2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25102205D

SENATE BILL NO. 1038

Offered January 8, 2025

Prefiled January 7, 2025

A BILL to direct the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to develop and disseminate best practice educational training for health care providers on how to conduct telehealth visits for patients with disabilities.

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Patrons—Pekarsky and Suetterlein

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Referred to Committee on Education and Health

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall work with relevant state agencies and stakeholders to develop and disseminate best practice educational training for health care providers on how to conduct telehealth visits for patients with disabilities, including individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.