HB931:

Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; publication of disciplinary actions.

Bill Summary:

Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation
Act; publication of disciplinary actions; award eligibility.

Requires, to the extent permissible by state and federal law, the
Board of Medicine to publish on its website disciplinary action taken
against a physician as a result of an investigation under the Virginia
Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act (the Act). The
bill also permits compensation under the Act for birth-related neurological
injury deaths occurring up to a person's eighteenth birthday; current
law limits awards to such deaths occurring during the person's infancy.

Bill Patron: Robinson

Last Action(s):
(House) Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions February 15, 2022

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