Sen. Dick Saslaw

Co-sponsor HJ 446

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending The Governor's School for the Arts.

Introduced Mar 7, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 381

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending Teresa A. Sullivan.

Introduced Mar 6, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SB 593

In committee · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Health insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.

Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in individuals from age two through age 18. Currently, such coverage is required to be provided for individuals from age two through age 10. The provision applies with respect to insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health care plans delivered, issued for delivery, reissued, or extended on or after January 1, 2019. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

In committee Mar 6, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 350

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending FACETS.

Introduced Mar 6, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary SB 933

Passed · Virginia Senate · Lead sponsor

Health insurance; contracts with pharmacies and pharmacists, etc.

Provides that no provider contract between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent shall contain a provision (i) authorizing the carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy or pharmacist to collect, or (iii) requiring an enrollee to make, a copayment for a covered prescription drug in an amount that exceeds the least of the applicable copayment for the prescription drug that would be payable in the absence of this section or the cash price the enrollee would pay for the prescription drug if the enrollee purchased the prescription drug without using the enrollee's health plan. The measure requires provider contracts between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent to contain specific provisions that allow a pharmacy to (a) disclose to an enrollee information relating to the provisions of this section and the availability of a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug; (b) sell a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug to an enrollee if one is available; and (c) offer and provide direct and limited delivery services to an enrollee as an ancillary service of the pharmacy. The measure applies to provider contracts entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2019. This bill is identical to

Passed Mar 5, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HJ 151

In committee · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending the 1987 Washington Redskins replacement players.

In committee Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SJ 175

Introduced · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Commending W. Taylor Reveley III.

Introduced Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SB 511

Passed · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Optometry; scope of practice.

Provides that the practice of optometry includes the evaluation, examination, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormal or diseased conditions of the human eye and its adnexa by the use of medically recognized and appropriate devices, procedures, or technologies but that it does not include treatment through surgery, including laser surgery, other invasive modalities, or the use of injections, except for certain injections by TPA-certified optometrists and for the treatment of emergency cases of anaphylactic shock with intramuscular epinephrine. The bill authorizes a TPA-certified optometrist to administer therapeutic pharmaceutical agents by injection for the treatment of chalazia by means of an injection of a steroid included in Schedule VI controlled substances, provided that the optometrist provides written evidence that he has completed certain training requirements to the Board of Optometry.

Passed Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SR 45

Introduced · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of the Honorable Charles Alwyn Perkinson, Jr.

Introduced Mar 1, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 294

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Lee Harward Jolly.

Introduced Mar 1, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track