Collaborative practice agreements; nurse practitioners; physician assistants. Adds nurse practitioners and physician assistants to the list of health care practitioners who shall not be required to participate in a collaborative agreement with a pharmacist and his designated alternate pharmacists, regardless of whether a professional business entity on behalf of which the person is authorized to act enters into a collaborative agreement with a pharmacist and his designated alternate pharmacists. As introduced, this bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Healthcare. This bill is identical to SB 565.
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Commending the Honorable Rosalyn Randolph Dance.
Celebrating the life of Officer Katherine MaryThyne.
Secretary of Health and Human Resources; task force; shortage of certified sexual assault nurse examiners in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to establish a task force to study the shortage of certified sexual assault nurse examiners in the Commonwealth. The task force shall report its findings and conclusions, together with specific recommendations for legislative, regulatory, and budgetary actions, to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2020.
Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
Celebrating the life of Alan Arnold Diamonstein.
Commending the University of Virginia men'sbasketball team.
Board of zoning appeals; dual office holding. Authorizes a member of a board of zoning appeals to be appointed to also serve as an officer of election. This bill is identical to SB 292.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable GeraldL. Baliles.
Furloughs from local work release programs;approval by local sheriff and local chief law-enforcement official.Provides that any furlough permitted by the director of a workrelease program for an offender participating in the work releaseprogram shall be subject to approval by (i) the sheriff of the localjail where the offender is participating in a work release programand (ii) the chief of police, sheriff, or chief law-enforcement officialof the locality in which the prisoner will stay.