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Health care providers; certain immunity during disaster under specific circumstances, etc.

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

VA SB 5023 · Senate Bill · 2020specialI

Stage
Session ended
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Senate
Latest action
Aug 26, 2020

What it does

Declaration of disaster; health care providers; immunity. Provides that, in cases in which a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat has been declared and in the absence of gross negligence, a health care provider who withholds the provision of certain health care procedures in accordance with the provisions of an Order of Public Health Emergency shall be immune from civil liability for any injury or wrongful death arising from abandonment by such health care provider of any person to whom such health care provider owes a duty to provide health care when the provider was unable to provide the requisite health care to the person to whom he owed such duty of care as…

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Where it stands

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

  1. Introduced (Current step)

    Introduced · Aug 26, 2020

  2. Committee (Needs attention)

    The session ended first

  3. Floor (Not started)

  4. Law (Not started)

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