litigation.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2021

Committee Review

Feb 2021

Senate Passage

Feb 2021

House of Delegates Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 19, 2021 Last action Feb 6, 2021

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Feb 4, 2021

Committee

Recommitted to Judiciary

upper

Feb 4, 2021

Upper · Passed

Motion to recommit to committee agreed to

upper

Feb 3, 2021

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 1, 2021

Upper · Passed

Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 6-N 1-A)

upper

Feb 1, 2021

Upper · Passed

Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered

upper

Jan 21, 2021

Committee

Rereferred to Judiciary

upper

Jan 21, 2021

Committee

Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)

upper

Jan 19, 2021

Committee

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

upper

Jan 19, 2021

Introduced

Presented and ordered printed 21102383D

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors