The Virginia House Committee on Health and Human Services advanced the majority of its Senate bill docket, reporting out measures on medical cannabis in hospitals, the right to contraception, psilocybin rescheduling, and neonatal care standards, while referring several bills to other committees and sending SB308 back to Appropriations after a reconsideration prompted by a conformity note received mid-session.
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Chair Price asked Senator Favola whether she would be amenable to including gummies, tinctures, and other forms beyond oil. An unidentified speaker asked why the version was made more narrow given prior support for a broader approach. Senator Favola responded that the hospital community and the Medical Society of Virginia wanted to track only oil to avoid issues with the federal Controlled Substance Act, and that hospitals receiving federal funds including Medicaid match and Medicare were concerned their federal revenue sources would be at risk. Chair Tran also stated that a few members believed the committee should conform to the House version to get the bills into conference.
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“The hospital community and the Medical Society of Virginia wanted it to track with just the oil right now because they didn't want to get in trouble with the federal Control Substance Act. And the hospitals are also receiving federal funds, both a Medicaid match as well as Medicare. And they were afraid that some of their federal revenue sources would be at risk with that response.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood morning. Good morning. Welcome to the full Committee of Health and Human Services. I'm your chair, Delegate Rodney Willett. Great to have everyone here this morning. We got to catch our breath a little bit after some very busy week last week. But we're back now with Senate bills, and we're going to move through quite a few of those today and then have one of our committees meeting. Health professions will be gathering right after we finish up here this morning. So with that, we will take the roll. Okay. And we've got a quorum. Excellent. So I'm going to start. We've got a few bills that came our way that actually need to go to other places. So I'm going to work through four bills this morning. And what we'll do is just get a motion and then a voice vote to refer these. So the first one is SB 64 from Senator for Vola. We want to refer that to Public Safety. The motion has been properly seconded to refer SB64 to public safety. All in favor say aye. The next. Yeah, I'll do that. In the next one, we have SB225 and then also SB642.…
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