HB 1622 — Health regulatory boards; delegation of authority to conduct informal fact-finding proceedings.

SESSION ENROLLED VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY ––-- 2023 SESSION CHAPTER E191 An Act to amend and reenact § 54.1-2400 of the Code of Virginia, relating to health regulatory boards;

R O [H 1622] Approved LMarch L22, 2023 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

E § 54.1-2400.

DThe 1.general powers and duties of health regulatory boards shall be:

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2.otherwise required by law, examinations shall be administered in writing or shall be a demonstration ofss manual skills.

To examine or cause to be examined applicants for certification, licensure, or registration.

Unless otherwise required by law, examinations shall be administered in writing or shall be a demonstration of manual skills.

To register, certify, license, or issue a multistate licensure privilege to qualified appHicantsapplicants as practitioners of the particular profession or professions regulated by such board.

14. of a multistate licensure privilege.ewals of registration, certification, licensure, permit, an2 the issuance 5.

To establish schedules for renewals of registration, certification, licensure, permit, and the issuance of a multistate licensure privilege.

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To promulgate regulations in accordance with the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) that are reasonable and necessary to administer effectively the regulatory system, which shall include provisions for the satisfaction of board-required continuing education for individuals registered, certified, licensed, or issued a multistate licensure privilege by a health regulatory board through delivery of health care services, without compensation, to low-income individuals receiving health services through a local health department or a free clinic organized in whole or primarily for the delivery of those health services.

To appoint designees from their membership or immediate staff to coordinate with the Director and the Health Practitioners' Monitoring Program Committee and to implement, as is necessary, the provisions of Chapter 25.1 (§ 54.1-2515 et seq.).

To appoint a special conference committee, composed of not less than two members of a health regulatory board or, when required for special conference committees of the Board of Medicine, not less than two members of the Board and one member of the relevant advisory board, or, when required for special conference committees of the Board of Nursing, not less than one member of the Board and one member of the relevant advisory board, to act in accordance with § 2.2-4019 upon receipt of information that a practitioner or permit holder of the appropriate board may be subject to disciplinary action or to consider an application for a license, certification, registration, permit or multistate licensure privilege in nursing.

and (viii) issue a restricted license, certification, registration, permit or multistate licensure privilege subject to serviceterms ofand theconditions. order unless a written request to the board for a hearing is received within such time.

IfThe serviceorder of the decisionspecial toconference acommittee partyshall isbecome accomplishedfinal by30 mail,days threeafter daysservice shallof bethe addedorder unless a written request to the 30-dayboard offor 2a period.hearing is received within such time.

If service of the decision to a party is accomplished by mail, three days shall be added to the 30-day period.

of 2 This subdivision shall not be construed to limit the authority of a board to delegate to an appropriately qualified agency subordinate, as defined in § 2.2-4001, the authority to conduct informal fact-finding proceedings in accordance with § 2.2-4019, upon receipt of information that a practitioner may be subject to a disciplinary action.